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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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It is a cold, which God Almighty in justice did give me while I sat lewdly sporting with Mrs. Lane the other day with the broken window in my neck. I went to bed with a posset, being very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my hearing.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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Up, though with pain in my head, stomach, and ear, and that deaf so as in my way by coach to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes I called at Mr. Holliard’s, who did give me some pills, and tells me I shall have my hearing again and be well.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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The Commissioners for Tangier met. Jonas Moore, sent to that purpose, did bring us a brave draught of the Mole to be built there; and report that it is likely to be the most considerable place the King of England hath in the world; and so I am apt to think it will.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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Here I saw Mrs. Betty Pickering, who is a very well-bred and comely lady, but very fat.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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To Hinchingbroke, where I find my Lord and his company gone to Boughton, which vexed me; but there I find my Lady and the young ladies, and I alone with my Lady two hours, she carrying me through every part of the house and gardens, which are, and will be, mighty noble indeed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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Thence to Brampton to my father’s, and there found all well, but not sensible how they ought to treat my uncle and his son, at least till the Court be over, which vexed me, but on my counsel they carried it fair to them.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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My last night’s physic worked and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four stools, and walked up and down my chamber.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

To Brown’s for my measuring rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious for carrying in one’s pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and myself have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of it.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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While supper was getting ready I took him to walk up and down behind my cozen Pepys’s house that was, which I find comes little short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things use commonly to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and knows more.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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It was the finest sight to me that ever I did see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. Stewart in this dress, with her hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my life.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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So to our lodging to supper, and among other meats had a brave dish of cream, the best I ever eat in my life, and with which we pleased ourselves much.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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Home to supper and to bed, before I sleep fancying myself to sport with Mrs. Stewart with great pleasure.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again, which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not a woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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He desired my pardon for that he was mistaken, for he thought verily, not knowing of my coming to lie there, that it had been Salmon, the Frenchman, with whom he intended to have made some sport. So I made nothing of it, but bade him good night.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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So to the yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, and discharged several fellows that were absent from their business.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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I followed them up into White Hall, and into the Queen’s presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another’s by one another’s heads, and laughing.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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I staid walking up and down, and among others spying a man like Mr. Pembleton, yet how my blood did rise in my face, and I fell into a sweat from my old jealousy and hate, which I pray God remove from me.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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After he had looked wistly upon me, and found that I did not answer him to the names that he called me by, which was Salmon, Sir Carteret’s clerk, and Robt. Maddox, he put off his hat on a suddaine, and forebore laughing, and asked who I was, saying, “Are you Mr. Pepys?”

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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We rode out of the town through Yowell beyond Nonesuch House a mile, and there our little dogg, as he used to do, fell a-running after a flock of sheep feeding on the common, till he was out of sight.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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I got myself ready, and so to Games’s, where I got a horse and rode thither very pleasantly, only coming to make water I found a stopping, which makes me fearful of my old pain.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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She looked mighty out of humour, and had a yellow plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is very handsome, but very melancholy: nor did any body speak to her, or she so much as smile or speak to any body.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Going to bed it fell a-thundering and lightening, the greatest flashes enlightening the whole body of the yard, that ever I saw in my life.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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I told him yes, and now being come a little better to myself, I found him to be Tom Willson, Sir W. Batten’s clerk, and fearing he might be in some melancholy fit, I was at a loss what to do or say.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

In the Duke’s chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the standards written S.P.Q.R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know the meaning; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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I sat up an hour after Mr. Coventry was gone to read my vows, it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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To the Docke and by water to view St. Mary Creeke, but do not find it so proper for a wet docks as we would have it, it being uneven ground and hard in the bottom and no great depth of water in many places.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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To the parish church, and there heard a poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon these words, “Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command you.”

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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We three to private discourse and laid the matters of the yard home again to the Commissioner, and discoursed largely of several matters.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Deane of Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of a little sliding ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is the same with that, but more portable; however I did not seem to understand or even to have seen anything of it before.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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The King and Queen, who looked in this dress mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. Here was also my Lady Castlemaine rode among the rest of the ladies; but the King took, methought, no notice of her.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

Up by 4 o’clock and to my office, and there continued all the morning upon my Navy book to my great content.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

To the Trinity House where the old seamen tell us that they have catched often in Greenland in fishing whales with the iron grapnells that had formerly been struck into their bodies covered over with fat; that they have had eleven hogsheads of oyle out of the tongue of a whale.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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He did most discretely answer me in all things, showing me the danger for me to meddle either in ships or merchandise of any sort or common stocks, but what I have to keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

To the Change, and meeting Sir J. Minnes there, he and I walked to look upon Backwell’s design of making another alley from his shop through over against the Exchange door, which will be very noble and quite put down the other two.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

My Lord Crew tells me of the order the House of Commons have made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the King and Church; which will be fatal to a great many.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

While at supper comes Mr. Pembleton, and after supper we up to our dancing room and there danced three or four country dances, and after that a practice of my coranto I began with him the other day, and I begin to think that I shall be able to do something at it in time.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

We met with Sir J. Minnes coming in his coach from Westminster, who tells us, in great heat, that, by God, the Parliament will make mad work; that they will render all men incapable of any military or civil employment that have borne arms in the late troubles against the King.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with the Queen.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Being come thither, I was well received, and had two pair of gloves, as the rest, and walked up and down with my Lady in the garden, she mighty kind to me, and I have the way to please her.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

To my brother Tom’s barber and had my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, but has a very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to see what a shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant.

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