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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666
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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666

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

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48: December 1666

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      Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 48 - Richard Griffin Braybrooke

      Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666, by Samuel Pepys

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, December 1666

      Author: Samuel Pepys

      Release Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4170]

      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

      (Unabridged)

      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

      EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

      HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.

                                DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.

                                      DECEMBER

                                        1666

      December 1st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At home to dinner, and then abroad walking to the Old Swan, and in my way I did see a cellar in Tower Streete in a very fresh fire, the late great winds having blown it up.

      [The fire continued burning in some cellars of the ruins of the city for four months, though it rained in the month of October ten days without ceasing (Rugge's Diurnal).—B.]

      It seemed to be only of log-wood, that Hath kept the fire all this while in it. Going further, I met my late Lord Mayor Bludworth, under whom the City was burned, and went with him by water to White Hall. But, Lord! the silly talk that this fellow had, only how ready he would be to part with all his estate in these difficult times to advance the King's service, and complaining that now, as every body did lately in the fire, every body endeavours to save himself, and let the whole perish: but a very weak man he seems to be. I left him at White Hall, he giving 6d. towards the boat, and I to Westminster Hall, where I was again defeated in my expectation of Burroughs. However, I was not much sorry for it, but by coach home, in the evening, calling at Faythorne's, buying three of my Lady Castlemayne's heads, printed this day, which indeed is, as to the head, I think, a very fine picture, and like her. I did this afternoon get Mrs. Michell to let me only have a sight of a pamphlet lately printed, but suppressed and much called after, called The Catholique's Apology; lamenting the severity of the Parliament against them, and comparing it with the lenity of other princes to Protestants; giving old and late instances of their loyalty to their princes, whatever is objected against them; and excusing their disquiets in Queen Elizabeth's time, for that it was impossible for them to think her a lawfull Queen, if Queen Mary, who had been owned as such, were so; one being the daughter of the true, and the other of a false wife: and that of the Gunpowder Treason, by saying that it was only the practice of some of us, if not the King, to trepan some of their religion into it, it never being defended by the generality of their Church, nor indeed known by them; and ends with a large Catalogue, in red letters, of the Catholiques which have lost their lives in the quarrel of the late King and this. The thing is very well writ indeed. So home to my letters, and then to my supper and to bed.

      2nd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and after church home to dinner, where I met Betty Michell and her husband, very merry at dinner, and after dinner, having borrowed Sir W. Pen's coach, we to Westminster, they two and my wife and I to Mr. Martin's, where find the company almost all come to the christening of Mrs. Martin's child, a girl. A great deal of good plain company. After sitting long, till the church was done, the Parson comes, and then we to christen the child. I was Godfather, and Mrs. Holder (her husband, a good man, I know well), and a pretty lady, that waits, it seems, on my Lady Bath, at White Hall, her name, Mrs. Noble, were Godmothers. After the christening comes in the wine and the sweetmeats, and then to

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