:that General Monk is made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself."
L&M: Monck (since 7 July Duke of Albemarle) had been appointed to the lord-lieutenancy in June but intended to stay in England and rule through a resident-deputy. Robartes had been made Lord Deputy on 25 July, but wished to ne responsible to the King (who had appointed him) and to have the full powers of his predecessors in the post. He resigned and was made Lord Privy Seal in May of 1661l while Albemarle in turn was replaced as Lieutenant by Ormond in February 1662. Robartes kater served as Lord Lieutenant (with no success), in 1669-70. Cf. Clarendon, Life, i. 463-6 (he speaks of Robartes' 'intolerable pride'), HMC, Sutherland, p. 195 (14 August).
Paul Brewster on 29 Jul 2003 • Link • Flag My Lord went to dinner at Kensington - with my Lord Camden L&M make the location of the dinner more specific. They place it at "Campden House on what is now Campden Hill; the largest house in the parish after Holland House."
"Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook’s shop.""
L&M: For London cookshops, see W. C. Hazlitt, Old cookery books , pp. 245+; F. T. Phillips, Hist. Company of Cooks, London. They were eating-kouses which akso srnt cookrf fishes out, but thet were not usually allowed to sell drunk.
"July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that day spent in the City of London."
L&M: The King, the two Dukes, the Privy Council and both Houses of Parliament were entertained at Guildhall. Description in Londons glory represented by time, truth and fame: at the magnificent triumphs and entertainment of His most Sacred Majesty Charls the II. The Dukes of York and Glocester, the two Houses of Parliament, Privy Councill, Judges, &c. At Guildhall on Thursday, being the 5th. day of July 1660. and in the 12th. year of His Majestie [sic] most happy reign. Together with the order and management of the whole days business. Published according to order. Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664. London: printed by William Godbid in Little Brittain, 1660. Early English Books Online https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
"he and I went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me."
L&M: These houses weds built on to the Navy Office, between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane: Pepys was to live in one from 1660 until the fire which destroyed them and the Office in 1673. The practice of having the Principal Officers live in official accommodations at the Navy Office was one of the most useful innovations of the revolutionary and Restoration periods.
"Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined with us."
L&M: John Gauden, Dean of Bocking, Essex, in November is appointed Bishop of Exeter; and his brother Denis Gauden, victualler to the Navy in several ports and in October appointed Surveyor-General if Victualling. The latter was to become a close associate of Pepys.
"This morning I saw poor Bishop Wren going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day1 for the King’s return."
L&M: Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely since 1638, and enemy of the Puritans, had been imprisoned in the Tower for 18 years during the revolution. He was the uncle of Sir Christopher Wren. This thanksgiving service was appointed by the King (on the address of both houses) to be held in all churches: Steele, no. 3222. Similar services were held in later years on 29 May: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The preacher on this occasion in Whitehall Chapel was Sheldon.
"To Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is so stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram."
L&M: Merchant; later member of the Council for Trade. Several months later Hawley appears to be still in Downing's service, and announces that he is looking for a job with the Bishop of London: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"To Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker’s, where my Lord supped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after a song or two in my chamber"
A touch piece is a coin or medal believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence people's behaviour, carry out a specific practical action, etc.
What most touch pieces have in common is that they have to be touched or in close physical contact for the 'power' concerned to be obtained and/or transferred. Once this is achieved, the power is assumed to be permanently present in the coin, which effectively becomes an amulet. Image Henry VIII: angel holding a shield and spearing the devil (thin gold coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tou…
"and the Protector said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to do, he would do it, be it what it would'
L&M: Perhaps the name of Sandwich's cousin was included out of politeness, but it is certain that the rest were Richard Cromwell's closest advisers. They were Lord Broghill (cr. Earl of Orrery, 1660), Col. Philip Jones and Secretary Thurloe.
"which put my Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house for his use."
L&M : The Great Wardrobe occupied a site on the n. side of the modern Queen Victoria St. In June 1649 the government had granted it to the city Corporation for the Poor (established in 1647): CJ, vi. 226. Sandwich had ousted them by early 1661 ( https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ), despite a piteous petition on behalf of the poor children: Carte 74, f.501r.
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Second Reading
About Wednesday 22 August 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
There are like to be many factions "already ... in the House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men."
L&M: The bill concerning church livings had been debates this day: CJ, viiik, 230.
Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 21 August 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
:that General Monk is made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself."
L&M: Monck (since 7 July Duke of Albemarle) had been appointed to the lord-lieutenancy in June but intended to stay in England and rule through a resident-deputy. Robartes had been made Lord Deputy on 25 July, but wished to ne responsible to the King (who had appointed him) and to have the full powers of his predecessors in the post. He resigned and was made Lord Privy Seal in May of 1661l while Albemarle in turn was replaced as Lieutenant by Ormond in February 1662. Robartes kater served as Lord Lieutenant (with no success), in 1669-70. Cf. Clarendon, Life, i. 463-6 (he speaks of Robartes' 'intolerable pride'), HMC, Sutherland, p. 195 (14 August).
About Wednesday 15 August 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"The King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising since he came."
L&M: Charles was often up ver early -- sometimes at dawn -- for hunting, sailing, or tennis. Cf., e.g., HMC, /hastings, ii. 140-1.
About Tuesday 31 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
""I back to the Admiralty, and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of the Navy"
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Sunday 29 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
Paul Brewster on 29 Jul 2003 • Link • Flag
My Lord went to dinner at Kensington - with my Lord Camden
L&M make the location of the dinner more specific. They place it at "Campden House on what is now Campden Hill; the largest house in the parish after Holland House."
Campden House
https://www.chippingcampdenhistor…
About Sunday 22 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house.'
L&M: "Chapter" of the Bible; a common ellipsis: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
; https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
One of the few occasions on which Pepys records reading the Bible.
For family prayers, see J. H. Overton, Life in Engl. Church, p. 334+.
About Friday 13 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
Regicides Whalley, Goffe and Dixwell flee to New Haven in what will be in the Colony of Connecticut
https://www.newenglandhistoricals…
About Sunday 8 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook’s shop.""
L&M: For London cookshops, see W. C. Hazlitt, Old cookery books , pp. 245+; F. T. Phillips, Hist. Company of Cooks, London. They were eating-kouses which akso srnt cookrf fishes out, but thet were not usually allowed to sell drunk.
About Sunday 8 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I heard very good music, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and singing-men in surplices in my life."
L&M: After the Restoration, these usages (together with the Book of Common Prayer) returned first in the chapels royal, cathedrals and college chapels. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
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About Thomas Hayter
Terry Foreman • Link
Thomas Hayter
He accomplished all he did despite his being (at any rate in the diary period) a Quaker or Anabaptist. (L&M note)
About Thursday 5 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that day spent in the City of London."
L&M: The King, the two Dukes, the Privy Council and both Houses of Parliament were entertained at Guildhall. Description in Londons glory represented by time, truth and fame: at the magnificent triumphs and entertainment of His most Sacred Majesty Charls the II. The Dukes of York and Glocester, the two Houses of Parliament, Privy Councill, Judges, &c. At Guildhall on Thursday, being the 5th. day of July 1660. and in the 12th. year of His Majestie [sic] most happy reign. Together with the order and management of the whole days business. Published according to order.
Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664.
London: printed by William Godbid in Little Brittain, 1660.
Early English Books Online
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Wednesday 4 July 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"he and I went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me."
L&M: These houses weds built on to the Navy Office, between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane: Pepys was to live in one from 1660 until the fire which destroyed them and the Office in 1673. The practice of having the Principal Officers live in official accommodations at the Navy Office was one of the most useful innovations of the revolutionary and Restoration periods.
About Friday 29 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
Barlow's appointment as COA
L&M: Thomas Barlow, appointed jointly with Dennis Fleming in 1639, had held the sole reversion since Fleming's death.
About Thursday 28 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined with us."
L&M: John Gauden, Dean of Bocking, Essex, in November is appointed Bishop of Exeter; and his brother Denis Gauden, victualler to the Navy in several ports and in October appointed Surveyor-General if Victualling. The latter was to become a close associate of Pepys.
About Thursday 28 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning I saw poor Bishop Wren going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day1 for the King’s return."
L&M: Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely since 1638, and enemy of the Puritans, had been imprisoned in the Tower for 18 years during the revolution. He was the uncle of Sir Christopher Wren. This thanksgiving service was appointed by the King (on the address of both houses) to be held in all churches: Steele, no. 3222. Similar services were held in later years on 29 May: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The preacher on this occasion in Whitehall Chapel was Sheldon.
About Thursday 28 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"To Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is so stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his office, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are parted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram."
L&M: Merchant; later member of the Council for Trade. Several months later Hawley appears to be still in Downing's service, and announces that he is looking for a job with the Bishop of London: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 27 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"To Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker’s, where my Lord supped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after a song or two in my chamber"
L&M: In Mountagu's lodgings: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Pepys gave up this room to Will Howe: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 23 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
A touch piece is a coin or medal believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence people's behaviour, carry out a specific practical action, etc.
What most touch pieces have in common is that they have to be touched or in close physical contact for the 'power' concerned to be obtained and/or transferred. Once this is achieved, the power is assumed to be permanently present in the coin, which effectively becomes an amulet.
Image Henry VIII: angel holding a shield and spearing the devil (thin gold coin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tou…
About Thursday 21 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"and the Protector said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to do, he would do it, be it what it would'
L&M: Perhaps the name of Sandwich's cousin was included out of politeness, but it is certain that the rest were Richard Cromwell's closest advisers. They were Lord Broghill (cr. Earl of Orrery, 1660), Col. Philip Jones and Secretary Thurloe.
About Thursday 21 June 1660
Terry Foreman • Link
"which put my Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house for his use."
L&M : The Great Wardrobe occupied a site on the n. side of the modern Queen Victoria St. In June 1649 the government had granted it to the city Corporation for the Poor (established in 1647): CJ, vi. 226. Sandwich had ousted them by early 1661 ( https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ), despite a piteous petition on behalf of the poor children: Carte 74, f.501r.