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[^PEPYS, SAMUEL.
THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, VII (1666);
VIII (1667).
ED. R. LATHAM AND W. MATTHEWS.
LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, 1972; 1974.
VII,  PP. 409.5 - 417.15      (SAMPLE 1)
VIII, PP. 313.1 - 320.5       (SAMPLE 2)^]

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[} [\15-16 DECEMBER 1666\] }]

   16. (^Lords day.^) Lay long, talking with my wife in bed.    #
Then 
up with great content, and to my chamber to set right a         #
picture 
or two - Lovett having sent me yesterday Santa Clara's head 
varnished, which is very fine. And now my closet is so full
stored and so fine, as I would never desire to have it better. 
   Dined without any strangers with me - which I do not like 
on Sundays. Then after dinner by water to Westminster to see 
Mrs. Martin, whom I found up in her chamber and ready to go 
abroad. I sat there with her and her husband and others a       #
pretty 
while; and then away to White-hall and there walked up and 
down to the Queen's side, and there saw my dear Lady            #
Castlemayne, 
who continues admirable methinks - and I do not hear 
but that the King is the same to her still as ever. Anon to 
chapel, by the King's closet, and heard a very good Anthemne. 
Then with Lord Brouncker to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, 
and there we sat with him and talked. He is weary of anything 
to do, he says, in the Navy. He tells us this Committee of 
Accounts will enquire sharply into our office; and (speaking 
of Sir J. Mennes) he says he will not bear anybody's faults     #
but 
his own. He discoursed as bad of Sir W. Batten almost. And 
cries out upon the discipline of the fleet, which is lost. And 
that there is not, in any of the fourth-rates and under,        #
scarce 
left one Sea-Comander, but all young gentlemen. And which 
troubles him, he hears that the gentlemen do give out that in   #
two 
or three years a Tarpawlin shall not dare to look after being   #
better 
then a Boatswain - which he is troubled at, and with good 
reason. And at this day Sir Robt. Holmes is mightily troubled 
that his brother doth not command in chief, but is commanded 
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by Captain Hannum - who, Sir W. Coventry says he believes 
to be at least of as good blood - is a longer bred seaman - an 
elder officer, and an elder commander. But such is Sir R. 
Holmes's pride, as never to be stopped - he being greatly       #
troubled 
at my Lord Brouncker's late discharging all his men and         #
officers 
but the standing-officers at Chatham; and so are all other 
Commanders, and a very great cry hath been to the King from 
them all in my Lord's absence. But Sir W. Coventry doth 
undertake to defend it, and my Lord Brouncker got ground by 
it I believe - who is angry at Sir W. Batten and W. Penn's bad 
words concerning it. And I have made it worse by telling him 
that they refuse to sign to a paper which he and I signed on 
Saturday to declare the reason of his actions - which Sir W. 
Coventry likes, and would have it sent him and he will sign     #
it - 
which pleases me well. 
   So we parted, and I with Lord Brouncker to Sir P. Neale's 
chamber, and there sat and talked awhile - Sir Edwd. Walker 
being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine Rowles   #
of 
antiquity in Heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the      #
most of 
his papers. Here was also Dr. Wallis, the famous scholar and 
mathematician; but he promises little. 
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   Left them, and in the dark and cold home by water; and so    #
to 
supper and to read, and so to bed - my eyes being better        #
today - 
and I cannot impute it to anything but by my being much in 
the dark tonight, for I plainly find that it is only excess of  #
light 
that makes my eyes sore. 
   This afternoon I walked with Lord Brouncker into the park, 
and there talked of the times. And he doth think that the King 
sees that he cannot never have much more money or good from 
this Parliament, and that therefore he may hereafter dissolve 
them. That as soon as he hath the money settled, he believes a 
peace will be clapped up; and that there are overtures of a 
peace - which, if such as the Lord Chancellor can excuse, he    #
will 
take. For it is the Chancellors interest, he says, to bring     #
peace 
again, for in peace he can do all and command all; but in war   #
he 
cannot, because he understands not the nature of the war - as   #
to 
the management thereof. He tells me he doth not believe that 
the Duke of York will go to sea again, though there are a       #
great 
many about the King that would be glad of any occasion to take 
him out of the world - he standing in their ways; and seemed    #
to 
mean the Duke of Monmouth - who spends his time the most 
viciously and idly of any man, nor will be fit for anything - 
yet he speaks as if it were not impossible but the King would 
own him for his son, and that there was a marriage between his 
mother and him - which God forbid should be, if it be not       #
true; 
nor will the Duke of York easily be gulled in it. But this,     #
put 
to our other distractions, makes things appear very sad, and 
likely to be the occasion of much confusion in a little time. 
And my Lord Brouncker seems to say that nothing can help 
us but the King's making a peace as soon as he hath this money;
and thereby putting himself out of debt, and so becoming a      #
good 
husband; and then he will neither need this, nor any other 
Parliament till he can have one to his mind. For no Parliament 
can, as he says, be kept long good - but they will spoil one 
another. And that therefore it hath been the practice of kings 
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to tell Parliaments what he hath for them to do, and give them  #
so 
long time to do it in, and no longer.
   Harry Kembe, one of our messengers, is lately dead.  

   17. Up, and several people to speak with me. Then comes 
Mr. Caesar, and then Goodgroome, and what with one and the 
other, nothing but Musique with me this morning, to my great 
content; and the more to see that God Almighty hath put me 
into condition to bear the charge of all this. So out to the 
Change I, and did a little business; and then home, where they 
two musicians and Mr. Cooke came to see me - and Mercer, to 
go along with my wife this afternoon to a play. To dinner, 
and then our company all broke up, and I to my chamber to do 
several things - among other things, to write a letter to my    #
Lord 
Sandwich, it being one of the burdens upon my mind that I 
have not writ to him since he went into Spain. But now I do 
intend to give him a brief account of our whole year's action 
since he went, which will make amends. My wife well home in 
the evening from the play; which I was glad of, it being cold   #
and 
dark, and she having her necklace of pearl on, and none but 
Mercer with her. Spent the evening in fitting my books, to 
have the number set upon each in order to my having an 
Alphabet of my whole, which will be of great ease to me. This 
day Captain Batters came from sea in his Fireshipp, and came    #
to 
see me, poor man, as his patron - and a poor painful wretch he 
is as can be. After supper, to bed.  
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   18. Up and to the office, where I hear the ill news that     #
poor
Batters, that hath been born and bred a seaman, and brought up 
his ship from sea but yesterday, was, going down from me to     #
his 
ship, drownded in the Thames - which is a sad fortune, and doth 
make me afeared, and will do, more then ever I was. 
   At noon dined at home; and then by coach to my Lord 
Bellasses, but not at home; so to Westminster hall, where the 
Lords are sitting still. I to see Mrs. Martin, who is very      #
well, 
and intends to go abroad tomorrow after her childbed. She 
doth tell me that this child did come (\la me`me jour\) that    #
it ought 
to (\hazer\) after my (\avoir e`te` con elle\) before her       #
(\marido\) did (\venir\) 
home. And she would now have done anything (\cum ego\) ; 
and did endeavour, but (\su cosa stava mala\) , which did       #
(\empescar\) . 
Thence to the Swan, and there I sent for Sarah and mighty       #
merry 
we were, but (\contra\) my will were very far from (\hazer      #
algo\) . 
So to Sir Rob. Viner's about my plate, and carried home         #
another 
dozen of plates, which makes my stock of plates up 2 1/2        #
dozen. 
And at home find Mr. Tho. Andrews, with whom I stayed and 
talked a little, and invited him to dine with me at Christmas; 
and then I to the office, and there late doing business, and    #
so 
home and to bed - sorry for poor Batters. 

   19. Up and by water to White-hall, and there with the 
Duke of York did our usual business. But nothing but            #
complaints 
of want of money, with[{out{] success, and Sir W. Coventry's 
complaint of the defects of our office (endeed Sir J.           #
Mennes's), 
without any amendment. And he tells us so plainly of the 
committee of Parliament's  resolution  to enquire home into     #
all  
our managements, that it makes me resolve to be wary and to do 
all things betimes to be ready for them. Thence, going away, 
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met Mr. Hingston the Organist (my old acquaintance) in the 
Court, and I took him to the Dogg tavern and got him to set me 
a bass to my (^It is decreed^) , which I think will go well;    #
but he 
commends the song, not knowing the words, but says the ayre
is good, and believes the words are plainly expressed. He is    #
of 
my mind, against having of eighths unnecessarily in             #
composition. 
