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Terry Foreman has posted 16,447 annotations/comments since 28 June 2005.

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About Monday 29 June 1663

TerryF  •  Link

"no meeting to-day being holy day"

L&M note that this is St Peter's Day, and wonder whether the Duke put off the meeting in favor of a chapel service [i.e. a Mass].

About Antoine de Gramont (Duc de)

TerryF  •  Link

"Antoine III de Gramont-Touloujon (1604-1678), [Highly decorated military oficer and diplomat,] comte de Guiche, puis [then] comte de Gramont, puis 2e duc de Gramont (1648) et Pair [Peer] de France, prince souverain de Bidache et seigneur [Lord] de Lesparre, comte de Louvigny, vicomte d'Aster, baron d'Andouins et d'Hagetmau, Maréchal de France en 1641, Colonel des Gardes Françaises."
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/List…

17e c. Memoires
GRAMONT (Antoine III, duc de), (1604-1678), Mémoires, pub. par Michaud et Poujoulat, 3e série, tome 7, 1839.
GUICHE (Guy-Armand de Gramont, comte de), (1638-1673), Relation du passage du Rhin (Mémoires du comte de Guiche contenant plusieurs particularités arrivées sous le règne de Louis le Grand), pub. par Michaud et Poujoulat, 3e série, tome 7, 1839.
http://www.ecritsduforprive.fr/me…

About Louis II de Bourbon (Prince de Condé)

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"Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (September 8, 1621 – November 11, 1686) was the most celebrated representative of the Condé dynasty and one of the most brilliant soldiers of the 17th century. His military prowess won him the nickname 'The Great Condé' (le Grand Condé), and he has been referred to as 'the French Alexander'." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loui…

About Sunday 28 June 1663

TerryF  •  Link

"reading in Cicero and other books of good discourse."

I wonder what of Cicero they were reading?
We know that during the time Harry Vane was executed, a year ago, Samuel might have reread Cicero’s Second Oration against Catiline, concerning which see language hat's annote http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
presumably from a volume of Cicero's Orations in Latin http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ci…. The L&M Index also indicates Pepys read/owned Cicero's *Works*, though the locus they cite for it (4/410 & n. 4) lists other books, but none by Cicero.

Can Michael Robinson or another peritus on Pepys's books shed any light on today's (or any other day's) readings of Cicero, who has his own page http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Sunday 28 June 1663

TerryF  •  Link

"a good stool, and then...had three or four stools"

Does the vaguery of the count suggest....?

About Tis Pity She's a Whore (John Ford)

TerryF  •  Link

"'Tis Pity She's a Whore, John Ford's exquisitely grisly, depraved version of Romeo and Juliet where the two lovers are brother and sister" http://www-tech.mit.edu/archives/…
is currently in copyright editions by Routeledge, as an ebook http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book… and in an anthology http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/produc…

Hippolita 'Tis she; Be not amaz'd; nor blush, young lovely bride, I come not to defraud you of your man: 'Tis now no time to reckon up the talk what Parma long hath rumour'd of us both; Let rash report run on! the breath that vents it Will, like a bubble, break itself at last.
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/16…

About Sunday 28 June 1663

TerryF  •  Link

Lots of counting and accounting today.

E.g., "the business of [the Duke's] pieces of eight"

11 May - "we attended the Duke of York: and...Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute about the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at 4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which was the greatest husbandry to the King? he persisting that the greatest sum was; which is as ridiculous a piece of ignorance as could be imagined. However, it is to be argued at the Board, and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall do with advantage, I hope." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

Clement's clarification of Pepys's position is the beginning of a longer discussion of it: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

12 May - "We sat till late, our chief business being the reconciling the business of the pieces of eight mentioned yesterday before the Duke of York, wherein I have got the day, and they are all brought over to what I said, of which I am proud." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

About Exeter House

TerryF  •  Link

Exeter Street runs parallel to the Strand, between Burleigh and Catherine Streets, Exeter Court running off the Strand north toward Exeter Street, toward the SE corner of this segment of the 1742 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…

About The Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy (John Fletcher et al)

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Emilio on Mon 29 Mar 2004
The Bloody Brother; or, The Tragedy of Rollo

L&M footnote: “The bloody brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy, a tragedy by John Fletcher and several others, written c. 1617; published 1639. Now at the [Theatre Royal], Vere St. The cast listed by Downes (pp. 5-6) includes Hart as Rollo, Kynaston as Otto, Mrs Corey as the Duchess and Mrs Marshall as Edith.”

And this from Bartleby ( http://www.bartleby.com/216/0513.… ):
“The date of The Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy is uncertain; but it was probably produced about the year 1616. It is an effective drama, and was reckoned by Rymer with Philaster, The Maides Tragedy and A King and no King, as among the most celebrated tragedies of its age. Four authors seem to have been concerned in this play, and it is probable that the remarkable political reflections in the first scene of the fourth act are to be ascribed to Jonson. A small part only is by Fletcher, to whom, however, are due the striking scenes between Rollo and Edith in the third and fifth acts. Of the former of these scenes, Coleridge remarks that it exhibits ‘probably the grandest working of passion in all Beaumont and Fletcher’s dramas’; the latter he criticises severely because of the momentary weakening of Edith’s resolve, comparing her with lady Anne in Richard III.”

About Touse

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Touse \Touse\, Touze \Touze\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused;
p. pr. & vb. n. Tousing.] [OE. tosen [root]64. See tease,
and cf. Tose, Toze. ]
To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] --Shak.

As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. --Spenser.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) http://dict.die.net/touse/

to tousle/tumble a woman (L&M Glossary)