they the other And the whole, Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or £800 at most The Queene mends apace, they say, but yet talks idle still.

30th To my great sorrow find myself £43 worse than I was the last month, which was then £760 and now it is but £717 But it hath chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife, viz for her about £12 and for myself £55, or thereabouts having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth skirts, black, plain both, a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved, henceforward to go like myself And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me £3 and the other 40s I have worn neither yet, but will begin next week, God willing The Queene continues light-headed, but in hopes to recover The plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fear of it here, which God defend The Turke goes on mighty in the Emperor’s dominions, and the Princes cannot agree among themselves how to go against him.

November 2nd Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there in the long matted Gallery I find Sir G Carteret, Sir J Minnes, and Sir W Batten, and by and by comes the King to walk there with three or four with him, and soon as he saw us, says he, ‘Here is the Navy Office,’ and there walked twenty turns the length of the gallery, talking, methought, but ordinary talk By and by come the Duke, and he walked, and at last they went into the Duke’s lodgings The King staid so long that we could not discourse with the Duke, and so we parted I heard the Duke say that he was going to wear a perriwigg, and they say the King also will I never till this day observed that the King is mighty gray.

6th Lord Sandwich tells me how Mr Edward Montagu begins to show respect to him again after his endeavouring to bespatter him all was possible, but he is resolved never to admit him into his friendship again He tells me how he and Sir H Bennet, the Duke of Buckingham and his Duchesse, was of a committee with somebody else for the getting of Mrs Stewart for the King, but that she proves a cunning slut, and is advised at Somerset House by the Queene-Mother, and by her mother, and so all the plot is spoiled and the whole committee broke, Mr Montagu and the Duke of Buckingham fallen apieces, the Duchesse going to a nunnery, and so Montagu begins to enter friendship with my Lord, and to attend the Chancellor whom he had deserted My Lord tells me that Mr Montagu, among other things, did endeavour to represent him to the Chancellor’s sons as one that did desert their father in the business of my Lord of Bristoll, which is most false, being the only man that hath several times dined with him when no soul hath come to him, and went with him that very day home when the Earl impeached him in the Parliament House, and hath refused ever to pay a visit to my Lord of Bristoll, not so much as in return to a visit of his So that the Chancellor and my Lord are well known and trusted one by another But yet my Lord blames the Chancellor for desiring to have it put off to the next Sessions of Parliament, contrary to my Lord Treasurer’s advice, to whom he swore he would not do it and, perhaps, my Lord Chancellor, for ought I see by my Lord’s discourse, may suffer by it when the Parliament comes to sit My Lord tells me that he observes the Duke of York do follow and understand business very well, and is mightily improved thereby.

8th To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me.

9th To the Duke, where, when we come into his closet, he told us that Mr Pepys was so altered with his new perriwigg that he did not know him So to our discourse, and among and above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J Lawson’s coming home, he being come to Portsmouth, and Captain Berkely is come to town with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the King, wherein they do demand again the searching of our ships and taking out of strangers, and their goods, and that what English ships are taken without the Duke’s pass they will detain (though it be flat contrary to the words of the peace,) as prizes, till they do hear from our King, which they advise him may be speedy And this they did the very next day after they had received with great joy the Grand Seignor’s confirmation of the Peace from Constantinople by Captain Berkely, so that there is no command nor certainty to be had of these people The King is resolved to send his will by a fleet of ships, and it is thought best and speediest to send these very ships that are now come home, five sail of good ships, back again after cleaning,