Pepys characteristically focuses on "Faber Fortunae" - surely a reference to the beginning of *De Fortuna* (quoted above): "But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Faber quisque fortunæ suæ, ['every man is the architect of his own fortune'] saith the poet."
So he steels his courage to the sticking-point, working to shape and control every variable of his own "fortune" that he can.
Sermones Fideles. Ethici. Politici. Oeconomici: Sive Interiora Rerum. Accedunt Faber Fortunae Colores Boni et Mali, &c. Bacon, Francis. Amsterdam: Digital image of the frontispiece, copyright 2003, Dickinson College; Carlisle, PA. All rights reserved. http://deila.dickinson.edu/cgi-bi…
Fr. Baconi … Sermones fideles … Accedunt Faber fortunae, Colores boni et mali, &c. Ex officina Elzeviriana: Amstelodami, 1662. 12º.
There's the very thing to read as you walk.
It turns our that Bacon's "Sermones fideles" are indeed an edition of the essays under another title. http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT067… Take a look at the table of contents!
In the 1559 and 1662 Book of Common Prayer “The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-Birth, Commonly called Churching of Women.” http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bc…
WAGHENAER, Lucas Jansz. *The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoalds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their seueral traficks and commodities: together wth. the rules and instrume[n]ts of navigation.* First made & set fourth in diuers exact sea-charts, by that famous nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley. Heerin also may be understood the exploits lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Engla[n]d with her Maties. nauie and some former seruices don by that worthy knight Sr. Fra: Drake. [John Charlewood, London, 1588 http://www.polybiblio.com/shapero…
"By the third quarter of the sixteenth century an ever increasing volume of the wealth of the New World and the Indies was reaching Lisbon and the Spanish ports, there to be trans-shipped to Northern and Western Europe. This trade was almost entirely in the hands of the Dutch so it was logical that one of their pilots should produce the first set of effective navigational charts. These were compiled under the title *Spiegel der Zeevaerdt*, [Leyden, 1584; Latin: Amsterdam, 1591] by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer [1534-98], a native of Enkhuizen on the Zuider Zee, an experienced seaman and pilot. His magnificently produced charts embodying all the latest contemporary knowledge of navigation and position-finding set a standard which was followed by others for the next century or more -indeed, some of the symbols employed are still in use today. The charts in the first edition, covering the coast lines from Holland to Spain and the North Sea and Baltic, were engraved by the van Doetecum brothers and printed by Plantin: those in the English edition, which was translated by Sir Anthony Ashley and issued in 1588 - the year of the Armada - were engraved by de Bry, Hondius, Rutlinger and Ryther....Place names are given on the coasts but comparatively few are shown inland; cliffs on the coastline are drawn in elevation; navigational landmarks and hazards, anchorages, soundings and tidal details are indicated and the scale is shown in English, Spanish and Dutch leagues. Altogether some of the most handsome maps ever produced. "The charts became so universally popular that their name, anglicized to 'Waggoner', came into use in English as a generic term for sea charts of all kinds." http://www.swaen.com/mapmaker.html
A Royal Charter was granted by King Charles II for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
This charter had been long sought by Roger Williams, the founder of Providence Plantation in 1636, to help prevent the Plantation from being absorbed by the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut. "Unlike many of the other colonies' charters, the charter for Rhode Island specifically guaranteed religious freedom for all Christians [including Catholics] and even Jews. Because of this, a small Jewish population existed in Rhode Island, the only one in the original 13 British colonies of North America in which they were able to practice their religion freely.
"Roger Williams, [known as a friend, correspondent and beneficiary of Sir Henry Vane, was] a Baptist minister [who had fled] from religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was joined [in Providence] by Anne Hutchinson after her banishment [from Massachusets]. Other settlements in Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick quickly followed. A Parliamentary patent was secured in March 1644, uniting the four settlements. It was also a Self-Governing colony, where high-ranking exiles and criminals were sent." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhod…
"Roger Williams...dedicated 'to the High Court of Parliament' his 'Conference between Truth and Peace [1644].' He contends for 'a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or Antichristian consciences and worships;' because 'an inforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation confounds the civil and religious,' while 'other permission of other consciences and worships than a state professeth, only can procure a firm and lasting peace; good assurance being taken for uniformity of civil obedience.' Writing in 1654, he thus illustrates the same opinion: —" There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe are common; and is a true picture of a commonwealth. It hath fallen out, some times, that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked into one ship. Upon which supposal, I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges; that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship; nor compelled from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practise any. I further add, that I never denied that, notwithstanding this liberty, the commander of this ship ought to command the ship's course: yea, and also command that justice, peace, and sobriety, be kept and practised, both among the seamen and all the passengers." See Backus's "History of New England." Boston, (1777) i. 297.
Speech by the Speaker regarding the humble Petition and Advice Mr. Speaker's speech to the Lord Protector in the Banquetting House, the 31st March, 1657, at the tendering of the humble Petition and Advice, as it was at first tendered in the presence of the House of Parliament.Fn27
From: 'The Diary of Thomas Burton: Speech by the Speaker regarding the humble Petition and Advice', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 1: July 1653 - April 1657 (1828), pp. 397-413. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 17 July 2006.
"It’s obviously Betty Howlett/Mitchell’s fault for getting him so riled up”
Again Pepys is forgetting his Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’). His attitude toward her pulchritude is within his power - so Epictetus; but what did he know? he was also a slave.
L&M provide what Wheatley was more ashamed of than the Diarist (who recorded it)
"but the last thing of all; for I felt as much as I would and made her feel my thing also, and put the end of it to her breast and by and by to her very belly -- of which I am heartily ashamed."
"During the English Civil War the Channel Isle of Jersey remained loyal to the Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was first proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II) the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony). James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War: Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_…
"Sir George Carteret (1615 1680) came of old French stock on the Channel island of Jersey, which he held for King Charles I as the last Stuart stronghold to surrender to Cromwell. He was a distinguished naval officer, though rather careless in business and without much education. He died just too soon to receive the patent of nobility the king had intended for him. Carteret and Lord Berkeley were for a while Lords Proprietors of New Jersey, which he named for his home island." [and an image] http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?i…
jeannine, agreeing with language hat, I am especially struck by the cicumstantial claim - he must have had mathematical skills to have held tha posts that he held - perhaps contra SP, though the Peter Principle still applies; it's possible his math skills were of the practical sort of use in navigation/gunnery and did not carry over to bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.
Comments
First Reading
About Bacon's 'Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae'
TerryF • Link
Fr. Baconi, Sermones fideles, Accedunt Faber fortunae, Colores boni et mali, &c., Ex officina Elzeviriana: Amstelodami, 1662. [online i.a. at]
http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT067…
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Pepys characteristically focuses on "Faber Fortunae" - surely a reference to the beginning of *De Fortuna* (quoted above): "But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Faber quisque fortunæ suæ, ['every man is the architect of his own fortune'] saith the poet."
So he steels his courage to the sticking-point, working to shape and control every variable of his own "fortune" that he can.
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
In the background
Sermones Fideles. Ethici. Politici. Oeconomici: Sive Interiora Rerum. Accedunt Faber Fortunae Colores Boni et Mali, &c. Bacon, Francis. Amsterdam: Digital image of the frontispiece, copyright 2003, Dickinson College; Carlisle, PA. All rights reserved. http://deila.dickinson.edu/cgi-bi…
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Faber Fortunae per Michael Robinson
Fr. Baconi … Sermones fideles … Accedunt Faber fortunae, Colores boni et mali, &c. Ex officina Elzeviriana: Amstelodami, 1662. 12º.
There's the very thing to read as you walk.
It turns our that Bacon's "Sermones fideles" are indeed an edition of the essays under another title. http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT067…
Take a look at the table of contents!
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"made Will read and construe [some] Latin verses in the Bible"
Serious pedagogy with great religious import - interpreting the Bible -
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"some blocks that I saw a load carried off by a cart from Woolwich”
L&M note that it was said most of the houses in Chatham were built from wood that walked away from the dockyard.
About Vauxhall ("Fox-hall")
TerryF • Link
"Vauxhall is an...area....located on the south bank of the River Thames, across the water from...the House of Commons."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux…
About Monday 20 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Bacon's "Faber fortunae"
Essay XXXVIII. [ = Angl. XL] DE FORTUNA is here (scroll down)
http://www.philological.bham.ac.u…
L&M reference their Vol. 2 (1661), 102, n.1 Anyone have this volume?
About Sunday 19 July 1663
TerryF • Link
I wonder what the sermons were - at least they didn't put him
To sleep, perchance to dream.
Brilliant, Robert - the dream within a dream - and the substance of it!! Thanks for that; 'twill give me something to work on; and Mrs. Gertz...?
About Churching of women
TerryF • Link
In the 1559 and 1662 Book of Common Prayer “The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-Birth, Commonly called Churching of Women.” http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bc…
This rite was discussed in annotations on
27 September 1661 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… and
16 November 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Wagenaer's 'Spieghel der zeevaerdt'
TerryF • Link
WAGHENAER, Lucas Jansz. *The mariners mirrour wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoalds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harbouroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe: their seueral traficks and commodities: together wth. the rules and instrume[n]ts of navigation.* First made & set fourth in diuers exact sea-charts, by that famous nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley. Heerin also may be understood the exploits lately atchiued by the right Honorable the L. Admiral of Engla[n]d with her Maties. nauie and some former seruices don by that worthy knight Sr. Fra: Drake. [John Charlewood, London, 1588
http://www.polybiblio.com/shapero…
Image of the title page/frontispiece of *The mariners mirrour*
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/tudorimages/…
About Wagenaer's 'Spieghel der zeevaerdt'
TerryF • Link
"By the third quarter of the sixteenth century an ever increasing volume of the wealth of the New World and the Indies was reaching Lisbon and the Spanish ports, there to be trans-shipped to Northern and Western Europe. This trade was almost entirely in the hands of the Dutch so it was logical that one of their pilots should produce the first set of effective navigational charts. These were compiled under the title *Spiegel der Zeevaerdt*, [Leyden, 1584; Latin: Amsterdam, 1591] by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer [1534-98], a native of Enkhuizen on the Zuider Zee, an experienced seaman and pilot. His magnificently produced charts embodying all the latest contemporary knowledge of navigation and position-finding set a standard which was followed by others for the next century or more -indeed, some of the symbols employed are still in use today. The charts in the first edition, covering the coast lines from Holland to Spain and the North Sea and Baltic, were engraved by the van Doetecum brothers and printed by Plantin: those in the English edition, which was translated by Sir Anthony Ashley and issued in 1588 - the year of the Armada - were engraved by de Bry, Hondius, Rutlinger and Ryther....Place names are given on the coasts but comparatively few are shown inland; cliffs on the coastline are drawn in elevation; navigational landmarks and hazards, anchorages, soundings and tidal details are indicated and the scale is shown in English, Spanish and Dutch leagues. Altogether some of the most handsome maps ever produced.
"The charts became so universally popular that their name, anglicized to 'Waggoner', came into use in English as a generic term for sea charts of all kinds." http://www.swaen.com/mapmaker.html
About Sunday 19 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Drink and plays lead to inefficiency at work, but sexual license?
About Sunday 19 July 1663
TerryF • Link
But he hasn't drunk so much in a while that his head "aked", which shows the prudence of vows against extreme drink of any kind.
About Saturday 18 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Somewhere in Whitehall Palace today --
A Royal Charter was granted by King Charles II for the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
This charter had been long sought by Roger Williams, the founder of Providence Plantation in 1636, to help prevent the Plantation from being absorbed by the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut. "Unlike many of the other colonies' charters, the charter for Rhode Island specifically guaranteed religious freedom for all Christians [including Catholics] and even Jews. Because of this, a small Jewish population existed in Rhode Island, the only one in the original 13 British colonies of North America in which they were able to practice their religion freely.
"Roger Williams, [known as a friend, correspondent and beneficiary of Sir Henry Vane, was] a Baptist minister [who had fled] from religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was joined [in Providence] by Anne Hutchinson after her banishment [from Massachusets]. Other settlements in Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick quickly followed. A Parliamentary patent was secured in March 1644, uniting the four settlements. It was also a Self-Governing colony, where high-ranking exiles and criminals were sent."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhod…
"Roger Williams...dedicated 'to the High Court of Parliament' his 'Conference between Truth and Peace [1644].' He contends for 'a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or Antichristian consciences and worships;' because 'an inforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation confounds the civil and religious,' while 'other permission of other consciences and worships than a state professeth, only can procure a firm and lasting peace; good assurance being taken for uniformity of civil obedience.' Writing in 1654, he thus illustrates the same opinion:
—" There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe are common; and is a true picture of a commonwealth. It hath fallen out, some times, that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked into one ship. Upon which supposal, I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges; that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship; nor compelled from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practise any. I further add, that I never denied that, notwithstanding this liberty, the commander of this ship ought to command the ship's course: yea, and also command that justice, peace, and sobriety, be kept and practised, both among the seamen and all the passengers."
See Backus's "History of New England." Boston, (1777) i. 297.
Speech by the Speaker regarding the humble Petition and Advice
Mr. Speaker's speech to the Lord Protector in the Banquetting House, the 31st March, 1657, at the tendering of the humble Petition and Advice, as it was at first tendered in the presence of the House of Parliament.Fn27
From: 'The Diary of Thomas Burton: Speech by the Speaker regarding the humble Petition and Advice', Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 1: July 1653 - April 1657 (1828), pp. 397-413. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 17 July 2006.
About Saturday 18 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"It’s obviously Betty Howlett/Mitchell’s fault for getting him so riled up”
Again Pepys is forgetting his Epictetus (*Encheiridion* 1.1): * τών οντων τά μέν έστιν εκ εφ ήμιν, τά δε ουκ εφ ώμιν” (‘Of things, some are in our power, others are not’). His attitude toward her pulchritude is within his power - so Epictetus; but what did he know? he was also a slave.
About Saturday 18 July 1663
TerryF • Link
L&M provide what Wheatley was more ashamed of than the Diarist (who recorded it)
"but the last thing of all; for I felt as much as I would and made her feel my thing also, and put the end of it to her breast and by and by to her very belly -- of which I am heartily ashamed."
About Friday 17 July 1663
TerryF • Link
More about Jersey, Charlie and Cartaret
"During the English Civil War the Channel Isle of Jersey remained loyal to the Crown and gave sanctuary to the King. It was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was first proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II) the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony). James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War: Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_…
About Friday 17 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Sir George Carteret per Stolzi's site
"Sir George Carteret (1615 1680) came of old French stock on the Channel island of Jersey, which he held for King Charles I as the last Stuart stronghold to surrender to Cromwell. He was a distinguished naval officer, though rather careless in business and without much education. He died just too soon to receive the patent of nobility the king had intended for him. Carteret and Lord Berkeley were for a while Lords Proprietors of New Jersey, which he named for his home island." [and an image] http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?i…
About Friday 17 July 1663
TerryF • Link
jeannine, agreeing with language hat, I am especially struck by the cicumstantial claim - he must have had mathematical skills to have held tha posts that he held - perhaps contra SP, though the Peter Principle still applies; it's possible his math skills were of the practical sort of use in navigation/gunnery and did not carry over to bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.