"Thence, after sitting with her and company a while, comforting her: though I can find she can, as all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things all in a breath."
"And so, when I come thither, I find her all in sorrow, but she and the rest mightily pleased with my doing this for them; and, indeed, it was a very great courtesy, for people are looking out for the estate,"
L&M: They were hopful of getting a grant of it from the King.
"So to my Lord Crew’s to dinner, where we hear all the good news of our making a league now with Holland against the French power coming over them, or us "
L&M: Signed on the 13th/23rd znd within three days broadened into the Triple Alliance between Britain, Holland and Sweden [to support Spain against France]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
" I did stop at Drumbleby’s, the pipe- maker, there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low and soft; and he do shew me a way which do do, and also a fashion of having two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one, and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty."
L&M: The pipes being presumably of different timbre and volume.
Live link to the National Library of Australia catalog holdings
The Conway letters : the correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their friends, 1642-1684 / edited by Marjorie Hope Nicolson https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/185… The correspondence of Cambridge Platonist Henry More and Lady Anne Conway, a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. These letters depict their long-standing friendship and views on philosophy and other topics.
Samuel "Newman's famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors. The first edition was published in London in 1643, which Pepys retained: PL 2535 Inscribed on the title 'Price 1l. 7s. od. yet bought of a friend for 1l. 5s 6d.' https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
"W. Hewer...tells me that Mr. Jessop is made Secretary to the Commissions of Parliament for Accounts, and I am glad, and it is pretty to see that all the Cavalier party were not able to find the Parliament nine Commissioners, or one Secretary, fit for the business."
L&M: William Jessop had been a distinguished public servant during the Civil War and Interregnum, serving as Secretary to the Admiralty Commissioners 1645-35; Clerk to the Council of State 1654-9 and 1660, and Assistant-Clerk to the Convention Parliament. He was described as a 'rigid' enemy to monarchy on the eve of the Restoration: CSPClar., iv. 675. For the appointment of Commonwealthsmen to the commission of accounts, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"home, first informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbroke hath been married this week to my Lord Burlington’s daughter; so that that great business is over;"
L&M: The wedding had taken place (according to a newsletter) on the 13th: Bulstrode Papers, i. 19.
"Here I waited till the Council rose, and talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of Mr. Harry Howard’s giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build a College on, which is a most generous act."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and note. Henry Howard was the second son of the Earl of Arundel, and became 6th Duke of Norfolk in 1677. He received the thanks of the Society on 25 January: Birch, ii. 242. The ground consisted of 400 sq. ft. in Arundel gardens. Difficulties arose concerning the conveyance of the property, and the scheme was postponed in the autumn, only to be later abandoned. C. R. Weld, Hist. Roy. Soc. (1848), i. 211. Birch, ii. 242, 299-300, 313. Wren, Hooke and Howard himself had prepared designs for the new college: Pub. Wren Soc., 13/48-9; Weld, i. 212-3. The Society did not acquire a building of its own until 1710, when it purchased two houses in Crane Court, Strand: Weld, i. 389-91.
"At noon home to dinner with my gang of clerks, in whose society I am mightily pleased, and mightily with Mr. Gibson’s talking; he telling me so many good stories relating to the warr and practices of commanders, which I will find a time to recollect; and he will be an admirable help to my writing a history of the Navy, if ever I do. "
"that not any man did any thing well but Captain O’Bryan, who spoke and did well, but, above all things, did dance most incomparably."
L&M: This was an accomplishment which Pepys later held against him, for it was 'his quallity and Guift of Daunceing' that brought him (through the favour od Monmouth and his duchess) naval promotion: NWB, P. 221.
"This evening come Mr. Mills and his wife to see and sit and talk with us, which they did till 9 o’clock at night, and then parted, and I to my books."
Is the Milles visit repentance for yesterday's French porn?
"Thence home and to the Exchange, there to do a little business, where I find everybody concerned whether we shall have out a fleete this next year or no, they talking of a peace concluded between France and Spayne, so that the King of France will have nothing to do with his army unless he comes to us; "
Now online: Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la nauigation. Composé par le pere Georges Fournier de la Compagnie de Iesus, pub 1643 https://archive.org/details/bub_g…
Now online: Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la nauigation. Composé par le pere Georges Fournier de la Compagnie de Iesus 1643 https://archive.org/details/bub_g…
" Lord Brouncker talking about the times, and he tells me that he thinks, and so do every body else, that the great business of putting out some of the Council to make room for some of the Parliament men to gratify and wheedle them is over, thinking that it might do more hurt than good, and not obtain much upon the Parliament either."
Richard Gibson (Pepys's clerk since 1667) had been a purser. He stayed in the service of the Navy, becoming Purser-General to the Straits fleet (1670-2), chief clerk to three successive Clerks of the Acts (1672-7), and Pepys's clerk at te Admiralty (1680-9). His handwriting (perhaps significantly) was very like that of Pepys. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
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About Thursday 23 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" at noon find the Bishop of Lincolne come to dine with us;"
L&M: Pepys's friend, William Fuller, appointed to Lincoln the previous September.
About Wednesday 22 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence, after sitting with her and company a while, comforting her: though I can find she can, as all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things all in a breath."
L&M: Cf. Pepys's similar observations (about Lady Batten):
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 21 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"And so, when I come thither, I find her all in sorrow, but she and the rest mightily pleased with my doing this for them; and, indeed, it was a very great courtesy, for people are looking out for the estate,"
L&M: They were hopful of getting a grant of it from the King.
