Volume 1

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.

  • Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and others. And here drank most excellent, and great variety, and plenty of wines, more than I have drank at once these seven years, but yet did me no great hurt. Having dined very merrily, and understanding by Blancfort how angry the Duke of York was about their offering to send Saville to the Gate-house among the rogues; and then, observing how this company, both the ladies and all, are of a gang, and did drink a health to the union of the two brothers, and talking of others as their enemies, they parted, and so we up; and there 1 did find the Duke of York and Duchesse with all the great ladies sitting upon a carpet on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at “ I love my love with an A, because he is so and so ; and I hate him with an A, because of this and thatand some of them, but particularly the Duchesse herself and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done,, they took barge, and I with Sir J. Smith to Captain Cox’s ; and there to talk, and left them. 5th. After dinner I to the Tower, where 1 find Sir W. Coventry with abundance of company with him; and after sitting awhile and hearing some merry discourse, and, among others, of Mr. Brouncker’s being this day summoned to Sir William Morton*, one of the Judges, to give in security for his good behaviour upon his words the other day to Sir John Morton-]-, a Parliament-man, at White Hall, who had heretofore spoke very highly against Brouncker in the House, I away, and to Aldgate. 6th. Before the office I stepped to Sir W. Coventry at the Tower, and there had a great deal of discourse with him; among others, of the King’s putting him out of the Council yesterday, with which he is well contented, as with what else they can strip him of, he telling me, and so hath long, that he is weary and surfeited of business. But he joins with me in his fears that all will go to naught, as matters are now managed. He told me the matter of the play that was intended for his abuse, wherein they foolishly and sillily bring in two tables like that which he hath made with a round hole in the middle in his closet to turn himself in ; X and he is to be in one of them as master, and Sir * Made a Justice of the King’s Bench 1665. Ob. 1672. t M. P. for Weymouth in 1680. ^ Fide page 246, where Sir W. C.’s round table is described.