"So to the Commissioners of the Treasury, and there I had a dispute before them with Sir Stephen Fox about our orders for money, who is very angry, but I value it not."
L&M: The official minute reads: 'Sir Ste. Fox and Mr. Pepys moves to be present . . . on the excise with Sir Ste. Fox' (CTB, ii. 155).
"by my desire he hath moved the Duke of York that Sir J. Minnes might be removed from the Navy, at least the Controller’s place, and his business put on my Lord Brouncker and Sir W. Pen; "
L&M: One of several attempts -- all unsuccessful -- to get rid of Mennes. Brouncker and Penn were now employed as his assistants in the controllership.
"Cozen Kate Joyce come....to see us and to tell me that her husband is going to build his house again,"
L&M: The Joyces had lived in St John's parish, Clerkenwell, until their house had been destroyed in the Fire. Now or shortly afterwards they kept a tavern, the Three Stags, near Holborn Conduit.
"did discourse alone about my sister Pall’s match, which is now on foot with one Jackson, another nephew of Mr. Phillips’s, to whom he hath left his estate."
L&M: John Jackson was (like Pall's previous suitor Robert Ensum) a nephew of Lewis Phillips, the lawyer. Ensum had died in 1666 and left part of his estate to Jackson. 'Former' here means former suitor.
"for every body is encouraged nowadays to speak, and even to print (as I have one of them) as bad things against them as ever in the year 1640;"
L&M: The pamphlet referred to has not been identified. : none has survived in the PL. Attacks on bishops in 1641-2 had been more radical and of more political significance.
"That the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts), and but one:"
L&M: two others in the event supported impeachment in the crucial vote of 20 November in the Lords: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… but the great majority opposed it, and in consequence the alliance between King and bishops, taken for granted since the Restoration, was broken until the mid-seventies. Croft was Bishop of Hereford. His obligations to Clarendon did not prevent him, according to the latter's account, from showing him 'signal ingratitude', thereby gaining 'much credit in the court': Life, iii. 327.
"That the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts), and but one:"
"went to Guildhall...and did here look up and down this place, where I have not been before since the fire; and I see that the city are got a pace on in the rebuilding of Guildhall."
L&M: Though not wholly destroyed by the Fire, Guildhall had been greatly damaged. It was fully rebuilt by November 1671. T. F. Reddaway, Rebuilding of London, p. 249.
"Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was."
"to the office, and there all the morning by particular appointment with Sir W. Pen, Sir R. Ford, and those that are concerned for my Lady Batten (Mr. Wood, Young, and Lewes), to even the accounts of our prize business"
"Most of our talk was of the great discourse the world hath against my Lady Batten, for getting her husband to give her all, and disinherit his eldest son"
L&M: Pepys's note to Humphrey Stokes the goldsmith is in Rawl. A 174, f. 432f, written in the bottom of Moore's letter (18 December) to Pepys. On the back is the porter's receipt for the cash. Pepys preserved notes about this in Rawls., loc. cit., f. 432v; ib., A 185, f. 23f.
"I away with Sir W. Warren, who met me here by my desire, and to Exeter House, and there to counsel, to Sir William Turner, about the business of my bargain with my Lady Batten;"
"He gone, I with my cozen Roger to Westminster Hall; and there we met the House rising: and they have voted my Lord Chief Justice Keeling’s proceedings illegal; but that, out of particular respect to him, and the mediation of a great many, they have resolved to proceed no further against him."
L&M: CJ, ix. 37. Kelyng, according to one witneww 'gave a very modest and faire answeare' to the charge against him: HMC, Rep., 14/4/81.
"that my Lord Sandwich is gone from Madrid with great honour to Lisbon, to make up, at this juncture, a peace to the advantage, as the Spaniard would have it, of Spain. "
L&M: Alfonso VI (a lunatic) had been deposed on 13/23 November, and his brother made Regent. Sandwich was now preparing to go to Portugal with instructions from the Spaniards to act as peacemakers between the two governments. He did not in fact leave Madrid until 26 December/5 January. The treaty of Lisbon was signed on 2/13 February 1668. Harris, ii. 125-6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre…
"By and by comes out my cozen Roger to me, he being not willing to be in the House at the business of my Lord Keeling, lest he should be called upon to complain against him for his abusing him at Cambridge, very wrongfully and shamefully, but not to his reproach, but to the Chief justice’s in the end, when all the world cried shame upon him for it."
"It is the man that did fall out with my cozen Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes there, and would have laid him by the heels;"
L&M: In 1665 at the Cambridge assizes he had bound over Roger Pepys (Recorder of the borough) fir speaking slightingly of Chief Justice Hyde: Diary Sam. Newton (ed. Foster), p. 10.
""Commons...will have a Bill of Attainder brought in against [Lord Clarendon]"
L&M: An attainder would deprive Clarendon of his estate, a penalty his enemies looked on as necessary. The bill of banishment was, however, given its first reading now (for the debate, see Milward, pp. 165-6, and Grey, i. 64), passed the Commons on the 18th, by 65 to 42 votes, and received the royal assent at the end of the session (19-20 Car. II c. 2).
Comments
Second Reading
About Monday 23 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"So to the Commissioners of the Treasury, and there I had a dispute before them with Sir Stephen Fox about our orders for money, who is very angry, but I value it not."
L&M: The official minute reads: 'Sir Ste. Fox and Mr. Pepys moves to be present . . . on the excise with Sir Ste. Fox' (CTB, ii. 155).
