"Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me how ill things go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to any that belong to the Queen; nor, above all, to such English as she brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he carries himself to Mrs. Palmer; —[Lady Castlemaine.]— insomuch that though he has a promise, and is sure of being made her chyrurgeon, he is at a loss what to do in it, whether to take it or no,"
L&M: He was surgeon to the Duke of York, and became surgeon to the King's Household in 1672, but he does not appear to have served the Queen.
"then walked to Deptford to discourse with Mr. Lowly and Davis about my late conceptions about keeping books of the distinct works done in the yards"
L&M: These were the call-books which Pepys introduced into the royal dockyards within the next six months, and of which he was very proud: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"After with great pleasure lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife (for we have been for some years now, and at present more and more, a very happy couple, blessed be God),"
L&M: One of the few passages in the diary which may be taken as referring to their separation in the early years of their marriage: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Steohane, there was a time. a few years ago, when the Gazette was searchable, if memory serves. It was very accessible when it was first posted. I too wish it were still.
"Hence, it raining hard, by coach home, being first trimmed here by Benier, who being acquainted with all the players, do tell me that Betterton is not married to Ianthe, as they say;"
"I by water to the Opera, and there saw “The Bondman” most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora’s part very well now Roxalana is gone."
L&M: Mary Saunderson, lastr Mrs Betterton,, was one of the leading actresses in th Duke of York's Company, and is here called 'Ianthe' after the part she played in The Siege of Rhodes. 'Roxalana' was Hester Davenport, and was so called after her part in the same work. She had been enticed from the stage by the Earl of Oxford; see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"I by water to the Opera, and there saw “The Bondman” most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora’s part very well now Roxalana is gone."
L&M: Mary Saunderson, lastr Mrs Betterton,, was one of the leading actresses in th Duke of York's Company, and is here called 'Ianthe' after the part she played in The Siege of Rhodes. 'Roxalana' was Hester Davenport, and was so called after her part in the same work. She had been enticed from the stage by the Earl of Oxford; see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Thence to see Mr. Moore, who is pretty well again, and we read over and discoursed about Mrs. Goldsborough’s business, and her son coming by my appointment thither, I did tell him our resolution as to her having her estate reconveyed to her."
"Though there was good singing and dancing, yet no fancy in the play, but something that made it less contenting was my conscience that I ought not to have gone by my vow"
"I did give the fellow something that showed them us, and promised to come some other time, and he would show me Lady Castlemaine’s, which I could not then see, it being locked up!"
L&M: She sat on many occasions to Lely 'who used to say, that it was beyond the compass of art to give this lady her due, as to her sweetness and exquisite beauty': T. Hearne, Reliq. Hearmianae (1869 ed.), ii. 57-8. Pepys bought a print of one of these portraits: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"after I had done with the Duke, and thence gone with Commissioner Pett to Mr. Lilly’s, the great painter, who came forth to us;"
L&M: Lely had been established, possibly in 1650 and certainly in 1651, in the house in the n.-e. corner of the Piazza at Covent Garden in which he was to pass the rest of his life. By then he was extremely successful. He was granted in October 1661 an annual pension from the Crown of £200 'as formerly to Sr Vandyke'; He had, in addition, come of a prosperous and property-owning family in The Hague, and his famous collection of pictures and drawings was probably already impressive.
"And by and by up to the Duke, who was making himself ready; and there among other discourse young Killigrew did so commend “The Villaine,” a new play made by Tom Porter; and acted only on Saturday at the Duke’s house, as if there never had been any such play come upon the stage."
L&M: The first record of a performance of this play, a tragedy by Thomas Porter, published in 1663. Now at the LIF; cast in Downes, p. 23. https://archive.org/details/rosci…
"to St. James’s, where Sir Williams both and Sir John were come, and so up with Mr. Coventry to the Duke; "
L&M: These Monday morning meetings in the Duke's closet (usually at St James's Palace in the summer and at Whitehall in the winter) were regularly held during the diary period. They were a resumption of pre-revolutionary practice, and no formal order about then appears to have been made.
"Sir John and I did stay late paying some money to the men that are saved out of the Satisfaction that was lost the other day. The King gives them half-pay, which is more than is used in such cases, for they never used to have any thing,"
L&M: For the wreck, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl… The King's order (which refers to the rarity of this bounty) was transmitted to the Board by the Admiral on 14 October: PRO, Adm. 106/7, f.212r. The total paid was c. £420: Adm. 20/3, p. 330.
"So home to dinner, and so to walk in the garden, and then to Church again, and so home, there coming several people about business, and among others Mr. Piggott, who gives me good assurance of his truth to me and our business,"
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About Friday 24 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me how ill things go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to any that belong to the Queen; nor, above all, to such English as she brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he carries himself to Mrs. Palmer; —[Lady Castlemaine.]— insomuch that though he has a promise, and is sure of being made her chyrurgeon, he is at a loss what to do in it, whether to take it or no,"
L&M: He was surgeon to the Duke of York, and became surgeon to the King's Household in 1672, but he does not appear to have served the Queen.
