Was the relation between the weather and somnolence as yet unfamiliar? the barometer had only been invented by Evangelista Torricelli ca. 1644 http://inventors.about.com/od/tst…
to answer one of the concerns of Robert Gertz and Dirk yesterday - "down into the cellar, and up and down with Mr. Turner to see where his vault for turds may be made bigger, or another made him; which I think may well be."
Pett's place IS in Chatham on the Medway, beyond the end of the Thames, but "At noon down by barge with Sir J. Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich....Here also [in Woolwich?] in Mr. Pett’s garden...where the King himself had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked...to Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford"
L&M transcribe the mess being transported in the dark from the cellar:
"This night, Mr. Turner's house [of office] being to be emptied out of my cellar, and therefore I think to sit up a little longer than ordinary.[...] I called late for some victuals, and so to bed, leaving the men below in the cellar emptying the turds up through Mr. Turner's own house; and so, with more content, to bed late."
Ah, yes: now that the detritus of Mr. Turner's house of office (latrine) is being removed, how much more pleasant the aroma will be for visitors to the wine that is there; and can tell at first whiff whether it is diluted or tainted!!
"Creed...tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. Carteret"
sped >>
speed (v.) O.E. spedan "to succeed, prosper, advance" (see speed (n.)). Meaning "to go fast" is attested from c.1300. Meaning "To send forth with quickness" is first recorded 1569; that of "to increase the work rate of" (usually with up) is from 1856. http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
A characteristic phrase - one Pepys has used 25 times in the 3 1/2 years of his Journall = Diary, as often as not when he's learned something new or put something in order - a measure of the man.
23 January 1661/62 - Pauline on Mon 24 Jan 2005, 6:25 pm | Link
"choosing our gloves" Sounded like a custom such as the providing of mourning clothes or mourning rings. Found the following with a quick google:
"The lovely custom of distributing Wedding Favors has been around since ancient times. In the late 17th century, guests were given favors such as scarves, garters and gloves." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
In 1661 Robert Boyle published ‘The Skeptical Chymist’, “in which he showed that old teachings should not be blindly accepted, and whose work included describing how gases are atoms with lots of empty space between them, accounting for their compressibility.” http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webproj…
"The concept of compound is probably as old as the concept of 'element'. Robert Boyle, the key figure in the transition from alchemy to chemistry, was one of the first to try to distinguish 'compounds' from other types of matter. In the *Sceptical Chymist* (1661), Boyle refers to chemical compounds as 'perfectly mixt' elements. The term 'perfectly mixt' was meant to distinguish compounds from 'imperfect' mechanical mixtures. Boyle was familiar with atomism and believed that compounds involved chemical combination of atoms, an idea adopted by John Dalton about 150 years later:
There are Clusters wherein the Particles stick not so close together, but that they may meet with Corpuscles of another Denomination, which are dispos'd to be more closely United with some of them, than they were among themselves.[Boyle]
"Boyle's 'perfectly mixt bodies' classification did not distinguish true compounds from homogeneous mixtures that were difficult to separate." http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem…
In 1661 Robert Boyle had published ‘The Skeptical Chymist’ (1661), "in which he showed that old teachings should not be blindly accepted, and whose work included describing how gases are atoms with lots of empty space between them, accounting for their compressibility." http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webproj…
23 January 1661/62 - "Pauline on Mon 24 Jan 2005, 6:25 pm | Link "choosing our gloves" Sounded like a custom such as the providing of mourning clothes or mourning rings. Found the following with a quick google:
“The lovely custom of distributing Wedding Favors has been around since ancient times. In the the late 17th century, guests were given favors such as scarves, garters and gloves.” http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
They observe that, lacking much formal education, he had spent much of his life at sea. -- Sound familiar? Carteret, Batten and Mennes -- though the last was a celebrated lyricist, he lacked Pepys's classical education, and even this lacked mathematiques, so essential for keeping accounts, something for which our hero has made amends. No wonder such meetings (Which valuation of the pieces of eight is better?) are so maddening for SP!
"I wonder if the 500L really just represents Creed’s share for Sandwich’s entire account which is much larger."
