11 May 1662 "I saw the King now out of mourning, in a suit laced with gold and silver, which it was said was out of fashion." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
He had been in mourning for his aunt, Elisabeth née Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia, who died February 13, 1662 - so the period of mourning had lasted ca. 90 days.
Elizabeth's course of study would qualify her being called by Marjorie Hope Nicolson "to some extent a virtuosa."
"After Samuel Pepys had engaged a tutor to teach him arithmetic which, like a majority of his contemporaries, he had never learned, he noted on October 21, 166[3], when a pair of globes had been delivered to him: 'This evening ... I begun to enter my wife in arithmetic, in order to her studying the globes, and, I hope, I shall bring her to understanding many fine things.' He noted on February 15, 1663: 'After prayers to bed, talking long with my wife and teaching her things in astronomy.' On August 13, 1664 Pepys bought a microscope, through which he and Mistress Pepys attempted to observe, encountering characteristic beginners' problems: 'my wife and I with great pleasure, but with great difficulty before we could come to find the manner of seeing anything.' http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-loc…
"we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and...to have ..a perruque"
pe·ruke n.
A wig, especially one worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries; a periwig. [French perruque, from Old French, head of hair, from Old Italian perrucca.] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
"Amsterdam began as a fishing village in the in the late 12th century. According to legend Amsterdam was founded by two Frisian fishermen, who landed on the shores of the Amstel in a small boat with their dog. The damming of the river Amstel gave it its name (in Dutch: Amstelredam 'Dam in the Amstel', turned into Amsterdam in the course of time). The traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam is October 27, 1275, when the inhabitants living around the Amstel dam were granted freedom from paying the tolls associated with the locks and bridges of Holland. It was given city rights in 1300 or 1301. From the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely on the basis of trade with the cities of the Hanseatic League.
"In the 16th century the Dutch rebelled against Philip II of Spain and his successors. The revolt escalated into the Eighty Years' War which ultimately led to Dutch independence. After the break with Spain the Dutch Republic became known for its relative religious tolerance. Jews from Spain and Portugal, prosperous merchants from Antwerp (economic and religious refugees from the part of the Low Countries still controlled by Spain), Huguenots from France (persecuted for their religion) sought safety in Amsterdam.
"The 17th century is considered Amsterdam's "Golden Age". In the early 17th century Amsterdam became one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Ships sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, North America, Africa and present-day Indonesia and Brazil and formed the basis of a worldwide trading network. Amsterdam's merchants had the biggest share in the VOC and WIC. These companies acquired the overseas possessions which formed the seeds of the later Dutch colonies. Amsterdam was the most important point for the trans-shipment of goods in Europe and it was the leading financial centre of the world. Amsterdam's stock exchange was the first to trade continuously." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amst…
Apparently not the collecters of customs tax, as I supposed; but, L&M suggest, those who tend the farm "leased by Sir Job Harby, Sir John Woltonholme, Sir John Jacob, Sir Nicholas Crispe, Sir John Harrison and Sir John Shaw".
Batten's a competitor for sure, as Papy's's Warren bettered Batten's man Winter over masts - which I take to be the root of the hostility discussed with with Mr. Coventry - but whether Penn or Mennes seems to be a matter for discussion. Methinks Penn's the one. Other views?
Pigeons in Donne's "DEVOTIONS VPON Emergent Occasions and seuerall steps in my Sicknes." (1621)
XII. Spirante columba supposita pedibus, revocantur ad ima vapores.
They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head... _________________________________________________________________
XII. MEDITATION. [...] What ill air that I could have met in the street, what channel, what shambles, what dunghill, what vault, could have hurt me so much as these homebred vapours? What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home? For as they that write of poisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruin of man, do as well mention the flea as the viper [170] , because the flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can; so even these libellous and licentious jesters utter the venom they have, though sometimes virtue, and always power, be a good pigeon to draw this vapour from the head and from doing any deadly harm there." http://www.ccel.org/ccel/donne/de…
"I pray God I hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!"
"An ill wind blows no good" is a saw that lives still; but I haven't heard it connected with hearing "of the death of any great person." Was this the usual 17th century view (the mortality rate having been so much higher)? OR is this just Pepys's concern about the Queen's dire health.
Perhaps a gore -1530 PALSGR. 226/2 Goore of a smocke, poynte de chemise. Any wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth forming part of a garment and serving to produce the difference in width required at different points, esp. used to narrow a skirt at the waist. http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~m…
Comments
First Reading
About Thursday 22 October 1663
Terry F • Link
Royal mourning - one instance recorded earlier
11 May 1662 "I saw the King now out of mourning, in a suit laced with gold and silver, which it was said was out of fashion." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
He had been in mourning for his aunt, Elisabeth née Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia, who died February 13, 1662 - so the period of mourning had lasted ca. 90 days.
About Saturday 4 April 1663
Terry F • Link
The Stone's own feast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit…
About Saturday 13 October 1660
Terry F • Link
Entertainment for hoi polloi and the Pepys's ilk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit…
About Sunday 4 May 1662
Terry F • Link
Bloodlet - but is Pepys really so bilious?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit…
About Saturday 20 October 1660
Terry F • Link
Sewage and cellars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit…
About Thursday 22 October 1663
Terry F • Link
So the velvet cloaks were for mourning, not for vanity?
This surely doesn't apply to the perruque.
Another view?
About Wednesday 21 October 1663
Terry F • Link
Elizabeth's course of study would qualify her being called by Marjorie Hope Nicolson "to some extent a virtuosa."
"After Samuel Pepys had engaged a tutor to teach him arithmetic which, like a majority of his contemporaries, he had never learned, he noted on October 21, 166[3], when a pair of globes had been delivered to him: 'This evening ... I begun to enter my wife in arithmetic, in order to her studying the globes, and, I hope, I shall bring her to understanding many fine things.' He noted on February 15, 1663: 'After prayers to bed, talking long with my wife and teaching her things in astronomy.' On August 13, 1664 Pepys bought a microscope, through which he and Mistress Pepys attempted to observe, encountering characteristic beginners' problems: 'my wife and I with great pleasure, but with great difficulty before we could come to find the manner of seeing anything.' http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-loc…
About Wednesday 21 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and...to have ..a perruque"
pe·ruke n.
A wig, especially one worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries; a periwig. [French perruque, from Old French, head of hair, from Old Italian perrucca.]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
An illustration of one à la mode Louis XIV http://www.costumes.org/history/l…
Recall it was Louis' premature balding that led him to wear and popularize wigs.
About Tuesday 20 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"my Lord Chancellor's three sons"
Clever linking, Phil!
The three sons of Lord Chancellor Sir Edward Hyde:
Hyde, Henry
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Hyde, Laurence
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Hyde, Edward
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Amsterdam, Netherlands
Terry F • Link
Amsterdam - major seaport in Holland
"Amsterdam began as a fishing village in the in the late 12th century. According to legend Amsterdam was founded by two Frisian fishermen, who landed on the shores of the Amstel in a small boat with their dog. The damming of the river Amstel gave it its name (in Dutch: Amstelredam 'Dam in the Amstel', turned into Amsterdam in the course of time). The traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam is October 27, 1275, when the inhabitants living around the Amstel dam were granted freedom from paying the tolls associated with the locks and bridges of Holland. It was given city rights in 1300 or 1301. From the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely on the basis of trade with the cities of the Hanseatic League.
"In the 16th century the Dutch rebelled against Philip II of Spain and his successors. The revolt escalated into the Eighty Years' War which ultimately led to Dutch independence. After the break with Spain the Dutch Republic became known for its relative religious tolerance. Jews from Spain and Portugal, prosperous merchants from Antwerp (economic and religious refugees from the part of the Low Countries still controlled by Spain), Huguenots from France (persecuted for their religion) sought safety in Amsterdam.
"The 17th century is considered Amsterdam's "Golden Age". In the early 17th century Amsterdam became one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Ships sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, North America, Africa and present-day Indonesia and Brazil and formed the basis of a worldwide trading network. Amsterdam's merchants had the biggest share in the VOC and WIC. These companies acquired the overseas possessions which formed the seeds of the later Dutch colonies. Amsterdam was the most important point for the trans-shipment of goods in Europe and it was the leading financial centre of the world. Amsterdam's stock exchange was the first to trade continuously." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amst…
About Tuesday 20 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"the Farmers of the Customes"
Apparently not the collecters of customs tax, as I supposed; but, L&M suggest, those who tend the farm "leased by Sir Job Harby, Sir John Woltonholme, Sir John Jacob, Sir Nicholas Crispe, Sir John Harrison and Sir John Shaw".
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
Michael, fabulous!
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
Batten's a competitor for sure, as Papy's's Warren bettered Batten's man Winter over masts - which I take to be the root of the hostility discussed with with Mr. Coventry - but whether Penn or Mennes seems to be a matter for discussion. Methinks Penn's the one. Other views?
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"I told him what I am put to about the bargain for masts."
"New topic"? or riposte = explaining the back-story of the feud with Penn and Batten over the contracts for masts.
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
Pigeons in Donne's "DEVOTIONS VPON Emergent Occasions and seuerall steps in my Sicknes." (1621)
XII. Spirante columba supposita pedibus, revocantur ad ima vapores.
They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head...
_________________________________________________________________
XII. MEDITATION.
[...]
What ill air that I could have met in the street, what channel, what shambles, what dunghill, what vault, could have hurt me so much as these homebred vapours? What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home? For as they that write of poisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruin of man, do as well mention the flea as the
viper [170] , because the flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can; so even these libellous and licentious jesters utter the venom they have, though sometimes virtue, and always power, be a good pigeon to draw this vapour from the head and from doing any deadly harm there." http://www.ccel.org/ccel/donne/de…
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"pidgeons put to her feet"
L&M say this was a medieval remedy for fevers and other illnesses.
About Monday 19 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"I pray God I hear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!"
"An ill wind blows no good" is a saw that lives still; but I haven't heard it connected with hearing "of the death of any great person." Was this the usual 17th century view (the mortality rate having been so much higher)? OR is this just Pepys's concern about the Queen's dire health.
About Sunday 18 October 1663
Terry F • Link
The point of the "poynt" discussion?
The way to get a lively conversation going and perhaps to get something right may be to get it wrong at the outset!
About Sunday 18 October 1663
Terry F • Link
"my wife in her best gown and new poynt"
poynt
Perhaps a gore -1530 PALSGR. 226/2 Goore of a smocke, poynte de chemise.
Any wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth forming part of a garment and serving to produce the difference in width required at different points, esp. used to narrow a skirt at the waist. http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~m…
About Synagogue (Creechchurch Lane)
Terry F • Link
Creechurch Lane Synagogue (general facts)
http://www.jewishgen.org/SIGs/JCR…
Bevis Marks Synagogue (its successor)
http://www.jewishgen.org/SIGs/JCR…