Volume 6
The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheatley.
- Samuel Pepys
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited, with additions, by Henry B. Wheatley. 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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![because she will be raised from so mean a condition to so high all of a sudden ; but she will be much to our profit, more than Mercer, less expense. Here we bespoke a new gowne for her. and to come to us on Friday. She being gone, my wife and I home by coach, and then I presently by water with Mr. Pierce to Westminster Hall, he in the way telling me how the Duke of York and Duke of Albemarle do not agree. The Duke of York is wholly given up to this bitch of Denham. The Duke of Albemarle and Prince Rupert do less agree. So that we are all in pieces, and nobody knows what will be done the next year. The King hath yesterday in Council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter.1 It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift, and will do good. By and by comes down from the Committee [Sir] W. Coventry, and I find him troubled at several things happened this afternoon, which vexes me also ; our business looking worse and worse, and our worke growing on our hands. Time spending, and no money to set anything in hand with ; the end thereof must be speedy ruine. The Dutch insult and have taken off Bruant’s head,2 which they have not dared to do (though found guilty of the fault he did die for, of something of the Prince of Orange’s faction) till just now, which speaks more confidence in our being worse than before. Alderman Maynell, I hear, is dead. Thence returned in the darke by coach all alone, full of thoughts of the consequences of this ill complexion of affairs, and how to save myself and the little I have, which if 1 There are several references to this new fashion of dress introduced by the king Pepys saw the Duke of York put on the vest on the 13th, and he says Charles II. himself put it on on the 15th. On November 4th Pepys dressed himself in the new vest and coat. See notes, October 15th (p. 21) and November 22nd. 2 Captain Du Buat, a Frenchman in the Dutch service, plotted with two magistrates of Rotterdam to obtain a peace with England as the readiest means of pressing the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the office of Captain-General. He was brought before the Supreme Court of Holland, condemned, and executed. He had been one of the household of the Prince of Orange who were dismissed by De Witt.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28036244_0006_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
