"Sir Robert Holmes do seem to be mad too with his brother, and will disinherit him, saying that he hath ruined himself, marrying below himself, and to his disadvantage; whereas, I said, in this company, that I had married a sister lately, with little above half that portion,"
L&M: Paulina, married to John Jackson on 27 February, with a portion of £600.
"Mrs. Turner...did tell me of young Captain Holmes’s marrying of Pegg Lowther last Saturday by stealth, which I was sorry for, he being an idle rascal, and proud, and worth little, I doubt; and she a mighty pretty, well-disposed lady, and good fortune."
L&M: The bridegroom was John Holmes, younger brother of Sir Robert, the admiral, and himself later a knight and admiral. The bride was the daughter of Ald. Robert Lowther or London, and sister of Anthony, who had married Peg Penn.
""...to the House [Keeper's Lodge]...whither came my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells me more particularly; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at the King's first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did dishonour him; and so bid her continue to let him, and himself went to the foulest whore he could find, that he might get the pox; and did, and did give his wife it on purpose, that she (and he persuaded and threatened her that she should) might give it the Duke of York; which she did, and he did give it to the Duchesse; and since, all her children are thus sickly and infirm -- which is the most pernicious and foul piece of revenge that ever I heard of." L&M text.
L&M note: Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk, had married Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton. The story was often told: Burnet (i. 406) has an almost identical version (under 1665); Gramont (p. 167) a briefer and different version (under 1669). Cf. [Anon.] An historicall poem, ll. 5-6: 'But now Yorkes Genitalls grew hot / With Denham and Coneig's infected pot' Marvell, i. 202.
"Thence I to White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find my order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order is the same in the command of it that I drew,"
The Whores' Petition (also known as The Poor Whores' Petition) was a satirical letter addressed from brothel owners and prostitutes affected by the Bawdy House Riots of 1668, to Lady Castlemaine, lover of King Charles II of England. It requested that she come to the aid of her "sisters" and pay for the rebuilding of their property and livelihoods. Addressed from madams such as Damaris Page and Elizabeth Cresswell, it sought to mock the perceived extravagance and licentiousness of Castlemaine and the royal court....They address Castlemaine as a prostitute herself, a great practitioner of "venereal pleasures", and list the sites of the brothels where her fellows struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
The 1668 Bawdy House Riots (also called the Messenger riots after rioter Peter Messenger) took place in 17th-century London over several days in March during Easter Week, 1668.[1] They were sparked by Dissenters who resented the King's proclamation against conventicles (private lay worship)[2] while turning a blind eye to the equally illegal brothels.[3] Thousands of young men besieged and demolished brothels throughout the East End, assaulting the prostitutes and looting the properties.[4] As the historian Tim Harris describes it:
"The riots broke out on Easter Monday, 23 March 1668, when a group attacked bawdy houses in Poplar. The next day crowds of about 500 pulled down similar establishments in Moorfields, East Smithfield, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, and also St Andrew's, Holborn, the main bawdy house districts of London. The final assaults came on Wednesday, mainly in the Moorfields area, one report claiming there were now 40,000 rioters - surely an exaggeration, but indicating that abnormally large numbers of people were involved. ... On all days the crowds were supposedly armed with 'iron bars, polaxes, long staves, and other weapons', presumably the sort of tools necessary for house demolition. The rioters organized themselves into regiments, headed by a captain, and marching behind colours."[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baw…
"By and by the King...told us what pretty notions my Lord Pembroke hath of the first chapter of Genesis, how Adam’s sin was not the sucking (which he did before) but the swallowing of the apple, by which the contrary elements begun to work in him, and to stir up these passions, and a great deal of such fooleries, which the King made mighty mockery at."
L&M: In 1665 Pembroke had tolsd the King that the end of the world would come that year, and bade hin prepare for it. Whereupon the King had offered him seven years' purchase of his manor of Wilton, but Pembroke replied 'No and please your Majesty it shall die with me': HMC Rawdon Hastings, ii. 120-1. He was a Quaker (of a sort). For his belief in prophecies, see J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador, p. 118.
"I ‘light and to Mr. Porter’s chamber, where Cocke and his counsel, and so to the attorney’s, whither the Sollicitor-Generall come, and there, their cause about their assignments on the 1,250,000l Act was argued, "
A cellarette or cellaret is a small furniture cabinet, available in various sizes, shapes, and designs which is used to store bottles of alcoholic beverages such as wine and whiskey. Wood box containers as freestanding alcoholic beverage cabinets first appeared in Europe in the fifteenth century to hold and to secure alcoholic beverages in public houses. Cellarettes first appeared in colonial America in the eighteenth century as a form of the European liquor cabinet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel…
Sorry about that, Tonyel, as a Presbyterian whose pastors were ejected in 1662, I can sympathize but cannot help you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gre…
"Lord! to see how full they are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon Brouncker."
L&M: On the 19th the House had appointed two members to ask the Duke of York to renew his order to Hartman to hasten home from the W. Indies: CJ, ix. 72. He was in fact already on the way and arrived in the Downs on 9 April. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY. (From a Print published in 1804.) Scroll up a bit from this link, which is to th paragraph below it: https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
"so he and I up and down, having nothing to do, and particularly to the New Cockpit by the King’s Gate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal of rabble we did refuse to go in, but took coach and to Hide Park, and there till all the tour was empty"
"At noon by appointment to Cursitor’s Alley, in Chancery Lane, to meet Captain Cocke and some other creditors of the Navy, and their Counsel, Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter; and there dined, and talked of the business of the assignments on the Exchequer of the 1,250,000l. on behalf of our creditors;"
"Here I saw my Lord Generall’s picture, and my Lord Arlington and Ashly’s, and several others;"
L&M: Of the miniatures mentioned here, the later one of the Duchess of Richmond ('Mrs Steward') may be the portrait in male attire, signed and dated '166-' in the Royal Library, Windsor (a variant in the Uffizi is dated 1669 and one in the Hague 1666; Roy. Acad., The Age of Charles II, 196o-1, nos 585, 646, 654.) ; that of Albemarle may be the large unfinished miniature in the Royal Library (or one of the smaller derivations from it: D. Foskett, Cooper, nos 80, 91); that of Arlington may be the large miniature at Castle Howard (Foskett, p. 120, pl. 74) which may have been left unfinished by Cooper; that of Ashley may be the large miniature at St Giles House, Cranborne, Dorsett, which shows the sitter in official robes (Roy. Acad., op. cit., nos 566, 563). The Grand Duke of Tuscany, visiting Cooper's house in 1669, was impressed by miniatures of Albemarle and of the Duchess of Richmonf: Magalotti, p. 343; Burl. Mag., 99/16+.
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About Wednesday 8 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir Robert Holmes do seem to be mad too with his brother, and will disinherit him, saying that he hath ruined himself, marrying below himself, and to his disadvantage; whereas, I said, in this company, that I had married a sister lately, with little above half that portion,"
L&M: Paulina, married to John Jackson on 27 February, with a portion of £600.
About Wednesday 8 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Her mother and friends take on mightily;"
L&M: But the marriage certificate records her mother's consent.
About Wednesday 8 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Mrs. Turner...did tell me of young Captain Holmes’s marrying of Pegg Lowther last Saturday by stealth, which I was sorry for, he being an idle rascal, and proud, and worth little, I doubt; and she a mighty pretty, well-disposed lady, and good fortune."
L&M: The bridegroom was John Holmes, younger brother of Sir Robert, the admiral, and himself later a knight and admiral. The bride was the daughter of Ald. Robert Lowther or London, and sister of Anthony, who had married Peg Penn.
About Tuesday 7 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"She tells me mighty news, that my Lady Castlemayne is mightily in love with Hart of their house: and he is much with her in private,"
L&M: For this affair, see G. SA. Steinman, Mem. Cleveland, pp. 98-9; cf. Burnet, i. 475-6.
About Monday 6 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
""...to the House [Keeper's Lodge]...whither came my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells me more particularly; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at the King's first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did dishonour him; and so bid her continue to let him, and himself went to the foulest whore he could find, that he might get the pox; and did, and did give his wife it on purpose, that she (and he persuaded and threatened her that she should) might give it the Duke of York; which she did, and he did give it to the Duchesse; and since, all her children are thus sickly and infirm -- which is the most pernicious and foul piece of revenge that ever I heard of." L&M text.
L&M note: Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk, had married Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton. The story was often told: Burnet (i. 406) has an almost identical version (under 1665); Gramont (p. 167) a briefer and different version (under 1669). Cf. [Anon.] An historicall poem, ll. 5-6: 'But now Yorkes Genitalls grew hot / With Denham and Coneig's infected pot' Marvell, i. 202.
About Monday 6 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"thence to the Park in a hackney coach, so would not go into the tour,"
"the tour"
The Tour was the 'Ring' in Hyde Park around which coaches were driven in promenade, especially at Easter time. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
For Grammont on the Hyde Park promenade, see:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 6 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence I to White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find my order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order is the same in the command of it that I drew,"
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 6 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
The Whores' Petition (also known as The Poor Whores' Petition) was a satirical letter addressed from brothel owners and prostitutes affected by the Bawdy House Riots of 1668, to Lady Castlemaine, lover of King Charles II of England. It requested that she come to the aid of her "sisters" and pay for the rebuilding of their property and livelihoods. Addressed from madams such as Damaris Page and Elizabeth Cresswell, it sought to mock the perceived extravagance and licentiousness of Castlemaine and the royal court....They address Castlemaine as a prostitute herself, a great practitioner of "venereal pleasures", and list the sites of the brothels where her fellows struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
About Sunday 5 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Another POV from Wikipedia:
The 1668 Bawdy House Riots (also called the Messenger riots after rioter Peter Messenger) took place in 17th-century London over several days in March during Easter Week, 1668.[1] They were sparked by Dissenters who resented the King's proclamation against conventicles (private lay worship)[2] while turning a blind eye to the equally illegal brothels.[3] Thousands of young men besieged and demolished brothels throughout the East End, assaulting the prostitutes and looting the properties.[4] As the historian Tim Harris describes it:
"The riots broke out on Easter Monday, 23 March 1668, when a group attacked bawdy houses in Poplar. The next day crowds of about 500 pulled down similar establishments in Moorfields, East Smithfield, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, and also St Andrew's, Holborn, the main bawdy house districts of London. The final assaults came on Wednesday, mainly in the Moorfields area, one report claiming there were now 40,000 rioters - surely an exaggeration, but indicating that abnormally large numbers of people were involved. ... On all days the crowds were supposedly armed with 'iron bars, polaxes, long staves, and other weapons', presumably the sort of tools necessary for house demolition. The rioters organized themselves into regiments, headed by a captain, and marching behind colours."[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baw…
About Saturday 4 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"By and by the King...told us what pretty notions my Lord Pembroke hath of the first chapter of Genesis, how Adam’s sin was not the sucking (which he did before) but the swallowing of the apple, by which the contrary elements begun to work in him, and to stir up these passions, and a great deal of such fooleries, which the King made mighty mockery at."
L&M: In 1665 Pembroke had tolsd the King that the end of the world would come that year, and bade hin prepare for it. Whereupon the King had offered him seven years' purchase of his manor of Wilton, but Pembroke replied 'No and please your Majesty it shall die with me': HMC Rawdon Hastings, ii. 120-1. He was a Quaker (of a sort). For his belief in prophecies, see J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador, p. 118.
About Thursday 2 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I ‘light and to Mr. Porter’s chamber, where Cocke and his counsel, and so to the attorney’s, whither the Sollicitor-Generall come, and there, their cause about their assignments on the 1,250,000l Act was argued, "
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 1 April 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
A cellarette or cellaret is a small furniture cabinet, available in various sizes, shapes, and designs which is used to store bottles of alcoholic beverages such as wine and whiskey.
Wood box containers as freestanding alcoholic beverage cabinets first appeared in Europe in the fifteenth century to hold and to secure alcoholic beverages in public houses. Cellarettes first appeared in colonial America in the eighteenth century as a form of the European liquor cabinet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel…
About Saturday 27 October 1666
Terry Foreman • Link
Sorry about that, Tonyel, as a Presbyterian whose pastors were ejected in 1662, I can sympathize but cannot help you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gre…
About Tuesday 31 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Lord! to see how full they are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon Brouncker."
L&M: On the 19th the House had appointed two members to ask the Duke of York to renew his order to Hartman to hasten home from the W. Indies: CJ, ix. 72. He was in fact already on the way and arrived in the Downs on 9 April. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 30 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Grannont on the Hyde Park promenade:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
HYDE PARK ON SUNDAY. (From a Print published in 1804.)
Scroll up a bit from this link, which is to th paragraph below it:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Monday 30 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"so he and I up and down, having nothing to do, and particularly to the New Cockpit by the King’s Gate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal of rabble we did refuse to go in, but took coach and to Hide Park, and there till all the tour was empty"
L&M: The Tour was the 'R ing' around which coaches were driven, especially at Easter time: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
Ben Jonson https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 30 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to White Hall, where the Parliament was to wait on the King"
L&M: Recte the Commons. They met the King in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. at 3 p.m.: CJ, ix. 71, 72. https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Monday 30 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"At noon by appointment to Cursitor’s Alley, in Chancery Lane, to meet Captain Cocke and some other creditors of the Navy, and their Counsel, Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter; and there dined, and talked of the business of the assignments on the Exchequer of the 1,250,000l. on behalf of our creditors;"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 30 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I saw my Lord Generall’s picture, and my Lord Arlington and Ashly’s, and several others;"
L&M: Of the miniatures mentioned here, the later one of the Duchess of Richmond ('Mrs Steward') may be the portrait in male attire, signed and dated '166-' in the Royal Library, Windsor (a variant in the Uffizi is dated 1669 and one in the Hague 1666; Roy. Acad., The Age of Charles II, 196o-1, nos 585, 646, 654.) ; that of Albemarle may be the large unfinished miniature in the Royal Library (or one of the smaller derivations from it: D. Foskett, Cooper, nos 80, 91); that of Arlington may be the large miniature at Castle Howard (Foskett, p. 120, pl. 74) which may have been left unfinished by Cooper; that of Ashley may be the large miniature at St Giles House, Cranborne, Dorsett, which shows the sitter in official robes (Roy. Acad., op. cit., nos 566, 563). The Grand Duke of Tuscany, visiting Cooper's house in 1669, was impressed by miniatures of Albemarle and of the Duchess of Richmonf: Magalotti, p. 343; Burl. Mag., 99/16+.
About Sunday 29 March 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"that they have revived the Committee of Miscarriages to find something to prevent it;"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…