"Mr. Moore...telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons, concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of."
L&M explain that in fact, come 19 May, the lands granted to Sandwich and Albemarle would be exempted from the "alienation" [sale] of such lands belonging to the Crown.
If I understand aright, lands granted by the Crown are only held in custody by any subject at the Royal pleasure, and at any time and for no reason given be "resumed" (reclaimed); e.g., land granted Sandwich by the King is still "Crown land" that Sandwich may not himself "alienate" (sell).
Prithee, what are the primary reasons the Court is in need of cash? An insufficient dowry from Charles's marriage to Catherine Braganza? Are Tangier and the other assets proving liabilities? Surely it isn't a bit profligate or extravagant? Too many plays and too much wine, perhaps?
At least the Crown hasn't yet such a war debt that would require it to levy taxes that would lead New England and the rest of the seaboard south thereof to revolt.
Osborne’s ‘Advice to a Son’ was an example of "a literature devoted to 'the doctrine of Courtesy,' of which Castiglione’s *Il Cortegiano* (1528) 13 may be regarded as the original, and Henry Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman (1622 and frequently reprinted with additions) the most popular English exemplar." (More at http://www.bartleby.com/219/1512.… )
Osborne’s ‘Advice to a Son’ laid out a practical curriculum that might appeal to one not apt for university - as were some sons of tradesmen - who nevertheless aspired to become a gentleman.
TEVIOT, ANDREW RUTHERFORD, EARL OF (d. 1664), was the son of William Rutherford of Quarrelholes, Roxburghshire. His education was received in Edinburgh, and he took up the career of soldier of fortune. His services were given to the French government, which maintained regiments of Scottish mercenaries. On the restoration of Charles II., Rutherford was taken into employment by his own king on the recommendation of Louis XIV. of France. He had held a commission as lieutenant-general in France and had a high reputation for personal courage. Charles II. gave him the Scottish title of Lord Rutherford and the governorship of Dunkirk, which had been acquired by the Protector Oliver Cromwell. When Charles II. sold the town to France in 1662 Rutherford was consoled by the command of the 2nd or Tangier regiment, was made earl of Teviot in the peerage of Scotland, and was sent in 1663 as governor to Tangier. His tenure of office was very short, for on the 4th of May 1664 he allowed himself to be entrapped into an ambush by the Moors, who carried on incessant irregular warfare against the English garrison, and was killed, together with nineteen officers and nearly five hundred men of his garrison.
Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659. Advice to a son; or, directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life. London [1656, etc] . "Osborne’s philosophy of life is that of his friend, Thomas Hobbes; in this popular book he displays much contempt for universities and those long resident in them, and is without any belief whatever in a gentleman’s need for 'learning' as usually acquired." http://www.bartleby.com/219/1512.…
"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. He also, however, describes the depth of the older feelings against mathematics, stating 'my memory reacheth the time, when the Generality of People thought her most usefull branches; spels, and her Professers, Limbs of the Devill', and he adds that when Oxford created a chair of mathematics, 'Not a few of our then foolish Gentry, refusing to send their sons thither, lest they should be smutted by the Black Arts'. The accuracy of Osborne’s recollection is confirmed in a letter of James, Lord Ogilvy to his grandson, written in 1605, in which he worries about young scholars at the university becoming involved with 'magick' and 'necromancy' which are 'the greatest sins against God that can be ...'." http://www.shpltd.co.uk/neal-rhet…
"The author...was master of the horse to Shakespeare’s patron William Herbert, earl of Pembroke...his Advice to a Son...went through numerous editions. It is a strange admixture of platitude and paradox, much of which might have come straight from the lips of Polonius. The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences." http://www.bartleby.com/218/1612.…
Today's episode in the Pepys family financial affairs...
In which our boy is not insensible to how difficult it can be for a father to give an accounting/justification of his family management skills to a son, no matter how capable the latter has proved himself to be...
See Skepticism, http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… where JonTom Kittredge quotes a use of "sceptical" by SP concerning what Lord Sandwich says to mean what Huxley would later call "agnostic", i.e. refusing to claim to "know" specific claims, in that case, religious ones.
Atheism and Agnosticism I’m not sure that Christianity was quite so unquestioned as that.
From 15 May 1660 ( http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ): “In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical”
That sounds to me like agnosticism, at the most. Granted Sandwich is only stating this in private; doubtless it would have been dangerous to espouse it publicly. I’m just saying that some people did think this way, and did talk about it with their friends.
My own view is that Pepys was brought up in an age of great piety. He seems to have subscribed, or at least acceded to, the conventional religion of his time. But I don’t see any evidence that faith meant much to him personally. His invocations of God seem to me to be reflexive rather than deeply felt. The ’60s seem to have been a time of reaction against the religious enthusiasm during the Commonwealth. I got the sense that religion mattered more to Sam at time he began the diary than it does “now.” [i.e. three years on, Jan. 1662/63]
Sunday's solemn vows seem to take a rather severe effect, but....
"with Creed...and...a friend of Captain Ferrers I used to meet at the playhouse, they would have gone to some gameing house, but I would not but parted, and staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, at the foreign Bookseller's looking over some Spanish books, and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there, as also with them, being willing enough to have gone to some idle house with them, I got home, and after a while at my office, to supper, and to bed."
Sunday 18 January, 1662/63 we debated what the solemnity of the vows meant to Sam'l: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Today we have him both leading himself to and fro temptation - eyeing some Spanish books!, but foregoing some idle house - retaining, by his account, money and time, which are the same, and is, apparently, the bottom line. Delaying gratification is a necessary, albeit not a sufficient condition of financial success.
Old recipe -- Put one stone in a pot of water, bring to a boil, add bits of this and that, and there's a meal for all. http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/sto…
"Only now and then upon taking cold I have some pain"
In summing up 1661, Sam'l specified that catching cold "brings great pain in my back and making of water, as it use to be when I had the stone” - per an L&M annotation by Naomi from “The Illustrated Pepys” selected and edited by Robert Latham. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"[B]ut otherwise in very good health always", and of a mind to celebrate it at the end of every day or shortly thereafter in his Journall - reading the transcriptions of which, how very lucky are we, to be able to celebrate another Ex-Stone's-day with him!!
"my uncle Thomas was with me...and I paid him...50l."
No wonder yesterday Sam'l schemed to profit from a Nsvy supplies deal, since today there are the cost of the new cook-maid and the settlement of a very troubling and extended episode.
At the end of last month he found himself with 640l. on hand, no more than had been worth at the end of the previous month.
How's a fellow to keep a household in the style to which he hopes to become accustomed, provide for his and his families' aged years, and celebrate the removal of Ye Stone sppropriately?!
"I find Cooper a fuddling, troublesome fellow... and so am contented to have him turned out of his place, nor did I see reason to say one word against it, though I know what they did against him was with great envy and pride."
How does the final clause cohere with the other three, and where DID the last one come from? Great 'envy of what? Pride in what? Or have the meanings of 'envy' and 'pride' migrated a bit?
Such prudential bed-sharing was common well into the 19th c., as we know from the beginning of *Moby Dick* wherein Ishmael shared a bed in the Spouter Inn with Queequeg.
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About Sunday 29 March 1663
TerryF • Link
"Mr. Moore...telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons, concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of."
L&M explain that in fact, come 19 May, the lands granted to Sandwich and Albemarle would be exempted from the "alienation" [sale] of such lands belonging to the Crown.
If I understand aright, lands granted by the Crown are only held in custody by any subject at the Royal pleasure, and at any time and for no reason given be "resumed" (reclaimed); e.g., land granted Sandwich by the King is still "Crown land" that Sandwich may not himself "alienate" (sell).
Prithee, what are the primary reasons the Court is in need of cash? An insufficient dowry from Charles's marriage to Catherine Braganza? Are Tangier and the other assets proving liabilities? Surely it isn't a bit profligate or extravagant? Too many plays and too much wine, perhaps?
At least the Crown hasn't yet such a war debt that would require it to levy taxes that would lead New England and the rest of the seaboard south thereof to revolt.
