title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 4: 1663
author:  Samuel Pepys 
description: "[Pepys] was not only Charles II's chief naval administrator, but a keen amateur of learning and an indefatigable enthusiast of politics, music, theater, women, life. He sets down his daily experience with a journalist's eye for detail, something of a novelist's sensitivity and, since he is writing for himself, a delightful frankness."--"Publishers Weekly
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1666
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  October 1st, 1666. Up, and all the morning at the office, getting
  
  
  the list of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the
  
  
  Committee of Parliament. At noon with it to Sir W. Coventry's
  
  
  chamber, and there dined with him and [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W.
  
  
  Pen, and after dinner examined it and find it will do us much right in
  
  
  the number of men rising to near the expense we delivered to the
  
  
  Parliament. [Sir] W. Coventry and I (the others going before the
  
  
  Committee) to Lord Bruncker's for his hand, and find him simply mighty
  
  
  busy in a council of the Queen's. He come out and took in the papers
  
  
  to sign, and sent them mighty wisely out again. Sir W. Coventry away
  
  
  to th