"This evening also comes to me to my closet at the Office Sir John Chichly, of his own accord, to tell me what he shall answer to the Committee, when, as he expects, he shall be examined about my Lord Sandwich; which is so little as will not hurt my Lord at all, I know."
"This day Mr. Chichly told me, with a seeming trouble, that the House have stopped his son Jack (Sir John) his going to France, that he may be a witness against my Lord Sandwich: which do trouble me, though he can, I think, say little."
L&M: Sir John Chicheley had commanded the Antelope in the campaign of 1665.
"Now that which [Thomas Warren] had promised me for the courtesy was I take it 100 pieces or more, I think more, and also for the former courtesy I had done for the getting of his first ship out for this hemp."
"This morning Sir W. Pen tells me that the House was very hot on Saturday last upon the business of liberty of speech in the House, and damned the vote in the beginning of the Long Parliament against it."
L&M note this was a misunderstanding: the resolution passed last Saturday had reaffirmed the traditional liberty of parliamentary speech. [Indeed, had strengthened it: see https://www.british-history.ac.uk… It reaffirmed similar resolutions of 6 and 8 July 1641 which had condemned the judgement in King's Bench (1630) by which three M.P.'s (Eliot, Holles and Valentine) had been imprisoned for seditious speeches made in parliament in 1629. In 1668 Holles had the judgment reversed by the Lords. CJ, ii. 164-6.
The government of Colonial Pennsylvania (and the Lower Counties) was conducted by a set of administrators in the name of the proprietors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis… #1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil… William Markham (1635 – 12 June 1704) served as deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Markham was the acting governor of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1682 and from 1693 to 1699. He was a member of the Church of England and tended to favor the interests of minority religious groups in the primarily Quaker colony. On 10 April 1681, Markham was appointed by his first cousin, Governor William Penn, and served as acting governor while Penn was in England. Markham sailed for America soon after his appointment. He landed in Boston and made his way to New York where he showed his credentials and took official control of the Delaware territories which had also been given to Penn.
On 3 August 1681, Markham arrived in Upland (now Chester, Pennsylvania), the only town in the colony at that time. He assembled a governing council that included six Quakers and three other early colonists. As governor, Markham helped select the site for Philadelphia, bought land from the Indians along the Delaware River and Pennsbury Manor, and began the discourse with Lord Baltimore over the disputed boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
"Up, and all the morning finishing my letter to Sir Robert Brookes, which I did with great content, and yet at noon when I come home to dinner I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration, and caused it to be new writ."
L&M: Copies of drafts (23, 25 November, in Hewer'sand Pepys's hands, with a note about the alteration) are in NMM, LBK/8, , pp. 506-8. Brooke's reply (28 November) thanked Pepys for his 'ingenious narrative', and assured him that he had acquitted hinself 'as a person of much integrity': Rawl. A 191. f. 231r.
"I to the office, and there for want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till now, for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book;"
"all the afternoon also busy till late preparing things to fortify myself and fellows against the Parliament; and particularly myself against what I fear is thought, that I have suppressed the Order of the Board by which the discharging the great ships off at Chatham by tickets was directed; whereas, indeed, there was no such Order."
My wife "tells me great stories of the gossiping women of the parish — what this, and what that woman was; and, among the rest, how Mrs. Hollworthy is the veriest confident bragging gossip of them all, which I should not have believed; but that Sir R. Brookes, her partner"
Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London. Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604., Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655. London,: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard, 1655. Early English Books Online [full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
"On this occasion, Dr. Whistler told a pretty story related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius...."
L&M: John Caius was a scholar and physician, and co-founder of Gonville and Caius [pronounced KEYS] College, Cambridge; he died in 1573 at the age of 63. The story appears in Dr Thomas Moffett's Health Improvement (1655), p. 123; 'What made Dr Caius in his last sickness so peevish and so full of frets at Cambridge, when he suckt one woman (whon I spare to name) froward of conditions and bad diet; and contrariwise so quiet and well, when he suckt another of contrary disposition?' Similarly, 'what made Iupiter and Aegystus so lecherous, but that they were chiefly fed with goats milk?'
"the Commons did desire a free conference: but the Lords do deny it; and the reason is, that they hold not the Commons any Court, but that themselves only are a Court, and the Chief Court of judicature, and therefore are not to dispute the laws and method of their own Court with them that are none, and so will not submit so much as to have their power disputed."
L&M: A free conference -- i.e. one at which any subject could be raised -- would have given the Commons the chance of raising this constitutional issue. The Lords had their way: a conference was held on the 25th in which they replied to the Commons' 'Reasons'; on the 28th a conference was held on the question of committing Clarendon on a general charge of treason.
"This made the opposite Lords, as Bristoll and Buckingham, so mad, that they declared and protested against it...and that they desired they might enter their dissents, which they did do, in great fury."
