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

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About Sunday 8 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

Black may be used during Lent in a number of ways. While paramaments and vestments may be purple -- the strong color over time having been "ameliorated" - made less severe -- there may even yet still be a hanging of black, as there is on the cross (not crucifix) in my Presbyterian Church in the US mid-South. Later Anglican tradition uses purple as the Lenten color as do the Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and many Presbyterian churches.

About Sunday 8 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

“They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.”

Pss.126
[1] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
[2] Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
[3] The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
[4] Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
[5] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
[6] He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/k/kj…

About Saturday 7 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

Aye, Robert Gertz, I stand (sit, actually) corrected.

Last 8 June's entry has it: "Home, and observe my man Will to walk with his cloak flung over his shoulder, like a Ruffian, which, whether it was that he might not be seen to walk along with the footboy, I know not, but I was vexed at it"

http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

(Wayneman's current parlous condition - and its possible remedy - were on my mind.)

About Saturday 7 March 1662/63

TerryF.  •  Link

Dirk, I agree -
"John, their man" is a project, and "the sea may do him good" -- a little discipline and unrelenting hard work for one who walks (and talks) about as he pleases, perhaps with his cloak thrown over his shoulder? Oh that's Wayneman....Hmmmm....

About Saturday 7 March 1662/63

TerryF.  •  Link

I wonder how much "a dozen pair of white gloves" Sam's Valentine's size would have cost him. Surely less than 1 pound. Any ideas?

About Friday 6 March 1662/63

Terry F.  •  Link

"the fellow is not supple enough to him"
-- "supple" = compliant or adaptable. Have we two men cut from the same cloth?

About Wednesday 4 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

"an alphabet for my Navy Manuscript"

We discussed whether this was an Index or a TOC; against our first inclinations, it seems to be the former, an Index, as L&M's Large Glossary says, as has already been pointed out.

Robert Gertz, another winner (clink takards, all)!

About Sunday 1 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

The ecclesiastical years 1663 and 2006 compared more exactly:

This year (2006) Quinquagesima Sunday, was last Sunday, 26 February; yesterday, 1 March, was Ash Wednesday and we are now in Lent.

Lastly, "Quinquagesima is the name for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It was also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Shrove Sunday or Esto Mihi. The name originates from Latin *quinquagesimus* (fiftieth), referring to the fifty days before Good Friday (this calculation includes Sundays, unlike the forty-day calculation for Ash Wednesday itself)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quin…

About Tuesday 3 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

"my tierse of claret"

tierce (tîrs) n.
1 .also Tierce (tîrs) or terce or Terce (tûrs) Ecclesiastical.
-- The third of the seven canonical hours. No longer in liturgical use.
-- The time of day appointed for this service, usually the third hour after sunrise.
2. A measure of liquid capacity, equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 liters).
3. Games. A sequence of three cards of the same suit.
4. Sports. The third position from which a parry or thrust can be made in fencing.
5. Music. An interval of a third.
[Middle English, from Old French, from feminine of tiers, third, from Latin tertius.]
http://www.answers.com/main/ntque…

Clear it is 2.

About Sunday 1 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

The ecclesiastical years 1663 and 2006 compared:

This year (2006) Quinquagesima Sunday, St. David’s Day, was last Sunday, or so I was told; yesterday was Ash Wednesday and we are now in Lent, with laundry to do -- of this I am certain.

About Sunday 1 March 1662/63

TerryF  •  Link

The lectionary addresses the situation in the Chappell.

From The Epistle. 2 Cor. 11. 19:
"Charity...Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things...If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities."

From The Gospel. St. Luke 8. 4.
"If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities."

Thank you, Alan Bedford.

About William Lewis

TerryF  •  Link

Prebenday
A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend [payment or stipend out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church] in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. http://www.dictionary.net/prebend…

About William Lewis

TerryF  •  Link

William Lewis (1592-1667)
Prebendary of Winchester (1627-67), chaplain to Charles I & Charles II.
(from L&M sources)