"That the King was drunk at Saxam with Sidly, Buckhurst, &c., the night that my Lord Arlington come thither, and would not give him audience, or could not which is true, for it was the night that I was there, and saw the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King had been drinking."
L&M: The King was there on the night of 7-8 October: Bulstrode Papers, i. 67. Arlington wrote to Williamson from Bury on the 7th reporting that he had failed to see the King 'by reason of the uncertainty of his motions': CSPD 1668-9, p. 8.
"I hear that Sir Gilbert Pickering is lately dead, about three days since, which makes some sorrow there, though not much, because of his being long expected to die, having been in a lethargy long."
L&M: Pickering was Creed's new father-in-law. He died about agee 55 at his house at Tichmarsh, Northants, and had been buried on the 17th.
The Queene of Arragon A tragi-comedie. Habington, William, 1605-1654. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop at Furnivals Inne gate in Holburne, 1640. Early English Books Online [full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
"to Alderman Crow’s, to see variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith, and spent the whole afternoon thereupon; and at last I think we shall pitch upon the best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come to almost 80l.:"
L&M: The prices both of this and the suit which Pepys in fact bought (on the 16th) suggest that they were either second-hand or imitation tapestries made of painter or stained cloth. The 'Acts of the Apostles' was a favourite design, basef on cartoons by Raphael and manufactured e.g. at the Mortlake tapestry works (with which both Sir Sackville and Sir Richard Crow were connected, 1661-7): Whinney and Miller, pp. 126-7, 129-30. ----------------------- Mortlake Tapestry Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor… ----------------------- Raphael Cartoons https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections…
"Thence I home, and after dinner to St. James’s, and there met my brethren; but the Duke of York being gone out, and to-night being a play there; and a great festival"
L&M: For an account, see the despatch of the Swedish resident (14 October), in W, Westergaard (ed.), First Triple Alliance, p. 28. ----------------- The 1668 Triple Alliance (Swedish;Trippelalliansen) was formed by England, the Swedish Empire, and the Dutch Republic in May 1668. It was created in response to the occupation of the Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté by France. Although Spain and Emperor Leopold were not signatories, they were closely involved in the negotiations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
Boston. [M. De Morillon Du Bourg] to the Western Company of France. According to his commission from the King and the orders of the King of England he has attended M. de Belle Isle all along the coast of Acadie to see the places marked in his instructions, but as he could not establish himself there without conferring with Sir Thos. Temple, he has come to Boston to do so. Sir Thos. has received the King of England's letter and the Articles of the Treaty very well, but he makes a great difference between Acadie and Nova Scotia, which he says belongs to him, and which he makes to lie from Mirliguesche to Pentagoet, and Acadie from Mirliguesche along Cape Breton to the river of Quebec, so that Pentagoet, St. Jean, Port Royal, Cap de Sable, and La Heve, specified in his orders, are not in Acadie, but in Nova Scotia ; besides, he says that M. de Belle Isle ought not to remain in Port Royal, and complains of some violence done by him to some of his people. And, turning to the Treaty, he maintains that the French ought to have first surrendered St. Christopher's, Antigua, and Montserrat, which is far from being done, for there is certain news that the English Governor-General having been twice to M. De la Barre to tell him what ought to be done by the Treaty, he replied he would put to the sword all who should come to re-establish themselves, without regard to age or sex ; on which Sir Thos. wishes to be enlightened before concluding anything with him. This is very vexatious, for the season is very advanced, the country rough, and he has no place of security, but he will not give in at the first obstacles. Indorsed, Copie de la lettre crite a Messrs. De la Compagnie d'Occident par le Sieur De Morillon Du Bourg, Commissaire Deput par le Roi de France pour l'execution du Trait de Breda en l'Acadie. French, 3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 77.] https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
Port Royal, Jamai ca. Richard Browne to Williamson. Arrived in Jamaica the 14th Oct. with the Oxford frigate. Nothing of news since, only Capt. Costing, a small privateer of this place, with two or three guns, four days since brought in a Spanish vessel of 200 tons, eight guns, and 12 "peturders," the cargo, as they report, worth 40,000l. or 50,000l. She came in a fleet of 14 sail, and this Spaniard bore up and said he would hoist Costing in, but he was much deceived. About the middle of August last the fleet of privateers returned from taking Porto Bello : hears it thus, that six captains with 500 men took the town and three castles and kept them 30 days, and redelivered them for 100,000 pieces of eight, besides what they plundered the town of, which was very rich. They are all gone out again, on what design he cannot tell, but one Capt. Morgan is their admiral. The Oxford is victualling for six months to cruise by herself as a private ship of war on the Spanish coasts : what her further design is he cannot say, but if he likes it not this bout he shall by the first return. Has delivered Lord Arlington's "letter of recommendation" to Sir Thos. Modyford, who has promised to do anything that offers. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 10, 1668-9. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 76.] https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
Port Royal, Jamai ca. Richard Browne to Williamson. Arrived in Jamaica the 14th Oct. with the Oxford frigate. Nothing of news since, only Capt. Costing, a small privateer of this place, with two or three guns, four days since brought in a Spanish vessel of 200 tons, eight guns, and 12 "peturders," the cargo, as they report, worth 40,000l. or 50,000l. She came in a fleet of 14 sail, and this Spaniard bore up and said he would hoist Costing in, but he was much deceived. About the middle of August last the fleet of privateers returned from taking Porto Bello : hears it thus, that six captains with 500 men took the town and three castles and kept them 30 days, and redelivered them for 100,000 pieces of eight, besides what they plundered the town of, which was very rich. They are all gone out again, on what design he cannot tell, but one Capt. Morgan is their admiral. The Oxford is victualling for six months to cruise by herself as a private ship of war on the Spanish coasts : what her further design is he cannot say, but if he likes it not this bout he shall by the first return. Has delivered Lord Arlington's "letter of recommendation" to Sir Thos. Modyford, who has promised to do anything that offers. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 10, 1668-9. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 76.] https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
Nov. 6. Jamaica. 1865. Sir Jas. Modyford to Williamson. Has received his of 20th July ; his collection of news is very acceptable in these parts. Supposes he will have received full returns ere this, and hopes he will receive such satisfaction as may encourage his being further concerned with our island. Thanks him for his kindness to his nephew Modyford. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 12. p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 74.] Nov. 6. Jamaica. 1866. Duplicate of preceding. Indorsed, Rec. 1 April. p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 75.] https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
"met Mr. Godolphin, who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my Lord Sandwich’s being come to Mount’s Bay, in Cornwall,"
L&M: Cf. F. Bellot to Williamson, Pendennis, 23 September, reporting that the Greenwich frigate wth Sandwich aboard is anchored in Mount's bay because of contrary winds. She had sailed from Tangier on 29 August: Harris, ii. 159.
"He told me that there hath been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York and the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to bring in all new creatures into play"
(fl London, 1643–80). English trumpet maker and court trumpeter. A medallion, dated by Byrne to 1643, shows ‘SIMON BEAL AET SVAE 28A’ holding a trumpet with a distinctive three-lobed ball on the bell pipe, possibly the earliest evidence of this English feature. Beale is known from two references in Pepys’s diary and other contemporary documents. He was said to work in Suffolk Street, London. In 1655 he supplied trumpets for a state occasion. His name appears in court records from the time of his appointment in June 1660 as a King’s Guard until February 1680, when his name appeared in a petition against one Joseph Wheeler, another trumpeter. His activities before 1660 are not clear, but Pepys stated that Beale had been one of Oliver Cromwell’s guards. He is reported to have made the tuba stentorphonica (‘speaking trumpet’), invented in 1670 by Sir Samuel Morland. In September 1675... https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/…
"so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to see whether I could find that the fair Botelers do live there still, I seeing Frances the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon, her old servant, but know not where she lives."
L&M: Pepys had much admired Frances Boteler and her sister in 1660-1: Frances he sometime thought the liveliest woman he knew. Dillon (later 5th Earl of Roscommon) had oce been betrothed to her: he never married her.
" to church, at our own church, and heard but a dull sermon of one Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs. Howell, the widow of our turner of the Navy"
L&M: Dr Edward Hicks, Rector of St Margaret Pattens, was a widower. A license for his marriage to Sarah Howell had been issued three days before. She was the widow of Richard Howell, who had supplied turnery to the navy.
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About Saturday 24 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"...stand to the courtesy..." ??
STAND TO IT : to stick to it - (Large Glossary)
About Friday 23 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"That the King was drunk at Saxam with Sidly, Buckhurst, &c., the night that my Lord Arlington come thither, and would not give him audience, or could not which is true, for it was the night that I was there, and saw the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King had been drinking."
L&M: The King was there on the night of 7-8 October: Bulstrode Papers, i. 67. Arlington wrote to Williamson from Bury on the 7th reporting that he had failed to see the King 'by reason of the uncertainty of his motions': CSPD 1668-9, p. 8.
About Wednesday 21 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I hear that Sir Gilbert Pickering is lately dead, about three days since, which makes some sorrow there, though not much, because of his being long expected to die, having been in a lethargy long."
