Evelyn's diary 13th May 1680: "I was at the funeral of old Mr Shish Master Shipwrite of the Kings yard here in this Parish, an honest and remarkable man, & his death a publique losse, for his excellent successe in building Ships, (though illiterate altogether) & for the breeding up so many of his children to be Artists: I held up the Pall with three knignts who did him that honour, & he was worthy of it:... T'was the costome of this good man, to rise in the night, and to pray kneeling in his owne cofin; which many yeares he had lying by him: he was borne that famous yeare of the Gunpowder Plot 1605." http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
L&M give the short-title [the first seven words] of "Description and use of the carpenters-rule together with The use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line : applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c., timber, stone, square on round, gauging of vessels, &c. : also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick in most of them : together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules, rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities" / by John Brown / Printed for W. Fisher and R. Mount [available in digital form via EEBO] http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
"Mr. White's sliding-rules" suggests there were several of these, of which Sam'l now had one. Perhaps one or more or these exists in a museum or attic (like Robert Hooke's notebooks), and if the former, someone can find an online image of it/them (I have tried in vain).
On 24th March, the day before, we read "Thence Sir J. Minnes and I homewards calling at Browne's, the mathematician in the Minnerys, with a design of buying White's ruler to measure timber with, but could not agree on the price."
L&M note, perhaps misleaingly to us who have had a slip-stick, that 'White's ruler' is an early type of slide-rule, "inscribed with logarythmic scales; used, e.g. for calculatation of area or volume", so that in Aqua Scripto's impression of its use may be about right.
JWB - Bradford,not a slide rule, but different scales on the same stick. As Dr Stephen Johnston says: “Imagine a square piece of timber. The length of one side of the square is measured on the rule’s inch scale and the corresponding mark on the timber scale is located. Then the distance from that point to the end of the rule directly gives the length of a cubic foot of this timber. That dimension can be taken with a pair of dividers, such as would be found among the tools of any carpenter, whether on land or at sea. Then, stepping the dividers along the length of the timber allows the user simply to count out the cubic feet contained in the timber. So we again have mathematical skills without formal symbolic representation: the “calculation” is done by manipulation of rulers and dividers rather than on paper.” http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.as…
and
George R - “not a slide rule, but different scales on the same stick. As Dr Stephen Johnston says: “Imagine a square piece of timber. The length of one side of the square is measured on the rule’s inch scale and the corresponding mark on the timber scale is located” That sounds more like it. As a lad I had to learn how to use the scales on the body of a roofing square. One of them was “Essex board measure” and was very much as described to obtain board feet from the overall dimensions of a log. Never used it in fifty years and now it’s all gone metric and calculators anyway.
During Pepys's lifetime: 1290 -1656 The period between the expulsion of the Jews in 1290 and their readmission in 1656 is generally called ‘The Middle Period’. Although there was no Jewish community during this period, Jews visited Britain from time to time for various reasons and some Marranos established themselves in Britain for periods of time 31 October, 1655 Humble address from Menasseh ben Israel to Oliver Cromwell. A fortnight later on 13 November he submitted a petition for the readmission of Jews to England December, 1655Whitehall Conference to discuss the petition. Dissolved by Cromwell before it reached a decision 1656 Although no formal agreement on readmission, Jewish residents of London began living openly as Jews December, 1656 First Synagogue established after Readmission February, 1657 First Cemetery acquired in Mile End 14 October, 1663 Samuel Pepys visits the Synagogue on Simchat Torah 1664 Bylaws (Ascamot) of new community agreed 22 August, 1664 Jews granted Royal protection January, 1667 Jews allowed to swear in Court on the Old Testament February, 1674 Jews indicted for holding a service, but the King stopped the proceedings against them 1671 Start of practice of presenting each Lord Mayor with a gift 1677 Court venue changed to avoid a Jew having to give evidence on a Saturday 1692c. Establishment of first Ashkenazi Synagogue 2 February, 1697 Site acquired for first Ashkenazi cemetery 1697 Jews admitted as brokers on the Royal Exchange 20 September, 1701 Bevis Marks Synagogue inaugurated 1702 Great Synagogue founded 24 June, 1702 Act to oblige Jews to maintain and provide for their Protestant children
"So they to dinner, and I staid a little with them, and so good bye."
Pepys has used "good bye" only once before, last 11 August 1662 "Cooper came and read his last lecture to me upon my modell, and so bid me good bye" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
and used "goodbye" only on 28 July 1662 "I took a troubled though willing goodbye [to my wife and the others sent to Brampton pro tem], because of the bad condition of my house to have a family in it." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder how often other Diary-keepers record such an ordinary and frequent valediction?
With the advance of technology by a nobleman, this day parliament acts as a Patent Office
Today in the House of Commons [with deference to i.A.S.]: Marq. of Worcester's Water Engine.
Mr. Hungerford reports from the Committee to which the Bill, sent from the Lords, for enabling the Lord Marquis of Worcester to take the Benefit of a Watercommanding Engine, by him invented [ http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk… ], several Amendments to the said Bill: Which he read, with the Coherence, in the Bill; and after, delivered the same in at the Clerk's Table: And the said Amendments, being twice read, were, upon the Question, severally agreed to; and were as follow; viz.
First Skin, Sixth Line, after the Word, "known," leave out to the Word "which," in the Ninth Line; instead thereof, read these Words, "and being no Pump or Force now in Use; nor working by any Suckers, Barrels, or Bellows, heretofore used for the Raising or Conveying of Water."....
Eleventh Line, after the Word "and," leave out these Words, "the said Work or Engine to break down and demolish;" and insert "upon Discovery of any such Engine, to proceed against the said Person or Persons by Action, Information, or Indictment; and, after Conviction thereof in due Course of Law, in any Assizes or Publick Sessions of the Peace, or any of the Courts at Westminster, or any other his Majesty's Courts of Record, in any City, Borough, or Town Corporate, or in any Stannary Court or Jurisdiction of Lead Mines; then such Engine or Engines to be forfeited and seized to and for the Use of the said Edward Marquis of Worcester, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, respectively."....
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments agreed to, be read the Third time.
The Bill, with the Amendments agreed to, was read the Third time....
Resolved, &c. That it be referred to the same Committee, to prepare and bring in a Proviso To-morrow Morning, upon the Subject Matter of the present Debate, in relation to the limiting a Time for the Perfecting of the Engine; and to provide, that the same may not prejudice any other Engine which shall be invented for the future: And the Committee are hereby required, to meet at Two of the Clock this Afternoon, in the Speaker's Chamber.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 13 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 470-71. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 13 April 2006.
Diagram and Epistle dedicatory of the Water-Engine by Edward Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, thanks to JWB http://www.history.rochester.edu/…
Stolzi, Herrick's lovely poem joins Bradford's citation of "Benjamin Britten set texts by Robert Burns as a cycle for voice and harp, called 'A Birthday Hansel' (Op. 92)" as an tribute to inauguration from the arts (Britten's doubly). Thank you both.
Gretel's Hansel is a word with another root altogether...
Hansel is a dialectal diminutive of Hans, Danish, Dutch and German pet form of Johann[es], and means more or less "Jacko"; Gretel is a dialectal diminutive of Gretchen, German and Dutch pet form of Margaret, so "Gretchie"?
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First Reading
About Wednesday 15 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"Mr Shishe (whoever he is)" is Jonas Shish, Asst. Shipwright, Deptford.
Stolzi, his Diary name IS a bit deceiving , but he's clearly esteemed; more at the link (including a misspell or two).
About Jonas Shish
TerryF • Link
Jonas Shish (1605-1680), Assistant Shipwright, Depford, 1663; Master Shipwright, 1668-. Built Third rate frigate Cambridge, 1666; rebuilt 64-gun London,1670; Charles, Shish Deptford Dockyard, 1688.
The Burning of the London by the Dutch by Charles Dixon [image at the bottom of the page] http://www.battleships-cruisers.c…
Evelyn's diary 13th May 1680: "I was at the funeral of old Mr Shish Master Shipwrite of the Kings yard here in this Parish, an honest and remarkable man, & his death a publique losse, for his excellent successe in building Ships, (though illiterate altogether) & for the breeding up so many of his children to be Artists: I held up the Pall with three knignts who did him that honour, & he was worthy of it:... T'was the costome of this good man, to rise in the night, and to pray kneeling in his owne cofin; which many yeares he had lying by him: he was borne that famous yeare of the Gunpowder Plot 1605."
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cac…
About Wednesday 15 April 1663
TerryF • Link
“a ship’s loading of Norway goods”
The meaning of the [scanned] Wheatley text is clear, but where they differ, some of us try to report L&M's preferred reading(s).
About Wednesday 15 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"catches" are of course "ketches"
L&M clarify the urgent order from the Duke of York for boats for the Downs and Tangier.
About Wednesday 15 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"a ship’s l[o]ading of Norway goods"
So L&M, perhaps an error in scanning Wheatley's text.
About Wednesday 15 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"my book of Timber measure"
L&M give the short-title [the first seven words] of "Description and use of the carpenters-rule together with The use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line : applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c., timber, stone, square on round, gauging of vessels, &c. : also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick in most of them : together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules, rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities" / by John Brown / Printed for W. Fisher and R. Mount [available in digital form via EEBO]
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
"Mr. White's sliding-rules" suggests there were several of these, of which Sam'l now had one. Perhaps one or more or these exists in a museum or attic (like Robert Hooke's notebooks), and if the former, someone can find an online image of it/them (I have tried in vain).
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
On 24th March, the day before, we read "Thence Sir J. Minnes and I homewards calling at Browne's, the mathematician in the Minnerys, with a design of buying White's ruler to measure timber with, but could not agree on the price."
L&M note, perhaps misleaingly to us who have had a slip-stick, that 'White's ruler' is an early type of slide-rule, "inscribed with logarythmic scales; used, e.g. for calculatation of area or volume", so that in Aqua Scripto's impression of its use may be about right.
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Bradford, re the explanation of what is linked to "slide rule", was it 25 March, http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
JWB - Bradford,not a slide rule, but different scales on the same stick. As Dr Stephen Johnston says: “Imagine a square piece of timber. The length of one side of the square is measured on the rule’s inch scale and the corresponding mark on the timber scale is located. Then the distance from that point to the end of the rule directly gives the length of a cubic foot of this timber. That dimension can be taken with a pair of dividers, such as would be found among the tools of any carpenter, whether on land or at sea. Then, stepping the dividers along the length of the timber allows the user simply to count out the cubic feet contained in the timber.
So we again have mathematical skills without formal symbolic representation: the “calculation” is done by manipulation of rulers and dividers rather than on paper.”
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.as…
and
George R - “not a slide rule, but different scales on the same stick. As Dr Stephen Johnston says: “Imagine a square piece of timber. The length of one side of the square is measured on the rule’s inch scale and the corresponding mark on the timber scale is located”
That sounds more like it. As a lad I had to learn how to use the scales on the body of a roofing square. One of them was “Essex board measure” and was very much as described to obtain board feet from the overall dimensions of a log. Never used it in fifty years and now it’s all gone metric and calculators anyway.
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
i.A.S. agreeth
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"why wouldn’t his companions have known better?"
Vainglory? memory of former celebrity?
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
" slide rule"
I am puzzled, JWB, like you, I suppose - What would a " slide rule for measuring of timber" be like?
About Judaism
TerryF • Link
A Chronology of the Jews in Britain
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.o…
During Pepys's lifetime:
1290 -1656 The period between the expulsion of the Jews in 1290 and their readmission in 1656 is generally called ‘The Middle Period’. Although there was no Jewish community during this period, Jews visited Britain from time to time for various reasons and some Marranos established themselves in Britain for periods of time
31 October, 1655 Humble address from Menasseh ben Israel to Oliver Cromwell. A fortnight later on 13 November he submitted a petition for the readmission of Jews to England
December, 1655Whitehall Conference to discuss the petition. Dissolved by Cromwell before it reached a decision
1656 Although no formal agreement on readmission, Jewish residents of London began living openly as Jews
December, 1656 First Synagogue established after Readmission
February, 1657 First Cemetery acquired in Mile End
14 October, 1663 Samuel Pepys visits the Synagogue on Simchat Torah
1664 Bylaws (Ascamot) of new community agreed
22 August, 1664 Jews granted Royal protection
January, 1667 Jews allowed to swear in Court on the Old Testament
February, 1674 Jews indicted for holding a service, but the King stopped the proceedings against them
1671 Start of practice of presenting each Lord Mayor with a gift
1677 Court venue changed to avoid a Jew having to give evidence on a Saturday
1692c. Establishment of first Ashkenazi Synagogue
2 February, 1697 Site acquired for first Ashkenazi cemetery
1697 Jews admitted as brokers on the Royal Exchange
20 September, 1701 Bevis Marks Synagogue inaugurated
1702 Great Synagogue founded
24 June, 1702 Act to oblige Jews to maintain and provide for their Protestant children
About Tuesday 14 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"So they to dinner, and I staid a little with them, and so good bye."
