"All the morning Mr. Hater and the boy did shut up themselves at my house doing something towards the finishing the abstract book of our contracts for my pocket,"
"for preventing the Parliament’s having them in their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said against us from any of our orders,"
"Up, and all the morning at my office shut up with Mr. Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the war"
L&M: Untraced; probably the 'Books containing the Abstracts of Orders' listed in the inventory of books remaining in the office of the Clerk of the Acts, October 1688: BM, Add. 9303, f. 124r.
"I was told this day that Lory Hide, second son of my Lord Chancellor, did some time since in the House say, that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement against him: which Mr. Waller, the poet, did say was spoke like the old Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness."
L&M: Laurence Hyde's speech (29 October), but not Waller's comment, is reported in Grey, i. 10-11. It also appears in L. Eachard, Hist. Engl. (1720), p. 843. He desired to be accounted not so much as Clarendon's son 'as a member of this House'. He made another speech on 16 November calling for his father to be put on trial: Grey, i. 41. Burnet's view (i. 463) was that Hyde was insincere, and playing for political survival. But the speeches may also be read as a challenge to his father's opponents to prove their charge of treason: cf. his brother Cornbury's speech reported later in this week: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"hence before noon I, by the Board’s direction, to the Parliament House to speak with Sir R. Brookes about the meaning of an order come to us this day to bring all the books of the office to the Committee. I find by him that it is only about the business of an order of ours for paying off the ships by ticket, which they think I on behalf of my Lord Bruncker do suppress,"
"I laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, and clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took great pains."
L&M: Pepys's rough longhand notes (undated) are in Rawl. A 191, ff. 175-93, 245-8, endorsed: 'An Assortment of my severall Collections out of our Bookes of Letters Orders and Memorandums &c. upon severall points to bee made use of in the prepareing a defence for thr Officers of the Navy to bee delivered in Parliament touching the business of Ticketts. Memd. That what I finde lyn'd out heerin is what I tooke thence to be perticularly mencioned in my discourse to the Parliament as appeares in my Paper I provided for my Memory contayning the Heads thereof.'
"but this man says that he is one of the most perfect heavenly and charitable men in the whole world."
L&M: According to Clarendon (Life, ii. 223) no-one had 'a more general reputation of virtue and piety and unquestionable integrity throughout the kingdom': cf. also Burnet, l. 180.
"That Sir Edward Nicholas, whom he served while Secretary, is one of the best men in the world, but hated by the Queen-Mother, for a service he did the old King against her mind and her favourites; and that she and my Lady Castlemayne did make the King to lay him aside:"
L&M: For Nicholas's dismissal in 1662, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… His disagreements with Henrietta-Maria were numerous: perhaps that most likely in this context was that which arose from his share in the dismissal of the Queen's Capuchins in November 1641.
"That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this day, and is an excellent and able person."
L&M: Henry Coventry (brother of Sir William; M.P. for Droitwich; Secretary of State, 1672-80) was always noted for his candour: cf. Burnet, i. 548-9. He had several times argued in Clarendon's favour, and on 26 October had urged the Commons not to proceed further against him since he was 'cast off and laid aside by his master': Milward, p. 95; see also ib., p. 101: Grey, i. 15; above, p. 476. Coventry's repute now stood high because of his services in concluding the recent peace with the Dutch.
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so. With the prize money from the raids he purchased three large sugar plantations on the island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen…
"That this Lord Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon’s business."
L&M: For the part played in Clarendon by Lord Vaughan (later 3rd Earl of Carberry), M.P. for Carmarthen borough, see Clarendon, Life, iii. 317-18; cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… He asked for the paper that had been presented from the Committee, and with his own hand entered these words: 'that being a Privy Counselor he [Clarendon] had discovered the King's secrets to the enemy [the French] According to Clarendon (loc. cit.), he was 'a person of as ill a face as fame'. As Governor of Jamaica (1675-8) he was later said to have 'carried many shauntelmen of Wales . . . and sold 'em there for slaves, as he did his chaplain, to a blacksmith/: HMC, Rep. , 7/508. He was a ptron of Dryden and an associate of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan.
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so. With the prize money from the raids he purchased three large sugar plantations on the island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen…
"That this Lord Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon’s business. That he do find that my Lord Clarendon hath more friends in both Houses than he believes he would have, by reason that they do see what are the hands that pull him down; which they do not like. That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this day, and is an excellent and able person."
L&M: For the part played in Clarendon by Lord Vaughan (later 3rd Earl of Carberry), M.P. for Carmarthen borough, see Clarendon, Life, iii. 317-18; cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… He asked for the paper that had been presented from the Committee, and with his own hand entered these words: 'that being a Privy Counselor he [Clarendon] had discovered the King's secrets to the enemy [the French] According to Clarendon (loc. cit.), he was 'a person of as ill a face as fame'. As Governor of Jamaica (1675-8) he was later said to have 'carried many shauntelmen of Wales . . . and sold 'em there for slaves, as he did his chaplain, to a blacksmith/: HMC, Rep. , 7/508. He was a ptron of Dryden and an associate of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan.
"And [Mr Shepley] being gone, and what company there was, my father and I, with a dark lantern; it being now night, into the garden with my wife, and there went about our great work to dig up my gold."
Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was built around an 11th-century Benedictine nunnery. After the Reformation it passed into the hands of the Cromwell family, and subsequently, became the home of the Earls of Sandwich, including John Goddard, 4th Earl of Sandwich, reputedly the "inventor" of the modern sandwich.
On 8 March 1538, Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) had the grant of the nunnery of Hinchinbrooke, in Huntingdonshire, for the undervalued price of £19. 9s. 2d. while he was an official Visitor overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries.[1] His son, Henry Williams (alias Cromwell)—a grandfather of Oliver Cromwell—built the house adjoining to the nunnery,[2] and upon the bow windows he put the arms of his family, with those of several others to whom he was allied.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hin…
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Second Reading
About Wednesday 20 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"All the morning Mr. Hater and the boy did shut up themselves at my house doing something towards the finishing the abstract book of our contracts for my pocket,"
L&M: Untraced. For the office contract-books, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 20 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"for preventing the Parliament’s having them in their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said against us from any of our orders,"
L&M: Parliament was likely to criticise any dilatoriness: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 20 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Up, and all the morning at my office shut up with Mr. Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the war"
L&M: Untraced; probably the 'Books containing the Abstracts of Orders' listed in the inventory of books remaining in the office of the Clerk of the Acts, October 1688: BM, Add. 9303, f. 124r.
About Tuesday 19 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I was told this day that Lory Hide, second son of my Lord Chancellor, did some time since in the House say, that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement against him: which Mr. Waller, the poet, did say was spoke like the old Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness."
L&M: Laurence Hyde's speech (29 October), but not Waller's comment, is reported in Grey, i. 10-11. It also appears in L. Eachard, Hist. Engl. (1720), p. 843. He desired to be accounted not so much as Clarendon's son 'as a member of this House'. He made another speech on 16 November calling for his father to be put on trial: Grey, i. 41. Burnet's view (i. 463) was that Hyde was insincere, and playing for political survival. But the speeches may also be read as a challenge to his father's opponents to prove their charge of treason: cf. his brother Cornbury's speech reported later in this week: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 19 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"My father did also this week, by Shepley, return me up a ‘guinny, which, it seems, upon searching the ground, they have found since I was there."
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 19 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Here I did stand by unseen, and did hear their impertinent yet malicious examinations of some rogues about the business of Bergen,"
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 19 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
L&M: Pepys and his colleagues were not above suppressing a letter which implicated Coventry: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 19 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"hence before noon I, by the Board’s direction, to the Parliament House to speak with Sir R. Brookes about the meaning of an order come to us this day to bring all the books of the office to the Committee. I find by him that it is only about the business of an order of ours for paying off the ships by ticket, which they think I on behalf of my Lord Bruncker do suppress,"
L&M: The Navy Board had authorized the use of tickets on a large scale for paying off ships at Chatham in December 1666. For Brouncker's responsibilities in the matter, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
For Pepys's defense, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 24 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, and clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took great pains."
L&M: Pepys's rough longhand notes (undated) are in Rawl. A 191, ff. 175-93, 245-8, endorsed: 'An Assortment of my severall Collections out of our Bookes of Letters Orders and Memorandums &c. upon severall points to bee made use of in the prepareing a defence for thr Officers of the Navy to bee delivered in Parliament touching the business of Ticketts. Memd. That what I finde lyn'd out heerin is what I tooke thence to be perticularly mencioned in my discourse to the Parliament as appeares in my Paper I provided for my Memory contayning the Heads thereof.'
