L&M note in part: "Henry Cromwell...cousin of the Protector, but a royalist, changed his surname...and adopted that of his early [16th c] ancestor, Richard Williams...."
"our bill for the Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City"
L&M note this was in fact a memorandum. Pepys and his fellows in the Nzvy Office were already JP's in the four counties where the shipyards were located -- in that capacity Sam had Field jailed. But had they all been JP's in London, i.e. in the Navy Office itself, Field could not have served Pepys or any other with a subpoena -- so L&M.
The memo did eventually produce an act of Parliament making the Officers of the Navy Office justices of Peace in the City; about which I defer to in Aqua Scripto.
They were Cavaliers, weren't they?! Recall "how Mr. Edward Montagu hath lately had a duell with Mr. Cholmely" , 6 August 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
They were not alone, not then and there, but also across the Pond where, later, "What had really happened...was that the gentlemanly idea, driven from England by Cromwell, had taken refuge in the South and fashioned for itself a world to its heart's desire: a world singularly polished and mellow and poised, wholly dominated by ideals of honor and chivalry and *noblesse* -- all those sentiments and values and habits of action which used to be, especially in Walter Scott, invariably assigned to the gentleman born and the Cavalier." The Mind of the South (Vintage) by W.J. Cash, p. 9. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/…
Hence, I suppose the oath of office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky [was County of Virginia Colony} that affirms not having engaged in a duel or abbetted one. http://www.erniefletcher.com/inau…
Leslie Katz, you provided us a very fine lead for the annotations to today's entry, but this one hardly lives up to Sir Edward Coke.
The referent of "it was here that I said it” is the preceding clauses, as Dirk has it, methinks, supported by the L&M reading, their " - which" falling just where his does.
“The Lord Chief Barons speech before the Sentence”
JWB, fine site and speech as you say. Thanks for it. Hewlett escaped the death-sentence once, but perhaps not again? Might the link not also be added to the page for Col. Daniel Axtel http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… a regicide hanged, drawn, and quartered on 19 October 1660? http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"The Surprizall" was in time a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698) - mild SPOILER - which the Pepys's will see at the King's playhouse 26 December 1667. I wonder whether, in this context, "surprizall" could be a synonymn for 'kidnap' or 'rape' in the sense in which Alexander Pope would use it in 1712 in "The Rape of the Lock".
read L&M; SO Wheatley not only edits out certain delicate matters, but he updates the spelling, either unwittingly in transcribing, or deliberately for contemporaneity as did a spate of English Bibles in his time. http://www.bible-researcher.com/v…
"I...walked forth, and...bought me a little sword, with gilt handle."
Shades of Sir Caradoc? Struck by the phrase "walked forth," a search revealed this is its third appearance in the Diary, the most recent 29 April 1662, the first 12 May 1661, on a another day when Bess was in pain, but not with her monthlies.
"What," I asked myself, "does the Clerk of the Cheque do?" the word "Cheque" having a pregnant ambiguity in 2006....
Apparently, whether in the royal household, aboard ships, in a dockyard, or in any institutional context Clerk of the Cheque keeps the official lists or "chequer-roll" used to "check" (we would say), i.e. account for those at work on a site. The Proceedings of the House of Commons speak of a "Muster-master or Clerk of the Cheque"
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 12: 2 May 1699', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 12: 1697-1699 (1803), pp. 675-81. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 20 March 2006.
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First Reading
About Sunday 22 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
For more on “Cromwell that was” see the Background info on Cromwell, Henry.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Sunday 22 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
“Cromwell that was"
L&M note in part: "Henry Cromwell...cousin of the Protector, but a royalist, changed his surname...and adopted that of his early [16th c] ancestor, Richard Williams...."
Good eyes, Scott!
About Sunday 22 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"Matters in Ireland are full of discontent."
When were they not? http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/i…
Has in Aqua Scripto found a new medium?
About Sunday 22 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"our bill for the Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City"
L&M note this was in fact a memorandum. Pepys and his fellows in the Nzvy Office were already JP's in the four counties where the shipyards were located -- in that capacity Sam had Field jailed. But had they all been JP's in London, i.e. in the Navy Office itself, Field could not have served Pepys or any other with a subpoena -- so L&M.
The memo did eventually produce an act of Parliament making the Officers of the Navy Office justices of Peace in the City; about which I defer to in Aqua Scripto.
About Saturday 21 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"a duel in the oh so sensitive 17th c."
They were Cavaliers, weren't they?!
Recall "how Mr. Edward Montagu hath lately had a duell with Mr. Cholmely" ,
6 August 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
They were not alone, not then and there, but also across the Pond where, later, "What had really happened...was that the gentlemanly idea, driven from England by Cromwell, had taken refuge in the South and fashioned for itself a world to its heart's desire: a world singularly polished and mellow and poised, wholly dominated by ideals of honor and chivalry and *noblesse* -- all those sentiments and values and habits of action which used to be, especially in Walter Scott, invariably assigned to the gentleman born and the Cavalier." The Mind of the South (Vintage) by W.J. Cash, p. 9. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/…
Hence, I suppose the oath of office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky [was County of Virginia Colony} that affirms not having engaged in a duel or abbetted one. http://www.erniefletcher.com/inau…
Leslie Katz, you provided us a very fine lead for the annotations to today's entry, but this one hardly lives up to Sir Edward Coke.
About Saturday 21 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
The referent of "it was here that I said it” is the preceding clauses, as Dirk has it, methinks, supported by the L&M reading, their " - which" falling just where his does.
About Saturday 21 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"-- which he told me that it was well it was here that I said it."
So L&M transcribe Captain Holmes's suggestion of a duel - 'if we were abroad, these be fighting words'.
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
“The Lord Chief Barons speech before the Sentence”
JWB, fine site and speech as you say. Thanks for it. Hewlett escaped the death-sentence once, but perhaps not again?
Might the link not also be added to the page for Col. Daniel Axtel http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… a regicide hanged, drawn, and quartered on 19 October 1660? http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"The Surprizall" was in time a comedy by Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698) - mild SPOILER - which the Pepys's will see at the King's playhouse 26 December 1667.
I wonder whether, in this context, "surprizall" could be a synonymn for 'kidnap' or 'rape' in the sense in which Alexander Pope would use it in 1712 in "The Rape of the Lock".
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
surprizall
Methinks "seizure" or "surprise taking" seems to fit the examples Kilroy adduces. It is a strange word, now clearly obs.
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Scanning errors
Paul Chapin's keen eye is confirmed by L&M - “15s.” and “10 at night.”
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"I find my wife in great pain abed of her months"
read L&M; SO Wheatley not only edits out certain delicate matters, but he updates the spelling, either unwittingly in transcribing, or deliberately for contemporaneity as did a spate of English Bibles in his time. http://www.bible-researcher.com/v…
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"I wish he do not play the fool with her."
Methinks we would say "I hope he doesn't play" etc.
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Scanning error in Wheatley's text
"in comes Captain Ferrers and by and by Mr. Bland to see me"
About Friday 20 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"I...walked forth, and...bought me a little sword, with gilt handle."
Shades of Sir Caradoc?
Struck by the phrase "walked forth," a search revealed this is its third appearance in the Diary, the most recent 29 April 1662, the first 12 May 1661, on a another day when Bess was in pain, but not with her monthlies.
About Thursday 19 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
"What," I asked myself, "does the Clerk of the Cheque do?"
the word "Cheque" having a pregnant ambiguity in 2006....
Apparently, whether in the royal household, aboard ships, in a dockyard, or in any institutional context Clerk of the Cheque keeps the official lists or "chequer-roll" used to "check" (we would say), i.e. account for those at work on a site. The Proceedings of the House of Commons speak of a "Muster-master or Clerk of the Cheque"
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 12: 2 May 1699', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 12: 1697-1699 (1803), pp. 675-81. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 20 March 2006.
About Thursday 19 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
The "good Jamaica brawne" was eaten at the house of Thomas Cowley, Clerk of the Cheque at Deptford 1660-5 http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Wednesday 18 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
Bradford, here's the earlier reference:
"I sent to my house by my Lord’s order his shipp [glass] and triangle virginall."
14 June 1661 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Stone Gallery (Whitehall Palace)
TerryF • Link
in Aqua Scripto's link shows The Stone Gallery where JWB has indicated http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
About Tuesday 17 March 1662/63
TerryF • Link
A newer, wider Cannon Street.
Sam, a true Baroque man, loves the spectacular!
It would be fine as wine!