"And here she offered me the refusall of some lands of her at Brampton, if I have a mind to buy, which I answered her I was not at present provided to do."
"by comes Mr. Moore to give me an account how Mr. Montagu was gone away of a sudden with the fleet, in such haste that he hath left behind some servants, and many things of consequence; and among others, my Lord’s commission for Embassador."
L&M: Edward Mountagu (Sandwich's cousin) had sailed on the 15th with the fleet carrying the new Governor and garrison of Tangier who were to take over the protection of the place from Sandwich's fleet. Routh, p. 12; Sandwich, p. 117.
"To Westminster with Mr. Moore, and there, after several walks up and down to hear news, I met with Lany, the Frenchman, who told me that he had a letter from France last night, that tells him that my Lord Hinchingbroke is dead."
L&M: Sandwich's eldest son had been in Paris with his brother since August 1661, in the charge of a tutor. The report was false. He suffered all his life from ill health but did not die until 1688.
Frederick Cornwallis died suddenly of apoplexy. This entry settles the doubt in GEC (iii. 453) about the date of his death. According to Lloyd's Characters he was a man of so cheerful a spirit that no sorrow came next to his heart, and of so resolved a mind, that no fear came into his thoughts. -- L&M, 1662/01/16/
"it having hitherto been summer weather, that it is, both as to warmth and every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May or June, which do threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow, for so it was almost the last winter; and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to this day."
L&M: The order for a fast came originally from the King (proclamation, 8 January: Steele, no. 3349), and parliament's arrangements (for its own proceedings) had been made in consequence: e.g. CJ, viii. 343. It was natural for anyone who had lived through the Puritan Revolution to attribute fasts to parliamentary orders.
Prince Rupert's drops (also known as Dutch or Batavian tears)[1][2] are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pri…'s%20drops%20(also%20known,with%20a%20long%2C%20thin%20tail.
Robert Blackborne was an early tutor of Pepys's as secretary to Mountagu.
"Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this office that I go about." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Of letters: "There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with his own hand superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was not a little proud." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Blackborne had also recommended Will as a clerk and employee to Pepys.
Later "W. Hewer fetched his uncle Blackburne by appointment to me, to discourse of the business of the Navy in the late times; and he did do it, by giving me a most exact account in writing, of the several turns in the Admiralty and Navy, of the persons employed therein, from the beginning of the King’s leaving the Parliament, to his Son’s coming in" https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Sjoerd22, googling "burning concave" yields: A burning glass or burning lens is a large convex lens that can concentrate the sun's rays onto a small area, heating up the area and thus resulting in ignition of the exposed surface. Burning mirrors achieve a similar effect by using reflecting surfaces to focus the light. They were used in 18th-century chemical studies for burning materials in closed glass vessels where the products of combustion could be trapped for analysis. The burning glass was a useful contrivance in the days before electrical ignition was easily achieved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bur…
"and Major Holmes, who I perceive would fain get to be free and friends with my wife, but I shall prevent it, and she herself hath also a defyance against him."
"Thence to dinner to Sir W. Pen’s, it being a solemn feast day with him, his wedding day, and we had, besides a good chine of beef and other good cheer, eighteen mince pies in a dish, the number of the years that he hath been married"
L&M: He had married Margaret van der Schuren, widow, in 1643 at St Martin's Ludgate. A certificate of 1652 in HMC, Portland, ii.84, gives the date as 6 June - presumably a mistranscription.
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About Sunday 19 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"And here she offered me the refusall of some lands of her at Brampton, if I have a mind to buy, which I answered her I was not at present provided to do."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 18 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"by comes Mr. Moore to give me an account how Mr. Montagu was gone away of a sudden with the fleet, in such haste that he hath left behind some servants, and many things of consequence; and among others, my Lord’s commission for Embassador."
L&M: Edward Mountagu (Sandwich's cousin) had sailed on the 15th with the fleet carrying the new Governor and garrison of Tangier who were to take over the protection of the place from Sandwich's fleet. Routh, p. 12; Sandwich, p. 117.
About Friday 17 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"To Westminster with Mr. Moore, and there, after several walks up and down to hear news, I met with Lany, the Frenchman, who told me that he had a letter from France last night, that tells him that my Lord Hinchingbroke is dead."
L&M: Sandwich's eldest son had been in Paris with his brother since August 1661, in the charge of a tutor. The report was false. He suffered all his life from ill health but did not die until 1688.
