Diary, 1667 N.S. Complete

Diary, 1667 N.S. Complete

By

0
(0 Reviews)
Diary, 1667 N.S. Complete by Samuel Pepys

Downloads:

1,017

Share This

Diary, 1667 N.S. Complete

By

0
(0 Reviews)

Book Excerpt

seamen; so that our condition is like to be very miserable. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there met all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French, and say they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their plantation in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of invading us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money matters, and perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such plot in our heads. After them, I, with several people, among others Mr. George Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind. He tells me all is like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by evading their Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, though therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all the rest the Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier: this do not please them. He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for my Lord Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who bea

More books by Samuel Pepys

(view all)