About Monday 23 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"by my desire he hath moved the Duke of York that Sir J. Minnes might be removed from the Navy, at least the Controller’s place, and his business put on my Lord Brouncker and Sir W. Pen; "
L&M: One of several attempts -- all unsuccessful -- to get rid of Mennes. Brouncker and Penn were now employed as his assistants in the controllership.
About Sunday 22 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Cozen Kate Joyce come....to see us and to tell me that her husband is going to build his house again,"
L&M: The Joyces had lived in St John's parish, Clerkenwell, until their house had been destroyed in the Fire. Now or shortly afterwards they kept a tavern, the Three Stags, near Holborn Conduit.
About Saturday 21 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"did discourse alone about my sister Pall’s match, which is now on foot with one Jackson, another nephew of Mr. Phillips’s, to whom he hath left his estate."
L&M: John Jackson was (like Pall's previous suitor Robert Ensum) a nephew of Lewis Phillips, the lawyer. Ensum had died in 1666 and left part of his estate to Jackson. 'Former' here means former suitor.
About Saturday 21 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M provide a corrected text:
"for every body is encouraged nowadays to speak, and even to print (as I have one of them) as bad things against them as ever in the year 1640;"
L&M: The pamphlet referred to has not been identified. : none has survived in the PL. Attacks on bishops in 1641-2 had been more radical and of more political significance.
About Saturday 21 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"The Bishops, differing from the King in the late business in the House of Lords"
L&M: The impeachment of Clarendon had precipitated a rupture new in the Restoration that will continue until 1671.
About Friday 20 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"only the Bishops are afeard of losing ground, as I believe they will."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts), and but one:"
L&M: two others in the event supported impeachment in the crucial vote of 20 November in the Lords: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
but the great majority opposed it, and in consequence the alliance between King and bishops, taken for granted since the Restoration, was broken until the mid-seventies. Croft was Bishop of Hereford. His obligations to Clarendon did not prevent him, according to the latter's account, from showing him 'signal ingratitude', thereby gaining 'much credit in the court': Life, iii. 327.
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts), and but one:"
L&M: two others in the event supported impeachment in the crucial vote of 20 November in the Lords: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 19 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"went to Guildhall...and did here look up and down this place, where I have not been before since the fire; and I see that the city are got a pace on in the rebuilding of Guildhall."
L&M: Though not wholly destroyed by the Fire, Guildhall had been greatly damaged. It was fully rebuilt by November 1671. T. F. Reddaway, Rebuilding of London, p. 249.
About Thursday 19 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took place at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was."
L&M: Middleton's predecessor was Batten.
About Wednesday 18 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"to the office, and there all the morning by particular appointment with Sir W. Pen, Sir R. Ford, and those that are concerned for my Lady Batten (Mr. Wood, Young, and Lewes), to even the accounts of our prize business"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
William Wood was, like Young, an overseer of Batten's will.
About Wednesday 18 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Most of our talk was of the great discourse the world hath against my Lady Batten, for getting her husband to give her all, and disinherit his eldest son"
L&M: Pepys's note to Humphrey Stokes the goldsmith is in Rawl. A 174, f. 432f, written in the bottom of Moore's letter (18 December) to Pepys. On the back is the porter's receipt for the cash. Pepys preserved notes about this in Rawls., loc. cit., f. 432v; ib., A 185, f. 23f.
About Friday 13 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I away with Sir W. Warren, who met me here by my desire, and to Exeter House, and there to counsel, to Sir William Turner, about the business of my bargain with my Lady Batten;"
L&M: About the profits of the privateer, the Flying Greyhound: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 13 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"He gone, I with my cozen Roger to Westminster Hall; and there we met the House rising: and they have voted my Lord Chief Justice Keeling’s proceedings illegal; but that, out of particular respect to him, and the mediation of a great many, they have resolved to proceed no further against him."
L&M: CJ, ix. 37. Kelyng, according to one witneww 'gave a very modest and faire answeare' to the charge against him: HMC, Rep., 14/4/81.
About Friday 13 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"that my Lord Sandwich is gone from Madrid with great honour to Lisbon, to make up, at this juncture, a peace to the advantage, as the Spaniard would have it, of Spain. "
L&M: Alfonso VI (a lunatic) had been deposed on 13/23 November, and his brother made Regent. Sandwich was now preparing to go to Portugal with instructions from the Spaniards to act as peacemakers between the two governments. He did not in fact leave Madrid until 26 December/5 January. The treaty of Lisbon was signed on 2/13 February 1668. Harris, ii. 125-6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre…
About Friday 13 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"By and by comes out my cozen Roger to me, he being not willing to be in the House at the business of my Lord Keeling, lest he should be called upon to complain against him for his abusing him at Cambridge, very wrongfully and shamefully, but not to his reproach, but to the Chief justice’s in the end, when all the world cried shame upon him for it."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 17 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"It is the man that did fall out with my cozen Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes there, and would have laid him by the heels;"
L&M: In 1665 at the Cambridge assizes he had bound over Roger Pepys (Recorder of the borough) fir speaking slightingly of Chief Justice Hyde: Diary Sam. Newton (ed. Foster), p. 10.
About Friday 13 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
""Commons...will have a Bill of Attainder brought in against [Lord Clarendon]"
L&M: An attainder would deprive Clarendon of his estate, a penalty his enemies looked on as necessary. The bill of banishment was, however, given its first reading now (for the debate, see Milward, pp. 165-6, and Grey, i. 64), passed the Commons on the 18th, by 65 to 42 votes, and received the royal assent at the end of the session (19-20 Car. II c. 2).
About Thursday 12 December 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day my Lord Chancellor’s letter was burned at the ‘Change."
L&M: For the letter see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…