"the King’s bad intelligence was mentioned, wherein they were bitter against my Lord Arlington, saying, among other things, that whatever Morrice’s was, who declared he had but 750l. a-year allowed him for intelligence, the King paid too dear for my Lord Arlington’s, in giving him 10,000l. and a barony for it."
L&M: This point was made bt Andrew Marvell (member for Hull), who had served in the Secretary's office during the Protectorate. Grey (p. 71) reports the speech under the 14th; Milward (p. 185) agrees with Pepys in dating it the 15th. Milward gives £1000 instead of £10,000.
"Sir W. Warren in Fleet Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in defiance of the Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him to have his accounts brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do reflect upon my late coldness to him"
"he neither cared who they rowled in, nor who they rowled out, by which the word is become a word of use in the House, the rowling out of officers."
language hat by email says:
Ah, memories! It seems to be this roll (OED):
2. transitive. To write (a name) on a list or register; to enrol. In quot. c1440: to acknowledge (a person) to be something. c1440 (▸?a1400) Morte Arthure 2641 (MED) My name es sir Gawayne..Cosyn to þe conquerour..And rollede the richeste of all þe rounde table! a1450 (▸1408) tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 24v (MED) Newe werryours oweþ to ben tauȝt..how þey schulde in tyme of werre sette her scheltrun in ordinaunce and aftir þe ordre þat þay ben rolled. a1500 (▸c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 6179 Off archeris þar assemblit weyr Twenty thoussande, þat rollit war. 1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 16 To pas to Lauder.., and ressave the saidis musteris..and to roll thair names. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) i. 138 None of you all..ever entered into this house of Pleasure, but he..had his name roll'd in the chamber of Death. a1658 J. Durham Blessedness of Death (1713) 14 How to get themselves rolled on the everlasting covenant for salvation. 1751 H. Brooke To Mem. Col. Henry Clements in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 3) II. 134 Snatch forth my name, and roll it with the brave. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 174 And roll in the records of Fame, Thy bosom foe a—Louse.
" the Duke of York...and I did look over the list of commanders, and found that we could presently recollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in actuall service this war."
L&M: The Duke of York gave Pepys a copy of the list of 39 commanders killed in the war: Rawl. A 191, ff. 198-9.
"Thence I attended the King and Council, and some of the rest of us, in a business to be heard about the value of a ship of one Dorrington’s"
L&M: The Leicester, owned by Francis and John Dorington, had been sunk and used as a blockship at Blackwall in June 1667. The Board was at this meeting required to restore to the owners the cables and everything else recoverable, and to fix a reasonable sum in compensation for the liss.
"they hear that Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the Fifth-Monarchy man, a great creature of the Duke of Buckingham’s, are in nomination to be Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts."
"they hear that Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the Fifth-Monarchy man, a great creature of the Duke of Buckingham’s, are in nomination to be Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts."
"And it is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and other Commonwealth-men;"
L&M: Cf, the comment made in a newsletter of 18 February: 'The Duke of Buckingham is the great favourite, and his cabal are Hajor Wildman, Dr. Owen, and the rest of that fraternity, so that some say we are carried in Oliver's basket': CSPD 1667-8, p. 238.
"Sir W. Pen...was quoted...to have said that if my Lord Sandwich had done so and so, we might have taken all the Dutch prizes at the time when he staid and let them go."
L&M: https://www.british-history.ac.uk… Call of the House- Defaulters to be fined. Resolved, &c. That every Defaulter in Attendance, where Excuse shall not be allowed this Day, be fined the Sum of Forty Pounds; and sent for in Custody; and committed to the Tower till the Fine be paid.
Resolved, &c. That every such Member, as shall desert the Service of the House, for the Space of Three Days together, not having had Leave granted by the House, nor offering such sufficient Excuse to the House as shall be allowed, shall have the like Fine of Forty Pounds imposed on them; and be sent for in Custody; and committed to the Tower; and that the Fines be paid into the Hands of the Serjeant at Arms, to be disposed of as the House shall direct.
The House then proceeded to the Calling over the several Members, according to former Order: And the Names of those who made Default, whose Excuses are not allowed, are as followeth; Sir Wm. Bowyer, &c.
"Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the Wardrobe for cap and bells,1 under the title of the King’s Foole or jester; and may with privilege revile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the privilege of his place."
L&M: Killegrew had srved as King's Jester since at least 1661: Wood, L. & T. , iii. 38; R. W. Lowe, Betterton, p. 70. M. Summers (Playhouse of Pepys, p. 666) has suggested that he was made jester in compensation for the loss of his office as Master of Revels. Compare English royal court jesters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes… and Master of the Revels https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The place of Jester was not, unlike the latter, an established office in the Household. Killigrew was witty and outspoken, and even Charles felt the edge of his tongue at times: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The chupacabra or chupacabras, literally "goat-sucker"; from chupar, "to suck", and cabra, "goat") is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, including goats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu…
Don't think that is what is alleged to have been practised in Warwick in 1666. Sheep tallow is a rendered (processed) form of mutton fat, so is not extracted as such from the animal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal…
"to the Duke of York’s playhouse..., where I never saw such good acting of any creature as Smith’s part of Zanger; and I do also, though it was excellently acted by ————-, do yet want Betterton mightily."
L&M: Betterton usually played Solyman the Magnificant. William Smith, a tall, handsome actor, was a leading member of the company.
"my Lord Brouncker unnecessarily orders it that he is called in to give opportunity to present his report of the state of the business of paying by ticket, "
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Second Reading
About Monday 17 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"the King’s bad intelligence was mentioned, wherein they were bitter against my Lord Arlington, saying, among other things, that whatever Morrice’s was, who declared he had but 750l. a-year allowed him for intelligence, the King paid too dear for my Lord Arlington’s, in giving him 10,000l. and a barony for it."
L&M: This point was made bt Andrew Marvell (member for Hull), who had served in the Secretary's office during the Protectorate. Grey (p. 71) reports the speech under the 14th; Milward (p. 185) agrees with Pepys in dating it the 15th. Milward gives £1000 instead of £10,000.
About Monday 17 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir W. Warren in Fleet Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in defiance of the Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him to have his accounts brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do reflect upon my late coldness to him"
L&M: For his accounts, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ; for his quarrel with Pepys, https://pepysdiary.com/diary/1667… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The Committee had ordered him on to February to attend them this day to answer questions.
About Tuesday 18 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"he neither cared who they rowled in, nor who they rowled out, by which the word is become a word of use in the House, the rowling out of officers."
language hat by email says:
Ah, memories! It seems to be this roll (OED):
2. transitive. To write (a name) on a list or register; to enrol. In quot. c1440: to acknowledge (a person) to be something.
c1440 (▸?a1400) Morte Arthure 2641 (MED) My name es sir Gawayne..Cosyn to þe conquerour..And rollede the richeste of all þe rounde table!
a1450 (▸1408) tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 24v (MED) Newe werryours oweþ to ben tauȝt..how þey schulde in tyme of werre sette her scheltrun in ordinaunce and aftir þe ordre þat þay ben rolled.
a1500 (▸c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 6179 Off archeris þar assemblit weyr Twenty thoussande, þat rollit war.
1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 16 To pas to Lauder.., and ressave the saidis musteris..and to roll thair names.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) i. 138 None of you all..ever entered into this house of Pleasure, but he..had his name roll'd in the chamber of Death.
a1658 J. Durham Blessedness of Death (1713) 14 How to get themselves rolled on the everlasting covenant for salvation.
1751 H. Brooke To Mem. Col. Henry Clements in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 3) II. 134 Snatch forth my name, and roll it with the brave.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 174 And roll in the records of Fame, Thy bosom foe a—Louse.
About Tuesday 18 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" the Duke of York...and I did look over the list of commanders, and found that we could presently recollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in actuall service this war."
L&M: The Duke of York gave Pepys a copy of the list of 39 commanders killed in the war: Rawl. A 191, ff. 198-9.
About Sunday 29 November 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir W. Warren, by appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me, about his accounts of Gottenburgh"
L&M: They concerned a contract of July 1664 to supply 1000 masts shipped from Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Some correspondence in early December about this account is in Tanner 44, ff. 64-5. Pepys blamed Mennes for the delays: PL 2874, pp. 397-8.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 14 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence I attended the King and Council, and some of the rest of us, in a business to be heard about the value of a ship of one Dorrington’s"
L&M: The Leicester, owned by Francis and John Dorington, had been sunk and used as a blockship at Blackwall in June 1667. The Board was at this meeting required to restore to the owners the cables and everything else recoverable, and to fix a reasonable sum in compensation for the liss.
About Friday 14 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence home to dinner, and had much discourse with W. Hewer about my going to visit Colonel Thomson"
L&M: Thomson (one of the Commonwealthmen appointed to the Committee: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ) proved a severe critic, harping always on the virtues of the 1650s - 'those pure Angelicall times', as the King called them.
About Saturday 7 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"they hear that Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the Fifth-Monarchy man, a great creature of the Duke of Buckingham’s, are in nomination to be Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts."
L&M: Wildman was not a fifth-Monarchy man but a Leveller. He had been released from prison in October. For his connection to Buckingham (going back to the 1650's), see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 7 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"they hear that Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the Fifth-Monarchy man, a great creature of the Duke of Buckingham’s, are in nomination to be Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts."
L&M: Wildman was not a fifth-Monarchy man but a Leveller. He had been released from prison in October. For his connection to Buckingham (going back to the 1650's), see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 4 November 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
"And it is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and other Commonwealth-men;"
L&M: Cf, the comment made in a newsletter of 18 February: 'The Duke of Buckingham is the great favourite, and his cabal are Hajor Wildman, Dr. Owen, and the rest of that fraternity, so that some say we are carried in Oliver's basket': CSPD 1667-8, p. 238.
About Friday 14 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir W. Pen...was quoted...to have said that if my Lord Sandwich had done so and so, we might have taken all the Dutch prizes at the time when he staid and let them go."
L&M: In September 1665 Sandwich had allowed most of the Ditch E. India fleet, with its escort, to sail home unscathed: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
He put the blame on the weather and shortage of provisions: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 13 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"The House was called over to-day."
L&M: https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
Call of the House- Defaulters to be fined.
Resolved, &c. That every Defaulter in Attendance, where Excuse shall not be allowed this Day, be fined the Sum of Forty Pounds; and sent for in Custody; and committed to the Tower till the Fine be paid.
Resolved, &c. That every such Member, as shall desert the Service of the House, for the Space of Three Days together, not having had Leave granted by the House, nor offering such sufficient Excuse to the House as shall be allowed, shall have the like Fine of Forty Pounds imposed on them; and be sent for in Custody; and committed to the Tower; and that the Fines be paid into the Hands of the Serjeant at Arms, to be disposed of as the House shall direct.
The House then proceeded to the Calling over the several Members, according to former Order: And the Names of those who made Default, whose Excuses are not allowed, are as followeth; Sir Wm. Bowyer, &c.
About Thursday 13 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the Wardrobe for cap and bells,1 under the title of the King’s Foole or jester; and may with privilege revile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the privilege of his place."
L&M: Killegrew had srved as King's Jester since at least 1661: Wood, L. & T. , iii. 38; R. W. Lowe, Betterton, p. 70. M. Summers (Playhouse of Pepys, p. 666) has suggested that he was made jester in compensation for the loss of his office as Master of Revels. Compare English royal court jesters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes… and
Master of the Revels https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The place of Jester was not, unlike the latter, an established office in the Household. Killigrew was witty and outspoken, and even Charles felt the edge of his tongue at times: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 12 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence with cozen Roger to his lodgings, and there sealed the writings with Jackson, about my sister’s marriage:"
L&M: Abstract (12 February) in Magd. Coll. Jackson MSS 1: between John Jackson on the one part and John Pepys, sen., and Samuel Pepys on the other.
About Wednesday 12 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" my narrative of my proceedings and concernments in the buying of prize- goods, which I am to present to the Committee for Accounts;"
L&M: Neither Crew nor Moutagu was on the committee. For its report (in which Sandwich escaped censure), see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 15 September 1666
Terry Foreman • Link
"Chupacabra in 17th-c. England?!"
The chupacabra or chupacabras, literally "goat-sucker"; from chupar, "to suck", and cabra, "goat") is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, including goats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu…
Don't think that is what is alleged to have been practised in Warwick in 1666.
Sheep tallow is a rendered (processed) form of mutton fat, so is not extracted as such from the animal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal…
About Tuesday 11 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"the Act of calling people to account"
L&M: The act establishing the Brooke House Committee: see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 11 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"to the Duke of York’s playhouse..., where I never saw such good acting of any creature as Smith’s part of Zanger; and I do also, though it was excellently acted by ————-, do yet want Betterton mightily."
L&M: Betterton usually played Solyman the Magnificant. William Smith, a tall, handsome actor, was a leading member of the company.
About Tuesday 11 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"so to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw the last act for nothing,"
L&M: Playgoers commonly claimed this privilege although it had been prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain on 7 December 1663.
About Tuesday 11 February 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"my Lord Brouncker unnecessarily orders it that he is called in to give opportunity to present his report of the state of the business of paying by ticket, "
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…