About Friday 24 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"then walked to Deptford to discourse with Mr. Lowly and Davis about my late conceptions about keeping books of the distinct works done in the yards"
L&M: These were the call-books which Pepys introduced into the royal dockyards within the next six months, and of which he was very proud:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 24 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"After with great pleasure lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife (for we have been for some years now, and at present more and more, a very happy couple, blessed be God),"
L&M: One of the few passages in the diary which may be taken as referring to their separation in the early years of their marriage:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 21 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Steohane, there was a time. a few years ago, when the Gazette was searchable, if memory serves. It was very accessible when it was first posted. I too wish it were still.
About Wednesday 22 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Hence, it raining hard, by coach home, being first trimmed here by Benier, who being acquainted with all the players, do tell me that Betterton is not married to Ianthe, as they say;"
L&M: Thomas Betterton did not marry Mary Saunderson (here called 'Ianthe': see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 2 April 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I by water to the Opera, and there saw “The Bondman” most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora’s part very well now Roxalana is gone."
L&M: Mary Saunderson, lastr Mrs Betterton,, was one of the leading actresses in th Duke of York's Company, and is here called 'Ianthe' after the part she played in The Siege of Rhodes. 'Roxalana' was Hester Davenport, and was so called after her part in the same work. She had been enticed from the stage by the Earl of Oxford; see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 2 April 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I by water to the Opera, and there saw “The Bondman” most excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora’s part very well now Roxalana is gone."
L&M: Mary Saunderson, lastr Mrs Betterton,, was one of the leading actresses in th Duke of York's Company, and is here called 'Ianthe' after the part she played in The Siege of Rhodes. 'Roxalana' was Hester Davenport, and was so called after her part in the same work. She had been enticed from the stage by the Earl of Oxford; see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 22 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and carrying my wife and her brother to Covent Garden, near their father’s new lodging"
L&M: Possibly the hpise in Long Acre mentioned later at https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence to see Mr. Moore, who is pretty well again, and we read over and discoursed about Mrs. Goldsborough’s business, and her son coming by my appointment thither, I did tell him our resolution as to her having her estate reconveyed to her."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
This was one of the disputes inherited with Robert Pepys's estate.
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Though there was good singing and dancing, yet no fancy in the play, but something that made it less contenting was my conscience that I ought not to have gone by my vow"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"and here, among other pictures, saw the so much desired by me picture of my Lady Castlemaine,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 18 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I did give the fellow something that showed them us, and promised to come some other time, and he would show me Lady Castlemaine’s, which I could not then see, it being locked up!"
L&M: She sat on many occasions to Lely 'who used to say, that it was beyond the compass of art to give this lady her due, as to her sweetness and exquisite beauty': T. Hearne, Reliq. Hearmianae (1869 ed.), ii. 57-8. Pepys bought a print of one of these portraits: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"after I had done with the Duke, and thence gone with Commissioner Pett to Mr. Lilly’s, the great painter, who came forth to us;"
L&M: Lely had been established, possibly in 1650 and certainly in 1651, in the house in the n.-e. corner of the Piazza at Covent Garden in which he was to pass the rest of his life. By then he was extremely successful. He was granted in October 1661 an annual pension from the Crown of £200 'as formerly to Sr Vandyke'; He had, in addition, come of a prosperous and property-owning family in The Hague, and his famous collection of pictures and drawings was probably already impressive.
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"And by and by up to the Duke, who was making himself ready; and there among other discourse young Killigrew did so commend “The Villaine,” a new play made by Tom Porter; and acted only on Saturday at the Duke’s house, as if there never had been any such play come upon the stage."
L&M: The first record of a performance of this play, a tragedy by Thomas Porter, published in 1663. Now at the LIF; cast in Downes, p. 23.
https://archive.org/details/rosci…
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up and in Sir J. Minnes’s coach with him and Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where now the Duke is come again to lodge:"
L&M: The Duke used his lodgings in St James Palace during the summer and those in Whitehall Palace during the winter: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 8 September 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"to St. James’s, where Sir Williams both and Sir John were come, and so up with Mr. Coventry to the Duke; "
L&M: These Monday morning meetings in the Duke's closet (usually at St James's Palace in the summer and at Whitehall in the winter) were regularly held during the diary period. They were a resumption of pre-revolutionary practice, and no formal order about then appears to have been made.
About Thursday 16 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir John and I did stay late paying some money to the men that are saved out of the Satisfaction that was lost the other day. The King gives them half-pay, which is more than is used in such cases, for they never used to have any thing,"
L&M: For the wreck, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
The King's order (which refers to the rarity of this bounty) was transmitted to the Board by the Admiral on 14 October: PRO, Adm. 106/7, f.212r. The total paid was c. £420: Adm. 20/3, p. 330.
About Monday 13 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like the staircase,"
L&M: For the alterations see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The staircase was made in London: Carte 73, ff. 502r, 540r; ib. 74, f. 366r.
About Sunday 12 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"So home to dinner, and so to walk in the garden, and then to Church again, and so home, there coming several people about business, and among others Mr. Piggott, who gives me good assurance of his truth to me and our business,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 11 October 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"But now to my business. I found my uncle Thomas come into the country, and do give out great words,"
L&M: Thomas Pepys. of St Alphage, London, was heir-at-law to the estate of Robert Pepys: for these disputes see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…