About Friday 2 June 1665

Athena on 3 Jun 2018  •  Link

Might the powder obtained in Hayter’s name have been pepper or some like condiment?

About Friday 21 October 1664

Athena on 22 Oct 2017  •  Link

"...which will cost me money, but I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."

- nearly a year before, on October 30 1663, he wrote:

"My mind very heavy thinking of my great layings out lately, and what they must still be for clothes, but I hope it is in order to getting of something the more by it, for I perceive how I have hitherto suffered for lack of going as becomes my place."

About Tuesday 12 April 1664

Athena on 13 Apr 2017  •  Link

Re "it being Easter time" on the Tuesday - it's part of the Octave of Easter, the eight-day festal period commencing with that feast.

About Tuesday 15 March 1663/64

Athena on 17 Mar 2017  •  Link

I often read the diary entries aloud to myself and this one was extraordinarily powerful and touching.
The closing words "and I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief for my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction" convey so much of what was in his heart, of what it is like to mourn deeply.

About Monday 23 November 1663

Athena on 24 Nov 2016  •  Link

The new money, which is "deadly inconvenient for telling" - telling = counting, keeping tally of. "I may tell all my bones", Psalm 22:17, KJV.

The "rare" piece of beef, I would take that to have been an especially fine one, uncommonly good. Both geese and cattle-beasts in fine condition and available at this time of year, just after Martinmas on November 11.

About Saturday 22 August 1663

Athena on 23 Aug 2016  •  Link

I wondered whether the cucumbers had been cooked in vinegar in a copper vessel, inducing copper-poisoning in the consumer.

About Friday 9 January 1662/63

Athena on 10 Jan 2016  •  Link

Jnettejb - from http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… "Scallop" - "A lace band, the edges of which were indented with segments of circles, so as to resemble a scallop shell. The word “scallop” was used till recently for a part of a lady’s dress embroidered and cut to resemble a scallop shell."