"young people knotting together...and took the Common Prayer Book, they say, away; and, some say, did tear it"
L&M note: "The incident Pepys reports occurred at St Matthew's, whose Rector, Henry Hurst, had been ejected under the terms of the act. The reader was taking the service in his place. Pepys's account of this incident is one of the very few which survive....On the whole there were very few such disturbances. A government newspaper suggested that they were the work of a few organised bands, not of the parishioners...."
So here the reader DID take the service, but not out of sympathy.
Alors, Cumgrannissalis, surely many fewer memorable sermons preached for a long while: one thing Presbyterians stressed at that time was a clergy educated in Hebrew and Greek and in Homiletics.
Pageant a-float of "a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily" lives on in parades, e.g. in Pasadena, California, each New Year's Day at the Rose Parade of the Tournament of Roses http://www.fiestaparadefloats.com… Although one web definition of "float" (courtesy of Google) is "an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade," floats in the Rose Parade are constructed to hide their source of locomotion, as to appear indeed to 'float' on a river (of asphalt, in this case). Other examples from a professional design company: http://www.fiestaparadefloats.com… The same effect is achieved by the Jersey Battle of Flowers Moonlight Parade Floats: http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/conte… (What is it with the Wars of the Roses theme?! The original is notable for the heavy toll it took among the nobility; but these floral displays....?) There are other parades that either do or don't create the illusion; but none, I am sure can compete with this day's parade of "barges and boats" on the Thames.
Robert Gertz, "the twisted and pathetic thing from Kansas" was wrongly tied to Buckingham; it seems the party sexually aroused by lethal violence in the duels today and later was the femme fatale herself! (May whoever was offended accept my humble apologies and please to forego a duel in favor of a venison pasty or whatever, at my cost, of course.)
"Brampton is now perfectly granted him by the King - I mean the reversion of it - after the Queen's death; and, in the meantime, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball his present right.”
L&M note: “The grant of the reversion of the manor of Brampton was completed by December and the patent issued on the following 3 February…. Sandwich now bought from the Queen Mother’s trustees the right to enjoy the revenues immediately. Ball was her Attorney-General.”
"King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen."
This seems to me to suggest a circumstantial answer to tony t's query of yesterday: "Was "10,000 to one" an expression in general use at the time” in the affirmative. We say ‘a million to one’ in the same way, and might say there were a million boats on parade.
"Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great while in the Garden, where he did tell me his mind about Sir G. Carteret's having so much the command of the money, which must be removed.”
L&M note: “Cf. Coventry’s proposal to transfer payment of the Navy Victualler from the Navy Treasurer to the Exchequer; see [ 12 June http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ]”
To clarify my Q. about the deaf: The "likelihood" I find very great is that members of the "deaf community" might have lived in close proximity, so as in effect to form a "town."
Very interesting info on the deaf, Martha R: I read on the site you provided: "The 1680's was the time when Scottish tutor George Dalgarno taught deaf students to speak, lipread and fingerspell. He said fingerspelling was a better way to communicate.” To what extent do you think his techniques might have been known in London’s “deaf-town,” — which I find a very great liklihood — and supplement the work of the “become-deaf” intermediaries?
The impetus for the change was surely the work of Francis Bacon, whose "works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses" -- exactly what SP has been doing with cordage, etc. -- Pepys will join the Royal Society in 1664, and be President of it 1684-1686. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roya… This was not yet science as we understand it; e.g., "In the context of [Bacon's] time, such methods were connected with occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran…
"a surprisingly scientific way of expressing the operation of chance in an age so dominated by religion."
Perhaps the odds tony cites are gaming ones, but it is apropos to recall that we are in the century of the emergence of a methematized geometry (by Descartes) and physics (by Newton -- soon). Thomas Hobbes had written a materialist philosophy during the British civil war: Hobbes' man is a creature hormonally driven toward the "sociably antisocial" minglings and tenuous defensive impulses that lift him toward what might be called "rationality" " that cunning by which we are able to survive in this world. For Hobbes, ethics is that practical thinking directed toward selecting means to attain ends " it is what is most useful. It has adaptive and survival value. (Is that a bit of what we are seeing in our Sam?) There was an international community of natural philosophers in correspondence with one another, including Pascal (who dies this year), Spinoza, and in England the charter members of what has become The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge. “The seventeenth century in Europe saw the culmination of the slow process of detachment of philosophy from theology.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th…
"so home and to bed. But though I drank no wine to-day, yet how easily was I of my own accord stirred up to desire [that I carry] my aunt and this pretty lady....But my aunt would not go, of which since I am much glad [, Amen].
