"He told me the matter of the play that was intended for his abuse"
L&M: This was The Country Gentleman, written jointly by Buckingham and Sir Robert Howard; banned before performance and never printed. A complete scribal copy has been discovered in the Folger Lib., Washington.
Danckerts' view of Hampton Court still survives in the royal collection (O. Millar, Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian picture in coll. H.M. Queen, no. 397) and he is known to have painted Windsor and Hampton Court for the Crown There is a view of Greenwich almost certainly by him in the National Maritime Museum there.
"This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there had been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had been up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled."
L&M: This was the rising of the Fifth-Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, begun on the previous evening. After a service at their meeting-house off Coleman St. ca. 60 had come out in arms in the name of Christ the King (Charles II being away at Portsmouth). Despite their numbers, they were to strike terror into London and Westminster for the next three days. After a skirmish with the trained bands, they had now fled into hiding in Kenwood, near Highgate.
"and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday,
John asks: "Did he also discuss such office work with her, I wonder."
and Pepys explains: ", he himself putting it into my hands to read; but, Lord! it is a poor, silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice, in the King’s Navy. It is to have the Captains to account for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds, to my thinking; and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it."
L&M comment: Middleton's memorandum has not been traced. The experiment had been tried in 1651-5, , without success. Writing about a similar proposal made c. 1673Pepys commented, 'Tis too troublesome and small a matter for the coimmanders to be charged with finding . . . fire and candle etc.': Cat., i. 163-4: PL 2871, pp. 737-7. Cf. Thomas Wilson to Pepys (undated memo): Rawl. A 173. f. 267f.
"all the afternoon till night busy at the office again, where forced to speak low and dictate."
A search of the diary for "dictate" shows Pepys has both given and taken dictation throughout: https://www.pepysdiary.com/search… We are not always told to whom he dictates,' but when we are old, Will Hewer is the person he most often dictated to. Other passages tell me dictation was taken in shorthand.
"followed my wife and girls to the Duke of York’s house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell, called “The Royall Shepherdesse;”"
L&M: A pastoral tragicomedy by Shadwell, published in 1669. This is the first record of a performance. It was based on John Fountain's The rewards of virtue, published in 1661.
Ralph Josselin's large Diary has no search page like Phil created for Pepys'. It too mostly has "my wife;" but when they meet Ralph has a full reveal:
[1639:] having stayed there [Cranham, Essex] 2 years at Spring 1639: at Easter coming out of Norfolk, I was taken sick with an ague and fever, which brought me low, as if it would have by a deep consumption laid me in the grave[,] my friends feared me, yet I did not, but trusted in god for recovery, who set me [on] my legs again: in a word at deane I bought me books, clothes, and saved some money: upon Michaelmas day. anno: 1639. I preached my first sermon at Wormington [in] Northamptonshire at the entreaty of Mr Elmes upon Acts. 16.31: some discontents were in my head so that Mr Gifford of [Olny] coming to me and proffering me 12li. per annum and my diet, to be his Curate: I went [over] to Olny in Buckinghamshire and left D[eane] Octob:4:1639. being Friday: my stock was: 20li.7s.9d. in money and about 1li. owing me, so that I put up in money besides all my expenses about 10li. in money and paid my debts:
[Olny:] The first quarter at Olny I was only assistant to him in his school, the first Lords day being [Octob:]6: was my eye fixed with love upon a Maid; and hers upon me: who afterwards proved my wife: Decemb: 13: my uncle Mr Joslin in Norfolk, sent me the offer of a place [by] him; but my affection to that maid that god had laid out to be my wife would not suffer me to stir, so I gave the messenger: 5s. and sent him away. in that month of December I was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Peterburg. the charges amounted to: 1li.14s.9. in my journ[ey]. in my return I preached at Deane. December 25t. and coming home from thence, I read prayers at Olny, and that day found Jane Constable the maid before mentioned in our house. which was the beginning of our acquaintance. the next Lords day I preached at Olny; on Acts. 16.31. https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/earls_…
"here we did see, by particular favour, the body of Queen Katherine of Valois; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands"
L&M: She wass the beautiful Queen of Henry V and gad died in 1437 at the age of 46. She had been buried in the Lady Chapel which was pulled down by Henry VII, at the e. end of [Edward] the Confessor's chapel. http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/…
"by a hackney-coach followed my wife and the girls, who are gone by eleven o’clock, thinking to have seen a new play at the Duke of York’s house."
L&M: The theatres usually opened at noon, though performances did not begin until 3.30 p.m. Early attendance was necessary to secure a seat when a new play was berng performed. The play intended to have its performance on this day was probably Shadwell's The Royal Shepherdess, first acted on 25 February.