This did all please me mightily. Then to talk of the 
King's family: he says many of the Musique are ready to         #
starve, 
they being five years behindhand for their wages. Nay, 
Evens, the famous man upon the Harp, having not his equal in 
the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain 
to be buried at the almes of the parish - and carried to his    #
grave 
in the dark at night, without one Linke, but that Mr Hingston 
met it by chance and did give 12d to buy two or three links. 
He says all must come to ruin at this rate, and I believe 
him.  
   Thence I up to the Lords' House to enquire for Lord          #
Bellasses;
and there hear how at a conference this morning between the
two Houses, about the business of the Canary Company - my 
Lord Buckingham leaning rudely over my Lord Marquis of
Dorchester, my Lord Dorchester removed his elbow. Duke of
Buckingham asked whether he was uneasy. Dorchester replied,
"Yes", and that he durst [{not{] do this, were he anywhere      #
else.
Buckingham replied, yes he would, and that he was a better man
then himself. Dorchester answered that he lyed. With this,
Buckingham struck off his hat, and took him by his periwigg
and pulled it a-t'o[{ther{]-side, and held him. My Lord         #
Chamberlain
and others interposed. And upon coming into the House,
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the Lords did order them both to the Tower, whither they are to
go this afternoon.
   I down into the Hall, and there the Lieutenant of the Tower
took me with him and would have me to the Tower to dinner;
where I dined - at the head of his table next his lady -        #
who is
comely, and seeming sober and stately, but very proud and very
cunning, or I am mistaken - and wanton too. This day's work
will bring the Lieutenant of the Tower 350l. But a strange
conceited, vain man he is, that ever I met withal, in his own
praise - as I have heretofore observed of him. Thence home, and
upon Tower hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and
one, standing upon a pile of bricks, made his sign with his     #
handkercher
upon his stick, and called all the rest to him, and several
shouts they gave. This made me afeared, so I got home as fast
as I could - and hearing of no present hurt, did go to Sir      #
Robt.
Viners about my plate again; and coming home, do hear of
1000 seamen said in the streets to be in armes. So in great 
fear home, expecting to find a tumult about our house, and was
doubtful of my riches there - but I thank God, I found all      #
well.
But by and by Sir W. Batten and Sir R Ford do tell me that 
the seamen have been at some prisons to release some seamen,
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and that the Duke of Albemarle is in armes, and all the Guards  #
at
the other end of the town; and the Duke of Albemarle is gone
with some forces to Wapping to quell the seamen - which is a 
thing of infinite disgrace to us.
   I sat long, talking with them. And among other things, Sir
R. Ford did make me understand how the House of Commons is a
beast not to be understood - it being impossible to know        #
beforehand
the success almost of any small plain thing - there being so
many to think and speak to any business, and they of so         #
uncertain
minds and interests and passions.
   He did tell me, and so did Sir W. Batten, how Sir Allen
Brodericke and Sir Allen Apsly did come drunk the other day
into the House, and did both speak for half an hour together,   #
and
could not be either laughed or pulled or bid to sit down and
hold their peace - to the great contempt of the King's          #
servants and
cause - which I am aggrieved at with all my heart.
   We were full in discourse of the sad state of our times. And
the horrid shame brought on the King's service by the just
clamours of the poor seamen. And that we must be undone in
a little time.
   Home, full of trouble on these considerations. And among
other things, I to my chamber and there to ticket a good part
of my books, in order to the Numbring of them - for my easy
finding them to read, as I have occasion.
   So to supper and to bed - with my heart full of trouble.

   20. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.
And here, among other things, came Captain Cocke, and I did
get him to sign me a note for the 100l, to pay for the plate he
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doth present me with, which I am very glad of. At noon
home to dinner, where was Balty come; who is well again,
and the most recovered in his countenance that ever I did see.
