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To supper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where we purpose always to lie.

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I received a letter from Mr. Barlow, with a Terella, which I had hoped he had sent me, but to my trouble I find it is to present from him to my Lord Sandwich, but I will make a little use of it first, and then give it him.

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Home to dinner with my wife, who is over head and eares in getting her house up.

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Mr. Cutler and I to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure me that there is great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope we shall be in good condition before it comes to break out. I like his company, and will make much of his acquaintance.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By water to St. James’s, and there visited Mr. Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no great talk with him, he being full of business.

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This day the King and Court returned from their progress.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife’s closet, and so to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, while he was doing his work.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so back again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Home, where I found our new cooke-mayde Elizabeth, whom my wife never saw at all, nor I but once at a distance before, but recommended well by Mr. Creed, and I hope will prove well.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To my office, and there I sat late making up my month’s accounts, and, blessed be God, do find myself 760l. creditor, notwithstanding that for clothes for myself and wife, and layings out on her closett, I have spent this month 47l.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rose very well, and my hearing pretty well again, and so to my office, by and by Mr. Holliard come, and at my house he searched my ear, and I hope all will be well, though I do not yet hear so well as I used to do with my right ear.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It fell to thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and I in all the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and wet half an hour, enough to have killed a man.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To carry several heavy things with my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, and Will to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat, so I had a fire made.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Home to supper, being hungry, and my ear and cold not so bad I think as it was. So to bed, taking one of my pills.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sir J. Minnes and I home, finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty today and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.

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To supper, though with little comfort, I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and what troubles me most my right ear is almost deaf.

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Home to spend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her closett, clothes, and other things.

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So home to dinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do not discern in my wife the least memory of him.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To church, without my man William, whom I have not seen today, nor care, but would be glad to have him put himself far enough out of my favour that he may not wonder to have me put him away.

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To the office, and there till late at night, and so home to supper and bed, being mightily pleased to find my wife so mindful of her house.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needs have me home to dinner, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich being with me I took him with me, and there we dined very well at his own dinner, only no invitation, but here I sat with little pleasure, considering my wife at home alone.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To my office all the morning till by and by called out by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, with them by water to Deptford, where it of a sudden did lighten, thunder, and rain so as we could do nothing but stay in Davis’s house.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Telling my wife that I go to Deptford, I went, by water to Westminster Hall, and there finding Mrs. Lane, took her over to Lambeth, where we were lately.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To the office by water, where we sat doing little, now Mr. Coventry is not here, but only vex myself to see what a sort of coxcombs we are when he is not here to undertake such a business as we do.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sir Philip Warwick tells me, and made it appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the Navy at this time 5,000l.; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do owe the King money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To my office, whither by and by came my brother John, who is to go to Cambridge tomorrow, and I did give him a most severe reprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To Westminster Hall, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, which is my great vanity upon me at present, but I must correct it. She was not in the way.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To my Lord Crew’s, and there dined with him and Sir Thomas, thinking to have them inquire something about my Lord’s lodgings at Chelsey, or any thing of that sort, but they did not, nor seem to take the least notice of it, which is their discretion.

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My present care is fitting my wife’s closett and my house, and making her a velvet coate, and me a new black cloth suit, and coate and cloake, and evening my reckoning as well as I can against Michaelmas Day.

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Every day brings newes of the Turke’s advance into Germany, to the awakeing of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessing himself of Hungary.

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This day the King and Queen are to come to Oxford. I hear my Lady Castlemaine is for certain gone to Oxford to meet him, having lain within here at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried; but for certain is as great in favour as heretofore.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edward Ford, have got a patent for curing of smoky chimneys. I wish they may do good thereof, but fear it will prove but a poor project.

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By and by comes my wife by coach well home, and having got a good fowl ready for supper against her coming, we eat heartily, and so with great content and ease to our own bed, there nothing appearing so to our content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To see Sir W. Pen, who is pretty well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is a little lame on one foot. Sir W. Batten has in my absence inveighed against my contract the other day for Warren’s masts, in which he is a knave, and I shall find matter of tryumph, but it vexes me a little.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got my wife up, whom the thought of this day’s long journey do discourage; and after eating something, and changing of a piece of gold to pay the reckoning, we mounted.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

After a word or two to my father and mother, my wife and I mounted, and we rode to Bigglesworth by the help of a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long and dangerous waters, because of the ditches on each side, though it begun to be very dark.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Walked to Huntingdon church, where in my Lord’s pew, with the young ladies, by my Lord’s own showing me the place, I stayed the sermon, and so to Hinchingbroke, walking with Mr. Shepley and Dr. King, whom they account a witty man here, as well as a good physician.

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Mr. Howe tells me that my Lord do not enjoy himself and please himself as he used to do, but will hasten up to London, and that he is resolved to go to Chelsey again, which we are heartily grieved for and studious how to prevent if it be possible.

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I straight to Huntingdon, and there met Mr. Shepley and to the Crown (having sent home my horse by Stankes), and there a barber came and trimmed me, and thence walked to Hinchingbroke, where my Lord and ladies all are just alighted.

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My wife and I took horse, and rode with marvellous, and the first and only hour of, pleasure, that ever I had in this estate since I had to do with it, to Brampton woods; and through the wood rode, and gathered nuts in my way.

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