Sir Allen Apsley, a faithful adherent to Charles I., after the Restoration was made Falconer to the King, and Almoner to the Duke of York in whose regiment he bore a commission. He was in 1661 M.P. for Thetford, and died 1683. http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Diar…
"In 1642 Allen Apsley was knighted by the King [Charles I] and commissioned to raise a troop of horse in the West Country. By the end of 1642 he had been made Governor of Exeter in Devon [...] While in France during the commonwealth Sir Allen became a firm-drinking crony of the exiled King (much to the displeasure of some other notable royalist of the time!). Charles II rewarded Sir Allen with a few minor offices of state during this period but it was not until the restoration that he would reap his real rewards.[...] Upon the restoration Sir Allen Apsley...was made keeper of the Kings hawks (a very prestigious and enterprising affair with many benefits!) in 1660 and keeper of the North Park of Hampton court in 1661. Also treasurer to James Duke of York's household later that year as well as this many of his old estates and revenues returned to him.{...] In 1667 a new threat to the peace of Britain was on the horizon and Sir Allen now aged 51 was commissioned by the King to raise a horse regiment to repel the Dutch in case of invasion. From 1661 to 1678 Sir Allen was MP for Thetford in Norfolk.[...] in 1666 [Sir Allen] caused many disturbances on the house by coming there in a state of drunkenness. Samuel Pepys said of him " he would often give good sport to the house, arriving in a drunken mood of foul mouthed obscenities!". http://www.17thcenturylifeandtime…
“Why Can’t the King Be More Like Sam Pepys? And be content to dally with whoever keeps Sam's libido satisfied when his wife's not around - Tousing Fat Betty and whoever can be found He procreates not With a secret lot; What Charles Rex sows, all of England reaps - Why Can’t the King Be More Like Sam Pepys?"
"In fine, he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it."
Wonderful description by Sir G. Carteret! I wonder how many like Lord Digby in this respect there are at present. Nominations?
"why does Creed always seem to end up lodging at Pepys’s place?"
Well, he doesn't "always", does he. Part of your impression may be explained by the Background info on John Creed, esp. the main annote by language hat, who cites the L&M Companion entry - "He had some private wealth, and (if Pepys is to be believed) was thoroughly mean with it?refusing loans to Sandwich, and moving his bachelor apartments from time to time in order to avoid the poll-tax." http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
At the time of Louis XIV, many foreigners were mong the 51 he gave the high rank and title of Mareschall of France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars… - one of Louis' skills was pan-European coalition-building, deputizing socially well-connected mercenaries, in effect.
"I walked over the fields to Southwark..., and I spent half an hour in Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church." Samuel Pepys - 3 July 1663 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
St. Mary Overies Dock on the South side of the Thames leads to the Montague Close of St. Saviour church, yard and grounds on the right edge of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
On the left edge of this segment of the map the East side of the St. Saviour' grounds lie near The Borough as it leads North onto the London Bridge. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Today's House of Commons Journal's not as colorful as Pepys's.
Privilege.-Charge against Sir R. Temple.
The House having received Information, That the Earl of Bristoll was at the Door; and did pray Admittance into the House, to give an Account, in Person, of the Matter concerning Sir Richard Temple, according to the Vote of the House passed, upon his Lordship's Desire in that Behalf, on the Twenty-seventh of June last;
E. of Bristoll heard. His Lordship was, by Direction of the House, placed in a Chair, set for him, on Purpose, on the left Side of the House, within the Bar: And Mr. Speaker did open unto him his Majesty's Message, and the Votes and Proceedings of the House thereupon, concerning Sir Richard Temple.
And his Lordship having delivered his Answer thereto in the House; And being withdrawn; The House proceeded in the Debate of the Matter.
Resolved, &c. That this House is satisfied, That Sir Richard Temple hath not broke any Privilege of this House, in the Matter in Question concerning him. .... Ordered, That such Members of this House, as are of his Majesty's Privy Council, do acquaint his Majesty with the Vote of the House, concerning Sir Richard Temple....
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 1 July 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 514-15. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 1 July 2006.
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Michael Robinson, very nice citation of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
A gallery to which Lord Sandwich, Messrs. Creed and Pepys walked from the Park at Whitehall Palace, and from which they then walked more in White Hall garden, 30 June 1663.
"There were negotiations between Charles I and the Parliamentary side in Uxbridge, January 30 to February 22, 1645" This and more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbr…
L&M connect the dots of the transcription by Henry B. Wheatley.
"..showed his nakedness, . . . . and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a glass of wine . . . . and then drank it off,"
L&M: "..showed his nakedness -- acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could be imagined, and abusing of scripture and, as it were, from thence preaching a Mountebanke sermon from that pulpitt, saying that there he hath to sell such a pouder as should make all the cunts in town run after him, -- a thousand people standing underneath to see and hear him. And that being done, he took a glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off;"
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"..running into such courses again . . . . Thence home,"
L&M: "..running into such courses again. Upon this discourse, Sir J. Mennes and Mr. Batten both say that buggery is now almost grown as common among our gallants as in Italy, and that the very pages of the town begin to complain of their masters for it. But blessed be God, I do not to this day know what is the meaning of this sin, nor which is the agent and which is the patient. Thence home;"
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This last is the passage quoted by David Quidnunc from Liza Picard's “Restoration London” [quoting L&M] in an annote of 16 January 1660/61 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The late Sir Winston Churchill might have thought Samuel at sea because he's never been at sea, i.e., REALLY IN the navy http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Pot has mixed feelings about kettle: sees it's too big to handle, but admires its style.
The views of today have come quickly to a boil:
Eight days ago, Monday 22 , Pepys judged Creed as "so knowing, and a man of that reason, that I cannot but love his company, though I do not love the man, because he is too wise to be made a friend of, and acts all by interest and policy, but is a man fit to learn of." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Five days ago, Thursday 25, Pepys, now coöpted into putting Creed's accounts in order, wrote: "I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business.even unknown to me [and] unobserved out of the Controller’s [Mennes's] hand...[...] Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner, and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) " http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sedley, Sir Charles (b. 1639; d. 1701). “The Mulberry Garden” (1668); “Antony and Cleopatra” (1677); “Bellamira” (1687); “Beauty the Conqueror; or, the Death of Mark Antony” (1702); “The Grumbler” (1702); “The Tyrant King of Crete” (1702). All the above are dramatic. His complete works, including his plays, poems, songs, etc., were published in 1702. http://www.bartleby.com/81/18484.…
"Sir Charles Sedley (March 1639 - August 20, 1701), English wit and dramatist, [...] Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic Poesy". His most famous song, 'Phyllis is my only joy', is much more widely known now than the author's name.[...] The best, but most licentious, of his comedies is "Bellamira; or The Mistress" (1687), an imitation of the "Eunuchus" of Terence, in which the heroine is supposed to represent the duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char…
'Phyllis is my only joy'
Phyllis is my only joy, Faithless as the winds or seas; Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, Yet she never fails to please; If with a frown I am cast down, Phyllis smiling, And beguiling, Makes me happier than before.
Though, alas! too late I find Nothing can her fancy fix, Yet the moment she is kind I forgive her all her tricks; Which, though I see, I can't get free; She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden.VIII. The Court Poets.§ 10. Sir Charles Sedley. http://www.bartleby.com/218/0810.…
"Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her relatively brief Regency, 1643–1651, Cardinal Mazarin served as France's chief minister." Article and images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne…
Methinks this is the first time he has so writ, and its provocation is a 7l. deficit month over month, but he knew it was coming, so what's the problem here? Apparently a willingness to forego the long-term pain for petty short-term pleasures - and with the long-term responsibilities he bears, and not just for himself, that is serious indeed.
Comments
First Reading
About Saturday 4 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Turns out S.P.Q.R. isn't as clear as I learned in school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR
"rats!"
About The Sun (King St)
TerryF • Link
Pepys also refers to the Sun (King St) as "old George’s" after his favorite drawer there (L&M Index)
13 September 1661
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
4 July 1663
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Saturday 4 July 1663
TerryF • Link
(calling by the way at old George’s), but find that he is dead
L&M: (calling by the way at old Georges, but find that he is dead)
R.I..P. George, Pepys's elderly drawer at the Sun tavern, King St. (Index)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Sir Allen Apsley (jr, MP Thetford)
TerryF • Link
Sir Allen Apsley, a faithful adherent to Charles I., after the Restoration was made Falconer to the King, and Almoner to the Duke of York in whose regiment he bore a commission. He was in 1661 M.P. for Thetford, and died 1683. http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Diar…
"In 1642 Allen Apsley was knighted by the King [Charles I] and commissioned to raise a troop of horse in the West Country. By the end of 1642 he had been made Governor of Exeter in Devon [...] While in France during the commonwealth Sir Allen became a firm-drinking crony of the exiled King (much to the displeasure of some other notable royalist of the time!). Charles II rewarded Sir Allen with a few minor offices of state during this period but it was not until the restoration that he would reap his real rewards.[...] Upon the restoration Sir Allen Apsley...was made keeper of the Kings hawks (a very prestigious and enterprising affair with many benefits!) in 1660 and keeper of the North Park of Hampton court in 1661. Also treasurer to James Duke of York's household later that year as well as this many of his old estates and revenues returned to him.{...] In 1667 a new threat to the peace of Britain was on the horizon and Sir Allen now aged 51 was commissioned by the King to raise a horse regiment to repel the Dutch in case of invasion. From 1661 to 1678 Sir Allen was MP for Thetford in Norfolk.[...] in 1666 [Sir Allen] caused many disturbances on the house by coming there in a state of drunkenness. Samuel Pepys said of him " he would often give good sport to the house, arriving in a drunken mood of foul mouthed obscenities!".
http://www.17thcenturylifeandtime…
About Friday 3 July 1663
TerryF • Link
“Why Can’t the King Be More Like Sam Pepys?
And be content to dally with whoever keeps
Sam's libido satisfied when his wife's not around -
Tousing Fat Betty and whoever can be found
He procreates not
With a secret lot;
What Charles Rex sows, all of England reaps -
Why Can’t the King Be More Like Sam Pepys?"
(Jeannine's better at this.)
About Thursday 2 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"In fine, he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it."
Wonderful description by Sir G. Carteret!
I wonder how many like Lord Digby in this respect there are at present. Nominations?
About Thursday 2 July 1663
TerryF • Link
"why does Creed always seem to end up lodging at Pepys’s place?"
Well, he doesn't "always", does he. Part of your impression may be explained by the Background info on John Creed, esp. the main annote by language hat, who cites the L&M Companion entry -
"He had some private wealth, and (if Pepys is to be believed) was thoroughly mean with it?refusing loans to Sandwich, and moving his bachelor apartments from time to time in order to avoid the poll-tax."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Thursday 2 July 1663
TerryF • Link
To attempt to clarify
At the time of Louis XIV, many foreigners were mong the 51 he gave the high rank and title of Mareschall of France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars… - one of Louis' skills was pan-European coalition-building, deputizing socially well-connected mercenaries, in effect.
About St Mary Overie (Southwark)
TerryF • Link
The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark
http://www.southwark.anglican.org…
"I walked over the fields to Southwark..., and I spent half an hour in Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church." Samuel Pepys - 3 July 1663 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The history of the church, 1539AD to 1815AD:
http://www.southwark.anglican.org…
Interior of St. Saviour's
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
St. Mary Overies Dock on the South side of the Thames leads to the Montague Close of St. Saviour church, yard and grounds on the right edge of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
On the left edge of this segment of the map the East side of the St. Saviour' grounds lie near The Borough as it leads North onto the London Bridge. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Wednesday 1 July 1663
TerryF • Link
”getting his Landskips done” transcribe L&M.
A quick check on the web find "landskips" associated with paintings in this period; and the Large Glossary in the Companion agrees.
About Wednesday 1 July 1663
TerryF • Link
Today's House of Commons Journal's not as colorful as Pepys's.
Privilege.-Charge against Sir R. Temple.
The House having received Information, That the Earl of Bristoll was at the Door; and did pray Admittance into the House, to give an Account, in Person, of the Matter concerning Sir Richard Temple, according to the Vote of the House passed, upon his Lordship's Desire in that Behalf, on the Twenty-seventh of June last;
E. of Bristoll heard.
His Lordship was, by Direction of the House, placed in a Chair, set for him, on Purpose, on the left Side of the House, within the Bar: And Mr. Speaker did open unto him his Majesty's Message, and the Votes and Proceedings of the House thereupon, concerning Sir Richard Temple.
And his Lordship having delivered his Answer thereto in the House;
And being withdrawn;
The House proceeded in the Debate of the Matter.
Resolved, &c. That this House is satisfied, That Sir Richard Temple hath not broke any Privilege of this House, in the Matter in Question concerning him.
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Ordered, That such Members of this House, as are of his Majesty's Privy Council, do acquaint his Majesty with the Vote of the House, concerning Sir Richard Temple....
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 1 July 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 514-15. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 1 July 2006.
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Michael Robinson, very nice citation of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
About Gallery (Whitehall Palace)
TerryF • Link
A gallery to which Lord Sandwich, Messrs. Creed and Pepys walked from the Park at Whitehall Palace, and from which they then walked more in White Hall garden, 30 June 1663.
