Pepys Diary.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 470, 3 June 1932, Page 6

Pepys Diary.

April 15th (Easter Day), 1666. Walked into the Park to the Queene’s chappell, and there heard a good deal of their mass, and some of their musique, which is not so contemptible, I think, as our people would make it, it pleasing me very well; and, indeed, better than the anthem I heard afterwards at White Hall, at my coming back. I staid till the King went down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his closett with a great many others, and there saw him receive it, which I did never see the manner of before. But I do see very little difference between the degree of the ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof and that in the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so fine, nor the manlier of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene’s chappell. April 23rd, 1666. The plague, I hear, encreases in the towne much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere. Walked to Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, I took coach and away home, in'my way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles, I being now come to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a necklace. There find a girle sent at.my desire by Mrs Michell of Westminster Hall, to be my girle under the cooke-mayde, Susan. But I am a little dissatisfied that the girle, though young, is taller and bigger than Su, and will not, I fear, be under her command, which will trouble me.