Today's entry, like many others, after recording his going to bed, adds a coda, usually a recall of something heard and his reaction. But this day, he concludes with what seems to me to be a psalmic record of a moral struggle, of his subsequent gratitude, lacking the divine ascription (noted above) and the formal ending (provided here).
"I went and walked an hour in the Temple- garden, reading my vows, which it is a great content to me to see how I am a changed man in all respects for the better, since I took them, which the God of Heaven continue to me, and make me thankful for."
Sam reads his Sunday vows and gets himself right with God, not before bed this week, but in the morning as prepares his mind for what he knows will be a religiously-eventful day.
"Mr. Creed [and I] walked together talking about business"
Another atriding seminar with Sam, the quintessential peripatetic. "Peripatetic may sound like something you don't want to catch, but it actually refers to someone who moves around a lot." http://www.google.com/search?hl=e…
"there I hear that old Mr. Hales did [recently] die suddenly in an hour's time" — yet not the “late Mr. Hales” etc.: be this any help? (not to Mt. Hailes [sic], of course…)
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First Reading
About Sunday 24 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"young people knotting together...and took the Common Prayer Book, they say, away; and, some say, did tear it"
L&M note: "The incident Pepys reports occurred at St Matthew's, whose Rector, Henry Hurst, had been ejected under the terms of the act. The reader was taking the service in his place. Pepys's account of this incident is one of the very few which survive....On the whole there were very few such disturbances. A government newspaper suggested that they were the work of a few organised bands, not of the parishioners...."
So here the reader DID take the service, but not out of sympathy.
Alors, Cumgrannissalis, surely many fewer memorable sermons preached for a long while: one thing Presbyterians stressed at that time was a clergy educated in Hebrew and Greek and in Homiletics.
About Sunday 24 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
See mine on Mon 15 Aug, "many Presbyterian ministers in town, who, I hear, will give up all."
L&M note: "Fifty ministers in London and Middlesex were expropriated."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Were there others who in protest failed to preach, but let Lectors take the service?
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
Pageant a-float of "a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily" lives on in parades, e.g. in Pasadena, California, each New Year's Day at the Rose Parade of the Tournament of Roses http://www.fiestaparadefloats.com…
Although one web definition of "float" (courtesy of Google) is "an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade," floats in the Rose Parade are constructed to hide their source of locomotion, as to appear indeed to 'float' on a river (of asphalt, in this case). Other examples from a professional design company: http://www.fiestaparadefloats.com… The same effect is achieved by the Jersey Battle of Flowers Moonlight Parade Floats: http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/conte… (What is it with the Wars of the Roses theme?! The original is notable for the heavy toll it took among the nobility; but these floral displays....?)
There are other parades that either do or don't create the illusion; but none, I am sure can compete with this day's parade of "barges and boats" on the Thames.
About Tuesday 19 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
Robert Gertz, "the twisted and pathetic thing from Kansas" was wrongly tied to Buckingham; it seems the party sexually aroused by lethal violence in the duels today and later was the femme fatale herself!
(May whoever was offended accept my humble apologies and please to forego a duel in favor of a venison pasty or whatever, at my cost, of course.)
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
(I sure thank L&M for clarifying these legalisms!!)
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"Brampton is now perfectly granted him by the King - I mean the reversion of it - after the Queen's death; and, in the meantime, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball his present right.”
L&M note: “The grant of the reversion of the manor of Brampton was completed by December and the patent issued on the following 3 February…. Sandwich now bought from the Queen Mother’s trustees the right to enjoy the revenues immediately. Ball was her Attorney-General.”
