L&M: Rev. Samuel Edlin of Watford (died 1698); graduated Magdalene College in 1657 (cf. his association with Herefordshire; i.59 and ii.139, and with Clement Sankey of Magdalene: iii.58). He took orders in 1662, becoming Rector of Silchester, Hants., in 1667. But there are several families of this name in Westminster around 1660.
L&M: Anne "Nan" Pepys Hall Fisher, of Littleton, Worcs., daughter of John and Anne Pepys. Her mother died c. 1660. She married first ---- Hall, and second, in 1662 ---- Fisher, 'an old Cavalier', In 1687 Pepys stayed with her in Worcester when accompanying James II on his western progress.
'"This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life." -- We see the euphoria of the Restoration begin to be reflected in fashion. Off with thee you rough puritan garments I'll have silk and color now, and much more to come along this line from Samuel and the king in the next few years.'
Pepys has now met the Stuart Brothers a few times, and seen how people dress for business in their presence. He is assuming a new station in life, and needs to be taken seriously. His fellow Commissioners are Sirs and Members of Parliament and men of distinction, plus they are about a decade older than him.
I don't put his new wardrobe down to euphoria, Restoration exhuberance, or a desire to wear bright colors (as I just discovered, the silk suit was black) -- I think he's trying to dress for success. I've done the same thing when venturing into unknown business territory. It's an investment in self-confidence, and a way of taking care of one thing in my control.
Dick Wilson asks "I wonder what color this suit was. Any ideas?"
At the top of the page on the right is a search bar. I put "suit" in the top line, and selected "Diary entries", and up came hundreds of mentions for consideration. I scrolled through, looking at every entry dated 1660 or 1661, and BINGO:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… "From thence home by water, and there shifted myself into my black silk suit (the first day I have put it on this year), ..."
"Did Capt. Holland and Mr. Browne put Pepys under any sort of obligation to them, by feeding him lunch? (...) Or were they trying to ingratiate themselves with a man who might someday send naval contracts their way?"
Since Pepys doesn't tell us what they discussed, it's impossible to answer your question, Dick Wilson. But if I were John Browne of Harwick, and my port had a bad reputation, as it did in 1660, an opportunity to gladhand the new man at the Head Office would be welcome. Apparently Capt. Holland was a mutual connection which is always a good way to start a relationship.
All morning with the Solicitor General sorting out his bills, a business lunch, all afternoon sitting with the Navy Board making decisions about things he knows nothing about and there is no budget to implement, and then into the office to put these decisions into action, back to the Solicitor's, then off to Whitehall to see what Montagu needs, and thence to bed.
Quite a day, as Colin Gravois said, but if he slept well I think it was from exhaustion, not peace of mind.
The 1659 trip to the Baltic -- what happened to Adm. Edward Montagu:
Personally devoted to the House of Cromwell, Adm. Edward Montagu had made his submission to the new government so plainly contre coeur that it was thought well to keep him at a distance, and for this reason he was joined with the plenipotentiaries, sent to mediate between Denmark and Sweden, and placed in command of the fleet that conducted them to the Sound.
Charles II sent Sir Thomas Whetstone to the Baltic, charged with delivering private offers to the men and officers of the fleet, and with overtures to be made to the Admiral through his cousin, Edward “Ned” Montagu.
Montagu disliked the choice of Whetstone as the messenger, who alarmed him by showing himself freely in the streets of Copenhagen, and although he consented to receive Charles II's letter, he refused to intrust Whetstone with any reply.
Montagu was next visited by his relative, Charles Hatton, to whom Montagu admitted Charles II 'should not want servants in the fleet when opportunity occurred,’ and on August 6, 1659, Montagu wrote to assure Chancellor Hyde of his readiness to embrace the royal cause.
In pursuance of these promises, Adm. Montagu hastened his fleet homeward on the outbreak of the subsequent rising [BOOTH'S].
On September 14, 1659, Montagu and the remains of his fleet arrived in the Channel too late to be of service, whereupon he excused his conduct to the Rump Parliament as best he could, resigned his commission, and retired into the country. 2 2 Carte, Letters, ii. pp. 202, 211; Clarendon, History, xvi. pp. 153-158; Clarendon State Papers, iii. p. 493; Clarendon MSS., Ix. ff. 499, 560; Ixi. ff. 162, 276, 280, 291; Ixii. fol. 114, July 25, 29, 1659; Ixiii. August 6, 1659, Montagu to Hyde. May- July 1659
The collapse of the insurrection was due to the usual causes, and chiefly to the lack of unanimity among its devisors.
From THE TRAVELS OF THE KING Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654-1660 BY EVA SCOTT, AUTHOR OF ‘THE KING IN EXILE' LONDON - ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LIMITED 1907 Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty http://archive.org/stream/travels…
Black Maid, complain not that I fly, When Fate commands Antipathy: Prodigious might that union prove, Where Night and Day together move, And the conjunction of our lips Not kisses make, but an Eclipse; In which the mixed black and white Portends more terrour than delight. Yet if my shadow thou wilt be, Enjoy thy dearest wish: But see Thou take my shadowes property, That hastes away when I come nigh: Else stay till death hath blinded mee, And then I will bequeath my self to thee.
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And how dogmatic could someone be who wrote this:
SONNET. To Patience
Down stormy passions, down; no more Let your rude waves invade the shore Where blushing reason sits and hides Her from the fury of your tides. Fit onely 'tis where you bear sway That Fools or Franticks do obey; Since judgment, if it not resists, Will lose it self in your blind mists. Fall easie Patience, fall like rest Whose soft spells charm a troubled breast: And where those Rebels you espy, O in your silken cordage tie Their malice up! so shall I raise Altars to thank your power, and praise The soveraign vertue of your Balm, Which cures a Tempest by a Calm.
Meantime, thou hast her, earth; much good May my harm do thee. Since it stood With heaven's will I might not call Her longer mine, I give thee all My short-liv'd right and interest In her whom living I lov'd best; With a most free and bounteous grief, I give thee what I could not keep. Be kind to her, and prithee look Thou write into thy doomsday book Each parcel of this rarity Which in thy casket shrin'd doth lie. See that thou make thy reck'ning straight, And yield her back again by weight; For thou must audit on thy trust Each grain and atom of this dust, As thou wilt answer Him that lent, Not gave thee, my dear monument.
So close the ground, and 'bout her shade Black curtains draw, my bride is laid.
Sleep on my love in thy cold bed Never to be disquieted! My last good-night! Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake; Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves, and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there, I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. And think not much of my delay; I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed. Each minute is a short degree, And ev'ry hour a step towards thee. At night when I betake to rest, Next morn I rise nearer my west Of life, almost by eight hours' sail, Than when sleep breath'd his drowsy gale.
Thus from the sun my bottom steers, And my day's compass downward bears; Nor labour I to stem the tide Through which to thee I swiftly glide.
'Tis true, with shame and grief I yield, Thou like the van first took'st the field, And gotten hath the victory In thus adventuring to die Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark! my pulse like a soft drum Beats my approach, tells thee I come; And slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee.
The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort. Dear (forgive The crime) I am content to live Divided, with but half a heart, Till we shall meet and never part.
Rev. Henry King's wife, Anne Berkeley King, died in 1624, aged 24, and was buried in Bishop John King's tomb in St. Paul's on 24 January. King's moving poem, Exequy, on her death is the poem by which he is chiefly remembered.
The Exequy
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint, Instead of dirges, this complaint; And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse, From thy griev'd friend, whom thou might'st see Quite melted into tears for thee.
Dear loss! since thy untimely fate My task hath been to meditate On thee, on thee; thou art the book, The library whereon I look, Though almost blind. For thee (lov'd clay) I languish out, not live, the day, Using no other exercise But what I practise with mine eyes; By which wet glasses I find out How lazily time creeps about To one that mourns; this, only this, My exercise and bus'ness is. So I compute the weary hours With sighs dissolved into showers.
Nor wonder if my time go thus Backward and most preposterous; Thou hast benighted me; thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day (though overcast Before thou hadst thy noon-tide past) And I remember must in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day tells hours. By thy clear sun My love and fortune first did run; But thou wilt never more appear Folded within my hemisphere, Since both thy light and mot{"i}on Like a fled star is fall'n and gone; And 'twixt me and my soul's dear wish An earth now interposed is, Which such a strange eclipse doth make As ne'er was read in almanac.
I could allow thee for a time To darken me and my sad clime; Were it a month, a year, or ten, I would thy exile live till then, And all that space my mirth adjourn, So thou wouldst promise to return, And putting off thy ashy shroud, At length disperse this sorrow's cloud.
But woe is me! the longest date Too narrow is to calculate These empty hopes; never shall I Be so much blest as to descry A glimpse of thee, till that day come Which shall the earth to cinders doom, And a fierce fever must calcine The body of this world like thine, (My little world!). That fit of fire Once off, our bodies shall aspire To our souls' bliss; then we shall rise And view ourselves with clearer eyes In that calm region where no night Can hide us from each other's sight.
Bishop Henry King's ODNB entry shows that he never shied away from having opinions, and taking risks. He travelled through England ordaining clerics during the Interregnum with Bishop Brian Duppa, so he was no coward. In 1655, Charles II invited him to join the Court in exile, and recognized his contributions to the survival of the Church of England by offering him the See of York at the Restoration -- but King preferred to make peace with his flock in Chichester.
So I can understand Bishop King being very welcoming / flattering to Charles, and encouraging him from the pulpit to promote Anglicanism (if that's what he did -- maybe he encouraged Charles to be the peacemaker by accepting all denominations -- we don't know what he said that Pepys considered to be meddling).
I think you're correct that Pepys is looking for leadership and vision through the huge transition the nation has undertaken. I suspect his views were much like Montagu's "... I found him to be a perfect sceptic, and [he] said that all things would not be well while there was so much preaching, and that it would be better if nothing but homilies were to be read in churches." https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Montagu favored uniformity, just as he favored a monarchy, because his experience was that monarchies and uniformity are conducive to an ordered society. And I suspect the exhausted people of England, as well as Pepys, were in favor of that. Anything for a peaceful life.
Bishop King had a point-of-view; Pepys wanted a homily. Charles was subjected to years of that sort of preaching and meddling. I don't think he was swayed by much of it -- perhaps it would have worked out better if he had been? He was a bit of a passive-agressive personality who figured out what he wanted to do and did it, and told people what they needed to know in order for them to agree with him.
HOMILY -- a religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction; a sermon. -- Synonyms of homily 1: a usually short sermon a priest delivering his homily 2: a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme 3: an inspirational catchphrase also: PLATITUDE https://www.merriam-webster.com/d…
Bishop Henry King of Rochester (1592 – 1669), a poet and inspired preacher, is one of the biographies currently (for how long, who knows) available on the ODNB website: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display…
He was a friend of John Donne and Izaac Walton's. As the Dean of Rochester in 1640, he was wealthy enough to build a new Dean's House -- he was a widower with young children, so that could have been enlightened self-interest.
In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester, and lived in the palace until the the siege of December 1642, when he fled (not, as reported, taken prisoner) first to Petworth, then to Albury, where he began living with relatives.
Dr. Henry King drew up his will in 1653 when he was engaged with former bishop Brian Duppa in travelling the country ordaining men according to the rite of the forbidden Book of Common Prayer.
About 1655, when few bishops remained alive, it was proposed that Dr. Henry King should cross with one other to the continent for fresh consecrations, but none would accompany him.
Charles II proposed making him Archbishop of York, but King chose to go back to Rochester and "his visitation sermon, 8 October, 1662, shows how sensitively he dealt with the jarring factions among his clergy, 'laying controversies asleep and silencing disputes'.
"Dr. Henry King's preaching was much esteemed and imitated in his day. Bishop Brian Duppa's funeral sermon, preached in Westminster Abbey on 24 April, 1662, is an excellent example of his style, and a valuable source for Duppa's life and the interregnum. It reveals King had also preached the Garter Day sermon at Windsor in 1661."
Dr. Henry King died on 30 September, 1669, at the bishop's palace, and was buried on 8 October in the south choir aisle of Chichester Cathedral. His son gave his library to Chichester -- and some of his books were found to have belonged to John Donne.
"In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great."
This is the day Carteret officially becomes the Treasurer. As of tomorrow, the royalists need to turn up for work. We shall see ...
Nice of Montagu to add his authority by his presence to this change.
Chancellor Edward Hyde worked closely with members of the Sealed Knot and the Great Trust and Commission (two secret groups of English spies) to gently court the critical "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II. For an explanation of who found favor after the Restoration, and who did not, and why, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Lord Chief Justice John Glynne, MP, was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II. For an understanding of why Glynne found favor after the Restoration, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Bill and Pedro are correct, and Wheatley is wrong. Two different people.
Col. Henry Cromwell was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II. For an understanding of why Cromwell found favor after the Restoration, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
I'd like to know why Oliver favored Richard over Henry, who seems to have had more aptitude for leadership. Maybe the answer is no more complicated than the "first son comes first" culture.
Secretary of State John Thurloe was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II. For an understanding of how amazing it is that Thurloe found favor after the Restoration, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Col. Philip Jones MP was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II. For an understanding of why Jones found favor after the Restoration, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
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About Samuel Edlin
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Rev. Samuel Edlin of Watford (died 1698); graduated Magdalene College in 1657 (cf. his association with Herefordshire; i.59 and ii.139, and with Clement Sankey of Magdalene: iii.58). He took orders in 1662, becoming Rector of Silchester, Hants., in 1667. But there are several families of this name in Westminster around 1660.
About Anne Pepys ('Nan', cousin)
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Anne "Nan" Pepys Hall Fisher, of Littleton, Worcs., daughter of John and Anne Pepys.
Her mother died c. 1660.
She married first ---- Hall, and second, in 1662 ---- Fisher, 'an old Cavalier',
In 1687 Pepys stayed with her in Worcester when accompanying James II on his western progress.
About Tuesday 10 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
'"This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life." -- We see the euphoria of the Restoration begin to be reflected in fashion. Off with thee you rough puritan garments I'll have silk and color now, and much more to come along this line from Samuel and the king in the next few years.'
Pepys has now met the Stuart Brothers a few times, and seen how people dress for business in their presence.
He is assuming a new station in life, and needs to be taken seriously.
His fellow Commissioners are Sirs and Members of Parliament and men of distinction, plus they are about a decade older than him.
I don't put his new wardrobe down to euphoria, Restoration exhuberance, or a desire to wear bright colors (as I just discovered, the silk suit was black) -- I think he's trying to dress for success.
I've done the same thing when venturing into unknown business territory.
It's an investment in self-confidence, and a way of taking care of one thing in my control.
About Tuesday 10 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
SPOILER -- not that it ruins anything:
Dick Wilson asks "I wonder what color this suit was. Any ideas?"
At the top of the page on the right is a search bar. I put "suit" in the top line, and selected "Diary entries", and up came hundreds of mentions for consideration. I scrolled through, looking at every entry dated 1660 or 1661, and BINGO:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"From thence home by water, and there shifted myself into my black silk suit (the first day I have put it on this year), ..."
So, Dick, it was a black silk suit.
About Monday 9 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Did Capt. Holland and Mr. Browne put Pepys under any sort of obligation to them, by feeding him lunch? (...) Or were they trying to ingratiate themselves with a man who might someday send naval contracts their way?"
Since Pepys doesn't tell us what they discussed, it's impossible to answer your question, Dick Wilson. But if I were John Browne of Harwick, and my port had a bad reputation, as it did in 1660, an opportunity to gladhand the new man at the Head Office would be welcome. Apparently Capt. Holland was a mutual connection which is always a good way to start a relationship.
For Harwich's problems in the early days of the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Monday 9 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed."
All morning with the Solicitor General sorting out his bills, a business lunch, all afternoon sitting with the Navy Board making decisions about things he knows nothing about and there is no budget to implement, and then into the office to put these decisions into action, back to the Solicitor's, then off to Whitehall to see what Montagu needs, and thence to bed.
Quite a day, as Colin Gravois said, but if he slept well I think it was from exhaustion, not peace of mind.
Time for Montagu to get a new Clerk!
About Baltic ("The Sound")
San Diego Sarah • Link
For Charles II's initial approach to Adm. Montagu while he was in the Baltic, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
For the parts Richard Cromwell and the "monarchial Cromwellians" played in the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Sir Edward Mountagu ("my Lord," Earl of Sandwich)
San Diego Sarah • Link
The 1659 trip to the Baltic -- what happened to Adm. Edward Montagu:
Personally devoted to the House of Cromwell, Adm. Edward Montagu had made his submission to the new government so plainly contre coeur that it was thought well to keep him at a distance, and for this reason he was joined with the plenipotentiaries, sent to mediate between Denmark and Sweden, and placed in command of the fleet that conducted them to the Sound.
Charles II sent Sir Thomas Whetstone to the Baltic, charged with delivering private offers to the men and officers of the fleet, and with overtures to be made to the Admiral through his cousin, Edward “Ned” Montagu.
Montagu disliked the choice of Whetstone as the messenger, who alarmed him by showing himself freely in the streets of Copenhagen, and although he consented to receive Charles II's letter, he refused to intrust Whetstone with any reply.
Montagu was next visited by his relative, Charles Hatton, to whom Montagu admitted Charles II 'should not want servants in the fleet when opportunity occurred,’ and on August 6, 1659, Montagu wrote to assure Chancellor Hyde of his readiness to embrace the royal cause.
In pursuance of these promises, Adm. Montagu hastened his fleet homeward on the outbreak of the subsequent rising [BOOTH'S].
On September 14, 1659, Montagu and the remains of his fleet arrived in the Channel too late to be of service, whereupon he excused his conduct to the Rump Parliament as best he could, resigned his commission, and retired into the country. 2
2 Carte, Letters, ii. pp. 202, 211; Clarendon, History, xvi. pp. 153-158; Clarendon State Papers, iii. p. 493; Clarendon MSS., Ix. ff. 499, 560; Ixi. ff. 162, 276, 280, 291; Ixii. fol. 114, July 25, 29, 1659; Ixiii. August 6, 1659, Montagu to Hyde. May- July 1659
The collapse of the insurrection was due to the usual causes, and chiefly to the lack of unanimity among its devisors.
From THE TRAVELS OF THE KING Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654-1660
BY EVA SCOTT, AUTHOR OF ‘THE KING IN EXILE'
LONDON - ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LIMITED 1907
Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty
http://archive.org/stream/travels…
About Henry King
San Diego Sarah • Link
He was a man ahead of his times:
The Boy’s answer to the Blackmoor
Black Maid, complain not that I fly,
When Fate commands Antipathy:
Prodigious might that union prove,
Where Night and Day together move,
And the conjunction of our lips
Not kisses make, but an Eclipse;
In which the mixed black and white
Portends more terrour than delight.
Yet if my shadow thou wilt be,
Enjoy thy dearest wish: But see
Thou take my shadowes property,
That hastes away when I come nigh:
Else stay till death hath blinded mee,
And then I will bequeath my self to thee.
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And how dogmatic could someone be who wrote this:
SONNET. To Patience
Down stormy passions, down; no more
Let your rude waves invade the shore
Where blushing reason sits and hides
Her from the fury of your tides.
Fit onely 'tis where you bear sway
That Fools or Franticks do obey;
Since judgment, if it not resists,
Will lose it self in your blind mists.
Fall easie Patience, fall like rest
Whose soft spells charm a troubled breast:
And where those Rebels you espy,
O in your silken cordage tie
Their malice up! so shall I raise
Altars to thank your power, and praise
The soveraign vertue of your Balm,
Which cures a Tempest by a Calm.
Much more poetry at
https://allpoetry.com/Henry-King
About Henry King
San Diego Sarah • Link
Meantime, thou hast her, earth; much good
May my harm do thee. Since it stood
With heaven's will I might not call
Her longer mine, I give thee all
My short-liv'd right and interest
In her whom living I lov'd best;
With a most free and bounteous grief,
I give thee what I could not keep.
Be kind to her, and prithee look
Thou write into thy doomsday book
Each parcel of this rarity
Which in thy casket shrin'd doth lie.
See that thou make thy reck'ning straight,
And yield her back again by weight;
For thou must audit on thy trust
Each grain and atom of this dust,
As thou wilt answer Him that lent,
Not gave thee, my dear monument.
So close the ground, and 'bout her shade
Black curtains draw, my bride is laid.
Sleep on my love in thy cold bed
Never to be disquieted!
My last good-night! Thou wilt not wake
Till I thy fate shall overtake;
Till age, or grief, or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
It so much loves, and fill the room
My heart keeps empty in thy tomb.
Stay for me there, I will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow vale.
And think not much of my delay;
I am already on the way,
And follow thee with all the speed
Desire can make, or sorrows breed.
Each minute is a short degree,
And ev'ry hour a step towards thee.
At night when I betake to rest,
Next morn I rise nearer my west
Of life, almost by eight hours' sail,
Than when sleep breath'd his drowsy gale.
Thus from the sun my bottom steers,
And my day's compass downward bears;
Nor labour I to stem the tide
Through which to thee I swiftly glide.
'Tis true, with shame and grief I yield,
Thou like the van first took'st the field,
And gotten hath the victory
In thus adventuring to die
Before me, whose more years might crave
A just precedence in the grave.
But hark! my pulse like a soft drum
Beats my approach, tells thee I come;
And slow howe'er my marches be,
I shall at last sit down by thee.
The thought of this bids me go on,
And wait my dissolution
With hope and comfort. Dear (forgive
The crime) I am content to live
Divided, with but half a heart,
Till we shall meet and never part.
About Henry King
San Diego Sarah • Link
Rev. Henry King's wife, Anne Berkeley King, died in 1624, aged 24, and was buried in Bishop John King's tomb in St. Paul's on 24 January. King's moving poem, Exequy, on her death is the poem by which he is chiefly remembered.
The Exequy
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,
Instead of dirges, this complaint;
And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,
From thy griev'd friend, whom thou might'st see
Quite melted into tears for thee.
Dear loss! since thy untimely fate
My task hath been to meditate
On thee, on thee; thou art the book,
The library whereon I look,
Though almost blind. For thee (lov'd clay)
I languish out, not live, the day,
Using no other exercise
But what I practise with mine eyes;
By which wet glasses I find out
How lazily time creeps about
To one that mourns; this, only this,
My exercise and bus'ness is.
So I compute the weary hours
With sighs dissolved into showers.
Nor wonder if my time go thus
Backward and most preposterous;
Thou hast benighted me; thy set
This eve of blackness did beget,
Who wast my day (though overcast
Before thou hadst thy noon-tide past)
And I remember must in tears,
Thou scarce hadst seen so many years
As day tells hours. By thy clear sun
My love and fortune first did run;
But thou wilt never more appear
Folded within my hemisphere,
Since both thy light and mot{"i}on
Like a fled star is fall'n and gone;
And 'twixt me and my soul's dear wish
An earth now interposed is,
Which such a strange eclipse doth make
As ne'er was read in almanac.
I could allow thee for a time
To darken me and my sad clime;
Were it a month, a year, or ten,
I would thy exile live till then,
And all that space my mirth adjourn,
So thou wouldst promise to return,
And putting off thy ashy shroud,
At length disperse this sorrow's cloud.
But woe is me! the longest date
Too narrow is to calculate
These empty hopes; never shall I
Be so much blest as to descry
A glimpse of thee, till that day come
Which shall the earth to cinders doom,
And a fierce fever must calcine
The body of this world like thine,
(My little world!). That fit of fire
Once off, our bodies shall aspire
To our souls' bliss; then we shall rise
And view ourselves with clearer eyes
In that calm region where no night
Can hide us from each other's sight.
About Sunday 8 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
Bishop Henry King's ODNB entry shows that he never shied away from having opinions, and taking risks.
He travelled through England ordaining clerics during the Interregnum with Bishop Brian Duppa, so he was no coward.
In 1655, Charles II invited him to join the Court in exile, and recognized his contributions to the survival of the Church of England by offering him the See of York at the Restoration -- but King preferred to make peace with his flock in Chichester.
So I can understand Bishop King being very welcoming / flattering to Charles, and encouraging him from the pulpit to promote Anglicanism (if that's what he did -- maybe he encouraged Charles to be the peacemaker by accepting all denominations -- we don't know what he said that Pepys considered to be meddling).
I think you're correct that Pepys is looking for leadership and vision through the huge transition the nation has undertaken.
I suspect his views were much like Montagu's "... I found him to be a perfect sceptic, and [he] said that all things would not be well while there was so much preaching, and that it would be better if nothing but homilies were to be read in churches."
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Montagu favored uniformity, just as he favored a monarchy, because his experience was that monarchies and uniformity are conducive to an ordered society. And I suspect the exhausted people of England, as well as Pepys, were in favor of that. Anything for a peaceful life.
Bishop King had a point-of-view; Pepys wanted a homily. Charles was subjected to years of that sort of preaching and meddling. I don't think he was swayed by much of it -- perhaps it would have worked out better if he had been? He was a bit of a passive-agressive personality who figured out what he wanted to do and did it, and told people what they needed to know in order for them to agree with him.
HOMILY -- a religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification rather than doctrinal instruction; a sermon. --
Synonyms of homily
1: a usually short sermon
a priest delivering his homily
2: a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme
3: an inspirational catchphrase
also: PLATITUDE
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About Henry King
San Diego Sarah • Link
Bishop Henry King of Rochester (1592 – 1669), a poet and inspired preacher, is one of the biographies currently (for how long, who knows) available on the ODNB website:
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He was a friend of John Donne and Izaac Walton's. As the Dean of Rochester in 1640, he was wealthy enough to build a new Dean's House -- he was a widower with young children, so that could have been enlightened self-interest.
In 1641 he was made Bishop of Chichester, and lived in the palace until the the siege of December 1642, when he fled (not, as reported, taken prisoner) first to Petworth, then to Albury, where he began living with relatives.
Dr. Henry King drew up his will in 1653 when he was engaged with former bishop Brian Duppa in travelling the country ordaining men according to the rite of the forbidden Book of Common Prayer.
About 1655, when few bishops remained alive, it was proposed that Dr. Henry King should cross with one other to the continent for fresh consecrations, but none would accompany him.
Charles II proposed making him Archbishop of York, but King chose to go back to Rochester and "his visitation sermon, 8 October, 1662, shows how sensitively he dealt with the jarring factions among his clergy, 'laying controversies asleep and silencing disputes'.
"Dr. Henry King's preaching was much esteemed and imitated in his day. Bishop Brian Duppa's funeral sermon, preached in Westminster Abbey on 24 April, 1662, is an excellent example of his style, and a valuable source for Duppa's life and the interregnum. It reveals King had also preached the Garter Day sermon at Windsor in 1661."
Dr. Henry King died on 30 September, 1669, at the bishop's palace, and was buried on 8 October in the south choir aisle of Chichester Cathedral. His son gave his library to Chichester -- and some of his books were found to have belonged to John Donne.
About Whitehall Chapel
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And for information about the first organ at Whitehall Chapel, installed by July 1660, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The annotation directly above refers to the more permanent installation of 1662,
About Friday 6 July 1660
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"In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great."
This is the day Carteret officially becomes the Treasurer. As of tomorrow, the royalists need to turn up for work. We shall see ...
Nice of Montagu to add his authority by his presence to this change.
About Sir Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor 1658-67)
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Chancellor Edward Hyde worked closely with members of the Sealed Knot and the Great Trust and Commission (two secret groups of English spies) to gently court the critical "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II.
For an explanation of who found favor after the Restoration, and who did not, and why, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Sir John Glynne
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Lord Chief Justice John Glynne, MP, was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II.
For an understanding of why Glynne found favor after the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Henry Cromwell
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Bill and Pedro are correct, and Wheatley is wrong. Two different people.
Col. Henry Cromwell was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II.
For an understanding of why Cromwell found favor after the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
I'd like to know why Oliver favored Richard over Henry, who seems to have had more aptitude for leadership. Maybe the answer is no more complicated than the "first son comes first" culture.
About John Thurloe
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Secretary of State John Thurloe was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II.
For an understanding of how amazing it is that Thurloe found favor after the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
About Col. Philip Jones
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Col. Philip Jones MP was one of the critical and influential "monarchical Cromwellians" who, in 1659, Hyde believed could be influenced into supporting the restoration of Charles II.
For an understanding of why Jones found favor after the Restoration, see
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…