About Monday 20 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"So to my Lord Crew’s to dinner, where we hear all the good news of our making a league now with Holland against the French power coming over them, or us "
L&M: Signed on the 13th/23rd znd within three days broadened into the Triple Alliance between Britain, Holland and Sweden [to support Spain against France].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri…
About Monday 20 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" I did stop at Drumbleby’s, the pipe- maker, there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low and soft; and he do shew me a way which do do, and also a fashion of having two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one, and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty."
L&M: The pipes being presumably of different timbre and volume.
About Monday 20 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Live link to the National Library of Australia catalog holdings
The Conway letters : the correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their friends, 1642-1684 / edited by Marjorie Hope Nicolson https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/185…
The correspondence of Cambridge Platonist Henry More and Lady Anne Conway, a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. These letters depict their long-standing friendship and views on philosophy and other topics.
Conway, Anne, 1631-1679
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann…
About Monday 20 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Newman's 'A Concordance of the Holy Scriptures'
Samuel "Newman's famous Concordance was the third in English ever published and greatly superior to its two predecessors. The first edition was published in London in 1643, which Pepys retained: PL 2535 Inscribed on the title 'Price 1l. 7s. od. yet bought of a friend for 1l. 5s 6d.' https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Sunday 19 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"W. Hewer...tells me that Mr. Jessop is made Secretary to the Commissions of Parliament for Accounts, and I am glad, and it is pretty to see that all the Cavalier party were not able to find the Parliament nine Commissioners, or one Secretary, fit for the business."
L&M: William Jessop had been a distinguished public servant during the Civil War and Interregnum, serving as Secretary to the Admiralty Commissioners 1645-35; Clerk to the Council of State 1654-9 and 1660, and Assistant-Clerk to the Convention Parliament. He was described as a 'rigid' enemy to monarchy on the eve of the Restoration: CSPClar., iv. 675. For the appointment of Commonwealthsmen to the commission of accounts, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 17 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"home, first informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbroke hath been married this week to my Lord Burlington’s daughter; so that that great business is over;"
L&M: The wedding had taken place (according to a newsletter) on the 13th: Bulstrode Papers, i. 19.
The Bulstrode papers
by Bulstrode, Richard, Sir, 1610-1711. [from old catalog] Pub. 1897, London
https://archive.org/details/bulst…
About Friday 17 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I waited till the Council rose, and talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of Mr. Harry Howard’s giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build a College on, which is a most generous act."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and note.
Henry Howard was the second son of the Earl of Arundel, and became 6th Duke of Norfolk in 1677. He received the thanks of the Society on 25 January: Birch, ii. 242. The ground consisted of 400 sq. ft. in Arundel gardens. Difficulties arose concerning the conveyance of the property, and the scheme was postponed in the autumn, only to be later abandoned. C. R. Weld, Hist. Roy. Soc. (1848), i. 211. Birch, ii. 242, 299-300, 313. Wren, Hooke and Howard himself had prepared designs for the new college: Pub. Wren Soc., 13/48-9; Weld, i. 212-3. The Society did not acquire a building of its own until 1710, when it purchased two houses in Crane Court, Strand: Weld, i. 389-91.
About Thursday 16 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"At noon home to dinner with my gang of clerks, in whose society I am mightily pleased, and mightily with Mr. Gibson’s talking; he telling me so many good stories relating to the warr and practices of commanders, which I will find a time to recollect; and he will be an admirable help to my writing a history of the Navy, if ever I do. "
L&M: For Pepys's projected history, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Gibson had been a purser, 1655-65. He made a collection of naval material, covering 1650-1702; now BM, Add. 11601.
About Thursday 16 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, after talking with my wife with pleasure, about her learning on the flageolet a month or two again this winter,:
L&M: Her lessons with Greeting were not resumed until 13 August of this year.
About Tuesday 14 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"that not any man did any thing well but Captain O’Bryan, who spoke and did well, but, above all things, did dance most incomparably."
L&M: This was an accomplishment which Pepys later held against him, for it was 'his quallity and Guift of Daunceing' that brought him (through the favour od Monmouth and his duchess) naval promotion: NWB, P. 221.
About Tuesday 14 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"This evening come Mr. Mills and his wife to see and sit and talk with us, which they did till 9 o’clock at night, and then parted, and I to my books."
Is the Milles visit repentance for yesterday's French porn?
About Saturday 11 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Sedley's The Mulberry Garden
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Friday 10 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
"Thence home and to the Exchange, there to do a little business, where I find everybody concerned whether we shall have out a fleete this next year or no, they talking of a peace concluded between France and Spayne, so that the King of France will have nothing to do with his army unless he comes to us; "
L&M: Peace negotiations had begun, but were not concluded until April. See
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About George Fournier
Terry Foreman • Link
Now online:
Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la nauigation. Composé par le pere Georges Fournier de la Compagnie de Iesus, pub 1643 https://archive.org/details/bub_g…
About Friday 10 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
Now online:
Hydrographie contenant la theorie et la practique de toutes les parties de la nauigation. Composé par le pere Georges Fournier de la Compagnie de Iesus 1643 https://archive.org/details/bub_g…
About Friday 10 January 1667/68
Terry Foreman • Link
" Lord Brouncker talking about the times, and he tells me that he thinks, and so do every body else, that the great business of putting out some of the Council to make room for some of the Parliament men to gratify and wheedle them is over, thinking that it might do more hurt than good, and not obtain much upon the Parliament either."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Richard Gibson
Terry Foreman • Link
Richard Gibson (Pepys's clerk since 1667) had been a purser. He stayed in the service of the Navy, becoming Purser-General to the Straits fleet (1670-2), chief clerk to three successive Clerks of the Acts (1672-7), and Pepys's clerk at te Admiralty (1680-9). His handwriting (perhaps significantly) was very like that of Pepys. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…