Sam’s intention to have his garden ‘handsome’ is a very worthy one- one his neighbour might well have had before this hatted, periwigged, velvet- coated character dumped his stomach contents all over!
Perhaps Armiger had run up a huge tailor’s bill in Tom’s shop in a bid to seem as though he was giving them his business and then refused to pay for the items he had bespoken.
Or perhaps holsters = hold-sters , for holding things?
Where is it possible to find a completely unexpurgated version of the diaries? I have a very old edition (1906) of J.M Dent, volume one which covers 1660 to 1665, And which was the book that got me into Reading Sams diaries in the first place, but a lot of the entries are either not there are cut to pieces. For instance there is no seventh of January 1662 in the version that I have, and quite a few of the entries are cut.
Gosh, poor Lady Mary, to fall so short of expectations! Her conversation may have been witty and scintillating and she may have been a paragon of virtue, but she just wasn’t pretty enough for Sam!
‘Churching’ was a practice that continued in Ireland right up to the 1960s or beyond at any rate. My grandmother and mother and older female relatives all spoke of being churched after giving birth.
Comments
Third Reading
About Thursday 30 January 1661/62
Irish Susan • Link
I often wonder what Sam’s views were on the monarchy before the Restoration- it’s a pity that we don’t have a journal from him before 1660.
About Saturday 25 January 1661/62
Irish Susan • Link
Sam’s intention to have his garden ‘handsome’ is a very worthy one- one his neighbour might well have had before this hatted, periwigged, velvet- coated character dumped his stomach contents all over!
About Thursday 9 January 1661/62
Irish Susan • Link
Perhaps Armiger had run up a huge tailor’s bill in Tom’s shop in a bid to seem as though he was giving them his business and then refused to pay for the items he had bespoken.
About Wednesday 8 January 1661/62
Irish Susan • Link
Or perhaps holsters = hold-sters , for holding things?
Where is it possible to find a completely unexpurgated version of the diaries? I have a very old edition (1906) of J.M Dent, volume one which covers 1660 to 1665, And which was the book that got me into Reading Sams diaries in the first place, but a lot of the entries are either not there are cut to pieces. For instance there is no seventh of January 1662 in the version that I have, and quite a few of the entries are cut.
About Thursday 2 January 1661/62
Irish Susan • Link
Gosh, poor Lady Mary, to fall so short of expectations! Her conversation may have been witty and scintillating and she may have been a paragon of virtue, but she just wasn’t pretty enough for Sam!
About Friday 6 December 1661
Irish Susan • Link
Given that Pepys was 5” 1’, ‘little Mr Ashwell’ must have been little indeed!
About Friday 15 November 1661
Irish Susan • Link
With regard to Irish wildlife, the Duke was partially correct. There are no moles in Ireland. Rats however we have plenty of.
About Friday 27 September 1661
Irish Susan • Link
‘Churching’ was a practice that continued in Ireland right up to the 1960s or beyond at any rate. My grandmother and mother and older female relatives all spoke of being churched after giving birth.