My Somerset Life

Friday 14 October 1664 Up by break of day, and got to Brampton by three o’clock, where my father and mother overjoyed to see me, my mother, ready to weepe every time she looked upon me. After dinner my father and I to...

It helps to have read Pt. 1 to see this entry in context. En route, I overheard a snatch of conversation. These can be literary gems of mystery inviting you to finish the story as your imagination allows. The two...

Thursday 13 October 1664 After being at the office all the morning, I home and dined, and taking leave of my wife with my mind not a little troubled how she would look after herself or house in my absence, especially,...

Wednesday 12 October 1664 A short entry from our Samuel Pepys but including ...and there at my office late doing business against my journey to clear my hands of every thing for two days.... we are given some idea of...

Tuesday 11 October 1664 ....My wife tells me the sad news of my Lady Castlemayne’s being now become so decayed, that one would not know her; at least far from a beauty, which I am sorry for..... Jeremy Hunt the Health...

Monday 10 October 1664 Pepys engages in many matters of business in this entertaining entry. Click the link above for the full entry. ....This day, by the blessing of God, my wife and I have been married nine years:...

*a tribute to Leslie Nielsen So, I continue my walk. I should add that everything in the day was unscripted, apart from the film. I find that if you are in 'The Zone' you meet the right things and the right people as...

Sunday 9 October 1664 (Lord’s day). Lay pretty long, but however up time enough with my wife to go to church. ... and Mr. Fuller, my Cambridge acquaintance, told me he was to preach at Barking Church; and so I to heare...

Saturday 8 October 1664 ....So home to bed, being weary and cold, but contented that I have made an end of that business.... brief business meetings with our redoubtable entrepreneur Mr Pepys. At least the day ends...

Friday 7 October 1664 ...Lay pretty while with some discontent abed, even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too, about the ill-serving up of our victuals yesterday; but all ended in love, and so I...

Thursday 6 October 1664 ... her niece came and dined with me to a rare chine of beefe and spent the afternoon very pleasantly all the afternoon, ... and then home to supper and to bed, my mind coming to itself in...

Wednesday 5 October 1664 A long discourse from Pepys - So to Trinity House, and there I dined among the old dull fellows, and so home and to my office a while, and then comes Mr. Cocker to see me, and I discoursed with...