"my cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me aside, and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday, for moving for going on with the King’s supply of money, without regard to the keeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and was told by this man privately that it did arise because that he had a kinsman concerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of his kinsman to the good of the nation,"
L&M: On the 12th a debate on the miscarriages of the war had been postponed to the 14th, and a vote for the grant of £100,000 passed: CJ, ix. 65; report of debates in Milward, pp. 222-4.
" to Westminster, where, about four o’clock, the House rises, and hath done nothing more in the business than to put off the debate to this day month."
"I to dinner with them to Mr. Chichly’s, in Queene Street, in Covent Garden. A very fine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all things in a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in the French fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and very civilly; that I was mighty pleased with it: and good discourse. "
L&M: Thomas Chicheley was M.P. for Cambridgeshire; later (1670) Master-General of the Ordinance and a knight. He was rich but extravagant, and in 1686 was force to sell his country house in Wimpole, Cambs. Great Queen St was one of the most fashionable quarters of town.
"comes Mr. Moore to me, who tells me that he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet with very great difficulties to go through about the prizes, it being found that he did give orders for more than the King’s letter do justify;"
"so to Newgate, where he stopped to give directions to the jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought in yesterday for killing one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne."
L&M: Halford, a baronet (not a knight) of Wistow, Leics., and once sheriff of his county, was shortly afterwards convicted of the manslaughter of Edmund Temple, but pardoned by the King: CSPD 1667-8, pp. 273 etc. Gauden was Sheriff of London, 1667-8.
"to the Excize Office, where I find Mr. Ball in a mighty trouble that he is to be put out of his place at Midsummer, the whole Commission being to cease,"
L&M: A new Excise commission was appointed at midsummer. John Ball (Receiver-General) was awarded a pension of £200 p.a.: CSPD 1667-8, p. 467.
The Trial of the Pyx (/pɪks/) is the procedure in the United Kingdom for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to the required standards. These trials have been held from the twelfth century to the present day, normally once per calendar year.
The term "pyx" refers to the boxwood chest (in Greek, πυξίς, pyxis) in which coins were placed for presentation to the jury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
"with Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his own business, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to choke him; and though, I believe, not for honour and for the keeping his employment, but for his safety and reputation’s sake, is desirous to preserve himself free from blame, and among other mean ways which himself did take notice to me to be but a mean thing he desires me to get information against Captain Tatnell,"
L&M: In April a petition was presented in the House of Commons accusing Coventry of selling places: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… Coventry regarded Valentine Tatnell as his principal enemy among the naval officers, and as chiefly responsible for the petition: Longleat, Coventry MSS 101, p;p. 157-8, 214-215; Rawl, A 195a, f. 74. Pepys wrote to Coventry on 9 March giving detail of frauds committed by Tatnell. He had once, for instance, been imprisoned for tampering with seamen's tickets: Longleat, Coventry MSS 97, f. 111r.
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Second Reading
About Tuesday 17 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" ... a fine thing for a Secretary of State to dance a jigg, ..."
L&M: A reference to the courtly accommplishments of Arlington.
About Sunday 15 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"here met Sir Jer. Smith, who tells me he is like to get the better of Holmes"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 13 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"and there met with my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady, the first time I spoke to her."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 13 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"my cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me aside, and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday, for moving for going on with the King’s supply of money, without regard to the keeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and was told by this man privately that it did arise because that he had a kinsman concerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of his kinsman to the good of the nation,"
L&M: On the 12th a debate on the miscarriages of the war had been postponed to the 14th, and a vote for the grant of £100,000 passed: CJ, ix. 65; report of debates in Milward, pp. 222-4.
About Thursday 12 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Astronomical quadrant, Royal Society, picture library
https://pictures.royalsociety.org…
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I met with my cozen Roger Pepys, who is come to town,"
L&M: As a supporter of the comprehension bill, he may have come up for this day's debate.
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"the King hath put out his proclamations this day, as the House desired, for the putting in execution the Act against Nonconformists and Papists,"
L&M: A proclamation enforcing the laws against conventicles, etc. was issued on 10 March: Steele, no 3514.
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" to Westminster, where, about four o’clock, the House rises, and hath done nothing more in the business than to put off the debate to this day month."
L&M: CJ, ix. 61; reports of debates in Grey, i. 110-15; Milward, pp. 214-22. For the bill see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"the King hath put out his proclamations this day, as the House desired, for the putting in execution the Act against Nonconformists and Papists,"
L&M: CJ, ix. 61; reports of debates in Grey, i. 110-15; Milward, pp. 214-22. For the bill see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"I carried cozen Roger as far as the Strand, where, spying out of the coach Colonel Charles George Cocke,"
L&M: A High Court judge under the Commonwealth. His daughter had on 4 April 1663 attended Pepys's 'stone feast'.
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to dinner with them to Mr. Chichly’s, in Queene Street, in Covent Garden. A very fine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all things in a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in the French fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and very civilly; that I was mighty pleased with it: and good discourse. "
L&M: Thomas Chicheley was M.P. for Cambridgeshire; later (1670) Master-General of the Ordinance and a knight. He was rich but extravagant, and in 1686 was force to sell his country house in Wimpole, Cambs. Great Queen St was one of the most fashionable quarters of town.
About Tuesday 10 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"comes Mr. Moore to me, who tells me that he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet with very great difficulties to go through about the prizes, it being found that he did give orders for more than the King’s letter do justify;"
L&M: For the King's pardon of Sandwich, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 10 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"so to Newgate, where he stopped to give directions to the jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought in yesterday for killing one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne."
L&M: Halford, a baronet (not a knight) of Wistow, Leics., and once sheriff of his county, was shortly afterwards convicted of the manslaughter of Edmund Temple, but pardoned by the King: CSPD 1667-8, pp. 273 etc. Gauden was Sheriff of London, 1667-8.
About Tuesday 10 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"after dinner comes Kate Joyce, who tells me she is putting off her house,"
L&M: An Inn at clerkenwell: for her husband's death, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 9 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"to the Excize Office, where I find Mr. Ball in a mighty trouble that he is to be put out of his place at Midsummer, the whole Commission being to cease,"
L&M: A new Excise commission was appointed at midsummer. John Ball (Receiver-General) was awarded a pension of £200 p.a.: CSPD 1667-8, p. 467.
About Monday 9 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"met Lord Brouncker: and he and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where I find them mighty kind to me, more, I think, than was wont."
L&M: This busineww concerned tickets and payment of the yards: CTB, ii. 271.
About Tuesday 19 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
The Trial of the Pyx (/pɪks/) is the procedure in the United Kingdom for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to the required standards. These trials have been held from the twelfth century to the present day, normally once per calendar year.
The term "pyx" refers to the boxwood chest (in Greek, πυξίς, pyxis) in which coins were placed for presentation to the jury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
About Sunday 8 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"when all is done, he is a shirke, who owns his owing me 10l. for his lady two or three years ago, and yet cannot provide to pay me."
L&M: The debt does not appear to be mentioned ib the diary, nor is it mentioned in Pepys' rough notes of his accounts for 1667-9 (Rawl. A 185). For Carteret's improvidence, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 8 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"He would be glad, too, that I could find anything proper for his taking notice against Sir F. Hollis."
L&M: His other principal enemy; a member of Rupert's faction at court.
About Sunday 8 March 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"with Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his own business, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to choke him; and though, I believe, not for honour and for the keeping his employment, but for his safety and reputation’s sake, is desirous to preserve himself free from blame, and among other mean ways which himself did take notice to me to be but a mean thing he desires me to get information against Captain Tatnell,"
L&M: In April a petition was presented in the House of Commons accusing Coventry of selling places: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… Coventry regarded Valentine Tatnell as his principal enemy among the naval officers, and as chiefly responsible for the petition: Longleat, Coventry MSS 101, p;p. 157-8, 214-215; Rawl, A 195a, f. 74. Pepys wrote to Coventry on 9 March giving detail of frauds committed by Tatnell. He had once, for instance, been imprisoned for tampering with seamen's tickets: Longleat, Coventry MSS 97, f. 111r.