"to Greatorex, who took me to Arundell-House, and there showed me some fine flowers in his garden, and all the fine statues in the gallery, which I formerly had seen, and is a brave sight"
L&M: The collection of antique sculpture, built up by the 2nd Earl of Arundel (d. 1646) before the Civil War, had perhaps already been partly dispersed, but was still impressive. A section of it, the Arundel Marbles, passed ultimately to the Ashmolean Museum. Aubrey, Nat. hist. . . . Surrey (1719), v. 282. J. Hess in Engl Misc., I/197-220.
"And then to Deptford, where we staid and did the same; and so took barge again, and were overtaken by the King in his barge, he having been down the river with his yacht this day for pleasure to try it; and, as I hear, Commissioner Pett’s do prove better than the Dutch one, and that that his brother built."
The yacht-building brother was Christopher Pett of Woolwich.
"From thence I went home (Mr. Moore with me to the waterside, telling me how kindly he is used by my Lord and my Lady since his coming hither as a servant)"
L&M: A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, written c. 1611; published in 1619; now at the TR, Vere St. The cast in Downes (p. 5) includes Hart as Amintor, Mohun as Melantius, Wintersel as the King and Mrs [Rebecca] Marshall as Evadne.
The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia. Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. In the Savoy: Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1669. Early English Books Online. [Full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
"From thence to Sir G. Carteret, and there did get his promise for the payment of the remainder of the bill of Mr. Creed’s, wherein of late I have been so much concerned,"
L&M: Order for the payment of Creed's bill for £1035. for expenses incurred as Deputy-Treasurer of the fleet, was made on 15 May: PRO, Adm. 20//1, p. 143. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"they laid hold of us, and would have us drink the King’s health upon our knees, kneeling upon a faggot, which we all did, they drinking to us one after another. Which we thought a strange frolique"
L&M: In 1681, in Anthony Wood's Oxfird, the loyal toast was often drunk kneeling: L.&T., ii. 527, etc.
"and then it fell a-raining and thundering and lightening as I have not seen it do for some years: which people did take great notice of; God’s blessing of the work of these two days, which is a foolery to take too much notice of such things."
L&M: Some were convinced that it was a good augury, others that it was evil: Somers Tracts (ed. Scott), vii. 513-15. Richard Baxter was reminded of the earthquake that occurred during Charles I's coronation, adding, 'I intend no Commentary . . .. but only to relate the Matter of Fact': M. Sylvester, Reliq. Baxt. (1696), bk i, pt ii. 303. Pepys himself was not always proof against superstition: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
" Krzysztof on 24 Apr 2004 -- ...to hear the musique of all sorts, but above all, the 24 violins: Charles II founded the group to play at his coronation"
"I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand."
L&M: He never kept any such record. His eyesight appears to have improved after his holiday abroad in the following autumn (q.v. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ) for from at least February 1670 he was avle to make a limited use of shorthand (see e.g. CSPD 1670 pp. 94, 480, 516, 639). He later composed journals (written up by clerks) for specific purposes -- to record his his examination by the Privy Council about the Brooke House Committee's report (3 January-17 February 1670; PL 2874, pp. 385-403), and to help him with his defence when accused of treaton during the Popish Plot (10 May-June 1679, 24 January-10 April 1680, PL 2881, pp. 45-83, ib,, 28882, ff,. 1169-1235///////0, and to record the work of the special Commission of 1686 (PL 1490. pp. 7-79). What is sometimes called his 'second diary' is the short Journal (30 July-1 December 1683), closely written in shorthand, of his voyage to Tangier, when he went with the expeditionwhich dismantled and evuated it (Rawl C 859 B and C; the accompanyin obaervations are much longer than the journal itself). The best edition is by E. Chappelll (Navy Rec. Soc., 11935). Geing a livre d'occasion it is quite different in character and scale from the diary which now ends.
"To White Hall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning, since he come. "
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About Thursday 30 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Greatorex, who took me to Arundell-House, and there showed me some fine flowers in his garden, and all the fine statues in the gallery, which I formerly had seen, and is a brave sight"
L&M: The collection of antique sculpture, built up by the 2nd Earl of Arundel
(d. 1646) before the Civil War, had perhaps already been partly dispersed, but was still impressive. A section of it, the Arundel Marbles, passed ultimately to the Ashmolean Museum. Aubrey, Nat. hist. . . . Surrey (1719), v. 282. J. Hess in Engl Misc., I/197-220.
About Monday 27 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"at the Legg...we dined very merry, there coming to us Captain Ferrers, this being the first day of his going abroad since his leap a week ago,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 26 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to Sir W. Batten’s, where I have on purpose made myself a great stranger, only to get a high opinion a little more of myself in them."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 21 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"And then to Deptford, where we staid and did the same; and so took barge again, and were overtaken by the King in his barge, he having been down the river with his yacht this day for pleasure to try it; and, as I hear, Commissioner Pett’s do prove better than the Dutch one, and that that his brother built."
The yacht-building brother was Christopher Pett of Woolwich.
