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

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First Reading

About Tuesday 3 February 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

Evidently not all "women of the time not having any say in their own lives" - there had been other exceptions.

"Elizabeth Winthrop arrived alone on American shores in 1631. She was a young widow with a small child. Over her lifetime, she established four homesteads and raised and educated a large family. She was one of the first women in the New World to hold property in her own name. Like many colonial women, Elizabeth Winthrop exhibited remarkable courage in the face of tremendous adversity."
http://www.thirdwavetelevision.or…

About Monday 2 February 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

Secured from fear of want, for Coventry to read Spinoza would be to pursue, in addition, the intellectual amor Dei.
Adam Smith, in London, ca. 1750, would share his ideas [derived from Coventry?} with the aforementioned Samuel Johnson.

About Monday 2 February 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

"after a neat and plenteous dinner as is usual, we fell to our victualling business"

The toffs eat plenty, Sir Denis Gauden [the very name suggests it] sure that all is well, but the Navy elsewhere lack hardtack.

About Sunday 1 February 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

Has Wayneman been dismissed, and if so who is the new “boy”?

The L&M Index has it that Wayneman has not been dismissed, so Sam has......bluffed.

About Sunday 1 February 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

And there is 8 January 1662/63

"before I sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie he told me, at which his sister, with whom we have of late been highly displeased, and warned her to be gone, was angry, which vexed me, to see the girl I loved so well, and my wife, should at last turn so much a fool and unthankful to us....[before] “The Adventures of Five Hours,” at the Duke’s house...made my wife to get her ready, though we were forced to send for a smith, to break open her trunk, her mayde Jane being gone forth with the keys, and so we went; and though early, were forced to sit almost out of sight, at the end of one of the lower forms, so full was the house." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

About Lily's 'Epigramma' (John Colet's edition)

Terry F  •  Link

COLET (John). [Aeditio, una cum quibusdam G. Lilij. Grammatices
rudiemtnis, G. Lilij epigramma.][Antwerp: M. de Keyser, 1534?]
The Aeditio has on recto (of E7?) lines 25-6: “GVILLELMI LILII ANGLI /
RVDIMENTA.”; and last page of carmen de moribus, on verso (of F7?) line 1 begins: “Clamor, rixa”. The types in the Aeditio are 72 and 96mm. bastarda an 80mm. italic.” - STC. First published in 1527 for use at Colet's St. Paul's School and frequently reprinted. Lily's grammar became the standard school text book well into the 18th. century. http://www.maggs.com/pdfcatalogue…

About Apposition Day

Terry F  •  Link

Apposition Day at St Paul's school was instituted at the school's foundation in 1509 as a method of assessing the competency of instruction.
It was a day each term when the best students give speeches = read short scholarly papers, illustrating mastery of a topic in each of several different fields of study, which are them "Apposed" = laid side-by-side by an outside judge or "Apposer". The tradition continues down to the present day. http://www.stpaulsschool.org.uk/p…

About Saturday 31 January 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

“Plate” here meaning “print from a copper plate”; but what is “the table to it”?

Bradford, L&M agree that's a good question! They suppose it to be a document; I suppose it to be a "table" describing the ship's rigging, masts, etc., in detail, and that this is another tool for learning (like the model Mr Anthony Deane furnished him after their lessons).

About Friday 30 January 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

Matthew Henry was, like everyone else, including all the annotators of this day, doing their best. The modern study of biblical texts did not reach early maturity until the later 19c when photography permitted MS fragments and codices from the world over to be compared; the comparative study of ancient Near Eastern languages began to mature, fed by fruits of archaeology; AND the historical ('critical') method of biblical study underwent several critical growth-spurts.

About Friday 30 January 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

"my manuscript is brought home handsomely bound, to my full content; and now I think I have a better collection in reference to the Navy, and shall have by the time I have filled it, than any of my predecessors."

Previously referred to as "sea manuscript", "Navy manuscript", "book manuscript", "manuscript book", "manuscript", and "Navy collections" -- though it did not survive, in a note to 9 January, 1663, L&M conjecture (shrewdly) that "it was a work of reference, with, e.g. lists of ships", perhaps the draft version of "the book of 'Naval Precedents' he made in retirement after 1688."

Hard to believe such inventories had not been routinely kept by the Navy Office given what Glyn has established about its provenance: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Thursday 29 January 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

Minnes (Mennes) has not (so far) regaled Sam with old Navy tales like the Sir Wms did even since he (SP) cooled toward them - Sir John is a cold fish.

About Tuesday 27 January 1662/63

Terry F  •  Link

And on the side opposite Coventry, perhaps Creed is playing Sam like a viall (he does come around and hang out).