"But this, with new building, may be made an excellent pretty thing, and I resolve to look after it as soon as I can, and Goody Gorum dies. "
L&M: By Robert Pepys's will. ownership of the alehouse kept in Brampton by Mrs Gorham was to pass to Pepys's father at her death, and to Pepys after his father's death.
"Carl in Boston on 11 Oct 2010 Paulina will have the last laugh? Surely that event isn't in the diary, it must have happened after the diary stopped. What happened to give her the last laugh?"
"I a little troubled that my father tells me that he is troubled that my wife shows my sister no countenance, and, him but very little, but is as a stranger in the house; and I do observe she do carry herself very high; but I perceive there was some great falling out when she was here last,"
"But I do find, by her, that they are reduced to great straits for money, having been forced to sell her plate, 8 or 900l. worth; and she is now going to sell a suit of her best hangings, of which I could almost wish to buy a piece or two, if the pieces will be broke. But the house is most excellently furnished, and brave rooms and good pictures, so that it do please me infinitely beyond Audley End. "
L&M: Horace Walpole wrote an account of the pictures in 1763: see Pub. Walpole Soc., xvi. 49-50. There is a catalogue raisonné (MS., 1840) at Mapperton, Dorset. For a list c. 1910 see [8th Earl of Sandwich,] Hinchingbrooke (priv. ptd, 1910), pp. 33+ . Celia Fiennes in 1697 remarked on 'a fine picture of Venus were it not too much uncloth'd': Journeys (ed. Morris), pp. 66-7. The collection was partially dispersed at Sotheby's, 4 December 1957.
"come to Brampton at about noon, and there find my father and sister and brother all well and here laid up our things, and up and down to see the garden with my father, and the house, and do altogether find it very pretty; especially the little parlour and the summerhouses in the garden,"
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourable Margaret Audley, daughter of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar…
"However, I was pleased with them, being all of us in very good humour, and so through the town, and observed at our College of Magdalene the posts new painted, and understand that the Vice- Chancellor is there this year."
L&M: John Howorth, Master of Magdalene, 1664-8, was Vice-Chancellor, 1667-8, and died in office. The posts dated from 1585 (when the gate was built) and bore the arms of the college's visitor, Lord Howard de Walden (later Earl of Suffolk, d. 1626). They have now disappeared. See David Loggan, Cantab. Illust. (1690), pl. xxviii; cf. E. K. Purnell, Hist. Magdalene Coll. p. 15.
SIR, I have seen your scip-jack singers flie, As if their motion taugh't Ubiquitie: I've seen the trembling Cat'lin's smart and brisk Start from the frets, dance, leap, and nimbly frisk In palsie capers, pratling (a most sweet Language of Notes) Curranto's as they meet: I've heard each string speak in so short a space As if all spoke at once; with stately grace The surley tenour grumble at your touch, And th' ticklish-maiden treble laugh as much, Which (if your bowe-hand whip it wantonly,) Most pertly chirps and jabbers merrily; Li'e frolic Nightingals, whose narrow throats Suck Musick in and out, and gargle notes; [Page 57]Each strain makes smooth, and curles the air agen, Like currents suck't by narrow whirlepits in; Sometimes they murmur like the shallow springs, Whose hastie streams forc't into Crystal rings, And check't by pebbles, pretty Musick make In kisses and such language as they speak, 'Tis soft and easie, Heaven can't out-do't, That under Fairie-ground is nothing to't: Who e're that earthly mortal Cherub be, Whose well-tun'd soul delights in melodie: He ventures hard, if for an houre he dares To your surprizing straines apply his eares, We finde such Magick in your Harmony, As if to hear you were to hear and die. Were you a Batchelour, and bold to trie Fortunes, what Lady's she, though ne're so high And rich by birth, should see the tickling sport Your finger makes, and would not have you for't; Beyond those Saints who speak ex tempore, Your well-spoke viol scornes tautologie; And I in truth had rather hear you teach O'th' Lyra, then the rarest tub-man preach: In's holy speeches he may strike my eares With more of Heav'n; you with more o'th' spheres, I've heard your base mumble and mutter too, Made angry with your cholerick hand, while you With hastie jirks to vex and anger't more Correct its stubbornnesse and lash it o're: I've heard you pawse, and dwell upon an aire, (Then make't i'th' end (as lost to part it were) [Page 58] Languish and melt away so leasurely,) As if 'twere pity that its Eccho die; Then snatch up notes, as if your viol broke, And in the breaking every splinter spoke: I've seen your active hands vault to and fro, This to give grace, that to command your bowe; As if your singers and your instrument By conspiration made you eminent. We have good Musick and Musicians here, If not the best, as good as any where: A brave old Irish Harper, and you know English or French way few or none out-go Our Lutanists; the Lusemores too I think For Organists, the Sack-buts breath may stink, And yet old Brownes be sweet, o'th' Violin Saunders plays well, where Magge or Mel han't been. Then on his Cornet brave thanksgiving Mun, Playes on Kings Chappel after Sermon's done: http://tei.it.ox.ac.uk/tcp/Texts-…
"Saunders, the only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in the late plague there."
L&M: Possibly Saunders was one of the family of musicians of that name whose house in Green St, Cambridge, had been shut up in the plague in October 1665: see J. R. Wardale (ed.) Clare College letters, pp. 69-70. He was the violinist to whose performances a double-edged compliment was pain by the Cambridge poet, Nicholas Hookes (a contemporary of Pepys at the university): 'O' the' Violin Saunders plays well where Magge or Mel han't been' (Amanda, 1653, p. 58).
Perhaps Betty Aynsworth’s most well known visitor was Samuel Pepys, who made several entries in his diary referring to the ‘Raynedeere’:
7th October 1667 : ..and before night did come to Bishop Stafford {sic}, to the Rayndeere – where Mrs Aynsworth (who lived heretofore at Cambridge and whom I knew better than they think for, doth live – it was that woman that, among other things, was great with my cosen Barmston of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him and did teach me ‘Full forty times over’, a very lewd song) doth live, a woman they are very well acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all goodfellows of the country come hither. We to supper and so to bed. And lay very well, but there was so much tearing company in the house, that we could not see my landlady, so I had no opportunity of renewing my old acquaintance with her. But here we slept very well.
23rd May 1668 : ..I with the boy Tom, whom I take with me, to the Bull in Bishopsgate Street and there about 6 took coach, and so away to Bishops Stafford {sic}, and there dine and change horses and coach at Mrs Aynsworth’s; but I took no knowledge of her. Here I hear Mrs Aynsworth is going to live at London; but I believe will be mistaken in it, for it will be found better for her to be chief where she is then to have little to do at London, there being many finer then she there.
By ‘taking no knowledge of her’ it would seem there may have have been some ‘falling out’ between Pepys and Betty because on his return journey from Cambridge he dined at the Boar’s Head in Windhill (See Guide 4).
26th May 1668 : .. and so about noon came to Bishop’s Stafford {sic} to another house then what we were at the other day, and better used; and here I paid for the reckoning 11s, we dining all together and pretty merry.
"Bishop Stafford, where Lowther and his friend did meet us again, and carried us to the Raynedeere, where Mrs. Aynsworth, who lived heretofore at Cambridge, and whom I knew better than they think for, do live."
Elizabeth Aynsworth [a notorious procuress] had been banished from Cambridge by the university authorities and had settled at the Reindeer Inn at Bishop's Stortford, Herts., a well-known stopping place on the road between London and Newmarket. There she throve and she became involved in in an affray in 1677. On one occasion the proctor who had sent her away from Cambridge dined there. He was served with a 'most elegant supper all in plate' which he and his party 'were afraid to touch lest they should have a lord's reckoning to pay. Upon which the woman appeared, and said it was the least she could do in return of that Gentleman's whipping her out, by which she had so much advanced herself'. [A gentleman] New and Complete Hist. Essex (1770), iii, 130-1.
"the other house carrying away all the people at the new play, and is said, now-a-days, to have generally most company, as being better players. By and by into the pit, and there saw the play,"
L&M: It is generally agreed that the Duke's Company, headed by Thomas Betterton, was superior to the King's Company. For the pit, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"to Mrs. Pierces, by invitation to dinner, where I find her painted, which makes me loathe her"
L&M: Pepys loathed cosmetic paint: cf. e.g. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… Mrs Pearse was described in 1678 as having a complexion 'florid and pure red without paint': J. Yonge, Journal (ed. Poynter), p. 156.
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About Thursday 10 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"But this, with new building, may be made an excellent pretty thing, and I resolve to look after it as soon as I can, and Goody Gorum dies. "
L&M: By Robert Pepys's will. ownership of the alehouse kept in Brampton by Mrs Gorham was to pass to Pepys's father at her death, and to Pepys after his father's death.
About Thursday 10 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Carl in Boston on 11 Oct 2010
Paulina will have the last laugh? Surely that event isn't in the diary, it must have happened after the diary stopped. What happened to give her the last laugh?"
L&M: Paulina Pepys was now 27. She married John Jackson of Ellington, Hunts., 28 March 1667/68. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 10 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Then walked round about our Greene, to see whether, in case I cannot buy out my uncle Thomas and his son’s right in this house"
L&M: See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 9 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"I a little troubled that my father tells me that he is troubled that my wife shows my sister no countenance, and, him but very little, but is as a stranger in the house; and I do observe she do carry herself very high; but I perceive there was some great falling out when she was here last,"
L&M: In June.
About Wednesday 9 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"But I do find, by her, that they are reduced to great straits for money, having been forced to sell her plate, 8 or 900l. worth; and she is now going to sell a suit of her best hangings, of which I could almost wish to buy a piece or two, if the pieces will be broke. But the house is most excellently furnished, and brave rooms and good pictures, so that it do please me infinitely beyond Audley End. "
L&M: Horace Walpole wrote an account of the pictures in 1763: see Pub. Walpole Soc., xvi. 49-50. There is a catalogue raisonné (MS., 1840) at Mapperton, Dorset. For a list c. 1910 see [8th Earl of Sandwich,] Hinchingbrooke (priv. ptd, 1910), pp. 33+ . Celia Fiennes in 1697 remarked on 'a fine picture of Venus were it not too much uncloth'd': Journeys (ed. Morris), pp. 66-7. The collection was partially dispersed at Sotheby's, 4 December 1957.
About Wednesday 9 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"come to Brampton at about noon, and there find my father and sister and brother all well and here laid up our things, and up and down to see the garden with my father, and the house, and do altogether find it very pretty; especially the little parlour and the summerhouses in the garden,"
L&M: Cf. the alterations made in 1662:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 9 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Baron Howard de Walden is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by writ of summons in 1597 by Queen Elizabeth I for Admiral Lord Thomas Howard, a younger son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife, the Honourable Margaret Audley, daughter of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar…
About Wednesday 9 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"However, I was pleased with them, being all of us in very good humour, and so through the town, and observed at our College of Magdalene the posts new painted, and understand that the Vice- Chancellor is there this year."
L&M: John Howorth, Master of Magdalene, 1664-8, was Vice-Chancellor, 1667-8, and died in office. The posts dated from 1585 (when the gate was built) and bore the arms of the college's visitor, Lord Howard de Walden (later Earl of Suffolk, d. 1626). They have now disappeared. See David Loggan, Cantab. Illust. (1690), pl. xxviii; cf. E. K. Purnell, Hist. Magdalene Coll. p. 15.
About Humphrey Madge
Terry Foreman • Link
MADGE, HUMPHREY (d. 1679). Violin; wind instruments, 1660-1679
https://books.google.com/books?id…
About Tuesday 8 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
To Mr. LILLY, Musick-Master in Cambridge.
SIR, I have seen your scip-jack singers flie,
As if their motion taugh't Ubiquitie:
I've seen the trembling Cat'lin's smart and brisk
Start from the frets, dance, leap, and nimbly frisk
In palsie capers, pratling (a most sweet
Language of Notes) Curranto's as they meet:
I've heard each string speak in so short a space
As if all spoke at once; with stately grace
The surley tenour grumble at your touch,
And th' ticklish-maiden treble laugh as much,
Which (if your bowe-hand whip it wantonly,)
Most pertly chirps and jabbers merrily;
Li'e frolic Nightingals, whose narrow throats
Suck Musick in and out, and gargle notes;
[Page 57]Each strain makes smooth, and curles the air agen,
Like currents suck't by narrow whirlepits in;
Sometimes they murmur like the shallow springs,
Whose hastie streams forc't into Crystal rings,
And check't by pebbles, pretty Musick make
In kisses and such language as they speak,
'Tis soft and easie, Heaven can't out-do't,
That under Fairie-ground is nothing to't:
Who e're that earthly mortal Cherub be,
Whose well-tun'd soul delights in melodie:
He ventures hard, if for an houre he dares
To your surprizing straines apply his eares,
We finde such Magick in your Harmony,
As if to hear you were to hear and die.
Were you a Batchelour, and bold to trie
Fortunes, what Lady's she, though ne're so high
And rich by birth, should see the tickling sport
Your finger makes, and would not have you for't;
Beyond those Saints who speak ex tempore,
Your well-spoke viol scornes tautologie;
And I in truth had rather hear you teach
O'th' Lyra, then the rarest tub-man preach:
In's holy speeches he may strike my eares
With more of Heav'n; you with more o'th' spheres,
I've heard your base mumble and mutter too,
Made angry with your cholerick hand, while you
With hastie jirks to vex and anger't more
Correct its stubbornnesse and lash it o're:
I've heard you pawse, and dwell upon an aire,
(Then make't i'th' end (as lost to part it were)
[Page 58] Languish and melt away so leasurely,)
As if 'twere pity that its Eccho die;
Then snatch up notes, as if your viol broke,
And in the breaking every splinter spoke:
I've seen your active hands vault to and fro,
This to give grace, that to command your bowe;
As if your singers and your instrument
By conspiration made you eminent.
We have good Musick and Musicians here,
If not the best, as good as any where:
A brave old Irish Harper, and you know
English or French way few or none out-go
Our Lutanists; the Lusemores too I think
For Organists, the Sack-buts breath may stink,
And yet old Brownes be sweet, o'th' Violin
Saunders plays well, where Magge or Mel han't been.
