Volume 3

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
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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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    DIARY OF Jan. 19-21 done with Dutch tiles, like my chimnies. But still, above all things, he bid me go down into his wine-cellar, where upon several shelves there stood bottles of all sorts of wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle, and in the order and plenty as 1 never saw books in a bookseller’s shop; and herein, I observe, he puts his highest content, and will accord- ingly commend all that he hath, but still they deserve to be so. Here dined with me Dr. Whore and Mr. Scawen. There- with him and Mr. Bland, whom we met by the way, to my Lord Chancellor’s, where the King was to meet my Lord Treasurer, &c., many great men, to settle the revenue of Tangier. I staid talking awhile there, but the King not coming I walked to my brother’s, where I met my cozen Scotts ^ (Tom not being at home) and sent for a glass of wine for them, and having drunk we parted, and I to the Wardrobe talking with Mr. Moore about my law businesses, which I doubt will go ill for want of time for me to attend them. So home, where I found Mrs. Lodum speaking with my wife about her kinswoman which is offered my wife to come as a woman to her. So to the office and put things in order, and then home and to bed, it being my great comfort that every day I understand more and more the pleasure of following of business and the credit that a man gets by it, which I hope at last too will end in profit. This day, by Dr. Clerke, I was told the occasion of my Lord Chesterfield’s going and taking his lady (my Lord Ormond’s daughter) from Court. It seems he not only hath been long jealous of the Duke of York, but did find them two talking together, though there were others in the room, and the lady by all opinions a most good, virtuous woman. He, the next day (of which the Duke was warned by somebody that saw the passion my Lord Chesterfield was in the night before), went and told the Duke how much he did apprehend himself wronged, in his picking out his lady of the whole Court to be the subject of his dishonour;^ which the Duke did answer with great calmness, not seeming to under- * Apparently J. Scott and his wife Judith Pepys). ® See a7ite, November 3rd, 1662 (vol. ii., p. 384).
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