A read of the map of Whitehall Palace shows no Gallery near the Park
http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
Perhaps the Gallery in question is the Stone Gallery which is near the garden http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Or the Matted Gallery one floor above it.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Uxbridge
TerryF • Link
"There were negotiations between Charles I and the Parliamentary side in Uxbridge, January 30 to February 22, 1645"
This and more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbr…
About Wednesday 1 July 1663
TerryF • Link
L&M connect the dots of the transcription by Henry B. Wheatley.
"..showed his nakedness, . . . . and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a glass of wine . . . . and then drank it off,"
L&M: "..showed his nakedness -- acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could be imagined, and abusing of scripture and, as it were, from thence preaching a Mountebanke sermon from that pulpitt, saying that there he hath to sell such a pouder as should make all the cunts in town run after him, -- a thousand people standing underneath to see and hear him.
And that being done, he took a glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off;"
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"..running into such courses again . . . . Thence home,"
L&M: "..running into such courses again.
Upon this discourse, Sir J. Mennes and Mr. Batten both say that buggery is now almost grown as common among our gallants as in Italy, and that the very pages of the town begin to complain of their masters for it. But blessed be God, I do not to this day know what is the meaning of this sin, nor which is the agent and which is the patient. Thence home;"
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This last is the passage quoted by David Quidnunc from Liza Picard's “Restoration London” [quoting L&M] in an annote of 16 January 1660/61 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The late Sir Winston Churchill might have thought Samuel at sea because he's never been at sea, i.e., REALLY IN the navy http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 30 June 1663
TerryF • Link
Pot has mixed feelings about kettle: sees it's too big to handle, but admires its style.
The views of today have come quickly to a boil:
Eight days ago, Monday 22 , Pepys judged Creed as "so knowing, and a man of that reason, that I cannot but love his company, though I do not love the man, because he is too wise to be made a friend of, and acts all by interest and policy, but is a man fit to learn of." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Five days ago, Thursday 25, Pepys, now coöpted into putting Creed's accounts in order, wrote: "I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business.even unknown to me [and] unobserved out of the Controller’s [Mennes's] hand...[...] Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner, and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) "
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I withdraw Thursday's reservation about the accounts' irregularity.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 30 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"Thus, by God's blessing, ends this book of two years;"
At the end of today's entry L&M note this was the last in the second MS volume of Pepys's Diary.
About Sir Charles Sedley
TerryF • Link
Sedley, Sir Charles (b. 1639; d. 1701). “The Mulberry Garden” (1668); “Antony and Cleopatra” (1677); “Bellamira” (1687); “Beauty the Conqueror; or, the Death of Mark Antony” (1702); “The Grumbler” (1702); “The Tyrant King of Crete” (1702). All the above are dramatic. His complete works, including his plays, poems, songs, etc., were published in 1702. http://www.bartleby.com/81/18484.…
"Sir Charles Sedley (March 1639 - August 20, 1701), English wit and dramatist, [...] Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of Dryden's "Essay of Dramatic Poesy". His most famous song, 'Phyllis is my only joy', is much more widely known now than the author's name.[...] The best, but most licentious, of his comedies is "Bellamira; or The Mistress" (1687), an imitation of the "Eunuchus" of Terence, in which the heroine is supposed to represent the duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char…
'Phyllis is my only joy'
Phyllis is my only joy,
Faithless as the winds or seas;
Sometimes coming, sometimes coy,
Yet she never fails to please;
If with a frown
I am cast down,
Phyllis smiling,
And beguiling,
Makes me happier than before.
Though, alas! too late I find
Nothing can her fancy fix,
Yet the moment she is kind
I forgive her all her tricks;
Which, though I see,
I can't get free;
She deceiving,
I believing;
What need lovers wish for more?
-- Sir Charles Sedley
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/mi…
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden.VIII. The Court Poets.§ 10. Sir Charles Sedley. http://www.bartleby.com/218/0810.…
About Anne of Austria
TerryF • Link
"Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her relatively brief Regency, 1643–1651, Cardinal Mazarin served as France's chief minister." Article and images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne…
About Monday 29 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"great victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards"
L&M say a newspaper has just hit the street with a version of the news that reached SP last Thursday. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 28 June 1663
TerryF • Link
"So to the reading my vows seriously"
Methinks this is the first time he has so writ, and its provocation is a 7l. deficit month over month, but he knew it was coming, so what's the problem here? Apparently a willingness to forego the long-term pain for petty short-term pleasures - and with the long-term responsibilities he bears, and not just for himself, that is serious indeed.