"I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns that though he writes news books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of them."
L&M: The newsbooks were the weekly newspapers Parliamentary Intelligencer and its Thursday edition Mercurius Publicus, both written by Muddiman and Giles Dury. They were now written not on the Rump's behalf, but on Monck's, and soon came to support the cause of a free parliament: J. B. Williams (J. B. Muddiman), Hist. Engl. journalism, pp. 174-5; EHR, 23/255+. ------------ English journalism in the 17th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His…
"I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem’s to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard"
L&M: William Hoare was a physician living in Cannon Row, Westminster. Humphrey Mage , John Harding and Thomas Mallard were professional musicians.
"Early came Mr. Vanly to me for his half-year’s rent,"
L&M: Pepys leased his house from Valentine Wanley, an alien [lived outside this municipality] living at Lambeth: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
'yet would not have been so much if I had not lived a very orderly life all this year by virtue of the oaths that God put into my heart to take against wine, plays, and other expenses,"
L&M: He had visited theatres 22 times in 1662, whereas in 1661 he had attended 79 performances, in whole or in part.
"Thence to White Hall, and got up to the top gallerys in the Banquetting House, to see the audience of the Russia Embassadors; which [took place] after long waiting and fear of the falling of the gallery (it being so full, and part of it being parted from the rest, for nobody to come up merely from the weakness thereof):"
L&M: For the ceremony, see Merc. Pub., 8 January 1663, pp. 1+; Evelyn; Rugge, ii. ff. 59+. None mentions the damaged gallery.
"Here she told me what I heard not of before, the strange burning of Mr. De Laun, a merchant’s house in Loathbury, and his lady (Sir Thomas Allen’s daughter) and her whole family; not one thing, dog nor cat, escaping; nor any of the neighbours almost hearing of it till the house was quite down and burnt."
L&M: The fire occurred on the night of 26-27 December, and the seven inmates of the house (which was new and of brick) all perished. See Rugge, ii, f.58v; Mundy, v. 151-2; Diary of Henry Townshend (ed. Willis Bund), i. 95; Richard Smyth, Obituary, p. 57. Delaun was an Eastland merchant.
"with my wife to the Duke’s Theatre, and saw the second part of “Rhodes,” done with the new Roxalana;"
L&M: This was Davenant's opera, The siege of Rhodes. Mrs Hester Davenport, who had been a great success in the role of Roxalana, had by this time been beguiled from the theatre by the Earl of Oxford and the part was now being played by Mrs Norton: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
L&M: The Presbyterian parsons extruded by the Act of Uniformity.
The Act of Uniformity 1558 (1 Eliz 1 c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in 1559.[nb 1] It set the order of prayer to be used in the English Book of Common Prayer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act….
"And that the Court are weary of my Lord Albemarle and Chamberlin."
L&M: The Lord Chamberlain, Manchester. Crew is here bewailing the attack on the moderate 'Presbyterian' interest to which he himself belonged, in common with Sandwich. In the autumn and winter of 1659-60 they had taken the lead in the movement which led to the Restoration.
"I got Mr. Coventry to go up with me to Sir W. Pen; and he did promise me before him to bear his share in what should be awarded, and both concluded that Sir W. Batten would do no less."
"after dinner did discourse of our salarys and other matters, which I think now they will allow."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… By a Council order of 4 July 1660 Pepys's salary had been made up from the traditional (basic) £33 6s. 8d. pa. (The amount fixed by his patent of 13 July 1660) to £350. Similar increases were granted to the other Principal Officers. The position was now regularized in the Exchequer: in Admiralty warrants (5 January 1663) was issued to the Attorney-General, and on 6 February the auditors of the Exchequer enrolled the new rates: PRO, Adm. 2/1725, ff. 88-90; BL, Add. 9307, ff. 14-15. Pepys made a note of the agreed rates in the office memorandum-book: PRO, Adm. 2/1733, f.9v. /he kept copies both of his patent and of Auditor Wood's enrollment: Rawl. A 216, pp. 29-32.
Comments
Second Reading
About Tuesday 10 January 1659/60
Terry Foreman • Link
"the rest of the members that were objected against last night,"
L&M: These were associates of Vane who, like him, had collaborated with the army. Two were expelled on the 17th. CJ, vii. 806, 813-14, 837.
About Monday 9 January 1659/60
Terry Foreman • Link
"I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns that though he writes news books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of them."
L&M: The newsbooks were the weekly newspapers Parliamentary Intelligencer and its Thursday edition Mercurius Publicus, both written by Muddiman and Giles Dury. They were now written not on the Rump's behalf, but on Monck's, and soon came to support the cause of a free parliament: J. B. Williams (J. B. Muddiman), Hist. Engl. journalism, pp. 174-5; EHR, 23/255+.
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English journalism in the 17th century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His…
About Saturday 7 January 1659/60
Terry Foreman • Link
"I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem’s to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard"
L&M: William Hoare was a physician living in Cannon Row, Westminster. Humphrey Mage , John Harding and Thomas Mallard were professional musicians.
