"one lady alone, that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took great pleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book she was reading, in the coach, being the King’s Meditations"
"so up, and to walk with my father again in the garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall and her husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live with her."
L&M: It appears that he did in fact go to live with them.
"Thence after dinner I by coach to the Temple, and there bought a new book of songs set to musique by one Smith of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley’s,"
L&M: Muic untraced; this is probably William King's Poems of Mr. Cowley and others composed into songs and ayres (Oxford, 1668): PL 1971.
Poems of Mr. Cowley and others composed into songs and ayres with a thorough basse to the theorbo, harpsecon, or base-violl by William King ... King, William, 1624-1680., Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. Oxford: Imprinted by William Hall for the author, 1668. Early English Books Online [full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
"Sir Richard Ford...congratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase; and he advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing that the world will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys’s buying of Martin Abbey, in Surry!"
L&M: Merton Priory, Surrey, was conveyed on 4-5 June 1668 to Thomas Pepys of Hatcham: O. Manning and W. Bray, Hist. Surray (1804-14), ii. 255; VCH, Surrey, iv. . 66.
Merton priory, Surrey, was conveyed on 4-5 June 1668 to Thomas Pepys of Hatcham: O. Manning and W. Bray, Hist. Surray (1804-14), ii. 255; VCH, Surrey, iv. . 66. (L&M, ix, p. 207)
L&M read "And there a Committee for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W. Coventry fall upon my Lord Bellasses’ business of the 3d. in every piece of eight"
L&M: Cf. the Treasury minute of 4 May 1668: 'Mr. Pepys says you may have Pieces of Eight delivered at Tangier for 4s. 6d. paying at month's usance' (CTB, ii. 312).
" the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company; insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I think."
L&M: Despite Pepr's low opinion, the play proved very popular.
"being almost twelve o’clock, or a little more, and carried them to the King’s playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly’s new play, so long expected, “The Mullberry Guarden,”"
L&M: A Comedy published in 1668. Playhouses usually opened at noon, though performances did not begin until 3:30 p.m.
JKM asks: "There is a good old tune called The Mulberry Garden: despite Pepys' execration of the music, I wonder if it has any connection with this play?"
"to my Lord Bellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer’s, and there met him and Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord’s accounts, and here my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty noble, and good pictures — indeed, not one bad one in it."
L&M: Nothing appears to be known about Lord Belasyse's collection. He was apparently buying pictures in the Interregnum: three picures to the value of £40 were sold to him from the Earl of Pembroke's collection on 25 August 1652 (Hatfield House, Private and Estate MSS, Accts., 168/2). As a young man he had been painted by Van Dyck; portraits of the Belasyse family are preserved at Newburgh Priory, Yorks.
""But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and Thomas Killigrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was, O’Brian taking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the rest come about me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being new ballets.""
"Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners’-hall, by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman’s burial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we had rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were, that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do them and his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his death."
"Sir H. Cholmly...and I to Sir Stephen Fox’s, where we met and considered the business of the Excise, how far it is charged in reference to the payment of the Guards and Tangier. "
L&M: In May-June a new farm of the Excise was in negotiation. For these payments, see CTB, vol. ii, p. xix.
"met Mr. Pargiter, and he would needs have me drink a cup of horse-radish ale, which he and a friend of his troubled with the stone have been drinking of, which we did and then walked into the fields as far almost as Sir G. Whitmore’s,"
L&M: Baumes House, Hoxton: the house of Sir George Whitmore (Lord Mayor 1631-2: d. 1654), which Pepys had know as Whitmore;s house in his boyhood rambles across these fields.
"He says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked of, and which did vex the Commons, that the Lords were “Judices nati et Conciliarii nati;” but all other judges among us are under salary, and the Commons themselves served for wages;"
"" Here Lord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference between the two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in an error, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner; and he doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House of Lords against their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100 originall causes being brought into their House, notwithstanding that he was put upon defending their proceedings:"
L&M: Anglesey, a lawyer with a particular interest in jurisdictional matters, had acted as one of the managers of the inconclusive conferences recently held between the Lords and Commons in the case of Skinner v. E. India company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski…
Comments
Second Reading
About Tuesday 26 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"The King I hear come to town last night."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 26 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"we avoiding the bad way in the forest"
L&M: Waltham (now Epping) Forest,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal…
About Tuesday 26 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"one lady alone, that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took great pleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book she was reading, in the coach, being the King’s Meditations"
PRAYERS Used by His MAJESTY in the time of His Troubles and Restraint.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Monday 25 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"so up, and to walk with my father again in the garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall and her husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live with her."
L&M: It appears that he did in fact go to live with them.
About Thursday 21 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence after dinner I by coach to the Temple, and there bought a new book of songs set to musique by one Smith of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley’s,"
L&M: Muic untraced; this is probably William King's Poems of Mr. Cowley and others composed into songs and ayres (Oxford, 1668): PL 1971.
