So they woke me. But I would not rise; but bid him stay till morning; which he did, and then I rose and carried them in to my Lord who read them a-bed. Among the rest there was the writ and mandate for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of Parliament men. There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne1 who with his own hand superscribes it to S. P. Esq., of which God knows I am not a little proud. About ten o'clock Mr. Ibbott at the end of the long table begun to pray and preach and indeed made a very good sermon upon the duty of all Christians to be steadfast in faith. After that Captain Cuttance and I had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin not intending to stir out to-day. After that into the Great Cabin above to dinner with the Captain, where was Captain Isham and all the officers of the ship. I took place of all but the Captains. After dinner I wrote a great many letters to my friends at London. After that, sermon again, at which I slept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, I walked with the Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with him and after that had orders from my Lord about some business to be done against to-morrow, which I sat up late and did; and then to bed.

March 26. This morning I rose early and went about making of an establishment of the whole fleet and a list of all the ships with the number of men and guns. About an hour after that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders and seamen, to proportion out the number of these things. After that to dinner, there being very many commanders on board. All the afternoon very many orders were made till I was weary. At night Mr. Shepley and W. Howe came and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eat in my cabin where we were very merry. Captain Cuttance came afterwards 1 Secretary to the Admiralty. 2 Chaplain of the Swiftsure.

and sat drinking a bottle of wine till eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatest officer in the ship. After that to bed.

March 27. This morning the wind came about and we fell into the Hope1, and in our passing by the ViceAdmiral, he and the rest of the frigates with him did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that was upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the scuttle. This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table since my coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of letters and orders. In the afternoon Sir Harry Wright came on board us, about his business of being chosen Parliament man. My Lord brought him to see my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So to bed.

March 29. We lie still a little below Gravesend. March 30. This day, while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Naseby came in sight towards us and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord and many others went on board her, where everything was out of order and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bed-chamber which he was much pleased with. My Lord in his discourse discovered a great deal of love to this ship.

April 2. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. Great concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord upon his going into the Naseby, so that the table was

1 A reach of the Thames near Tilbury: cp. mention of "Long Reach," March 23.

2 Montagu had had his flag in the Naseby on a previous occasion. • Eliezer's.

full. After dinner I went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord and made shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It is but little, but very convenient, having one window to the sea and another to the deck, and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Edward Pickering, like a coxcomb as he always was. He tells me that the King will come in, but that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it himself or else to hinder it.

April 5. Ready to set sail, which we did about noon and came in the evening to Lee roads and anchored. I spent all the afternoon upon the deck, it being very pleasant weather. At night very sleepy to bed.

April 6. In the afternoon, W. Howe and I to our violins, the first time since we came on board. In the evening, it being fine moonshine, I stayed late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr.1 Cuttance, learning of some sea-terms; and so down to supper and to bed.

April 7. This day about nine o'clock in the morning the wind grew high and we being among the sands lay at anchor. I began to be dizzy and squeamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as good at Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the deck to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, went to bed and got a caudle made me and sleep upon it very well.

April 8. [Lord's Day.] Very calm again and I pretty well, but my head ached all day. About noon set sail. In our way I see many vessels and masts which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the afternoon and overtook two merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, going to the East Indies. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three or

1 At this time not only Lieutenants but Captains and even Admirals were addressed as "Mr.”

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four days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a ketch for Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat ill again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty1 supped in the Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I against extemporary prayers, very hot.

April 9. We having sailed all night were come in sight of the Nore2 and South Forelands in the morning and so sailed all day. In the afternoon we had a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should be able to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which I was much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we came to the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal, where our fleet lay, among whom we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles and ships, and our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of guns. Nor could we see one another on board for the smoke that was among us, nor one ship from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains came from on board their ships all to us on board.

CHAPTER II

MUSIC AND NINEPINS

April 13. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon set my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto and set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by the post, and after that was done I went up to the Lieutenant's cabin and there we broached a vessel of ale that

1 Balty was Pepys's brother-in-law. He had come aboard with a message for Pepys from his wife. Balty = an abbreviation for

Balthasar.

2 ? North.

we had sent for among us from Deal to-day. Then to bed and it being very rainy and the rain coming upon my bed1 I went and lay with John Goods in the Great Cabin2 below, the wind being so high that we were fain to lower some of the masts. I to bed and what with the goodness of the bed and the rocking of the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock and then

April 14. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Shepley, which occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I nothing to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, and looking out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce the Surgeon in it in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope.

1 Pepys's cabin was immediately below the Quarter-deck. It was separated from the Half-deck by one bulkhead and by another from the Coach.

* The seventeenth-century ships of the line differed so widely from their successors in the eighteenth century that Mr. Pepys's phraseology is without much meaning to those familiar with the Victory. A visitor who came aboard the Naseby by the Front Door or Entering-Port would find himself on the midmost of three gun-decks. Turning aft he would come to the Great Cabin. This was a room of common resort. Here Mr. Pepys had his hair cut: and here he made music with Will Howe. As he played, his melodies would float through the bulkheads that separated the Great Cabin from "my Lord's chamber," a fine airy room lighted by handsome windows. Immediately above the Great Cabin and Chamber came the ship's assembly-room, which was called the Coach. Here all the officers dined together, generally with the Captain and sometimes with the Admiral. Here Councils of War were held. And here all the officers of the fleet assembled to see "my Lord" invested by the King at Arms with the insignia of the Garter. Anyone standing on the roof of the Coach was said to be on the Quarter-deck. But the aftmost half of the Quarter-deck was roofed by the Poop and the area so enclosed was known by various names. One portion was called the Cuddy. It was here that the First Lieutenant and Master had their cabins so that in an instant they could be at the post of duty on the Quarter-deck. Mr. Pepys's cabin and writingroom seem to have been situated at the bulkhead end of the Coach.

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