"Inns and Taverns of Old London" by Henry C. Shelley has it among the Famous Southwark Inns: base of operations for Jack Cade's insurrection, celebrated by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II: "Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates, that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark?"..." At the same unimproved White Hart, "In the Borough," for atmospherics, "[E]arly on the morning succeeding the events narrated in the last chapter....[we find] Sam Weller, making his first appearance" in Charles Dickens' "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"..."In 1889, in the month of July, four hundred and thirty-nine years after it had received Jack Cade under its roof, the last timbers of the old inn were levelled to the ground." http://www.building-history.pwp.b…
"We found fault with many things...[i.a.]the measure of some timber now serving in which Mr. Day [Deane] the assistant told us of,..." L&M note: "On 30 October [yesterday] the timber-measurers at both Deptford and Woolwich were dismissed and the work given to the storekeepers." Sounds like Sam already has more than one ally.
"Captain Browne did threaten to go... to the Duke..., and get him turned out because he was not sailed." L&M note:"To Jamaica." I take it "get him turned out" means "get his backing"? Pepys to the defense of the Navy Board!
The "dock" for the yards at Woolwich is, I gather, below Redriffe on the west side of the Thames opposite the Isle of Dogs. http://www.motco.com/map/81001/
St Gregory By St Paul's, Also St Gregory by Paul's Situated St Paul's EC4 First mentioned in 1010 and stood at south-west corner of the cathedral. Repaired and beautified in 1631-2. Partly demolished by Inigo Jones in 1641 to make way for new portico but restored by him by order of the House of Lords. Destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Parish united with St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street in 1670, St Martin Ludgate in 1890 and St Sepulchre Holborn in 1954." Also a close-up from a panorama at http://storyoflondon.com/modules.…
Sarcen's Head Inn "On the north side of Snow Hill, west of St. Sepulchre's Church, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 387, ed. 1603~Lockie, 1816). "Sersyns Head " mentioned 1522 in an account of the preparations for the reception of the Emperor Chas. V. as having 30 beds, stalls for four horses (Wheatley). Removed for the formation of Holborn Viaduct and its approaches 1868."
Mercers' Chapel "On the north side of Cheapside, at the south-east end of Mercers' Hall (O.S.). Between Ironmonger Lane and Old Jewry. In Cheap Ward. Earliest mention : The chapel, called "le Mercers Chapell," annexed to church of St. Thomas the Martyr called "de Acon" 1505-6 (Ct. H.W. II. 611). At the dissolution of the monasteries temp. H. VIII., the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon was purchased by the Mercers (S. 271) and licence was given to them to erect a chapel and hall next to St. Thomas of Acon's church in Cheapside, 11 H. VIII. 1519 (L. and P. H. VIII. III. Pt. 1, p. 122). Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt with a beautiful stone front to Cheapside (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 39)."
Cf. Cumgranissalis' "Quality control": "Performance assessment." (*Accountability measures+ -- dealt with their implementation as a university department Chair and faculty member. Oy!)
"*our* little bastard" earns his rep again, applies standards of performance "[W]hen at last they heard I was there, they went about their survey. But God help the King! what surveys, shall be taken after this manner...."
"In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth.... Officers at the yards were appointed by the Board of Admiralty, but otherwise yards were under the administration of the Navy Board, represented at the yard by a resident commissioner. The principal officers at each yard were:
"In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth.... Officers at the yards were appointed by the Board of Admiralty, but otherwise yards were under the administration of the Navy Board, represented at the yard by a resident commissioner. The principal officers at each yard were:
"The Royal Ropeyard at Woolwich....was established from around 1573 to supply the whole of the Royal Navy. Until around 1750 it employed over 400 people. Woolwich ropeyard was one of the greatest rope manufactories in the world at the time, and would have been as significant as later roperies at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.....The resources needed to build a ship of the line were staggering; in addition to up to 2,000 mature trees, each ship required between 30 and 40 miles of rope, which needed renewing every 2 or 3 years. The Woolwich Ropeyard, eventually 1,080' long, produced standard 100 fathom (600 foot) lengths of rope. Now largely lying under Beresford Street, it stretched from the Arsenal Gatehouse to Riverside House." http://www.royal-arsenal.com/wars…
Nice lead, Cumgranissalis! "THE S E A M A N S Grammar and Dictionary, Explaining all the difficult T E R M S in N A V I G A T I O N: A N D T H E P R A C T I C A L Navigator and Gunner: In Two Parts
By Captain J O H N S M I T H, Sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admiral of New England...London, England...MDCXI [1691] [scans can be downloaded as PDFs] http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/sea…
"...The White Hart may have been the inn by this name which once existed (? at this period) in Hare St. (Info. from C.H. Turner.)" L&M, iii.150.n.2. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"But all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats;...."
