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A day-by-day first-person account of life in London and nearby towns during September 1665, combining domestic detail—meals, visits, letters, wardrobe and household moves—with attention to public affairs such as naval operations, financial anxieties, rumors of plots, and administrative business. It records the visible effects of the plague through burials, quarantines, and public-health orders, while also describing social gatherings, river travel, conversations on politics and taste, and practical efforts to manage property, servants, and official duties.
And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none
Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning
Fell to sleep as if angry
King himself minding nothing but his ease
Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad
Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it
Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors
Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years