About Thursday 16 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"From thence I went home (Mr. Moore with me to the waterside, telling me how kindly he is used by my Lord and my Lady since his coming hither as a servant)"
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… . Moore, originally in the service of John Crew, was now Sandwich's man of business.
About Thursday 16 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
The Mayde's Tragedy
L&M: A tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, written c. 1611; published in 1619; now at the TR, Vere St. The cast in Downes (p. 5) includes Hart as Amintor, Mohun as Melantius, Wintersel as the King and Mrs [Rebecca] Marshall as Evadne.
About Friday 10 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
The history of the three late, famous impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei and Sabatai Sevi the one, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior, the other, a prince of the Ottoman family, but in truth, a Valachian counterfeit, and the last, the suppos'd Messiah of the Jews, in the year of the true Messiah, 1666 : with a brief account of the ground and occasion of the present war between the Turk and the Venetian : together with the cause of the final extirpation, destruction and exile of the Jews out of the Empire of Persia.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
In the Savoy: Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1669.
Early English Books Online. [Full text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Thursday 9 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"From thence to Sir G. Carteret, and there did get his promise for the payment of the remainder of the bill of Mr. Creed’s, wherein of late I have been so much concerned,"
L&M: Order for the payment of Creed's bill for £1035. for expenses incurred as Deputy-Treasurer of the fleet, was made on 15 May: PRO, Adm. 20//1, p. 143. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 9 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
'With my workmen all the morning, my wife being ill and in great pain with her old pain,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 2 May 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
" and so after dinner by water to the Yard, and there we made the sale of the old provisions."
L&M: The main object of this visit. Similar sales were held at the other naval yards: cf: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The Principal Officers were paid £ 66 10s. 1d. for their traveling expenses: PRP, Adm. 20/1, no. 1834.
About Thursday 7 March 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning Sir Williams both went to Woolwich to sell some old provisions there."
L&M: In pursuance of a counci order of 13 February, old provisions were to be sold at all principal dockyards: PRO, Admin. ao6/3520, f. 32.Cf. also https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 23 April 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"they laid hold of us, and would have us drink the King’s health upon our knees, kneeling upon a faggot, which we all did, they drinking to us one after another. Which we thought a strange frolique"
L&M: In 1681, in Anthony Wood's Oxfird, the loyal toast was often drunk kneeling: L.&T., ii. 527, etc.
About Tuesday 23 April 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"and then it fell a-raining and thundering and lightening as I have not seen it do for some years: which people did take great notice of; God’s blessing of the work of these two days, which is a foolery to take too much notice of such things."
L&M: Some were convinced that it was a good augury, others that it was evil: Somers Tracts (ed. Scott), vii. 513-15. Richard Baxter was reminded of the earthquake that occurred during Charles I's coronation, adding, 'I intend no Commentary . . .. but only to relate the Matter of Fact': M. Sylvester, Reliq. Baxt. (1696), bk i, pt ii. 303. Pepys himself was not always proof against superstition: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 23 April 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"
Krzysztof on 24 Apr 2004 -- ...to hear the musique of all sorts, but above all, the 24 violins: Charles II founded the group to play at his coronation"
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 23 April 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"and my Lord of Albemarle’s going to the kitchin and eat a bit of the first dish that was to go to the King’s table."
L&M: For the custom of 'assaying' royal food, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 31 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
For the Carte Papers also google "Carte calendar" for The Electronic Calendar of the Carte Papers, 1660-87
Scroll down for the year web-pages, then search for dates/person names, subjects, etc.
About Saturday 20 April 1661
Terry Foreman • Link
"The Duke comes; and after he had told us that the fleet was designed for Algier (which was kept from us till now), we "
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 31 May 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand."
L&M: He never kept any such record. His eyesight appears to have improved after his holiday abroad in the following autumn (q.v. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… )
for from at least February 1670 he was avle to make a limited use of shorthand (see e.g. CSPD 1670 pp. 94, 480, 516, 639). He later composed journals (written up by clerks) for specific purposes -- to record his his examination by the Privy Council about the Brooke House Committee's report (3 January-17 February 1670; PL 2874, pp. 385-403), and to help him with his defence when accused of treaton during the Popish Plot (10 May-June 1679, 24 January-10 April 1680, PL 2881, pp. 45-83, ib,, 28882, ff,. 1169-1235///////0, and to record the work of the special Commission of 1686 (PL 1490. pp. 7-79). What is sometimes called his 'second diary' is the short Journal (30 July-1 December 1683), closely written in shorthand, of his voyage to Tangier, when he went with the expeditionwhich dismantled and evuated it (Rawl C 859 B and C; the accompanyin obaervations are much longer than the journal itself). The best edition is by E. Chappelll (Navy Rec. Soc., 11935). Geing a livre d'occasion it is quite different in character and scale from the diary which now ends.
About Saturday 29 May 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"To White Hall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning, since he come. "
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 27 May 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"In the afternoon to the Temple, to meet with Auditor Aldworth about my interest accounts."
L&M: For Tangier.