L&M note: "The yachts belonging to the King and Duke of York. As a result of their proved seaworthiness, yachts were used in the following November to transport from Calais the money obtained from the sale of Dunkirk."
"...walked to Deptford (Cooper with me talking of mathematiques),....Mr. Wayth accompanying of me a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I walked to Redriffe back..."
How often Sam walks while conversing with (being informed by) someone in the know. Today's examples -- esp. the first -- suggest to me a method therein --perhaps gleaned from experience: that learning while walking helps to remember. This was suggested to me by the matter of a poem by Mark Jarman, "The Rote Walker," in which he (pastor's son) memorizes/internalizes Scripture while walking (for that purpose) -- a technique he learned by experiment -- perhaps like Sam? (Was this why Aristotle taught as he walked, and for that has been known as "The Peripatetic"?) As we follow along, then, I will more closely attend to Sam's strolling or striding seminars with this in view.
Also posted by Sjoerd Spoelstra on Thu 29 Apr 2004, 9:35 am | Link http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… "Mingo is the black servant of Sir William Batten....But looking at Sir Battens will (http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/bl…) [same read as the site posted by vincent (cumgranissalis)] the old sailor must have developed a genuine liking for his servant, providing him with a well paying job as lighthouse keeper in Harwich." [Perhaps no person is of a single moral piece.]
Image of SIR William Batten's will in full, posted here as 4th image down. Whatever Sam or we might come to think of Sir W., "A servant named Mingo was made keeper of the Harwich lighthouse in the will left by his master, Royal Navy surveyor Sir William Batten." The will is posted here to record Mingo as among Black "Alternatives" to "Servants and Ayahs": "Mingo - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper (198KB)" Document | Transcript. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.u…
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First Reading
About White Hart (Woolwich)
Terry F. • Link
"Inns and Taverns of Old London" by Henry C. Shelley has it among the Famous Southwark Inns: base of operations for Jack Cade's insurrection,
celebrated by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II: "Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates, that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark?"..."
At the same unimproved White Hart, "In the Borough," for atmospherics, "[E]arly on the morning succeeding the events narrated in the last chapter....[we find] Sam Weller, making his first appearance" in Charles Dickens' "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"..."In 1889, in the month of July, four hundred and thirty-nine years after it had received Jack Cade under its roof, the last timbers of the old inn were levelled to the ground." http://www.building-history.pwp.b…
About Thursday 31 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"We found fault with many things...[i.a.]the measure of some timber now serving in which Mr. Day [Deane] the assistant told us of,..."
L&M note: "On 30 October [yesterday] the timber-measurers at both Deptford and Woolwich were dismissed and the work given to the storekeepers."
Sounds like Sam already has more than one ally.
About Thursday 31 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"Captain Browne did threaten to go... to the Duke..., and get him turned out because he was not sailed."
L&M note:"To Jamaica."
I take it "get him turned out" means "get his backing"? Pepys to the defense of the Navy Board!
About Ropeyard (Woolwich)
Terry F. • Link
The "dock" for the yards at Woolwich is, I gather, below Redriffe on the west side of the Thames opposite the Isle of Dogs. http://www.motco.com/map/81001/
About St Gregory by Paul's
Terry F. • Link
St Gregory By St Paul's, Also St Gregory by Paul's
Situated St Paul's EC4
First mentioned in 1010 and stood at south-west corner of the cathedral. Repaired and beautified in 1631-2. Partly demolished by Inigo Jones in 1641 to make way for new portico but restored by him by order of the House of Lords. Destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt.
Parish united with St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street in 1670, St Martin Ludgate in 1890 and St Sepulchre Holborn in 1954."
Also a close-up from a panorama at
http://storyoflondon.com/modules.…
About Saracen's Head
Terry F. • Link
Sarcen's Head Inn
"On the north side of Snow Hill, west of St. Sepulchre's Church, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 387, ed. 1603~Lockie, 1816).
"Sersyns Head " mentioned 1522 in an account of the preparations for the reception of the Emperor Chas. V. as having 30 beds, stalls for four horses (Wheatley).
Removed for the formation of Holborn Viaduct and its approaches 1868."
From: 'Sarcen's Head Inn', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 31 July 2005.
About Mercers' Chapel
Terry F. • Link
Mercers' Chapel
"On the north side of Cheapside, at the south-east end of Mercers' Hall (O.S.). Between Ironmonger Lane and Old Jewry. In Cheap Ward.
Earliest mention : The chapel, called "le Mercers Chapell," annexed to church of St. Thomas the Martyr called "de Acon" 1505-6 (Ct. H.W. II. 611).
At the dissolution of the monasteries temp. H. VIII., the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon was purchased by the Mercers (S. 271) and licence was given to them to erect a chapel and hall next to St. Thomas of Acon's church in Cheapside, 11 H. VIII. 1519 (L. and P. H. VIII. III. Pt. 1, p. 122).
Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt with a beautiful stone front to Cheapside (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 39)."
From: 'Mercers' Chapel', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 31 July 2005.
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Cf. Cumgranissalis' "Quality control": "Performance assessment."
(*Accountability measures+ -- dealt with their implementation as a university department Chair and faculty member. Oy!)
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"*our* little bastard" earns his rep again, applies standards of performance
"[W]hen at last they heard I was there, they went about their survey. But God help the King! what surveys, shall be taken after this manner...."
About Ropeyard (Woolwich)
Terry F. • Link
"In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth....
Officers at the yards were appointed by the Board of Admiralty, but otherwise yards were under the administration of the Navy Board, represented at the yard by a resident commissioner. The principal officers at each yard were:
About Dockyard (Portsmouth)
Terry F. • Link
"In the 17th and 18th centuries there were six Royal Navy dockyards in England, at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth and Plymouth....
Officers at the yards were appointed by the Board of Admiralty, but otherwise yards were under the administration of the Navy Board, represented at the yard by a resident commissioner. The principal officers at each yard were:
About Ropeyard (Woolwich)
Terry F. • Link
"The Royal Ropeyard at Woolwich....was established from around 1573 to supply the whole of the Royal Navy. Until around 1750 it employed over 400 people. Woolwich ropeyard was one of the greatest rope manufactories in the world at the time, and would have been as significant as later roperies at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.....The resources needed to build a ship of the line were staggering; in addition to up to 2,000 mature trees, each ship required between 30 and 40 miles of rope, which needed renewing every 2 or 3 years. The Woolwich Ropeyard, eventually 1,080' long, produced standard 100 fathom (600 foot) lengths of rope. Now largely lying under Beresford Street, it stretched from the Arsenal Gatehouse to Riverside House." http://www.royal-arsenal.com/wars…
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Nice lead, Cumgranissalis!
"THE
S E A M A N S
Grammar and Dictionary,
Explaining all the difficult T E R M S
in N A V I G A T I O N:
A N D T H E P R A C T I C A L
Navigator and Gunner:
In Two Parts
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Captain J O H N S M I T H,
Sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admiral of New England...London, England...MDCXI [1691] [scans can be downloaded as PDFs]
http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/sea…
About White Hart (Woolwich)
Terry F. • Link
"...The White Hart may have been the inn by this name which once existed (? at this period) in Hare St. (Info. from C.H. Turner.)" L&M, iii.150.n.2. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Wednesday 30 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"But all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats;...."
L&M note: "The yachts belonging to the King and Duke of York. As a result of their proved seaworthiness, yachts were used in the following November to transport from Calais the money obtained from the sale of Dunkirk."
About William Crofts (1st Baron Crofts)
Terry Foreman • Link
"Master of Horse to the Duke of York." L&M, iii.149.n.5. (Wednesday 30 July 1662 - http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… )
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry Foreman • Link
"...walked to Deptford (Cooper with me talking of mathematiques),....Mr. Wayth accompanying of me a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I walked to Redriffe back..."
How often Sam walks while conversing with (being informed by) someone in the know. Today's examples -- esp. the first -- suggest to me a method therein --perhaps gleaned from experience: that learning while walking helps to remember. This was suggested to me by the matter of a poem by Mark Jarman, "The Rote Walker," in which he (pastor's son) memorizes/internalizes Scripture while walking (for that purpose) -- a technique he learned by experiment -- perhaps like Sam? (Was this why Aristotle taught as he walked, and for that has been known as "The Peripatetic"?) As we follow along, then, I will more closely attend to Sam's strolling or striding seminars with this in view.
The 2nd of 9 books of poetry by (full disclosure: friend since 1980) Mark Jarman _The Rote Walker_ (1981) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obid…
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Also posted by Sjoerd Spoelstra on Thu 29 Apr 2004, 9:35 am | Link http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
"Mingo is the black servant of Sir William Batten....But looking at Sir Battens will (http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/bl…) [same read as the site posted by vincent (cumgranissalis)]
the old sailor must have developed a genuine liking for his servant, providing him with a well paying job as lighthouse keeper in Harwich."
[Perhaps no person is of a single moral piece.]
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Already posted by vincent [cumgranissalis] on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 7:28 pm | Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… [I leapt before I looked.]
more on This Admiral:
http://49.1911encyclopedia.org/B/…
http://www.rickard.karoo.net/peop…
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Image of SIR William Batten's will in full, posted here as 4th image down. Whatever Sam or we might come to think of Sir W., "A servant named Mingo was made keeper of the Harwich lighthouse in the will left by his master, Royal Navy surveyor Sir William Batten."
The will is posted here to record Mingo as among Black "Alternatives" to "Servants and Ayahs": "Mingo - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper (198KB)" Document | Transcript. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.u…