"My morning’s work at the office was to put the new books of my office into order, and writing on the backsides what books they be, and transferring [so L&M] out of some old books some things into them."
L&M: A full list of the books remaining in the office on 12 October 1688 (but now untraced) is in BL, Add. 9303, ff. 124-5; printed in Mar. Mirr., 34/269-70. At the time of this entry Pepys began his private collection of official letters (10 July 1662-29 April 1679), now NMM, LBK/8: three volumes bound as one; partially printed by J. R. Tanner in Further Corr. of S. Pepys...(1929) and by E. Chappel in Shorthand Letters of S. Pepys (1933). The Memorandum Book now in the PRO (Adm. 106/3520) begins with a series of notes in Pepys's hand (July 1660-24 July 1662) probably made at this time.
"he stated the government of the Chest to me; and upon the whole did tell me how it hath ever been abused, and to this day is; and what a meritorious act it would be to look after it; which I am resolved to do, if God bless me; and do thank him very much for it."
"After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made."
L&M: Repeaters were occasionally made but never widely used. Some were revolvers; others employed a succession of charges loaded down the barrel. See C. Singer et al., Hist. Technol., iii. pp. 258-9, 362 &n.; John N. George, Engl. Pistols, pp. 33+. Cf. also Birch, i. 396; https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
"Up by four o’clock, and to the settling of my own accounts, and I do find upon my monthly ballance, which I have undertaken to keep from month to month, that I am worth 650l., the greatest sum that ever I was yet master of."
L&M: Perhaps Pepys now kept a monthly account because of his recent discovery that he had lately fallen behind in his savings: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"After dinner comes Sir J. Minnes and some captains with him, who had been at a Councill of Warr to-day, who tell us they have acquitted Captain Hall, who was accused of cowardice in letting of old Winter, the Argier pyrate"
L&M: Pirates were often renegade Christians. Winter -- often known as 'old Winter' -- seems to have been the foremost of the Algiers captains at this time: cf. HMC, Finch, i. 277. There are no records of courts martial at this period in the PRO.
"I told my Lord of the late passage between Swan and me, and he told me another lately between Dr. Dell and himself when he was in the country."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… William Dell (formerly Rector of Yelden, Beds.; removed from his living in June 1661 for Independency) was like Swan a strong Puritan. He was said to have declared in church that 'he would rather hear a plain countryman from the plough speak there than the best orthodox minister in the country', and that he had allowed 'one Bunyan of Bedford, a tinker, to speak in his pulpit...': A.G. Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 161.
"At night news is brought me that Field the rogue hath this day cast me at Guildhall in 30l. for his imprisonment, to which I signed his commitment with the rest of the officers; but they having been parliament-men, that he hath begun the law with me"
L&M: M.P.'s were protected by parliamentary privilege durung parliamentary sessions. Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties. It is common in countries whose constitutions are based on the Westminster system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par…
L&M provide more text: "From on board he took me to his yard, where vast and many piles of deals, sparrs, and bulks, and Euphroes"
L&M: Deals were used for ships' upper works, decks and bulkheads; spars (of various sizes) were the fir-staging used in th rigging as booms, bowsprits, etc.; balks were fir timbers roughly dressed before shipment; uphroes were large Norwegian spars, 28-32 feet long: Naval Expositor (1750), pp. 49-50, 155, 180; W. Sutherland, Britain's Glory: or Shipbuilding Unvail'd (1729), pp. 204, 213; OED. The yard was in Wapping. Warren was by this time probably the greatest timber-merchant in England
"and the reason how deals become dearer and cheaper, among others, when the snow is not so great as to fill up the values that they may pass from hill to hill over the snow, then it is dear carriage."
L&M: Transport was the main constituent of expense. Logs were hauled on sleds by oxen or horses. Albion, op. cit., p. 145; Ehrman, pp. 52-3.
"in the evening Sir W. Warren came to me about business, and that being done, discoursing of deals, I did offer to go along with him among his deal ships, which we did to half a score, where he showed me the difference between Dram, Swinsound, Christiania"
L&M: The three principal varieties of Norwegian fir-deals, named from the ports of shipment: Drammen, Svinesund and Christiana. See R. G. Albion, Forest and seapower, ch. iv, and map opp. p. 140. Other varieties are listed in an account book (c. 1683) in BL, add. 9303, f. 74v. Norwegian timber was both cheaper and accessible than other Eastland supplies, partly because it did not have to be shipped through the Sound, where dues were payable to Denmark.
"[Will Swan] told me that certainly Sir H. Vane must be gone to Heaven, for he died as much a martyr and saint as ever man did; and that the King hath lost more by that man’s death, than he will get again a good while."
L&M: Cf. Burnet (i. 286): 'It was generally thought the government had lost more than it had gained by his death.'
"This day I am told of a Portugall lady, at Hampton Court, that hath dropped a child already since the Queen’s coming, but the king would not have them searched whose it is; and so it is not commonly known yet."
L&M: Cf. Old Cheque-book of Chapel Royal (ed. E. F. Rimbault), p. 180: 'Lisbona, the daughter of unknown parents, accidentally found shortly after its birth in a private place of Hampton Court, but conceived to be the child of a Portugal woman, was baptised in a private chamber there, June 20, 1662.' The birth was in fact reported in a letter (21 June): HMC, rep., 15/7/95.
"I hearing from my wife and the maids’ complaints made of the boy....I confess it is one of the greatest wonders that ever I met with that such a little boy as he could possibly be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain a lie. I think I must be forced to put him away."
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About Thursday 7 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I was a little moved at my offering it and not having it." do read L&M: keenly sighted, Batch!
About Thursday 17 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Very late I was forced to send for Mr. Turner, Smith, Young, about things to be sent down early to-morrow on board the King’s pleasure boat, "
L&M: The yachts of the King and the Duke of Yptk were now to sail with the flotilla to France.
About Monday 7 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"My morning’s work at the office was to put the new books of my office into order, and writing on the backsides what books they be, and transferring [so L&M] out of some old books some things into them."
L&M: A full list of the books remaining in the office on 12 October 1688 (but now untraced) is in BL, Add. 9303, ff. 124-5; printed in Mar. Mirr., 34/269-70. At the time of this entry Pepys began his private collection of official letters (10 July 1662-29 April 1679), now NMM, LBK/8: three volumes bound as one; partially printed by J. R. Tanner in Further Corr. of S. Pepys...(1929) and by E. Chappel in Shorthand Letters of S. Pepys (1933). The Memorandum Book now in the PRO (Adm. 106/3520) begins with a series of notes in Pepys's hand (July 1660-24 July 1662) probably made at this time.
About Thursday 3 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"he stated the government of the Chest to me; and upon the whole did tell me how it hath ever been abused, and to this day is; and what a meritorious act it would be to look after it; which I am resolved to do, if God bless me; and do thank him very much for it."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
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About Thursday 3 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
Cf. also Birch, i. 396; https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
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About Thursday 3 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made."
L&M: Repeaters were occasionally made but never widely used. Some were revolvers; others employed a succession of charges loaded down the barrel.
See C. Singer et al., Hist. Technol., iii. pp. 258-9, 362 &n.; John N. George, Engl. Pistols, pp. 33+. Cf. also Birch, i. 396; https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
About Sunday 29 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up by four o’clock, and to the settling of my own accounts, and I do find upon my monthly ballance, which I have undertaken to keep from month to month, that I am worth 650l., the greatest sum that ever I was yet master of."
L&M: Perhaps Pepys now kept a monthly account because of his recent discovery that he had lately fallen behind in his savings:
cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 28 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"Great talk there is of a fear of a war with the Dutch; and we have order to pitch upon twenty ships to be forthwith set out;"
L&M: More serious preparations for war were undertaken in the spring of 1664; hostilities began in that year, and war was declared in March 1665.
About Saturday 28 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day a genteel woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before,"
L&M: ? Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 27 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"After dinner comes Sir J. Minnes and some captains with him, who had been at a Councill of Warr to-day, who tell us they have acquitted Captain Hall, who was accused of cowardice in letting of old Winter, the Argier pyrate"
L&M: Pirates were often renegade Christians. Winter -- often known as 'old Winter' -- seems to have been the foremost of the Algiers captains at this time: cf. HMC, Finch, i. 277. There are no records of courts martial at this period in the PRO.
