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

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About Saturday 25 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

The books bought today about religion trends

"a book [“Fair warning, or, XX prophesies concerning the return of popery: The second part - by Archbishop Whitgift, Archbishop Laud, Archbishop Bancroft, Bishop Sanderson, Bishop Gauden, Mr. Hooker & others ;”] lately printed and licensed by Dr. Stradling, the Bishop of London’s chaplin, being a book discovering the practices and designs of the papists, and the fears of some of our own fathers of the Protestant church heretofore of the return to Popery as it were prefacing it.

"The book is a very good book; but forasmuch as it touches one of the Queenmother’s fathers confessors [Père Sarabras], the Bishop [of London, Gilbert Sheldon], which troubles many good men and members of Parliament, hath called it in [recalled it?], which I am sorry for."

L&M note that page 47 of the book repeats the common story that Father Sarabras tossed his hat in the air to celebrate the fall of the head of Charles 1, elder son of the Queen Mother.

Hmmm, I recall Sam'l himself owned up to having made an intemperate remark in that vein.

For what is Sam'l sorry? Is he expressing sympathy with the QM,
Bp. Sheldon, or...?

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"Another book I bought, being a collection of many expressions of the great Presbyterian Preachers upon publique occasions, in the late times, against the King and his party, as some of Mr. Marshall, Case, Calamy, Baxter, &c., which is good reading now, to see what they then did teach, and the people believe, and what they would seem to believe now."

Reality-check? Is he really uninformed? Covertly sympathetic? He hasn't expressed anxiety about the nonconfornists for a while....

About Friday 24 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

The status of the lash in the Navy

“You say that I am ignoring the time-honored traditions of the Royal Navy? And what might they be? I shall tell you in three words. Rum, buggery, and the lash! Good morning sirs.”
- Winston Churchill addressing the Sea Lords, 1912
http://www.clashofarms.com/feargo…

About Stradling's 'Fair-warning: the second part...'

TerryF  •  Link

"Fair warning, or, XX prophesies concerning the return of popery: The second part - by Archbishop Whitgift, Archbishop Laud, Archbishop Bancroft, Bishop Sanderson, Bishop Gauden, Mr. Hooker & others ;" available in digital form via Early English Books Online. http://irservices.library.unt.edu…

L&M say the imprimatur of Dr. George Stradling, Bp. of London, is dated 31 March 1663.

About Friday 24 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

Salt Eel

Yo, Bob T! It seems that eelskins (where eels were handy) were used to flog boys at sea - where Wayneman finds himself betimes today.

About Salt eel

TerryF  •  Link

"A salt eel. A rope’s end, used for scourging. At one time eelskins were used for whips [to correct boys, &c. at sea]."
“With my salt eele, went down in the parler, and there got my boy and did beat him.”—Pepys Diary (April 24th [1663]). http://www.bartleby.com/81/5655.h…

About George Stradling

TerryF  •  Link

George Stradling, fourth son of sir John Stradling of St Donat's castle in Glamorganshire knight was born there, became a companion of Jesus College in Lent term 1636, aged 15 years, took one degree in arts, was elected junior collector of the batchelors in Lent 164?, chosen fellow of All Souls College two years after. Proceeded in arts, and kept his fellowship during the times of trouble and usurpation, being then accounted a rare lutenist, and much valued by Dr Wilson the music professor. After the king's restoration he was made chaplain to Dr Sheldon, Bishop of London and was actually created D.of D. in 1661. On the 30th of July 1663 he was installed a prebendary of Westminster. On the 22nd of July 1671 he was installed chantor of the cathedral church of Chichester, and on the 21st of December 1672 he was installed Dean thereof, in the place of Dr Nath Crew promoted to the see of Oxon. He hath written,
Sermons and Discourses upon several Occasions. London 1692 oct (Bodl 8vo E 15 Linc)
Sermon on John 19:15. London 1675. qu (Bodl 4to D 16 Th)
He died on the 19th April, in 1688 and was buried near the choire of St Peter's, commonly called the Abbey Church, within the city of Westminster. In his deanery succeeded one Dr F Hawkins minister in the Tower of London.
{1660.19 Dec. Georgius Stradling A.M. admiss ad preb. de Wenlocksburn per promot. Brian Walton ad episc Cestr. ad pres.regis Reg. London. 1660.11 Jan. Geo. Stradling A.M. coll. ad rect. de Fulham: succ. Tho. Turner S.T.P. 7 Maii 1688 per mort. Geor. Stradling. Geor. Stradling S.T.P. admiss. ad rect. de Hanwell cum Capella de Brentford annexa 25 Feb. 1661, quam resignavit ante 11 Mar. 1663. Reg. London. Admiss. ad vic. S. Bridgetae Lond. 23 Apr. 1672. quam resign. ante 12 Jan. 1673. Fra. Hawkins S.T.P. coll ad preb. de Wenloksburn 3 Dec. 1688 per mort. Geor. Stradling. KENNET} http://www.stradling.org.uk/docs/…

About Assheton, Calamy and Baxter's 'Evangelium Armatum'

TerryF  •  Link

Evangelium armatum [The Armed Gospel], A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.
by William Assheton; Edmund Calamy; Richard Baxter
London : Printed for William Garret, 1663 http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/…

Baxter, Richard http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Thursday 23 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

Some confusions clarified

"the installing...does not necessarily coincide with the giving of the Garter insignia."

A. Susan I was following this website's scenario of the ceremony. http://www.trooping-the-colour.co…

l.h., L&M say Sir George Carteret acted as proxy for the *Prince* of Denmark, as you surmised.

"466 (inv 1663) Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway" is what the webpage "The List of Knights of the Garter, 1348-present" says, clearly proleptically, by which I may have been seduced.

About Thursday 23 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

"St. George's day and Coronacion, the King and Court being at Windsor, at the installing of the King of Denmark by proxy and the Duke of Monmouth."

It seems that on St. George's day the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter gathered at Windsor Castle, where the new Knights take the oath and are "instilled"[sic] /invested by the British monarch in a ceremony in the Collegiate Chapel Royal of St. George (patron Saint of the Order) with "the insignia of the Order, which consists of the Garter, Star, Riband, Collar and Mantle." http://www.heraldicsculptor.com/G… (Today this is done in June.)
The only two invested in 1663 are these:
466 (inv 1663) Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway.
467 (inv 1663) James (Scott), Duke of Monmouth and Duke of Buccleuch. Son of Charles II and Lucy Walters.... http://www.heraldica.org/topics/o…

L&M seem to assume we (even Yanks and other non-Brits) know what the "installing" was about and do not note any of the above, but do note that, in the ceremony, Sir George Carteret acted as proxy for King Christian V, who had visited England the preceding autumn.

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That said, it vexes me that Sam'l had, on 8 April, three weeks and a day ago, stated that, among the novelties on view after a lavishly-praised sermon by Dr. Pierce, at the Royal chapel in Whitehall, "Here I also saw the Duke of Monmouth, with his Order of the Garter, the first time I ever saw it." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… , something he would have recognized since Edward (Montagu), 1st Earl of Sandwich had been 460 (inv 1661).

The D of M with his O.G. insignia on before he was installed? Was this a message from King Charles, who used KG appointments as rewards and domestic, political and foreign-policy tools? Or was it just Little Jimmy Crofts, royal bastard brat, playing at being a grownup? brash, as he ever was, both to his glory and to the cost of his life prematurely.

For background on the Order of the Garter see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orde…

About Wednesday 22 April 1663

TerryF  •  Link

Perhaps with his age and straits, declining independence, etc., John Pepys has become chronically depressed?

(Nice reminder and sourcing, Jeannine.)