cumgranosalis, you are correct - SP would know if "He did give it in rhyme" - perhaps early Middle English, not the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf - there is perhaps this shady area that language hat could clarify.
If it was so, it was in Old English, ergo forgettable for one without a cultivated ear for Anglo-Sacon proverbs.
Perhaps unavailable online, cf. *An Old English Miscellany Containing A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs Of Alfred And Religious Poems Of The Thirteenth Century* ed. Richard Morris http://www.amazon.com/Miscellany-…
The deal about the sentence about the deal about deals
"Luellin having again told me by myself that Deering is content to give me 50l. if I can sell his deals for him to the King, not that I did ever offer to take it, or bid Luellin bargain for me with him, but did tacitly seem to be willing to do him what service I could in it, and expect his thanks, what he thought good."
Dering should be Edward - Eastland merchant for naval materials from the Baltic -rather than Richard (whom I annotated because his name was there).
deals http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… has Phil's copy of Nix's terrific clarification of timber products by that name that were used in shipbuilding.
Discussion of this business prospect was initiated last Saturday 12 December - another day marked by news of a death - Pepys apparently responding to knowledge that Luellin had an excess of deals at the end of the year - "To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me. He tells me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a good woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death, being in good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell. Then he began to tell me that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to me that if I would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would give me 50 pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe him to the benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare me 200l. per annum out of his profits. I was glad to hear both of these, but answered him no further than that as I would not by any thing be bribed to be unjust in my dealings,1 so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to do him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as he thought fit. So I expect to hear more of it. I did make very much of Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business" [Sorry, but it was a very detailed, long entry] http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
10 December 1663, Pepys bought an early edition of the work, but Pepys Library contains a later edition, sc. PARIVAL (I. de) [ HOLLANDE ]. Les Délices de la Hollande, contenans une description fort exacte de son païs, de ses villes, & de la condition de ses habitans [Š]. Amsterdam, Jean Bouman, 1678 [The Delights of Holland, containing an extremely exact description of its countryside, its cities, & the condition of its inhabitants.] http://www.argusdubibliophile.com…
PARIVAL, J.[N.] DE Les delices de la Hollande. Avec un traité du gouvernement, et un abregé de ce qui s'est passé de plus memorable jusques à l'an de grace 1660. Ouvrage revue, corrigé, changé & fort augmanté par J. de Parival, Leiden: Charles Gerstecoren, 1660.
[roughly] PARIVAL, J[EAN NICOLAS] DE. The Delights of Holland. With a treatise on its government, and a sketch of what is most memorable there in the Year of Grace 1660. The work revised, corrected, changed and fully augmented by J. de Parival, Leiden: Charles Gerstecoren, 1660....
Later printings also appeared without the name of de Parival, and illustrated with engravings. ...A Dutch translation appeared in 1661 under the title ` De vermaeckelyckheden van Holland.' http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/steu…
"Are they just now taking the figurehead of Cromwell off the former Naseby? Its been nearly three years now since the monarchy returned. Why the delay?" Rod McCaslin, Exactly!! And for almost three years the Naseby's been called "The Royal Charles" - the King's son with the Head of his father's Usurper. And why are "they" the Comptroller and the Surveyor of the Navy , who ceremoniously decapitate Charles (as it were) - but really take Cromwell's Head. Why don't they put it on a pike?!
"Several times lately, Pepys has commented on the amount of daylight to be seen when he gets up in the morning, or at evening. Since this isn't a new phenomenon, do you think he's suddenly turned his unquenchable curiosity this way?"
Patricia, alert to the smallest clues, as usual. Might Pepys's remarking on this also be a symptom that, in the back of his mind is the observation of 19 February 1662/63 - "my eyes begin to fail me, looking so long by candlelight upon white paper." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"During the Livonia Wars (1558-1582) the Livonia Confederation was dissolved. South-west part of Estonia and north-east part of Latvia was ceded to Poland and there was formed the Duchy of Livonia (Pardaugavas hercogiste). The part of Latvia west of Daugava River to Baltic Sea formed up another new region, the Duchy of Courland and Semigalia (Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste). It was dependent from Grand duke of Lithuania, later from the king of Poland & Lithuania. Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Order of Livonia, became the first duke of Courland." http://www.geocities.com/Athens/O…
"pulling down and burning of the [figure]head of the [ship The Royal] Charles, where Cromwell was placed with people [of 6 nations] under his horse, and Peter [Hugh Peters?], as the Duke called him, is praying to him;" to be replaced with a figure-head of Neptune.
What is this play to public acclaim about - with Trayned Bands and all - by men of supposed dignity?
pratique Ship's license for port facilities, awarded on presentation of a clean bill of health (Select Glossary)
L&M remind us that Leghorn was a port used by English ships for victualling, etc., but now the Spanish were spreading the rumor that these ships were bringing plague from Tangier, and so should be denied pratique.
"Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham"
"When Charles's second parliament met on the 6th of February 1626, it was not long before, under Eliot's guidance, it asked for Buckingham's punishment [for a failed attempt to take Cadiz, etc.]. He was impeached before the House of Lords on a long string of charges. Many of these charges were exaggerated, and some were untrue. His real crime was his complete failure as the leader of the administration. But as long as Charles refused to listen to the complaints of his minister's incompetency, the only way in which the Commons could reach him was by bringing criminal charges against him. Charles dissolved his second parliament as he had dissolved his first. Subsequently the Star Chamber declared the duke innocent of the charges, and on the 1st of June Buckingham was elected chancellor of Cambridge University. " http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/G…
Bob Blair emailed that it "surprises me that [Rushworth's 'Historical Collection'] cited hundreds of times by Hume, Macaulay, Ranke, Gardiner, Firth, and so on to the present day hasn't been scanned" and available in digital form. It was also consulted by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Abraham Lincoln.
------------------------------------- HEARD ON CAMPUS ------------------------------------- "This is just like Sex and the City!"
-- Drama students, open being introduced to the witty, topical and frankly sexy Restoration-era comedies of the 17th-century playwright John Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh's plays are the inspiration for artist-in-residence Amy Freed's play Restoration Comedy, the centerpiece of Stanford Summer Theater's 2006 Festival. http://www.stanfordalumni.org/new…
The will of Mazarin figures in the plot of *The Vicomte de Bragelonne*, Chs. XLIX-LVII Vol. I (1848 -- 1850) by Alexandre Dumas http://classicreader.com/booktoc.…
Comments
First Reading
About Tuesday 15 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"I did cause the money to be paid [Thomas, of the Poultry Counter], and Griffin to tell [count] it out to him in the office"
If this is the end of the Field business, it's with a whimper.
About Tuesday 15 December 1663
Terry F • Link
cumgranosalis, you are correct - SP would know if "He did give it in rhyme" - perhaps early Middle English, not the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf - there is perhaps this shady area that language hat could clarify.
About Tuesday 15 December 1663
Terry F • Link
The memorable verses Pepys forgot, L&M say, was one of the "Proverbs of Alfred" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_…
If it was so, it was in Old English, ergo forgettable for one without a cultivated ear for Anglo-Sacon proverbs.
Perhaps unavailable online, cf. *An Old English Miscellany Containing A Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs Of Alfred And Religious Poems Of The Thirteenth Century* ed. Richard Morris
http://www.amazon.com/Miscellany-…
About Tuesday 15 December 1663
Terry F • Link
The deal about the sentence about the deal about deals
"Luellin having again told me by myself that Deering is content to give me 50l. if I can sell his deals for him to the King, not that I did ever offer to take it, or bid Luellin bargain for me with him, but did tacitly seem to be willing to do him what service I could in it, and expect his thanks, what he thought good."
Dering should be Edward - Eastland merchant for naval materials from the Baltic -rather than Richard (whom I annotated because his name was there).
deals http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… has Phil's copy of Nix's terrific clarification of timber products by that name that were used in shipbuilding.
Discussion of this business prospect was initiated last Saturday 12 December - another day marked by news of a death - Pepys apparently responding to knowledge that Luellin had an excess of deals at the end of the year - "To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me. He tells me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a good woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death, being in good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell. Then he began to tell me that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to me that if I would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would give me 50 pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe him to the benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare me 200l. per annum out of his profits. I was glad to hear both of these, but answered him no further than that as I would not by any thing be bribed to be unjust in my dealings,1 so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to do him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as he thought fit. So I expect to hear more of it. I did make very much of Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business" [Sorry, but it was a very detailed, long entry] http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Parivel's 'Les délices de la Hollande'
Terry F • Link
10 December 1663, Pepys bought an early edition of the work, but Pepys Library contains a later edition, sc.
PARIVAL (I. de) [ HOLLANDE ]. Les Délices de la Hollande, contenans une description fort exacte de son païs, de ses villes, & de la condition de ses habitans [Š]. Amsterdam, Jean Bouman, 1678
[The Delights of Holland, containing an extremely exact description of its countryside, its cities, & the condition of its inhabitants.] http://www.argusdubibliophile.com…
About Parivel's 'Les délices de la Hollande'
Terry F • Link
PARIVAL, J.[N.] DE Les delices de la Hollande. Avec un traité du gouvernement, et un abregé de ce qui s'est passé de plus memorable jusques à l'an de grace 1660. Ouvrage revue, corrigé, changé & fort augmanté par J. de Parival, Leiden: Charles Gerstecoren, 1660.
[roughly] PARIVAL, J[EAN NICOLAS] DE. The Delights of Holland. With a treatise on its government, and a sketch of what is most memorable there in the Year of Grace 1660. The work revised, corrected, changed and fully augmented by J. de Parival, Leiden: Charles Gerstecoren, 1660....
Later printings also appeared without the name of de Parival, and illustrated with engravings. ...A Dutch translation appeared in 1661 under the title ` De vermaeckelyckheden van Holland.' http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/steu…
About Monday 14 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"Are they just now taking the figurehead of Cromwell off the former Naseby? Its been nearly three years now since the monarchy returned. Why the delay?"
Rod McCaslin, Exactly!!
