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The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1660. Run by @philgyford

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2024-09-13 21:15:31

So to bed, my mind very full of business and trouble.

2024-09-12 21:00:18

By link home and called at Sir W. Batten’s, and there hear that Sir W. Pen do take our jest of the tankard very ill, which I am sorry for.

2024-09-10 20:42:55

To the Wardrobe to see my Lady, and after supper with the young ladies, bought a link and carried it myself till I met one that would light me home for the link. So he light me home with his own, and then I did give him mine.

2024-09-09 16:32:50

It was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and most ingenious lady, which pleased me much.

2024-09-08 17:10:49

So up to my chamber all alone, and troubled in mind to think how much of late I have addicted myself to expense and pleasure, that now I can hardly reclaim myself to look after my great business of settling Gravely business, until now almost too late.

2024-09-07 15:45:08

To the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close by the King, and Duke of York, and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can never enough admire her beauty.

2024-09-03 19:20:56

My wife and I to my mother, who I took a liberty to advise about her getting things ready to go this week into the country to my father, and she (being become now-a-days very simple) took it very ill, and we had a great deal of noise and wrangling about it.

2024-08-28 14:05:38

I counterfeited a letter to Sir W. Pen, as from the thief that stole his tankard lately, only to abuse and laugh at him.

2024-08-20 16:04:37

At the office in the morning and all the afternoon at home to put my papers in order.

2024-07-23 10:11:31

Put on my mourning. Made visits to Sir W. Pen and Batten. Then to Westminster, and at the Hall staid talking with Mrs. Michell a good while.

2024-07-16 12:54:58

Putting things in order, letting of the crop upon the ground.

2024-06-19 21:09:40

One thing I must observe here while I think of it, that I am now become the most negligent man in the world as to matters of news, insomuch that, now-a-days, I neither can tell any, nor ask any of others.

2024-06-08 20:15:05

Called upon Mr. Rawlinson, for his advice to answer a letter of my uncle Robert, wherein he do offer me a purchase to lay some money upon, that joynes upon some of his own lands. I am advised to give up wholly the disposal of my money to him, let him do what he will with it.

2024-06-05 15:19:44

Sir W. Pen and I went home with Sir R. Slingsby to bowls in his ally, and there had good sport, and afterwards went in and drank and talked.

2024-05-23 19:00:59

This day was kept a holy-day through the town; and it pleased me to see the little boys walk up and down in procession with their broom-staffs in their hands, as I had myself long ago gone.

2024-05-11 19:50:07

Mr. Hater brought my last quarter’s salary, of which I was very glad, because I have lost my first bill for it, and so this morning was forced to get another signed by three of my fellow officers for it.

2023-08-02 18:00:39

When I came home I found my wife not very well of her old pain in the lip of her chose, which she had when we were married first.

2023-06-22 15:01:02

With Mr. Moore to my father’s, I staying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door as I passed. Among other things she told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex beshit herself the other day in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it.