On my recent trip to London I visited St. Paul's in Covent Garden. Sadly Symon Patrick is forgotten there today as well. I intend to send "Symon Patrick (1626-1707) and His Contribution to the Post-1660 Restored Church of England" to the rector when I've finished it, and suggest they create a memorial to him as I'm sure other Pepys' followers will also make such a pilgrimage. The church and the gardens are lovely, and the outreach to the current inhabitants sincere.
More on 17th century solutions to the organization of complex paperwork.
Ann Blair has written “Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age” to address the problem Early Modern scholars like Samuel Hartlib faced with how to manage and store the great quantities of information they collected.261 261 Ann M. Blair. Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
Patricia Coughlan also examined Hartlib’s need to organize large amounts of information. She wrote, “The idea of a tabulation of information is a further step towards executing the impulse to order the natural and social phenomena of the universe according to rational principles, to control and organize one’s apprehension of, and manner of living in, the natural world.”262 262 Patricia Coughlan. “Natural History and Historical Nature: The Project for A Natural History of Ireland” in Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 307.
The Hartlib Papers refer to a “catalog” 239 times as Hartlib and his correspondents struggled to organize their letters and referred to the collections of others. Without the benefit of computers or even file cabinets, these catalogs usually ended up being some system of bundling with labels and corresponding indices.
Almost all of the Hartlib papers show Samuel Hartlib’s handwriting as he labeled each letter with the topics he wanted to remember as those discussed in that particular letter. He made similar topical notations beneath each journal entry. This was part of his method of indexing and indicates some form of cataloging was in place.
Hartlib wanted catalogs of the libraries of others when the resource was too large to secure a copy of the entire collection.
Laurence Sarson placed an order in 1644, “you should much oblige me by accommodating me with a catalogue of them,” referring to some Hebrew books left at Hartlib’s house. ...
Hartlib often asked for catalogs of various persons’ personal libraries. In some instances this allowed him to purchase these same libraries, knowing the content, when he heard the owner has passed away.
Hartlib saw the value of catalogs since they opened hidden works and gave access to others who might have found them useful. Catalogs were small, handy inventories of large collections ...
EXCERPTED FROM: PLEASURE, HONOR, AND PROFIT: SAMUEL HARTLIB IN HIS PAPERS, 1620-1662 By TIMOTHY E. MILLER Under the Direction of Nicholas Wilding, PhD A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2015 https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/…
The Stuart brothers loved to hunt -- but you can only eat so much venison before it goes bad, even at Court. Culling the herd was therefore both a chore and a pleasure. The sharing of food when you have too much was a common courtesy, and you'll be amazed at the variety of foods people send over for Pepys' consumption in the next few years. He's already received an anonymous bar of chocolate: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain’s secretary, ... He told me how he had a project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by bringing all business into our hands."
Richard Coling has a good idea -- I wonder if Pepys was listening.
While we are discussing etiquette, Pepys' life has made him aware of “The Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” a 110 point code of conduct which was based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"... but, Lord! how sicke was I of W. Joyce’s company, both the impertinencies of it and his ill manners before me at my table to his wife, which I could hardly forbear taking notice of; ..."
Pepys' life has made him aware of “The Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” a 110 point code of conduct which was based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, but Will Joyce missed them apparently. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Carried these and the money by coach to my Lord’s at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas’s plate to his house and left it there, intending to speak with him anon."
At the restoration Nicholas returned to England with Charles II, and in June 1660 was granted lodgings in Whitehall (Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. vii. 26). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ni…
So Pepys didn't have to carry all that plate very far.
"I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer’s of the Navy, with whom I spake about the business of my office, ... At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, ..."
In this case I believe the Treasurer of the Navy referred to is: 1651 Hutchinson, Richard Appointed by parliament. Gt. 1 Jan. 1651 (AO 1/1707/94); accounted to 7 July 1660 (AO 1/1710/101). http://www.history.ac.uk/office/n…
All of Carteret's lodgings are close to Whitehall or in Deptford. Hutchinson's Navy office was adjacent to Seething Lane.
