"Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the sermon so much cried up, before the King against the Papists."
Another celebrity Lenten preacher, perhaps flacking for his published sermon still available via Early English Books Online: Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. Primitive rule of reformation delivered in a sermon before His Maiesty at Whitehall, Feb. 1, 1662 in vindication of our Church against the novelties of Rome by Tho. Pierce. http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
* * * Reading sermons was, in the 17th-18th centuries, a favorite evening and bedtime pastime for British family men, who were responsible for the religious education of their household. For their part, English women who could read no foreign language would, 20 years on, be given their own reading medium, the novel (Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister [1683] by Aphra Behn, after which more.). http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/voic…
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The text of Dr. Pierce's sermon today is Matt.4: [1] Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. [2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. [3] And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. [4] But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. [5] Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, [6] And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. [7] Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. [8] Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; [9] And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. [10] Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. [11] Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Ashwell & Marianne were born too early to have avoided pain (why weren''t they plied with gin?)
1723—Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon publishes The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise on Teeth (Le Chirurgien Dentiste). Fauchard is credited as being the Father of Modern Dentistry because his book was the first to describe a comprehensive system for the practice of dentistry including basic oral anatomy and function, operative and restorative techniques, and denture construction. http://www.ada.org/public/resourc…
"In 1846...William Morton...conducts the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthesia for surgery." http://www.ada.org/public/resourc…
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(I was given ether at age 3 when my tonsils and adenoids were removed, and I STILL recall the odor. Olfactory memories are deep-seated indeed!)
Alexander Brome (1620 – June 30, 1666), was an English poet.
"He was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favor of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.
"Brome published in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex…
Benjamin Laney (1663-1667), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1632-1633; Dean of Rochester, July 1660; Bishop of Peterborough, Dec. 1660-1663; translated to Ely, 1667; d. Jan. 1674-5. http://www.medievalarthistory.co.…
Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. "Bishop Ward kept the appointments to prebends [at Sarum] as far as possible in his own hands, giving some to the poorly paid incumbents in market towns of the diocese where the influence of the dissenters was strongest, a policy continued by Bishop Burnet. Otherwise Ward's appointments were most remarkable for the very large number given to his own relatives. A cause of one of the bitterest, most dramatic, and most astonishing disputes in the cathedral's history was his grant of the rich prebend of Teignton Regis to his nephew, Thomas Ward; Thomas Pierce, who became dean in 1675, badly wanted it for his son, Robert, and maintained that the bishop had promised it to him. Pierce was probably the most difficult dean with whom any bishop or chapter of Salisbury has been confronted. At first a Calvinist, he had turned Arminian during the Civil War, and proclaimed his views with a convert's zeal. As President of Magdalen College, Oxford, after the Restoration he gained a reputation for being 'high, proud, and mad'; he expelled a fellow, defied the Visitor, and was eventually forced to resign. At Salisbury in the 1680's Archbishop Sancroft's view was that the dean's haughty and revengeful spirit was at the bottom of all the troubles which threw the cathedral life into confusion and undid much of the careful work of restoration of the previous 20 years. Pierce wanted both arbitrary power over the cathedral and revenge against the bishop for the slight to his son. He therefore claimed that Salisbury was no ordinary cathedral but a royal free chapel directly subject to the king and exempt from the bishop's jurisdiction and visitation. This chapel had existed in the royal castle at Salisbury before the Norman Conquest. Since the dean had existed before the bishop and was immediately subject to the king, his jurisdiction over his chapter and its property was obviously greater than that of any bishop; it could best be described as a kind of archiepiscopal jurisdiction. The composition of 1392 which allowed episcopal visitation was void because it was popish."
From: 'The cathedral of Salisbury: From the Reformation to the Restoration', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (1956), pp. 183-97. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 07 April 2006.
