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The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1662. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social. More at https://www.pepysdiary.com Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

By coach to see Mr. Moore, who continues ill. I took his books of accounts, and did discourse with him about my Lord’s and my own businesses.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

At the office all the morning, dined at home with my wife.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

So hence by water, late as it was, to the Wardrobe, and there found him in a high fever, in bed, and much cast down by his being ill. So thought it not convenient to stay, but left him and walked home.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

I hear that Mr. Moore is gone very sick to the Wardrobe this afternoon, which troubles me much both for his own sake and for mine, because of my law business that he does for me and also for my Lord’s matters.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

At Woolwich we mustered the yard, and then to the Hart to dinner, and then to the Rope-yard, where I did vex Sir W. Pen I know to appear so well acquainted, I thought better than he, in the business of hemp.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

Mr. Coventry telling us how of late upon enquiry into the miscarriages of the Duke’s family, Mr. Biggs, his steward, is found very faulty, and is turned out of his employment.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d

Dined with my wife, and then to talk again above, chiefly about her learning to dance against her going next year into the country, which I am willing she shall do.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d

I to church; and this day the parson has got one to read with a surplice on. I suppose himself will take it up hereafter, for a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d

Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and fell out about my maid Sarah, whom my wife would fain put away, when I think her as good a servant as ever came into a house, but it seems my wife would have one that would dress a head well, but we were friends at last.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d

To my office till 9 at night, among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence of the pilott.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4d

I to my office all the evening, doing business there till bedtime, it being now my manner since my wife is come to spend too much of my daytime with her and the workmen and do my office business at night, which must not be after the work of the house is done.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4d

I had notice that Dekins, the merchant, is dead this afternoon suddenly, for grief that his daughter, my Morena, who has long been ill, is given over by the Doctors. For both which I am very sorry.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4d

Captain Ferrers brought me a letter from my father, that appoints the day for the Court at Brampton to be the 13th of this month; but I perceive he has kept the letter in his pocket these three days, so that if the day had been sooner, I might have been spilt.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

Comes a gentleman to speak with my wife, and I found him to be a gentleman that had used her very civilly in her coming up out of the country, on which score I showed him great respect, and found him a very ingenious gentleman, and sat and talked with him a great while.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

Dined with my wife upon herrings, the first I have eat this year, and so to my workmen again.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

The company that came in with me into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but Lord! what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that understood both French and English to make her tell them what the actors said.

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

Here we saw “The Cardinall,” a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is there any great matter in it.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

But so as I could not see the King or Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

By very great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into one of the boxes next the King’s.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d

By coach towards Whitehall took up Mr. Moore and set him at my Lord’s, and myself, hearing that there was a play at the Cockpit (and my Lord Sandwich, who came to town last night, at it), I do go thither.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 6d

After dinner to look over my Brampton papers, which was a most necessary work, though it is not so much to my content as I could wish. I fear that it must be as it can, and not as I would.

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 6d

Home and with my wife to bed, the first time I have lain there these two months and more, which I am now glad to do again, and do so like the chamber as it is now ordered that all my fear is my not keeping it. But I hope the best, for it would vex me to the heart to lose it.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

Up with my mind pretty well at rest about my accounts and other business, and so to my house and there put my work to business.

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

My brother Tom is gone out of town this day, to make a second journey to his mistress at Banbury, of which I have good expectations, and pray God to bless him therein.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

The late outing of the Presbyterian clergy by their not renouncing the Covenant as the Act of Parliament commands, is the greatest piece of state now in discourse.

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