Poems of Mr. Cowley and others composed into songs and ayres with a thorough basse to the theorbo, harpsecon, or base-violl by William King ...
King, William, 1624-1680., Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
Oxford: Imprinted by William Hall for the author, 1668.
Early English Books Online [full text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Thursday 21 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir Richard Ford...congratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase; and he advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing that the world will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys’s buying of Martin Abbey, in Surry!"
L&M: Merton Priory, Surrey, was conveyed on 4-5 June 1668 to Thomas Pepys of Hatcham: O. Manning and W. Bray, Hist. Surray (1804-14), ii. 255; VCH, Surrey, iv. . 66.
About Merton Priory, Surrey
Terry Foreman • Link
Merton priory, Surrey, was conveyed on 4-5 June 1668 to Thomas Pepys of Hatcham: O. Manning and W. Bray, Hist. Surray (1804-14), ii. 255; VCH, Surrey, iv. . 66. (L&M, ix, p. 207)
About Wednesday 20 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Hales’s, and there saw the beginnings of Harris’s head"
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 19 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Test-fix:
L&M read "And there a Committee for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W. Coventry fall upon my Lord Bellasses’ business of the 3d. in every piece of eight"
L&M: Cf. the Treasury minute of 4 May 1668: 'Mr. Pepys says you may have Pieces of Eight delivered at Tangier for 4s. 6d. paying at month's usance' (CTB, ii. 312).
About Monday 18 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
" the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company; insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I think."
L&M: Despite Pepr's low opinion, the play proved very popular.
About Monday 18 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"being almost twelve o’clock, or a little more, and carried them to the King’s playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly’s new play, so long expected, “The Mullberry Guarden,”"
L&M: A Comedy published in 1668. Playhouses usually opened at noon, though performances did not begin until 3:30 p.m.
About Monday 18 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
JKM asks: "There is a good old tune called The Mulberry Garden: despite Pepys' execration of the music, I wonder if it has any connection with this play?"
Mulberry Garden (Playford, 1675), English Country Dance ...?
https://www.google.com/search?hl=…
About Monday 18 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"to my Lord Bellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer’s, and there met him and Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord’s accounts, and here my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty noble, and good pictures — indeed, not one bad one in it."
L&M: Nothing appears to be known about Lord Belasyse's collection. He was apparently buying pictures in the Interregnum: three picures to the value of £40 were sold to him from the Earl of Pembroke's collection on 25 August 1652 (Hatfield House, Private and Estate MSS, Accts., 168/2). As a young man he had been painted by Van Dyck; portraits of the Belasyse family are preserved at Newburgh Priory, Yorks.
About Friday 15 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
""But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and Thomas Killigrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was, O’Brian taking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the rest come about me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being new ballets.""
We should note Recollecting Samuel Pepys - English Broadside Ballad Archive
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/pag…
About Friday 15 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners’-hall, by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman’s burial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we had rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were, that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do them and his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his death."
L&M: Teddeman had been criticized for his conduct in the Bergen fiasco and accused of cowardice in the Four Days Battle. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
He held no command in 1667
About Wednesday 13 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir H. Cholmly...and I to Sir Stephen Fox’s, where we met and considered the business of the Excise, how far it is charged in reference to the payment of the Guards and Tangier. "
L&M: In May-June a new farm of the Excise was in negotiation. For these payments, see CTB, vol. ii, p. xix.
About Tuesday 12 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I took them out, and carried them through Hackney to Kingsland, and there walked to Sir G. Whitmore’s house, "
L&M: Baumes House, Hoxton, which Pepys had known as a child: see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 16 September 1664
Terry Foreman • Link
"met Mr. Pargiter, and he would needs have me drink a cup of horse-radish ale, which he and a friend of his troubled with the stone have been drinking of, which we did and then walked into the fields as far almost as Sir G. Whitmore’s,"
L&M: Baumes House, Hoxton: the house of Sir George Whitmore (Lord Mayor 1631-2: d. 1654), which Pepys had know as Whitmore;s house in his boyhood rambles across these fields.
Images of the house: https://www.google.com/search?q=b…:
About Tuesday 12 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"He says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked of, and which did vex the Commons, that the Lords were “Judices nati et Conciliarii nati;” but all other judges among us are under salary, and the Commons themselves served for wages;"
L&M: Sc. in medieval parliaments. For parliamentary wages, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 12 May 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"" Here Lord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference between the two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in an error, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner; and he doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House of Lords against their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100 originall causes being brought into their House, notwithstanding that he was put upon defending their proceedings:"
L&M: Anglesey, a lawyer with a particular interest in jurisdictional matters, had acted as one of the managers of the inconclusive conferences recently held between the Lords and Commons in the case of Skinner v. E. India company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski…