"Here I left my wife and went to my Lord Privy Seal to Whitehall, and there did give him a copy of the Fees of the office as I have received them, and he was well pleased with it."
L&M: Cf. the accounts of receipts from Privy Seal fees dated 1 October, and covering 15 March - 1 July 1661 in Rawl. A 174, ff. 259+ (in an unidentified clerk's hand).
"This day Holmes come to town; and we do expect hourly to hear what usage he hath from the Duke and the King about this late business of letting the Swedish Embassador go by him without striking his flag."
L&M: Sailing for Sweden, the ambassador (Nils Nilsson Brahe) had refused to lower his flag on meeting the Royal Charles in the mouth of the Thames. Capt. Robert Holmes had fired three shots to make the Swedes heave to, but they had escaped under cover of night while Holmes was waiting for confirmation of the ambassador's story that he had acted with Charles the II's express permission. Holmes was examined by the Council on the 27th of November, deprived of his command and committed to the Tower. He was pardoned and released a few days later. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"After dinner to the Wardrobe, and thence to Dr. Williams, who went with me (the first time that he has been abroad a great while) to the Six Clerks Office to find me a clerk there able to advise me in my business with Tom Trice,"
"by coach with Sir W. Pen and my wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Hunt’s, and he and I to Mr. Coventry’s about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home"
L&M: Sc. 'homewards', Mrs Pepys being dropped by Tom's in Salisbury Court on the way.
"troubled in my mind till I can hear from Brampton, how things go on at Sturtlow, at the Court, which I was cleared in at night by a letter, which tells me that my cozen Tom was there to be admitted, in his father’s name, as heir-at-law, but that he was opposed, and I was admitted by proxy,"
The White Devil was first acted in 1609, published in 1612, and. despite Pepys's unfavourable reaction to it, was one of the principal stock plays of the King's Company at the TR, Vere St.
"Here I saw by day-light two very fine pictures in the gallery,"
L&M: Little is known of the pictures collected by Lord Robartes. His son, the 2nd Earl of Radnor (d. 1723), lived in a house in St James Park which contained pictures by artists popular in Pepys's time and later, such as Vanzoon, Roestraeten, Danckerts, Griffier, Van de Velde and Schalcken. It is not clear whether these painters had been employed by the first Earl or by his son; or which of them had collected the Italian and Flemish pictures included in the second Earl's sale, 28 April 172(?)3: G. Vertue, Notebooks, i. 132.
"he and I in his coach through the Mewes, which is the way that now all coaches are forced to go, because of a stop at Charing Cross, by reason of a drain"
L&M: Either one of the sewers carrying away surface waters or a street gutter.
"to Hinchingbroke, where Mr. Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward, and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done."
"I took occasion to bid them money for their half acre of land, which I had a mind to do that in the surrender I might secure Piggott’s, which otherwise I should be forced to lose."
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About Friday 15 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I left my wife and went to my Lord Privy Seal to Whitehall, and there did give him a copy of the Fees of the office as I have received them, and he was well pleased with it."
L&M: Cf. the accounts of receipts from Privy Seal fees dated 1 October, and covering 15 March - 1 July 1661 in Rawl. A 174, ff. 259+ (in an unidentified clerk's hand).
About Wednesday 13 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"After we had given him our letter relating the bad condition of the Navy for want of money, he referred it to his coming back and so parted."
L&M: On the 9th the Duke had written asking for a statement of money owing: PRO, Adm. 2/1745, f15r.
About Tuesday 12 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day Holmes come to town; and we do expect hourly to hear what usage he hath from the Duke and the King about this late business of letting the Swedish Embassador go by him without striking his flag."
L&M: Sailing for Sweden, the ambassador (Nils Nilsson Brahe) had refused to lower his flag on meeting the Royal Charles in the mouth of the Thames. Capt. Robert Holmes had fired three shots to make the Swedes heave to, but they had escaped under cover of night while Holmes was waiting for confirmation of the ambassador's story that he had acted with Charles the II's express permission. Holmes was examined by the Council on the 27th of November, deprived of his command and committed to the Tower. He was pardoned and released a few days later. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 9 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"I seemed to be pleased with it, and do resolve to bestow a lace upon her"
L&M: Of gold- or silver-thread; later made into a handkerchief: see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Pepys did not give his wife a dress allowance until 1669.
About Friday 8 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"After dinner to the Wardrobe, and thence to Dr. Williams, who went with me (the first time that he has been abroad a great while) to the Six Clerks Office to find me a clerk there able to advise me in my business with Tom Trice,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 4 November 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"by coach with Sir W. Pen and my wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Hunt’s, and he and I to Mr. Coventry’s about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home"
L&M: Sc. 'homewards', Mrs Pepys being dropped by Tom's in Salisbury Court on the way.
About Sunday 27 October 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"in the afternoon to church again, my wife with me, whose mourning is now grown so old that I am ashamed to go to church with her."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 17 October 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"a venison pasty (which proved a pasty of salted pork);"
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 9 October 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Now I do not know whether this is a trick of Bagge’s, or a good will of hers to do something for me; but I will not trust her"
L&M: Probably a slip for 'him'. This Mrs Pepys has not been identified. Nothing came of all this.
About Monday 7 October 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"troubled in my mind till I can hear from Brampton, how things go on at Sturtlow, at the Court, which I was cleared in at night by a letter, which tells me that my cozen Tom was there to be admitted, in his father’s name, as heir-at-law, but that he was opposed, and I was admitted by proxy,"
L&M: Pepys had possession of Robert Pepys's surrender for the Sturtlow land: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 5 October 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"all the afternoon putting up my Lord’s model of the Royal James, which I borrowed of him long ago to hang up in my room."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About The White Devil (John Webster)
Terry Foreman • Link
The White Devil was first acted in 1609, published in 1612, and. despite Pepys's unfavourable reaction to it, was one of the principal stock plays of the King's Company at the TR, Vere St.
About Monday 30 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I saw by day-light two very fine pictures in the gallery,"
L&M: Little is known of the pictures collected by Lord Robartes. His son, the 2nd Earl of Radnor (d. 1723), lived in a house in St James Park which contained pictures by artists popular in Pepys's time and later, such as Vanzoon, Roestraeten, Danckerts, Griffier, Van de Velde and Schalcken. It is not clear whether these painters had been employed by the first Earl or by his son; or which of them had collected the Italian and Flemish pictures included in the second Earl's sale, 28 April 172(?)3: G. Vertue, Notebooks, i. 132.
About Wednesday 25 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"he and I in his coach through the Mewes, which is the way that now all coaches are forced to go, because of a stop at Charing Cross, by reason of a drain"
L&M: Either one of the sewers carrying away surface waters or a street gutter.
About Monday 23 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"we took horse and got early to Baldwick; where there was a fair,"
L&M: For Baldock fair, see VCH, Hertz.,iii. 67.
About Saturday 21 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Hinchingbroke, where Mr. Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward, and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done."
L&M: For the rebuilding of the house, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 21 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"I rode to Huntingdon, where I met Mr. Philips, and there put my Bugden matter in order against the Court,"
L&M: Robert Pepys had left land and houses at Buckden, Hunts. Lewis Phillips was a lawyer.
About Saturday 21 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"All the morning pleasing myself with my father, going up and down the house and garden with my father and my wife, contriving some alterations."
L&M: For their completion, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 20 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"I took occasion to bid them money for their half acre of land, which I had a mind to do that in the surrender I might secure Piggott’s, which otherwise I should be forced to lose."
L&M: For the Pigott mortgage, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Pepys had been bequeathed land in Offord, Hunts. The half-acre went by the custom of the manor to the heir-at-law, i.e. Thomas Pepys: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 15 September 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"but if she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my executorship."
L&M: On 20 November probate of the will was granted to Thomas Fedder alone. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…