About Sunday 17 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Then home, and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller’s Church History"
L&M: A favorite book for Sunday reading: see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"but this man says that he is one of the most perfect heavenly and charitable men in the whole world."
L&M: According to Clarendon (Life, ii. 223) no-one had 'a more general reputation of virtue and piety and unquestionable integrity throughout the kingdom': cf. also Burnet, l. 180.
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That Sir Edward Nicholas, whom he served while Secretary, is one of the best men in the world, but hated by the Queen-Mother, for a service he did the old King against her mind and her favourites; and that she and my Lady Castlemayne did make the King to lay him aside:"
L&M: For Nicholas's dismissal in 1662, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
His disagreements with Henrietta-Maria were numerous: perhaps that most likely in this context was that which arose from his share in the dismissal of the Queen's Capuchins in November 1641.
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this day, and is an excellent and able person."
L&M: Henry Coventry (brother of Sir William; M.P. for Droitwich; Secretary of State, 1672-80) was always noted for his candour: cf. Burnet, i. 548-9. He had several times argued in Clarendon's favour, and on 26 October had urged the Commons not to proceed further against him since he was 'cast off and laid aside by his master': Milward, p. 95; see also ib., p. 101: Grey, i. 15; above, p. 476. Coventry's repute now stood high because of his services in concluding the recent peace with the Dutch.
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Sir Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so. With the prize money from the raids he purchased three large sugar plantations on the island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen…
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That this Lord Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon’s business."
L&M: For the part played in Clarendon by Lord Vaughan (later 3rd Earl of Carberry), M.P. for Carmarthen borough, see Clarendon, Life, iii. 317-18; cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
He asked for the paper that had been presented from the Committee, and with his own hand entered these words: 'that being a Privy Counselor he [Clarendon] had discovered the King's secrets to the enemy [the French] According to Clarendon (loc. cit.), he was 'a person of as ill a face as fame'. As Governor of Jamaica (1675-8) he was later said to have 'carried many shauntelmen of Wales . . . and sold 'em there for slaves, as he did his chaplain, to a blacksmith/: HMC, Rep. , 7/508. He was a ptron of Dryden and an associate of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan.
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so. With the prize money from the raids he purchased three large sugar plantations on the island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen…
About Saturday 16 November 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"That this Lord Vaughan, that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon’s business. That he do find that my Lord Clarendon hath more friends in both Houses than he believes he would have, by reason that they do see what are the hands that pull him down; which they do not like. That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this day, and is an excellent and able person."
L&M: For the part played in Clarendon by Lord Vaughan (later 3rd Earl of Carberry), M.P. for Carmarthen borough, see Clarendon, Life, iii. 317-18; cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
He asked for the paper that had been presented from the Committee, and with his own hand entered these words: 'that being a Privy Counselor he [Clarendon] had discovered the King's secrets to the enemy [the French] According to Clarendon (loc. cit.), he was 'a person of as ill a face as fame'. As Governor of Jamaica (1675-8) he was later said to have 'carried many shauntelmen of Wales . . . and sold 'em there for slaves, as he did his chaplain, to a blacksmith/: HMC, Rep. , 7/508. He was a ptron of Dryden and an associate of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan.
About Thursday 10 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"And [Mr Shepley] being gone, and what company there was, my father and I, with a dark lantern; it being now night, into the garden with my wife, and there went about our great work to dig up my gold."
L&M: Hidden there by Pepys's wife and father in the previous June during the invasion scare: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Nun's Bridge, Huntingdon
Terry Foreman • Link
Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was built around an 11th-century Benedictine nunnery. After the Reformation it passed into the hands of the Cromwell family, and subsequently, became the home of the Earls of Sandwich, including John Goddard, 4th Earl of Sandwich, reputedly the "inventor" of the modern sandwich.
On 8 March 1538, Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) had the grant of the nunnery of Hinchinbrooke, in Huntingdonshire, for the undervalued price of £19. 9s. 2d. while he was an official Visitor overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries.[1] His son, Henry Williams (alias Cromwell)—a grandfather of Oliver Cromwell—built the house adjoining to the nunnery,[2] and upon the bow windows he put the arms of his family, with those of several others to whom he was allied.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hin…
About Nun's Bridge, Huntingdon
Terry Foreman • Link
Nun's Bridge, Huntingdon
At the foot of Hinchingbrooke Hill; the house was built on the site of a nunnery