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"she is committed to old Mr. Young, of the Wardrobe's, tuition [=guardianship].”
L&M note: “She was kinswoman of Young ….”
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen."
This seems to me to suggest a circumstantial answer to tony t's query of yesterday: "Was "10,000 to one" an expression in general use at the time” in the affirmative. We say ‘a million to one’ in the same way, and might say there were a million boats on parade.
About Saturday 23 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great while in the Garden, where he did tell me his mind about Sir G. Carteret's having so much the command of the money, which must be removed.”
L&M note: “Cf. Coventry’s proposal to transfer payment of the Navy Victualler from the Navy Treasurer to the Exchequer; see [ 12 June http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ]”
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
To clarify my Q. about the deaf:
The "likelihood" I find very great is that members of the "deaf community" might have lived in close proximity, so as in effect to form a "town."
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
Very interesting info on the deaf, Martha R: I read on the site you provided: "The 1680's was the time when Scottish tutor George Dalgarno taught deaf students to speak, lipread and fingerspell. He said fingerspelling was a better way to communicate.”
To what extent do you think his techniques might have been known in London’s “deaf-town,” — which I find a very great liklihood — and supplement the work of the “become-deaf” intermediaries?
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
Re the scientific revolution of the 17c
The impetus for the change was surely the work of Francis Bacon, whose "works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses" -- exactly what SP has been doing with cordage, etc. -- Pepys will join the Royal Society in 1664, and be President of it 1684-1686. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roya… This was not yet science as we understand it; e.g., "In the context of [Bacon's] time, such methods were connected with occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran…
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
Oops, for "methematized" read "mathematized" -- guess my head is into the plague that good friends in law enforcement are fighting.
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"a surprisingly scientific way of expressing the operation of chance in an age so dominated by religion."
Perhaps the odds tony cites are gaming ones, but it is apropos to recall that we are in the century of the emergence of a methematized geometry (by Descartes) and physics (by Newton -- soon). Thomas Hobbes had written a materialist philosophy during the British civil war: Hobbes' man is a creature hormonally driven toward the "sociably antisocial" minglings and tenuous defensive impulses that lift him toward what might be called "rationality" " that cunning by which we are able to survive in this world. For Hobbes, ethics is that practical thinking directed toward selecting means to attain ends " it is what is most useful. It has adaptive and survival value. (Is that a bit of what we are seeing in our Sam?)
There was an international community of natural philosophers in correspondence with one another, including Pascal (who dies this year), Spinoza, and in England the charter members of what has become The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge.
“The seventeenth century in Europe saw the culmination of the slow process of detachment of philosophy from theology.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th…
About Thursday 21 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"so home and to bed. But though I drank no wine to-day, yet how easily was I of my own accord stirred up to desire [that I carry] my aunt and this pretty lady....But my aunt would not go, of which since I am much glad [, Amen].
Today's entry, like many others, after recording his going to bed, adds a coda, usually a recall of something heard and his reaction. But this day, he concludes with what seems to me to be a psalmic record of a moral struggle, of his subsequent gratitude, lacking the divine ascription (noted above) and the formal ending (provided here).
About Sunday 17 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"I went and walked an hour in the Temple- garden, reading my vows, which it is a great content to me to see how I am a changed man in all respects for the better, since I took them, which the God of Heaven continue to me, and make me thankful for."
Sam reads his Sunday vows and gets himself right with God, not before bed this week, but in the morning as prepares his mind for what he knows will be a religiously-eventful day.
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"Mr. Creed [and I] walked together talking about business"
Another atriding seminar with Sam, the quintessential peripatetic.
"Peripatetic may sound like something you don't want to catch, but it actually refers to someone who moves around a lot." http://www.google.com/search?hl=e…
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"there I hear that old Mr. Hales did [recently] die suddenly in an hour's time" — yet not the “late Mr. Hales” etc.: be this any help? (not to Mt. Hailes [sic], of course…)
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
"I took boat home again and dined"
likely "alone" again, with no wine; then at 'em (his workmen in this case), then off again to work, perhaps whistling?
About Friday 22 August 1662
T, Foreman • Link
See http://www.historichamptonroads.c…