Louise Hudson
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Louise Hudson has posted 501 annotations/comments since 9 November 2013.
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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About Tuesday 19 November 1661
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In my experience godparents are supposed to make sure the child receives a Christian education.
About Tuesday 22 October 1661
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Terry Forman's spoiler. Terry could have simply given the link without saying it was a spoiler about Slingsby dying.
About Thursday 10 October 1661
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Telling that he counts his sixth wedding night. Not THEIR sixth wedding anniversary but HIS sixth wedding night! Perhaps Elizabeth wasn't there.
About Tuesday 8 October 1661
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A frolique in a coach. Shades of Madam Bovary.
About Tuesday 4 June 1661
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I like the phrase, “The houses did not like us.” I’ve been in many houses that didn’t like me! I know exactly what Pepys meant.
About Friday 22 February 1660/61
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Gloves, stockings, garters. Pretty intimate things to be giving to someone else’s wife.
About Saturday 16 February 1660/61
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That £60 would be worth more than £6,000 today.
About Sunday 27 January 1660/61
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I suspect Elizabeth was suffering from endometriosis. She’s had continuous menstrual problems, according to Pepys. That would explain her menstrual pain and her inability to get pregnant. The condition was unidentified in the 1600s. There are treatments for it now, unheard of then.
About Friday 11 January 1660/61
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Pepys was of his time and place. If we were to meet him, we’d be of his time and place, too. We’d have much in common.
About Tuesday 1 January 1660/61
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£300 in 1660 would be worth about $70,000 today.
A father could be much more cavalier about a dead child than a mother who would have been physically close to the child from birth. Fathers probably paid very little attention to babies and children until perhaps when they were ready for school, and then only sons.
Apparently it didn’t occur to Anthony to stay with the mother of their only child to comfort her in her grief.
About Thursday 29 November 1660
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I’m sure god had nothing to do with it.
About Monday 19 November 1660
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I suspect that Elizabeth didn’t trust the maid to handle boiling water right. Imagine what would happen if it boiled over. She was probably too anxious to sleep.
About Thursday 15 November 1660
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It looks as if, even back in the 1600s, they had ways of screwing “tips” out of people. The practice continues in America.
About Thursday 1 November 1660
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Footnote: “Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this year Phineas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd.”
I can’t make head or tail out of this footnote. Dismissed from his post for having what?
About Monday 15 October 1660
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For those unclear on what “hanged, drawn and quartered” consisted of:
“In one the victim was drawn by a horse to a gallows, hanged, and then cut into four pieces and scattered; in the other the victim was hanged, disemboweled while still alive (drawn), and then beheaded and dismembered. In both the victim was said to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.”Dictionary.com
Gruesome in either case. It’s good to know we’ve gotten past those particular practices.
About Monday 8 October 1660
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I wonder what Sam and Elizabeth would have bought if they’d had Amazon
About Sunday 30 September 1660
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“Foul” could have meant very messy with lumber everywhere.
If he really wanted to have prayers the household could have gathered in the nice kitchen. I suspect he welcomed the excuse.
About Saturday 29 September 1660
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Not a dishwasher, refrigerator, microwave or air fryer in sight! How did they manage?
About Tuesday 25 September 1660
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From what’s been discussed here regarding “brush” on the foot, it sounds to me like blisters one would get from a badly fitting shoe. “Brush” would fit the description.
About Monday 17 September 1660
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I remember when was a child nuns wore voluminous black habits. They had something inside that they often stuck their hand into. It fascinated me at the time. I suspect they wore some kind of detached pocket inside their habits like those described here.