"This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes the Humourous Lieutenant"
L&M: The theatre was Thomas Killigrew's new playhouse, situated between Drury Lane and Bridges St, built at a cost of £2400. Downes states (p. 3) that 'the new Theatre in Drury' was opened 'on Thursday [sic] in Easter week, being the 8th day of April 1663', but Pepys's dating here and at the following entry is almost certainly the correct one. 8 April 1663 was not in Easter Week nor did it fall on a Thursday. Pepys saw a performance by the King's Company on 22 April 1663, but does not mention its having taken place at the new Theatre Royal in Bridges St, as he probably would have done if it had then been in use. The play was a tragicomedy by John Fletcher [the humerous lieutenant or Demetrius and Enenthe] ' Killegres had not used movable painted scenery in his productions at the first Theatre Royal in Vere Street.
"an extract out of a book of my late Lord of Northumberland’s, so prophetic of the: business of Chatham, as is almost miraculous."
L&M say this was a passage in Bk V of the MS 'Tracts' written by the admiral Sir William Monson (d. 1643), which had been in the possession of the 19th Earl of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral, 1638-42. In it Monson warned: "A fleet riding in the Medway would then be at their mercy."
"Thence took occasion to go back to this milliner’s [in Fenchurch Street], whose name I now understand to be Clerke; and there, her husband inviting me up to the balcony, to see the sight go by to dine at Clothworker’s-Hall,"
L&M: Francis Chaplin ('Sheriff') was Master of the Clothworkers.
"Alderman Backwell’s housing development [ -- Real estate speculation? -- ] that "looks like a little town, and must have cost him a great deal of money.""
L&M: On 9 December 1670 Backwell obtained from the heirs od the late Charles Everard a 51 years' lease of 6576 sq. ft of ground intermingled with his holdings at £130 p.a. rent, and by July 11672 had rebuilt a number of houses: BS, Add 5091 (11), 5100 (55). He enlarged his own house from 13 hearths to 21: PRO, E 179/252/23, n.f. For the purchases he had made before the Fire, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Here we saw a prize fought between a soldier and country fellow, one Warrell, who promised the least in his looks, and performed the most of valour in his boldness and evenness of mind, and smiles in all he did, that ever I saw and we were all both deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat the soldier, and cut him over the head."
Simon Verelst, a specialist in flower painting who also painted portraits of the King and members of his immediate circle. He seems to have been extremely successful and to have owed much to the patronage of the Duchess of Portsmouth and the Duke of Buckingham. Pepys's reference here (4/11/1669) appears to constitute the earliest evidence of Verelst's presence in London.
There is surely no printed version og what he said, given the time and bi Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, who was the first official printer to the Parliament at Westminster.https://en.wikipedia.…
"Thence home, and there find Mr Sheres, for whom I find my moher of late to talk with mighty kindness; and particularly he hath shewn himself to be a poet, and that she do mightily value L&M:him for."
L&M: Henry Sheres published several books, mostly in prose. Of his published verse there survives A song in the play call'd Oroonoko (1700), composed for Southern's play in 1696.
"And so, having walked all round the town, and found it very pretty, as most towns I ever saw, though not very big, and people of good fashion in it"
L&M: In 1639 Peter Mundy wrote of Maidstone: 'For Many Miles about London there is Not a handsomer and cleaner place': Mundy, iii. 40. Ton Celia Fiennes (ca. 1697) it was 'a very neate market town as you shall see in the Country, its buildings are mostly of timber worke the streets are large . . . very pretty houses about the town look like the habitations of rich men, I believe it a wealthy place. . . . : Journeys (ed. Morris), p. 330. Defoe called it 'a town og very great business and Trade, and yet full of Gentry, of Mirth, and of good Company',: Tour (ed. Cole), i. 115. Its staple trade was the making of linen thread.
"my wife mighty finely dressed, by a maid that she hath taken, and is to come to her when Jane goes; and the same she the other day told me of, to be so handsome."
"Up, and by water to see Mr. Wren, and then Mr. Williamson, who did shew me the very original bookes of propositions made by the Commissioners for the Navy, in 1618, "
L&M: These are probanly those now in PRO, SP 13/101. Pepys kept copies: Rawl. A 235, ff. 253+; ib. A 435, ff. 33+ (both in Hayter's had); PL 2735 (in an unidentified clerical hand.
"His business to me was about some ground of his, at Deptford, next to the King’s yard."
L&M: In August 1668 John Evelyn had been granted a lease of a strip of ground in Brick Close., wgich lay to the east of his house, Sayes Cuter, and yn== in June of this year he built a long wall enclosing it: PRO, ADM. 106/3520, F. 30R; ctb, ii. 228-30418, Wvelyn, iii. 482, n. 4, 530. Cf. CSPD 1660-85, pp. 185-6.
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Second Reading
About Thursday 7 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes the Humourous Lieutenant"
L&M: The theatre was Thomas Killigrew's new playhouse, situated between Drury Lane and Bridges St, built at a cost of £2400. Downes states (p. 3) that 'the new Theatre in Drury' was opened 'on Thursday [sic] in Easter week, being the 8th day of April 1663', but Pepys's dating here and at the following entry is almost certainly the correct one. 8 April 1663 was not in Easter Week nor did it fall on a Thursday. Pepys saw a performance by the King's Company on 22 April 1663, but does not mention its having taken place at the new Theatre Royal in Bridges St, as he probably would have done if it had then been in use. The play was a tragicomedy by John Fletcher [the humerous lieutenant or Demetrius and Enenthe] ' Killegres had not used movable painted scenery in his productions at the first Theatre Royal in Vere Street.
