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Second Reading

About Saturday 19 September 1668

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"the Duke of York did himself tell me yesterday; and also that Parliament is to be adjourned to the 1st of March"

L&M: It was adjourned by proclamation, 19 September: Steele, no. 3513.

About Thursday 10 September 1668

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"to Sir W. Coventry’s house, where I staid in his dining-room two hours thinking to speak with him, but I find Garraway and he are private, which I am glad of"

L&M: William Garroway (M.P. for Chichester, Suss.) was a leading critic of the administration in parliament, but his considerable influence was occasionally used in the government's interest. Coventry seems to have know him well and to have thought highly of him.
Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…

About Wednesday 9 September 1668

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"Up, and to the office, and thence to the Duke of Richmond’s lodgings by his desire, by letter, yesterday. I find him at his lodgings in the little building in the bowling-green, at White Hall, that was begun to be built by Captain Rolt."

L&M: Edward Rolt had been a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Oliver Cromwell. The building has not been identified.

About Wednesday 2 January 1666/67

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Evelyn's diary:

19 July 1661. We tried our Diving bell, or Engine in the Water Dock at Deptford, in which our Curator contind halfe an houre under water: It was made of Cast lead: let downe with a strong Cable:

The Wikipedia article on the Diving bell has an image of a Swedish cast lead bell at top right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divi…

Andrew Marvell's "The Second Advice to a Painter for Drawing the History of Our Navall Business" (ll. 75-86) satirizes:

Now Painter, spare thy weaker Art; forbear
To draw her parting Passions and each Tear:
For Love, alas! hath but a short delight;
The winds, the Dutch, the King, ail called to fight.
She therefore the Duke's Person recommends
To Brouncker, Penn and Coventry, as Friends:
To Penn much, more Brouncker more, most to Coventry;
For they, she knew were all more 'fraid than she.
Of flying Fishes one had sav'd the Fin,
And hop'd by this he through the Air might spin;
The other thought he might avoid the Knell,
By the Invention of the Diving Bell;
The third had try'd it, and affirm'd a Cable,
Coil'd round about men, was impenetrable.

but Lord George de Forest notes "The diving bell was introduced into England from Sweden in 1661. See Evelyn, 19 July 1661...." *Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714*, Volume 1 (Yale, 1975), p. 40.

About Thursday 3 September 1668

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"W. Pen and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler’s contract,"

L&M: At their meeting earlier in the the Treasury Commissioners had ordered Pepys to have the final draft ready be the 7th: CTB, ii. 431.

About Friday 28 August 1668

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"walked over the Matted Gallery, as it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so that we walked over the rafters. But strange to see what hard matter the plaister of Paris is, that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity to see Holben’s work in the ceiling"

L&M: Tere is no documentary evidence for work by Holbein in the Matted Gallery:. E. Croft-Murray, Decorative painting in Engl., 1537-1837, i. 161.

About Heylin's 'Cyprianus Anglicus'

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L&M note: In the introduction Heylyn defends Laudanism, justifying ceremonies, confession and absolution. On p. 4 he quotes with approval James I's aphorism: 'That no Church ought further to separate it se lf from the Church of Rome, either in Doctrine or ceremony, then she had departed from her self, when she was in her flourishing and best estate.' Hetlyn had already published two sharp attacks on Fuller's Church History of which Pepys was so fond. Pepys bought this book and had it read to him in November: for his later comments, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…

About Wednesday 26 August 1668

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"Thence to White Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do pull down Paul’s steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the choir are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room thereof, the next."

L&M: On 25 July 1668 a royal warrant had been issued for the demolition of what remained of the old East end, choir and Tower down to the line of the foundations, on which a temporary choir was to be built: Sir W. Dugdale, Hist. St Paul's (ed. Ellis, 1818), p. 129; J. Lang, Rebuilding St Payls's , p. 41. The building of Wren's church was begin in 1673 and ended in 1716.

About Monday 17 August 1668

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"And while at dinner comes by the French Embassador Colbert’s mules, the first I ever saw, with their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, he being to have his entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not new; supposed to be the same his brother had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders."

L&M: A mistake: Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, had himself been the French plenipotentiary at Aix. [The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen ended the War of Devolution between France and Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre… ]
(His brother Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was Louis XIV's principal adviser.) His state entry took the usual form of a journey by royal barge from Greenwich to the Tower, followed by a procession of coaches through the principal streets to his residence at Leicester House. The affair was complete even with a punctilious dispute about the order of precedence for the coaches. There were six sumpter mules with bells. CSPD 1667-8, p. 540.

Sumpter animals: A pack animal, also known as a sumpter animal or beast of burden, is an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back, in contrast to draft animals which pull loads but do not carry them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac…