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About Friday 4 December 1668

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"to Lord Brouncker, and did give it him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of use to me hereafter to shew, in this matter."

L&M: The copy (in Gibsons' hand; with two memoranda of 4 and 11 December on the same subject) is in NMM, LBK/8, pp. 649-50; printed in Further Corr., pp. 199-201.

About Thursday 28 February 1666/67

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Dennis Gauden audited

L&M in the Companion note [he] had sole responsibility for supplies 1660-9 ....He was also victualler for Tangier 1663-67. The government's inability to pay him ruimrf him; ;....

About Friday 19 July 1667

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Torquay (/tɔːrˈkiː/ tor-KEE) is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. It lies 18 miles (29 km) south of the county town of Exeter and 28 miles (45 km) east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay and across from the fishing port of Brixham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor…

About Sunday 29 November 1668

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Project Gutenberg

[Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming
possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and
jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract
from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and
Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which
Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you
must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your
coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to
the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have
succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was
presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore
part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your
left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right
hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and
pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and
H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and
here and there an appearance of some bits of land."]
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4…

About Sunday 29 November 1668

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Hue and cry - the basis of the satire

In common law, a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime.

By the Statute of Winchester of 1285, 13 Edw. I cc. 1 and 4, it was provided that anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff. All able-bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal, which makes it comparable to the posse comitatus. It was moreover provided that "the whole hundred … shall be answerable" for the theft or robbery committed, in effect a form of collective punishment. Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a crime.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue…

About Sunday 29 November 1668

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"We afterwards fell to other talk, and he tells me, as soon as he saw my coach yesterday, he wished that the owner might not contract envy by it;"

L&M: In 1679 Pepys's coach (a later one) attracted the scorn of the pamphleteer who attacked him and Hewer during the Popish Plot in "“A Hue and Cry after P. and H." (p. 3): 'You had upon the Forepart of youur Chariot, Tempestuous Waves, and Wracks of Ships: On your Left-hand, Ports and great Guns, and Ships a fighting: On your Right-hand, was a fair Harbor and Town, with Sips and Galleys riding with their Flags and Penants . . . Behind it were high Curl'd Waves and Ships a sinking; and here and there , an Appearance of some Bits of Land.'

About Sunday 7 December 1662

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"This night came in my wife’s brother and talked to my wife and Gosnell about his wife, which they told me afterwards of, and I do smell that he I doubt is overreached in thinking that he has got a rich wife, and I fear she will prove otherwise."

SMELL - to guess, suspect (L&M Large Glossary), to sense, surmise..

About Wednesday 25 November 1668

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"Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have little encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and the little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, but his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c."

L&M: Sir Charles Harbord, jun.: a close companion of Sandwich's since at least the Bergen expedition in 1665; appointed Paymaster, Tangier, in 1669, by Sandwich's influence (and against Pepys's opposition).

About Saturday 21 November 1668

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"after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly’s, where my Lord Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy’s account, where I was in great pain about that part of his account wherein I am concerned, above 150l., I think; and Creed hath declared himself dissatisfied with it, so far as to desire to cut his “Examinatur” out of the paper, as the only condition in which he would be silent in it."

L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…

About Friday 20 November 1668

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"This evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren’s alterations of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in."

L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The draft and the letter (25 November) are reproduced in parallel column in PL 2242, PP. 122+.....

About Wednesday 18 November 1668

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"I away and walked up and down the Strand between the two turnstiles,"

L&M: Possibly two of the narrow cuts running south from the Strand had turnstiles at their heads to prevent use save by foot passengers.