Here dined with me also Mrs. Batters, poor woman, now left a
sad widow by the drowning of her husband the other day.
I pity her, and will do her what kindness I can; yet I observe 
something of ill-nature in myself, more then should be: that I
am colder towards her in my charity then I should be to one so
painful as he and she have been, and full of kindness to their
power to my wife and I. After dinner out with Balty, setting
him down at the Maypole in the Strand; and then I to my Lord
Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr. Moone about some business;
and so away home to my business at the office, and then home to
supper and to bed, after having finished the putting of little
papers upon my books, to be numbered hereafter. 

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[} [\JULY 1667\] }]
   1. Up betimes about 4 a-clock, waked by a damned noise 
between a sow gelder and a cow and a dog, nobody after we were 
up being able to tell us what it was. After being ready, we     #
took 
coach; and being very sleepy, drouzed most part of the way to 
gravesend; and there light and down to the new Battery which 
are like to be very fine, and there did hear a plain fellow     #
cry 
out upon the folly of the King's officers above, to spend so    #
much 
money in works at Woolwich and Deptford and sinking of good 
ships loaden with goods, when if half the charge had been laid 
out here, it would have secured all that, and this place too,   #
before 
now - and I think it is not only true in this, but that the     #
best of 
the actions of us all are so silly, that the meanest people do  #
begin 
to see through them and contemn them. "Besides," says he, 
"they spoil the river by it." Then informed ourselfs where we 
might have some Creame, and they guided us to one Goody 
Best's, a little out of the town towards London-road; and       #
thither 
we went with the Coach and find it a mighty clean, plain        #
house, 
and had a dish of very good cream to our liking; and so away 
presently, very merry, and fell to reading of the several       #
(^Advices 
to a Painter^) , which made us good sport; and endeed, are      #
very 
witty; and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance    #
of 
letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he      #
hath of 
late read in the printed (^Cabbala^) , which is a very fine     #
style at this 
day and fit to be imitated. With this, and talking and          #
laughing 
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at the folly of our maisters in the management of things at     #
this 
day, we got home by noon, where all well. And then to dinner, 
and after dinner both of us laid down upon the Couch and        #
chairs 
and to sleep; which I did for an hour or two, and then to the 
office, where I am sorry to hear that Sir J. Mennes is likely   #
to die 
this night or tomorrow. I forgot to set down that we met this 
morning upon the road with Mrs. Williams, going down to my  
Lord Brouncker; we bowed without speaking one to another, 
but I am ashamed at the folly of the man, to have her down at 
this serious busy time, when the town and country is full of 
people and full of censure, and against him perticularly. At    #
Sir 
W. Batten's my Lady tells me that she hears for certain that    #
my 
Lord's maid of his lodgings here doth give out that Mrs.        #
Williams 
hath been fain of late to sell her best clothes and Jewells to  #
get a 
little money upon - which is a sad condition. Thence to the 
office and did write to my Lord Brouncker to give me a little 
satisfaction about the certainty of the Chaines being broke,    #
which 
I begin to doubt, and the more from Sir W Pen's discourse; 
it is worth while to read my letter to him entered in my        #
letter 
book. Home in the evening to supper; and so pretty betimes, 
about 10 a-clock, to bed, and slept well. This day letters are 
come that my sister is very ill.  

   2. Up, and put on my new silk Camelott suit, made of my 
cloak, and suit now made into a vest. So to the office, where 
W. Penn and myself and Sir T. Harvy met, the first time we      #
have 
had a meeting since the coming of the Dutch upon the coast. 