Larger indeed! According to L&M, Johm Creed had spent £4660 plus on supplies in 1661-62 as Deputy-Treasurer of Sandwich’s fleet in the Mediterranean (I had earlier mistyped £4600); and there were surely other charges as well.
"to the great honour of the English beyond measure. They have since taken back Evora"
"Pressure from the Habsburg crown had increased after the end of the campaign in Catalonia (1652) and the signing of the peace with France (1659)....The most serious effort was made by a Spanish invading force of more than 10,000 men, under D. Juan José, that captured Evora in 1663. Assisted by foreign experts, the Portuguese crown had built a home army of 15,000, including 1,500 elite English regulars and 5,000 cavalry, 20 percent of which were British or other foreign forces. These troops defeated the Spanish in several pitched battles between 1663 and 1665, with the English brigade winning special distinction." http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/payne…
The English military distinguished themselves in a very different sense in Hyde Park today. Methinks Gaston Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Cominges, was impressed indeed.
Comments
First Reading
About Wednesday 8 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"I slept till 7 o’clock, it raining mighty hard"
Was the relation between the weather and somnolence as yet unfamiliar? the barometer had only been invented by Evangelista Torricelli ca. 1644 http://inventors.about.com/od/tst…
About Wednesday 8 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Down again into the cellar, led by L&M -
to answer one of the concerns of Robert Gertz and Dirk yesterday - "down into the cellar, and up and down with Mr. Turner to see where his vault for turds may be made bigger, or another made him; which I think may well be."
Interesting idea - "vault for turds" --
About Tuesday 7 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Pett's place IS in Chatham on the Medway, beyond the end of the Thames, but "At noon down by barge with Sir J. Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich....Here also [in Woolwich?] in Mr. Pett’s garden...where the King himself had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked...to Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford"
It's not clear that Pepys went to Chatham.
About Tuesday 7 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Where is "Here...in Mr. Pett’s garden...where the King himself had been...this morning"?
Is anyone else confused about the geography of this midday cruise?
About Tuesday 7 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Last things first
L&M transcribe the mess being transported in the dark from the cellar:
"This night, Mr. Turner's house [of office] being to be emptied out of my cellar, and therefore I think to sit up a little longer than ordinary.[...] I called late for some victuals, and so to bed, leaving the men below in the cellar emptying the turds up through Mr. Turner's own house; and so, with more content, to bed late."
Ah, yes: now that the detritus of Mr. Turner's house of office (latrine) is being removed, how much more pleasant the aroma will be for visitors to the wine that is there; and can tell at first whiff whether it is diluted or tainted!!
About Monday 6 July 1663
TerryF • Link
So, Dirk, no "stopping" flowing down the drain; no old pain -
Gravity will do it.
About Monday 6 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Many thanks, Dirk and In the Deep Ditch
Dirk, surely that belongs in the Pepys Encyclopedia > Music
http://www.pepysdiary.com/backgro…
iAs > iAe (epistles writ on water [~message in a bottle]) > iaf - I find it hard to choose which sense be meet.
About Monday 6 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"Creed...tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. Carteret"
sped >>
speed (v.)
O.E. spedan "to succeed, prosper, advance" (see speed (n.)). Meaning "to go fast" is attested from c.1300. Meaning "To send forth with quickness" is first recorded 1569; that of "to increase the work rate of" (usually with up) is from 1856. http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
OED anyone?
About Monday 6 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"with great pleasure"
A characteristic phrase - one Pepys has used 25 times in the 3 1/2 years of his Journall = Diary, as often as not when he's learned something new or put something in order - a measure of the man.
About Weddings
TerryF • Link
23 January 1661/62 - Pauline on Mon 24 Jan 2005, 6:25 pm | Link
"choosing our gloves"
Sounded like a custom such as the providing of mourning clothes or mourning rings. Found the following with a quick google:
"The lovely custom of distributing Wedding Favors has been around since ancient times. In the late 17th century, guests were given favors such as scarves, garters and gloves." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Chemistry
TerryF • Link
Robert Boyle's ‘Skeptical chymist’ (1661) in facsimile online -
http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/…
About Chemistry
TerryF • Link
In 1661 Robert Boyle published ‘The Skeptical Chymist’, “in which he showed that old teachings should not be blindly accepted, and whose work included describing how gases are atoms with lots of empty space between them, accounting for their compressibility.” http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webproj…
"The concept of compound is probably as old as the concept of 'element'. Robert Boyle, the key figure in the transition from alchemy to chemistry, was one of the first to try to distinguish 'compounds' from other types of matter. In the *Sceptical Chymist* (1661), Boyle refers to chemical compounds as 'perfectly mixt' elements. The term 'perfectly mixt' was meant to distinguish compounds from 'imperfect' mechanical mixtures. Boyle was familiar with atomism and believed that compounds involved chemical combination of atoms, an idea adopted by John Dalton about 150 years later:
There are Clusters wherein the Particles stick not so close together, but that they may meet with Corpuscles of another Denomination, which are dispos'd to be more closely United with some of them, than they were among themselves.[Boyle]
"Boyle's 'perfectly mixt bodies' classification did not distinguish true compounds from homogeneous mixtures that were difficult to separate."
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem…
About Sunday 5 July 1663
TerryF • Link
The etext online is a facsimile version, quite readable.
About Sunday 5 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"talking all the way of chymistry"
I wonder what they talked about *specifically*.
In 1661 Robert Boyle had published ‘The Skeptical Chymist’ (1661), "in which he showed that old teachings should not be blindly accepted, and whose work included describing how gases are atoms with lots of empty space between them, accounting for their compressibility." http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webproj…
Pepys and Mennes didn't read the digital version of the work online.
http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/…
Great fun, Robert: catchy and bilingually inclusive!
About Sunday 5 July 1663
TerryF • Link
“my book of Latin plays, which I took in my pocket, thinking to have walked it”
I took to mean he thought he would read it as he walked.
About Sunday 5 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"had two pair of gloves, as the rest"
23 January 1661/62 - "Pauline on Mon 24 Jan 2005, 6:25 pm | Link
"choosing our gloves"
Sounded like a custom such as the providing of mourning clothes or mourning rings. Found the following with a quick google:
“The lovely custom of distributing Wedding Favors has been around since ancient times. In the the late 17th century, guests were given favors such as scarves, garters and gloves.”
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 5 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"coming to make water I found a stopping"
This sounds he felt the urge to urinate, but, in the event, couldn't, or couldn't completely.
About Saturday 4 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Sir G. Carteret's level of learning was notably low.
L&M point the way to Andrew Marvell's "Last Instructions to a Painter" (London, 4 September 1667), ll. 203f.
"Carteret the rich did the accountants guide
And in ill English all the world defied."
http://www.theotherpages.org/poem…
They observe that, lacking much formal education, he had spent much of his life at sea. --
Sound familiar? Carteret, Batten and Mennes -- though the last was a celebrated lyricist, he lacked Pepys's classical education, and even this lacked mathematiques, so essential for keeping accounts, something for which our hero has made amends. No wonder such meetings (Which valuation of the pieces of eight is better?) are so maddening for SP!
About Saturday 4 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"I wonder if the 500L really just represents Creed’s share for Sandwich’s entire account which is much larger."
Larger indeed! According to L&M, Johm Creed had spent £4660 plus on supplies in 1661-62 as Deputy-Treasurer of Sandwich’s fleet in the Mediterranean (I had earlier mistyped £4600); and there were surely other charges as well.
About Saturday 4 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"to the great honour of the English beyond measure. They have since taken back Evora"
"Pressure from the Habsburg crown had increased after the end of the campaign in Catalonia (1652) and the signing of the peace with France (1659)....The most serious effort was made by a Spanish invading force of more than 10,000 men, under D. Juan José, that captured Evora in 1663. Assisted by foreign experts, the Portuguese crown had built a home army of 15,000, including 1,500 elite English regulars and 5,000 cavalry, 20 percent of which were British or other foreign forces. These troops defeated the Spanish in several pitched battles between 1663 and 1665, with the English brigade winning special distinction." http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/payne…
The English military distinguished themselves in a very different sense in Hyde Park today. Methinks Gaston Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Cominges, was impressed indeed.