Christopher Hudson
Annotations and comments
Christopher Hudson has posted seven annotations/comments since 23 January 2014.
The most recent first…
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Christopher Hudson has posted seven annotations/comments since 23 January 2014.
The most recent first…
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Third Reading
About Friday 24 May 1661
Christopher Hudson • Link
The speaker appears to have been a Sir Edward Turner or Turnour, but he was Speaker of the Commons even though the speech is recorded in the Lords’ journal:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edw…
About Friday 17 May 1661
Christopher Hudson • Link
Until today (like Xjy in 2004) I never realized the significance of 6s.8d. as being perhaps derived from an angel, and wondered why record companies had chosen such an odd sum as the price of a single. (Only the Woolworths cover versions were cheaper, at 4s. flat).
About Thursday 14 February 1660/61
Christopher Hudson • Link
Just to say how delightful - and informative - it is to read those exchanges with Vincent 20 years ago, and all the other old annotations. Glad they are being shown again during the new cycle.
About Tuesday 22 January 1660/61
Christopher Hudson • Link
Thank you, Sarah - I had completely forgotten about posting the Mercer’s Hall question ten years ago, and indeed found myself reading today’s entry as if for the first time - but I think there are several of us engaged in a second or even third reading.
About Monday 3 December 1660
Christopher Hudson • Link
Going back to Peter’s 2003 annotation, I found this picture of Kennedy’s Shorter Latin Primer, as carefully amended by many of us at school in the 1960s:
https://images.app.goo.gl/uPM8ADy…
Second Reading
About Saturday 31 May 1662
Christopher Hudson • Link
How many times now has he sworn off wine and the theatre?
About Tuesday 22 January 1660/61
Christopher Hudson • Link
The Mercers' chapel and great hall mention interests me as I was just in London learning some details about the livery companies. There are over a hundred livery
companies dating back to before 1066, including some very recent ones
such as IT professionals, and a pending application by arts scholars.
Essentially they are trade guilds that have to be active in the City
of London, and many have charitable purposes as well as regulating
their particular trades, and they are much connected to the Lord
Mayor's ritual functions. Anyway of the c.110 or so, there are The
Great Twelve, of which the first two are the Mercers and Drapers.
The Mercers do have a role in St. Paul's School - St. Paul's was the first school to be entrusted to a livery company,
and was founded in 1509 by Dean Colet, Mercer and Dean of St. Paul's
Cathedral.
I don't know if the
Mercers' Hall survives ( many were destroyed in WWII) but several of them do and are among London's hidden gems.