Tesauro, Emanuele, conte, 1592-1675. Patriarchae, sive, Christi servatoris genealogia per mundi aetates traducta /, ad Emanuele Thesavro ... ; accessere Caesarum elogia, et varii argumenti Carmina ab eodem authore scripta Londini : Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, MDCLVII [1657] [14], 215 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill Series title: Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1075:1 4006912660 Language: Latin http://www.academic-genealogy.com…
"DAPPER, a Lawyer's Clerk. . And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good court-hand more, If I discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus? FACE, the Housekeeper. . What's that? DAP. The Turk was here. As one would say, do you think I am a Turk? FACE. I'll tell the doctor so. DAP. Do, good sweet captain. FACE. Come, noble doctor, pray thee let's prevail; This is the gentleman, and he is no chiaus. SUBTLE, the Alchemist. Captain, I have return'd you all my answer. I would do much, sir, for your love -- But this I neither may, nor can. FACE. Tut, do not say so. You deal now with a noble fellow, doctor, One that will thank you richly; and he is no chiaus: Let that, sir, move you." http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/ete…
L&M note that Pitts had been Deputy-Treasurer to Lawson's fleet at Tangier when pieces of eight were in use at their official value of 4s. 9d.
Are there two disputes - (1) between Mr. Creed and Pitts regarding the face value of the coin; (2) between Coventry and Pepys as it which is the more advatageous to the King?
"The peso had a nominal value of eight reales ("royals"). The coins were often physically cut into eight 'bits,' or sometimes four quarters, to make smaller change. This is the origin of the colloquial name 'pieces of eight' for the coin, and of 'quarter' and 'two bits' for twenty-five cents in the United States." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piec…
Résumé-building has begun: "to take no servant without certificate from some friend or gentleman of his good behaviour and abilities."
An L&M note refers us to 18 March 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… where we find Pepys "talk[ed] a while with my wife about a wench that she has hired yesterday, which I would have enquired of before she comes, she having lived in great families," in re which L&M say that "requiring testimonials [letters of reference] was just coming in."
The tavern-talk by some Parliament-men shows that Pepys was ahead-of-the-curve in personnel practice in this respect. No surprise: it was about a cost-benefit analysis, a forté for him at work as well.
"The Baroque man was grand and used many subterfuges to convey maximum height; he was perched on high-heeled shoes, wore a narrow, fitted, knee-length coat, and on his head was a tall, full wig of natural hair, which only the very wealthy could afford. As much a symbol of class as clothing, the introduction of this 'periwig' was gradual and long lived. Reacting against sterner days, the beribboned and bowed dress style caused quite a stir. In a passage from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood dated 1663, the author described it as 'a strange effeminate age when men strive to imitate women in their apparel, viz. long periwigs, patches in their faces, painting, short wide breeches like petticoats, muffs, and their clothes highly scented, bedecked with ribbons of all colours.' " Further narrative with images: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhib…
Of Men & Their Elegance "The Baroque man was grand and used many subterfuges to convey maximum height; he was perched on high-heeled shoes, wore a narrow, fitted, knee-length coat, and on his head was a tall, full wig of natural hair, which only the very wealthy could afford. As much a symbol of class as clothing, the introduction of this 'periwig' was gradual and long lived. Reacting against sterner days, the beribboned and bowed dress style caused quite a stir. In a passage from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood dated 1663, the author described it as 'a strange effeminate age when men strive to imitate women in their apparel, viz. long periwigs, patches in their faces, painting, short wide breeches like petticoats, muffs, and their clothes highly scented, bedecked with ribbons of all colours.' " Further narrative with images: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhib…
These were prisons immediately under the supervision and control of the Sheriffs .... In early times in London records the Compters are designated by the names of the respective Sheriffs who presided over them, and it is probable that in many instances these Compters were in the houses of the Sheriffs, and not in fixed and permanent buildings..... Later on the practice of using the Sheriffs' houses seems to have been discontinued, and Stow mentions two Counters in his time, one in the Poultry and one in Wood Street. The Wood Street Counter had been removed there from Bread Street in 1555....
Linking two themes introduced by in Aqua Scripto - of arbitrary imprisonment in the annotations to Wednesday's Diary entry and yesterday's entry concerning religious conformity..
Which is to say, Pauline, that Peirce is on your wavelenth, methinks.
* * *
A bit Off Topioc: the too-little-known Peirce (whose name sounds like "purse") is arguably "the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced." http://www.peirce.org/
“…as good an argument as most is brought for many things…"
A later philosopher wrote: "If the settlement of opinion is the sole object of inquiry, and if belief is of the nature of a habit, why should we not attain the desired end, by taking as answer to a question any we may fancy, and constantly reiterating it to ourselves, dwelling on all which may conduce to that belief, and learning to turn with contempt and hatred from anything that might disturb it? This simple and direct method is really pursued by many men....
"But this method of fixing belief, which may be called the method of tenacity, will be unable to hold its ground in practice. The social impulse is against it. The man who adopts it will find that other men think differently from him, and it will be apt to occur to him, in some saner moment, that their opinions are quite as good as his own, and this will shake his confidence in his belief...."
-- "The Fixation of Belief" [by the American Pragmaticist] Charles S. Peirce. Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15. http://www.peirce.org/writings/p1…
Life under The Oath requires double-entry moral account-books.
There are debits and credits, strictly itemized; they can be quantified and their discount value calculated and made fungible.
"Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying (Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things " -- *Ash-Wednesday* by T S Eliot, VI http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11…
Australian Susan's observation may be true, but a memory trace says he uttered his aproval of the fall of Charles I's head in a remark he recorded in the Diary, expressing concern that it might come back to haunt him.
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About Tesauro's 'Patriarchae, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta'
TerryF • Link
Tesauro, Emanuele, conte, 1592-1675. Patriarchae, sive, Christi servatoris genealogia per mundi aetates traducta /, ad Emanuele Thesavro ... ; accessere Caesarum elogia, et varii argumenti Carmina ab eodem authore scripta Londini : Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, MDCLVII [1657] [14], 215 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill Series title: Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1075:1 4006912660 Language: Latin
http://www.academic-genealogy.com…
About Chouse
TerryF • Link
chiaus in Jonson's "Alchemist" ACT 1. SCENE 1.1.
"DAPPER, a Lawyer's Clerk. . And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good court-hand more, If I discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus?
FACE, the Housekeeper. . What's that?
DAP. The Turk was here. As one would say, do you think I am a Turk?
FACE. I'll tell the doctor so.
DAP. Do, good sweet captain.
FACE. Come, noble doctor, pray thee let's prevail; This is the gentleman, and he is no chiaus.
SUBTLE, the Alchemist. Captain, I have return'd you all my answer. I would do much, sir, for your love -- But this I neither may, nor can.
FACE. Tut, do not say so. You deal now with a noble fellow, doctor, One that will thank you richly; and he is no chiaus: Let that, sir, move you."
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/ete…
About Monday 11 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Mary, you posted as I was previewing and revising, and you are correct.
About Monday 11 May 1663
TerryF • Link
May I recast two putative disputes about pieces of eight?
1)Mr Creed v John Pitts re the *exchange* value of the coin;
2) *Sir G. Carteret* v Pepys abt. which is the more advatageous to the King,
(I am a maze about where Mr Coventry came from.)
About Monday 11 May 1663
TerryF • Link
On pieces of eight again....
L&M note that Pitts had been Deputy-Treasurer to Lawson's fleet at Tangier when pieces of eight were in use at their official value of 4s. 9d.
Are there two disputes - (1) between Mr. Creed and Pitts regarding the face value of the coin; (2) between Coventry and Pepys as it which is the more advatageous to the King?
About Pieces of eight
TerryF • Link
The origin of the name
"The peso had a nominal value of eight reales ("royals"). The coins were often physically cut into eight 'bits,' or sometimes four quarters, to make smaller change. This is the origin of the colloquial name 'pieces of eight' for the coin, and of 'quarter' and 'two bits' for twenty-five cents in the United States." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piec…
About Monday 11 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"both coming and going did con my lesson on my Ruler to measure timber"
"con"
Verb
memorize, memorise, con, learn (commit to memory; learn by heart) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl…
Another example of the Pepysian walking seminar....
About Monday 11 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"set upon by a great dogg; but, Lord, to see in what a maze I was"
"maze"
Noun
tangle, snarl, maze (something jumbled or confused)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl…
his feelings all a-tumble indeed!
About Sunday 10 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Résumé-building has begun: "to take no servant without certificate from some friend or gentleman of his good behaviour and abilities."
An L&M note refers us to 18 March 1662/63 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… where we find Pepys "talk[ed] a while with my wife about a wench that she has hired yesterday, which I would have enquired of before she comes, she having lived in great families," in re which L&M say that "requiring testimonials [letters of reference] was just coming in."
The tavern-talk by some Parliament-men shows that Pepys was ahead-of-the-curve in personnel practice in this respect. No surprise: it was about a cost-benefit analysis, a forté for him at work as well.
