‘worshipful, adj. (n. and adv.) . . 3. a. As an honorific title for persons or bodies of distinguished rank or importance: formerly used very widely, but now restricted to the livery companies and freemasons' lodges and their masters. right worshipful is applied to mayors. . . 1605 W. Camden Remaines Ded. sig. A 3, To the Right Worshipfvll, Worthy, and Learned Sir Robert Cotton. . . 1641 W. S. in More's Hist. Edward V (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A2, To the Right Worshipfull Sir John Lenthall Knight. 1720 A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. (1877) 79 The Manner of directing of your Letters... To the Right Worshipful Lady M.S... To the Worshipful Lady A.S . . ‘
‘high . . 14. a. Showing pride, self-exaltation, resentment, or the like; haughty, pretentious, arrogant, overbearing; wrathful, angry. Of words, actions, feelings, etc.: hence (now only dial.) of persons . . c1275 (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 753 Heȝe word he spekeð. þat alle heo wullet quellen quic þat heo findeð. . . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 20 Mar. (1970) II. 57 Endeed, the bishops are so high, that very few do love them . .
high-carriaged adj. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1971) V. 67 His Lady a very high-carriaged but comely big woman.’
‘hoise, v. . . In 15–16th cent. hysse . . It is not yet known in which language this nautical word arose; the English examples are earlier than any cited elsewhere . . It is to be noticed that the word appears early as an interjection, being the actual cry of sailors in hauling: English hissa (c1450) . . . . 2. b. hoist with his own petard (Shakespeare): Blown into the air by his own bomb; hence, injured or destroyed by his own device for the ruin of others. 1604 Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 185 + 6 Tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar. . . 1882 Nature 15 June 146/2 The criticism of practical men..was disarmed; these found themselves hoist with their own petard.’
‘linen n. <Old English . . Made of flax. In modern English apprehended chiefly as an attributive use of the n., with the sense: Made of linen. . . 3. collect. a. Garments or other articles made of linen; often by extension applied to garments normally or originally made of linen, even when other materials are actually used. Often spec. = undergarments, e.g. shirts; also = bed-linen, table-linen. to wash one's dirty linen at home : to say nothing in public about family affairs, disputes, or scandals. to wash one's dirty linen in public : to discuss an essentially private matter, esp. a dispute or scandal, in public. . . 1600 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 35 In any case let Thisby have cleane linnen. . . 1702 London Gaz. No. 3809/5, A Party of 30 of Paul Diack's Hussars..took away the Linnen that was hanged out to dry upon the Palisades. . . 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 162 He..bespoke a suit of clothes. He bought new linen. . .1867 Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xliv. 2 There is nothing..so bad as washing one's dirty linen in public . . ‘
‘tattle, n. < tattle v. Compare Low German tätel in same sense. a. The action of tattling; idle or frivolous talk; chatter, gossip. . . 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 57 At Gossipings, Funeralls, at Church before Sermons, and the like opportunities of tattle. 1726 Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 16 They..told the Tattle of the Day.
. . Compare also tittle v.1, and tittle-tattle n., in Low German titeltateln. Ultimately onomatopoeic.’
'brave . . 3. loosely, as a general epithet of admiration or praise: Worthy, excellent, good, ‘capital’, ‘fine’, ‘famous’, etc.; ‘an indeterminate word, used to express the superabundance of any valuable quality in men or things’ (Johnson). arch. (Cf. braw adj.) . . b. of things. . . 1600 Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 127 Ile devise thee brave punishments for him. a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iii. ii. 79 This is a brave night to coole a Curtizan. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 104 We wil make a brave Breakfast with a piece of powdered Bief. 1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues ii, Here she found..a brave fire to thaw her . . '
I read this as meaning the crops of wheat and barley ripening in the fields to be harvested in August.
The key point is they have found Will Stankes to be their bailiff:
‘bailiff Middle English baillif , < Old French baillif, . . 3. . . the steward of a landholder, who manages his estate; one who superintends the husbandry of a farm for its owner or tenant. . . 1617 Janua Linguarum 526 The baliffe gathereth-in harvest into the barne. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 75 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) , My Bayliff told me, 'Twas none of his Fault . . '
I too have heaved hay bales and stood on the platform of a combine harvester handling sacks of grain [in the days before they had storage tanks]. Before that, a binder and sheaves of corn arranged into stooks pointing at the parish church to catch the prevailing wind.
‘goody, n.1: Shortened < goodwife n., as hussy < housewife. 1. a. A term of civility formerly applied to a woman, usually a married woman, in humble life; often prefixed as a title to the surname. Hence, a woman to whose station this title is appropriate . . 1559 Will of John Eltoftes (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 19, Goody Wilkes [also Goodwyff Wylkes]. . . 1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 15 To gooddy Gale for mending my stockings, 6d. 1708 F. Fox in Hearne Remarks & Coll. 3 July (O.H.S.) II. 117 Goody Vesey my bed~maker. 1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) 156 Fame, a busie tatling Guddy.’
‘copyhold, n. 1. a. A kind of tenure in England of ancient origin: tenure of lands being parcel of a manor, ‘at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor’, by copy of the manorial court-roll . . 1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 4 §1 Lands and Tenements holden by Custom of Manor, commonly called Copyhold. . . 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 84, Copyhold is a tenure for which the Tenaunt hath nothing to shew but the copies of the Rolles made by the Steward of his Lords Court. . . 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 139/2 Copyhold, a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage..Because this tenure derives its whole force from custom, the lands must have been demisable by copy of court roll from time immemorial . . ‘
‘Man of the moment: His innovative and practical websites - usually created in his spare time - have won Phil Gyford a loyal following. Bobbie Johnson went to meet him
Phil Gyford is not a name that trips off the tongue alongside those of internet visionaries such as Jeff Bezos, Sergei Brin or Larry Page. For Gyford's business - if you could call it that - is not big, and it doesn't make headline news. He would probably be the last person to describe himself as a guru, but Gyford has made a real mark on the net.
An unassuming freelance web designer by day, by night he's an amateur agitator, an unpaid online inventor with a track record of qualified, but recognisable, innovation. Gyford's wide range of pet projects combined with his no-nonsense approach to the net, continue to draw admiration from casual surfers and web experts alike.
His latest project, TheyWorkForYou.com, was launched last month with the intention of bringing parliament closer to the British people. With a team of almost 20 volunteers, Gyford helped build the site, which provides information on members of parliament and a readable version of Hansard, the parliamentary record . . ‘
‘pickle . . II. Extended uses. 4. a. A (usually disagreeable) condition or situation; a plight, a predicament. Now colloq. . . a1616 Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 284 Alo. How cam'st thou in this pickle? Tri. I hauve bin in such a pickle since I saw you last, That [etc.]. . . 1672 H. Herbert Narr. in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 323 Their superiours..were in the same pickle. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 302. ⁋11, I am ashamed to be caught in this Pickle. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. ix. 242 She was ashamed to be seen in such a Pickle . . ‘
' . . ‘Indian . . 1. b. Manufactured in India; of Indian material, pattern, or design. . . 1673 Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 37 That word shall be mine too, and my last Indian-Gown thine for 't. . . . . 1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 967 Flowered Indian gowns, formerly in use with schoolmasters . . ‘
A garment like a modern dressing gown to be worn indoors at home when no company was present.
vicente 30.06.04 is correct. At 7% rent/capital value he was looking to invest £700.
OED has:
‘beaver, n.1 One of the animal names common to the Aryan family: Old English beofor . . . . 2. a. The fur of the beaver. . . 1613 G. Wither Epithal. in Juvenilia (1633) 363 A hat of Bever . .
b. attrib., esp. in beaver hat, beaver bonnet: . . 1740 Swift Will (1746) 20 The second best Beaver Hat I shall die possessed of.
3. a. A hat made of beaver's fur, or some imitation of it; formerly worn by both sexes, but chiefly by men. . . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 27 June (1970) II. 127 Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which costs me 4l-5s-0d . . ‘
Wim van der Meij’s link no longer works but a search on the site leads to this:
‘Descendants of Thomas Pepys
First Generation
1. Thomas Pepys 1 was born about 1389 in of, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England. Thomas was Bayliffe to the Abbott in 1434 in Crowland, Cambridgeshire, England.
According to Arthur Bryant: "for two hundred and fifty years the Abbey of Crowland was served by Pepizes, as Reeves, rent collectors, haywards, granators."
"The first Pepys of whom I have been able to find any record is Thomas Pepys said on the authority of the Court Rolls of the manor of Pelhams in Cottenham Cambridgshire to have been "bayliffe to the Abbot of Crowland,. in the 12th Henry VI (A.D. 1434). It is probably therefore that he was born in the latter part of the preceeding century, or toward the end of the reign of Richard II. Of his son Robert nothing is recorded further than that he was of Cottenham." From: the genealogy given by P. H. Pepys esq. published in "Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys esg" by Rev Mynors Bright. Dodd, Mead and Co, NY 1889. (Written in 1876).
Neither W C Pepys or E Chappel include this Thomas and both agree that even his son Robert must be considered apocryphal . . ‘
‘ . . 10. c. person of condition n. arch. a person of position, rank, or ‘quality’. 1673 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (ed. 2) viii. 84 If we meet any person of condition in the street..we must always give him the Wall. . . 1780 E. Burke Speech Econ. Reform in Wks. (1842) I. 248 Men of condition naturally love to be about a court; and women of condition love it much more. 1823 Scott Peveril I. viii. 218 Such satisfaction as is due from one gentleman of condition to another. 1859 P. Beaton Creoles & Coolies iii. 108 There were about..one hundred women of condition in the colony.’
2014 update: 'keg ale' is virtually defunct in Britain; instead there is a profusion of microbrews which jostle with each other for the custom of a new generation of real ale drinkers. Here in Twickenham we like to drink the excellent local 'Naked Lady' from http://twickenham-fine-ales.co.uk…
‘Dinner . . a. The chief meal of the day, eaten originally, and still by the majority of people, about the middle of the day (cf. German Mittagsessen), but now, by the professional and fashionable classes, usually in the evening; particularly, a formally arranged meal of various courses; a repast given publicly in honour of some one, or to celebrate some event. . . 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 173 Our vsuall time for dinner..is about eleuen of the clocke. 1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 372 At eleven Clock this Day, I being then at Dinner in Edmund Hall Buttery. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 382 She gave me a Dinner of 50 dishes of meat . . ‘
Nowadays (2014), ‘the professional and fashionable classes’ eat lunch c. 1 pm and supper in the evening; ‘dinner’ is only used in:
‘dinner-party n. a party of guests invited to dinner; the social gathering which they compose. 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvi. 304 Out of humour at not being able to come..for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.’
Everybody else has followed suit, virtually, except that they don’t go in for ‘dinner-parties’ so it seems that in another 100 years ‘lunch’ will have driven ‘dinner’ extinct in British English.
‘cry up 1. trans. To proclaim (a thing) to be excellent; to endeavour to exalt in public estimation by proclamation or by loud praise; to extol. 1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincovrt 67 When she vp is cride; Of all Angellique excellence the Prime. . . 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 88 You cry up Miracles as you cry down the Word. . . 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 125. ¶5 We often hear a poor insipid Paper or Pamphlet cryed up . . ‘
and
‘dowdy A. n.1 A woman or girl shabbily or unattractively dressed, without smartness or brightness. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession, If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut. . . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 8 Mar. (1970) II. 51 Among others, the Duchesse of Albemerle, who is even a plain, homely dowdy. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, Doudy, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman . . ‘
‘botargo, n. < Italian botargo < Arabic buṭarkhah < Coptic outarakhon,< Coptic ou- indefinite article + Greek ταρίχιον pickle . . ’ A relish made of the roe of the mullet or tunny 1598 Epulario H ij b, To make Botarge, a kind of Italian meat, fish spawn salted. . . 1653 T. Urquhart tr. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxi, Hard rowes of mullet called Botargos. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 5 June (1970) II. 115 Drinking of great draughts of Clarret and eating botargo and bread and butter. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xlii. 170 They..take out the Spawn, of which..they make Boutargue. 1735 Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 292 And, for our home-bred British Chear, Botargo, Catsup, and Caveer . . ‘
Comments
Second Reading
About Sunday 4 August 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘worshipful, adj. (n. and adv.) . .
3. a. As an honorific title for persons or bodies of distinguished rank or importance: formerly used very widely, but now restricted to the livery companies and freemasons' lodges and their masters. right worshipful is applied to mayors.
. . 1605 W. Camden Remaines Ded. sig. A 3, To the Right Worshipfvll, Worthy, and Learned Sir Robert Cotton.
. . 1641 W. S. in More's Hist. Edward V (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A2, To the Right Worshipfull Sir John Lenthall Knight.
1720 A. Petrie Rules Good Deportm. (1877) 79 The Manner of directing of your Letters... To the Right Worshipful Lady M.S... To the Worshipful Lady A.S . . ‘
About Saturday 3 August 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘high . . 14. a. Showing pride, self-exaltation, resentment, or the like; haughty, pretentious, arrogant, overbearing; wrathful, angry. Of words, actions, feelings, etc.: hence (now only dial.) of persons . .
c1275 (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 753 Heȝe word he spekeð. þat alle heo wullet quellen quic þat heo findeð.
. . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 20 Mar. (1970) II. 57 Endeed, the bishops are so high, that very few do love them . .
high-carriaged adj.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1971) V. 67 His Lady a very high-carriaged but comely big woman.’
About Monday 29 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘hoise, v. . . In 15–16th cent. hysse . . It is not yet known in which language this nautical word arose; the English examples are earlier than any cited elsewhere . . It is to be noticed that the word appears early as an interjection, being the actual cry of sailors in hauling: English hissa (c1450) . .
. . 2. b. hoist with his own petard (Shakespeare): Blown into the air by his own bomb; hence, injured or destroyed by his own device for the ruin of others.
1604 Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 185 + 6 Tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar.
. . 1882 Nature 15 June 146/2 The criticism of practical men..was disarmed; these found themselves hoist with their own petard.’
About Sunday 28 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘linen n. <Old English . . Made of flax. In modern English apprehended chiefly as an attributive use of the n., with the sense: Made of linen.
. . 3. collect. a. Garments or other articles made of linen; often by extension applied to garments normally or originally made of linen, even when other materials are actually used. Often spec. = undergarments, e.g. shirts; also = bed-linen, table-linen. to wash one's dirty linen at home : to say nothing in public about family affairs, disputes, or scandals. to wash one's dirty linen in public : to discuss an essentially private matter, esp. a dispute or scandal, in public.
. . 1600 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 35 In any case let Thisby have cleane linnen.
. . 1702 London Gaz. No. 3809/5, A Party of 30 of Paul Diack's Hussars..took away the Linnen that was hanged out to dry upon the Palisades.
. . 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 162 He..bespoke a suit of clothes. He bought new linen.
. .1867 Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. xliv. 2 There is nothing..so bad as washing one's dirty linen in public . . ‘
About Thursday 25 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘tattle, n. < tattle v. Compare Low German tätel in same sense.
a. The action of tattling; idle or frivolous talk; chatter, gossip.
. . 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 57 At Gossipings, Funeralls, at Church before Sermons, and the like opportunities of tattle.
1726 Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 16 They..told the Tattle of the Day.
. . Compare also tittle v.1, and tittle-tattle n., in Low German titeltateln. Ultimately onomatopoeic.’
About Monday 22 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
'brave . . 3. loosely, as a general epithet of admiration or praise: Worthy, excellent, good, ‘capital’, ‘fine’, ‘famous’, etc.; ‘an indeterminate word, used to express the superabundance of any valuable quality in men or things’ (Johnson). arch. (Cf. braw adj.)
. . b. of things.
. . 1600 Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. iv. 127 Ile devise thee brave punishments for him.
a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iii. ii. 79 This is a brave night to coole a Curtizan.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 104 We wil make a brave Breakfast with a piece of powdered Bief.
1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues ii, Here she found..a brave fire to thaw her . . '
About 16, 17, 18, 19 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
I read this as meaning the crops of wheat and barley ripening in the fields to be harvested in August.
The key point is they have found Will Stankes to be their bailiff:
‘bailiff Middle English baillif , < Old French baillif,
. . 3. . . the steward of a landholder, who manages his estate; one who superintends the husbandry of a farm for its owner or tenant.
. . 1617 Janua Linguarum 526 The baliffe gathereth-in harvest into the barne.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 75 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) , My Bayliff told me, 'Twas none of his Fault . . '
I too have heaved hay bales and stood on the platform of a combine harvester handling sacks of grain [in the days before they had storage tanks]. Before that, a binder and sheaves of corn arranged into stooks pointing at the parish church to catch the prevailing wind.
‘Ou sont les moissons d’antan’?
About Monday 15 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
There's no sign on the web of the Pepys House Trust being active in 2014 but the house is pictured and described at http://www.mapperton.org/4555.html
I think the sale in 20004 must have come to nothing and the future of the house after the leasd is up in 2027 is uncertain.
About Sunday 14th July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘goody, n.1: Shortened < goodwife n., as hussy < housewife.
1. a. A term of civility formerly applied to a woman, usually a married woman, in humble life; often prefixed as a title to the surname. Hence, a woman to whose station this title is appropriate . .
1559 Will of John Eltoftes (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 19, Goody Wilkes [also Goodwyff Wylkes].
. . 1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 15 To gooddy Gale for mending my stockings, 6d.
1708 F. Fox in Hearne Remarks & Coll. 3 July (O.H.S.) II. 117 Goody Vesey my bed~maker.
1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) 156 Fame, a busie tatling Guddy.’
About 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘copyhold, n. 1. a. A kind of tenure in England of ancient origin: tenure of lands being parcel of a manor, ‘at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor’, by copy of the manorial court-roll . .
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 4 §1 Lands and Tenements holden by Custom of Manor, commonly called Copyhold.
. . 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 84, Copyhold is a tenure for which the Tenaunt hath nothing to shew but the copies of the Rolles made by the Steward of his Lords Court.
. . 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 139/2 Copyhold, a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage..Because this tenure derives its whole force from custom, the lands must have been demisable by copy of court roll from time immemorial . . ‘
About Monday 8 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Heres the 2014 url of the 2004 article about our esteemed editor/moderator: http://www.theguardian.com/techno…
‘Man of the moment: His innovative and practical websites - usually created in his spare time - have won Phil Gyford a loyal following. Bobbie Johnson went to meet him
Phil Gyford is not a name that trips off the tongue alongside those of internet visionaries such as Jeff Bezos, Sergei Brin or Larry Page. For Gyford's business - if you could call it that - is not big, and it doesn't make headline news. He would probably be the last person to describe himself as a guru, but Gyford has made a real mark on the net.
An unassuming freelance web designer by day, by night he's an amateur agitator, an unpaid online inventor with a track record of qualified, but recognisable, innovation. Gyford's wide range of pet projects combined with his no-nonsense approach to the net, continue to draw admiration from casual surfers and web experts alike.
His latest project, TheyWorkForYou.com, was launched last month with the intention of bringing parliament closer to the British people. With a team of almost 20 volunteers, Gyford helped build the site, which provides information on members of parliament and a readable version of Hansard, the parliamentary record . . ‘
Thank you, Phil, both for this and for http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ .
About Saturday 6 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
‘pickle . . II. Extended uses. 4. a. A (usually disagreeable) condition or situation; a plight, a predicament. Now colloq.
. . a1616 Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 284 Alo. How cam'st thou in this pickle? Tri. I hauve bin in such a pickle since I saw you last, That [etc.].
. . 1672 H. Herbert Narr. in Camden Misc. (1990) XXX. 323 Their superiours..were in the same pickle.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 302. ⁋11, I am ashamed to be caught in this Pickle.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. ix. 242 She was ashamed to be seen in such a Pickle . . ‘
About Monday 1 July 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
' . . ‘Indian . . 1. b. Manufactured in India; of Indian material, pattern, or design.
. . 1673 Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 37 That word shall be mine too, and my last Indian-Gown thine for 't. . .
. . 1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 967 Flowered Indian gowns, formerly in use with schoolmasters . . ‘
A garment like a modern dressing gown to be worn indoors at home when no company was present.
About Thursday 27 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
vicente 30.06.04 is correct. At 7% rent/capital value he was looking to invest £700.
OED has:
‘beaver, n.1 One of the animal names common to the Aryan family: Old English beofor . .
. . 2. a. The fur of the beaver.
. . 1613 G. Wither Epithal. in Juvenilia (1633) 363 A hat of Bever . .
b. attrib., esp. in beaver hat, beaver bonnet:
. . 1740 Swift Will (1746) 20 The second best Beaver Hat I shall die possessed of.
3. a. A hat made of beaver's fur, or some imitation of it; formerly worn by both sexes, but chiefly by men.
. . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 27 June (1970) II. 127 Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which costs me 4l-5s-0d . . ‘
About Wednesday 26 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Wim van der Meij’s link no longer works but a search on the site leads to this:
‘Descendants of Thomas Pepys
First Generation
1. Thomas Pepys 1 was born about 1389 in of, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England. Thomas was Bayliffe to the Abbott in 1434 in Crowland, Cambridgeshire, England.
According to Arthur Bryant: "for two hundred and fifty years the Abbey of Crowland was served by Pepizes, as Reeves, rent collectors, haywards, granators."
"The first Pepys of whom I have been able to find any record is Thomas Pepys said on the authority of the Court Rolls of the manor of Pelhams in Cottenham Cambridgshire to have been "bayliffe to the Abbot of Crowland,. in the 12th Henry VI (A.D. 1434). It is probably therefore that he was born in the latter part of the preceeding century, or toward the end of the reign of Richard II. Of his son Robert nothing is recorded further than that he was of Cottenham."
From: the genealogy given by P. H. Pepys esq. published in "Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys esg" by Rev Mynors Bright. Dodd, Mead and Co, NY 1889. (Written in 1876).
Neither W C Pepys or E Chappel include this Thomas and both agree that even his son Robert must be considered apocryphal . . ‘
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsw…
which links to
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsw…
where you’ll find our man.
About Monday 10 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘ . . 10. c. person of condition n. arch. a person of position, rank, or ‘quality’.
1673 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (ed. 2) viii. 84 If we meet any person of condition in the street..we must always give him the Wall.
. . 1780 E. Burke Speech Econ. Reform in Wks. (1842) I. 248 Men of condition naturally love to be about a court; and women of condition love it much more.
1823 Scott Peveril I. viii. 218 Such satisfaction as is due from one gentleman of condition to another.
1859 P. Beaton Creoles & Coolies iii. 108 There were about..one hundred women of condition in the colony.’
About Saturday 8 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
2014 update: 'keg ale' is virtually defunct in Britain; instead there is a profusion of microbrews which jostle with each other for the custom of a new generation of real ale drinkers. Here in Twickenham we like to drink the excellent local 'Naked Lady' from http://twickenham-fine-ales.co.uk…
About Friday 7 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has, not updated from 1896:
‘Dinner . . a. The chief meal of the day, eaten originally, and still by the majority of people, about the middle of the day (cf. German Mittagsessen), but now, by the professional and fashionable classes, usually in the evening; particularly, a formally arranged meal of various courses; a repast given publicly in honour of some one, or to celebrate some event.
. . 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 173 Our vsuall time for dinner..is about eleuen of the clocke.
1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 372 At eleven Clock this Day, I being then at Dinner in Edmund Hall Buttery.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 382 She gave me a Dinner of 50 dishes of meat . . ‘
Nowadays (2014), ‘the professional and fashionable classes’ eat lunch c. 1 pm and supper in the evening; ‘dinner’ is only used in:
‘dinner-party n. a party of guests invited to dinner; the social gathering which they compose.
1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvi. 304 Out of humour at not being able to come..for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.’
Everybody else has followed suit, virtually, except that they don’t go in for ‘dinner-parties’ so it seems that in another 100 years ‘lunch’ will have driven ‘dinner’ extinct in British English.
About Thursday 6 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘cry up 1. trans. To proclaim (a thing) to be excellent; to endeavour to exalt in public estimation by proclamation or by loud praise; to extol.
1627 M. Drayton Miseries Queene Margarite in Battaile Agincovrt 67 When she vp is cride; Of all Angellique excellence the Prime.
. . 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 88 You cry up Miracles as you cry down the Word.
. . 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 125. ¶5 We often hear a poor insipid Paper or Pamphlet cryed up . . ‘
and
‘dowdy A. n.1 A woman or girl shabbily or unattractively dressed, without smartness or brightness.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession, If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut.
. . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 8 Mar. (1970) II. 51 Among others, the Duchesse of Albemerle, who is even a plain, homely dowdy.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, Doudy, An ugly coarse hard favored Woman . . ‘
About Wednesday 5 June 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Guess what OED has for 'botargo':
‘botargo, n. < Italian botargo < Arabic buṭarkhah < Coptic outarakhon,< Coptic ou- indefinite article + Greek ταρίχιον pickle . . ’
A relish made of the roe of the mullet or tunny
1598 Epulario H ij b, To make Botarge, a kind of Italian meat, fish spawn salted.
. . 1653 T. Urquhart tr. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxi, Hard rowes of mullet called Botargos.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 5 June (1970) II. 115 Drinking of great draughts of Clarret and eating botargo and bread and butter.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xlii. 170 They..take out the Spawn, of which..they make Boutargue.
1735 Swift Panegyrick on D— in Wks. II. 292 And, for our home-bred British Chear, Botargo, Catsup, and Caveer . . ‘