Then on his Cornet brave thanksgiving Mun,
Playes on Kings Chappel after Sermon's done:
http://tei.it.ox.ac.uk/tcp/Texts-…
About Tuesday 8 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Saunders, the only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in the late plague there."
L&M: Possibly Saunders was one of the family of musicians of that name whose house in Green St, Cambridge, had been shut up in the plague in October 1665: see J. R. Wardale (ed.) Clare College letters, pp. 69-70. He was the violinist to whose performances a double-edged compliment was pain by the Cambridge poet, Nicholas Hookes (a contemporary of Pepys at the university):
'O' the' Violin
Saunders plays well
where Magge or Mel han't been'
(Amanda, 1653, p. 58).
About Tuesday 8 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Only the gallery is good"
L&M: Evelyn (1 September 1654) thought this 'most cheerful, and I thinke, one of the best in England'.
About Audley End House, Essex
Terry Foreman • Link
Audley End - images
https://www.google.com/search?q=a…
About Full Forty Times Over
Terry Foreman • Link
The full lyrics of the song, taken from Supplement of Reserved Songs form Merry Drollery (1661):
Full forty times over. [p. 61.] [scroll down on this page]
http://www.horntip.com/html/books…
About Monday 7 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
Samuel Pepys
Perhaps Betty Aynsworth’s most well known visitor was Samuel Pepys, who made several entries in his diary referring to the ‘Raynedeere’:
7th October 1667 : ..and before night did come to Bishop Stafford {sic}, to the Rayndeere – where Mrs Aynsworth (who lived heretofore at Cambridge and whom I knew better than they think for, doth live – it was that woman that, among other things, was great with my cosen Barmston of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him and did teach me ‘Full forty times over’, a very lewd song) doth live, a woman they are very well acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all goodfellows of the country come hither. We to supper and so to bed. And lay very well, but there was so much tearing company in the house, that we could not see my landlady, so I had no opportunity of renewing my old acquaintance with her. But here we slept very well.
23rd May 1668 : ..I with the boy Tom, whom I take with me, to the Bull in Bishopsgate Street and there about 6 took coach, and so away to Bishops Stafford {sic}, and there dine and change horses and coach at Mrs Aynsworth’s; but I took no knowledge of her. Here I hear Mrs Aynsworth is going to live at London; but I believe will be mistaken in it, for it will be found better for her to be chief where she is then to have little to do at London, there being many finer then she there.
By ‘taking no knowledge of her’ it would seem there may have have been some ‘falling out’ between Pepys and Betty because on his return journey from Cambridge he dined at the Boar’s Head in Windhill (See Guide 4).
26th May 1668 : .. and so about noon came to Bishop’s Stafford {sic} to another house then what we were at the other day, and better used; and here I paid for the reckoning 11s, we dining all together and pretty merry.
Bishop’s Stortford & Thorley - A History and Guide
Market Square (Reindeer Inn)
http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk…
About Monday 7 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"Bishop Stafford, where Lowther and his friend did meet us again, and carried us to the Raynedeere, where Mrs. Aynsworth, who lived heretofore at Cambridge, and whom I knew better than they think for, do live."
Elizabeth Aynsworth [a notorious procuress] had been banished from Cambridge by the university authorities and had settled at the Reindeer Inn at Bishop's Stortford, Herts., a well-known stopping place on the road between London and Newmarket. There she throve and she became involved in in an affray in 1677. On one occasion the proctor who had sent her away from Cambridge dined there. He was served with a 'most elegant supper all in plate' which he and his party 'were afraid to touch lest they should have a lord's reckoning to pay. Upon which the woman appeared, and said it was the least she could do in return of that Gentleman's whipping her out, by which she had so much advanced herself'. [A gentleman] New and Complete Hist. Essex (1770), iii, 130-1.
About Saturday 5 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"the other house carrying away all the people at the new play, and is said, now-a-days, to have generally most company, as being better players. By and by into the pit, and there saw the play,"
L&M: It is generally agreed that the Duke's Company, headed by Thomas Betterton, was superior to the King's Company. For the pit, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 5 September 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds only from their want of company in the pit"
L&M: The pit usually contained the most discriminating of the playgoers.
About Saturday 5 October 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
""But, Lord! to see how they were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them;"
L&M: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Monday 16 September 1667
Terry Foreman • Link
"to Mrs. Pierces, by invitation to dinner, where I find her painted, which makes me loathe her"
L&M: Pepys loathed cosmetic paint: cf. e.g. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… Mrs Pearse was described in 1678 as having a complexion 'florid and pure red without paint': J. Yonge, Journal (ed. Poynter), p. 156.