This troubled me, and the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed my wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages, and so I did give my wife 10 l. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office , where all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr.
Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York , in answer to the answers of this Office, which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put an end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my trouble for them.
So to bed, and did lie now a little better than formerly, but with little, and yet with some trouble. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office , where, by a speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their Patent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey : and here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr. Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room of Mr.
For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs to the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn , do bring in Mr. But Mr. Hutchinson do already see that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to the trouble of it.
Having promised him this I returned home again, where to the office], and there having done, I home and to supper and to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife starts up, and with expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, would rise, and I would not let her, but burst out in tears myself, and so continued almost half the night, the moon shining so that it was light, and after much sorrow and reproaches and little ravings though I am apt to think they were counterfeit from her , and my promise again to discharge the girle myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep.
Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me see the girle , and so I out to the office , where all the morning, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and getting a confession now from her of all … which do mightily trouble me, as not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our future peace together.
So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I would dine in her chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as much as I could we were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr. There he inters his precious hoard, which includes not only his gold and his papers, but also a large wheel of Parmesan cheese. On this podcast, Alexander Larman and Nicholas Kenyon discuss the events and legacy of the blaze:.
We might think this a strange thing to do, but to Pepys the cheese was an investment. A rare and expensive import from Italy, Parmesan was used sparingly and increased in value as it aged. In Pepys was arrested and sent to the Tower of London. The charges included piracy and treason. It was alleged that, as an official in charge of navy stores, he plundered goods from ships captured from the Dutch. By law, captured enemy goods belonged to the Crown.
A more damaging rumour was that Pepys had sold state secrets to the French. Thomas Shelton, a stenographer of the 17 th century, devised one of the most popular shorthand systems of the day. By using the shorthand system, Pepys was able to put a great amount of information to paper in a short space of time, and speed was his primary reason for using the system in his diary although the secrecy aspect may have been an advantage too — his wife Elizabeth would not have had knowledge of the shorthand.
The tutor shown here is one within a collection of such manuals, which Pepys had bound into a single volume. Pepys is significant for documenting an important span of the 17 th century, with detailed accounts of the Restoration, the plague of and the great fire of London.
Perhaps as importantly, he records fascinating details about everyday life in the capital during this time. On the 10 th April he writes:. Off the Exchange with Sir J. Pepys was a government servant and a man of business who liked to regulate his life.
You can still see the manuscript in Cambridge, the crown jewels of the Magdalene College library. Pepys was a man of his time who revelled in its politics, its opportunities and its adventures. He loved music and women, taverns and good wine, metropolitan pleasures and the boisterous company of the new generation coming to prominence around Charles II.
Keeping the diary intensified his enjoyment of the present moment, giving him first the experience, then his account of it, as well as, eventually, the chance to recollect his experiences in tranquillity. By chance, he was writing at a pivotal moment in English history.
On 25 April , the new parliament demanded by public opinion had met, then General Monck and the exiled court had reached a secret agreement. His job as clerk of the acts to the Navy Board put him at the centre of the second Dutch war Living in Westminster, close to the seat of government, he had first-hand experience of the plague:. And in spite to well people, would breathe in the faces of well people going by.
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