And for almost three years the Naseby's been called "The Royal Charles" - the King's son with the Head of his father's Usurper. And why are "they" the Comptroller and the Surveyor of the Navy , who ceremoniously decapitate Charles (as it were) - but really take Cromwell's Head. Why don't they put it on a pike?!
About Monday 14 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"Several times lately, Pepys has commented on the amount of daylight to be seen when he gets up in the morning, or at evening. Since this isn't a new phenomenon, do you think he's suddenly turned his unquenchable curiosity this way?"
Patricia, alert to the smallest clues, as usual.
Might Pepys's remarking on this also be a symptom that, in the back of his mind is the observation of 19 February 1662/63 - "my eyes begin to fail me, looking so long by candlelight upon white paper." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Duke of Corland
Terry F • Link
Kettler, Friedrich Casimir, duke of Courland, 1650-1698.
http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oa…
"During the Livonia Wars (1558-1582) the Livonia Confederation was dissolved. South-west part of Estonia and north-east part of Latvia was ceded to Poland and there was formed the Duchy of Livonia (Pardaugavas hercogiste). The part of Latvia west of Daugava River to Baltic Sea formed up another new region, the Duchy of Courland and Semigalia (Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste). It was dependent from Grand duke of Lithuania, later from the king of Poland & Lithuania. Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Order of Livonia, became the first duke of Courland." http://www.geocities.com/Athens/O…
About Monday 14 December 1663
Terry F • Link
L&M clarify Sirs Mennes and Batten's histrionic
"pulling down and burning of the [figure]head of the [ship The Royal] Charles, where Cromwell was placed with people [of 6 nations] under his horse, and Peter [Hugh Peters?], as the Duke called him, is praying to him;" to be replaced with a figure-head of Neptune.
What is this play to public acclaim about - with Trayned Bands and all - by men of supposed dignity?
About Monday 14 December 1663
Terry F • Link
pratique
Ship's license for port facilities, awarded on presentation of a clean bill of health (Select Glossary)
L&M remind us that Leghorn was a port used by English ships for victualling, etc., but now the Spanish were spreading the rumor that these ships were bringing plague from Tangier, and so should be denied pratique.
About Sunday 13 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham"
"When Charles's second parliament met on the 6th of February 1626, it was not long before, under Eliot's guidance, it asked for Buckingham's punishment [for a failed attempt to take Cadiz, etc.]. He was impeached before the House of Lords on a long string of charges. Many of these charges were exaggerated, and some were untrue. His real crime was his complete failure as the leader of the administration. But as long as Charles refused to listen to the complaints of his minister's incompetency, the only way in which the Commons could reach him was by bringing criminal charges against him. Charles dissolved his second parliament as he had dissolved his first. Subsequently the Star Chamber declared the duke innocent of the charges, and on the 1st of June Buckingham was elected chancellor of Cambridge University. " http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/G…
Bob Blair emailed that it "surprises me that [Rushworth's 'Historical Collection'] cited hundreds of times by Hume, Macaulay, Ranke, Gardiner, Firth, and so on to the present day hasn't been scanned" and available in digital form. It was also consulted by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Abraham Lincoln.
About Sunday 13 December 1663
Terry F • Link
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HEARD ON CAMPUS
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"This is just like Sex and the City!"
-- Drama students, open being introduced to the witty, topical and frankly sexy Restoration-era comedies of the 17th-century playwright John Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh's plays are the inspiration for artist-in-residence Amy Freed's play Restoration Comedy, the centerpiece of Stanford Summer Theater's 2006 Festival.
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/new…
Vanbrugh's plays are after the Diary - he will be born next month (Jan 24, 1664). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John…
About Rushworth's 'Historical Collections'
Terry F • Link
John Rushworth - image and biography
http://www.rushworth.com/jr/index…
About Saturday 12 December 1663
Terry F • Link
Per Clement - Berkeley & Carteret's New Jersey - a colony religiously and politically confounded from the beginnings.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/…
About Mazarin's 'Le Testament du Defunt Cardinal Jul. Mazarini, Duc de Nivernois, Premier Ministre du Roi de France'
Terry F • Link
The will of Mazarin figures in the plot of *The Vicomte de Bragelonne*, Chs. XLIX-LVII Vol. I (1848 -- 1850) by Alexandre Dumas http://classicreader.com/booktoc.…
About Königsberg, E. Prussia
Terry F • Link
A map of contemporary Kaliningrad, was Königsberg - capital city of Kaliningrad Oblast ~ roughly the area of E. Prussia in the late 17th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…
About Saturday 12 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"the King [of France] hath unduked twelve Dukes"
L&M say that in this My Lord Berkeley was premature: for two years there had been an investigation of false patents of nobility.
What? False patents of nobility? Incroyable!!!
About Saturday 12 December 1663
Terry F • Link
"...fish and keeping of Lent; which Mr. Gauden so much insists upon to have it observed,"
L&M say the fish was purchased "locally" so it would be fresh - hence the issue of recompense to Mr. Gauden.
About Friday 11 December 1663
Terry F • Link
Heydon Haidenam: St. Ethelreda's, Ely; Robert FitzRozelin. 10 bee-hives.
This is the only reference my search yielded; perhaps others can do better. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/cam…