About Saturday 28 March 1663
TerryF • Link
"Hooke papers on birth of modern science saved for UK"
Link to Guardian Unlimited article; new FRS to follow?
http://education.guardian.co.uk/h…
About Osborne's 'Advice to a Son'
TerryF • Link
Osborne’s ‘Advice to a Son’ was an example of "a literature devoted to 'the doctrine of Courtesy,' of which Castiglione’s *Il Cortegiano* (1528) 13 may be regarded as the original, and Henry Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman (1622 and frequently reprinted with additions) the most popular English exemplar." (More at http://www.bartleby.com/219/1512.… )
Osborne’s ‘Advice to a Son’ laid out a practical curriculum that might appeal to one not apt for university - as were some sons of tradesmen - who nevertheless aspired to become a gentleman.
About Andrew Rutherford (Baron Rutherford, Earl of Teviot)
TerryF • Link
TEVIOT, ANDREW RUTHERFORD, EARL OF (d. 1664), was the son of William Rutherford of Quarrelholes, Roxburghshire. His education was received in Edinburgh, and he took up the career of soldier of fortune. His services were given to the French government, which maintained regiments of Scottish mercenaries. On the restoration of Charles II., Rutherford was taken into employment by his own king on the recommendation of Louis XIV. of France. He had held a commission as lieutenant-general in France and had a high reputation for personal courage. Charles II. gave him the Scottish title of Lord Rutherford and the governorship of Dunkirk, which had been acquired by the Protector Oliver Cromwell. When Charles II. sold the town to France in 1662 Rutherford was consoled by the command of the 2nd or Tangier regiment, was made earl of Teviot in the peerage of Scotland, and was sent in 1663 as governor to Tangier. His tenure of office was very short, for on the 4th of May 1664 he allowed himself to be entrapped into an ambush by the Moors, who carried on incessant irregular warfare against the English garrison, and was killed, together with nineteen officers and nearly five hundred men of his garrison.
See W. F. Lord, The Lost Possessions of England (London, 1896). http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/T…
About Osborne's 'Advice to a Son'
TerryF • Link
Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659. Advice to a son; or, directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life. London [1656, etc]
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"Osborne’s philosophy of life is that of his friend, Thomas Hobbes; in this popular book he displays much contempt for universities and those long resident in them, and is without any belief whatever in a gentleman’s need for 'learning' as usually acquired." http://www.bartleby.com/219/1512.…
"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. He also, however, describes the depth of the older feelings against mathematics, stating 'my memory reacheth the time, when the Generality of People thought her most usefull branches; spels, and her Professers, Limbs of the Devill', and he adds that when Oxford created a chair of mathematics, 'Not a few of our then foolish Gentry, refusing to send their sons thither, lest they should be smutted by the Black Arts'. The accuracy of Osborne’s recollection is confirmed in a letter of James, Lord Ogilvy to his grandson, written in 1605, in which he worries about young scholars at the university becoming involved with 'magick' and 'necromancy' which are 'the greatest sins against God that can be ...'." http://www.shpltd.co.uk/neal-rhet…
"The author...was master of the horse to Shakespeare’s patron William Herbert, earl of Pembroke...his Advice to a Son...went through numerous editions. It is a strange admixture of platitude and paradox, much of which might have come straight from the lips of Polonius. The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences." http://www.bartleby.com/218/1612.…
About Saturday 28 March 1663
TerryF • Link
Today's episode in the Pepys family financial affairs...
In which our boy is not insensible to how difficult it can be for a father to give an accounting/justification of his family management skills to a son, no matter how capable the latter has proved himself to be...
About Links to sites
TerryF • Link
Needles, Pins, Bodkins, Thimbles, Scissors
http://www.sealedknot.org/knowbas…
About Friday 27 March 1663
TerryF • Link
"piece of gold"
The background info suggests this is a sovereign. How much is that worth?
About Agnosticism
TerryF • Link
See Skepticism, http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
where JonTom Kittredge quotes a use of "sceptical" by SP concerning what Lord Sandwich says to mean what Huxley would later call "agnostic", i.e. refusing to claim to "know" specific claims, in that case, religious ones.
About Scepticism
TerryF • Link
See Agnosticism http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Per JonTom Kittredge on Fri 20 Jan 2006 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Atheism and Agnosticism
I’m not sure that Christianity was quite so unquestioned as that.
From 15 May 1660 ( http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ): “In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical”
That sounds to me like agnosticism, at the most. Granted Sandwich is only stating this in private; doubtless it would have been dangerous to espouse it publicly. I’m just saying that some people did think this way, and did talk about it with their friends.
My own view is that Pepys was brought up in an age of great piety. He seems to have subscribed, or at least acceded to, the conventional religion of his time. But I don’t see any evidence that faith meant much to him personally. His invocations of God seem to me to be reflexive rather than deeply felt. The ’60s seem to have been a time of reaction against the religious enthusiasm during the Commonwealth. I got the sense that religion mattered more to Sam at time he began the diary than it does “now.” [i.e. three years on, Jan. 1662/63]
About Friday 27 March 1663
TerryF • Link
Sunday's solemn vows seem to take a rather severe effect, but....
"with Creed...and...a friend of Captain Ferrers I used to meet at the playhouse,
they would have gone to some gameing house, but I would not but parted, and staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, at the foreign Bookseller's looking over some Spanish books, and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there, as also with them, being willing enough to have gone to some idle house with them, I got home, and after a while at my office, to supper, and to bed."
Sunday 18 January, 1662/63 we debated what the solemnity of the vows meant to Sam'l: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Today we have him both leading himself to and fro temptation - eyeing some Spanish books!, but foregoing some idle house - retaining, by his account, money and time, which are the same, and is, apparently, the bottom line. Delaying gratification is a necessary, albeit not a sufficient condition of financial success.
About Thursday 26 March 1663
TerryF • Link
(essential, besides Ye Stone, of course)
About Thursday 26 March 1663
TerryF • Link
I forgot Stone Soup's essential ingredient is that EVERYONE adds her/his bit of this and that...!
About Thursday 26 March 1663
TerryF • Link
The Story of Stone Soup
Old recipe -- Put one stone in a pot of water, bring to a boil, add bits of this and that, and there's a meal for all. http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/sto…
That's this site today!
About Thursday 26 March 1663
TerryF • Link
"Only now and then upon taking cold I have some pain"
In summing up 1661, Sam'l specified that catching cold "brings great pain in my back and making of water, as it use to be when I had the stone” - per an L&M annotation by Naomi from “The Illustrated Pepys” selected and edited by Robert Latham.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"[B]ut otherwise in very good health always", and of a mind to celebrate it at the end of every day or shortly thereafter in his Journall - reading the transcriptions of which, how very lucky are we, to be able to celebrate another Ex-Stone's-day with him!!
About Thursday 26 March 1663
TerryF • Link
"my uncle Thomas was with me...and I paid him...50l."
No wonder yesterday Sam'l schemed to profit from a Nsvy supplies deal, since today there are the cost of the new cook-maid and the settlement of a very troubling and extended episode.
At the end of last month he found himself with 640l. on hand, no more than had been worth at the end of the previous month.
How's a fellow to keep a household in the style to which he hopes to become accustomed, provide for his and his families' aged years, and celebrate the removal of Ye Stone sppropriately?!
About Tuesday 24 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Bread
This is the 14th mention of it beginning in 1660, according to the Background info http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
and, yes, Wim van der Meij, it was often in connection with navy provisions.
About Tuesday 24 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
A troubling verdict in the Cooper matter
"I find Cooper a fuddling, troublesome fellow...
and so am contented to have him turned out of his place,
nor did I see reason to say one word against it,
though I know what they did against him was with great envy and pride."
How does the final clause cohere with the other three, and where DID the last one come from?
Great 'envy of what? Pride in what? Or have the meanings of 'envy' and 'pride' migrated a bit?
About Minories
TerryF • Link
The Minories lies east of Tower Hill and runs north-to-south near the right side of this segment of the 1742 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Monday 23 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Such prudential bed-sharing was common well into the 19th c., as we know from the beginning of *Moby Dick* wherein Ishmael shared a bed in the Spouter Inn with Queequeg.