About Saturday 9 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Of Men & Their Elegance
"The Baroque man was grand and used many subterfuges to convey maximum height; he was perched on high-heeled shoes, wore a narrow, fitted, knee-length coat, and on his head was a tall, full wig of natural hair, which only the very wealthy could afford. As much a symbol of class as clothing, the introduction of this 'periwig' was gradual and long lived. Reacting against sterner days, the beribboned and bowed dress style caused quite a stir. In a passage from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood dated 1663, the author described it as 'a strange effeminate age when men strive to imitate women in their apparel, viz. long periwigs, patches in their faces, painting, short wide breeches like petticoats, muffs, and their clothes highly scented, bedecked with ribbons of all colours.' " Further narrative with images: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhib…
About Links to sites
TerryF • Link
Of Men & Their Elegance
"The Baroque man was grand and used many subterfuges to convey maximum height; he was perched on high-heeled shoes, wore a narrow, fitted, knee-length coat, and on his head was a tall, full wig of natural hair, which only the very wealthy could afford. As much a symbol of class as clothing, the introduction of this 'periwig' was gradual and long lived. Reacting against sterner days, the beribboned and bowed dress style caused quite a stir. In a passage from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood dated 1663, the author described it as 'a strange effeminate age when men strive to imitate women in their apparel, viz. long periwigs, patches in their faces, painting, short wide breeches like petticoats, muffs, and their clothes highly scented, bedecked with ribbons of all colours.' " Further narrative with images: http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhib…
About Wigs
TerryF • Link
Re Kent's initial post (above), the URL to a page that also has illustrations.
http://www.costumes.org/history/1…
About Saturday 9 May 1663
TerryF • Link
"carried to the Counter, but afterwards released"
Compters [~Counters]
These were prisons immediately under the supervision and control of the Sheriffs ....
In early times in London records the Compters are designated by the names of the respective Sheriffs who presided over them, and it is probable that in many instances these Compters were in the houses of the Sheriffs, and not in fixed and permanent buildings.....
Later on the practice of using the Sheriffs' houses seems to have been discontinued, and Stow mentions two Counters in his time, one in the Poultry and one in Wood Street. The Wood Street Counter had been removed there from Bread Street in 1555....
From: 'Compters', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 09 May 2006.
Linking two themes introduced by in Aqua Scripto - of arbitrary imprisonment in the annotations to Wednesday's Diary entry and yesterday's entry concerning religious conformity..
About Friday 8 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Thanks, i.A.S., for reminding us of the age's major theme.
Some days' Diary entries make it easy to forget that the Pepys's dances are always accompanied by the deep drum-beat of religious conflict.
About Friday 8 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Which is to say, Pauline, that Peirce is on your wavelenth, methinks.
* * *
A bit Off Topioc: the too-little-known Peirce (whose name sounds like "purse") is arguably "the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced." http://www.peirce.org/
About Friday 8 May 1663
TerryF • Link
“…as good an argument as most is brought for many things…"
A later philosopher wrote: "If the settlement of opinion is the sole object of inquiry, and if belief is of the nature of a habit, why should we not attain the desired end, by taking as answer to a question any we may fancy, and constantly reiterating it to ourselves, dwelling on all which may conduce to that belief, and learning to turn with contempt and hatred from anything that might disturb it? This simple and direct method is really pursued by many men....
"But this method of fixing belief, which may be called the method of tenacity, will be unable to hold its ground in practice. The social impulse is against it. The man who adopts it will find that other men think differently from him, and it will be apt to occur to him, in some saner moment, that their opinions are quite as good as his own, and this will shake his confidence in his belief...."
-- "The Fixation of Belief" [by the American Pragmaticist] Charles S. Peirce. Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15. http://www.peirce.org/writings/p1…
About Friday 8 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Well, that intriguing “to” is in the L&M text also.
Also intriguing, Roy Feldman, is the possibility that "to dance" is why "we all" [were] "up."
About Friday 8 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Life under The Oath requires double-entry moral account-books.
There are debits and credits, strictly itemized; they can be quantified and their discount value calculated and made fungible.
"Wavering between the profit and the loss
In this brief transit where the dreams cross
The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
(Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things "
-- *Ash-Wednesday* by T S Eliot, VI
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11…
About Chouse
TerryF • Link
chouse
v : cheat, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey (defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl…
About Thursday 7 May 1663
TerryF • Link
Australian Susan's observation may be true, but a memory trace says he uttered his aproval of the fall of Charles I's head in a remark he recorded in the Diary, expressing concern that it might come back to haunt him.