"I obtained this satisfaction, that he told me that about Sturbridge last was twelve-month or two year, he was at Brampton, and there my father did tell him...."
So transcribe L&M, suggesting how vague was Dr. Pepys's recollection of when he had been told what, though he did remember that John Pepys Sr. had himself invested heavily in Tom's tailor biz by giving him the raw materials for it, and was not responsible for Tom's debts, e.g. for the £30 Dr. Thomas Pepys had loaned young tailor Tom (L&M note the amount at stake in this argument with SP).
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 204-205 Document type: Holograph
Repeats the substance of MS. Carte 75, fol. 201, [re the seizure of the ship Bishop of Galloway] and supplies further particulars, as to the proceedings in the matter of the confiscated ship. Adds that a report has come of a great victory achieved over the Imperialists by the Turks, immediately after a defeat of the latter; the victors having become disorganized. Mentions, further, that Sir Thomas Crewe is bound for the Downs. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
"no other outrage than that of changing the name of the province and its metropolis"
Well, JWB, there was the fact that "the flag of the Dutch Republic was lowered, and the British flag was run up in its place." http://www.nyc350.org/history.html This site says that was 11 days hence (29 August), but there does seem to be some disagreement about the turnnover date.
(1) My Encyclopedia Britannica says 8 September (24:878); (2) "On 30 August 1664, George Cartwright sent the governor a letter demanding surrender. He promised 'life, estate, and liberty to all who would submit to the king's authority.' Stuyvesant signed a treaty at his Bouwerie house on 9 September 1664. Nicolls was declared governor, and the city was renamed New York City." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete… (3) The Dutch Wikipedia says the surrender was 24 September http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1664
"spoke with Mr. Townsend about my boy's clothes, which he says shall be soon done"
It takes a tailor's son -- one who had a suit PDQ of (the foul-mouthed) Langford -- to hassle the Clerk of the King's Great Wardrobe about the garb for the Clerk of the Acts' boy the day after the order had been placed, sc. Wednesday 17 August: "spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and directed him to go to Mr. Townsend (with whom I was in the morning) to have measure taken of his clothes to be made him there out of the Wardrobe, which will be so done, and then I think he will come to me." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The Court Secret is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1653. It is generally regarded as the final play Shirley wrote as a professional dramatist. [Article includes lengthy Synopsis:] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…
"Thence to Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and my wife to see Mrs. Clarke, where with [Dr. Clarke] very merry discoursing of the late play of Henry the 5th, which they conclude the best that ever was made, but confess with me that Tudor's being dismissed in the manner he is is a great blemish to the play."
confirming SP 's review of Saturday 13 August about the play "having but one incongruity, or what did, not please me in it, that is, that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, Princesse Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and Tudor refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty and honour that it ought to have been done in to him." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"the Duke...tells us...we must presently set out a fleete for Guinny, for the Dutch are doing so,"
How intelligence re the Dutch plans travels Thursday 11 August Pedro posted: Today in Den Haag (Terry)
I think the date must be corrected to 1/11 August Sam's time, but a little more not mentioned...
The resolution was taken by the States General and at once communicated to the Amsterdam Admiralty. Letters were sent in deep secrecy with three separate express messengers to Cadiz, Malaga and Alicante, and written on the outside was that De Ruyter should not open them unless he was alone.
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 208-209 Document type: Holograph
Has taken opinion of counsel in the matter of the wool-laden ship seized at Dover. Is advised that a writ of appraisement should be obtained from the Court of Exchequer.
Adds that advice has come through the English Ambassador in Spain of the arrival of Colonel Fitzgerald at Tangier. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
This, I take it, follows on last 13th Saturday's post by Jeannine: "Journal of the Earl of Sandwich" edited by R.C. Anderson
13th. Saturday. This morning Rich. Mathews and the master and others concerned in the wool ship were cited and accordingly went to Dover....
Jeannine, Thanks very much for the review. Your reminder that TPAP is not fiction was necessary, I think. *Its* plot is reminiscent of what Dumas did with earlier parts of the 17th century! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex…
"Mr. Holliard...concurs...that my pain is nothing but cold in my legs breeding wind"
I understand chilled legs and I understand bloating and intestinal gas, but I wonder how Messrs. Hollier and Pepys envisioned the causal connection?
*** I gather the scotoscope was used to illumine the faintly-lit sample under the microscope; perhaps it took a while to figure out how to get the former to wor with the latter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…
"Good microscopic observations require adequate light. When Hooke started using microscopes, no one had figured out a good method for providing it. He amplified the light to his microscope by placing a brine-filled glass globe between the light source and the microscope. He called this invention the scotoscope." http://www.strangescience.net/hoo…
Reeves, Richard fl.1641-89, Member of the Turners' Company; made microscopes and lenses for telescopes; worked for Hooke; made a spyglass, a microscope and a scotoscope for Samuel Pepys, 1661-64; made very long telescopes; perspective glass maker to the King; made James Gregory's prototype reflecting telescope. http://historydb.adlerplanetarium…
Good microscopic observations require adequate light. When Hooke started using microscopes, no one had figured out a good method for providing it. He amplified the light to his microscope by placing a brine-filled glass globe between the light source and the microscope. He called this invention the scotoscope. In 1665, he shared his new views of tiny things in his book Micrographia. http://www.strangescience.net/hoo…
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 64-67 Document type: Holograph
Gives a report of a recent conversation upon public affairs, with a chance fellow-traveller of the writer, not before known to him. Mentions some recent political incidents and opinion. Adds suggestions as to the defence of Dunkirk, in relation to which he says that to his own knowledge (communicated, too, by him to Lord Teviot, then Governor there) a certain Marquess of Gulan was twice sent by the French Government upon an endeavour to corrupt an officer of rank in the Garrison, with a view to a surprise. The officer, he says, was a favourite of the Governor, whose position in the matter he likens to that of Mazarin, in his last days, towards Fouquet: - conscious of his favourite's maladministration; but unwilling to own that he had chosen ill. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
Comments
First Reading
About Tuesday 23 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"to the 'Change, where very busy getting ships for Guinny and for Tangier."
One of the "businesses" conducted at the 'Change. Ships' agents must have been there on tap, as 'twere.
About Monday 22 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"I obtained this satisfaction, that he told me that about Sturbridge last was twelve-month or two year, he was at Brampton, and there my father did tell him...."
So transcribe L&M, suggesting how vague was Dr. Pepys's recollection of when he had been told what, though he did remember that John Pepys Sr. had himself invested heavily in Tom's tailor biz by giving him the raw materials for it, and was not responsible for Tom's debts, e.g. for the £30 Dr. Thomas Pepys had loaned young tailor Tom (L&M note the amount at stake in this argument with SP).
About Saturday 20 August 1664
Terry F • Link
For Dirk: from the Carte Calendar
John Creed to Sandwich
Written from: [London]
Date: 20 August 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 204-205
Document type: Holograph
Repeats the substance of MS. Carte 75, fol. 201, [re the seizure of the ship Bishop of Galloway] and supplies further particulars, as to the proceedings in the matter of the confiscated ship. Adds that a report has come of a great victory achieved over the Imperialists by the Turks, immediately after a defeat of the latter; the victors having become disorganized. Mentions, further, that Sir Thomas Crewe is bound for the Downs. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
About Thursday 18 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"no other outrage than that of changing the name of the province and its metropolis"
Well, JWB, there was the fact that "the flag of the Dutch Republic was lowered, and the British flag was run up in its place." http://www.nyc350.org/history.html
This site says that was 11 days hence (29 August), but there does seem to be some disagreement about the turnnover date.
(1) My Encyclopedia Britannica says 8 September (24:878);
(2) "On 30 August 1664, George Cartwright sent the governor a letter demanding surrender. He promised 'life, estate, and liberty to all who would submit to the king's authority.' Stuyvesant signed a treaty at his Bouwerie house on 9 September 1664. Nicolls was declared governor, and the city was renamed New York City." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete…
(3) The Dutch Wikipedia says the surrender was 24 September
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1664
About Thursday 18 August 1664
Terry F • Link
A map of the City of New Amsterdam as it was ca. 1660
http://homepage.mac.com/schuffele…
(click on or below the map of Dutch Manhattan to enlarge it)
About Thursday 18 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"spoke with Mr. Townsend about my boy's clothes, which he says shall be soon done"
It takes a tailor's son -- one who had a suit PDQ of (the foul-mouthed) Langford -- to hassle the Clerk of the King's Great Wardrobe about the garb for the Clerk of the Acts' boy the day after the order had been placed, sc. Wednesday 17 August: "spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and directed him to go to Mr. Townsend (with whom I was in the morning) to have measure taken of his clothes to be made him there out of the Wardrobe, which will be so done, and then I think he will come to me." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About William Langford
Terry F • Link
Langford was the tailor who succeeded Tom Pepys's lodgings and trade.
About The Court Secret (James Shirley)
Terry F • Link
The Court Secret is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1653. It is generally regarded as the final play Shirley wrote as a professional dramatist. [Article includes lengthy Synopsis:]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…
About Wednesday 17 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"Thence to Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and my wife to see Mrs. Clarke, where with [Dr. Clarke] very merry discoursing of the late play of Henry the 5th, which they conclude the best that ever was made, but confess with me that Tudor's being dismissed in the manner he is is a great blemish to the play."
confirming SP 's review of Saturday 13 August about the play "having but one incongruity, or what did, not please me in it, that is, that King Harry promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, Princesse Katherine of France, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and Tudor refused by her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty and honour that it ought to have been done in to him."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Very merry to agree about such matters!
About Monday 15 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"To the Coffee-house I, and so to the 'Change a little"
Anyone else get the idea that SP usually goes to the SAME coffee-house near the 'Change?
***
Pity Elizabeth won't get a musically-trained companion soon.
About Monday 15 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"the Duke...tells us...we must presently set out a fleete for Guinny, for the Dutch are doing so,"
How intelligence re the Dutch plans travels
Thursday 11 August Pedro posted: Today in Den Haag (Terry)
I think the date must be corrected to 1/11 August Sam's time, but a little more not mentioned...
The resolution was taken by the States General and at once communicated to the Amsterdam Admiralty. Letters were sent in deep secrecy with three separate express messengers to Cadiz, Malaga and Alicante, and written on the outside was that De Ruyter should not open them unless he was alone.
(Life of Admiral De Ruyter by Blok)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 16 August 1664
Terry F • Link
John Creed to Sandwich
Written from: [London]
Date: 16 August 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 208-209
Document type: Holograph
Has taken opinion of counsel in the matter of the wool-laden ship seized at Dover. Is advised that a writ of appraisement should be obtained from the Court of Exchequer.
Adds that advice has come through the English Ambassador in Spain of the arrival of Colonel Fitzgerald at Tangier. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
This, I take it, follows on last 13th Saturday's post by Jeannine: "Journal of the Earl of Sandwich" edited by R.C. Anderson
13th. Saturday. This morning Rich. Mathews and the master and others concerned in the wool ship were cited and accordingly went to Dover....
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Monday 15 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"saw the great Dutchman that is come over"
The Dutch -- the tallest now -- were evidently already tall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-…
About The Plot Against Pepys
Terry F • Link
Jeannine, Thanks very much for the review. Your reminder that TPAP is not fiction was necessary, I think. *Its* plot is reminiscent of what Dumas did with earlier parts of the 17th century! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex…
About Sunday 14 August 1664
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Holliard...concurs...that my pain is nothing but cold in my legs breeding wind"
I understand chilled legs and I understand bloating and intestinal gas, but I wonder how Messrs. Hollier and Pepys envisioned the causal connection?
***
I gather the scotoscope was used to illumine the faintly-lit sample under the microscope; perhaps it took a while to figure out how to get the former to wor with the latter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…
About Saturday 13 August 1664
Terry F • Link
Well, JWB and Maurie Beck, from the US I cannot download the PDF'S.
Here's an image of what seems to illumine whatever is under Hooke's microscope (scroll down): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micr…
About Saturday 13 August 1664
Terry F • Link
Another take on what a scotoscope is
"Good microscopic observations require adequate light. When Hooke started using microscopes, no one had figured out a good method for providing it. He amplified the light to his microscope by placing a brine-filled glass globe between the light source and the microscope. He called this invention the scotoscope." http://www.strangescience.net/hoo…
A lens?
About Richard Reeve
Terry F • Link
Reeves, Richard fl.1641-89, Member of the Turners' Company; made microscopes and lenses for telescopes; worked for Hooke; made a spyglass, a microscope and a scotoscope for Samuel Pepys, 1661-64; made very long telescopes; perspective glass maker to the King; made James Gregory's prototype reflecting telescope. http://historydb.adlerplanetarium…
About Scotoscopes
Terry F • Link
Good microscopic observations require adequate light. When Hooke started using microscopes, no one had figured out a good method for providing it. He amplified the light to his microscope by placing a brine-filled glass globe between the light source and the microscope. He called this invention the scotoscope. In 1665, he shared his new views of tiny things in his book Micrographia. http://www.strangescience.net/hoo…
L&M identify the scotoscope ("dark"-scope) as a portable camera obscura. Image of a room-sized one: http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/CAM_OB…
About Saturday 13 August 1664
Terry F • Link
Absent Dirk - from the Carte Calendar
Sir Robert Walsh to Ormond
Written from: Neston
Date: 13 August 1664
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 215, fol(s). 64-67
Document type: Holograph
Gives a report of a recent conversation upon public affairs, with a chance fellow-traveller of the writer, not before known to him. Mentions some recent political incidents and opinion. Adds suggestions as to the defence of Dunkirk, in relation to which he says that to his own knowledge (communicated, too, by him to Lord Teviot, then Governor there) a certain Marquess of Gulan was twice sent by the French Government upon an endeavour to corrupt an officer of rank in the Garrison, with a view to a surprise. The officer, he says, was a favourite of the Governor, whose position in the matter he likens to that of Mazarin, in his last days, towards Fouquet: - conscious of his favourite's maladministration; but unwilling to own that he had chosen ill. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…