‘throng, v. < Middle English þrange , . . 3. a. intr. To assemble in a group or crowd; to collect in large numbers; to crowd; also, to go in a crowd. . . 1647 A. Cowley Wish in Mistress v, Lest men..Should hither throng..And so make a City . .
b. indirect pass. (cf. 4). Obs. a1616 Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 397 Ape. Ile say th' hast Gold: Thou wilt be throng'd too shortly. Tim. Throng'd too? 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1971) IV. 182 To the Royall Theatre... Here we saw ‘The Faithfull Shepheardesse’, a most simple thing and yet much thronged after.
4. trans. To crowd round and press upon; to press upon as in a crowd, to jostle. Also fig. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Mark v. 24 Moche people folowed him, and thronged him . . ‘
‘vizard, n. and adj. < visor n. by confusion of ending < Latin. Now arch. 1. a. A mask; = visor n. 2. Very common from c1560 to c1700. . . 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 50 Some wild young men.., lay in wait for him, attired like furies, with vizards and torches.
. . c. A mask as used to protect the face or eyes. . . 1669 S. Pepys Diary 25 June I to my office,..to write down my journal..and did it, with the help of my vizard, and tube fixed to it, and do find it mighty manageable, but how helpful to my eyes this trial will show me
. . 5. A person wearing a visor or mask; spec. a woman of loose character wearing a mask in public, a prostitute. Obs. (Cf. vizard-mask n. 2.) . . 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 164 Afterwards I saw the Vizards going into a Chamber there . . ‘
‘take v. < Old Scandinavian . . . . 6. trans. a. To come upon (a person) in some action or situation; esp. to catch or detect in some fault or error . . . . 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 95 In which fault you haue beene nowe thrise taken. . .1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers i. 3, I am glad I've taken you within, I come on purpose to tell you the newes, d'ye hear it. 1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Plutus v. i. 54 Whenever I was taken napping in an Enormity, you never was so kind to bear a part of the Blows that were my certain Perquisite . . ‘
The page for ‘take’ runs to 130,000 words grouped under 80 headings.
‘Parsec n. < English ‘a distance corresponding to a parallax of one second’. A unit of length equal to the distance at which a star would have a heliocentric parallax of one second of arc, approximately equivalent to 3·086 × 10exp13 kilometres (3·26 light years).’ [OED]
‘friend, n. and adj. < Germanic . . ‘Relative’ is the only sense of the word in the Scandinavian languages . . . . 3. A close relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In later use regional (chiefly Sc. and Irish English (north.)) . . . . a1616 Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 106 She..is promis'd by her friends Vnto a youthfull Gentleman of worth. 1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. x. 130 The Child returned to her friends perfectly in health. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 103 Friends agree best at a distance. By Friends here is meant Relations . . ‘
‘pretty < Germanic . . 2. a. Of a person, esp. a woman or child: attractive and pleasing in appearance; good-looking, esp. in a delicate or diminutive way . . 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 411 Praty, elegans, formosus, elegantulus, formulosus. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 440 A fayr yong man..and he was so pratie & so defte at yong wommen wex evyn fond on hym. . . 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 588 As the saying is, euery thing is pretie when it is young . . ‘
Wayneman was growing up, no longer a child, which made him more attractive to Bess and less to Sam, who might have wished he could trade him in for a younger more biddable boy.
‘Juxon, William (bap. 1582, d. 1663), archbishop of Canterbury, . . on his appointment as lord treasurer on 6 March 1636, . . was ex officio a member of . . the commission for the admiralty . . On 9 May 1637 he was among those nominated to the new council of war . . his presence was noted at well over 500 of these . . meetings . .
. . Given the sensitivity of the two posts he held, as lord treasurer and bishop of London, Juxon attracted remarkably little attention . . during the parliamentary reckoning against Charles I's personal rule. As Lord Falkland conceded early in the Long Parliament, Juxon ‘in an unexpected and mighty place and power … [had] expressed an equal moderation and humility, being neither ambitious before, nor proud after, either of the crozier's staff or white staff’ . . he lived for much of his time as a discreet country cleric . .
Juxon . . was ‘of a meek spirit and of a solid and steady judgement’ . . (who) preferred to work quietly within the system . . (he) had become the king's man but, for all his apparent authority, his role remained circumscribed. With that he prudently rested content.’
‘deadly, adj.< Old English déadlíc . . 8. a. Excessive, ‘terrible’, ‘awful’. colloq. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 1 Nov. (1970) I. 280 A deadly drinker he is, and grown exceeding fat. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 7 Dec. (1970) I. 312 So to the Privy Seale, where I signed a deadly number of Pardons . . ‘
‘ . . 2. Easily overcome by strong liquor. ˈweak-ˈheadedness n. 1894 Ld. Dufferin in Lady Dufferin's Poems & Verses15 footnote In contrast to Sheridan's weak-headedness, I may cite the instance of my paternal grandfather... He would occasionally begin a convivial evening with what he called a ‘clearer’, i.e., a bottle of port [etc.].’
which fits better than:
‘1. Lacking strength of mind or purpose. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ix. 235 Others of their sisternity (very weak headed women, frail vessels) carried not matters so well. 1705 D. Defoe Consolidator in Wks. (1840) IX. 387 A weak-headed prince, who neither had a right to give his crown, nor a brain to know what he was doing . . ‘ [OED]
Good manners required them to limit what they drank to what the Dean could handle.
Price indices for converting between 1660 and 2014:
Income or Wealth: historic standard of living = real price = RPI/GDP deflator = 120 economic status value = income value = per capita GDP = 5,200 economic power value = share of GDP = 29,000
‘way, n.1 < Germanic . . P2. Prepositional phrases. . . f. in the way of . . (a) With noun or gerund as object of preposition. to be in (the, a) way of: likely to (do or achieve something), having a good chance of (doing or attaining something) . . . . 1677 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) 36 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 Lord Mohun is now in a way of recovery. . . 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 137 Seeing Things..in so fine a way of thriving upon my Island . . ‘
‘fancy, < A contraction of fantasy . . . . 5.b. esp. in Music, a composition in an impromptu style. Obs. Cf. fantasia n., fantasy n. 4e. . . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 160 Mr. Gibbons being come in..to Musique; they played a good Fancy . . ‘ …… ‘high-flyer’ . . II. fig. and extended uses. . . 3. b. slang. An immodest or promiscuous woman; a high-class, fashionable prostitute or courtesan. Now hist. and rare. Sometimes overlapping with sense 3a.’ . .1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 159 He..would have me..to look him out a widow..A woman sober and no high flyer as he calls it . . ‘ …… ‘musty, adj.2 < French. . . 3. Peevish, sullen, bad-tempered. Now Eng. regional (north-west.). 1620 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xlviii. 313 The ill-wounded Don Quixote was exceeding musty and melancholy, with his Face bound vp and scarred. . . 1672 T. Shadwell Miser i, What a Devil makes thee in so musty a humour? . . ‘ ……. ‘term < French . . . . 5. a. spec. Each of the periods (usually three or four in the year) appointed for the sitting of certain courts of law, or for instruction and study in a university or school. Opposed to vacation. Commonly used without article, as in term = during the term. . . 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 431 At certaine set times (wee call them Tearmes) yearely causes are heard and tried. . . 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (ed. 4) (at cited word), The first is called Hilary Term... The second is called Easter Term... The third..Trinity Term... The fourth and last..Michaelmas Term . . ‘ …….
‘high-falutin’ is indeed unrelated, as it is U.S. early 19th C slang.
‘ . . < Of doubtful origin . . 2. a. A woman of a low or loose character; a bold or impudent girl; a hussy, jade. c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 218 Com forth, thou sloveyn! com forthe, thou slutte! . . 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A peevish drunken flurt, a waspish cholerick slut . . ‘
but sometimes it meant:
‘ . . b. In playful use, or without serious imputation of bad qualities. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily . . ‘
which is from next year and relates to a different Susan, I think.
Someone who is chronically constipated may record their nightly doses of laxative to help them judge their effectiveness the following day and decide how much to take next time.
I agree with Jonathan V. The meaning would be more obvious if the word order was changed to: ‘“Regio patrocinio floret commercium commercioque Regnum.”
The punctuation is unhelpful and anachronistic and should be disregarded.
Extracted from the DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (subscription but free to UK public library members):
Pett, Peter (b. 1610, d. in or before 1672), naval administrator, . . was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662 . . He remained commissioner at Chatham until 29 September 1667, when he was charged with being the main cause of the disaster there in June, when the Dutch had attacked the English fleet, and was summarily superseded . .
None of Pett's sons pursued significant careers in the navy . . However, many other members of the extended Pett family did serve in the navy throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to long-standing confusion between an abundance of naval Peter and Phineas Petts. ……….. Pett, Sir Peter (bap. 1630, d. 1699), lawyer and author, was . . one of the original fellows of the RS, elected on 20 May, but was expelled on 18 November 1675 for ‘not performing his obligation to the society’. He was probably absorbed in other interests . .
Pett died on 1 April 1699 . . he bequeathed to his old school friend Samuel Pepys the ring given to Howard of Effingham by the admiral of the Spanish fleet in 1588. Pett has been often confused with his father's first cousin Peter Pett, commissioner of the navy at Chatham, who is separately noticed. ……….
‘Cupboard’ = sideboard is 14th century (cup board - geddit?); = ‘lockable cabinet’ is 16th (OED); it doesn’t say anything about hanging cupboards for clothes or when they came in.
‘serve, v.1 < Old French . . . . V. To treat in a specified manner . . 47. a. To treat in a specified (usually unpleasant or unfair) manner. Now chiefly colloq. . . 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxviii. 46 Or else be locked into the Church by the Sexten as I my selfe was once served reading an Epitaph in a certain cathedral Church of England. a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 248 She is serv'd, As I would serve a Rat. . . 1727 J. Gay Fables I. v. 16 All cowards should be serv'd like you. . .
b. to serve (a person) right: to treat (an offender) as he deserves . . ‘
‘plat, n.3 < Probably originally a variant of plot n . . II. A diagram, outline, scheme, etc. 2. A plan, a diagram, a design, esp. a ground plan of a building or of an area of land; a map, a chart; = plot n. 3b. Now U.S. †to set down in plat: to make a plan of (obs.). . . 1582 in R. Hakluyt Diuers Voy. sig. H, To note all the Islands, and to set them downe in plat. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xv. 196 To prick the same down in a Blank Chart or Mercator's Plat . . ‘
‘stay, v.1 < Old French . . < Latin stāre . . . . III. trans. To stop, arrest, check. . . 20. a. To detain, hold back, stop (a person or thing); to check or arrest the progress of, bring to a halt; to hinder from going on or going away; to keep in a fixed place or position. Now only literary. . . 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times ii. 31 While the rain stayes you here. . . 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 255 He stay'd me to dine with him . . ‘
Comments
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About Saturday 13 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘throng, v. < Middle English þrange ,
. . 3. a. intr. To assemble in a group or crowd; to collect in large numbers; to crowd; also, to go in a crowd.
. . 1647 A. Cowley Wish in Mistress v, Lest men..Should hither throng..And so make a City . .
b. indirect pass. (cf. 4). Obs.
a1616 Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 397 Ape. Ile say th' hast Gold: Thou wilt be throng'd too shortly. Tim. Throng'd too?
1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1971) IV. 182 To the Royall Theatre... Here we saw ‘The Faithfull Shepheardesse’, a most simple thing and yet much thronged after.
4. trans. To crowd round and press upon; to press upon as in a crowd, to jostle. Also fig.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Mark v. 24 Moche people folowed him, and thronged him . . ‘
About Friday 12 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘vizard, n. and adj. < visor n. by confusion of ending < Latin. Now arch.
1. a. A mask; = visor n. 2. Very common from c1560 to c1700.
. . 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 50 Some wild young men.., lay in wait for him, attired like furies, with vizards and torches.
. . c. A mask as used to protect the face or eyes.
. . 1669 S. Pepys Diary 25 June I to my office,..to write down my journal..and did it, with the help of my vizard, and tube fixed to it, and do find it mighty manageable, but how helpful to my eyes this trial will show me
. . 5. A person wearing a visor or mask; spec. a woman of loose character wearing a mask in public, a prostitute. Obs. (Cf. vizard-mask n. 2.)
. . 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 164 Afterwards I saw the Vizards going into a Chamber there . . ‘
About Wednesday 10 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘take v. < Old Scandinavian . .
. . 6. trans. a. To come upon (a person) in some action or situation; esp. to catch or detect in some fault or error . .
. . 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 95 In which fault you haue beene nowe thrise taken.
. .1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers i. 3, I am glad I've taken you within, I come on purpose to tell you the newes, d'ye hear it.
1715 L. Theobald tr. Aristophanes Plutus v. i. 54 Whenever I was taken napping in an Enormity, you never was so kind to bear a part of the Blows that were my certain Perquisite . . ‘
The page for ‘take’ runs to 130,000 words grouped under 80 headings.
About Tuesday 9 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
Not defined in Sasha Clarkson’s reference:
‘Parsec n. < English ‘a distance corresponding to a parallax of one second’.
A unit of length equal to the distance at which a star would have a heliocentric parallax of one second of arc, approximately equivalent to 3·086 × 10exp13 kilometres (3·26 light years).’ [OED]
About Monday 8 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘friend, n. and adj. < Germanic . . ‘Relative’ is the only sense of the word in the Scandinavian languages . .
. . 3. A close relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In later use regional (chiefly Sc. and Irish English (north.)) . .
. . a1616 Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 106 She..is promis'd by her friends Vnto a youthfull Gentleman of worth.
1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. x. 130 The Child returned to her friends perfectly in health.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 103 Friends agree best at a distance. By Friends here is meant Relations . . ‘
About Sunday 7 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘pretty < Germanic
. . 2. a. Of a person, esp. a woman or child: attractive and pleasing in appearance; good-looking, esp. in a delicate or diminutive way . .
1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 411 Praty, elegans, formosus, elegantulus, formulosus.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 440 A fayr yong man..and he was so pratie & so defte at yong wommen wex evyn fond on hym.
. . 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 588 As the saying is, euery thing is pretie when it is young . . ‘
Wayneman was growing up, no longer a child, which made him more attractive to Bess and less to Sam, who might have wished he could trade him in for a younger more biddable boy.
About Thursday 4 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
San Diego Sarah: DNB has:
‘Juxon, William (bap. 1582, d. 1663), archbishop of Canterbury, . . on his appointment as lord treasurer on 6 March 1636, . . was ex officio a member of . . the commission for the admiralty . . On 9 May 1637 he was among those nominated to the new council of war . . his presence was noted at well over 500 of these . . meetings . .
. . Given the sensitivity of the two posts he held, as lord treasurer and bishop of London, Juxon attracted remarkably little attention . . during the parliamentary reckoning against Charles I's personal rule. As Lord Falkland conceded early in the Long Parliament, Juxon ‘in an unexpected and mighty place and power … [had] expressed an equal moderation and humility, being neither ambitious before, nor proud after, either of the crozier's staff or white staff’ . . he lived for much of his time as a discreet country cleric . .
Juxon . . was ‘of a meek spirit and of a solid and steady judgement’ . . (who) preferred to work quietly within the system . . (he) had become the king's man but, for all his apparent authority, his role remained circumscribed. With that he prudently rested content.’
About Tuesday 2 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘deadly, adj.< Old English déadlíc
. . 8. a. Excessive, ‘terrible’, ‘awful’. colloq.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 1 Nov. (1970) I. 280 A deadly drinker he is, and grown exceeding fat.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 7 Dec. (1970) I. 312 So to the Privy Seale, where I signed a deadly number of Pardons . . ‘
About Monday 1 June 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
re: ‘ . . the Dean being but a weak man . . ’
I think ‘weak’ here = ‘weak-headed’:
‘ . . 2. Easily overcome by strong liquor.
ˈweak-ˈheadedness n.
1894 Ld. Dufferin in Lady Dufferin's Poems & Verses15 footnote In contrast to Sheridan's weak-headedness, I may cite the instance of my paternal grandfather... He would occasionally begin a convivial evening with what he called a ‘clearer’, i.e., a bottle of port [etc.].’
which fits better than:
‘1. Lacking strength of mind or purpose.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ix. 235 Others of their sisternity (very weak headed women, frail vessels) carried not matters so well.
1705 D. Defoe Consolidator in Wks. (1840) IX. 387 A weak-headed prince, who neither had a right to give his crown, nor a brain to know what he was doing . . ‘ [OED]
Good manners required them to limit what they drank to what the Dean could handle.
About Sunday 31 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
Price indices for converting between 1660 and 2014:
Income or Wealth:
historic standard of living = real price = RPI/GDP deflator = 120
economic status value = income value = per capita GDP = 5,200
economic power value = share of GDP = 29,000
Taken and simplified from https://www.measuringworth.com/uk… via http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Thursday 28 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘way, n.1 < Germanic . . P2. Prepositional phrases. . . f. in the way of . .
(a) With noun or gerund as object of preposition. to be in (the, a) way of: likely to (do or achieve something), having a good chance of (doing or attaining something) . .
. . 1677 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) 36 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 Lord Mohun is now in a way of recovery.
. . 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 137 Seeing Things..in so fine a way of thriving upon my Island . . ‘
About Wednesday 27 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘fancy, < A contraction of fantasy . .
. . 5.b. esp. in Music, a composition in an impromptu style. Obs. Cf. fantasia n., fantasy n. 4e.
. . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 160 Mr. Gibbons being come in..to Musique; they played a good Fancy . . ‘
……
‘high-flyer’ . . II. fig. and extended uses.
. . 3. b. slang. An immodest or promiscuous woman; a high-class, fashionable prostitute or courtesan. Now hist. and rare.
Sometimes overlapping with sense 3a.’
. .1663 S. Pepys Diary 27 May (1971) IV. 159 He..would have me..to look him out a widow..A woman sober and no high flyer as he calls it . . ‘
……
‘musty, adj.2 < French.
. . 3. Peevish, sullen, bad-tempered. Now Eng. regional (north-west.).
1620 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xlviii. 313 The ill-wounded Don Quixote was exceeding musty and melancholy, with his Face bound vp and scarred.
. . 1672 T. Shadwell Miser i, What a Devil makes thee in so musty a humour? . . ‘
…….
‘term < French . .
. . 5. a. spec. Each of the periods (usually three or four in the year) appointed for the sitting of certain courts of law, or for instruction and study in a university or school. Opposed to vacation. Commonly used without article, as in term = during the term.
. . 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 431 At certaine set times (wee call them Tearmes) yearely causes are heard and tried.
. . 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (ed. 4) (at cited word), The first is called Hilary Term... The second is called Easter Term... The third..Trinity Term... The fourth and last..Michaelmas Term . . ‘
…….
‘high-falutin’ is indeed unrelated, as it is U.S. early 19th C slang.
About Sunday 24 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘Slut’ here means:
‘ . . < Of doubtful origin . . 2. a. A woman of a low or loose character; a bold or impudent girl; a hussy, jade.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 218 Com forth, thou sloveyn! com forthe, thou slutte!
. . 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A peevish drunken flurt, a waspish cholerick slut . . ‘
but sometimes it meant:
‘ . . b. In playful use, or without serious imputation of bad qualities.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily . . ‘
which is from next year and relates to a different Susan, I think.
About Sunday 24 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
Someone who is chronically constipated may record their nightly doses of laxative to help them judge their effectiveness the following day and decide how much to take next time.
About Saturday 23 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
I agree with Jonathan V. The meaning would be more obvious if the word order was changed to: ‘“Regio patrocinio floret commercium commercioque Regnum.”
The punctuation is unhelpful and anachronistic and should be disregarded.
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
Extracted from the DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (subscription but free to UK public library members):
Pett, Peter (b. 1610, d. in or before 1672), naval administrator, . . was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662 . . He remained commissioner at Chatham until 29 September 1667, when he was charged with being the main cause of the disaster there in June, when the Dutch had attacked the English fleet, and was summarily superseded . .
None of Pett's sons pursued significant careers in the navy . . However, many other members of the extended Pett family did serve in the navy throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to long-standing confusion between an abundance of naval Peter and Phineas Petts.
………..
Pett, Sir Peter (bap. 1630, d. 1699), lawyer and author, was . . one of the original fellows of the RS, elected on 20 May, but was expelled on 18 November 1675 for ‘not performing his obligation to the society’. He was probably absorbed in other interests . .
Pett died on 1 April 1699 . . he bequeathed to his old school friend Samuel Pepys the ring given to Howard of Effingham by the admiral of the Spanish fleet in 1588. Pett has been often confused with his father's first cousin Peter Pett, commissioner of the navy at Chatham, who is separately noticed.
……….
About Monday 18 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘Cupboard’ = sideboard is 14th century (cup board - geddit?); = ‘lockable cabinet’ is 16th (OED); it doesn’t say anything about hanging cupboards for clothes or when they came in.
About Saturday 16 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘serve, v.1 < Old French . .
. . V. To treat in a specified manner . .
47. a. To treat in a specified (usually unpleasant or unfair) manner. Now chiefly colloq.
. . 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxviii. 46 Or else be locked into the Church by the Sexten as I my selfe was once served reading an Epitaph in a certain cathedral Church of England.
a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 248 She is serv'd, As I would serve a Rat.
. . 1727 J. Gay Fables I. v. 16 All cowards should be serv'd like you. . .
b. to serve (a person) right: to treat (an offender) as he deserves . . ‘
About Wednesday 13 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘plat, n.3 < Probably originally a variant of plot n
. . II. A diagram, outline, scheme, etc.
2. A plan, a diagram, a design, esp. a ground plan of a building or of an area of land; a map, a chart; = plot n. 3b. Now U.S.
†to set down in plat: to make a plan of (obs.).
. . 1582 in R. Hakluyt Diuers Voy. sig. H, To note all the Islands, and to set them downe in plat.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xv. 196 To prick the same down in a Blank Chart or Mercator's Plat . . ‘
About Tuesday 12 May 1663
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘stay, v.1 < Old French . . < Latin stāre . .
. . III. trans. To stop, arrest, check.
. . 20. a. To detain, hold back, stop (a person or thing); to check or arrest the progress of, bring to a halt; to hinder from going on or going away; to keep in a fixed place or position. Now only literary.
. . 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times ii. 31 While the rain stayes you here.
. . 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 255 He stay'd me to dine with him . . ‘