Pepys’ Diary.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 752, 4 May 1933, Page 10

Pepys’ Diary.

June 13th, 1668. Strange to see how hot the water is; and in some places, though this is the most temperate bath, the springs so hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange to see, when women and men herein, that live all the season in these waters, that cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath! Carried away wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair home; and there one after another thus carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, sweating for an hour; and by and by comes musick to play to me, extraordinary good as ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere: ss. June 13th, 1668. Up, to go to Bristol, about eleven o’clock, and come thither, the way bad but company good, about two o’clock, where setf down at the Horseshoe; and there, being trimmed by a very handsome fellow, 2s, walked with my wife and people through the city, which is in every respect another London, that one can hardly know it to stand in the country, no more than that. No carts, it standing generally on vaults,