About Frederick Cornwallis
Terry Foreman • Link
Frederick Cornwallis died suddenly of apoplexy. This entry settles the doubt in GEC (iii. 453) about the date of his death. According to Lloyd's Characters he was a man of so cheerful a spirit that no sorrow came next to his heart, and of so resolved a mind, that no fear came into his thoughts. -- L&M, 1662/01/16/
About Wednesday 15 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"it having hitherto been summer weather, that it is, both as to warmth and every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May or June, which do threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow, for so it was almost the last winter; and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to this day."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 15 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"to pray for more seasonable weather"
L&M: The order for a fast came originally from the King (proclamation, 8 January: Steele, no. 3349), and parliament's arrangements (for its own proceedings) had been made in consequence: e.g. CJ, viii. 343. It was natural for anyone who had lived through the Puritan Revolution to attribute fasts to parliamentary orders.
About Tuesday 14 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day my brave vellum covers to keep pictures in, come in,..."
L&M: These do not appear to have survived.
About Monday 13 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
Prince Rupert's drops (also known as Dutch or Batavian tears)[1][2] are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped droplet with a long, thin tail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pri…'s%20drops%20(also%20known,with%20a%20long%2C%20thin%20tail.
About Saturday 11 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"So to the Exchange, and there all the news is of the French and Dutch joyning against us; but I do not think it yet true."
L&M: They were negotiating a treaty of commerce and mutual defence which was concluded on 17/27 April.
About Thursday 9 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"Late at it? What time did they start, I wonder." posted Tonyel.
Whenever "all the morning" began, perhaps?
About Wednesday 8 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
Robert Blackborne was an early tutor of Pepys's as secretary to Mountagu.
"Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this office that I go about."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Of letters: "There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with his own hand superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was not a little proud."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Blackborne had also recommended Will as a clerk and employee to Pepys.
Later "W. Hewer fetched his uncle Blackburne by appointment to me, to discourse of the business of the Navy in the late times; and he did do it, by giving me a most exact account in writing, of the several turns in the Admiralty and Navy, of the persons employed therein, from the beginning of the King’s leaving the Parliament, to his Son’s coming in"
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Mr Chappell (b)
Terry Foreman • Link
Mr Chappell (b), page to Oliver Cromwell:
cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Mr Chappell (b)
Terry Foreman • Link
Mr Chappell (b), page to Oliver Cromwell. (L&M Index)
About Thursday 12 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Sjoerd22, googling "burning concave" yields: A burning glass or burning lens is a large convex lens that can concentrate the sun's rays onto a small area, heating up the area and thus resulting in ignition of the exposed surface. Burning mirrors achieve a similar effect by using reflecting surfaces to focus the light. They were used in 18th-century chemical studies for burning materials in closed glass vessels where the products of combustion could be trapped for analysis. The burning glass was a useful contrivance in the days before electrical ignition was easily achieved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bur…
About Monday 6 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"and Major Holmes, who I perceive would fain get to be free and friends with my wife, but I shall prevent it, and she herself hath also a defyance against him."
L&M: Pepys earlier refers to the 'old business which he [Holmes] attempted upon my wife': https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 6 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence to dinner to Sir W. Pen’s, it being a solemn feast day with him, his wedding day, and we had, besides a good chine of beef and other good cheer, eighteen mince pies in a dish, the number of the years that he hath been married"
L&M: He had married Margaret van der Schuren, widow, in 1643 at St Martin's Ludgate. A certificate of 1652 in HMC, Portland, ii.84, gives the date as 6 June - presumably a mistranscription.
About Monday 6 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning I sent my lute to the Paynter’s, and there I staid with him all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute in my picture,"
L&M: Savill's portrait: see ttps://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The lute may have been the theorbo mentioned at https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 5 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
"wrote a letter this night to Sir J. Mennes in the Downs for his opinion in the business of striking of flags."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 3 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
“In the morning to my Bookseller's to bespeak a Stephens's Thesaurus, for which I offer 4£, to give to Paul's School.”
Sam’s diary, Friday 27 December 1661
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Friday 3 January 1661/62
Terry Foreman • Link
dirk posts: "Do we know what book Sam is donating to St. Paul's School? - re Bardi
“In the morning to my Bookseller's to bespeak a Stephens's Thesaurus, for which I offer 4£, to give to Paul's School.”
Sam’s diary, Friday 27 December 1661
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…