From Carteret's Parliamentary biography: at the Restoration:
"In 1649 Charles wrote to Carteret, promising never to forget his good services, and he appears to have kept his word. He ‘had the honour to hold the last sword for the King’; it was not until December 1651 that the Commonwealth forces were able to subdue Jersey, and then only by granting Carteret generous terms. He was not required to compound for his privateering gains, and took service in the French navy until Mazarin’s alliance with Cromwell, when he was briefly sent to the Bastille.
"After the death of the Protector he resumed contact with the exiled Court, signing his letters, mischievously, with the name of the author of Eikonoklastes.
"Carteret had not been impoverished by his loyalty. At his own computation he was worth £50,000 at the Restoration, including his claims for reimbursement, for which provision was at once made by means of crown leases in Devon and elsewhere. Together with Daniel O’Neill he farmed the duty on French shipping at an annual rent of £1,000. He was made vice-chamberlain, treasurer of the navy, and a Privy Councillor.
"In his administrative capacities his loyalty, industry and integrity were beyond cavil, even his adversary William Coventry said ‘he is a man that doth take the most pains, and gives himself the most to do business of any man about the Court, without any desire of pleasure or divertisements’.
"Essentially a family man, he was disgusted by ‘the baseness and looseness of the Court’ to the point of reminding his former guest of ‘the necessity of having at least a show of religion in the government, and sobriety’.
"Lord Chancellor Clarendon declared Carteret was ‘a punctual officer and a good accountant’; but Pepys found his ignorance in financial matters perverse and ridiculous, complaining that he argued ‘like a mad coxcomb, without reason or method’. ‘ ... it was always his humour to have things done his way’, and his accounts were so idiosyncratic that no audit was possible. On such occasions he took care to provide the navy board with an excellent dinner to lubricate proceedings.
"At the election of 1661 Carteret was returned for Portsmouth on the Admiralty interest. An inactive Member of the Cavalier Parliament, ... during the administration of Clarendon, whose great confidant he was."
L&M: The Treasurer (the best paid of the Principal Officers of the Navy) received a fixed stipend of £2,000 p.a. in 1660-2. After 1663 it was by the more lucrative method of fees, allowances and poundage. After 1668 a salary was paid.
Carteret, … had official lodgings at Whitehall, a house in Pall Mall, an official residence at Deptford and a country mansion near Windsor, ... http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Going ashore was an act of courage, as there had been at least one attempt on Charles II's life recently. Who knew what reception awaited the Stuart brothers on the beach ... Generals Monck and Montagu had probably stationed trustworthy men in the crowd, but we all know what a lone gunman can do.
"My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution." -- George Washington (30 days before his first inauguration). I suspect Charles II shared this sense of foreboding.
"At night supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid pretty well again."
Pepys is still enjoying his elevation in life -- not taking things for granted increases the pleasure.
It sounds to me as if Jane Birch had a sprained ankle, and stayed in bed -- with it consequently elevated -- for a few days. Easy to do when the stairs are not consistently spaced, and you're dealing with long skirts and heavy things like buckets of water.
A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31, 1660. From a MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys’ handwriting:
His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. Sir William Batten, Surveyor. Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. Commissioners: John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton), Sir William Penn, Peter Pett, Esq. — B,
Hartlib is said to be an invisible man because he disappeared from academic and popular consciousness for most of 300 years. He also maintains a mysterious quality because so many historians of the 17th century disagree about who and what he was. He was not a scholar in the traditional sense. He does not appear to have earned a university degree, he held no paid position in the academy, church, or government, and he never published a systematic body of knowledge. On the other hand, he was educated, founded a school, and was considered an authority by those who had degrees, held positions in the church and government, and published systematic bodies of knowledge.
To bring this invisible man into view, it is important to understand his context; cultural, political, religious, and social, and his person.
And the thesis, which relies heavily on Hartlib's surviving papers, does exactly that.
