(Tuesday).
When come to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide, 1l. 2s. 6d.
barber, 2s. 6d.
book, Stonage, 4s.
To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord:
and to him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.
to him that showed us All Souls’ College, and Chichly’s picture, 5s.
So to see Christ Church with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer, before dinner,
and did give the boy that went with me 1s.\
Strawberries, 1s. 2d.
Dinner and servants, 1l. 0s. 6d.
After come home from the schools, I out with the landlord to Brazen-nose College; — to the butteries, and in the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales, … long.
Butler, 2s.
Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s.
So to Friar Bacon’s study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s.
Bottle of sack for landlord, 2s.
Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap entertainment. At night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick,
and sang and danced till supper: 5s.
o sweet guidebook to the soul
give the boy a straw man
a cheap custard
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 9 June 1668 (Pepys’ rough notes for a missing entry)