L&M: LJ, XII. 141-2; a protest signed by 28 peers, including Buckingham and Bristol: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The right of a minority to enter and sign in the House's journal a dissenting opinion was one of the peers' privileges.
"But then the question being put among the Lords, as my Lord Bristoll advised, whether, upon the whole matter and Reasons that had been laid before them, they would commit my Lord Clarendon, it was carried five to one against it; there being but three Bishops against him, of whom Cosens and Dr. Reynolds were two, and I know not the third."
L&M: Pepys is probably wrong about Reynolds: the three anti-Clarendonian bishop who signed the minority protest which followed were Cosin (Durham), Croft (Hereford), and Lucy (St David's). LJ, xii. 142. The voting appears to have been 102 to 28: among the pro-Clarendon majority were the two archbishops and seventeen bishops.
"and then, in the Sixth Article (I will get a copy of them if I can) there are two or three things strangely asserted to the diminishing of the King’s power, as is said, at least things that heretofore would not have been heard of."
L&M: In the sixth article it was asserted that the proceedings of inferior courts were 'bounded and limited' by the discretion of Parliament bewcause Parliament is 'the whole Publick, comprehending the King, Lords and Commons (for the King's Presence is supposed in the Lords House)': CJ, ix. 22.
"they saying, that where any man is brought before a judge, accused of Treason in general, without specifying the particular, the judge do there constantly and is obliged to commit him."
L&M: The argument rested on the contention that in treason trials speed was essential.
"but there meeting Creed, I with him to the taverne in St. Clement’s Churchyard, where was Deane Wilkins, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Floyd, a divine admitted, I perceive, this day"
""Mr. Mills come and visited me, and stayed a little with me (my wife being to be godmother to his child to-morrow), and among other talk he told me how fully satisfactory my first Report was to the House in the business of Chatham:"
" We went through all our orders, and towards the end I do meet with two or three orders for our discharging of two or three little vessels by ticket without money, which do plunge me; but, however, I have the advantage by this means to study an answer and to prepare a defence, at least for myself."
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About Tuesday 26 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"This evening also comes to me to my closet at the Office Sir John Chichly, of his own accord, to tell me what he shall answer to the Committee, when, as he expects, he shall be examined about my Lord Sandwich; which is so little as will not hurt my Lord at all, I know."
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 13 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day Mr. Chichly told me, with a seeming trouble, that the House have stopped his son Jack (Sir John) his going to France, that he may be a witness against my Lord Sandwich: which do trouble me, though he can, I think, say little."
L&M: Sir John Chicheley had commanded the Antelope in the campaign of 1665.
About Tuesday 26 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Now that which [Thomas Warren] had promised me for the courtesy was I take it 100 pieces or more, I think more, and also for the former courtesy I had done for the getting of his first ship out for this hemp."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 25 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"This morning Sir W. Pen tells me that the House was very hot on Saturday last upon the business of liberty of speech in the House, and damned the vote in the beginning of the Long Parliament against it."
L&M note this was a misunderstanding: the resolution passed last Saturday had reaffirmed the traditional liberty of parliamentary speech. [Indeed, had strengthened it: see https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
It reaffirmed similar resolutions of 6 and 8 July 1641 which had condemned the judgement in King's Bench (1630) by which three M.P.'s (Eliot, Holles and Valentine) had been imprisoned for seditious speeches made in parliament in 1629. In 1668 Holles had the judgment reversed by the Lords. CJ, ii. 164-6.
About Sunday 5 August 1666
Terry Foreman • Link
List of colonial governors of Pennsylvania
The government of Colonial Pennsylvania (and the Lower Counties) was conducted by a set of administrators in the name of the proprietors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
#1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
William Markham (1635 – 12 June 1704) served as deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Markham was the acting governor of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1682 and from 1693 to 1699. He was a member of the Church of England and tended to favor the interests of minority religious groups in the primarily Quaker colony.
On 10 April 1681, Markham was appointed by his first cousin, Governor William Penn, and served as acting governor while Penn was in England. Markham sailed for America soon after his appointment. He landed in Boston and made his way to New York where he showed his credentials and took official control of the Delaware territories which had also been given to Penn.
On 3 August 1681, Markham arrived in Upland (now Chester, Pennsylvania), the only town in the colony at that time. He assembled a governing council that included six Quakers and three other early colonists. As governor, Markham helped select the site for Philadelphia, bought land from the Indians along the Delaware River and Pennsbury Manor, and began the discourse with Lord Baltimore over the disputed boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Penn first arrived in Pennsylvania in October 1682 and relieved Markham of his duties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
About Monday 25 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and all the morning finishing my letter to Sir Robert Brookes, which I did with great content, and yet at noon when I come home to dinner I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration, and caused it to be new writ."
L&M: Copies of drafts (23, 25 November, in Hewer'sand Pepys's hands, with a note about the alteration) are in NMM, LBK/8, , pp. 506-8. Brooke's reply (28 November) thanked Pepys for his 'ingenious narrative', and assured him that he had acquitted hinself 'as a person of much integrity': Rawl. A 191. f. 231r.