Pepys has used "good bye" only once before, last 11 August 1662
"Cooper came and read his last lecture to me upon my modell, and so bid me good bye"
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
and used "goodbye" only on 28 July 1662 "I took a troubled though willing goodbye [to my wife and the others sent to Brampton pro tem], because of the bad condition of my house to have a family in it." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder how often other Diary-keepers record such an ordinary and frequent valediction?
About Judaism
TerryF • Link
History of the Jews in England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
About Monday 13 April 1663
TerryF • Link
With the advance of technology by a nobleman, this day parliament acts as a Patent Office
Today in the House of Commons [with deference to i.A.S.]: Marq. of Worcester's Water Engine.
Mr. Hungerford reports from the Committee to which the Bill, sent from the Lords, for enabling the Lord Marquis of Worcester to take the Benefit of a Watercommanding Engine, by him invented [ http://www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk… ], several Amendments to the said Bill: Which he read, with the Coherence, in the Bill; and after, delivered the same in at the Clerk's Table: And the said Amendments, being twice read, were, upon the Question, severally agreed to; and were as follow; viz.
First Skin, Sixth Line, after the Word, "known," leave out to the Word "which," in the Ninth Line; instead thereof, read these Words, "and being no Pump or Force now in Use; nor working by any Suckers, Barrels, or Bellows, heretofore used for the Raising or Conveying of Water."....
Eleventh Line, after the Word "and," leave out these Words, "the said Work or Engine to break down and demolish;" and insert "upon Discovery of any such Engine, to proceed against the said Person or Persons by Action, Information, or Indictment; and, after Conviction thereof in due Course of Law, in any Assizes or Publick Sessions of the Peace, or any of the Courts at Westminster, or any other his Majesty's Courts of Record, in any City, Borough, or Town Corporate, or in any Stannary Court or Jurisdiction of Lead Mines; then such Engine or Engines to be forfeited and seized to and for the Use of the said Edward Marquis of Worcester, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, respectively."....
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments agreed to, be read the Third time.
The Bill, with the Amendments agreed to, was read the Third time....
Resolved, &c. That it be referred to the same Committee, to prepare and bring in a Proviso To-morrow Morning, upon the Subject Matter of the present Debate, in relation to the limiting a Time for the Perfecting of the Engine; and to provide, that the same may not prejudice any other Engine which shall be invented for the future: And the Committee are hereby required, to meet at Two of the Clock this Afternoon, in the Speaker's Chamber.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 13 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 470-71. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/… Date accessed: 13 April 2006.
Diagram and Epistle dedicatory of the Water-Engine by Edward Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, thanks to JWB http://www.history.rochester.edu/…
About Sunday 12 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Fractured fairy tales 'Hansel and Gretel' script
http://www.brownielocks.com/hanse…
celtcahill, just for you!
About Sunday 12 April 1663
TerryF • Link
“Handsel”
Stolzi, Herrick's lovely poem joins Bradford's citation of "Benjamin Britten set texts by Robert Burns as a cycle for voice and harp, called 'A Birthday Hansel' (Op. 92)" as an tribute to inauguration from the arts (Britten's doubly).
Thank you both.
About Saturday 18 October 1662
TerryF • Link
To illustrate GrahamT's point abt. different kinds of woodworkers, see "A Sixteenth Century English Caqueteuse" http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lalon…
About Horn (Fleet St)
TerryF • Link
The Horn is just above the 'T' in Fleet in this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Sunday 12 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Gretel's Hansel is a word with another root altogether...
Hansel is a dialectal diminutive of Hans, Danish, Dutch and German pet form of Johann[es], and means more or less "Jacko"; Gretel is a dialectal diminutive of Gretchen, German and Dutch pet form of Margaret, so "Gretchie"?
A bit OT, but....