"Dr Thomas Pierce..[b.1622], son of John Pierce of the Devises,...was successively chorister, Demy, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon. In 1648 on suspicion of having written a Satire against the Parliament Visitors he was ejected from his Fellowship. Upon the Restoration of the King he was made Canon of Canterbury and Prebendary of Lincoln, and in 1661 upon the death of Dr. Oliver he was elected President of Magdalen. But the fellows not agreeing under his government he resigned the office 1671, and in 1675 was promoted to the Deanery of Salisbury. He was esteemed both as a poet and a preacher, had great quickness and sagacity and was much exercised in the controversies handled in those times. The catalogue of his writings which were various and numerous occurs in Wood's history of the Oxford writers, (Athen. Oxon. Vol ii. Col. 858, &c. Bridge's Northamp. I. 478.) Whilst Rector of Brington Co. Northampton, he printed a Sermon preached at St. Paul's November 10th, 1658, "before the gentlemen of Wilts: it being the day of their yearly feast." He died in 1691 at Tidworth, Wilts, where Robert Pierce was Rector. At Brington he was "much followed for his smooth and edifying way of preaching," but says Mr. Baker the Historian of Northamptonshire (I. 92) "in his controversial writings there was more of the bitterness of gall than the smoothness of oil." His scarce pamphlet called "A Vindication of the King's Sovereign rights," relating to the patronage of the Prebends of Sarum, and printed at the end of Dr. Rawlinson's Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, is said to have hastened the death of Bishop Seth Ward, his opponent in that controversey." http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_calne…
"Edward Rainbowe (1608–1684) was an English clergyman and a noted preacher. He was educated at Westminster School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge, from where he graduated MA in 1630 and DD in 1643. He was elected a fellow of Magdalene in 1633 and Master in 1642. In 1650, he was deprived of the office by Parliament, but was reinstated at the Restoration in 1660. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1662 to 1663. In 1661 he was appointed Dean of Peterborough and in 1664 Bishop of Carlisle, a post which he held until his death twenty years later." [wife Elizabeth, d. 1702]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwa…
Thanks, Paul C., for setting the record straight so graciously. * * * On another point, the man who commenced the pedigree of the Diarist is "'William Pepis [alt. Pepys] the elder, of Cottenham, co. Cambridge,' whose will is dated 20th March, 1519." http://www.pepysdiary.com/intro/p… so the Clerk of the Acts and the Attorney may be remotely related.
in Aqua Scripto, Maestro, I do believe you have ID'd Mr Pepis! * * * Today's budget botch brought to mind the Committee of Tangier fiasco of 16 February that left our man with a not too-dissimilar bad taste in his mouth and only Mr. Moore to tell his mind, and of course his Diary (this ever-ready confidante and therapist) http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"So the whole team is on hand to rush the budget through"
Mr. Coventry, the Treasurer of the Navy, is himself today implicated in higher-order budget, ah, management in the H of C; but first that body deals again with the issue Stolzi facetiously said took precedence:
Preventing Popery, &c.
Ordered, That the Committee to which the Bill to prevent the Growth of Popery was committed, have Leave to sit this Afternoon, notwithstanding the Order for the Sitting of the Committee of Trade.
Crown Revenue.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, to proceed in the Matter of his Majesty's Revenue..... Resolved, &c. That the Sub Committee appointed to inspect That Branch of his Majesty's Revenue arising by Hearths and Chimnies, be a Committee of the House: Who have Power to peruse the Act for raising of a Revenue by Hearths and Chimnies; and to consider of the Defects therein; and how they may be supplied; and to report the same to the House: And all Members that come to the said Committee, are to have Voices thereat. The Names of the Committee are as followeth; viz. Sir Cha. Berkley, [55 other members named, incl. Sir Geo. Downing, Sir Phil. Musgrave, Mr. Pepis, and at the end], Mr. Coventry.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 6 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 466-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 06 April 2006.
A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King’s College, is the author of the Source:The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden. XVI. The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose. § 12. Francis Osborne.
A.Hamilton, thanks for the citation of the source.
Ref. Osborn, Francis, in this Encylopedia, where the annotations detail the content and style of his 'Advice to a Son' http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Samuel apparently bought Osborne 23 January 1660/61
"to my bookseller’s...for books....I in my chamber all the evening looking over my Osborn’s works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"Osborne’s Advice to his Son (which I shall not never [sic] enough admire for sense and language)"
Really? This puzzles me, since both have been found wanting by modern scholars of the period [see the link], and find only these possible attractions for SP as we know him:
Sense - “Osborne …shows us….that the rhetoric of utility was making progress…. He makes it clear that no study is worthwhile unless it will lead to profit, and that mathematics *is* such a useful skill."
Language - "its style [is oft] terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon" --- Well, I tried.
From the H of C concerning Jesuits and Popish Priests.
Lords concur in Thanks. Mr. Solicitor General reports, That he had attended the Lords, to desire their Concurrence to the Vote of this House, for Thanks to be returned to his Majesty for his gracious Message: And that the Lords had returned Answer, That they had considered of the Message; and did fully agree to the Vote of this House: And that they had appointed Six of their Members to attend his Majesty; and desired this House to name a double Number of their Members, to join with them: And as soon as they had Notice when his Majesty would be attended, they would give Intimation of it to this House. Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Fane, Mr. Clifford, Sir Edw. Walpoole, Sir Wm. Compton, Sir Robert Atkyns, Sir John Goodrick, Mr. Waller, Sir John Duncomb, Mr. Treasurer, Lord Herbert, and the Lord St. John, be appointed to join with the Members named by the Lords, to attend his Majesty, to return him Thanks for his Gracious Message, in answer to the Petition of both Houses presented to his Majesty, concerning Jesuits and Popish Priests.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 4 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 464-66. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 05 April 2006.
Calvin’s Reformed churches were called Presbyterian because the church authority is vested in of duly ordained *Elders*, ET of the New Testament Gk *presbyteroi* (not by bishops, ET of the Gk *episkopoi*, “overseers” > Episcopal governance). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres…
"chappell...being most monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among the quire."
It cannot be Good Friday already; why is the chapel so full that our man must sit in the choir?
Perhaps the draw is Dr. Creighton, whom Sam'l heard preach before the King, the Duke and the Duchess, 7 March 1661/62, also mid-lent on a Friday (the why of which we could not fathom) another learned sermon, "but, in his application, the most comical man that ever I heard in my life. Just such a man as Hugh Peters" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sunday 15 March 1662/63 Sam'l raised - and we discussed, at Bradford's instance - the issue of the overpopulation of the Navy Office pew http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
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Today "Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, preached a most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon, yet comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, 'Blessed is the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee suck; and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of God, and keepeth it.'"
Often he paraphrases the text of the Bible, but today Sam'l very nearly quotes the very words of two verses of Luke.11 in the KJV: 27. "And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, 'Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.' 28. But he said, 'Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.'" http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kj…
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"[Dr. Creeton] railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin, and his brood, the Presbyterians, and against the present term, now in use, of 'tender consciences.' He ripped up Hugh Peters [for] his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles."
L&M say "tender consciences," included in Charles's Declaration of Breda, had been in use in the time of James I, but now referred to the scruples of nonconformists. Hugh Peters had been the New Model Army's chief chaplain; L&M say his "begging sermons," appealing for huswifery support, had led to the moniker, "The Thimble and Bodkin Army."
What is "comicall" about Dr. Creighton's "application"? Friday 7 March 1661/62 it was not fathomed, even with the help of the OED, though these uses by Pepys weren't cited there, perhaps someone can check the OED again.