About Friday 27 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I told my Lord of the late passage between Swan and me, and he told me another lately between Dr. Dell and himself when he was in the country."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
William Dell (formerly Rector of Yelden, Beds.; removed from his living in June 1661 for Independency) was like Swan a strong Puritan. He was said to have declared in church that 'he would rather hear a plain countryman from the plough speak there than the best orthodox minister in the country', and that he had allowed 'one Bunyan of Bedford, a tinker, to speak in his pulpit...': A.G. Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 161.
About Tuesday 24 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"At night news is brought me that Field the rogue hath this day cast me at Guildhall in 30l. for his imprisonment, to which I signed his commitment with the rest of the officers; but they having been parliament-men, that he hath begun the law with me"
L&M: M.P.'s were protected by parliamentary privilege durung parliamentary sessions. Parliamentary privilege is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of certain legislatures, in which legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties. It is common in countries whose constitutions are based on the Westminster system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par…
About Monday 23 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M provide more text: "From on board he took me to his yard, where vast and many piles of deals, sparrs, and bulks, and Euphroes"
L&M: Deals were used for ships' upper works, decks and bulkheads; spars (of various sizes) were the fir-staging used in th rigging as booms, bowsprits, etc.; balks were fir timbers roughly dressed before shipment; uphroes were large Norwegian spars, 28-32 feet long: Naval Expositor (1750), pp. 49-50, 155, 180; W. Sutherland, Britain's Glory: or Shipbuilding Unvail'd (1729), pp. 204, 213; OED. The yard was in Wapping. Warren was by this time probably the greatest timber-merchant in England
About Monday 23 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"and the reason how deals become dearer and cheaper, among others, when the snow is not so great as to fill up the values that they may pass from hill to hill over the snow, then it is dear carriage."
L&M: Transport was the main constituent of expense. Logs were hauled on sleds by oxen or horses. Albion, op. cit., p. 145; Ehrman, pp. 52-3.
About Monday 23 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"in the evening Sir W. Warren came to me about business, and that being done, discoursing of deals, I did offer to go along with him among his deal ships, which we did to half a score, where he showed me the difference between Dram, Swinsound, Christiania"
L&M: The three principal varieties of Norwegian fir-deals, named from the ports of shipment: Drammen, Svinesund and Christiana. See R. G. Albion, Forest and seapower, ch. iv, and map opp. p. 140. Other varieties are listed in an account book (c. 1683) in BL, add. 9303, f. 74v. Norwegian timber was both cheaper and accessible than other Eastland supplies, partly because it did not have to be shipped through the Sound, where dues were payable to Denmark.
About Sunday 22 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"[Will Swan] told me that certainly Sir H. Vane must be gone to Heaven, for he died as much a martyr and saint as ever man did; and that the King hath lost more by that man’s death, than he will get again a good while."
L&M: Cf. Burnet (i. 286): 'It was generally thought the government had lost more than it had gained by his death.'
About Sunday 22 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day I am told of a Portugall lady, at Hampton Court, that hath dropped a child already since the Queen’s coming, but the king would not have them searched whose it is; and so it is not commonly known yet."
L&M: Cf. Old Cheque-book of Chapel Royal (ed. E. F. Rimbault), p. 180: 'Lisbona, the daughter of unknown parents, accidentally found shortly after its birth in a private place of Hampton Court, but conceived to be the child of a Portugal woman, was baptised in a private chamber there, June 20, 1662.' The birth was in fact reported in a letter (21 June): HMC, rep., 15/7/95.
About Sunday 22 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
Slashed doublet
L&M: For slashed garments, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 21 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"I hearing from my wife and the maids’ complaints made of the boy....I confess it is one of the greatest wonders that ever I met with that such a little boy as he could possibly be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain a lie. I think I must be forced to put him away."
L&M: For Wayneman Birch's misdeeds, see. e.g. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 18 June 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
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