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About Saturday 21 June 1662

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Col. John Fitz-Gerald, Deputy Governor of Tangier, to Sandwich
Written from: Tangier
Date: 21 June 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 44-45
Document type: Holograph; the signature is "J. Gerald". The endorsement by Lord Sandwich reads: "Col. Fitz-Gerald. June 21, 1662".

Reports the progress of works for strengthening the fort and town.
Has thought it his duty "since the unhappy loss of Lieut. Col. Fines [Fiennes] & his party", not to hazard any more men abroad.
Mentions advices which have reached him from Tetuan, "which town 'Guilan' has lately forced to composition".
These advices he has already sent to H.R.H. the Lord Admiral.

Encloses: An Account of all that I have done towards the security and strengthening of this City, since his Excellency [Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough]'s departure. [By Col. John Fitz-Gerald, Deputy Governor of Tangier].
Date: [Undated] 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 46
Document type: Original

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Lord John Crew to Sandwich
Written from: Lincoln's Inn Fields
Date: 21 June 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 153
Document type: Holograph

Certain sums of money mentioned may remain in the Earl's hands, for a time specified. It is but a small service, but is rendered most willingly.

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FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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Col. John Firz-Gerald
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Guilan = Abd Allah al-Ghailan ("Guiland", "Gayland")
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Tetuan, Morocco
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Lord John Crew is Sandwich's father-in-law, and has apparently loaned him some money.
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Considering how generous Charles II is being to Gen. Albemarle and Chancellor Clarendon, I think he was stingy to Sandwich -- or perhaps Sandwich felt unworthy for some reason and didn't ask, or he wasn't in place to know when and how to ask? Being sent to the Med. when the chips were falling into place was unfortunate timing.

About Sunday 29 June 1662

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From the same source:

Vice-Adm. Sir John Lawson to Sandwich
Written from: On board H.M.S. Swiftsure, in Tangier Bay
Date: 29 June 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 54-55
Document type: Original

Has sent ships to call at Alicante and at Malaga in the hope of getting intelligence of Spanish designs & movements.
On his arrival in Tangier Bay, & conference with the Governor, he found that advices had come from Cadiz of the preparation of a Spanish fleet of about 28 sail.
Since he went ashore, he has received a report from Malaga, by a vessel of his own, of the expected junction of a Dutch squadron with the Spaniards.

About Sunday 29 June 1662

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John Luke, Consul at Tangier, to Sandwich
Written from: Tangier
Date: 29 June 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 52
Document type: Holograph

Mentions -- as matters of which fuller particulars are otherwise reported to his Lordship -- Sir John Lawson's arrival at Tangier with his Squadron, and the holding of a Council of War, to organize measures of defence against the expected attack from Spain.

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FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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About Friday 16 January 1662/63

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"... Captain Brewer, the paynter, who tells me how highly the Presbyters do talk in the coffeehouses still, which I wonder at."

A presbyter need not necessarily mean a Presbyterian:
PRESBYTER, an Ancient and Reverend Person, a Priest; also a Lay-elder.
PRESBYTERAL, belonging to a Priest or Elder.
-- An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

My take on Pepys' comment is that he is surprised people don't understand that the Church of England is IN, and that all the other versions of protestantism are OUT. Why are they advertising their disagreement so publicly? Government intelligencers are everywhere. They are asking for trouble.
Makes me wonder how much energy Pepys is putting into being politically correct.

About Sunday 17 August 1662

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John Luke, Consul at Tangier, to Sandwich
Written from: Tangier
Date: 17 August, 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 63-64
Document type: Holograph

Sends advices of the condition and movements of the Moors at various points of the Coast of Africa.
Adds intelligence received from Spain of the preparation and strength of the Spanish Fleet; with other advices on naval matters.

FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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About Tuesday 1 April 1662

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From the same source:

Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, Governor of Tangier, to Sandwich
Written from: Tangier
Date: 1 April, 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 36-37
Document type: Original

Reports the state of Tangier, the need of stores, and especially of fuel; and the progress of negotiations with neighbouring powers.

About Sunday 11 May 1662

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Col. Edward Cooke to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lt. of Ireland – and also Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household
Written from: Portsmouth
Date: 11 May 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 497

Lords Richard Butler, John Butler, Cavendish, & others, are come hither in great haste to see the Queen land, but their speed is as unsuccessful as was the Duke's from Petersfield ...
Advices are now received of the Fleet being in Mounts Bay.

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About Sunday 11 May 1662

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Thank you, Bill -- you beat me to it. The word Presbyter confusingly has nothing to do with being a Presbyterian.

About Saturday 24 May 1662

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Catherine brought very little cash -- oh dear! And look what the Treasury paid out for this excursion to the Med.:

A Memorial of the Receipts & Discharges in the Exchequer of the Monies received, as part of the Queen's Portion, by His Excellency the Earl of Sandwich, Embassador Extraordinary to Portugall
Date: [March?] 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 73, fol(s). 645
Document type: Original

The total charge is 217,785 Crusados, = £38,076 sterling.
In the discharge £13,572 sterling is assigned to the account of the Garrison of Tangier; £2,000 to expenses of Queen Catherine's Voyage; £12,255 for stores provisions etc. of the Fleet; £10,248 for the Charges of the Embassy, & for allowances paid to Merchants. Total discharge = £38,076.

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FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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About Wednesday 5 March 1661/62

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Don ... Pimentel y Bravo, Governor of Cadiz to Sandwich
Written from: Cadiz
Date: 5 March 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 32
Document type: Original; subscribed and signed

Compliments and Good wishes on his Lordship's Voyage to England.
Spanish.

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Gov. Antonio Pimentel de Prado y lo Bianco (1604 - 1671/72)
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About Cadiz

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During Sandwich's 1661-1662 cruise to the Med. to fight the Barbary Pirates and pick up Queen Catherine, correspondence has "Don ... Pimentel y Bravo" as the Governor of Cadiz.

Antonio Pimentel de Prado y lo Bianco (Palermo, 1604 - Antwerp (1671-72) was a Spanish officer, a governor of Nieuwpoort (1646–1651), ambassador in Stockholm (1652–1654), Knight of the Order of Santiago (1658), representative in Paris (1659), governor of Cadiz (1660–1670), and at the end of his life counsel and chief of the army in Antwerp (1670–1672).

His father Lorenzo Pimentel de Prado served at the court of the Duke of Bivona in Palermo and had 3 sons: Juan, Antonio and Gregorio.
His nephew, Bernardino de Rebolledo, appointed Antonio Pimentel del Prado as the Spanish ambassador in Sweden. This was the first Spanish mission to Sweden since the reign of John III of Sweden.

Queen Christina of Sweden began negotiations with Philip IV of Spain in 1651 and sent the Swedish diplomat Matthias Palbitzki to the Spanish court. Philip IV, who wanted good relations, ordered the Spanish diplomats to promote Swedish interests anywhere in Europe.
The official aim of the embassy in Stockholm was to investigate the military power of Sweden, but the main task was to find out whether the queen had wedding plans, because the balance of power in Europe would be affected if Christina married someone hostile to Spain.

Antonio Pimentel arrived in Dalarö on Aug. 12, 1652, with his wife, children and an entourage of 50 people; appeared in Stockholm on 16 Aug., and on 19 Aug. was received by Queen Christina.
Pimentel quickly became her confidant. He tried to obtain support for her proposal to abdicate. Christina and Pimentel began secret negotiations, often conducted in her library, which gave rise to rumors. She shared her plans for the future after abdication.

Pimentel left after asking for a large portrait of the Queen as a gift for Philip IV.
Before Pimentel's departure in early August, the Queen made him a knight of the Order of Amarante, whose members vowed never to marry or re-marry (the order was dissolved in 1654).
But his ship leaked and he was forced to return.
Pimentel went with Christina to Östergötland, and followed her to Stockholm.
In June 1654 Christina abdicated. She left her country for the Spanish Netherlands to embrace the Catholic faith.

Christina continued her friendship with Pimentel, partly because she wanted to mediate between France and Spain during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659).

Pimentel and Christina met again in Brussels in 1655, and he was present when she converted to Catholicism on Christmas Eve 1655.
Then he was part of her entourage to Innsbruck and Rome.
He left her in 1656 when she made overtures to France.

Pimentel later served as a diplomat in Paris and prepared the Peace of the Pyrenees (October 1659).

Next he was governor of Cadiz from 1660–1670.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant…

About Wednesday 5 March 1661/62

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Sandwich to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lt. of Ireland
Written from: Lisbon River
Date: 5 March 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 426
Document type: Holograph

Will ever study to return thankfulness, in the best manner he can, for the favourable place which he finds himself to have in the Duke's remembrance.
Sir Henry Wood will find him careful to obey his Grace's directions.

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FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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Sir Henry Wood -- Clerk of the Board of the Green Cloth as of 1662. My guess is that now Ormonde is back in Ireland, he's worried about the people he's left at Whitehall running the Royal Household. Wood had been Clerk/Controller of the Green Cloth under Cromwell, and Sandwich must have known him at that time in that role, so Ormonde is asking for a reference. As you;ll see from this bio., he was not always popular:
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About Saturday 21 December 1661

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"So by coach home to the office, where I was vexed to see Sir Williams both seem to think so much that I should be a little out of the way, saying that without their Register they were not a Committee, which I took in some dudgeon, and see clearly that I must keep myself at a little distance with them and not crouch, or else I shall never keep myself up even with them."

My reading of this is that it is an important day in Pepys' life.
He finally realizes that the Sir Williams have been playing him, and that their pallyness was for their benefit.
They now tell him they can hold Navy Board meetings together, as 2 are a quorum, and are pleased when Pepys is away. (Hewer and Hayter can monitor the meetings for him, but not participate in decisions.)
But "without their Register" Pepys and one other can't make decisions, in their opinion.
Pepys knows this isn't legally the situation. The Sir Wills do not run the Navy Board for their personal benefit.
Pepys today decides to keep his own council, and to be more careful about his dealings with these two powerful Members of Parliament.

Tonyel's point about Pepys having all the info at his fingertips will be the case later. Right now he's still learning the details. The Sir Wills want to keep him as the filing clerk -- but Pepys is too ambitious for that.
He's not taking the position that seriously yet -- too much time away, spent chasing wills, inheritances, relatives, entertainment, the Privy Seal, and old friends.

About Sunday 16 February 1661/62

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Notes upon the obtaining of Letters Patent, for an invention of a process for tanning leather
Written from: Tangier Bay
Date: 16 February, 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 7
Document type: In Lord Sandwich's hand

Notes upon the obtaining of Letters Patent, for an invention of a process for tanning leather without bark; and of the names of several persons who have, or claim to have, an interest therein.
Drawn up by Lord Sandwich, in conference with Mr. Luke, Consul at Tangier.

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Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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Now we know the name of the English Consul at Tangier, a Mr. Luke. It is not known if this was written by Nathaniel Luke or his brother, John Luke.
Nathaniel Luke was appointed consul to the ports of Morocco by Cromwell in 1657 and was served as the Earl of Peterborough's secretary during the Diary years.
On Nathaniel and John Luke, see Kaufman, Helen Andrews, ed., Tangier at high tide: the journal of John Luke, 1670–1673 (Geneva, 1958), pp. 13–14.
Gleaned from https://www.cambridge.org/core/jo…
John Luke, Secretary to the Governor, and Judge Advocate at Tangier: Collections relating to Tangier: 1660-1677. Charles II of England: Correspondence and papers relating to the English Gov... Unspecified
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About Friday 7 February 1661/62

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Henry Rumbold to Sandwich
Written from: Porto Santa Maria
Date: 7/17 February 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 75, fol(s). 17
Document type: Holograph

Has obtained a mandate from the King of Spain, forbidding Don Diego Vanegas from interfering either with the writer or with other English subjects at Port S. Mary, but it has had little effect.
The English have had to protest against an embargo laid on their goods.

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Henry Rumbold - there are possibly 3 Henry Rumbolds in the Diary, or they may be two people. This one is the new English Consol to Cadiz.
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King of Spain - Philip VI
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Don Diego Vanegas - any nominations???
Port S. Mary, Spain
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About Cadiz

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El Puerto de Santa María, locally known as El Puerto and historically in English as Port Saint Mary, is a municipality of Spain located on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia.

The town of El Puerto de Santa María is located 10 km (6 mi) northeast of Cádiz, across the bay of Cádiz.

According to the legend told in the Odyssey of Homer, after the Trojan War-era, Greek official named Menestheus escaped with his troops through the Straits of Gibraltar and reached the Guadalete River. They established themselves here and called that port 'Menestheus' port' or 'Menesthei Portus' after the oracle of Menestheus, to whom the inhabitants of Gades offered sacrifices.

In 711, Arab (Moors) from the North of Africa conquered southern Spain. They renamed the place Alcante or Alcanatif which means Port of Salt, due to the old salt industry of Phoenicians and Romans.

In 1260, Alfonso X of Castile conquered the city from the Moors and renamed it Santa María del Puerto. He organized the land distribution and conceded a charter under the Crown of Castile.

Having received a royal charter the city was then allowed to use the title "El" prior to the name of the city itself. From then on, El Puerto was one of the most importants towns of the Kingdom of Seville throughout the late middle ages.

The population should not have reached more than 2,000 people in 15th century.

Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the Americas set sail from El Puerto de Santa María. His pilot, Juan de la Cosa drew his world map (the first including the coast of New World) in El Puerto in 1500.

Columbus visited El Puerto in 1480 and received encouragement for his travel plans. He also met Juan de la Cosa who issued the first world map in 1500.

El Puerto was the residence of several wealthy cargadores, merchants who operated Spain's trade with the Americas.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, it was the winter port of the royal galleys.

FROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_…

About Friday 2 May 1662

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Sir Henry Wood to James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lt. of Ireland – and also Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household
Written from: [At sea]
Date: 4 May O.S. 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 31, fol(s). 488
Document type: Holograph

The Earl of Sandwich resolves, if possible, to make for Portsmouth ...
The Queen is now in good health, but most desirous to go ashore ... Her train is of about 250 persons ... Her Majesty lives after the manner of Portugal, and the Marquess of Sandé rules all as Lord Chamberlain ... There are two countesses (newly made) & forty-eight other women.

The writer hopes that the hackneys & carriages will attend at Portsmouth, & that the Cofferer will be there with money.

About Friday 2 May 1662

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Adm. Sir John Lawson to Sandwich
Written from: On board HMS The Swiftsure, 8 leagues off Alicante
Date: 2 May, 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 223, fol(s). 257
Document type: Original

Has received His Excellency's letter of March 21, with duplicate of a preceding letter, of March 6.
Having taken in provisions at Alicante, and having dispatched four ships to Lisbon, is now on his way to Tunis, and if peace be made there, to Tripoli ...

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FROM: Carte Calendar Volume 33, January - August 1662
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 33
Extent: 488 pages
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