Etymology on Line says "something is comical (c.1432) if the effect is comedy, whether intended or not " http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
Creighton was known for his wit, and he applied it to politics as had Hugh Peters and other non-Anglican preachers. And his very manner of delivery may have been, in its way, also parodic of Hugh Peters's own, as well as being otherwise risible -- which may not have been in keeping with the solemnity the usual conforming Anglican sermon provoked after the Restoration -- though many Christians, Anglicans included, nearly 350 years on are quite accustomed to and even value some sermonic "comic relief" and are Dr. Creighton's successors in 'playing to the crowd' in this way (homiletics as, in part, also acting)?
Pauline, No reply to Holmes "which, has caused all this feud” was recorded in the Diary entry of 7 December 1661 , so perhaps this sentence should be reconsidered? I find the last clause of it puzzling.
Captain Ferrers is hardly dashing in the "outrage" referred to in the note by Lord Braybrooke (B).
12 September, 1662 Pepys hears that Captain Ferrers, "being provoked to strike one of my Lord’s footmen, the footman drew his sword, and hath almost cut the fingers of one of his hands off; which I am sorry for: but this is the vanity of being apt to command and strike." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
As SP has it, Captain Ferrers, quite full of himself, is volatile and dangerous; methinks what's "similar" between today's outrage and the one yet to come is the "vanity" Pepys identies then.
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About Wednesday 8 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning."
This is the 25th entry in which Pepys uses the phrase "in my life". Highest kudos for the divine and his sermon, indeed, Bradford.
About Wednesday 8 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the sermon so much cried up, before the King against the Papists."
Another celebrity Lenten preacher, perhaps flacking for his published sermon still available via Early English Books Online: Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. Primitive rule of reformation delivered in a sermon before His Maiesty at Whitehall, Feb. 1, 1662 in vindication of our Church against the novelties of Rome by Tho. Pierce.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo…
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Reading sermons was, in the 17th-18th centuries, a favorite evening and bedtime pastime for British family men, who were responsible for the religious education of their household. For their part, English women who could read no foreign language would, 20 years on, be given their own reading medium, the novel (Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister [1683] by Aphra Behn, after which more.). http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/voic…
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The text of Dr. Pierce's sermon today is Matt.4: [1] Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. [2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. [3] And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. [4] But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. [5] Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, [6] And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. [7] Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. [8] Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; [9] And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. [10] Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. [11] Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
About Tuesday 7 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Ashwell & Marianne were born too early to have avoided pain (why weren''t they plied with gin?)
1723—Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon publishes The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise on Teeth (Le Chirurgien Dentiste). Fauchard is credited as being the Father of Modern Dentistry because his book was the first to describe a comprehensive system for the practice of dentistry including basic oral anatomy and function, operative and restorative techniques, and denture construction. http://www.ada.org/public/resourc…
"In 1846...William Morton...conducts the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthesia for surgery." http://www.ada.org/public/resourc…
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(I was given ether at age 3 when my tonsils and adenoids were removed, and I STILL recall the odor. Olfactory memories are deep-seated indeed!)
About Alexander Brome
TerryF • Link
Alexander Brome (1620 – June 30, 1666), was an English poet.
"He was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favor of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament. In 1661, following the Restoration, he published Songs and other Poems, containing songs on various subjects, followed by a series of political songs; ballads, epistles, elegies and epitaphs; epigrams and translations. Izaak Walton wrote an introductory eclogue for this volume in praise of the writer, and his gaiety and wit won for him the title of the English Anacreon in Edward Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.
"Brome published in 1666 a translation of Horace by himself and others, and was the author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers (1654). He also edited two volumes of Richard Brome's plays."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex…
About Benjamin Laney (Bishop of Peterborough 1660-3)
TerryF • Link
Benjamin Laney (1663-1667), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1632-1633; Dean of Rochester, July 1660; Bishop of Peterborough, Dec. 1660-1663; translated to Ely, 1667; d. Jan. 1674-5. http://www.medievalarthistory.co.…
About Thomas Pierce (President of Magdalen College, Oxford)
TerryF • Link
Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.
"Bishop Ward kept the appointments to prebends [at Sarum] as far as possible in his own hands, giving some to the poorly paid incumbents in market towns of the diocese where the influence of the dissenters was strongest, a policy continued by Bishop Burnet. Otherwise Ward's appointments were most remarkable for the very large number given to his own relatives. A cause of one of the bitterest, most dramatic, and most astonishing disputes in the cathedral's history was his grant of the rich prebend of Teignton Regis to his nephew, Thomas Ward; Thomas Pierce, who became dean in 1675, badly wanted it for his son, Robert, and maintained that the bishop had promised it to him. Pierce was probably the most difficult dean with whom any bishop or chapter of Salisbury has been confronted. At first a Calvinist, he had turned Arminian during the Civil War, and proclaimed his views with a convert's zeal. As President of Magdalen College, Oxford, after the Restoration he gained a reputation for being 'high, proud, and mad'; he expelled a fellow, defied the Visitor, and was eventually forced to resign. At Salisbury in the 1680's Archbishop Sancroft's view was that the dean's haughty and revengeful spirit was at the bottom of all the troubles which threw the cathedral life into confusion and undid much of the careful work of restoration of the previous 20 years. Pierce wanted both arbitrary power over the cathedral and revenge against the bishop for the slight to his son. He therefore claimed that Salisbury was no ordinary cathedral but a royal free chapel directly subject to the king and exempt from the bishop's jurisdiction and visitation. This chapel had existed in the royal castle at Salisbury before the Norman Conquest. Since the dean had existed before the bishop and was immediately subject to the king, his jurisdiction over his chapter and its property was obviously greater than that of any bishop; it could best be described as a kind of archiepiscopal jurisdiction. The composition of 1392 which allowed episcopal visitation was void because it was popish."
From: 'The cathedral of Salisbury: From the Reformation to the Restoration', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 3 (1956), pp. 183-97. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 07 April 2006.
About Thomas Pierce (President of Magdalen College, Oxford)
TerryF • Link
"Dr Thomas Pierce..[b.1622], son of John Pierce of the Devises,...was successively chorister, Demy, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon. In 1648 on suspicion of having written a Satire against the Parliament Visitors he was ejected from his Fellowship. Upon the Restoration of the King he was made Canon of Canterbury and Prebendary of Lincoln, and in 1661 upon the death of Dr. Oliver he was elected President of Magdalen. But the fellows not agreeing under his government he resigned the office 1671, and in 1675 was promoted to the Deanery of Salisbury. He was esteemed both as a poet and a preacher, had great quickness and sagacity and was much exercised in the controversies handled in those times. The catalogue of his writings which were various and numerous occurs in Wood's history of the Oxford writers, (Athen. Oxon. Vol ii. Col. 858, &c. Bridge's Northamp. I. 478.) Whilst Rector of Brington Co. Northampton, he printed a Sermon preached at St. Paul's November 10th, 1658, "before the gentlemen of Wilts: it being the day of their yearly feast." He died in 1691 at Tidworth, Wilts, where Robert Pierce was Rector. At Brington he was "much followed for his smooth and edifying way of preaching," but says Mr. Baker the Historian of Northamptonshire (I. 92) "in his controversial writings there was more of the bitterness of gall than the smoothness of oil." His scarce pamphlet called "A Vindication of the King's Sovereign rights," relating to the patronage of the Prebends of Sarum, and printed at the end of Dr. Rawlinson's Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, is said to have hastened the death of Bishop Seth Ward, his opponent in that controversey." http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_calne…
About Edward Rainbowe (Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
TerryF • Link
"Edward Rainbowe (1608–1684) was an English clergyman and a noted preacher. He was educated at Westminster School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge, from where he graduated MA in 1630 and DD in 1643. He was elected a fellow of Magdalene in 1633 and Master in 1642. In 1650, he was deprived of the office by Parliament, but was reinstated at the Restoration in 1660. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1662 to 1663. In 1661 he was appointed Dean of Peterborough and in 1664 Bishop of Carlisle, a post which he held until his death twenty years later." [wife Elizabeth, d. 1702]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwa…
About Monday 6 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Thanks, Paul C., for setting the record straight so graciously.
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On another point, the man who commenced the pedigree of the Diarist is "'William Pepis [alt. Pepys] the elder, of Cottenham, co. Cambridge,' whose will is dated 20th March, 1519." http://www.pepysdiary.com/intro/p… so the Clerk of the Acts and the Attorney may be remotely related.
About Monday 6 April 1663
TerryF • Link
in Aqua Scripto, Maestro, I do believe you have ID'd Mr Pepis!
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Today's budget botch brought to mind the Committee of Tangier fiasco of 16 February that left our man with a not too-dissimilar bad taste in his mouth and only Mr. Moore to tell his mind, and of course his Diary (this ever-ready confidante and therapist)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Monday 6 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"So the whole team is on hand to rush the budget through"
Mr. Coventry, the Treasurer of the Navy, is himself today implicated in higher-order budget, ah, management in the H of C; but first that body deals again with the issue Stolzi facetiously said took precedence:
Preventing Popery, &c.
Ordered, That the Committee to which the Bill to prevent the Growth of Popery was committed, have Leave to sit this Afternoon, notwithstanding the Order for the Sitting of the Committee of Trade.
Crown Revenue.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, to proceed in the Matter of his Majesty's Revenue.....
Resolved, &c. That the Sub Committee appointed to inspect That Branch of his Majesty's Revenue arising by Hearths and Chimnies, be a Committee of the House: Who have Power to peruse the Act for raising of a Revenue by Hearths and Chimnies; and to consider of the Defects therein; and how they may be supplied; and to report the same to the House: And all Members that come to the said Committee, are to have Voices thereat.
The Names of the Committee are as followeth; viz. Sir Cha. Berkley, [55 other members named, incl. Sir Geo. Downing, Sir Phil. Musgrave, Mr. Pepis, and at the end], Mr. Coventry.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 6 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 466-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 06 April 2006.
About Sunday 5 April 1663
TerryF • Link
A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King’s College, is the author of the Source:The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden. XVI. The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose. § 12. Francis Osborne.
A.Hamilton, thanks for the citation of the source.
About Osborne's 'Advice to a Son'
TerryF • Link
Ref. Osborn, Francis, in this Encylopedia, where the annotations detail the content and style of his 'Advice to a Son' http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Sunday 5 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Samuel apparently bought Osborne 23 January 1660/61
"to my bookseller’s...for books....I in my chamber all the evening looking over my Osborn’s works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Sunday 5 April 1663
TerryF • Link
"Osborne’s Advice to his Son (which I shall not never [sic] enough admire for sense and language)"
Really? This puzzles me, since both have been found wanting by modern scholars of the period [see the link], and find only these possible attractions for SP as we know him:
Sense - “Osborne …shows us….that the rhetoric of utility was making progress…. He makes it clear that no study is worthwhile unless it will lead to profit, and that mathematics *is* such a useful skill."
Language - "its style [is oft] terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon"
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Well, I tried.
About Saturday 4 April 1663
TerryF • Link
From the H of C concerning Jesuits and Popish Priests.
Lords concur in Thanks.
Mr. Solicitor General reports, That he had attended the Lords, to desire their Concurrence to the Vote of this House, for Thanks to be returned to his Majesty for his gracious Message: And that the Lords had returned Answer, That they had considered of the Message; and did fully agree to the Vote of this House: And that they had appointed Six of their Members to attend his Majesty; and desired this House to name a double Number of their Members, to join with them: And as soon as they had Notice when his Majesty would be attended, they would give Intimation of it to this House.
Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor General, Mr. Fane, Mr. Clifford, Sir Edw. Walpoole, Sir Wm. Compton, Sir Robert Atkyns, Sir John Goodrick, Mr. Waller, Sir John Duncomb, Mr. Treasurer, Lord Herbert, and the Lord St. John, be appointed to join with the Members named by the Lords, to attend his Majesty, to return him Thanks for his Gracious Message, in answer to the Petition of both Houses presented to his Majesty, concerning Jesuits and Popish Priests.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 4 April 1663', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 464-66. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 05 April 2006.
About Presbyterianism
TerryF • Link
Calvin’s Reformed churches were called Presbyterian because the church authority is vested in of duly ordained *Elders*, ET of the New Testament Gk *presbyteroi* (not by bishops, ET of the Gk *episkopoi*, “overseers” > Episcopal governance). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres…
About Friday 3 April 1663
TerryF • Link
The Scotchman is ba-a-a-a-ack
"chappell...being most monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among the quire."
It cannot be Good Friday already; why is the chapel so full that our man must sit in the choir?
Perhaps the draw is Dr. Creighton, whom Sam'l heard preach before the King, the Duke and the Duchess, 7 March 1661/62, also mid-lent on a Friday (the why of which we could not fathom) another learned sermon, "but, in his application, the most comical man that ever I heard in my life. Just such a man as Hugh Peters" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sunday 15 March 1662/63 Sam'l raised - and we discussed, at Bradford's instance - the issue of the overpopulation of the Navy Office pew http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
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Today "Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, preached a most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon, yet comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, 'Blessed is the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee suck; and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of God, and keepeth it.'"
Often he paraphrases the text of the Bible, but today Sam'l very nearly quotes the very words of two verses of Luke.11 in the KJV: 27. "And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, 'Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.' 28. But he said, 'Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.'" http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kj…
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"[Dr. Creeton] railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin, and his brood, the Presbyterians, and against the present term, now in use, of 'tender consciences.' He ripped up Hugh Peters [for] his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles."
L&M say "tender consciences," included in Charles's Declaration of Breda, had been in use in the time of James I, but now referred to the scruples of nonconformists. Hugh Peters had been the New Model Army's chief chaplain; L&M say his "begging sermons," appealing for huswifery support, had led to the moniker, "The Thimble and Bodkin Army."
Re bodkins and thimbles, needles, etc. http://www.sealedknot.org/knowbas…
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What is "comicall" about Dr. Creighton's "application"? Friday 7 March 1661/62 it was not fathomed, even with the help of the OED, though these uses by Pepys weren't cited there, perhaps someone can check the OED again.
Etymology on Line says "something is comical (c.1432) if the effect is comedy, whether intended or not " http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
Creighton was known for his wit, and he applied it to politics as had Hugh Peters and other non-Anglican preachers. And his very manner of delivery may have been, in its way, also parodic of Hugh Peters's own, as well as being otherwise risible -- which may not have been in keeping with the solemnity the usual conforming Anglican sermon provoked after the Restoration -- though many Christians, Anglicans included, nearly 350 years on are quite accustomed to and even value some sermonic "comic relief" and are Dr. Creighton's successors in 'playing to the crowd' in this way (homiletics as, in part, also acting)?
About Thursday 2 April 1663
TerryF • Link
Pauline, No reply to Holmes "which, has caused all this feud” was recorded in the Diary entry of 7 December 1661 , so perhaps this sentence should be reconsidered? I find the last clause of it puzzling.
About Saturday 7 December 1661
TerryF • Link
Captain Ferrers is hardly dashing in the "outrage" referred to in the note by Lord Braybrooke (B).
12 September, 1662 Pepys hears that Captain Ferrers, "being provoked to strike one of my Lord’s footmen, the footman drew his sword, and hath almost cut the fingers of one of his hands off; which I am sorry for: but this is the vanity of being apt to command and strike." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
As SP has it, Captain Ferrers, quite full of himself, is volatile and dangerous; methinks what's "similar" between today's outrage and the one yet to come is the "vanity" Pepys identies then.