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, Jun/Jul/Aug 1661
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  ### JUNE, 1661
  
  
  June 1st. Having taken our leaves of Sir W. Batten and my Lady,
  
  
  who are gone this morning to keep their Whitsuntide, Sir W. Pen and I
  
  
  and Mr. Gauden by water to Woolwich, and there went from ship to ship
  
  
  to give order for and take notice of their forwardness to go forth,
  
  
  and then to Deptford and did the like, having dined at Woolwich with
  
  
  Captain Poole at the tavern there. From Deptford we walked to
  
  
  Redriffe, calling at the half-way house, and there come into a room
  
  
  where there was inf