Thomas Neale (British:1641-1699) is renowned as being, amongst other things, the first postmaster general of the colonial United States.
Neale was an MP for 30 years, Master of the Mint and the Transfer Office, Groom Porter, gambler and entrepreneur. His projects ranged from the development of Seven Dials, Shadwell, East Smithfield and Tunbridge Wells, to land drainage, steel and papermaking, mining in Maryland and Virginia, raising shipwrecks, to developing a dice to check on cheating at gaming. He was also the author of numerous tracts on coinage and fund-raising, and was involved in the idea of a National Land Bank, the precursor of the Bank of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom…
Of course, when we discuss British slavery we'll count the Americans as at the least honorary British: their Declaration of Independence complains, i.a., that, even 112 years from now, they have been deprived by George III's regime of *their* (British) "constitution."
Of course, AussieRene, while agreeing with Michael Robinson, I think he would in turn agree that British slavery -- the enslavement of Britons and their trading and holding slaves, is not far off-stage, is a fact of life today, 4 July 1664, and has been and will again be the topic of proper annotation and discussion.
The Hope (or Hope Reach) is shown on the endpaper maps of my "Everybody's Pepys" as being that stretch of the Thames between Tilbury and the mouth of the Medway, at which point the estuary begins. I used to live in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, which is on a diminutive stream named the Hope. Stream is the word: we used to jump it without getting wet. It enters the Thames about two miles south of Stanford and three miles east of Tilbury.
"After dinner I walked homeward, still doing business by the way"
Aha! Today he waited to walk about and perhaps met some of those who'd already dined for whom he looked the day before yesterday when "At noon to the 'Change, and there, which is strange, [he] could meet with nobody that [he] could invite home to [his] venison pasty...."
Hamburg Northern German port city 71 mi (114 Km) from the mouth of the Elbe River into the North Sea.
Its charter, supposedly in 1189, by Frederick I "Barbarossa" as an"Imperial Free City with tax free access up the Lower Elbe,...and its proximity to the main trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea quickly made it a major port in Northern Europe".[O]
"Lübeck, which [also] had access to the Baltic and North Sea fishing grounds, formed an alliance in 1241 with Hamburg..., which controlled access to salt-trade routes from Lüneburg. The allied cities gained control over most of the salt-fish trade, especially the Scania Market; and Cologne joined them in the Diet of 1260. In 1266 Henry III of England granted the Lübeck and Hamburg Hansa a charter for operations in England, and the Cologne Hansa joined them in 1282 to form the most powerful Hanseatic colony in London."[W]
"In 1529 the city embraced Lutheranism, and Hamburg subsequently received Protestant refugees from the Netherlands and France. Hamburg was at times under Danish sovereignty while remaining part of the Holy Roman Empire as an Imperial Free City.
"[In the 14th century], the Hanseatic League [led by Lübeck,] began to decline and Hamburg began to make its own way and develop its own economic infrastructure. The Hamburg Stock Exchange was founded in 1558, the Bank of Hamburg in 1619 and a protective convoy system started in 1662. With this system, Hamburg's merchantmen were the first to be escorted by men-of-war on the high seas. " [O]
The Bear at the Bridge Foot was on the Southwark, s. end of London Bridge on the w. side of Borough High Street, apparently nr Pepper Alley, on the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Patricia, thanks for the Green Goose link. I.a., it provides a passage from Shakespeare on breaking oaths and what flesh demands -- a commentary of a sort on today's Diary entry and yesterday's.
Love's Labor's Lost, Act IV, Scene III
Longaville
This same shall go.
Reads
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. A woman I forswore; but I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me. Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is: Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is: If broken then, it is no fault of mine: If by me broke, what fool is not so wise To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Biron
This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity, A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry. God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.
Sorry, Pedro -- I thought at once of a a Maya shaman whose plants an old friend who's an anthropologist has been cataloging, so first instinct was, ah, Spanish.
1. A short thick stick used as a weapon; a club. c897 ÆLFRED Gregory's Past. xl. 297 Ðæt hie midðæm kycglum [Cott. kyclum] hiera worda [verborum jacula] ongean hiera ierre worpigen. a899 tr. August. Soliloq. in Paul & Br. Beitr. IV. 110 [Ic] gaderode me þonne kigclas and stuþansceaftas. a1225 Ancr. R. 292 Mid te holie rode steaue, þet him is loðest kuggel, leie on þe deouel dogge. 1566 in W. H. TURNER Select. Rec. Oxford 252 This deponent had a lytell cogell. 1598 SHAKES. Merry W. IV. ii. 87 Heauen guide him to thy husbands cudgell: and the diuell guide his cudgell afterwards. 1618 ROWLANDS Night-Raven (1620) 29 Tom with his cudgell, well bebasts his bones. 1662 J. BARGRAVE Pope Alex. VII (1867) 121 I saw..a coggell of wood hanging in a small rope. 1727 SWIFT Gulliver II. vi. 146, I prepared two round sticks about the bigness of common cudgels. 1836 MARRYAT Japhet lxxix, Saluting him with several blows on his head with his cudgel. (OED Online)
(cudgels *are* for doggs, and, I wot, not just for Anchoresses)
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About Thomas Neale
Terry F • Link
Thomas Neale (British:1641-1699) is renowned as being, amongst other things, the first postmaster general of the colonial United States.
Neale was an MP for 30 years, Master of the Mint and the Transfer Office, Groom Porter, gambler and entrepreneur. His projects ranged from the development of Seven Dials, Shadwell, East Smithfield and Tunbridge Wells, to land drainage, steel and papermaking, mining in Maryland and Virginia, raising shipwrecks, to developing a dice to check on cheating at gaming. He was also the author of numerous tracts on coinage and fund-raising, and was involved in the idea of a National Land Bank, the precursor of the Bank of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom…
About Monday 4 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Of course, when we discuss British slavery we'll count the Americans as at the least honorary British: their Declaration of Independence complains, i.a., that, even 112 years from now, they have been deprived by George III's regime of *their* (British) "constitution."
About Monday 4 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Of course, AussieRene, while agreeing with Michael Robinson, I think he would in turn agree that British slavery -- the enslavement of Britons and their trading and holding slaves, is not far off-stage, is a fact of life today, 4 July 1664, and has been and will again be the topic of proper annotation and discussion.
About Monday 4 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Ken Welsh , hardly an Americamism, "gotten" is in the KJV 54 times, beginning with Gen. 4:1. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/k…
About The Hope
Terry F • Link
Kevin Sheerstone http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The Hope - Pedro and others.
The Hope (or Hope Reach) is shown on the endpaper maps of my "Everybody's Pepys" as being that stretch of the Thames between Tilbury and the mouth of the Medway, at which point the estuary begins. I used to live in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, which is on a diminutive stream named the Hope. Stream is the word: we used to jump it without getting wet. It enters the Thames about two miles south of Stanford and three miles east of Tilbury.
See the clarifying post by Vincent that includes maps from London Streetmaps http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
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The Hope Reach is marked "SEA REACH" on this map http://www.thamesmatch.co.uk/imag…
About Monday 4 July 1664
Terry F • Link
"If he had gotten his money back...." -- Miss Lizzy. did he not?
"the poor wretch afterwards in a little while did send out to change them for her money again." I thought that meant she/he did...(or?)
About Monday 4 July 1664
Terry F • Link
"After dinner I walked homeward, still doing business by the way"
Aha! Today he waited to walk about and perhaps met some of those who'd already dined for whom he looked the day before yesterday when "At noon to the 'Change, and there, which is strange, [he] could meet with nobody that [he] could invite home to [his] venison pasty...."
OR, Robert Gertz was correct: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Hamburg, Germany
Terry F • Link
Hamburg
Northern German port city 71 mi (114 Km) from the mouth of the Elbe River into the North Sea.
Its charter, supposedly in 1189, by Frederick I "Barbarossa" as an"Imperial Free City with tax free access up the Lower Elbe,...and its proximity to the main trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea quickly made it a major port in Northern Europe".[O]
"Lübeck, which [also] had access to the Baltic and North Sea fishing grounds, formed an alliance in 1241 with Hamburg..., which controlled access to salt-trade routes from Lüneburg. The allied cities gained control over most of the salt-fish trade, especially the Scania Market; and Cologne joined them in the Diet of 1260. In 1266 Henry III of England granted the Lübeck and Hamburg Hansa a charter for operations in England, and the Cologne Hansa joined them in 1282 to form the most powerful Hanseatic colony in London."[W]
"In 1529 the city embraced Lutheranism, and Hamburg subsequently received Protestant refugees from the Netherlands and France. Hamburg was at times under Danish sovereignty while remaining part of the Holy Roman Empire as an Imperial Free City.
"[In the 14th century], the Hanseatic League [led by Lübeck,] began to decline and Hamburg began to make its own way and develop its own economic infrastructure. The Hamburg Stock Exchange was founded in 1558, the Bank of Hamburg in 1619 and a protective convoy system started in 1662. With this system, Hamburg's merchantmen were the first to be escorted by men-of-war on the high seas. " [O]
Sources:
O: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ho…
W: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamb…
About Bear (Bridge foot)
Terry F • Link
The Bear at the Bridge Foot was on the Southwark, s. end of London Bridge on the w. side of Borough High Street, apparently nr Pepper Alley, on the 1746 map.
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Sunday 3 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Patricia, thanks for the Green Goose link. I.a., it provides a passage from Shakespeare on breaking oaths and what flesh demands -- a commentary of a sort on today's Diary entry and yesterday's.
Love's Labor's Lost, Act IV, Scene III
Longaville
This same shall go.
Reads
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Biron
This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,
A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.
God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
If Hollier was a surgeon specialising in lithotomy, perhaps SP also needs a Burnett. Not every pain is a stone.
About Saturday 2 July 1664
Terry F • Link
There are surely oaths and codicils to oaths not recorded in the Diary.
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Sorry, Pedro -- I thought at once of a a Maya shaman whose plants an old friend who's an anthropologist has been cataloging, so first instinct was, ah, Spanish.
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
Self Heal(Pedro, you can be our curandero)
http://botanical.com/botanical/mg…
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
For Pedro's Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820 - Cyperus - Cyprus water, a better link:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
Thanks to Pedro for The Dictionary, a fascinating and odd list and resource. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
"he is sure the sediment is not slime gathered by heat, but is a direct pusse."
Do I read this aright as bespeaking the rejection of a humoural explanation in favor of a pathological one?
"[I]t is strange that Mr. Hollyard should never say one word of this ulcer in all his life to me."
Hollier, I take it, was yet fully concerned with humoural diagnoses, Dr. Burnett not, so Pepys is, natch, puzzled: new paradigm.
About Friday 1 July 1664
Terry F • Link
I'm trying to imagine how the syrup would taste. Would the liquorish dominate?
Hazel-nut would be good, and cassia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass…
Comfrey's cultivation is interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comf…
About Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (Henry and William Lawes)
Terry F • Link
Audio samples of music by William Lawes et al.
http://www.emusic.com/album/Chari…
About Thursday 30 June 1664
Terry F • Link
cudgel, n.
1. A short thick stick used as a weapon; a club.
c897 ÆLFRED Gregory's Past. xl. 297 Ðæt hie midðæm kycglum [Cott. kyclum] hiera worda [verborum jacula] ongean hiera ierre worpigen. a899 tr. August. Soliloq. in Paul & Br. Beitr. IV. 110 [Ic] gaderode me þonne kigclas and stuþansceaftas. a1225 Ancr. R. 292 Mid te holie rode steaue, þet him is loðest kuggel, leie on þe deouel dogge. 1566 in W. H. TURNER Select. Rec. Oxford 252 This deponent had a lytell cogell. 1598 SHAKES. Merry W. IV. ii. 87 Heauen guide him to thy husbands cudgell: and the diuell guide his cudgell afterwards. 1618 ROWLANDS Night-Raven (1620) 29 Tom with his cudgell, well bebasts his bones. 1662 J. BARGRAVE Pope Alex. VII (1867) 121 I saw..a coggell of wood hanging in a small rope. 1727 SWIFT Gulliver II. vi. 146, I prepared two round sticks about the bigness of common cudgels. 1836 MARRYAT Japhet lxxix, Saluting him with several blows on his head with his cudgel.
(OED Online)
(cudgels *are* for doggs, and, I wot, not just for Anchoresses)
About Thursday 30 June 1664
Terry F • Link
(Naa: Pepys's "pleasure" is probably playgoing and printed paper.)