Produced by David Widger

THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.

CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

(Unabridged)

WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.

                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 AUGUST
                                  1668

August 1st. All the morning at the office. After dinner my wife, andDeb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hearthe prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed,there is a great deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort ofplays, and so home to my business, and at night to bed, my eyes making mesad.

2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removingof some pictures, in my study and house. At noon Pelling dined with me.After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard asermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne Elmes,and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me severalthings, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for above twolines together, but my eyes grow weary. Home about night, and so tosupper and then to bed.

3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, where I did muchbusiness, and about noon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Suntaverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his,drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons topromise me some things for my flageolets. So to the Old Exchange, andthen home to dinner, and so, Mercer dining with us, I took my wife and herand Deb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the Commissioners ofthe Treasury, and so back to them and took them out to Islington, where wemet with W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there eat and drank, and agreat deal of his idle talk, and so we round by Hackney home, and so tosing a little in the garden, and then to bed.

4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to White Hall about aCommittee for Tangier at my Lord Arlington's, where, by Creed's being outof town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to thecomplaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put intomy hand. Here till noon, and then back to the Office, where sat a little,and then to dinner, and presently to the office, where come to me my LordBellassis, Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come from Tangier, andSir Arthur Basset, and there I received their informations, and so, theybeing gone, I with my clerks and another of Lord Brouncker's, Seddon, satup till two in the morning, drawing up my answers and writing them fair,which did trouble me mightily to sit up so long, because of my eyes.

5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to WhiteHall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and thenafterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! how ittroubled my eyes, though I did not think I could have done it, but did doit, and was not very bad afterward. So home to dinner, and thence out tothe Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly thesame, I find, that was called "Cutter of C

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