Our only business (for we have little else to do, nobody being 
willing to trust us for anything) was to speak with the owners  #
of 
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six merchantmen which we have been taking up this fortnight, 
and are yet in no readiness, they not fitting their ships       #
without 
money advanced to them, we owing them for what their ships 
have earned the last year. So everything stands still for       #
money, 
while we want money to pay for some of the most necessary 
things  that we promised ready money for in the heighth of our  
wants - as grapnells, &c.; at noon home to dinner; and after 
dinner, my wife and Jane (mighty fine the girle) to go to see 
Jane's old mistress, who was to see her, and did see my wife    #
the 
other day. And it is pleasant to hear with what kindness her    #
old 
mistress speaks of this girl, and how she would still have      #
her, 
and how the wench cried when she told her that she must come 
to her old mistress, my wife. They gone, I to my chamber, 
and there dallied a little with my maid Nell to touch her       #
thing, 
but nothing more. And so to the office, where busy till night; 
and then comes Mrs. Turner and walks with me in the garden, 
to talk with me about her husband's business and to tell me     #
how 
she hears at the other end of the town how bad our office is 
spoken of by the King and Prince and Duke of Albemarle; 
and that there is not a good word said of any of us but of me, 
and me they do all speak mightily of - which, whether true or   #
no, 
I am mighty glad to hear. But from all put together that I      #
hear 
from other people, I am likely to pass as well as anybody. So 
she gone, comes my wife and to walk in the garden, Sir J.       #
Mennes 
being still ill and so keeping us from singing; and by and by 
Sir W Pen came and walked with us, and gave us a bottle of 
cider; and so we home to supper, and I to read myself asleep 
and so to bed. (This day I am told that poor Tooker is dead, 
a very painful poor man as ever I knew.)  

   3. Up, and within most of the morning, my tailor's boy 
coming to alter something in my new suit I put on yesterday. 
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Then to the office and did business, and then (my wife being a 
little ill of those in the bed) I to Sir W. Batten's and dined, 
and there comes in Sir Rd. Ford and tells us how he hath been 
at the Session's-house, and there it is plain that there is a   #
combination 
of rogues in the town that do make it their business to set 
houses on fire, and that one house they did set on fire in      #
Aldersgate-street 
last Easter, and that this is proved by two young 
men, whom one of them debauched by degrees to steal their 
father's plate and clothes, and at last to be of their          #
company, and 
they had their places to take up what goods were flung into     #
the 
streets out of the windows when the houses were on fire; and 
this is like to be proved to a great number of rogues, whereof 
five are already found, and some found guilty this day. One of 
these boys is the son of a Mountagu, of my Lord Manchester's 
family; but whose son, he could not tell me. This is a strange 
thing methinks, but I am glad that it is proved so true and 
discovered. So home, and to enter my Journall of my late 
journy to this hour; and then to the office - where to do a     #
little 
business; and then by water to White-hall (calling at Michells 
in my way, but the rogue would not invite me in, I having a     #
mind 
(\para ver\) his wife); and there to the Council-chamber to     #
deliver a 
letter to their Lordships about the state of the six            #
merchantmen 
which we have been so long fitting out. When I came, the 
King and the whole tableful of Lords were hearing of a pitiful 
cause of a complaint of an old man, with a great gray beard, 
against his son, for not allowing himself something to live     #
on; 
and at last came to the ordering the son to allow his father    #
10l a 
year. This cause lasted them near two hours; which methinks, 
at this time to be the work of the Council-board of England,    #
is a 
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scandalous thing, and methought Sir W. Coventry to me did own 
as much. Here I find all the news is the enemy's landing 3000 
men near Harwich, and attacquing Langnerfort and being beat 
off thence with our great guns, killing some of their men and 
they leaving their lathers behind them; but we had no Horse 
in the way on Suffolke side, otherwise we might have galled 
their Foot. The Duke of York is gone down thither this day, 
while the Generall sat sleeping this afternoon at the           #
Counciltable. 
The news so much talked of this Exchange, of a peace, 
I find by Sir Rd. Browne arises from a letter the Swedes agent 
hath received from Bredah, and showed at Court today, that 
they are come very near it, but I do not find anybody here 
relying on it. This cause being over, the Trinity-house men, 
whom I did not expect to meet, were called in; and there Sir 
W Pen made a formal speech in answer to a Question of the 
King's, whether the lying of the sunk ships in the River would 
spoil the River; but Lord, how gingerly he answered it, and     #
with 
a deal of do, that he did not know whether it would be safe as  #
to 
the enemy to have them taken up, but that doubtless it would    #
be 
better for the River to have them taken up. Methought the 
Council found them answer like fools, and it ended in bidding 
them think more of it and bring their answer in writing.        #
Thence  
I to Westminster-hall and there hear how they talk against the 
present management of things, and against Sir W. Coventry for 
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his bringing in of new commanders and casting out the old       #
seamen; 
which I did endeavour to rectify Mr. Michell and them in, 
letting them know that he hath opposed it all his life, the     #
most 
of any man in England. After a deal of this bibble babble, I    #
to 
Mrs. Martins and there she was gone in before; but when I 
came, contrary to my expectation, I find her all in trouble,    #
and 
what was it for but that I have got her with child, for those   #
do 
not (\venir\) upon her as they should have done; and is in      #
exceeding 
grief, and swears that the child is mine; which I do not 
believe, but yet do comfort her that either it can[{not{] be    #
so; or 
if it be, that I will take care to send for her husband,        #
though I do 
hardly see how I can be sure of that, the ship being at sea     #
and as 
far as Scotland; but however, I must do it, and shall find      #
some 
way or other of doing it, though it doth trouble me not a       #
little. 
Thence, not pleased, away to White-hall to Mr. Williamson and 
by and by my Lord Arlington about Mr. Lanyon's business; 
and it is pretty to see how Mr. Williamson did altogether       #
excuse 
himself that my business was not done, and when I came to my 
Lord and told him my business, - "Why," says my Lord, "it hath 
[{been{] done, and the King signed it several days ago;" and    #
so it 
was, and was in Mr. Williamson's hand, which made us both 
laugh; and I in innocent mirth, I remember, said, "It is        #
pretty to 
see in what a condition we are, that all our matters nowadays 
are undone we know not how, and done we know not when." 
He laughed at it, but I have since reflected on it and find it  #
a 
severe speech, as it might be taken by a chief minister of      #
state, 
as endeed Mr. Williamson is, for he is endeed the Secretary. 
But we fell to other pleasant talk, and a fine gentleman he is; #
and 
so gave him 5l for his fee, and away home and to Sir W.         #
Batten's 
to talk a little; and then to the office to do a little         #
business, and so 
home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.  
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   4. Up; and in vain expecting Sir Rd. Ford's calling on me, 
I took coach and to the Sessions-house, where I have a mind to 
hear Bazill Fielding's case tried; and so got up to the Bench, 
my Lord Chief Justice Keeling being Judge. Here I stood bare, 
not challenging, though I might well enough, to be covered. 
But here was several fine trials. Among others, several         #
brought 
in for making it their trade to set houses on fire, merely to   #
get 
plunder, and all proved by the two little boys spoken of        #
yesterday 
by Sir R. Ford, who did give so good account of perticulars     #
that 
I never heard children in my life; and I confess, though I was 
unsatisfied with the force given to such little boys to take    #
away 
men's lives, yet when I was told that my Lord Chief-Justice     #
did 
declare that there was no law against taking the oath of        #
children 
above twelve years old, and then heard from Sir R. Ford the 
good account which the boys had given of their understanding 
the nature and consequence of an oath, and now my own           #
observation 
of the sobriety and readiness of their answers, further then 
of any man of any rank that came to give witness this day,      #
though 
some men of years and learning, I was a little amazed, and      #
fully 
satisfied that they ought to have as much credit as the rest. 
They proved against several, their consulting several times at  #
a 
bawdy-house in Moore-Fields called the Russia House, among 
many other rogueries, of setting houses on fire, that they      #
might 
gather the goods that were flung into the streets; and it is    #
worth 
considering how unsafe it is to have children play up and down 
this lewd town, for these two boys, one is my Lady Mountagus 
(I know not what Lady Mountagu) son and the other of good 
condition, were playing in Moore-Fields, and one rogue, Gabr. 
Holmes, did come to them and teach them to drink, and then to 
bring him plate and clothes from their fathers' houses and      #
carry 
him into their houses, and leaving open the doors for him; and 
at last were made of their conspiracy, and were at the very     #
burning 
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of this [{house{] in Aldersgate-street on Easter Sunday at      #
night 
last, and did gather up goods as they had resolved before. And 
this Gabriel Holmes did advise to have had two houses set on 
fire, one after another, that while they were quenching of      #
one, 
they might be burning another. 