L&M: Pickering was Creed's new father-in-law. He died about agee 55 at his house at Tichmarsh, Northants, and had been buried on the 17th.
About The Queen of Arragon (William Habington)
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The Queene of Arragon A tragi-comedie.
Habington, William, 1605-1654.
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop at Furnivals Inne gate in Holburne, 1640.
Early English Books Online [full text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Sunday 18 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"comes Mr. Shales to see me, and I with him to recommend him to my Lord Brouncker’s service,"
L&M: John Shales had been a victualing agent at Portsmouth. He now entered Brouncker's service: CSPD 1668-9, p. 264.
About Thursday 15 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Alderman Crow’s, to see variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith, and spent the whole afternoon thereupon; and at last I think we shall pitch upon the best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come to almost 80l.:"
L&M: The prices both of this and the suit which Pepys in fact bought (on the 16th) suggest that they were either second-hand or imitation tapestries made of painter or stained cloth. The 'Acts of the Apostles' was a favourite design, basef on cartoons by Raphael and manufactured e.g. at the Mortlake tapestry works (with which both Sir Sackville and Sir Richard Crow were connected, 1661-7): Whinney and Miller, pp. 126-7, 129-30.
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Mortlake Tapestry Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor…
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Raphael Cartoons
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections…
About Wednesday 14 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence I home, and after dinner to St. James’s, and there met my brethren; but the Duke of York being gone out, and to-night being a play there; and a great festival"
L&M: For an account, see the despatch of the Swedish resident (14 October), in W, Westergaard (ed.), First Triple Alliance, p. 28.
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The 1668 Triple Alliance (Swedish;Trippelalliansen) was formed by England, the Swedish Empire, and the Dutch Republic in May 1668. It was created in response to the occupation of the Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté by France. Although Spain and Emperor Leopold were not signatories, they were closely involved in the negotiations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
About Berkeley House, Piccadilly
Terry Foreman • Link
Berkely House, Piccadilly
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Friday 9 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Nov. 9.
Boston. [M. De Morillon Du Bourg] to the Western Company of France. According to his commission from the King and the orders of the King of England he has attended M. de Belle Isle all along the coast of Acadie to see the places marked in his instructions, but as he could not establish himself there without conferring with Sir Thos. Temple, he has come to Boston to do so. Sir Thos. has received the King of England's letter and the Articles of the Treaty very well, but he makes a great difference between Acadie and Nova Scotia, which he says belongs to him, and which he makes to lie from Mirliguesche to Pentagoet, and Acadie from Mirliguesche along Cape Breton to the river of Quebec, so that Pentagoet, St. Jean, Port Royal, Cap de Sable, and La Heve, specified in his orders, are not in Acadie, but in Nova Scotia ; besides, he says that M. de Belle Isle ought not to remain in Port Royal, and complains of some violence done by him to some of his people. And, turning to the Treaty, he maintains that the French ought to have first surrendered St. Christopher's, Antigua, and Montserrat, which is far from being done, for there is certain news that the English Governor-General having been twice to M. De la Barre to tell him what ought to be done by the Treaty, he replied he would put to the sword all who should come to re-establish themselves, without regard to age or sex ; on which Sir Thos. wishes to be enlightened before concluding anything with him. This is very vexatious, for the season is very advanced, the country rough, and he has no place of security, but he will not give in at the first obstacles. Indorsed, Copie de la lettre crite a Messrs. De la Compagnie d'Occident par le Sieur De Morillon Du Bourg, Commissaire Deput par le Roi de France pour l'execution du Trait de Breda en l'Acadie. French, 3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 77.]
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Friday 9 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Nov. 9.
Port Royal, Jamai ca. Richard Browne to Williamson. Arrived in Jamaica the 14th Oct. with the Oxford frigate. Nothing of news since, only Capt. Costing, a small privateer of this place, with two or three guns, four days since brought in a Spanish vessel of 200 tons, eight guns, and 12 "peturders," the cargo, as they report, worth 40,000l. or 50,000l. She came in a fleet of 14 sail, and this Spaniard bore up and said he would hoist Costing in, but he was much deceived. About the middle of August last the fleet of privateers returned from taking Porto Bello : hears it thus, that six captains with 500 men took the town and three castles and kept them 30 days, and redelivered them for 100,000 pieces of eight, besides what they plundered the town of, which was very rich. They are all gone out again, on what design he cannot tell, but one Capt. Morgan is their admiral. The Oxford is victualling for six months to cruise by herself as a private ship of war on the Spanish coasts : what her further design is he cannot say, but if he likes it not this bout he shall by the first return. Has delivered Lord Arlington's "letter of recommendation" to Sir Thos. Modyford, who has promised to do anything that offers. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 10, 1668-9. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 76.]
