The vow's also monetized - no breaking it, no fine.
"I...bespoke 'Rushworth's Collections,' and 'Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,' &c., which I will make the King pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all."
Historical Collections, 8 volumes (1659-70), by John Rushworth (c. 1612 - 1690) compiled from shorthand notes taken down at actual meetings of the Star Chamber, Exchequer Chamber and Parliament, covering the period down to 1648. Rushworth had been appointed assistant clerk to the Long Parliament in 1640, and was there when King Charles came to arrest the five members; he made notes of the king's speech, which Charles ordered to be published. Rushworth similarly recorded the trial of Strafford. Rushworth was often employed as messenger between king and parliament and was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Fairfax (1645-48). He wrote an eye-witness account of the Battle of Naseby, and was later secretary to Cromwell for a short time. He sat several times as parliamentary representative for Berwick and was also a freeman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
"nobody could say they knew of the thing itself what I writ"
Is he also being less than honest with himself? Can he bear to admit to himself that he read what he writ to Mr. Moore? Or has he pursued the matter so relentlessly, with so many people, in so many ways that his memory's befogged?
since, as L&M say, punctuation is largely editorial, let us accept it. BTW, their reading is "we saluted one another but spoke but not one word of what had passed yesterday between us" - not as clear as yours.
"The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme"
Expressing Pepys's fondest wishes:
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-…
Setting fees? When? On what basis? SP spent a great deal of political capital, time, and energy getting Sir G. Carteret to concede Creed's accounts credible. Though Samuel couches it in terms of a sum, this is a matter of honor and chum-ship betrayed!!
JWB, good find, and a plausible explanation. Terrorism by the Restoration regime - making sure its brutality is known across the country - is constent with the periodic alarms in London, and the ongoing discussion in Parliament of measures to be taken against "the disaffected" - Papists and "Conventicles."
JOHN RUSHWORTH (c. 1612 - 1690) 'Historical John' as Carlyle called him, was born at Acklington Park, Warkworth. His great claim to fame lies in the 8 volumes of Historical Collections (1659-70), compiled from shorthand notes taken down at actual meetings of the Star Chamber, Exchequer Chamber and Parliament, covering the period down to 1648. Rushworth had been appointed assistant clerk to the Long Parliament in 1640, and was there when King Charles came to arrest the five members; he made notes of the king's speech, which Charles ordered to be published. Rushworth similarly recorded the trial of Strafford. Rushworth was often employed as messenger between king and parliament and was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Fairfax (1645-48). He wrote an eye-witness account of the Battle of Naseby, and was later secretary to Cromwell for a short time. He sat several times as parliamentary representative for Berwick and was also a freeman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Historical Collections are regarded as the most valuable source available for the study of the Civil War, but Rushworth's influence was also present during the constitutional arguments that raged between the American colonists and the British government in the period leading up to the American War of Independence. 'What we did,' said Thomas Jefferson, 'was with the help of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for revolutionary precedents of those days.' According to the Harleian MS. 7524 (says Isaac D'Israeli in his Curiosities of Literature), when Rushworth presented the king with several of the Privy Council's books, which he had preserved from ruin, he received for his only reward the thanks of his majesty. John Aubrey records seeing Rushworth in 1689: 'He hath quite lost his memory with drinking Brandy... His landlady wiped his nose like a child. He was about 83, onwards to 84. He had forgot his children before he died. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
Henry Scobell (d. 1660), Clerk of Parliament (1649-58) and of Lords (1659-60). Author of tracts on parliamentary procedure, and a collection of the *Acts and Ordinances of the Long Parliament* [aka the Rump], called by Pepys *Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament* when he acquired it Nov. 1663; also generally known and cited as *Scobell's Acts* by Thos. Jefferson, and in American law. (L&M Companion, et al.)
"In 1663, a Second Navigation Act forbade English colonists to trade with other European countries. In addition, European goods bound for America had to be unloaded at English ports and reshipped. Export duties and profits to middlemen then made prices of the goods prohibitive in the Colonies." http://www.britannia.com/history/… "The second Navigation Act of the Restoration, which was introduced into the lower house and passed the first reading on 8 May 1663, was intended to remedy the defects of the act of 1660 by making the infringement of the law more difficult. Debated from time to time, it passed the third reading in the commons on 13 June and was brought into the house of lords on the 19th, where it was at once referred to a committee of which Lord Berkeley was chairman. If it was not the parliamentary discussion on the Navigation Act, it was the general interests in trade of which that was an expression, that led the king to issue an order in council, 6 July 1663, requiring the colonial governors to enforce the act of 1660. But it was believed in England that the infringement of the act on the coast of North America was largely due to the presence of a Dutch colony midway between New England and Maryland [New Amsterdam], and the Council for Foreign Plantations gladly welcomed an English claim for New Netherlands. In 1661 the earl of Stirling had presented a petition to the king claiming the territory and complaining of the intrusion of the Dutch; but it seems not to have been considered until the discussion on trade in the summer of 1663, and a renewal of the claim led the Council for Foreign Plantations to examine the whole matter. At a meeting of which Lord Berkeley was president it was resolved to investigate the English title to New Netherlands, the intrusion and strength of the Dutch, and the means whereby they could be made to acknowledge English sovereignty or withdraw. Among the colonial state papers is a document by an unknown author, who claims New Netherlands for the English by right of discovery, and suggests that the English occupation has been prevented by the Dutch. The language of the writer is violent and his statements are a gross perversion of the truth, but he perhaps expresses the feeling in official circles towards the close of 1663. 'Trade has been wrested from the English merchants, as may be seen by the Dutch returns of last year, 1662. This miserable state of English interests in that part of the world calls aloud for remedy, that they may no longer sustain the intolerable disgrace of submitting to the intrusion of such monsters and bold usurpers.'64 However shadowy may have been the English title to New Netherlands it was believed that claims for such title could be advanced, and the Dutch-English antagonism would not permit those claims to lie dormant. "Action was all the more likely because at the opening of the new year, 1664, war. between Holland and England was considered *possible* [my emphasis]. To the contest for trade, especially in Africa, was added a dispute at home. One article of the treaty of 1662 provided that neither state should permit enemies of the other to remain within its boundaries. The Restoration had driven many republicans to Rotterdam, where they were conspiring with others at home for the re-establishment of independency; and Clarendon considered that the banishment of those men from Holland was included in this provision." http://www.dinsdoc.com/schoolcraf…
He does record having conversations about the possibility of war, as though this were part of the buzz. I wonder whether he brings up the topic? The 2 Oct entry sounds like he might, but today...?
The L&M Companion lists only the Fleet Street and the Eastcheap taverns by the name in the Diary time. Mary, I'm not sure how a "Globe" in Cornhill or Greenwich - which would indeed be more handy to Deptford - is evidenced.
Having paid off the Milford "in short order," Pepys is now back in central London at the Globe on the n. side of Fleet St, west of Shoe Lane, near the northeast corner of this segment of the Rocque 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
18 November 1663 Pepys bought and read "a little book of new poems of Cowley's"
Abraham Cowley - Verses Written on Several Occasions (1663) Available in digital format via Early English Books Online http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
Abraham Cowley - Verses Written on Several Occasions (1663) Available in digital format via Early English Books Online http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
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About Monday 23 November 1663
Terry F • Link
The vow's also monetized - no breaking it, no fine.
"I...bespoke 'Rushworth's Collections,' and 'Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,' &c., which I will make the King pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all."
About Rushworth's 'Historical Collections'
Terry F • Link
Historical Collections, 8 volumes (1659-70), by John Rushworth (c. 1612 - 1690) compiled from shorthand notes taken down at actual meetings of the Star Chamber, Exchequer Chamber and Parliament, covering the period down to 1648. Rushworth had been appointed assistant clerk to the Long Parliament in 1640, and was there when King Charles came to arrest the five members; he made notes of the king's speech, which Charles ordered to be published. Rushworth similarly recorded the trial of Strafford.
