"The name of a writ issuing out of chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners named by the plaintiff, commanding them to attach the defendant wheresoever he may be found within the state as a rebel and contemner of the law, so as to have him in chancery on a certain day therein named. This writ may be issued after an attachment with proclamation and a return of *non est inventus*" ("he/she is.not found") - (Law) The [words written by] the sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not [to be] found in his [bailiwick.] http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c254.h…
The Pepys family politics of recent weeks unveiled?
"Dined by my wife’s bedside, she not being yet well. We fell out almost upon my discourse of delaying the having of Ashwell, where my wife believing that I have a mind to have Pall, which I have not, though I could wish she did deserve to be had."
I imagine that Bess's belief may have animated her recent appeals to Balty for alternatives to Pall?
L&M note this was Samuel's first complaint about the ailment that would eventually terminate the Diary, but not cost him his sight altogether, as he feared.
Is there a consensus in the scholarship about the nature of Sam's vision disorder?
So, does the issue remain whether "casting up with Captain Cocke their accounts of 500 tons of hemp brought from Riga" teaches Sam how to fix the books in calculating the Navy claims, OR whether he learns what to watch out for in dealing with merchants such as Captain Cocke?
As I read it, there is as yet no consensus among us as to what the "many things worth my knowledge" are...or?
Although in the past "Mr.Pickering" has been linked to both John and Edward, today's seems to me to be probably John. Sorry, no help, just my concurrence.
The chimes from St Paul's and other steeples's bells would have been audible; surely the Navy Office had at least one clock; there were indeed watches at this time.
On the one hand we have in Aqua Scripto's view that, per the OED, "she looks to be worn out shell"; but on the other, Aus.Susan's that she is perhaps "someone youthful" (I think he would have written "like a girl" had he meant "that she has to play this side-saddle", which was indeed not uncommon for women until the mid-20th century).
I do believe Samuel is being a man of his time, or perhaps just a Samuel.
Recall more than a half-century later James Boswell reports: "I told [Samuel Johnson] I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.'" http://www.samueljohnson.com/dogw…
Todd Bernhardt, I too found this a puzzling use, since there are
jade (2) "worn-out horse," c.1386, possibly from O.N. jalda "mare," from Finno-Ugric (cf. Mordvin al'd'a "mare"). As a term of abuse for a woman, it dates from 1560. Jaded "dulled by continual indulgence" is from 1631. harridan 1700, "one that is half Whore, half Bawd" ["Dictionary of the Canting Crew"]; "a decayed strumpet" [Johnson], from Fr. haridelle "a poore tit, or leane ill-favored jade," [Cotgrave, 1611], in Fr. from 16c., of unknown origin. http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
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About Saturday 21 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Commission of Rebellion" -
"The name of a writ issuing out of chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners named by the plaintiff, commanding them to attach the defendant wheresoever he may be found within the state as a rebel and contemner of the law, so as to have him in chancery on a certain day therein named. This writ may be issued after an attachment with proclamation and a return of *non est inventus*" ("he/she is.not found") - (Law) The [words written by] the sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not [to be] found in his [bailiwick.] http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c254.h…
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
No domestic dramas today
No mention of Bess's "termes," her fear of Sam's bringing Pall back in favor of Mary Ashwell, etc.
Funny how there are entries like today's after several when his domestic concerns play a far larger role; but life's like that.
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Have a call" - sc. have a roll-call
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"to Deptford, and there...had a call"
To have a call ~ apparently have a muster of all hands at the yard, or call out the yard (cf. the info on "call-books").
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Sorry no lyrics, but instructions by the dance master.
About Friday 20 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
“Cuckolds all a Row”
Sheet music image, lyics and chords.
http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/i…
About Thursday 19 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
The Pepys family politics of recent weeks unveiled?
"Dined by my wife’s bedside, she not being yet well. We fell out almost upon my discourse of delaying the having of Ashwell, where my wife believing that I have a mind to have Pall, which I have not, though I could wish she did deserve to be had."
I imagine that Bess's belief may have animated her recent appeals to Balty for alternatives to Pall?
Poor Pall.
About Thursday 19 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
“my eyes begin to fail me"
L&M note this was Samuel's first complaint about the ailment that would eventually terminate the Diary, but not cost him his sight altogether, as he feared.
Is there a consensus in the scholarship about the nature of Sam's vision disorder?
About Thursday 19 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"our times being changed because of the parliament sitting"
L&M note that during the present session of parliament they met on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
About Thursday 19 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"the King’s speech to the Parliament yesterday".
Well worth a short read: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
with homage to in Water Writ, past master of British History Online.
About Wednesday 18 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
So, does the issue remain whether "casting up with Captain Cocke their accounts of 500 tons of hemp brought from Riga" teaches Sam how to fix the books in calculating the Navy claims, OR whether he learns what to watch out for in dealing with merchants such as Captain Cocke?
As I read it, there is as yet no consensus among us as to what the "many things worth my knowledge" are...or?
About Wednesday 18 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
The "long prorogation" of Parliament clarified!
Thank you, Leslie Katz, for the lesson for this Colonial (and for others, I wot).
About Tuesday 17 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Pedro, surely you are [circumstantially] correct!
Although in the past "Mr.Pickering" has been linked to both John and Edward, today's seems to me to be probably John. Sorry, no help, just my concurrence.
About Wednesday 18 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
See Science, Technology, Health > Clocks and watches in the Background info http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
The chimes from St Paul's and other steeples's bells would have been audible; surely the Navy Office had at least one clock; there were indeed watches at this time.
About Wednesday 18 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
prorogation
- event that marks the end of a parliamentary session. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/co…
but evidently used here to describe a recess?
About Edward Pickering
Terry F • Link
Uncle of John Pickering http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About John Pickering
Terry F • Link
Link to his uncle, Edward "Ned" Pickering. http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Tuesday 17 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
girl
On the one hand we have in Aqua Scripto's view that, per the OED, "she looks to be worn out shell"; but on the other, Aus.Susan's that she is perhaps "someone youthful" (I think he would have written "like a girl" had he meant "that she has to play this side-saddle", which was indeed not uncommon for women until the mid-20th century).
I do believe Samuel is being a man of his time, or perhaps just a Samuel.
Recall more than a half-century later James Boswell reports: "I told [Samuel Johnson] I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.'" http://www.samueljohnson.com/dogw…
About Tuesday 17 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
jade
Todd Bernhardt, I too found this a puzzling use, since there are
jade (2)
"worn-out horse," c.1386, possibly from O.N. jalda "mare," from Finno-Ugric (cf. Mordvin al'd'a "mare"). As a term of abuse for a woman, it dates from 1560. Jaded "dulled by continual indulgence" is from 1631.
harridan
1700, "one that is half Whore, half Bawd" ["Dictionary of the Canting Crew"]; "a decayed strumpet" [Johnson], from Fr. haridelle "a poore tit, or leane ill-favored jade," [Cotgrave, 1611], in Fr. from 16c., of unknown origin.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
About Tuesday 17 February 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Excuse - "ill of her termes - which I was sorry for."