I also found "PLEASURE, HONOR, AND PROFIT: SAMUEL HARTLIB IN HIS PAPERS, 1620-1662" by TIMOTHY E. MILLER Under the Direction of Nicholas Wilding, PhD
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2015 https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/…
Apparently Samuel Hartlib was closely identified with the Puritan regime, so when the Restoration happened, his fellow academics (many of whom founded the Royal Society) focused on their own survival, and Hartlib became an outcast.
After his death, Hartlib’s collection of over 25,000 manuscripts were purchased by his friend, the Royalist Politician William, Viscount Brereton (1631-1680), and taken to the family’s Cheshire estate, Brereton Hall.
His servant, Worthington, “put them into order.” When finished, Worthington stored them in 2 trunks and placed them in a closet. They were later sold by Brereton.
Many of the Papers were intentionally taken out of the collection while they were under Worthington’s care. Only one of Brereton’s letters remains in the Hartlib Papers. Brereton’s books were sold in 1697 and there is no reference to Hartlib in the catalogue. Interested parties were given the opportunity by Worthington to take papers out of the Hartlib collection before those papers were sold.
“Seth Ward gave Worthington permission to leave amongst Hartlib’s papers, or to burn, or to bring to him, the letters which he had written to Hartlib; and there is not one of them in the box.”
What happened? Did he burn them or give them to Ward? Others are obviously missing such as all of those letters to and from Nathaniel Ingelo and Milton. Probably most of the dispersals were “innocent,” but some were “probably designed to manipulate the historical record.”
No one knows who bought them, or where the collection was for the next 271 years, when they were retrieved from Birch, Cullimore & Co. of Chester, solicitors for the Delamere family (also of Chester, 20 miles west of Brereton House).
Little is known about the Delameres in relation to the Papers but there was a Delamer House which survived until 1933 when the last George Wilbraham tore it down, which could explain why the papers surfaced when they did.
Also, some correspondence was lost, according to Hartlib, to accidents in his home in 1661 and 1662. The first incident seems to have been caused by Hartlib’s secretary who “suffered distraction or embezzlement,” and the second by a fire in Hartlib’s study which may have also been the fault of a secretary.
Hartlib wrote, “afflicted in mind by reason of that lamentable fire that broke out in my study.” There is no way of knowing how many papers were lost. The papers found at the solicitors are only those which survived the 271 years of storage, during which more of them may have been lost.
Vincent's link to the Hartlib Papers is dead, but I found the new one:
Samuel Hartlib (1600-62), a great 17th-century 'intelligencer' and man of science, set out to record all human knowledge and make it universally available for the education of all mankind. His correspondence, which runs to over 25,000 folios of original materials, came to the University [of Sheffield] Library in the 1960s. The full-text electronic edition realises Hartlib's vision some 300 years later.
The project's objective was to create a complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 17th-century manuscripts. ... This new, online edition provides free access to all the content previouslu available on CD-ROMs. https://www.dhi.ac.uk/hartlib/
L&M: THE CRISP FAMILY: There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps. Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs. Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention. Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.
L&M: THE CRISP FAMILY: There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps. Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs. Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention. Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.
L&M: THE CRISP FAMILY: There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps. Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs. Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention. Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.
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Third Reading
About Saturday 21 December 1667
San Diego Sarah • Link
On my recent trip to London I visited St. Paul's in Covent Garden. Sadly Symon Patrick is forgotten there today as well. I intend to send "Symon Patrick (1626-1707) and His Contribution to the Post-1660 Restored Church of England" to the rector when I've finished it, and suggest they create a memorial to him as I'm sure other Pepys' followers will also make such a pilgrimage. The church and the gardens are lovely, and the outreach to the current inhabitants sincere.
About Saturday 15 February 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
More on 17th century solutions to the organization of complex paperwork.
Ann Blair has written “Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age” to address the problem Early Modern scholars like Samuel Hartlib faced with how to manage and store the great quantities of information they collected.261
261 Ann M. Blair. Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
Patricia Coughlan also examined Hartlib’s need to organize large amounts of information. She wrote, “The idea of a tabulation of information is a further step towards executing the impulse to order the natural and social phenomena of the universe according to rational principles, to control and organize one’s apprehension of, and manner of living in, the natural world.”262
262 Patricia Coughlan. “Natural History and Historical Nature: The Project for A Natural History of Ireland” in Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 307.
The Hartlib Papers refer to a “catalog” 239 times as Hartlib and his correspondents struggled to organize their letters and referred to the collections of others. Without the benefit of computers or even file cabinets, these catalogs usually ended up being some system of bundling with labels and corresponding indices.
Almost all of the Hartlib papers show Samuel Hartlib’s handwriting as he labeled each letter with the topics he wanted to remember as those discussed in that particular letter. He made similar topical notations beneath each journal entry. This was part of his method of indexing and indicates some form of cataloging was in place.
Hartlib wanted catalogs of the libraries of others when the resource was too large to secure a copy of the entire collection.
Laurence Sarson placed an order in 1644, “you should much oblige me by accommodating me with a catalogue of them,” referring to some Hebrew books left at Hartlib’s house. ...
Hartlib often asked for catalogs of various persons’ personal libraries. In some instances this allowed him to purchase these same libraries, knowing the content, when he heard the owner has passed away.
Hartlib saw the value of catalogs since they opened hidden works and gave access to others who might have found them useful. Catalogs were small, handy inventories of large collections ...
EXCERPTED FROM: PLEASURE, HONOR, AND PROFIT: SAMUEL HARTLIB IN HIS PAPERS, 1620-1662
By TIMOTHY E. MILLER Under the Direction of Nicholas Wilding, PhD
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2015
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/…
About Thursday 5 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Stuart brothers loved to hunt -- but you can only eat so much venison before it goes bad, even at Court. Culling the herd was therefore both a chore and a pleasure.
The sharing of food when you have too much was a common courtesy, and you'll be amazed at the variety of foods people send over for Pepys' consumption in the next few years.
He's already received an anonymous bar of chocolate:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 4 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Wiki article is hilarious, Neil -- I'll try to live up to Daniel of Beccles' expectations!!!
As a horse rider in my youth, I never heard of the requirement to loosen the reins when riding over a bridge. Anyone got any suggestions?
About Thursday 5 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain’s secretary, ... He told me how he had a project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by bringing all business into our hands."
Richard Coling has a good idea -- I wonder if Pepys was listening.
About Serving food
San Diego Sarah • Link
While we are discussing etiquette, Pepys' life has made him aware of “The Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” a 110 point code of conduct which was based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Sunday 10 June 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... but, Lord! how sicke was I of W. Joyce’s company, both the impertinencies of it and his ill manners before me at my table to his wife, which I could hardly forbear taking notice of; ..."
Pepys' life has made him aware of “The Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” a 110 point code of conduct which was based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, but Will Joyce missed them apparently.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 4 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Carried these and the money by coach to my Lord’s at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas’s plate to his house and left it there, intending to speak with him anon."
At the restoration Nicholas returned to England with Charles II, and in June 1660 was granted lodgings in Whitehall (Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. vii. 26).
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ni…
So Pepys didn't have to carry all that plate very far.
About Wednesday 4 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer’s of the Navy, with whom I spake about the business of my office, ... At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, ..."
In this case I believe the Treasurer of the Navy referred to is:
1651 Hutchinson, Richard Appointed by parliament.
Gt. 1 Jan. 1651 (AO 1/1707/94); accounted to 7 July 1660 (AO 1/1710/101).
http://www.history.ac.uk/office/n…
All of Carteret's lodgings are close to Whitehall or in Deptford. Hutchinson's Navy office was adjacent to Seething Lane.
About Sir George Carteret (Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70)
San Diego Sarah • Link
From Carteret's Parliamentary biography: at the Restoration:
"In 1649 Charles wrote to Carteret, promising never to forget his good services, and he appears to have kept his word. He ‘had the honour to hold the last sword for the King’; it was not until December 1651 that the Commonwealth forces were able to subdue Jersey, and then only by granting Carteret generous terms. He was not required to compound for his privateering gains, and took service in the French navy until Mazarin’s alliance with Cromwell, when he was briefly sent to the Bastille.
"After the death of the Protector he resumed contact with the exiled Court, signing his letters, mischievously, with the name of the author of Eikonoklastes.
"Carteret had not been impoverished by his loyalty. At his own computation he was worth £50,000 at the Restoration, including his claims for reimbursement, for which provision was at once made by means of crown leases in Devon and elsewhere. Together with Daniel O’Neill he farmed the duty on French shipping at an annual rent of £1,000. He was made vice-chamberlain, treasurer of the navy, and a Privy Councillor.
"In his administrative capacities his loyalty, industry and integrity were beyond cavil, even his adversary William Coventry said ‘he is a man that doth take the most pains, and gives himself the most to do business of any man about the Court, without any desire of pleasure or divertisements’.
"Essentially a family man, he was disgusted by ‘the baseness and looseness of the Court’ to the point of reminding his former guest of ‘the necessity of having at least a show of religion in the government, and sobriety’.
"Lord Chancellor Clarendon declared Carteret was ‘a punctual officer and a good accountant’; but Pepys found his ignorance in financial matters perverse and ridiculous, complaining that he argued ‘like a mad coxcomb, without reason or method’. ‘ ... it was always his humour to have things done his way’, and his accounts were so idiosyncratic that no audit was possible. On such occasions he took care to provide the navy board with an excellent dinner to lubricate proceedings.
"At the election of 1661 Carteret was returned for Portsmouth on the Admiralty interest. An inactive Member of the Cavalier Parliament, ... during the administration of Clarendon, whose great confidant he was."
NOTE: Carteret's bio also says he does not become Treasurer of the Navy until July, 1660.
http://www.historyofparliamentonl…
L&M: The Treasurer (the best paid of the Principal Officers of the Navy) received a fixed stipend of £2,000 p.a. in 1660-2. After 1663 it was by the more lucrative method of fees, allowances and poundage. After 1668 a salary was paid.
Carteret, … had official lodgings at Whitehall, a house in Pall Mall, an official residence at Deptford and a country mansion near Windsor, ... http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Friday 25 May 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
Going ashore was an act of courage, as there had been at least one attempt on Charles II's life recently. Who knew what reception awaited the Stuart brothers on the beach ... Generals Monck and Montagu had probably stationed trustworthy men in the crowd, but we all know what a lone gunman can do.
"My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution." -- George Washington (30 days before his first inauguration). I suspect Charles II shared this sense of foreboding.
About Monday 2 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
Names, Rev. Ralph -- we need names!!!
Who knew the "the bonds of iniquity" existed in Earls Colne.
About Monday 2 July 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"At night supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid pretty well again."
Pepys is still enjoying his elevation in life -- not taking things for granted increases the pleasure.
It sounds to me as if Jane Birch had a sprained ankle, and stayed in bed -- with it consequently elevated -- for a few days. Easy to do when the stairs are not consistently spaced, and you're dealing with long skirts and heavy things like buckets of water.
About Thursday 31 May 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
"All the morning making orders."
A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31, 1660. From a MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys’ handwriting:
His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral.
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer.
Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller.
Sir William Batten, Surveyor.
Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts.
Commissioners: John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton), Sir William Penn, Peter Pett, Esq. — B,
About Samuel Hartlib (sen.)
San Diego Sarah • Link
PART 2
Hartlib is said to be an invisible man because he disappeared from academic and popular consciousness for most of 300 years.
He also maintains a mysterious quality because so many historians of the 17th century disagree about who and what he was.
He was not a scholar in the traditional sense. He does not appear to have earned a university degree, he held no paid position in the academy, church, or government, and he never published a systematic body of knowledge.
On the other hand, he was educated, founded a school, and was considered an authority by those who had degrees, held positions in the church and government, and published systematic bodies of knowledge.
To bring this invisible man into view, it is important to understand his context; cultural, political, religious, and social, and his person.
And the thesis, which relies heavily on Hartlib's surviving papers, does exactly that.
About Samuel Hartlib (sen.)
San Diego Sarah • Link
I also found
"PLEASURE, HONOR, AND PROFIT: SAMUEL HARTLIB IN HIS PAPERS, 1620-1662"
by
TIMOTHY E. MILLER Under the Direction of Nicholas Wilding, PhD
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences Georgia State University 2015
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/…
Apparently Samuel Hartlib was closely identified with the Puritan regime, so when the Restoration happened, his fellow academics (many of whom founded the Royal Society) focused on their own survival, and Hartlib became an outcast.
After his death, Hartlib’s collection of over 25,000 manuscripts were purchased by his friend, the Royalist Politician William, Viscount Brereton (1631-1680), and taken to the family’s Cheshire estate, Brereton Hall.
His servant, Worthington, “put them into order.” When finished, Worthington stored them in 2 trunks and placed them in a closet. They were later sold by Brereton.
Many of the Papers were intentionally taken out of the collection while they were under Worthington’s care.
Only one of Brereton’s letters remains in the Hartlib Papers.
Brereton’s books were sold in 1697 and there is no reference to Hartlib in the catalogue. Interested parties were given the opportunity by Worthington to take papers out of the Hartlib collection before those papers were sold.
“Seth Ward gave Worthington permission to leave amongst Hartlib’s papers, or to burn, or to bring to him, the letters which he had written to Hartlib; and there is not one of them in the box.”
What happened? Did he burn them or give them to Ward? Others are obviously missing such as all of those letters to and from Nathaniel Ingelo and Milton. Probably most of the dispersals were “innocent,” but some were “probably designed to manipulate the historical record.”
No one knows who bought them, or where the collection was for the next 271 years, when they were retrieved from Birch, Cullimore & Co. of Chester, solicitors for the Delamere family (also of Chester, 20 miles west of Brereton House).
Little is known about the Delameres in relation to the Papers but there was a Delamer House which survived until 1933 when the last George Wilbraham tore it down, which could explain why the papers surfaced when they did.
Also, some correspondence was lost, according to Hartlib, to accidents in his home in 1661 and 1662.
The first incident seems to have been caused by Hartlib’s secretary who “suffered distraction or embezzlement,” and the second by a fire in Hartlib’s study which may have also been the fault of a secretary.
Hartlib wrote, “afflicted in mind by reason of that lamentable fire that broke out in my study.”
There is no way of knowing how many papers were lost.
The papers found at the solicitors are only those which survived the 271 years of storage, during which more of them may have been lost.
About Samuel Hartlib (sen.)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Vincent's link to the Hartlib Papers is dead, but I found the new one:
Samuel Hartlib (1600-62), a great 17th-century 'intelligencer' and man of science, set out to record all human knowledge and make it universally available for the education of all mankind.
His correspondence, which runs to over 25,000 folios of original materials, came to the University [of Sheffield] Library in the 1960s. The full-text electronic edition realises Hartlib's vision some 300 years later.
The project's objective was to create a complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 17th-century manuscripts. ...
This new, online edition provides free access to all the content previouslu available on CD-ROMs.
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/hartlib/
About Diana Crisp
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: THE CRISP FAMILY:
There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps.
Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs.
Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention.
Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.
About Laud Crisp
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: THE CRISP FAMILY:
There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps.
Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs.
Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention.
Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.
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There are several families in Westminster in 1660 named Crisp or Cripps.
Mrs. Crisp, Pepys' friend and neighbor, lives in the s-w corner of Axe Yard, in a roomy house (taxed on 8 hearths), next door to the Hartlibs.
Her daughter, Diana, caught Pepys' attention.
Her son, Laud, by 1663 was an officer at the King's Wardrobe; he then petitioned for a place as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal -- Pepys admired his voice -- but his name does not appear in the establishment lists of that time. In 1667 he was still at the King's Wardrobe.