Rushworth was often employed as messenger between king and parliament and was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Fairfax (1645-48). He wrote an eye-witness account of the Battle of Naseby, and was later secretary to Cromwell for a short time. He sat several times as parliamentary representative for Berwick and was also a freeman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
About Sunday 22 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"nobody could say they knew of the thing itself what I writ"
Is he also being less than honest with himself? Can he bear to admit to himself that he read what he writ to Mr. Moore? Or has he pursued the matter so relentlessly, with so many people, in so many ways that his memory's befogged?
About Sunday 22 November 1663
Terry F • Link
language hat, a proper reading!
since, as L&M say, punctuation is largely editorial, let us accept it. BTW, their reading is "we saluted one another but spoke but not one word of what had passed yesterday between us" - not as clear as yours.
About Sunday 22 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme"
Expressing Pepys's fondest wishes:
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-…
About Saturday 21 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"by coach to Ludgate"
Wonder how much it cost Pepys to price Creed's gift-horse?
Any idea about the cost of coach-transport?
About Saturday 21 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Pepys justly ballistic!!
Setting fees? When? On what basis? SP spent a great deal of political capital, time, and energy getting Sir G. Carteret to concede Creed's accounts credible. Though Samuel couches it in terms of a sum, this is a matter of honor and chum-ship betrayed!!
About Friday 20 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"to strike terror into the disaffected"
JWB, good find, and a plausible explanation. Terrorism by the Restoration regime - making sure its brutality is known across the country - is constent with the periodic alarms in London, and the ongoing discussion in Parliament of measures to be taken against "the disaffected" - Papists and "Conventicles."
About Friday 20 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"...looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White seas, and Archangell river..."
L&M note the Navy Board are worried about an overdue hemp ship from that region.
About John Rushworth
Terry F • Link
JOHN RUSHWORTH MP, KC
Image, bio of the man; sketch of The Rushworth Literature Enterprise
http://www.rushworth.com/jr/index…
About John Rushworth
Terry F • Link
JOHN RUSHWORTH (c. 1612 - 1690)
'Historical John' as Carlyle called him, was born at Acklington Park, Warkworth. His great claim to fame lies in the 8 volumes of Historical Collections (1659-70), compiled from shorthand notes taken down at actual meetings of the Star Chamber, Exchequer Chamber and Parliament, covering the period down to 1648. Rushworth had been appointed assistant clerk to the Long Parliament in 1640, and was there when King Charles came to arrest the five members; he made notes of the king's speech, which Charles ordered to be published. Rushworth similarly recorded the trial of Strafford.
Rushworth was often employed as messenger between king and parliament and was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Fairfax (1645-48). He wrote an eye-witness account of the Battle of Naseby, and was later secretary to Cromwell for a short time. He sat several times as parliamentary representative for Berwick and was also a freeman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The Historical Collections are regarded as the most valuable source available for the study of the Civil War, but Rushworth's influence was also present during the constitutional arguments that raged between the American colonists and the British government in the period leading up to the American War of Independence. 'What we did,' said Thomas Jefferson, 'was with the help of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for revolutionary precedents of those days.'
According to the Harleian MS. 7524 (says Isaac D'Israeli in his Curiosities of Literature), when Rushworth presented the king with several of the Privy Council's books, which he had preserved from ruin, he received for his only reward the thanks of his majesty.
John Aubrey records seeing Rushworth in 1689: 'He hath quite lost his memory with drinking Brandy... His landlady wiped his nose like a child. He was about 83, onwards to 84. He had forgot his children before he died.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
About Henry Scobell
Terry F • Link
Henry Scobell (d. 1660), Clerk of Parliament (1649-58) and of Lords (1659-60). Author of tracts on parliamentary procedure, and a collection of the *Acts and Ordinances of the Long Parliament* [aka the Rump], called by Pepys *Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament* when he acquired it Nov. 1663; also generally known and cited as *Scobell's Acts* by Thos. Jefferson, and in American law. (L&M Companion, et al.)
