Arthur Perry
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Arthur Perry has posted 13 annotations/comments since 22 February 2013.
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Arthur Perry has posted 13 annotations/comments since 22 February 2013.
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Third Reading
About Monday 21 May 1660
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I just finished this interesting fictional account of the same story: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris. https://www.goodreads.com/book/sh…
Second Reading
About Site statistics 2022
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I’ve been subscribed to the RSS since roughly halfway through the first run. I use Feedly. So there’s one more data point for ya. Thanks for everything, Phil!
About Thursday 27 February 1667/68
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Well after 10 years I reread this entry and was so touched I read it to my wife. Then I read my comment from 10 years ago. History repeats itself.
About Tuesday 24 December 1667
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“ a child born and dressed there”
Is he referring to the sacrament of baptism?
About Sunday 5 May 1667
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@Nix - in 2010 Credit default swaps were a hot topic as a factor in the financial crisis, but the situation here seems more like the simple selling of debt at a discount, much as a modern creditor sells a debt asset to a collection agency, taking less money but leaving the risk (and hassle) of collecting the debt to the agency.
About Wednesday 5 September 1666
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@Jonathon - Not sure why anyone would brag about such destruction but Wisconsinites are a unique breed. The Chicago fire of 1871 was surely as transformative as the London fire of 1666. I’ll have to read up on the Peshtigo fire.
About Wednesday 5 September 1666
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Evelyn’s account of the destruction of Old Saint Paul’s cathedral reminds me of accounts of the damage to Norte Dame de Paris, an even older church, when the roof caught fire on 15 April 2019.
About Thursday 26 July 1666
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@San Diego Sarah - I'm super confused- The second son of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon was Laurence Hyde, who was made the 1st Earl of Rochester in its second creation. John Wilmot (The Libertine) is the 2nd Earl of Rochester under its first creation. Shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear…
About Saturday 26 March 1664
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Does any other evidence survive of Sir William Rider's diary?
About Friday 8 May 1663
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"cavill": to complain about things that are not important. http://www.merriam-webster.com/di… - - I would like to know if it is so spelled in the manuscript. The current universal definition of "cavill" seems to be a certain actor portraying Superman.
About Saturday 25 April 1663
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"... she is conceited that she do well already, though I think no such thing.".
I just listened to a story today about the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is: http://m.thisamericanlife.org/rad…
About Saturday 23 June 1660
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Can anyone provide a link to an image of an example of the "stamp of gold"?
About Tuesday 21 February 1659/60
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... Just want to clarify an encyclopedia link: "He (Crew) advised me to send for my Lord forthwith". The link for "my Lord" points to Monck but should it not be Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich?