The magic of £1,000 lies both in its ‘round-numberedness’ and in the vast wealth it represented to the son of a tailor in the World We Have Lost*, the pre-industrial age: the appropriate multiplier for this is not the real price deflator usually used (120 - so that 1d (old penny) = £0.50 in today’s money) but somewhere between ‘economic status value = income value = per capita GDP = 5,200’ and ‘economic power value = share of GDP = 29,000’. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Re: ‘ . . a fellow-commoner, my fellow-pupil, . . ‘
‘ . . it was at Magdalene that [SP] was admitted a sizar on 1 October [1650} . . On 3 April [1651] he was advanced to a scholarship . . [DNB]
‘sizar, n. < size n. . . In the University of Cambridge . . an undergraduate member admitted under this designation and receiving an allowance from the college to enable him to study . . Formerly the sizar performed certain duties now discharged by college servants. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 16 They took..heretofore a very good method to prevent Sizars over-heating their Brains: Bed-making, Chamber-sweeping, and Water-fetching. . . 1804 H. K. White Let. June in Remains (1807) I. 110 Somebody, perhaps, has been hinting that there are servile offices to be performed by Sizars. It is a common opinion, but perfectly erroneous... The Sizars at Cambridge only differ from the rest in name. . . 1902 Student's Handbk. Cambridge v. 92 The emoluments of a Sizar take the form of various allowances, the annual value of which may be estimated at about £40.’
Re: ‘ . . cutting for her . . ’ 'cut v. < Old Germanic . . . . 8. a. spec. To carve (meat); also absol. . . 1738 Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 121 Don't cut like a Mother-in-Law, but send me a large Slice . . ‘ ………….. Re: ‘ . . to slip their calfes . . ’ 'calf n.1 < Old germanic . . 1. b. to slip (cast) the calf: to suffer abortion; said of the cow, also (humorously) of women (obs.) 1664 S. Pepys Diary 19 Sept. (1971) V. 275 Fraizer is so great with..all the ladies at Court, in helping to slip their calfeswhen there is occasion.
………….. Re: ‘ . . to boggle in the business . . ’
‘boggle, v. < boggle, variant of bogle n. a spectre, (such as horses are reputed to see). . . 2. To raise scruples, hesitate, demur, stickle (at, occasionally about, over, etc., or to do a thing). . . 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Mar. (1976) IX. 140 I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money . . ‘
………….. Re: ‘ . . most great, chargeable, and unnecessary works . . ’
'chargeable < Old French . . . . 4. Burdensome (as a tax or payment); costly, expensive. Obs. (Formerly the most frequent meaning.) . . 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides (1679) 186 That [royalty] was a dangerous, chargeable, and useless Office.
‘coldly, adv. < Old English . . . . 2. b. Without ardour, enthusiasm . . . . a1616 Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iii. 13 The French fight coldly, and retyre themselues . . ‘
Re: ‘ . . the first-fruits of my endeavours in the late contract . . ‘
‘first fruit, n. < in early use translating classical Latin primitiae n. . . . . 2. fig. and in extended use. a. In pl. The earliest products or results of anything; the first products of a person's work or endeavour . . ▸c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xiv. 4 Thes [sc. virgins] ben bouȝt of alle, primycies, or firste fruytis[L. primitiae], to God, and to the lamb . . '
‘pleasant, adj. < French . . 3. Of a person: having pleasing manners, demeanour, or appearance; amiable, cheerful, good-humoured. . . 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C8 A jolly Swain Methought he was; meek, cheerfull, and pleasant . . ‘
(OED)
I agree with LH and m: 12 rather than 19 - how long will this last, I wonder? No doubt for the present he’s delighted to be free of the schoolroom and endless church services, etc. but as winter comes in he will find the endless days of hanging about punctuated by errand running along the cold, wet, filthy and smelly streets just as tiresome.
‘decayed, adj. 1. Fallen off, impaired, or reduced in . . prosperity, fortune, etc.; spec. in phr. decayed gentlewoman. . .1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶1 Theodosius was the younger Son of a decayed Family . . 1921 G. B. Shaw Let. 13 Jan. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952) 218 The celebrated decayed gentlewoman who had to cry laces in the street for a living but hoped that nobody heard her. 1961 J. Gloag Victorian Comfort viii. 212 Impoverished widows and spinsters of the middle classes, who were officially described as ‘decayed gentlewomen’.’
‘Mrs, n.1 . . . . 1. b. A title prefixed to the name of an unmarried lady or girl; = miss n.2 2a. Now rare except as a title of courtesy applied, with or without inclusion of the first name, to elderly unmarried ladies (this use seems to have arisen in the late 18th cent.). . . 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxv. 40 An ill-favoured quarrell..about Mrs. Baker, the Mayd of honor . . ‘
‘Miss n. . . 2. In form Miss, as a title. a. Preceding the name of an unmarried woman or girl without a higher or honorific professional title. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 Mar. (1974) VIII. 101 Little Mis Davis did dance a Jigg after the end of the play . . ‘
A young cod weighing less than three pounds, esp. one that is split and fried or boiled. Also used of young forms of other fishes, esp. the haddock, or a fillet cut from one of these fishes. 1841 Spirit of Times 16 Oct. 396/2 Supplied with a few ship biscuit [sic], a dried scrod, a bottle of good swizzle [etc.] . . ‘
‘garb, n.2 < . . Italian .. . 4.a. Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xv. 191 Be thriftie also in your apparrell and clothing..vsing that moderate and middle garbe, which shall rather lessen then make you bigger then you are . . ‘
‘housekeeper, n. 1. A person who owns or occupies a house or other place of residence, typically considered as having overall responsibility for the general care of the members of the household; . . = householder n. 2 (obs.). . . 1685 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 329 None but housekeepers shall sitt in the seate on ye north side..and..none but the wives and widdows of housekeepers..'twixt the baylives wives and ye font . . ‘
Re: ‘ . . I matter not much to compliment or make any regard of his thinking me to slight him . . ‘
‘matter v. < Anglo-Norman . . 4. In negative contexts: a. trans. To care or be concerned about; to regard, heed, mind; . . Now Brit. regional and Caribbean. . . 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xi. 37 I matter not what careless abuses there may be put upon a word . . ‘ ………. Re: ‘ . . those able men, subsidy men, . . ‘ ‘subsidy . . 2.b. A pecuniary aid levied by a sovereign, lord, etc., or granted by parliament to a sovereign, for a particular purpose, esp. for defence against foreign attack.
. . subsidy man n. now hist. a person liable to pay a subsidy to a lord; (hence) a person of means or substance. . . 1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 3 §1 Fower substanciall Howsholders there beinge Subsidy men, or for wante of Subsidy men fower other substanciall Howseholders . . ‘ ………. Re: ’ . . he would take his course . . ’
‘course n. < French . . 22.a A line of (personal) action, way of acting, method of proceeding . . †to take a course: to act in a particular way or with a particular purpose; to take steps (obs.) . . ‘ ……….
‘outroper, n. < early modern Dutch . . . . 1638 1st Charter Charles I to London in J. Luffman Charters (1793) 275 We..do erect and create in and through the said City..a certain office, called Outroper or Common Cryer, to and for the selling of houshold stuff, apparel, leases..and other things, of all persons who shall be willing that the said officers shall make sale of the same by public and open claim, commonly called outcry and sale . . ‘
‘lodestone, n. < Old English. Literally ‘way-stone’, from the use of the magnet in guiding mariners. 1. Magnetic oxide of iron; also, a piece of this used as a magnet. . . 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 297 The Loadstone is coloured like iron, but blewer, and tending to a skie colour 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 A small piece of Loadstone that held up an Anchor of Steel too heavy for me to lift . . ‘
Re: ’ . . he believes has lately slunk a great belly away . . ’
‘slink, v. < Old English slincan . . . . 3. a. Of animals, esp. cows: To bear or bring forth (young) prematurely or abortively . . 1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 91 Beasts slunk their young with most untimely throws.
b. With away: To reduce by miscarriage. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1971) V. 245 Lady Castlemayne, who he believes hath lately slunk a great belly away.’
‘foul-mouthed, adj. Of persons and their utterances: Using obscene, profane, or scurrilous* language. . . 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 193 Those foule mouth'd papers, like Blackmoors, did all look alike . .
* scurrilous, adj. < French . . ‘Using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant’ (Johnson); characterized by coarseness or indecency of language, esp. in jesting and invective; coarsely opprobrious or jocular.
scurrilously adv. in a scurrilous manner; †after the manner of a buffoon. . . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 17 Oct. (1972) VII. 327 Heard the Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French . . ‘
‘bake, v. < Common Germanic . . . . 6. . . as they brew, so let them bake: as they begin, so let them proceed. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington(1841) 82 Euen as they brew, so let them bake. 1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 138. 2162 The Admirall..said, that as they brewed so they should bake. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 150 I should do very imprudently..Either to meddle or to make: But as they brew, so let 'um bake.’
Re: ’ . . Scotoscope..a curious curiosity it is to see objects in a dark room with. . . ’
‘scotoscope, n. < scoto- < ancient Greek σκότος darkness . .
1. Microscopy. An instrument which illuminates an object so that it can be more easily viewed with a microscope, comprising a glass globe filled with brine for concentrating light from a lamp, a convex lens being used to focus this light on the object. Now hist. The invention of the scotoscope is attributed to Robert Hooke . . 1664 S. Pepys Diary 13 Aug. (1971) V. 240 There comes also Mr. Reeve with a Microscope and Scotoscope..a curious curiosity it is to see objects in a dark room with. . . 1924 Nature 5 July 11/2 Can any of your readers explain the principle of the scotoscope which Pepys defines in his diary..as an instrument enabling objects to be viewed ‘in a dark room’? . .
2. A telescope incorporating an image intensifier, allowing use in dark conditions. rare. This sense probably developed from dictionary definitions of scotoscope which were based on Pepys's use of the term (see quot. 1664 at sense 1); for example, N.E.D. (1910) defines scotoscope as: ‘An instrument which enables the user to see in the dark’. 1964 Appl. Optics 3 671 The scotoscope can be arranged to give a color presentation; however, when this is done, it is at the expense of a fairly high percentage of the photons incident from the scene.’
‘fancy, n. and adj. < A contraction of fantasy n < Old French . . B. adj. . . . . 3. . . resulting from the exercise of fancy or caprice. . . c. Of an animal or bird: Of a kind bred for the development of particular ‘points’ or qualities . . . . 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 54/2 A dog recommended by its beauty, or any peculiarity..is a ‘fancy’ animal. 1880 Gainsburgh Times 20 Feb. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. ‘What sort of a dog was it?’..‘A fancy dog’. . . ‘
‘print, n. and adj.2 < Anglo-Norman . . . . 12. a. A printed publication; esp. a printed sheet, a newspaper . . . . 1689 R. Atkyns Lord Russel's Innocency Further Defended 11 It is that Point which the Answerer's first Print, viz. his Antidote against Poyson, did not mention . . ‘
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Second Reading
About Wednesday 28 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
The magic of £1,000 lies both in its ‘round-numberedness’ and in the vast wealth it represented to the son of a tailor in the World We Have Lost*, the pre-industrial age: the appropriate multiplier for this is not the real price deflator usually used (120 - so that 1d (old penny) = £0.50 in today’s money) but somewhere between ‘economic status value = income value = per capita GDP = 5,200’ and ‘economic power value = share of GDP = 29,000’. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
* https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-We…
About Wednesday 21 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . a fellow-commoner, my fellow-pupil, . . ‘
‘ . . it was at Magdalene that [SP] was admitted a sizar on 1 October [1650} . . On 3 April [1651] he was advanced to a scholarship . . [DNB]
‘sizar, n. < size n. . . In the University of Cambridge . . an undergraduate member admitted under this designation and receiving an allowance from the college to enable him to study . . Formerly the sizar performed certain duties now discharged by college servants.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 16 They took..heretofore a very good method to prevent Sizars over-heating their Brains: Bed-making, Chamber-sweeping, and Water-fetching.
. . 1804 H. K. White Let. June in Remains (1807) I. 110 Somebody, perhaps, has been hinting that there are servile offices to be performed by Sizars. It is a common opinion, but perfectly erroneous... The Sizars at Cambridge only differ from the rest in name.
. . 1902 Student's Handbk. Cambridge v. 92 The emoluments of a Sizar take the form of various allowances, the annual value of which may be estimated at about £40.’
(OED)
About Monday 19 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . cutting for her . . ’
'cut v. < Old Germanic . .
. . 8. a. spec. To carve (meat); also absol.
. . 1738 Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 121 Don't cut like a Mother-in-Law, but send me a large Slice . . ‘
…………..
Re: ‘ . . to slip their calfes . . ’
'calf n.1 < Old germanic . . 1. b. to slip (cast) the calf: to suffer abortion; said of the cow, also (humorously) of women (obs.)
1664 S. Pepys Diary 19 Sept. (1971) V. 275 Fraizer is so great with..all the ladies at Court, in helping to slip their calfeswhen there is occasion.
…………..
Re: ‘ . . to boggle in the business . . ’
‘boggle, v. < boggle, variant of bogle n. a spectre, (such as horses are reputed to see).
. . 2. To raise scruples, hesitate, demur, stickle (at, occasionally about, over, etc., or to do a thing).
. . 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Mar. (1976) IX. 140 I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money . . ‘
…………..
Re: ‘ . . most great, chargeable, and unnecessary works . . ’
'chargeable < Old French . .
. . 4. Burdensome (as a tax or payment); costly, expensive. Obs. (Formerly the most frequent meaning.)
. . 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides (1679) 186 That [royalty] was a dangerous, chargeable, and useless Office.
…………..
(OED)
About Saturday 17 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . things go so coldly . . ‘
‘coldly, adv. < Old English . .
. . 2. b. Without ardour, enthusiasm . .
. . a1616 Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iii. 13 The French fight coldly, and retyre themselues . . ‘
(OED)
About Saturday 10 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . the first-fruits of my endeavours in the late contract . . ‘
‘first fruit, n. < in early use translating classical Latin primitiae n. . .
. . 2. fig. and in extended use.
a. In pl. The earliest products or results of anything; the first products of a person's work or endeavour . .
▸c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xiv. 4 Thes [sc. virgins] ben bouȝt of alle, primycies, or firste fruytis[L. primitiae], to God, and to the lamb . . '
(OED)
About Friday 9 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . the most pleasant boy . . ’
‘pleasant, adj. < French . .
3. Of a person: having pleasing manners, demeanour, or appearance; amiable, cheerful, good-humoured.
. . 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C8 A jolly Swain Methought he was; meek, cheerfull, and pleasant . . ‘
(OED)
I agree with LH and m: 12 rather than 19 - how long will this last, I wonder? No doubt for the present he’s delighted to be free of the schoolroom and endless church services, etc. but as winter comes in he will find the endless days of hanging about punctuated by errand running along the cold, wet, filthy and smelly streets just as tiresome.
About Thursday 8 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ’ . . a decayed merchant’s daughter . . '
‘decayed, adj.
1. Fallen off, impaired, or reduced in . . prosperity, fortune, etc.; spec. in phr. decayed gentlewoman.
. .1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶1 Theodosius was the younger Son of a decayed Family
. . 1921 G. B. Shaw Let. 13 Jan. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952) 218 The celebrated decayed gentlewoman who had to cry laces in the street for a living but hoped that nobody heard her.
1961 J. Gloag Victorian Comfort viii. 212 Impoverished widows and spinsters of the middle classes, who were officially described as ‘decayed gentlewomen’.’
(OED)
About Sunday 4 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘one Mrs. Ferrabosco . . ’
‘Mrs, n.1 . .
. . 1. b. A title prefixed to the name of an unmarried lady or girl; = miss n.2 2a. Now rare except as a title of courtesy applied, with or without inclusion of the first name, to elderly unmarried ladies (this use seems to have arisen in the late 18th cent.).
. . 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. xxxv. 40 An ill-favoured quarrell..about Mrs. Baker, the Mayd of honor . . ‘
‘Miss n. . . 2. In form Miss, as a title.
a. Preceding the name of an unmarried woman or girl without a higher or honorific professional title.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 Mar. (1974) VIII. 101 Little Mis Davis did dance a Jigg after the end of the play . . ‘
(OED)
About Thursday 1 September 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘scrod, n. Possibly < Dutch †schrood . .
A young cod weighing less than three pounds, esp. one that is split and fried or boiled. Also used of young forms of other fishes, esp. the haddock, or a fillet cut from one of these fishes.
1841 Spirit of Times 16 Oct. 396/2 Supplied with a few ship biscuit [sic], a dried scrod, a bottle of good swizzle [etc.] . . ‘
(OED)
About Tuesday 30 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . the vanity of the French garbe . . ’
‘garb, n.2 < . . Italian
.. . 4.a. Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xv. 191 Be thriftie also in your apparrell and clothing..vsing that moderate and middle garbe, which shall rather lessen then make you bigger then you are . . ‘
(OED)
About Monday 29 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . never since I was housekeeper . . ’
‘housekeeper, n.
1. A person who owns or occupies a house or other place of residence, typically considered as having overall responsibility for the general care of the members of the household; . . = householder n. 2 (obs.).
. . 1685 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 329 None but housekeepers shall sitt in the seate on ye north side..and..none but the wives and widdows of housekeepers..'twixt the baylives wives and ye font . . ‘
(OED)
About Thursday 25 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . I matter not much to compliment or make any regard of his thinking me to slight him . . ‘
‘matter v. < Anglo-Norman . .
4. In negative contexts:
a. trans. To care or be concerned about; to regard, heed, mind; . . Now Brit. regional and Caribbean.
. . 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xi. 37 I matter not what careless abuses there may be put upon a word . . ‘
……….
Re: ‘ . . those able men, subsidy men,
. . ‘
‘subsidy . . 2.b. A pecuniary aid levied by a sovereign, lord, etc., or granted by parliament to a sovereign, for a particular purpose, esp. for defence against foreign attack.
. . subsidy man n. now hist. a person liable to pay a subsidy to a lord; (hence) a person of means or substance.
. . 1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 3 §1 Fower substanciall Howsholders there beinge Subsidy men, or for wante of Subsidy men fower other substanciall Howseholders . . ‘
……….
Re: ’ . . he would take his course . . ’
‘course n. < French . .
22.a A line of (personal) action, way of acting, method of proceeding . . †to take a course: to act in a particular way or with a particular purpose; to take steps (obs.) . . ‘
……….
About Saturday 20 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘outroper’:
‘outroper, n. < early modern Dutch . .
. . 1638 1st Charter Charles I to London in J. Luffman Charters (1793) 275 We..do erect and create in and through the said City..a certain office, called Outroper or Common Cryer, to and for the selling of houshold stuff, apparel, leases..and other things, of all persons who shall be willing that the said officers shall make sale of the same by public and open claim, commonly called outcry and sale . . ‘
(OED)
About Thursday 18 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ’ . . a very fair loadstone . . ’
‘lodestone, n. < Old English. Literally ‘way-stone’, from the use of the magnet in guiding mariners.
1. Magnetic oxide of iron; also, a piece of this used as a magnet.
. . 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 297 The Loadstone is coloured like iron, but blewer, and tending to a skie colour
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 A small piece of Loadstone that held up an Anchor of Steel too heavy for me to lift . . ‘
(OED)
About Wednesday 17 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ’ . . he believes has lately slunk a great belly away . . ’
‘slink, v. < Old English slincan . .
. . 3. a. Of animals, esp. cows: To bear or bring forth (young) prematurely or abortively . .
1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 91 Beasts slunk their young with most untimely throws.
b. With away: To reduce by miscarriage.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1971) V. 245 Lady Castlemayne, who he believes hath lately slunk a great belly away.’
About Wednesday 17 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ' . . very foul-mouthed people . . '
‘foul-mouthed, adj. Of persons and their utterances: Using obscene, profane, or scurrilous* language.
. . 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 193 Those foule mouth'd papers, like Blackmoors, did all look alike . .
* scurrilous, adj. < French . . ‘Using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant’ (Johnson); characterized by coarseness or indecency of language, esp. in jesting and invective; coarsely opprobrious or jocular.
scurrilously adv. in a scurrilous manner; †after the manner of a buffoon.
. . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 17 Oct. (1972) VII. 327 Heard the Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French . . ‘
(OED)
About Monday 15 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘ . . let her brew as she has baked . . ’:
‘bake, v. < Common Germanic . .
. . 6. . . as they brew, so let them bake: as they begin, so let them proceed.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington(1841) 82 Euen as they brew, so let them bake.
1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 138. 2162 The Admirall..said, that as they brewed so they should bake.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 150 I should do very imprudently..Either to meddle or to make: But as they brew, so let 'um bake.’
(OED)
About Saturday 13 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ’ . . Scotoscope..a curious curiosity it is to see objects in a dark room with. . . ’
‘scotoscope, n. < scoto- < ancient Greek σκότος darkness . .
1. Microscopy. An instrument which illuminates an object so that it can be more easily viewed with a microscope, comprising a glass globe filled with brine for concentrating light from a lamp, a convex lens being used to focus this light on the object. Now hist. The invention of the scotoscope is attributed to Robert Hooke . .
1664 S. Pepys Diary 13 Aug. (1971) V. 240 There comes also Mr. Reeve with a Microscope and Scotoscope..a curious curiosity it is to see objects in a dark room with.
. . 1924 Nature 5 July 11/2 Can any of your readers explain the principle of the scotoscope which Pepys defines in his diary..as an instrument enabling objects to be viewed ‘in a dark room’? . .
2. A telescope incorporating an image intensifier, allowing use in dark conditions. rare. This sense probably developed from dictionary definitions of scotoscope which were based on Pepys's use of the term (see quot. 1664 at sense 1); for example, N.E.D. (1910) defines scotoscope as: ‘An instrument which enables the user to see in the dark’.
1964 Appl. Optics 3 671 The scotoscope can be arranged to give a color presentation; however, when this is done, it is at the expense of a fairly high percentage of the photons incident from the scene.’
(OED)
About Friday 12 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ‘fancy’:
OED just has:
‘fancy, n. and adj. < A contraction of fantasy n < Old French . .
B. adj. . .
. . 3. . . resulting from the exercise of fancy or caprice.
. . c. Of an animal or bird: Of a kind bred for the development of particular ‘points’ or qualities . .
. . 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 54/2 A dog recommended by its beauty, or any peculiarity..is a ‘fancy’ animal.
1880 Gainsburgh Times 20 Feb. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. ‘What sort of a dog was it?’..‘A fancy dog’. . . ‘
About Monday 8 August 1664
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: ’ . . the translation of a Dutch print . . ’
‘print, n. and adj.2 < Anglo-Norman . .
. . 12. a. A printed publication; esp. a printed sheet, a newspaper . .
. . 1689 R. Atkyns Lord Russel's Innocency Further Defended 11 It is that Point which the Answerer's first Print, viz. his Antidote against Poyson, did not mention . . ‘
(OED)