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Friday 9 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Nov. 9.
Port Royal, Jamai ca. Richard Browne to Williamson. Arrived in Jamaica the 14th Oct. with the Oxford frigate. Nothing of news since, only Capt. Costing, a small privateer of this place, with two or three guns, four days since brought in a Spanish vessel of 200 tons, eight guns, and 12 "peturders," the cargo, as they report, worth 40,000l. or 50,000l. She came in a fleet of 14 sail, and this Spaniard bore up and said he would hoist Costing in, but he was much deceived. About the middle of August last the fleet of privateers returned from taking Porto Bello : hears it thus, that six captains with 500 men took the town and three castles and kept them 30 days, and redelivered them for 100,000 pieces of eight, besides what they plundered the town of, which was very rich. They are all gone out again, on what design he cannot tell, but one Capt. Morgan is their admiral. The Oxford is victualling for six months to cruise by herself as a private ship of war on the Spanish coasts : what her further design is he cannot say, but if he likes it not this bout he shall by the first return. Has delivered Lord Arlington's "letter of recommendation" to Sir Thos. Modyford, who has promised to do anything that offers. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 10, 1668-9. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 76.]
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Tuesday 6 October 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Nov. 6.
Jamaica. 1865. Sir Jas. Modyford to Williamson. Has received his of 20th July ; his collection of news is very acceptable in these parts. Supposes he will have received full returns ere this, and hopes he will receive such satisfaction as may encourage his being further concerned with our island. Thanks him for his kindness to his nephew Modyford. Indorsed, Rec. Feb. 12. p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 74.]
Nov. 6.
Jamaica. 1866. Duplicate of preceding. Indorsed, Rec. 1 April. p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXIII., No. 75.]
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About William Lilly
Terry Foreman • Link
How astrology paved the way for predictive analytics
Astrology has influenced science for millennia, argues a new book – and it endures in algorithmic data modelling
https://www.theguardian.com/scien…
About Monday 28 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up betimes, and Knepp’s maid comes to me, to tell me that the women’s day at the playhouse is to-day,"
L&M: Today was the actresses' benefit day.
About Sunday 27 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"met Mr. Godolphin, who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my Lord Sandwich’s being come to Mount’s Bay, in Cornwall,"
L&M: Cf. F. Bellot to Williamson, Pendennis, 23 September, reporting that the Greenwich frigate wth Sandwich aboard is anchored in Mount's bay because of contrary winds. She had sailed from Tangier on 29 August: Harris, ii. 159.
About Sunday 27 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"He told me that there hath been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York and the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to bring in all new creatures into play"
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Simon Beale (b)
Terry Foreman • Link
Simon Beale in Oxford archives
(fl London, 1643–80). English trumpet maker and court trumpeter. A medallion, dated by Byrne to 1643, shows ‘SIMON BEAL AET SVAE 28A’ holding a trumpet with a distinctive three-lobed ball on the bell pipe, possibly the earliest evidence of this English feature. Beale is known from two references in Pepys’s diary and other contemporary documents. He was said to work in Suffolk Street, London. In 1655 he supplied trumpets for a state occasion. His name appears in court records from the time of his appointment in June 1660 as a King’s Guard until February 1680, when his name appeared in a petition against one Joseph Wheeler, another trumpeter. His activities before 1660 are not clear, but Pepys stated that Beale had been one of Oliver Cromwell’s guards. He is reported to have made the tuba stentorphonica (‘speaking trumpet’), invented in 1670 by Sir Samuel Morland. In September 1675...
https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/…
About Monday 21 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington,"
See the link for Dick Whittington and His Cat
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Sunday 20 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to see whether I could find that the fair Botelers do live there still, I seeing Frances the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon, her old servant, but know not where she lives."
L&M: Pepys had much admired Frances Boteler and her sister in 1660-1: Frances he sometime thought the liveliest woman he knew. Dillon (later 5th Earl of Roscommon) had oce been betrothed to her: he never married her.
About Sunday 20 September 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
" to church, at our own church, and heard but a dull sermon of one Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs. Howell, the widow of our turner of the Navy"
L&M: Dr Edward Hicks, Rector of St Margaret Pattens, was a widower. A license for his marriage to Sarah Howell had been issued three days before. She was the widow of Richard Howell, who had supplied turnery to the navy.