Somewhere in the diary we learn that Pepys sings the bass part. Cf. Eight Songs for Samuel Pepys by Cesare Morelli for Bass Voice and Guitar https://www.classicalvocalrep.com…
"I to the Abbey, and there meeting with Mr. Hooper, he took me in among the quire, and there I sang with them their service."
L&M: Cf. the entry at 9 December 1660 when Pepys similarly sang in Westminster Chapel. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… William Hooper was a minor canon of the Abbey.
"This morning Sir W. Pen and I to the Treasury office, and there we paid off the Amity (Captain Stokes’s ship that was at Guinny) and another ship."
L&M: The Amity was given a year;s pay (c. £1530): PRO, Adm.20/2, p.185. The other ship was probably the George: ib., loc.cit. Thomas Turner and three other clerks were employed: ib., p. 31.
"to the office, when I found Sir W. Pen had been alone all the night and was just rose, and so I to him, and with him I found Captain Holmes, who had wrote his case, and gives me a copy"
"and...there was a patent for Roger Palmer (Madam Palmer’s husband) to be Earl of Castlemaine and Baron of Limbricke in Ireland; but the honour is tied up to the males got of the body of this wife, the Lady Barbary: the reason whereof every body knows."
L&M: The new Earl and his wife (The King's mistress) were not living together, and the intention was that the title should becpme extrinct, as it did on the death of the Earl in 1705. The patent which Pepys here refers was sealed on 11 December. Pepys briefly mentioned the grant in a letter to Sandwich of 9 December: Carte 73, f. 64ir. Three sons born later to Lady Castlemaine were all acknowledged as the King's bastards.
'This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the German, Emanuel Luffe, who goes as one of my Lord’s footmen, though he deserves a much better preferment, to take their leave of me,'
L&M: They went with the fleet which was to meet Sandwich at Lisbon and escort the new Queen.
"...after dinner, by appointment, came the Governors of the East India Company, to sign and seal the contract between us1 (in the King’s name) and them."
L&M: Two contracts (6 December) arranged for the despatch of four royal ships to Bombay, just acquired under the terms of the marriage treaty with Portugal. The company agreed to pay for their manning and victualing and for freight charges on the return journey: CSPD add. 1660-85, pp. 32-5; i.b., 1661-2, p.168. The agreement later gave rise to the dispute: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw “The Country Captain,” a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his Torys and went to the Opera, and saw the last act of “The Bondman,”"
L&M: At this time playgoers claimed the right to see the fourth or fifth act of a play without paying for admission and Pepys probably availed himself of the privilege on this occasion. The privilege was prohibited by the Chamberlain on 7 December 1663, but nevertheless continued.
"by coach with Commissioner Pett to Cheapside to one Savill, a painter, who I intend shall do my picture and my wife’s."
L&M: Nothing is known of the oeuvre of Savill. He is perhaps the Mr. Savile, 'picture-maker', who was associated in 1677 with the Painter-Stainers' Company: GL, MS. 5667/2, f.213r.The portraits of Pepys and his wife were hung in Pepys's dining room on 22 February 1662 and varnished there by the artist on 11 June 1662. They are no longer extant. (For a contrary view concerning Pepys's portrait see D. Pepys Whiteley in Country Life, 1961, pp. 778.+)
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About Sunday 29 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
Somewhere in the diary we learn that Pepys sings the bass part.
Cf. Eight Songs for Samuel Pepys by Cesare Morelli for Bass Voice and Guitar
https://www.classicalvocalrep.com…
About Sunday 29 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to the Abbey, and there meeting with Mr. Hooper, he took me in among the quire, and there I sang with them their service."
L&M: Cf. the entry at 9 December 1660 when Pepys similarly sang in Westminster Chapel. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… William Hooper was a minor canon of the Abbey.
About Thursday 26 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning Sir W. Pen and I to the Treasury office, and there we paid off the Amity (Captain Stokes’s ship that was at Guinny) and another ship."
L&M: The Amity was given a year;s pay (c. £1530): PRO, Adm.20/2, p.185. The other ship was probably the George: ib., loc.cit. Thomas Turner and three other clerks were employed: ib., p. 31.
About Monday 23 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here in discourse of books I did offer to give the school what books he would choose of 5l."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About James Bollen
Terry Foreman • Link
James Bollen was appointed Groom of the Privy Chamber in extraordinary by letters patent issued on 23 February 1662: PRO, LC 3/23, p. 43
About Saturday 7 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"to the office, when I found Sir W. Pen had been alone all the night and was just rose, and so I to him, and with him I found Captain Holmes, who had wrote his case, and gives me a copy"
L&M: This concerned the dispute with the Swedes about striking sail: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 7 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"and...there was a patent for Roger Palmer (Madam Palmer’s husband) to be Earl of Castlemaine and Baron of Limbricke in Ireland; but the honour is tied up to the males got of the body of this wife, the Lady Barbary: the reason whereof every body knows."
L&M: The new Earl and his wife (The King's mistress) were not living together, and the intention was that the title should becpme extrinct, as it did on the death of the Earl in 1705. The patent which Pepys here refers was sealed on 11 December. Pepys briefly mentioned the grant in a letter to Sandwich of 9 December: Carte 73, f. 64ir. Three sons born later to Lady Castlemaine were all acknowledged as the King's bastards.
About Saturday 7 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
'This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the German, Emanuel Luffe, who goes as one of my Lord’s footmen, though he deserves a much better preferment, to take their leave of me,'
L&M: They went with the fleet which was to meet Sandwich at Lisbon and escort the new Queen.
About Friday 6 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
The agreement later gave rise to the dispute:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 6 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"...after dinner, by appointment, came the Governors of the East India Company, to sign and seal the contract between us1 (in the King’s name) and them."
L&M: Two contracts (6 December) arranged for the despatch of four royal ships to Bombay, just acquired under the terms of the marriage treaty with Portugal. The company agreed to pay for their manning and victualing and for freight charges on the return journey: CSPD add. 1660-85, pp. 32-5; i.b., 1661-2, p.168. The agreement later gave rise to the dispute: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 5 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence to the Treasury Office, where I found Sir W. Batten come before me, and there we sat to pay off the St. George."
L&M: Her pay amounted to c. £2472. Thomas Turner and three other clerks attended. PRO, Adm. 20/2, nos 214, 1065.
About Wednesday 4 December 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"thence to Mr. Phillips and got my copy of Sturtlow lands."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Clement Sankey
Terry Foreman • Link
Clemens Sankey married Mary Archer of Bourn, Cambs. in 1669, when he was rector of St Clement's, Eastcheap, and a Canon of York.
About Monday 25 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw “The Country Captain,” a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his Torys and went to the Opera, and saw the last act of “The Bondman,”"
L&M: At this time playgoers claimed the right to see the fourth or fifth act of a play without paying for admission and Pepys probably availed himself of the privilege on this occasion. The privilege was prohibited by the Chamberlain on 7 December 1663, but nevertheless continued.
About Monday 25 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"after dinner Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw “The Country Captain,” a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his Torys"
L&M: Irishmen; only in the late 1670s was the word used politically. Penn had estates in Ireland and was Governor of Kinsale.
About Saturday 23 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
There are, however these credited to mr. savile 'picture-maker' 17th century
https://www.google.com/search?sxs…
About Saturday 23 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"by coach with Commissioner Pett to Cheapside to one Savill, a painter, who I intend shall do my picture and my wife’s."
L&M: Nothing is known of the oeuvre of Savill. He is perhaps the Mr. Savile, 'picture-maker', who was associated in 1677 with the Painter-Stainers' Company: GL, MS. 5667/2, f.213r.The portraits of Pepys and his wife were hung in Pepys's dining room on 22 February 1662 and varnished there by the artist on 11 June 1662. They are no longer extant. (For a contrary view concerning Pepys's portrait see D. Pepys Whiteley in Country Life, 1961, pp. 778.+)
About William Smallwood
Terry Foreman • Link
William Smallwood was the lawyer of Thomas Trice. (1661/11/21 fn.)
About Wednesday 20 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"And the Bishops, I hear, do take their places in the Lords House this day."
L&M: The act of 1642 excluding them had been repealed in July.
About Monday 18 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"there I received 50l. more, which make up 100l. that I now have borrowed of him,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…