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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 39m

Calling in at Hinchingbroke, and taking leave in three words of my Lady, and the young ladies; and so by moonlight most bravely all the way to Cambridge, with great pleasure, whither we come at about nine o’clock, and took up at the Bear.

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3h

Without eating or drinking, take leave of father, mother, Pall, to whom I did give 10s., but have shown no kindness since I come, for I find her so very ill-natured that I cannot love her, and she so cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she pleases, and John and I away.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4h

I did with most compleat joy of mind go from the Court with my father home, and in a quarter of an hour did get on horseback, with my brother Tom, Cooke, and Will, all mounted.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7h

My father and I admitted to all the lands; he for life, and I for myself and my heirs in reversion, and then did surrender according to bargain to Prior, Greene, and Shepheard the three cottages with their appurtenances that they have bought of us.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 10h

But the steward, as he promised me, did find pretensions very kindly and readily to put off their admittance, by which I find they are much defeated, and if ever, I hope, will now listen to a treaty and agreement with us, at our meeting at London.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 10h

Then they fell to talk of Piggott’s land mortgaged to my uncle, but he never admitted to it, which they now as heir would have admitted to.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 10h

They being sworn and the charge given them, they fell to our business, finding the heir-at-law to be my uncle Thomas; but Sir Robert Bernard did tell them that he had seen how the estate was devised to my father by my uncle’s will, according to the custom of the manour.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 12h

There being vacancies, they would have had my father, in respect to him, to have been one of the Homage, but he thought fit to refuse it, he not knowing enough the customs of the town.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 12h

Did digest into a method all I could say in our defence, in case there should be occasion, for I hear he will have counsel to plead for him in the Court, and so about nine o’clock to the court at the Lordshipp where the jury was called.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

In comes Piggott with a counterfeit bond which by agreement between us (though it be very just in itself) he has made, by which I shall lay claim to the interest of the mortgage money, and so waiting with much impatience and doubt the issue of tomorrow’s Court, I to bed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

With my father took a melancholy walk to Portholme, seeing the country-maids milking their cows there, they being there now at grass, and to see with what mirth they come all home together in pomp with their milk, and sometimes they have musique go before them.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

My father and I to Mr. Phillips, and there discoursed with him in order to tomorrow’s business of the Court and getting several papers ready, when presently comes in my uncle Thomas and his son thither also, but finding us there I believe they were disappointed.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

With Sheply to Huntingdon to the Crown, and there did sit and talk, and eat a breakfast of cold roast beef, and so he to St. Ives Market, and I to Sir Robert Bernard’s for council, having a letter from my Lord Sandwich to that end.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

To Hinchingbroke, and there with Mr. Sheply did look all over the house, and I do, I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like the staircase, but there being nothing to make the outside more regular and modern, I am not satisfied with it.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

So to supper, but my mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of her’s which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood, which ever after did please me very well.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

By coach to see Mr. Moore, who continues ill. I took his books of accounts, and did discourse with him about my Lord’s and my own businesses.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 7d

At the office all the morning, dined at home with my wife.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 8d

So hence by water, late as it was, to the Wardrobe, and there found him in a high fever, in bed, and much cast down by his being ill. So thought it not convenient to stay, but left him and walked home.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 8d

I hear that Mr. Moore is gone very sick to the Wardrobe this afternoon, which troubles me much both for his own sake and for mine, because of my law business that he does for me and also for my Lord’s matters.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 8d

At Woolwich we mustered the yard, and then to the Hart to dinner, and then to the Rope-yard, where I did vex Sir W. Pen I know to appear so well acquainted, I thought better than he, in the business of hemp.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 8d

Mr. Coventry telling us how of late upon enquiry into the miscarriages of the Duke’s family, Mr. Biggs, his steward, is found very faulty, and is turned out of his employment.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 9d

Dined with my wife, and then to talk again above, chiefly about her learning to dance against her going next year into the country, which I am willing she shall do.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 9d

I to church; and this day the parson has got one to read with a surplice on. I suppose himself will take it up hereafter, for a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 9d

Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and fell out about my maid Sarah, whom my wife would fain put away, when I think her as good a servant as ever came into a house, but it seems my wife would have one that would dress a head well, but we were friends at last.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 10d

To my office till 9 at night, among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence of the pilott.

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