A committee of the Royal Society was dedicated to testing new coaches -- mosly with springs -- to improve them. (Edward Knapp is not mentioned.) E.g.: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The Siege of Rhodes is an opera written to a text by the impresario William Davenant.[1] The score is by five composers, the vocal music by Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Captain Henry Cooke, and the instrumental music by Charles Coleman and George Hudson.[2] It is considered to be the first English opera.
Special permit Part 1 of The Siege of Rhodes was first performed in a small private theatre constructed at Davenant's home, Rutland House, in 1656. Special permission had to be obtained from the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell, as dramatic performances were outlawed and all public theatres closed. Davenant managed to obtain this by calling the production "recitative music", music being still permissible within the law. When published in 1656, it was under the equivocating title The siege of Rhodes made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes, and the story sung in recitative musick, at the back part of Rutland-House in the upper end of Aldersgate-Street, London. The 1659 reprinting gives the location at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, a well-known theatre frequented by Samuel Pepys after the Restoration (1660). Pepys himself later read the text and commented in his Diary that it was "certainly (the more I read it the more I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote."[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
"Downes does not give the cast of this play. After the Restoration the acting of female characters by women became common. The first English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in Davenant’s “Siege of Rhodes,” at Rutland House in 1656. "
A committee of the Royal Society was dedicated to testing new coaches -- mosly with springs -- to improve them. E.g.: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… (Edward Knapp is not mentioned in the diary.)
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About Saturday 6 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"He told me the matter of the play that was intended for his abuse"
L&M: This was The Country Gentleman, written jointly by Buckingham and Sir Robert Howard; banned before performance and never printed. A complete scribal copy has been discovered in the Folger Lib., Washington.
Coventry was represented as the solemn and conceited Sir Cautious Trouble-all who is duped into marrying a barber's daughter. The practice of including caricatures in plays had grown of late: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ; and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
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The Country Gentleman’: A Forgotten Scandal and a Remarkable Discovery
https://spotlight.folger.edu/2019…
Restoration Comedy Lost Since 1669 Is Discovered https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/0…
About Wednesday 3 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence to Dancre’s, the painter’s, and there saw my picture of Greenwich,"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 22 January 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
Danckerts' view of Hampton Court still survives in the royal collection (O. Millar, Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian picture in coll. H.M. Queen, no. 397) and he is known to have painted Windsor and Hampton Court for the Crown There is a view of Greenwich almost certainly by him in the National Maritime Museum there.
About Tuesday 2 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"My wife this day put on first her French gown, called a Sac,"
L&M: An early mention of this style [as Mary said], fashionable at various times.
About Tuesday 2 March 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mr. Bellwood, formerly their father’s clerk, but now set up for himself"
L&M: As a lawyer.
About Monday 7 January 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
British Civil War Project
VENNER''S UPRISING , 1661
https://bcw-project.org/church-an…
About Monday 7 January 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there had been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had been up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled."
L&M: This was the rising of the Fifth-Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, begun on the previous evening. After a service at their meeting-house off Coleman St. ca. 60 had come out in arms in the name of Christ the King (Charles II being away at Portsmouth). Despite their numbers, they were to strike terror into London and Westminster for the next three days. After a skirmish with the trained bands, they had now fled into hiding in Kenwood, near Highgate.
About Sunday 28 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday,
John asks: "Did he also discuss such office work with her, I wonder."
and Pepys explains: ", he himself putting it into my hands to read; but, Lord! it is a poor, silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice, in the King’s Navy. It is to have the Captains to account for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds, to my thinking; and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it."
L&M comment: Middleton's memorandum has not been traced. The experiment had been tried in 1651-5, , without success. Writing about a similar proposal made c. 1673Pepys commented, 'Tis too troublesome and small a matter for the coimmanders to be charged with finding . . . fire and candle etc.': Cat., i. 163-4: PL 2871, pp. 737-7. Cf. Thomas Wilson to Pepys (undated memo): Rawl. A 173. f. 267f.
About Saturday 27 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"so home at night to talk and sup with my cozens"
L&M: Roger Pepys's daughters, Bab and Betty, who had been staying with Pepys since 18 February.
About Saturday 27 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"all the afternoon till night busy at the office again, where forced to speak low and dictate."
A search of the diary for "dictate" shows Pepys has both given and taken dictation throughout: https://www.pepysdiary.com/search… We are not always told to whom he dictates,' but when we are old, Will Hewer is the person he most often dictated to. Other passages tell me dictation was taken in shorthand.
About Thursday 25 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"followed my wife and girls to the Duke of York’s house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell, called “The Royall Shepherdesse;”"
L&M: A pastoral tragicomedy by Shadwell, published in 1669. This is the first record of a performance. It was based on John Fountain's The rewards of virtue, published in 1661.
