Pointing toward future performance targets - the hemp "experiment"/demonstration, the timber-measurement test, the review/pep-talk with Commissioner Pett, &c., serve that purpose.
The initial rather arbitrary dismissals seem to be intended to begin the day with a lesson in consequences, which methinks puts the cart before the horse, but perhaps a smack against the head with a log's the only way to get the yard's full attention.
A set of quantified performance standards adopted by the Navy Board - at Pepys's instigation, with the support of Mr. Coventry and Sir George Carteret - governing the issues under discussion among the three who yesterday sat under the Arbor, which no dockyards meet, but which might serve as targets, to be implented gradually, according to certain benchmarks, with penalties for those who fail to act in the yards.
This further gets Pepys out of the line of fire for being "harsh" (he has Mr. Coventry for his cover in Chatham), and removes the personal onus from Peter Pett's enforcing performace standards, &c.
and Australian Susan's post about it - "I took the wet dock plan to mean that Pett wanted to ensure that plans for a wet dock which would take the better rated ships was got under way before someone with control over the purse strings decided that using the creeks at Portsmouth would suffice for repairs. Or that Pett was worried about work passing from Chatham/Woolwich/Deptford to Portsmouth, with subsequent loss of employment around his area." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Today's more exacting survey's a great disappointment.
1 Corinthians 3 22-23: "Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."
"Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command you."
The Gospel of John 15, 14: "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
Pepys is onto a problem unique to Chatham among the yards -
Its resident authority, Commissioner Peter Pett, is not the *boss* of the yard, he's the close community's hereditary *paterfamilias* - as revealed in "the relations that he has to most people that act there." Their parents and perhaps grandparents worked for his father, Phineas Pett, whom he followed in his position, so he cannot simply dismiss folks to whom he's bound by generations of loyalty.
(Cp. the situation of Charlie Price of *Kinky Boots")
(Susan, you *really* need a subsciption to the antipodean version of Netflix, because this film was rated only C+ by Yahoo! Users, who are usually less discriminating than the Critics.)
And the fruit of the discussion of Commissioner Pett is that he needs to get out to other yards and see and practice what is needful for one to be rightly run.
Here is the source of Jonathan Swift's 1707 "Verses Said to be Written on the Union" and the comments that follow (above) http://www.gavroche.org/poetry/cl…
The Queen has lately lost a part Of her entirely English heart, For want of which by way of botch, She pieced it up again with Scotch. Blessed revolution, which creates Divided hearts, united states. See how the double nation lies; Like a rich cot with skirts of frieze: As if a man in making posies Should bundle thistles up with roses. Whoever yet a union saw Of kingdoms, without faith or law. Henceforward let no statesman dare, A kingdom to a ship compare; Lest he should call our commonweal, A vessel with a double keel:
Which just like ours, new rigged and manned, And got about a league from land, By change of wind to leeward side The pilot knew not how to guide. So tossing faction will o'erwhelm Our crazed double-bottomed realm.
Jonathan Swift lived from 1667 to 1745.. The above was written in 1707 around the time of the Union of English and Scottish parliaments. Swift was opposed to the Union. He saw it as a 'monstrous alliance' with an undeserving nation. He would have preferred a Union of England and Ireland. Such a proposal by the Irish Parliament had been rejected in 1703, and the lost support of the Anglo-Irish community [by Queen Anne] is probably what is referred to in line 1. It has absolutely nothing to do with America. [The 'vessel with a double keel' is a later Petty ship that met the fate described.]
Petty’s letter to Hartlib on education was his first publication but in the next year (1648) he patented a ‘double writing’ machine, which was a device for making copies of handwritten documents. At various times between 1662 and 1684 he designed four twin-hulled ships which were built and tested with varying success. His accounts of this were edited by the Marquess of Lansdowne and published in 1931.
The Double Bottom, or Twin-Hulled Ship, of Sir Wm. Petty (1662–84); repr. and ed. by the Marquess of Lansdowne (1931) http://www.flyinglab.com/forums/s…
What was "gaudy" to Pepys today leads him to have the five rebound in his default. L&M suggest they were later rebound; *Walton’s Polyglot* is found bound thus in Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
30 July 1663, Pepys picks up a *five* vol. set bound in his "common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy". L&M are *ve uncertain about the identity of this Variorum, but suggest a *six*-vol. set bound [later] in *red morocco* of *Biblia sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum,* [edited by Brian Walton], Londini: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft, 1657. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/l…
L&M are very uncertain, but suggest a *six*-vol. set bound in *red morocco* of *Biblia sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum,* [edited by Brian Walton], Londini: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft, 1657. (for more info and an image of Bishop Walton see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/l…
This parish feast is an annual event, and the Pepys family who live in Brampton are involved as long as they are able; and so is Samuel Pepys, in London, sending them victuals, etc.
Stolzi on Sat 22 Jul 2006 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… .... I find that the parish church at Brampton was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene and that her feast day is July 22.
Hanging sleeves...3.(a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves. -- Hanging stile. (Arch.) http://open-dictionary.com/Webste…
Tudor (Royalist?) elegance - "Elizabeth I, 1592, wears a dark red gown (the fabric is just visible at the waist under her arms) with hanging sleeves lined in white satin to match her bodice, undersleeves, and petticoat, which is pinned to a cartwheel farthingale. She carries leather gloves and an early folding fan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…
hence -
From: Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (London, England: Dodsley, 1769) Letter IV To John Temple, Esq.; Pall Mall. Quebec, July 1. "’Tis very true, Jack; I have no relish for the Misses for putng girls in hanging sleeves, who feel no passion but vanity, and, without any distinguishing taste, are dying for the first man who tells them they are handsome. Take your boarding school girls; but give me a woman; one, in short, who has a soul; not a cold inanimate form, insensible to the lively impressions of real love, and unfeeling as the wax baby she has just thrown away.[...]." http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadia…
------ Were upper-crust girls put in hanging sleeves as a sign of premature adulthood - to "overreach" - to immobilize them, or...? Any guesses? If I have the style correct, methinks 'twas strange....
a nice ambiguity as to who cheated whom - Too bad the play itself was not as witty as its title. It was apparently never performed (though it might have been rehearsed and judged a flop in the making).
Of course the first post should say 'transcribed'.
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About Monday 3 August 1663
TerryF • Link
It appears the day's theme is "the time to come."
Pointing toward future performance targets - the hemp "experiment"/demonstration, the timber-measurement test, the review/pep-talk with Commissioner Pett, &c., serve that purpose.
The initial rather arbitrary dismissals seem to be intended to begin the day with a lesson in consequences, which methinks puts the cart before the horse, but perhaps a smack against the head with a log's the only way to get the yard's full attention.
About Sunday 2 August 1663
TerryF • Link
"Pett and Family" - nice phrase, Aqua.
(Reminds me of an Irish whisky company...)
About Sunday 2 August 1663
TerryF • Link
A modest proposal about the keeping of dock yards
A set of quantified performance standards adopted by the Navy Board - at Pepys's instigation, with the support of Mr. Coventry and Sir George Carteret - governing the issues under discussion among the three who yesterday sat under the Arbor, which no dockyards meet, but which might serve as targets, to be implented gradually, according to certain benchmarks, with penalties for those who fail to act in the yards.
This further gets Pepys out of the line of fire for being "harsh" (he has Mr. Coventry for his cover in Chatham), and removes the personal onus from Peter Pett's enforcing performace standards, &c.
About Sunday 2 August 1663
TerryF • Link
Cf. the earlier, more favorable view of St Mary's Creek's suitability for a wet dock -
11 July 1663 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
and Australian Susan's post about it -
"I took the wet dock plan to mean that Pett wanted to ensure that plans for a wet dock which would take the better rated ships was got under way before someone with control over the purse strings decided that using the creeks at Portsmouth would suffice for repairs. Or that Pett was worried about work passing from Chatham/Woolwich/Deptford to Portsmouth, with subsequent loss of employment around his area." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Today's more exacting survey's a great disappointment.
About Sunday 2 August 1663
TerryF • Link
The Benedictine Rule
Alas, Bradford, it would take a great while to read in full.
http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.ht…
About Sunday 2 August 1663
TerryF • Link
Today's sermon texts
"All is yours and you are God's"
1 Corinthians 3
22-23: "Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's."
"Ye are my friends, if ye do these things which I command you."
The Gospel of John 15,
14: "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
About Saturday 1 August 1663
TerryF • Link
Pepys is onto a problem unique to Chatham among the yards -
Its resident authority, Commissioner Peter Pett, is not the *boss* of the yard, he's the close community's hereditary *paterfamilias* - as revealed in "the relations that he has to most people that act there." Their parents and perhaps grandparents worked for his father, Phineas Pett, whom he followed in his position, so he cannot simply dismiss folks to whom he's bound by generations of loyalty.
(Cp. the situation of Charlie Price of *Kinky Boots")
(Susan, you *really* need a subsciption to the antipodean version of Netflix, because this film was rated only C+ by Yahoo! Users, who are usually less discriminating than the Critics.)
About Saturday 1 August 1663
TerryF • Link
And the fruit of the discussion of Commissioner Pett is that he needs to get out to other yards and see and practice what is needful for one to be rightly run.
JWB, methinks you have the image perfectly!
About Friday 31 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Here is the source of Jonathan Swift's 1707 "Verses Said to be Written on the Union" and the comments that follow (above)
http://www.gavroche.org/poetry/cl…
About Friday 31 July 1663
TerryF • Link
The poem alluded to on the site JWB linked us to:
Verses Said to be Written on the Union
The Queen has lately lost a part
Of her entirely English heart,
For want of which by way of botch,
She pieced it up again with Scotch.
Blessed revolution, which creates
Divided hearts, united states.
See how the double nation lies;
Like a rich cot with skirts of frieze:
As if a man in making posies
Should bundle thistles up with roses.
Whoever yet a union saw
Of kingdoms, without faith or law.
Henceforward let no statesman dare,
A kingdom to a ship compare;
Lest he should call our commonweal,
A vessel with a double keel:
Which just like ours, new rigged and manned,
And got about a league from land,
By change of wind to leeward side
The pilot knew not how to guide.
So tossing faction will o'erwhelm
Our crazed double-bottomed realm.
Jonathan Swift lived from 1667 to 1745.. The above was written in 1707 around the time of the Union of English and Scottish parliaments. Swift was opposed to the Union. He saw it as a 'monstrous alliance' with an undeserving nation. He would have preferred a Union of England and Ireland. Such a proposal by the Irish Parliament had been rejected in 1703, and the lost support of the Anglo-Irish community [by Queen Anne] is probably what is referred to in line 1. It has absolutely nothing to do with America. [The 'vessel with a double keel' is a later Petty ship that met the fate described.]
About Friday 31 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"lSir William Petty's...vessel which he hath built upon two keeles (a modell whereof, built for the King, he showed me)"
Image of the model itself
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/…
Catamarans
Petty’s letter to Hartlib on education was his first publication but in the next year (1648) he patented a ‘double writing’ machine, which was a device for making copies of handwritten documents. At various times between 1662 and 1684 he designed four twin-hulled ships which were built and tested with varying success. His accounts of this were edited by the Marquess of Lansdowne and published in 1931.
The Double Bottom, or Twin-Hulled Ship, of Sir Wm. Petty (1662–84); repr. and ed. by the Marquess of Lansdowne (1931)
http://www.flyinglab.com/forums/s…
About Thursday 30 July 1663
TerryF • Link
six red morocco volumes
What was "gaudy" to Pepys today leads him to have the five rebound in his default. L&M suggest they were later rebound; *Walton’s Polyglot* is found bound thus in Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
About Variorum
TerryF • Link
Re the Variorum Pepys owned
30 July 1663, Pepys picks up a *five* vol. set bound in his "common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy". L&M are *ve uncertain about the identity of this Variorum, but suggest a *six*-vol. set bound [later] in *red morocco* of *Biblia sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum,* [edited by Brian Walton], Londini: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft, 1657. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/l…
About Thursday 30 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Re the Variorum
L&M are very uncertain, but suggest a *six*-vol. set bound in *red morocco* of *Biblia sacra polyglotta, complectentia textus originales, Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Chaldaicum, Graecum,* [edited by Brian Walton], Londini: Imprimebat Thomas Roycroft, 1657. (for more info and an image of Bishop Walton see
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/l…
About Brampton Feast
TerryF • Link
This parish feast is an annual event, and the Pepys family who live in Brampton are involved as long as they are able; and so is Samuel Pepys, in London, sending them victuals, etc.
Stolzi on Sat 22 Jul 2006 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ....
I find that the parish church at Brampton was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene and that her feast day is July 22.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary…
About Thursday 30 July 1663
TerryF • Link
hanging sleeves
Hanging sleeves...3.(a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves. -- Hanging stile. (Arch.) http://open-dictionary.com/Webste…
Tudor (Royalist?) elegance -
"Elizabeth I, 1592, wears a dark red gown (the fabric is just visible at the waist under her arms) with hanging sleeves lined in white satin to match her bodice, undersleeves, and petticoat, which is pinned to a cartwheel farthingale. She carries leather gloves and an early folding fan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…
hence -
From: Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (London, England: Dodsley, 1769)
Letter IV To John Temple, Esq.; Pall Mall.
Quebec, July 1.
"’Tis very true, Jack; I have no relish for the Misses for putng girls in hanging sleeves, who feel no passion but vanity, and, without any distinguishing taste, are dying for the first man who tells them they are handsome. Take your boarding school girls; but give me a woman; one, in short, who has a soul; not a cold inanimate form, insensible to the lively impressions of real love, and unfeeling as the wax baby she has just thrown away.[...]." http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadia…
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Were upper-crust girls put in hanging sleeves as a sign of premature adulthood - to "overreach" - to immobilize them, or...? Any guesses?
If I have the style correct, methinks 'twas strange....
About Variorum
TerryF • Link
A Variorum is a work that collates all known variants of a text. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vari…
About Wapping
TerryF • Link
Wapping is along the N side of the Thames, on the Centre and E side of this segment of the 18c London map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Wednesday 29 July 1663
TerryF • Link
*The Politician Cheated" -
a nice ambiguity as to who cheated whom -
Too bad the play itself was not as witty as its title. It was apparently never performed (though it might have been rehearsed and judged a flop in the making).
Of course the first post should say 'transcribed'.
About Wednesday 29 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"last night’s turds" ~ transscribe L&M.
Telling it as it is/was.