... against to-morrow.
[The observation of St. Valentine&apos ;s day is very ancient in this country. Shakespeare makes Ophelia sing
"To-morrow is Saint Valentine&apos ;s day, All in the morning ... again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions
and nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten&apos ;s, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom I could not formerly have
looked upon...
... provisions,
and about ten a clock I sent Sir Richard Stayner, with 120 men, besides officers, to the assistance of the
Governor, into Tangier." Lord Sandwich&apos ;s Journal, in Kennet&apos ;s ... winter
makes us fear a sick summer. But thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much
better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less...
... and at noon home to dinner. No strangers there; and all
the afternoon and evening very late doing serious business of my Tangier accounts, and examining my East
India accounts, with Mr. Poynter, ... year&apos ;s Accounts; of preparing answers to the Commissioners of Accounts; of drawing up several
important letters to the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury; the ma...
... great number of depositions and information as to his
dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these
papers are preserved among the Rawlinson ... been of his introducing, and most of the
officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- up. He was a most studious promoter and
strenuous asserter of order and discip...
... Sandy Foundation Shaken; or those . . . doctrines of one God subsisting in three distinct and
separate persons; the impossibility of God&apos ;s pardoning sinners without a plenary satisfaction, the ... and ends of Sir W. Coventry in it, and considerations in general of the consequences of great men&apos ;s
actions, and the uncertainty of their estates, and other very serious co...
... sort of drolling workmen on all occasions Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink Upon the
leads gazing upon Diana
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ... drinking a glass of wine and
discoursing, and I find him to be a very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning.
9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and...
... many rubs by reason of want of money, and people&apos ;s not believing us in cases where we had
money unless (which in several cases, as in hiring of vessels, cannot be) they be paid beforehand, ... Crew&apos ;s bedside, and then to Westminster, where I hear Pen is, and sent for by messenger last night.
Thence to Commissioners of Accounts and there examined, and so back to Westminst...
... way of raising money for this business, and then that of lotterys,
[Among the State Papers is a "Statement of Articles in the Covenant proposed by the Commissioners for the
Royal Fishing ... people of all sorts against his
going to sea. At the office did much business, among other an end of that that has troubled me long, the
business of the bewpers and flags. At noon to the...
... Evelyn&apos ;s to discourse of our confounded business of prisoners, and sick and wounded
seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order.
[Each of the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded was ... learn by what we see in this business. But that which pleases me best is that Cocke tells me that he
now understands that Fisher was set on in this business by the design of some...
... never so much against
reason, as in the business of recalling tickets, which will be done notwithstanding all the arguments against it.
So back again to my office, and there to business and so to ... reasons, my estate
lying in money, I am afeard of any sudden miscarriage. So to bed mightily contented in dispatching so much
business, and find my house in the best condition that ever I kne...