Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets, and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses."
The Question being put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 28 April 1662', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 438-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 11 May 2007.
This Act renews/amends previous such Acts -- in the Interregnum (Acts of 20 Sept. 1649, 7 January, 1652/3.) and the Tudor period ACTS CONCERNING PRINTING (1530-85), (A) Proclamation against Erroneous Books (1530), (B) Decree in Star Chamber concerning Books (1566) in which the Wardens of the Stationers Company were given censorship responsibility, and C) Decree in Star Chamber Concerning Printers (1585) http://www.constitution.org/sech/…
(The text:) An Act For the Uniformity of Publick Prayers; and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies: And for the establishing the Form of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Church of England. http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bc…
(1661, December 20. 13 Charles II, st. 2., c. 1. 5 S. R. 321. The whole reprinted in G. and H. 594-600.)
WHEREAS questions are likely to arise concerning the validity of elections of magistrates and other officers and members in corporations, as well in respect of removing some as placing others, during the late troubles, contrary to the true intent and meaning of their charters and liberties; and to the end that the succession in such corporations may be most probably perpetuated in the hands of persons well affected to His Majesty and the established government, it being too well known that notwithstanding all His Majesty's endeavours and unparalleled indulgence in pardoning all that is past, nevertheless many evil spirits are still working: .... http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken…
The Corporation Act of 1661 is an Act of the Parliament of England (13 Cha. II. St. 2 c. 1). It belongs to the general category of test acts, designed for the express purpose of restricting public offices in England to members of the Church of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corp…
[441] The end of the strictly feudal period of English land law came in 1660, when Tenures Abolition Act 1660 abolished most of the remaining incidents of tenure. The Act converted all tenures into free and common socage, and prohibited other types of tenure being created in future. It also abolished all incidents of value, except forfeiture and escheat. Socage tenure was not affected, except by the abolition of incidents (of which aids had been the only one in any way burdensome). http://mysite.dingley.net/samfred…
Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for preventing the Disturbances of Seamen and others, and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesty's Navy Royal."
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 4 April 1664', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 591-92. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 09 May 2007.
Iudoco Maes, a Portuguese Jew, had attempted to escape England in December, 1663, having been imprisoned for involvement with two-score Lonson merchants in a scheme whereby some English ships had allegedly sailed in 1662 with a cargo of sugar from Portugal's colony, Brazil, to London, without paying duties due Portugal.
Some English ships had allegedly sailed with a cargo of sugar from Portugal's colony, Brazil, to London, evading duties due Portugal, and Maes involved, in league with two-score Lonson merchants.
Michael, the Johnson book is indeed revealing. We learn that Phineas Pett, after "cyphering, drawing and practising to attain the knowledge of my profession, and I then found Mr Baker sometime forward to give me instructions, from whose help I must acknowledge I received my greatest lights." Is it clear how we are to understand "instructions"? (correction-plus?!)
Perhaps this? "Pett's casual comment that Baker's instruction was given in the evenings also suggests a deeper point. Shipwrights traditionally learnt their trade by the observation and imitation of a master out in the shipyard. The art was passed on during the hours of the working day and the process did not demand literacy or formal numeracy. But Baker was sponsoring an alternative approach to teaching, carried out when work was over. Facility in calculation and draughting techniques was developed and literacy probably assumed. Baker was promoting a form of training separate from the exercise of the craft at the workplace."
If this is what Deane was stressing, I am surprised Pepys is not more expliciy about the mathematics, a hobby-horse of his in which he has taken pride.
Thanks to Michael Robinson for sharpening this question.
If what we know about shipbuilding of the time is well-served by archaeological finds and the study of wrecks, there is more to the matter than what can be known by examining the models and drawings of ships and remains of shipyards that are available. And methinks the more is what Deane is providing.
24 December, 1663, finds Christopher Pett, because of Pepys's kindness to Deane, "offering to do [Pepys] all the service, either by draughts or modells that I should desire." But not instruction in his own methods -- the "more.".
Does Deane use a model like Cooper did, or drawings like Baker's that Pepys glimpsed? Are drawings better than models? Does he use algorithms? (If this last, I'd think Pepys would mention it.)
cape henry's sage observation surely holds. "The development of ships was that era's space race and every technological edge would have been guarded for as long as it could be protected." Only *after* Medway "The works of Nicholaes Witsen (1671) and Cornelius van IJk (1697) are essential sources for the study of 17th-century Dutch shipbuilding. Their works are the earliest and only two Dutch manuscripts on shipbuilding from the 17th century. Nicolaes Witsen's book Architectura navalis et regimen nauticum was first published in Amsterdam in 1671." http://nautarch.tamu.edu/SHIPLAB/…
Can we know what Deane is teaching Pepys and how? Perhaps not.
October 4, 1660: "Lieut. Lambert and I did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship that I desired to understand." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
July 30. 1662-Aug 12 Richard Cooper, the one-eyed sailing-master, comes to Pepys's office and begins to instruct him about ships from Lord Sandwich's model of the Royal James housed there pro tem. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
29 Septenber 1962 "Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he had promised me; but it so far exceeds my expectations, that I am sorry almost he should make such a present to no greater a person; but I am exceeding glad of it, and shall study to do him a courtesy for it."
For a model ship worth studying see the one GrahamT photographed at the Pepys Exhibition. London Museum May 2003 and posted for the rest of us: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grah…
"The development of ships was that era's space race and every technological edge would have been guarded for as long as it could be protected."
Well said, cape henry. This search for a technological edge also extended to navigational aids, esp. the search for a device to calculate longitude reliably.
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About Monday 28 April 1662
Terry F • Link
This Day in the House of Lords
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets, and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses."
The Question being put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 28 April 1662', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 438-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 11 May 2007.
Licensing of the Press Act 1662
[an article that ends with a link to the Act's full text)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lice…
This Act renews/amends previous such Acts -- in the Interregnum (Acts of 20 Sept. 1649, 7 January, 1652/3.) and the Tudor period ACTS CONCERNING PRINTING (1530-85), (A) Proclamation against Erroneous Books (1530), (B) Decree in Star Chamber concerning Books (1566) in which the Wardens of the Stationers Company were given censorship responsibility, and C) Decree in Star Chamber Concerning Printers (1585)
http://www.constitution.org/sech/…
About Monday 9 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Jeannine! -- now performing at the Mitre with The Perfidious Rogues.
About Monday 19 May 1662
Terry F • Link
Act of Uniformity 1662
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_…
(The text:) An Act
For the Uniformity of Publick Prayers; and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies: And for the establishing the Form of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Church of England.
http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bc…
(1662, May 19. 13 & 14 Charles II. c. 4. 5 S. R. 364. The whole reprinted in G. and H. 600-619.) http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken…
About Friday 20 December 1661
Terry F • Link
Corporation Act
(1661, December 20. 13 Charles II, st. 2., c. 1. 5 S. R. 321. The whole reprinted in G. and H. 594-600.)
WHEREAS questions are likely to arise concerning the validity of elections of magistrates and other officers and members in corporations, as well in respect of removing some as placing others, during the late troubles, contrary to the true intent and meaning of their charters and liberties; and to the end that the succession in such corporations may be most probably perpetuated in the hands of persons well affected to His Majesty and the established government, it being too well known that notwithstanding all His Majesty's endeavours and unparalleled indulgence in pardoning all that is past, nevertheless many evil spirits are still working: .... http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken…
The Corporation Act of 1661 is an Act of the Parliament of England (13 Cha. II. St. 2 c. 1). It belongs to the general category of test acts, designed for the express purpose of restricting public offices in England to members of the Church of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corp…
About Monday 24 December 1660
Terry F • Link
Act abolishing Relics of Feudalism and Fixing an Excise
(1660. December 24. 12 Charles II c. 24. 5 S. R. 259.)
[Short title: Tenures Abolition Act 1660] http://home.freeuk.net/don-aitken…
[441] The end of the strictly feudal period of English land law came in 1660, when Tenures Abolition Act 1660 abolished most of the remaining incidents of tenure.
The Act converted all tenures into free and common socage, and prohibited other types of tenure being created in future.
It also abolished all incidents of value, except forfeiture and escheat.
Socage tenure was not affected, except by the abolition of incidents (of which aids had been the only one in any way burdensome). http://mysite.dingley.net/samfred…
About Wednesday 4 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Also in Lords's: Seamen and Navy Stores Bill.
Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for preventing the Disturbances of Seamen and others, and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesty's Navy Royal."
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 4 April 1664', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 591-92. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
Date accessed: 09 May 2007.
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Jesse, I agree. I should have writ "In public piety, an ebb season...." The inner Puritan and moralist is still there.
About Wednesday 10 February 1663/64
Terry F • Link
Source for the previous post was L&M.
About Iudoco Maes
Terry F • Link
The sail from Brazil to London occurred in 1662. (L&M)
About Wednesday 10 February 1663/64
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Maes' business"
Iudoco Maes, a Portuguese Jew, had attempted to escape England in December, 1663, having been imprisoned for involvement with two-score Lonson merchants in a scheme whereby some English ships had allegedly sailed in 1662 with a cargo of sugar from Portugal's colony, Brazil, to London, without paying duties due Portugal.
About Iudoco Maes
Terry F • Link
"evasion of the duties"
Some English ships had allegedly sailed with a cargo of sugar from Portugal's colony, Brazil, to London, evading duties due Portugal, and Maes involved, in league with two-score Lonson merchants.
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
"After dinner he went away, and my wife and I to church"
Again, minimally observant -- he's a public servant -- and not engaged by the worship service. In piety, an ebb season, for some reason.
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Robert, 'tis a pity we aren't all connected by audio/webcams so you can hear the laughter when we read your stuff!
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Reducing expectations (getting real) re the building of a ship:
Yesterday: "I think I shall soon understand it."
Today: "I hope I shall soon understand it."
A familiar experience.
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
"At least Sam could set up a deal...."
Jeannine, wheeler-dealer! Compliments. Pepys passing up plus pence?
About Sunday 8 May 1664
Terry F • Link
A suit and cloak in four days!
Mr. Langford's shop's not busy yet, and he hopes Pepys's custom will set a trend.
About Saturday 7 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Michael, the Johnson book is indeed revealing. We learn that Phineas Pett, after "cyphering, drawing and practising to attain the knowledge of my profession, and I then found Mr Baker sometime forward to give me instructions, from whose help I must acknowledge I received my greatest lights." Is it clear how we are to understand "instructions"? (correction-plus?!)
Perhaps this? "Pett's casual comment that Baker's instruction was given in the evenings also suggests a deeper point. Shipwrights traditionally learnt their trade by the observation and imitation of a master out in the shipyard. The art was passed on during the hours of the working day and the process did not demand literacy or formal numeracy. But Baker was sponsoring an alternative approach to teaching, carried out when work was over. Facility in calculation and draughting techniques was developed and literacy probably assumed. Baker was promoting a form of training separate from the exercise of the craft at the workplace."
If this is what Deane was stressing, I am surprised Pepys is not more expliciy about the mathematics, a hobby-horse of his in which he has taken pride.
About Saturday 7 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Can we know what Deane is teaching Pepys and how?
Thanks to Michael Robinson for sharpening this question.
If what we know about shipbuilding of the time is well-served by archaeological finds and the study of wrecks, there is more to the matter than what can be known by examining the models and drawings of ships and remains of shipyards that are available. And methinks the more is what Deane is providing.
24 December, 1663, finds Christopher Pett, because of Pepys's kindness to Deane, "offering to do [Pepys] all the service, either by draughts or modells that I should desire." But not instruction in his own methods -- the "more.".
Does Deane use a model like Cooper did, or drawings like Baker's that Pepys glimpsed? Are drawings better than models? Does he use algorithms? (If this last, I'd think Pepys would mention it.)
cape henry's sage observation surely holds. "The development of ships was that era's space race and every technological edge would have been guarded for as long as it could be protected." Only *after* Medway "The works of Nicholaes Witsen (1671) and Cornelius van IJk (1697) are essential sources for the study of 17th-century Dutch shipbuilding. Their works are the earliest and only two Dutch manuscripts on shipbuilding from the 17th century. Nicolaes Witsen's book Architectura navalis et regimen nauticum was first published in Amsterdam in 1671." http://nautarch.tamu.edu/SHIPLAB/…
Can we know what Deane is teaching Pepys and how? Perhaps not.
About Saturday 7 May 1664
Terry F • Link
Ship models and Pepys's study of them
October 4, 1660:
"Lieut. Lambert and I did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship that I desired to understand."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
July 30. 1662-Aug 12
Richard Cooper, the one-eyed sailing-master, comes to Pepys's office and begins to instruct him about ships from Lord Sandwich's model of the Royal James housed there pro tem. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
29 Septenber 1962
"Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he had promised me; but it so far exceeds my expectations, that I am sorry almost he should make such a present to no greater a person; but I am exceeding glad of it, and shall study to do him a courtesy for it."
For a model ship worth studying see the one GrahamT photographed at the Pepys Exhibition. London Museum May 2003 and posted for the rest of us:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grah…
About Saturday 7 May 1664
Terry F • Link
"The development of ships was that era's space race and every technological edge would have been guarded for as long as it could be protected."
Well said, cape henry. This search for a technological edge also extended to navigational aids, esp. the search for a device to calculate longitude reliably.