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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62
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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62

    By Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley, Mynors Bright and Samuel Pepys

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62

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      Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15 - Richard Griffin Braybrooke

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1661/62 by Samuel Pepys

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      Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, March/April 1661/62

      Author: Samuel Pepys

      Release Date: November 30, 2004 [EBook #4133]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.

      CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

      TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

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      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

      EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

      HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.

      DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.

      MARCH & APRIL 1661-1662

      March 1st. This morning I paid Sir W. Batten L40, which I have owed him this half year, having borrowed it of him. Then to the office all the morning, so dined at home, and after dinner comes my uncle Thomas, with whom I had some high words of difference, but ended quietly, though I fear I shall do no good by fair means upon him. Thence my wife and I by coach, first to see my little picture that is a drawing, and thence to the Opera, and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do, and I am resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less. Thence home, and after supper and wrote by the post, I settled to what I had long intended, to cast up my accounts with myself, and after much pains to do it and great fear, I do find that I am 1500 in money beforehand in the world, which I was afraid I was not, but I find that I had spent above L250 this last half year, which troubles me much, but by God's blessing I am resolved to take up, having furnished myself with all things for a great while, and to-morrow to think upon some rules and obligations upon myself to walk by. So with my mind eased of a great deal of trouble, though with no great content to find myself above L100 worse now than I was half a year ago, I went to bed.

      2nd (Lord's day). With my mind much eased talking long in bed with my wife about our frugall life for the time to come, proposing to her what I could and would do if I were worth L2,000, that is, be a knight, and keep my coach, which pleased her,

      [Lord Braybrooke wrote, This reminds me of a story of my father's, when he was of Merton College, and heard Bowen the porter wish that he had L100 a-year, to enable him to keep a couple of hunters and a pack of foxhounds.]

      and so I do hope we shall hereafter live to save something, for I am resolved to keep myself by rules from expenses. To church in the morning: none in the pew but myself. So home to dinner, and after dinner came Sir William and talked with me till church time, and then to church, where at our going out I was at a loss by Sir W. Pen's putting me upon it whether to take my wife or Mrs. Martha (who alone was there), and I began to take my wife, but he jogged me, and so I took Martha, and led her down before him and my wife. So set her at home, and Sir William and my wife and I to walk in the garden, and anon hearing that Sir G. Carteret had sent to see whether we were at home or no, Sir William and I went to his house, where we waited a good while, they being at prayers, and by and by we went up to him; there the business was about hastening the East India ships, about which we are to meet to-morrow in the afternoon. So home to my house, and Sir William

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