About Sunday 24 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to the office, and there for want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till now, for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book;"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 23 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"all the afternoon also busy till late preparing things to fortify myself and fellows against the Parliament; and particularly myself against what I fear is thought, that I have suppressed the Order of the Board by which the discharging the great ships off at Chatham by tickets was directed; whereas, indeed, there was no such Order."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
My wife "tells me great stories of the gossiping women of the parish — what this, and what that woman was; and, among the rest, how Mrs. Hollworthy is the veriest confident bragging gossip of them all, which I should not have believed; but that Sir R. Brookes, her partner"
L&M: At the christening.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604., Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655.
London,: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard, 1655.
Early English Books Online [full text]
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"On this occasion, Dr. Whistler told a pretty story related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius...."
L&M: John Caius was a scholar and physician, and co-founder of Gonville and Caius [pronounced KEYS] College, Cambridge; he died in 1573 at the age of 63. The story appears in Dr Thomas Moffett's Health Improvement (1655), p. 123; 'What made Dr Caius in his last sickness so peevish and so full of frets at Cambridge, when he suckt one woman (whon I spare to name) froward of conditions and bad diet; and contrariwise so quiet and well, when he suckt another of contrary disposition?' Similarly, 'what made Iupiter and Aegystus so lecherous, but that they were chiefly fed with goats milk?'
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"the Commons did desire a free conference: but the Lords do deny it; and the reason is, that they hold not the Commons any Court, but that themselves only are a Court, and the Chief Court of judicature, and therefore are not to dispute the laws and method of their own Court with them that are none, and so will not submit so much as to have their power disputed."
L&M: A free conference -- i.e. one at which any subject could be raised -- would have given the Commons the chance of raising this constitutional issue. The Lords had their way: a conference was held on the 25th in which they replied to the Commons' 'Reasons'; on the 28th a conference was held on the question of committing Clarendon on a general charge of treason.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"This made the opposite Lords, as Bristoll and Buckingham, so mad, that they declared and protested against it...and that they desired they might enter their dissents, which they did do, in great fury."
L&M: LJ, XII. 141-2; a protest signed by 28 peers, including Buckingham and Bristol: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The right of a minority to enter and sign in the House's journal a dissenting opinion was one of the peers' privileges.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"But then the question being put among the Lords, as my Lord Bristoll advised, whether, upon the whole matter and Reasons that had been laid before them, they would commit my Lord Clarendon, it was carried five to one against it; there being but three Bishops against him, of whom Cosens and Dr. Reynolds were two, and I know not the third."
L&M: Pepys is probably wrong about Reynolds: the three anti-Clarendonian bishop who signed the minority protest which followed were Cosin (Durham), Croft (Hereford), and Lucy (St David's). LJ, xii. 142. The voting appears to have been 102 to 28: among the pro-Clarendon majority were the two archbishops and seventeen bishops.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"and then, in the Sixth Article (I will get a copy of them if I can) there are two or three things strangely asserted to the diminishing of the King’s power, as is said, at least things that heretofore would not have been heard of."
L&M: In the sixth article it was asserted that the proceedings of inferior courts were 'bounded and limited' by the discretion of Parliament bewcause Parliament is 'the whole Publick, comprehending the King, Lords and Commons (for the King's Presence is supposed in the Lords House)': CJ, ix. 22.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"they saying, that where any man is brought before a judge, accused of Treason in general, without specifying the particular, the judge do there constantly and is obliged to commit him."
L&M: The argument rested on the contention that in treason trials speed was essential.
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I do hear, that upon the reading of the House of Commons’s Reasons of the manner of their proceedings in the business of my Lord Chancellor,"
L&M: The Commons had presented to the Lords a statement of of their case arguing 'Reasons' why the upper House should concur in committing anyone impeached by the Commons.
See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
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Conference with Lords- Non-commitment of Lord Clarendon.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Thursday 21 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"but there meeting Creed, I with him to the taverne in St. Clement’s Churchyard, where was Deane Wilkins, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Floyd, a divine admitted, I perceive, this day"
L&M: This was presumably William Loyd (Bishop of st Asaph, 1680; later of Lichfield and of Worcester). a friend of Wilkins, whom he helped with his linguistic studies (see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… ; Burnet, i. 339).
But he was never made a fellow of the Royal Society. The tavern has not been identified.
About Wednesday 20 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
""Mr. Mills come and visited me, and stayed a little with me (my wife being to be godmother to his child to-morrow), and among other talk he told me how fully satisfactory my first Report was to the House in the business of Chatham:"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 20 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
" We went through all our orders, and towards the end I do meet with two or three orders for our discharging of two or three little vessels by ticket without money, which do plunge me; but, however, I have the advantage by this means to study an answer and to prepare a defence, at least for myself."
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…