About Sunday 11 August 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Ralph Josselin's large Diary has no search page like Phil created for Pepys'. It too mostly has "my wife;" but when they meet Ralph has a full reveal:
[1639:] having stayed there [Cranham, Essex] 2 years at Spring 1639: at Easter coming out of Norfolk, I was taken sick with an ague and fever, which brought me low, as if it would have by a deep consumption laid me in the grave[,] my friends feared me, yet I did not, but trusted in god for recovery, who set me [on] my legs again: in a word at deane I bought me books, clothes, and saved some money: upon Michaelmas day. anno: 1639. I preached my first sermon at Wormington [in] Northamptonshire at the entreaty of Mr Elmes upon Acts. 16.31: some discontents were in my head so that Mr Gifford of [Olny] coming to me and proffering me 12li. per annum and my diet, to be his Curate: I went [over] to Olny in Buckinghamshire and left D[eane] Octob:4:1639. being Friday: my stock was: 20li.7s.9d. in money and about 1li. owing me, so that I put up in money besides all my expenses about 10li. in money and paid my debts:
[Olny:] The first quarter at Olny I was only assistant to him in his school, the first Lords day being [Octob:]6: was my eye fixed with love upon a Maid; and hers upon me: who afterwards proved my wife: Decemb: 13: my uncle Mr Joslin in Norfolk, sent me the offer of a place [by] him; but my affection to that maid that god had laid out to be my wife would not suffer me to stir, so I gave the messenger: 5s. and sent him away. in that month of December I was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Peterburg. the charges amounted to: 1li.14s.9. in my journ[ey]. in my return I preached at Deane. December 25t. and coming home from thence, I read prayers at Olny, and that day found Jane Constable the maid before mentioned in our house. which was the beginning of our acquaintance. the next Lords day I preached at Olny; on Acts. 16.31. https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/earls_…
About Saturday 5 January 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
"staying a little in Paul’s Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby’s Æsop’s Fables and Tully’s Officys"
Ogilvy's 'The Fables of Aesop...'
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Cicero's 'De Officiis'
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Tuesday 23 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"here we did see, by particular favour, the body of Queen Katherine of Valois; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands"
L&M: She wass the beautiful Queen of Henry V and gad died in 1437 at the age of 46. She had been buried in the Lady Chapel which was pulled down by Henry VII, at the e. end of [Edward] the Confessor's chapel. http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/…
About Tuesday 23 February 1668/69
Terry Foreman • Link
"by a hackney-coach followed my wife and the girls, who are gone by eleven o’clock, thinking to have seen a new play at the Duke of York’s house."
L&M: The theatres usually opened at noon, though performances did not begin until 3.30 p.m. Early attendance was necessary to secure a seat when a new play was berng performed. The play intended to have its performance on this day was probably Shadwell's The Royal Shepherdess, first acted on 25 February.
About Peter Honywood
Terry Foreman • Link
Peter Honywood of West Hawkes, Kent, lodged at John Pepys, sen.' house at Salisbury Court from 1601 until ca. 1666.
About Thursday 8 August 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
A committee of the Royal Society was dedicated to testing new coaches -- mosly with springs -- to improve them. (Edward Knapp is not mentioned.)
E.g.: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 3 January 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
The Siege of Rhodes
The Siege of Rhodes is an opera written to a text by the impresario William Davenant.[1] The score is by five composers, the vocal music by Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Captain Henry Cooke, and the instrumental music by Charles Coleman and George Hudson.[2] It is considered to be the first English opera.
Special permit
Part 1 of The Siege of Rhodes was first performed in a small private theatre constructed at Davenant's home, Rutland House, in 1656. Special permission had to be obtained from the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell, as dramatic performances were outlawed and all public theatres closed. Davenant managed to obtain this by calling the production "recitative music", music being still permissible within the law. When published in 1656, it was under the equivocating title The siege of Rhodes made a representation by the art of prospective in scenes, and the story sung in recitative musick, at the back part of Rutland-House in the upper end of Aldersgate-Street, London. The 1659 reprinting gives the location at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, a well-known theatre frequented by Samuel Pepys after the Restoration (1660). Pepys himself later read the text and commented in his Diary that it was "certainly (the more I read it the more I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote."[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
About Thursday 3 January 1660/61
Terry Foreman • Link
"Downes does not give the cast of this play. After the Restoration the acting of female characters by women became common. The first English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in Davenant’s “Siege of Rhodes,” at Rutland House in 1656. "
Roscius Anglicanus by Downes, John, fl. 1661-1719 (1708)
https://archive.org/details/rosci…
About Thursday 8 August 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
A committee of the Royal Society was dedicated to testing new coaches -- mosly with springs -- to improve them. E.g.: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
(Edward Knapp is not mentioned in the diary.)