About Thursday 19 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Pedro, you are spot on. We (and Pepys) failed to record
The Second Navigation Act- 1663
AN ACT for the Encouragement of Trade
http://www.historycentral.com/doc…
"In 1663, a Second Navigation Act forbade English colonists to trade with other European countries. In addition, European goods bound for America had to be unloaded at English ports and reshipped. Export duties and profits to middlemen then made prices of the goods prohibitive in the Colonies."
http://www.britannia.com/history/…
"The second Navigation Act of the Restoration, which was introduced into the lower house and passed the first reading on 8 May 1663, was intended to remedy the defects of the act of 1660 by making the infringement of the law more difficult. Debated from time to time, it passed the third reading in the commons on 13 June and was brought into the house of lords on the 19th, where it was at once referred to a committee of which Lord Berkeley was chairman. If it was not the parliamentary discussion on the Navigation Act, it was the general interests in trade of which that was an expression, that led the king to issue an order in council, 6 July 1663, requiring the colonial governors to enforce the act of 1660. But it was believed in England that the infringement of the act on the coast of North America was largely due to the presence of a Dutch colony midway between New England and Maryland [New Amsterdam], and the Council for Foreign Plantations gladly welcomed an English claim for New Netherlands. In 1661 the earl of Stirling had presented a petition to the king claiming the territory and complaining of the intrusion of the Dutch; but it seems not to have been considered until the discussion on trade in the summer of 1663, and a renewal of the claim led the Council for Foreign Plantations to examine the whole matter. At a meeting of which Lord Berkeley was president it was resolved to investigate the English title to New Netherlands, the intrusion and strength of the Dutch, and the means whereby they could be made to acknowledge English sovereignty or withdraw. Among the colonial state papers is a document by an unknown author, who claims New Netherlands for the English by right of discovery, and suggests that the English occupation has been prevented by the Dutch. The language of the writer is violent and his statements are a gross perversion of the truth, but he perhaps expresses the feeling in official circles towards the close of 1663. 'Trade has been wrested from the English merchants, as may be seen by the Dutch returns of last year, 1662. This miserable state of English interests in that part of the world calls aloud for remedy, that they may no longer sustain the intolerable disgrace of submitting to the intrusion of such monsters and bold usurpers.'64 However shadowy may have been the English title to New Netherlands it was believed that claims for such title could be advanced, and the Dutch-English antagonism would not permit those claims to lie dormant.
"Action was all the more likely because at the opening of the new year, 1664, war. between Holland and England was considered *possible* [my emphasis]. To the contest for trade, especially in Africa, was added a dispute at home. One article of the treaty of 1662 provided that neither state should permit enemies of the other to remain within its boundaries. The Restoration had driven many republicans to Rotterdam, where they were conspiring with others at home for the re-establishment of independency; and Clarendon considered that the banishment of those men from Holland was included in this provision."
http://www.dinsdoc.com/schoolcraf…
About Thursday 19 November 1663
Terry F • Link
He does record having conversations about the possibility of war, as though this were part of the buzz. I wonder whether he brings up the topic? The 2 Oct entry sounds like he might, but today...?
About Thursday 19 November 1663
Terry F • Link
It seems to me it's been remarked upon how observant Pepys is of people's hands - and oft he regarded them as key indicators of character.
About Wednesday 18 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Well done, Pedro and Mary - better than L&M!
About Wednesday 18 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Globe
The L&M Companion lists only the Fleet Street and the Eastcheap taverns by the name in the Diary time. Mary, I'm not sure how a "Globe" in Cornhill or Greenwich - which would indeed be more handy to Deptford - is evidenced.
About Wednesday 18 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Globe
Having paid off the Milford "in short order," Pepys is now back in central London at the Globe on the n. side of Fleet St, west of Shoe Lane, near the northeast corner of this segment of the Rocque 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Abraham Cowley
Terry F • Link
18 November 1663 Pepys bought and read "a little book of new poems of Cowley's"
Abraham Cowley - Verses Written on Several Occasions (1663)
Available in digital format via Early English Books Online http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
Also From VERSES ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1663/1668)
http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/…
About Wednesday 18 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"a little book of new poems of Cowley's"
Abraham Cowley - Verses Written on Several Occasions (1663)
Available in digital format via Early English Books Online http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
Also From VERSES ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1663/1668)
http://etext.virginia.edu/kinney/…