"I do find it the greatest cheat that I have yet found; they having eightpence per yard allowed them by pretence of a contract, where no such thing appears; and it is threepence more than was formerly paid, and than I now offer the Board to have them done. We did not fully end it, but refer it to another time."
"Mr. Turner, the draper, I hear, is knighted, made Alderman, and pricked for Sheriffe, with Sir Thomas Bluddel, for the next year, by the King, and so are called with great honour the King’s Sheriffes."
L&M: Cf. Sharpe, ii. 396, 470. This appointment of the sheriffs virtually by royal command derived from the special and temporary powers exercised under the Corporation Act of 1661. For the King's orders addressed to the Lord Mayor and to the Commissioners on (16 June), see CSPD 1661-2, p. 408. Cf. also ib., p. 362 (a royal order, 15 June, for the election of Bludworth - 'Bluddell' - as alderman). Sir William Turner the draper (Lord Mayor 1668-9) was brother-in-law to Mrs Turner, a relative of Pepys. He had been knighted on 19 July. Both he and Bludworth had previously paid fines rather than accept office as aldermen, but had recently been nominated to the office by the Commissioners in place of two Puritans, Milner and Love.
The Duke of York's Laws for the government of the Colony of New York were compiled from the statutes for the government of the other English colonies in America, under the direction of Governor Richard Nicolls, the first English Governor. They were promulgated at Hempstead, on Long Island, March 1, 1665, and copies were transmitted to the several ridings, constituting the shire of Yorkshire. A copy of these laws, known as the "East Hampton copy," is filed in the clerk's office of the town of East Hampton, in the County of Suffolk.
Yorkshire New York included Long Island, Staten Island, Manhattan Island, and the east side of the Hudson River coterminous with Westchester. The Duke's Laws covered nearly every facet of life in the colony and were published in alphabetical order—from how arrests were to be carried out, how juries were to be picked, to the amount of the bounty paid for dead wolves.
Although directed to English and Dutch colonists, the laws also covered what Indians could and could not do. For example, Indians were required to fence in their corn fields and were specifically barred from practicing their own religion. "No Indian whatsoever shall at any time be suffered to powaw or performe outward worship to the Devil in any Towne within this Government," one section of the laws said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
San Diego Sarah and Robert Harneis ask about the Hooke Folio posted here
Hooke Folio Online (Google that)
The Hooke Folio contains extracts from the Royal Society's Journal Books, followed by the rough minutes for the period of Hooke's secretaryship. This on-line edition also includes a number of supplementary papers, which were found with the manuscript and include contemporary indexes. You may start your scroll through the manuscript at any of these points.
""At noon came Mr. Coventry on purpose from Hampton Court to see the same, and dined with Mr. Falconer, and after dinner to several experiments of Hemp, and particularly some Milan hemp that is brought over ready dressed."
"Mr. Edward Montagu hath lately had a duell with Mr. Cholmely, that is first gentleman-usher to the Queen, and was a messenger from the King to her in Portugall, and is a fine gentleman; but had received many affronts from Mr. Montagu, and some unkindness from my Lord, upon his score (for which I am sorry)."
L&M: Edward Mountagu (Sandwich's first cousin) was Master of the Horse to the Queen, and had accompanied Sandwich on the voyage which had brought her from Portugal. There is a brief account of the duel in PRO, SP 29/58, no. 59.
"so to the yard, and there mustered the whole ordinary"
L&M: The muster-book made on this occasion, mostly in a clerk's hand, with a few notes in Pepys's, is in Rawl. A187, ff. 321+. Pepys and Pett charged £6 5s. for their traveling expenses: PRO, Adm. 20/3, p. 63.
A pub called the "Swan" is noted in 1339 and is thought to be the earliest known Gravesend Pub. Whether this is the same pub I am as yet unsure. http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-pr…
"Then by water to White Hall, and there waited upon my Lord Sandwich; and joyed him, at his lodgings, of his safe coming home after all his danger, which he confesses to be very great."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil… His mathematical work concerned in particular the calculations of the lengths of the parabola and cycloid, and the quadrature of the hyperbola,[2] which requires approximation of the natural logarithm function by infinite series.[3] He was the first European to solve what is now known as Pell's equation. He was the first in England to take interest in generalized continued fractions and, following the work of John Wallis, he provided development in the generalized continued fraction of pi.
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About Wednesday 13 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I do find it the greatest cheat that I have yet found; they having eightpence per yard allowed them by pretence of a contract, where no such thing appears; and it is threepence more than was formerly paid, and than I now offer the Board to have them done. We did not fully end it, but refer it to another time."
L&M: On 18 September the Board decided to allow the contractors the higher price for what they had already served in: PRO, Adm. 106/3520, f.8r. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 10 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mr. Turner, the draper, I hear, is knighted, made Alderman, and pricked for Sheriffe, with Sir Thomas Bluddel, for the next year, by the King, and so are called with great honour the King’s Sheriffes."
L&M: Cf. Sharpe, ii. 396, 470. This appointment of the sheriffs virtually by royal command derived from the special and temporary powers exercised under the Corporation Act of 1661. For the King's orders addressed to the Lord Mayor and to the Commissioners on (16 June), see CSPD 1661-2, p. 408. Cf. also ib., p. 362 (a royal order, 15 June, for the election of Bludworth - 'Bluddell' - as alderman). Sir William Turner the draper (Lord Mayor 1668-9) was brother-in-law to Mrs Turner, a relative of Pepys. He had been knighted on 19 July. Both he and Bludworth had previously paid fines rather than accept office as aldermen, but had recently been nominated to the office by the Commissioners in place of two Puritans, Milner and Love.
About Wednesday 1 March 1664/65
Terry Foreman • Link
The Duke of York's Laws, 1665-75.
The Duke of York's Laws for the government of the Colony of New York were compiled from the statutes for the government of the other English colonies in America, under the direction of Governor Richard Nicolls, the first English Governor. They were promulgated at Hempstead, on Long Island, March 1, 1665, and copies were transmitted to the several ridings, constituting the shire of Yorkshire. A copy of these laws, known as the "East Hampton copy," is filed in the clerk's office of the town of East Hampton, in the County of Suffolk.
Yorkshire New York included Long Island, Staten Island, Manhattan Island, and the east side of the Hudson River coterminous with Westchester. The Duke's Laws covered nearly every facet of life in the colony and were published in alphabetical order—from how arrests were to be carried out, how juries were to be picked, to the amount of the bounty paid for dead wolves.
Although directed to English and Dutch colonists, the laws also covered what Indians could and could not do. For example, Indians were required to fence in their corn fields and were specifically barred from practicing their own religion. "No Indian whatsoever shall at any time be suffered to powaw or performe outward worship to the Devil in any Towne within this Government," one section of the laws said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
About Wednesday 1 March 1664/65
Terry Foreman • Link
San Diego Sarah and Robert Harneis ask about the Hooke Folio posted here
Hooke Folio Online (Google that)
The Hooke Folio contains extracts from the Royal Society's Journal Books, followed by the rough minutes for the period of Hooke's secretaryship. This on-line edition also includes a number of supplementary papers, which were found with the manuscript and include contemporary indexes. You may start your scroll through the manuscript at any of these points.
Posted here are Extracts from Journal Books 1661-16
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/…
About Friday 8 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"[Mr. Coventry] answered, he would not force them; but that they should come to the Council of State, to give a reason why they would not."
L&M: The Privy Council of the early Stuarts (not the 'Council of State' of the Interregnum) had in that way coerced their unwilling subjects.
About Sir John Millicent
Terry Foreman • Link
San Diego Sarah, this man is identified as the fool to James I in an L&M footnote to 8 August 1662.
About Friday 8 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
""At noon came Mr. Coventry on purpose from Hampton Court to see the same, and dined with Mr. Falconer, and after dinner to several experiments of Hemp, and particularly some Milan hemp that is brought over ready dressed."
L&M: For hemp and the methods of stoving it, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
John Falconer was clerk of the Ropeyard at Woolwich.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
About Wednesday 6 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M: The affairs of the Chest were now about to be investigated: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… etc., esp. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
For the other complaints against Batten, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 6 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mr. Edward Montagu hath lately had a duell with Mr. Cholmely, that is first gentleman-usher to the Queen, and was a messenger from the King to her in Portugall, and is a fine gentleman; but had received many affronts from Mr. Montagu, and some unkindness from my Lord, upon his score (for which I am sorry)."
L&M: Edward Mountagu (Sandwich's first cousin) was Master of the Horse to the Queen, and had accompanied Sandwich on the voyage which had brought her from Portugal. There is a brief account of the duel in PRO, SP 29/58, no. 59.
About Wednesday 6 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"So to my Lord’s; and he is also gone: this being a great day at the Council about some business at the Council before the King."
L&M: Presumably a committee meeting; the council register records no council meeting on this day.
About Monday 4 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"so to the yard, and there mustered the whole ordinary"
L&M: The muster-book made on this occasion, mostly in a clerk's hand, with a few notes in Pepys's, is in Rawl. A187, ff. 321+. Pepys and Pett charged £6 5s. for their traveling expenses: PRO, Adm. 20/3, p. 63.
About Sunday 3 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"after sermon walked with him to the yard up and down and the fields, and saw the place designed for the wet dock."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 3 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence by and by to church"
L&M: St Mary's, Chatham; on the hill above the dockyard.
About Sunday 3 August 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Commissioner Pett come to us, and took us to his house, and showed us his garden and fine things"
L&M: For the house, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Crown (Rochester, Medway)
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M: 2 August 1662:
An old inn, close to the bridge: Frederick F. Smith, Hist. Roch., pp. 338-9, pl. 39
About Swan (Gravesend)
Terry Foreman • Link
Swan
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A pub called the "Swan" is noted in 1339 and is thought to be the earliest known Gravesend Pub. Whether this is the same pub I am as yet unsure.
http://www.dover-kent.com/2014-pr…
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"(but every ordinary oars outrowed us)"
L&M: Rowed by two watermen with one oar each.
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Then by water to White Hall, and there waited upon my Lord Sandwich; and joyed him, at his lodgings, of his safe coming home after all his danger, which he confesses to be very great."
L&M: For the storm, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 27 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to walk in the Park, which is now every day more and more pleasant, by the new works upon it."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 8 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
His mathematical work concerned in particular the calculations of the lengths of the parabola and cycloid, and the quadrature of the hyperbola,[2] which requires approximation of the natural logarithm function by infinite series.[3] He was the first European to solve what is now known as Pell's equation. He was the first in England to take interest in generalized continued fractions and, following the work of John Wallis, he provided development in the generalized continued fraction of pi.