So the plan is to get the Pepys's upstairs and the obstreperious Will down. Is the "Ward-robe" where Will goes the "King’s Great Wardrobe" or the Pepys's downstairs?
chimney-piece picture over a fireplace (L&M Select Glossary)
also "The English chimneypieces of the early 17th century, when the purer Italian style was introduced by Inigo Jones, were extremely simple in design, sometimes consisting only of the ordinary mantel piece, with classic architraves and shelf, the upper part of the chimney breast being paneled like the rest of the room. In the latter part of the century the classic architrave was abandoned in favor of a much bolder and more effective molding, as in the chimneypieces at Hampton Court, and the shelf was omitted." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mant…
"Samuel Pepys and his bladder stone." Urquhart-Hay D.,Department of Urology, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. British Journal of Urology. 1992 Nov;70(5):509-13
Samuel Pepys, as a young man, developed a bladder stone and, by the age of 25 years, realised that only surgery could deliver him from his agony. The chances of success in an age that was ignorant of sepsis were slender, but he opted for surgery. The operation, carried out through the perineum without anaesthetic by a master barber surgeon, was successful and Pepys survived. Although left sterile, he was far from impotent and he went on to achieve fame and fortune as Secretary to the Navy and President of the Royal Society. His greatest fame came after his death with the publication of his diary, which was to become one of the best known and best loved books in the language. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entre…
"Samuel Pepys: a patient perspective of lithotomy in 17th century England." Kumar P, Nargund V., Homerton University Hospital and Barts and London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Journal of Urology. 2006 Apr;175(4):1221-4. PURPOSE: Bladder stones have plagued mankind since ancient times with the oldest stone found in an Egyptian mummy dating from circa 4800 B.C. Lithotomy has also been practiced since antiquity with accounts describing the operation as risky and difficult. There are no contemporary details of the patient description of this ordeal. Samuel Pepys was a notable diarist of the 17th century who described his personal experience of having a bladder stone and subsequent undergoing lithotomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comprehensive review of the medical literature, the diaries of Pepys, biographies and historical texts was performed to compile this historical review. RESULTS: The diaries of Samuel Pepys chronicle life in the 17th century in London. The diaries provide great insight into the contemporary political climate and London life. Stones afflicted Pepys from an early age and continued to trouble him, such that he finally decided to undergo lithotomy in 1658 for bladder stone. He provided a lucid account of his experiences in his diary. CONCLUSIONS: Pepys survived through the skill of an early urologist or lithotomist, the prayers of his family and probably his own strong constitution. He then went on to write his diary during the next decade, giving perhaps unwittingly an insight into his world and times to later generations as well as the personal story of his lithotomy.
"Newes that the King comes to town...from his progresse."
prog·ress n. 1. Movement, as toward a goal; advance. 2. Development or growth: students who show progress. 3. Steady improvement, as of a society or civilization: a believer in human progress. 4. A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
Shriev´al`ty n. 1. The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty. It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. - Blackstone. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
"a mere draft will not give you a bona fide cold" - but what will? I was taught it was a viral disease. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comm… with many links to other sources. Of course, old wives have told another tale for 'eye,
Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), Puritan scholar and one of the founders of English Presbyterianism. A Cambridge graduate, he was a constant student. He read the Greek New Testament every two weeks....His admirers called him "the English Prophet." [Re the 7 trumpets in Rev. 3:8-11} The first four trumpets he expounds as the great heresies which befell the church, and the barbarian woes on the Western Roman Empire, the fourth being the Vandals. The fifth trumpet, darkening a third part of the sun (the church in Africa), he assigns to a religious persons in the West and to the Saracens in the East, and the sixth trumpet to the Turks - which oppressed by their tyranny not only the false church but also the true church - the latter, Brightman significantly adds, "began to come forth abroad at the year 1300." http://www.historicist.com/trumpe…
Johann Herwick aus Ilten bei Hannover (called Hiltenius), d. ca.1500 in Eisenach and foresaw the Reformation. http://www.horstkannemann.de/kale…
"Sam has yet to give this tyke his severence pay?" - in due course.
MILD SPOILER. The 31 October entry continues - "his idle talke and carriage, which we are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncle Blackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward his maintenance."
They refer us to 31 October, where Pepys, in the month's summing up, notes the family's "mighty out of order by this fellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Except for the morning's journall entries, Samuel has failed to
- get a query about Sandwich's Chelsea adventures from the Crews; - meet Mrs. Lane at Westminster Hall; - get an account or a rise out of his brother John.
The myth-making case is made by Michael Sells, an ethnic Serb, Professor of Comparative Religions at Haverford College (also an Arabist). An excerpt from his prize-winning book on the subject, *The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia* http://www.ucpress.edu/books/page… : "The Kosovo Myth: Slavic Muslims portrayed as Christ-Killers in The Mountain Wreath
"In 1389, the Serb Prince Lazar was defeated and killed in a battle against Ottoman Turkish Sultan Murad II on the plain of Kosovo. While historians dispute the significance of the battle, in Serbian mythology it entailed the loss of Serb independence, a loss that was represented in cosmic terms. Lazar is portrayed as a Christ figure. He has a Last Supper with 12 Nobles, one of whom, Vuk Brankovic, is a traitor and gives the battle plans to the Turks. During the battle, the Christ-Prince Lazar is slain and with him dies the Serb nation, to rise again only with the resurrection of Lazar. 4 Turks are thus equated with Christ-Killers and Vuk Brankovic, the 'Turk within,' becomes a symbol (and ancestral curse) of all Slavic Muslims." http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archi…
where, ignorant of history, Christian Orthodox Serbs massacred "Turks" - i.e. ethnic Bosnian Muslims stigmatized as Christ-killers at Kosovo by a 19c epic poem "The Mountain Wreath". http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevn…
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First Reading
About Thursday 1 October 1663
TerryF • Link
The King is back!
In an alternate universe (thanks for the construct, Robert Gertz) men tend to business no matter where the "boss" is.
About Tuesday 29 September 1663
TerryF • Link
So the plan is to get the Pepys's upstairs and the obstreperious Will down. Is the "Ward-robe" where Will goes the "King’s Great Wardrobe" or the Pepys's downstairs?
About Tuesday 29 September 1663
TerryF • Link
" my wife’s chimney-piece in her closett"
chimney-piece
picture over a fireplace
(L&M Select Glossary)
also "The English chimneypieces of the early 17th century, when the purer Italian style was introduced by Inigo Jones, were extremely simple in design, sometimes consisting only of the ordinary mantel piece, with classic architraves and shelf, the upper part of the chimney breast being paneled like the rest of the room. In the latter part of the century the classic architrave was abandoned in favor of a much bolder and more effective molding, as in the chimneypieces at Hampton Court, and the shelf was omitted." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mant…
Interior decoration today!
About Tuesday 29 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Map of Paris 1585 by Georges Braun
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Map…
Plans de Paris / Maps of Paris
http://www.paris.org/Maps/
Various 16th and 17th century maps of Paris
http://www.historicurbanplans.com…
About Bladder and kidney stones
TerryF • Link
"Samuel Pepys and his bladder stone."
Urquhart-Hay D.,Department of Urology, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. British Journal of Urology. 1992 Nov;70(5):509-13
Samuel Pepys, as a young man, developed a bladder stone and, by the age of 25 years, realised that only surgery could deliver him from his agony. The chances of success in an age that was ignorant of sepsis were slender, but he opted for surgery. The operation, carried out through the perineum without anaesthetic by a master barber surgeon, was successful and Pepys survived. Although left sterile, he was far from impotent and he went on to achieve fame and fortune as Secretary to the Navy and President of the Royal Society. His greatest fame came after his death with the publication of his diary, which was to become one of the best known and best loved books in the language.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entre…
About Bladder and kidney stones
TerryF • Link
Link for "Samuel Pepys: a patient perspective of lithotomy in 17th century England." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entre…
About Bladder and kidney stones
TerryF • Link
"Samuel Pepys: a patient perspective of lithotomy in 17th century England."
Kumar P, Nargund V., Homerton University Hospital and Barts and London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Journal of Urology. 2006 Apr;175(4):1221-4.
PURPOSE: Bladder stones have plagued mankind since ancient times with the oldest stone found in an Egyptian mummy dating from circa 4800 B.C. Lithotomy has also been practiced since antiquity with accounts describing the operation as risky and difficult. There are no contemporary details of the patient description of this ordeal. Samuel Pepys was a notable diarist of the 17th century who described his personal experience of having a bladder stone and subsequent undergoing lithotomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comprehensive review of the medical literature, the diaries of Pepys, biographies and historical texts was performed to compile this historical review. RESULTS: The diaries of Samuel Pepys chronicle life in the 17th century in London. The diaries provide great insight into the contemporary political climate and London life. Stones afflicted Pepys from an early age and continued to trouble him, such that he finally decided to undergo lithotomy in 1658 for bladder stone. He provided a lucid account of his experiences in his diary. CONCLUSIONS: Pepys survived through the skill of an early urologist or lithotomist, the prayers of his family and probably his own strong constitution. He then went on to write his diary during the next decade, giving perhaps unwittingly an insight into his world and times to later generations as well as the personal story of his lithotomy.
About Monday 28 September 1663
TerryF • Link
"Newes that the King comes to town...from his progresse."
prog·ress n.
1. Movement, as toward a goal; advance.
2. Development or growth: students who show progress.
3. Steady improvement, as of a society or civilization: a believer in human progress.
4. A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
Methinks definition 4. may be intended here.
About Monday 28 September 1663
TerryF • Link
"Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day"
Shriev´al`ty
n. 1. The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance.
- Blackstone.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
What causes colds? what century are "we" in?
"a mere draft will not give you a bona fide cold" - but what will? I was taught it was a viral disease. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comm… with many links to other sources. Of course, old wives have told another tale for 'eye,
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Rev. Josselin's prophets and their prophecies
Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), Puritan scholar and one of the founders of English Presbyterianism. A Cambridge graduate, he was a constant student. He read the Greek New Testament every two weeks....His admirers called him "the English Prophet." [Re the 7 trumpets in Rev. 3:8-11} The first four trumpets he expounds as the great heresies which befell the church, and the barbarian woes on the Western Roman Empire, the fourth being the Vandals. The fifth trumpet, darkening a third part of the sun (the church in Africa), he assigns to a religious persons in the West and to the Saracens in the East, and the sixth trumpet to the Turks - which oppressed by their tyranny not only the false church but also the true church - the latter, Brightman significantly adds, "began to come forth abroad at the year 1300."
http://www.historicist.com/trumpe…
Johann Herwick aus Ilten bei Hannover (called Hiltenius), d. ca.1500 in Eisenach and foresaw the Reformation. http://www.horstkannemann.de/kale…
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
"Sam has yet to give this tyke his severence pay?" - in due course.
MILD SPOILER. The 31 October entry continues - "his idle talke and carriage, which we are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncle Blackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward his maintenance."
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Why is /1663/10/31/ read as /1663/01/31/?
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
This be Wm. Hewer: we have L&M's word on it.
They refer us to 31 October, where Pepys, in the month's summing up, notes the family's "mighty out of order by this fellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 27 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Isn't church the very place where conscience strikes best?
The matter of the "broken window" is puzzling. Is this a detail only now recorded in the journall?!
About Friday 25 September 1663
TerryF • Link
"till night all alone, none of my clerks being there"
So transcribe L&M.
About Thursday 24 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Good God! how he hates to spend in vain.
About Wednesday 23 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Has Elizabeth had today's only success?
Except for the morning's journall entries, Samuel has failed to
- get a query about Sandwich's Chelsea adventures from the Crews;
- meet Mrs. Lane at Westminster Hall;
- get an account or a rise out of his brother John.
Not a very productive day for our boy.
About Tuesday 22 September 1663
TerryF • Link
The myth-making case is made by Michael Sells, an ethnic Serb, Professor of Comparative Religions at Haverford College (also an Arabist). An excerpt from his prize-winning book on the subject, *The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia* http://www.ucpress.edu/books/page… :
"The Kosovo Myth: Slavic Muslims portrayed as Christ-Killers in The Mountain Wreath
"In 1389, the Serb Prince Lazar was defeated and killed in a battle against Ottoman Turkish Sultan Murad II on the plain of Kosovo. While historians dispute the significance of the battle, in Serbian mythology it entailed the loss of Serb independence, a loss that was represented in cosmic terms. Lazar is portrayed as a Christ figure. He has a Last Supper with 12 Nobles, one of whom, Vuk Brankovic, is a traitor and gives the battle plans to the Turks. During the battle, the Christ-Prince Lazar is slain and with him dies the Serb nation, to rise again only with the resurrection of Lazar. 4 Turks are thus equated with Christ-Killers and Vuk Brankovic, the 'Turk within,' becomes a symbol (and ancestral curse) of all Slavic Muslims." http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archi…
About Tuesday 22 September 1663
TerryF • Link
Aqua, how very true: - Ecce Bosnia!
where, ignorant of history, Christian Orthodox Serbs massacred "Turks" - i.e. ethnic Bosnian Muslims stigmatized as Christ-killers at Kosovo by a 19c epic poem "The Mountain Wreath". http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevn…