explaining why yesterday's discourse with Blackborne, which lasted until 11 pm - after his usual bed-time - was set down in two parts, the second following his going "to bed" -
MS Word counts 252 words on the discourse of the Duke's committee; the 310-word discourse with Dr. Pearce; the 1485 words of both parts of the discourse with Mr. Blackborne (not counting the discussion about and with Will Hewer).
"And that not only himself but all of them have, and are willing at any time to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy."
Old Commonwealth men, like Blackborne - and the morally more stringent, but dienfranchised Presbyterians - are willing to be subordinate to the King and to the tenets of his faith, as the phony and immoral Cavaliers do corruptly, but as Pepys and Sandwich have done in earnest.
19 July 1660 - "This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of allegiance and supremacy delivered me by my Lord." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
23 July 1660 - "to Secretary Nicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Shaban Aga of Algeria 1661-1665 (The "Aga" was the military commander of an Ottoman Turkish colony, who reported to the Pasha, the governor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colo… "Algiers [was] the center of Ottoman authority in the Maghrib. For 300 years, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.... Subsequently...governors with the title of pasha ruled." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
22 May 1662 "This night we had each of us a letter from Captain Teddiman from the Streights, of a peace made upon good terms, by Sir J. Lawson, with the Argier men, which is most excellent news" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Each adjective clear by itself - so methinks - but odd when strung together; from which I conclude that what msthinks about the clarity of each term is soooooo 20th century (yes, I'm that old-fashioned).
I both introduced the matter and obfuscated it by quoting an imputation to Catherine of a motive there is no evidence she had. Pepys's mention of Holmes's report on the Guinea trade brought to mind notice of what was evidently already long underway by other agents in the background, by English more recently - linking that to the African slave labor force in Jamaica, first brought there by the Spanish in 1517. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
Thanks to Pedro et al. for a lively and clarifying discussion of these several issues.
"[If] my wife...should prove with child since last night..., let it come, and welcome."
Jeannine, this seemed to me too a bit dismissive. Then, after several hours, returnng to it, I wonder whether we can expect our lad to be aware of defending hinself against the hurt of what might be dashed - what Elizabeth desperately expresses - what he too feels - the hope too hard to own.
That it's Tom Trice who's so "poor" that he won't go the full 15s makes sense, Robert. Then the "agreement" that's to be concluded - "lawyers on both sides, and several friends of his and some of mine" present for the negotiations - will be the last of the Trice's part of Uncle Robert's Will's conundra?!
Today's theme - Pepys making more than just his salary
The appointments with Sir W. Warren and Mr. Shales appear to have to do with acting on the conclusion he drew when he reviewed his situation at the end of last month, 5 days ago.
31 October 1663 - "I must look about me to get something more than just my salary, or else I may resolve to live well and die a beggar." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I gather Sir W. Warren is the one with whom Pepys agreed to split the extra cost of the dinner unevenly, perhaps in part to secure more of his part in the agreement on timber they are to conclude.
In the early 20c in rural midwestern US most animals were slaughtered after the rivers froze over. The ready supply of ice (covered with sawdust) was used to preserve meat to be eaten during the winter; other meat was most ordinarily salt-cured or smoked. So it was when my father (born in 1914) was growing up on a farm outside Hannibal, MO.
Jeannine refers to the claim that "Catherine and her husband, King Charles II, supported the enslavement of African people. Even if the two did not own slaves, the critics contend, they supported the system that allowed slavery to flourish in the colonies." Contested by another source. http://www.newsday.com/community/…
"The British transatlantic slave trade, which flourished from the mid-seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century, was a major conduit for the enforced migration of Africans to the Americas. Between 1660 and 1807 over three million Africans were dispatched to the Americas in British vessels." http://www.pickeringchatto.com/tr…
of the early modern era, as Michael says; and Francis Bacon, whose empiricism animated the new medicine, who attacked the detritus of the accumulated distorions of the past, chose to entitle his break with the past as a *Novem Organum* - a fresh Aristotle.
Galenic medicine, specializing in herbal potions, hit upon some quite effective "physique" - attributing purgative effects to the wrong causes (irrelevant qualities).
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About Tuesday 10 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"setting down yesterday's remarkable discourses"
explaining why yesterday's discourse with Blackborne, which lasted until 11 pm - after his usual bed-time - was set down in two parts, the second following his going "to bed" -
About Monday 9 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Today's three great discourses
MS Word counts 252 words on the discourse of the Duke's committee; the 310-word discourse with Dr. Pearce; the 1485 words of both parts of the discourse with Mr. Blackborne (not counting the discussion about and with Will Hewer).
About Monday 9 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"And that not only himself but all of them have, and are willing at any time to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy."
Old Commonwealth men, like Blackborne - and the morally more stringent, but dienfranchised Presbyterians - are willing to be subordinate to the King and to the tenets of his faith, as the phony and immoral Cavaliers do corruptly, but as Pepys and Sandwich have done in earnest.
19 July 1660 - "This day I received my commission to swear people the oath of allegiance and supremacy delivered me by my Lord." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
23 July 1660 - "to Secretary Nicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sha'ban
Terry F • Link
Shaban
Aga of Algeria 1661-1665
(The "Aga" was the military commander of an Ottoman Turkish colony, who reported to the Pasha, the governor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colo…
"Algiers [was] the center of Ottoman authority in the Maghrib. For 300 years, Algeria was a province of the Ottoman Empire under a regency that had Algiers as its capital.... Subsequently...governors with the title of pasha ruled." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
About Monday 9 November 1663
Terry F • Link
The peace-treaty that was broken
22 May 1662 "This night we had each of us a letter from Captain Teddiman from the Streights, of a peace made upon good terms, by Sir J. Lawson, with the Argier men, which is most excellent news" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 8 November 1663
Terry F • Link
How Pepys got physic (and other Rx's?) from Dr Hollier
"my physic ended, but I had sent a porter to-day for more and it was brought me before I went to bed"
About Sunday 8 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"a good comely plain woman"
Each adjective clear by itself - so methinks - but odd when strung together; from which I conclude that what msthinks about the clarity of each term is soooooo 20th century (yes, I'm that old-fashioned).
About Saturday 7 November 1663
Terry F • Link
L&M say the "boot" here is the boot, i.e., luggage compartment of the coach.
About Wednesday 4 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Guinea trade, Catherine, and African slaves
I both introduced the matter and obfuscated it by quoting an imputation to Catherine of a motive there is no evidence she had. Pepys's mention of Holmes's report on the Guinea trade brought to mind notice of what was evidently already long underway by other agents in the background, by English more recently - linking that to the African slave labor force in Jamaica, first brought there by the Spanish in 1517. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
Thanks to Pedro et al. for a lively and clarifying discussion of these several issues.
About Friday 6 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"[If] my wife...should prove with child since last night..., let it come, and welcome."
Jeannine, this seemed to me too a bit dismissive. Then, after several hours, returnng to it, I wonder whether we can expect our lad to be aware of defending hinself against the hurt of what might be dashed - what Elizabeth desperately expresses - what he too feels - the hope too hard to own.
About Thursday 5 November 1663
Terry F • Link
That it's Tom Trice who's so "poor" that he won't go the full 15s makes sense, Robert. Then the "agreement" that's to be concluded - "lawyers on both sides, and several friends of his and some of mine" present for the negotiations - will be the last of the Trice's part of Uncle Robert's Will's conundra?!
About Thursday 5 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Today's theme - Pepys making more than just his salary
The appointments with Sir W. Warren and Mr. Shales appear to have to do with acting on the conclusion he drew when he reviewed his situation at the end of last month, 5 days ago.
31 October 1663 - "I must look about me to get something more than just my salary, or else I may resolve to live well and die a beggar." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I gather Sir W. Warren is the one with whom Pepys agreed to split the extra cost of the dinner unevenly, perhaps in part to secure more of his part in the agreement on timber they are to conclude.
About Wednesday 4 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Seasonal slaughtering persisted into the 20c
In the early 20c in rural midwestern US most animals were slaughtered after the rivers froze over. The ready supply of ice (covered with sawdust) was used to preserve meat to be eaten during the winter; other meat was most ordinarily salt-cured or smoked. So it was when my father (born in 1914) was growing up on a farm outside Hannibal, MO.
About Wednesday 4 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"undeserved and false slave-trade accusations"
Jeannine refers to the claim that
"Catherine and her husband, King Charles II, supported the enslavement of African people. Even if the two did not own slaves, the critics contend, they supported the system that allowed slavery to flourish in the colonies." Contested by another source. http://www.newsday.com/community/…
Did they or did they not? Jeannine, say more.
About Wednesday 4 November 1663
Terry F • Link
The Guinea trade
"The British transatlantic slave trade, which flourished from the mid-seventeenth century until the early nineteenth century, was a major conduit for the enforced migration of Africans to the Americas. Between 1660 and 1807 over three million Africans were dispatched to the Americas in British vessels." http://www.pickeringchatto.com/tr…
Recall Pedro's annotation on Barbados as a source of sugar. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
So began the trade that would enable quince marmalade on Seething Lane and rum in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit…
About Wednesday 4 November 1663
Terry F • Link
I, too, would be self-conscious about my periwigg!
About Tuesday 3 November 1663
Terry F • Link
"an (expensive) male hair fashion for covering natural hair up which will last until the start of the 19th century!"
Didn't Ben Franklin charm Paris with his natural thinning hair? http://www.consultsos.com/pandora…
About Tuesday 3 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Mr. Goldsborough's mother's debt to Robert Pepys
Will the matter of Uncle Robert's Will ever be over?
About Tuesday 3 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Correction - *Novum Organum*
About Tuesday 3 November 1663
Terry F • Link
Renaissance (rebirth) was still the watchword
of the early modern era, as Michael says; and Francis Bacon, whose empiricism animated the new medicine, who attacked the detritus of the accumulated distorions of the past, chose to entitle his break with the past as a *Novem Organum* - a fresh Aristotle.
Galenic medicine, specializing in herbal potions, hit upon some quite effective "physique" - attributing purgative effects to the wrong causes (irrelevant qualities).