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

HenryB. Wheatley F.S.A.

Diaryof Samuel Pepys. 
May & June
1662

May 1st.  Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, with our clerks, set out this morning from Portsmouth very early, and got by noon to Petersfield; several officers of the Yard accompanying us so far.  Here we dined and were merry.  At dinner comes my Lord Carlingford from London, going to Portsmouth:  tells us that the Duchess of York is brought to bed of a girl,—­[Mary, afterwards Queen of England.]—­at which I find nobody pleased; and that Prince Rupert and the Duke of Buckingham are sworn of the Privy Councell.  He himself made a dish with eggs of the butter of the Sparagus, which is very fine meat, which I will practise hereafter.  To horse again after dinner, and got to Gilford, where after supper I to bed, having this day been offended by Sir W. Pen’s foolish talk, and I offending him with my answers.  Among others he in discourse complaining of want of confidence, did ask me to lend him a grain or two, which I told him I thought he was better stored with than myself, before Sir George.  So that I see I must keep a greater distance than I have done, and I hope I may do it because of the interest which I am making with Sir George.  To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed.

     [According to the original Statutes of Corpus Christi Coll.  Oxon,
     a Scholar slept in a truckle bed below each Fellow.  Called also
     “a trindle bed.”  Compare Hall’s description of an obsequious tutor: 

                              “He lieth in a truckle bed
                    While his young master lieth o’er his head.”

Satires, ii. 6, 5.

     The bed was drawn in the daytime under the high bed of the tutor. 
     See Wordsworth’s “University Life in the Eighteenth Century.”—­M.  B.]