Clear what he meant by it; he has not used the *word* before. He learned how to write it from *A Tutor to Tachygraphy, Or, Short-Writing; Tachygraphy* by Thomas Shelton
According to this source "There were many names for shorthand over the years - brachygraphy, tachygraphy and stenography are just a few. The word shorthand first appeared in an epitaph to be found in Westminster Abbey. It concerns William Laurence who died on December 28, 1661: 'Shorthand he wrote, his flowre in prime did fade, And hasty death shorthand of him hath made.'" http://www.ncraonline.org/about/h…
"So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my wife. And there, she being in bed, he and I alone to look again upon her parts, and there he do find that though it would not be much pain, yet she is so fearful...." Here Pepys writes in the margin > "so that upon second thoughts he believes that a fomentation will do as well,..."
Methinks Wheatley avoids "her parts" as suggesting her anatomy's anterior.
fo·men·ta·tion n. 1. A substance or material used as a warm, moist medicinal compress; a poultice. 2. The therapeutic application of warmth and moisture, as to relieve pain. http://medical-dictionary.thefree…
"Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate himself...."
L&M are kind enough to reference 12 October, where - "Mr. Coventry of his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that discourse abroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, and how he sold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to his Highness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors did, and appealed to us all...." etc. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The matter of the masts - Sir W. Batten vs. Mr. Pepys
See 14 November for the conflict - "Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the board it would. After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the fault" ...and at end of the day wrote "a letter to Sir G. Carteret about the late contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and no wrong to Sir W. Batten." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Mary's interpretation of the awkward phrase and Carteret's disingenuity sounds right to me.
"and which my heart I doubt ["suspect"] will not serve for me to see done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her."
So he flees to his office to compose himself a bit, and so to bed.
"Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward, but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it open all along,"
L&M cite a Pepys Club Occasional paper that diagnoses this as an abscess in the vulva that had become, first, an ischiorectal abscess, then a fistula, which would have been normal for surgeons to treat. This is still the case.- http://www.emedicine.com/med/topi…
King James I assembled scholars and clergyman to create a new translation of the bible to settle conflicting church dogma between Catholics and Prosestants and unite England as a nation. [Between 1603 and 1611 the three panels of experts translated but 49% of the text anew, incorporating Cranmer's Psalter, etc.]
"Mr. Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind to my Lord yesterday" "Is this a hint that among Sandwich's followers Sam is considered to be least at risk in confronting 'my lord'?"
Perhaps Sandwich was merely otherwise occupied or was "not within" when Mr. Moore dropped by - such a thing oft happens to Pepys.
JWB, it would be a shame if that were to happen. I checked the Wikipedia article on the History of Barbados and found no mention of Irish, but found this: "From the arrival of the first British settlers in 1627-1628 until independence in 1966, Barbados was under uninterrupted British control....As the sugar industry developed into the main commercial enterprise, Barbados was divided into large plantation estates which replaced the small holdings of the early British settlers....To work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa;" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
Wayneman's new situation will subject him to more discipline and control than SP ever had time to exercise over him. Perhaps, reason Our Man, the boy will learn about consequences, and become a man.
Samuel Pepys His Diary, and the world he lived in by Dr Judson Sykes Bury (1852-1944) Published in the Manchester Medical School Gazette, Vol. XIV, May 1933. .... The article is in two parts - (1) matters is the Diary that are "more than a little of medical interest" - (a) his own ailments; (b) his general observations about health and disease; (c) what he recorded about the London Plague of 1665; (2) His Personal Characteristics. which is fair and balanced. http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge…
"John Barclay (January 28, 1582 -- August 15, 1621) was a Scottish satirist and Latin poet....The literary effort of his closing years was his best-known work the Argenis, a political romance, resembling in certain respects the Arcadia of Sidney, and the Utopia of More, completed about a fortnight before his death, which has been said to have been hastened by poison." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John…
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About Tuesday 17 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Shorthand
Clear what he meant by it; he has not used the *word* before.
He learned how to write it from *A Tutor to Tachygraphy, Or, Short-Writing; Tachygraphy* by Thomas Shelton
According to this source "There were many names for shorthand over the years - brachygraphy, tachygraphy and stenography are just a few. The word shorthand first appeared in an epitaph to be found in Westminster Abbey. It concerns William Laurence who died on December 28, 1661:
'Shorthand he wrote, his flowre in prime did fade,
And hasty death shorthand of him hath made.'"
http://www.ncraonline.org/about/h…
The OED might show it attested earlier.
About Tuesday 17 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"I did take a copy of it...in shorthand"
This the first time Pepys uses this term in the Diary. Is this an early use of what was, at that time, normally called "cipher" or "cypher"?
About Tuesday 17 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Here Pepys writes in the margin - Physique > >
About Tuesday 17 November 1663
Terry F • Link
*L&M* provides what Wheatley elides
"So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my wife. And there, she being in bed, he and I alone to look again upon her parts, and there he do find that though it would not be much pain, yet she is so fearful...." Here Pepys writes in the margin > "so that upon second thoughts he believes that a fomentation will do as well,..."
Methinks Wheatley avoids "her parts" as suggesting her anatomy's anterior.
fo·men·ta·tion
n.
1. A substance or material used as a warm, moist medicinal compress; a poultice.
2. The therapeutic application of warmth and moisture, as to relieve pain.
http://medical-dictionary.thefree…
About Monday 16 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate himself...."
L&M are kind enough to reference 12 October, where - "Mr. Coventry of his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that discourse abroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, and how he sold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to his Highness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors did, and appealed to us all...." etc. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Monday 16 November 1663
Terry F • Link
The matter of the masts - Sir W. Batten vs. Mr. Pepys
See 14 November for the conflict - "Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the board it would. After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the fault" ...and at end of the day wrote "a letter to Sir G. Carteret about the late contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and no wrong to Sir W. Batten." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Mary's interpretation of the awkward phrase and Carteret's disingenuity sounds right to me.
About Monday 16 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"and which my heart I doubt ["suspect"] will not serve for me to see done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her."
So he flees to his office to compose himself a bit, and so to bed.
Jeannine, are most of your questions answered?
About Saturday 14 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"This night I think is the first that I have lain without ever a man in my house besides myself, since I came to keep any."
So he will get himself undressed before he goes to bed, and get himself dressed when he is up in the morning - very lonely, that!
About Monday 16 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward, but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it open all along,"
L&M cite a Pepys Club Occasional paper that diagnoses this as an abscess in the vulva that had become, first, an ischiorectal abscess, then a fistula, which would have been normal for surgeons to treat. This is still the case.- http://www.emedicine.com/med/topi…
Images - you are warned by Samuel Pepys - NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH. http://www.emedicine.com/med/topi…
About Sunday 15 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"Chyrurgeon" is part of the cityscape, no OED or however it's said -
27 February 1662/63 - "Commissioner Pett and I walked to Chyrurgeon's Hall" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 15 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"Any ideas of the protocol of the times for these things?"
Jeannine, all the answers to these questions will be given with tomorrow's entry.
About The Bible
Terry F • Link
Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible
by Adam Nicolson
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2003
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Glo…
AKA
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson
HarperCollins, 2003
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Secret…
King James I assembled scholars and clergyman to create a new translation of the bible to settle conflicting church dogma between Catholics and Prosestants and unite England as a nation. [Between 1603 and 1611 the three panels of experts translated but 49% of the text anew, incorporating Cranmer's Psalter, etc.]
About Sunday 15 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Barbadoed Irish with sources -
JWB, this annotation is a worthy contribution to yesterday's discussion.
About Saturday 14 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind to my Lord yesterday"
"Is this a hint that among Sandwich's followers Sam is considered to be least at risk in confronting 'my lord'?"
Perhaps Sandwich was merely otherwise occupied or was "not within" when Mr. Moore dropped by - such a thing oft happens to Pepys.
About Saturday 14 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Wayneman in the cane with Irish?
JWB, it would be a shame if that were to happen. I checked the Wikipedia article on the History of Barbados and found no mention of Irish, but found this: "From the arrival of the first British settlers in 1627-1628 until independence in 1966, Barbados was under uninterrupted British control....As the sugar industry developed into the main commercial enterprise, Barbados was divided into large plantation estates which replaced the small holdings of the early British settlers....To work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa;" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
About Saturday 14 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Wayneman's new situation will subject him to more discipline and control than SP ever had time to exercise over him. Perhaps, reason Our Man, the boy will learn about consequences, and become a man.
About Saturday 14 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"My guess is that he won't fare much better in the Barbadoes"
Wayneman is "put into a Barbadoes ship" as an indentured servant, say L&M - so he won't be released into the wild - or into a sugar-cane field.
About Biographies of Pepys
Terry F • Link
Samuel Pepys
His Diary, and the world he lived in
by Dr Judson Sykes Bury (1852-1944)
Published in the Manchester Medical School Gazette, Vol. XIV, May 1933.
....
The article is in two parts -
(1) matters is the Diary that are "more than a little of medical interest" - (a) his own ailments; (b) his general observations about health and disease; (c) what he recorded about the London Plague of 1665;
(2) His Personal Characteristics. which is fair and balanced. http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge…
About Thursday 12 November 1663
Terry F • Link
the Captain
Is this the first time S. Pepys has referred to his Uncle Robert Pepys using this title?
About John Barclay
Terry F • Link
"John Barclay (January 28, 1582 -- August 15, 1621) was a Scottish satirist and Latin poet....The literary effort of his closing years was his best-known work the Argenis, a political romance, resembling in certain respects the Arcadia of Sidney, and the Utopia of More, completed about a fortnight before his death, which has been said to have been hastened by poison." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John…