About Wednesday 21 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M:The French Ambassador to England Colbert de Croissy) was said to have brought 800,000 crowns with him in August 1668: CSPVen. 1666-8, p. 263.
About Wednesday 21 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"my Lord St. Albans is hourly expected with great offers of a million of money,1 to buy our breach with the Dutch:"
L&M: St Albans (English ambassador in France, February-April 1669) left Paris on 23 April/3 May, but brought no large bribes: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 17 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"an extract out of a book of my late Lord of Northumberland’s, so prophetic of the: business of Chatham, as is almost miraculous."
L&M say this was a passage in Bk V of the MS 'Tracts' written by the admiral Sir William Monson (d. 1643), which had been in the possession of the 19th Earl of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral, 1638-42. In it Monson warned: "A fleet riding in the Medway would then be at their mercy."
About Tuesday 13 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence took occasion to go back to this milliner’s [in Fenchurch Street], whose name I now understand to be Clerke; and there, her husband inviting me up to the balcony, to see the sight go by to dine at Clothworker’s-Hall,"
L&M: Francis Chaplin ('Sheriff') was Master of the Clothworkers.
About Monday 12 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"Alderman Backwell’s housing development [ -- Real estate speculation? -- ] that "looks like a little town, and must have cost him a great deal of money.""
L&M: On 9 December 1670 Backwell obtained from the heirs od the late Charles Everard a 51 years' lease of 6576 sq. ft of ground intermingled with his holdings at £130 p.a. rent, and by July 11672 had rebuilt a number of houses: BS, Add 5091 (11), 5100 (55). He enlarged his own house from 13 hearths to 21: PRO, E 179/252/23, n.f. For the purchases he had made before the Fire, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 12 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here we saw a prize fought between a soldier and country fellow, one Warrell, who promised the least in his looks, and performed the most of valour in his boldness and evenness of mind, and smiles in all he did, that ever I saw and we were all both deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat the soldier, and cut him over the head."
L&M: For prize-fighting, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 11 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence, leaving Balty there, I took my wife to St. James’s, and there carried her to the Queen’s Chapel, the first time I ever did it;"
L&M:> Perhaps because the services were Roman Catholic.
About Simon Pietersz Verelst
Terry Foreman • Link
Simon Verelst, a specialist in flower painting who also painted portraits of the King and members of his immediate circle. He seems to have been extremely successful and to have owed much to the patronage of the Duchess of Portsmouth and the Duke of Buckingham. Pepys's reference here (4/11/1669) appears to constitute the earliest evidence of Verelst's presence in London.
About Thursday 5 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Pepys addressed Parliament Thursday 5 March 1667/68
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
There is surely no printed version og what he said, given the time and bi
Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, who was the first official printer to the Parliament at Westminster.https://en.wikipedia.…
About Thursday 8 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"then with my wife by coach to Islington, to pay what we owe there, for the late dinner at Jane’s wedding;"
L&M: Hoxton. For the wedding https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 7 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"She is pretty, and a girl for that, and her relations, I love."
L&M: Sc. 'a girl whom I love both because she is pretty and because she is a relative."
About Thursday 14 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
BBC In Our Timr - The Restoration
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/…
About Friday 2 April 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"The Princess Mary, afterwards Queen of England. ↩"
L&M: Princess Mary, now a few days under seven.
About Wednesday 31 March 1669
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence home, and there find Mr Sheres, for whom I find my moher of late to talk with mighty kindness; and particularly he hath shewn himself to be a poet, and that she do mightily value L&M:him for."
L&M: Henry Sheres published several books, mostly in prose. Of his published verse there survives A song in the play call'd Oroonoko (1700), composed for Southern's play in 1696.
About Wednesday 24 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"And so, having walked all round the town, and found it very pretty, as most towns I ever saw, though not very big, and people of good fashion in it"
L&M: In 1639 Peter Mundy wrote of Maidstone: 'For Many Miles about London there is Not a handsomer and cleaner place': Mundy, iii. 40. Ton Celia Fiennes (ca. 1697) it was 'a very neate market town as you shall see in the Country, its buildings are mostly of timber worke the streets are large . . . very pretty houses about the town look like the habitations of rich men, I believe it a wealthy place. . . . : Journeys (ed. Morris), p. 330. Defoe called it 'a town og very great business and Trade, and yet full of Gentry, of Mirth, and of good Company',: Tour (ed. Cole), i. 115. Its staple trade was the making of linen thread.
About Thursday 18 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"my wife mighty finely dressed, by a maid that she hath taken, and is to come to her when Jane goes; and the same she the other day told me of, to be so handsome."
L&M: Matt; she began work on 29 March.
About The Coxcomb (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Terry Foreman • Link
First post-Refomation performance 17 March 1669.
About Wednesday 17 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and by water to see Mr. Wren, and then Mr. Williamson, who did shew me the very original bookes of propositions made by the Commissioners for the Navy, in 1618, "
L&M: These are probanly those now in PRO, SP 13/101. Pepys kept copies: Rawl. A 235, ff. 253+; ib. A 435, ff. 33+ (both in Hayter's had); PL 2735 (in an unidentified clerical hand.
About Tuesday 16 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"His business to me was about some ground of his, at Deptford, next to the King’s yard."
L&M: In August 1668 John Evelyn had been granted a lease of a strip of ground in Brick Close., wgich lay to the east of his house, Sayes Cuter, and yn== in June of this year he built a long wall enclosing it: PRO, ADM. 106/3520, F. 30R; ctb, ii. 228-30418, Wvelyn, iii. 482, n. 4, 530. Cf. CSPD 1660-85, pp. 185-6.