About Thursday 5 January 1659/60
Terry Foreman • Link
The several lodgings and suites in Whitehall Palace
http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
A way to heep the high nobility together (surveilled?)
About Wednesday 4 January 1659/60
Terry Foreman • Link
"Early came Mr. Vanly to me for his half-year’s rent,"
L&M: Pepys leased his house from Valentine Wanley, an alien [lived outside this municipality] living at Lambeth: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 31 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
'yet would not have been so much if I had not lived a very orderly life all this year by virtue of the oaths that God put into my heart to take against wine, plays, and other expenses,"
L&M: He had visited theatres 22 times in 1662, whereas in 1661 he had attended 79 performances, in whole or in part.
About Monday 29 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence to White Hall, and got up to the top gallerys in the Banquetting House, to see the audience of the Russia Embassadors; which [took place] after long waiting and fear of the falling of the gallery (it being so full, and part of it being parted from the rest, for nobody to come up merely from the weakness thereof):"
L&M: For the ceremony, see Merc. Pub., 8 January 1663, pp. 1+; Evelyn; Rugge, ii. ff. 59+. None mentions the damaged gallery.
About Monday 29 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here she told me what I heard not of before, the strange burning of Mr. De Laun, a merchant’s house in Loathbury, and his lady (Sir Thomas Allen’s daughter) and her whole family; not one thing, dog nor cat, escaping; nor any of the neighbours almost hearing of it till the house was quite down and burnt."
L&M: The fire occurred on the night of 26-27 December, and the seven inmates of the house (which was new and of brick) all perished. See Rugge, ii, f.58v; Mundy, v. 151-2; Diary of Henry Townshend (ed. Willis Bund), i. 95; Richard Smyth, Obituary, p. 57. Delaun was an Eastland merchant.
About Sunday 28 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I went directly home, and there fell to the renewing my last year’s oaths,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 27 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"with my wife to the Duke’s Theatre, and saw the second part of “Rhodes,” done with the new Roxalana;"
L&M: This was Davenant's opera, The siege of Rhodes. Mrs Hester Davenport, who had been a great success in the role of Roxalana, had by this time been beguiled from the theatre by the Earl of Oxford and the part was now being played by Mrs Norton: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 25 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
New links for "The Embarkation of Henry VIII" sc. at Dover 1520 by an unnamed artist, and its companion piece of the "Field of the Cloth of Gold"
https://www.google.com/search?q=%…
About Wednesday 24 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"He pities the poor ministers that are put out,"
L&M: The Presbyterian parsons extruded by the Act of Uniformity.
The Act of Uniformity 1558 (1 Eliz 1 c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in 1559.[nb 1] It set the order of prayer to be used in the English Book of Common Prayer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act….
About Wednesday 24 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"And that the Court are weary of my Lord Albemarle and Chamberlin."
L&M: The Lord Chamberlain, Manchester. Crew is here bewailing the attack on the moderate 'Presbyterian' interest to which he himself belonged, in common with Sandwich. In the autumn and winter of 1659-60 they had taken the lead in the movement which led to the Restoration.
About Wednesday 24 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"that there is a bill will be brought in, that none that have been in arms for the Parliament shall be capable of office."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 15 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir Charles Barkeley’s greatness "
L&M: He had been recently appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 13 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I got Mr. Coventry to go up with me to Sir W. Pen; and he did promise me before him to bear his share in what should be awarded, and both concluded that Sir W. Batten would do no less."
L&M: The members of the Board now entered into bonds to accept out-of-court settlement according to the advice given them on 20 November:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
See Pepys's notes (13 and 15 December) in PRO, Adm. 106/3520, f.10v. Field now asked for £250: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 13 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Field and Stint did come, and received the 41l. given him by the judgement against me and Harry Kem;"
L&M: For the case, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 10 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"after dinner did discourse of our salarys and other matters, which I think now they will allow."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
By a Council order of 4 July 1660 Pepys's salary had been made up from the traditional (basic) £33 6s. 8d. pa. (The amount fixed by his patent of 13 July 1660) to £350. Similar increases were granted to the other Principal Officers. The position was now regularized in the Exchequer: in Admiralty warrants (5 January 1663) was issued to the Attorney-General, and on 6 February the auditors of the Exchequer enrolled the new rates: PRO, Adm. 2/1725, ff. 88-90; BL, Add. 9307, ff. 14-15. Pepys made a note of the agreed rates in the office memorandum-book: PRO, Adm. 2/1733, f.9v. /he kept copies both of his patent and of Auditor Wood's enrollment: Rawl. A 216, pp. 29-32.
About Monday 8 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"So I made Gosnell and we sit up looking over the book of Dances"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 7 December 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
Balty St Michel "thinking that he has got a rich wife, and I fear she will prove otherwise"
L&M note: "She proved both poor and improvident....": Family Letters, passim.