Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660
by Samuel Pepys
- Pages
- about 85
- Category
- History
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- English
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From the opening
October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me some
work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at home,
and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised about
hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the painters
beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the Miter,
where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while I drank
a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the
Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four pints
of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at night to
bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, which they
say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an furniture are
so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through them without
breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in the world.
2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited
before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out of
doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more into
his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for doing
so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my father.
At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg in King
Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser that was
with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I to
Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon Mr.
Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After that
met with Luellin, Mr.
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