I, for one, am happy that none of the plans to rebuild London as an open city with straight boulevards and open vistas happened. Partly it's because there is a history and an attachment to our past represented in every street name. And partly because I like the anarchy of it all.
Today I found this article on how the French kings used geometry in architecture and garden design to reinforce the importance of the monarchy. Apparently, design creates a false sense of security and order in our primitive minds.
Nice picture of Versailles and the Tuileries gardens as designed by Louis XIV ... he wrote instructions about where people had to stand in order to see the best view/not upset his design.
The route from London to Huntingdon is still based on the Roman Ermine Street, which my father called "the Old North Road":
Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate, where one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London was located. From here it runs north up Norton Folgate, Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington Road and Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham, Edmonton and Eastern Enfield (Ponders End, Enfield Highway, Enfield Wash and Freezywater) to Royston. This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10. At this point it crosses another Roman road, the Icknield Way. From Royston, the route was formerly the A14 to the A1, but is now the A1198 to Godmanchester (Durovigutum). Ignoring bypasses and modern diversions, the road through Huntingdon to the Alconbury junction on the A1 roughly follows the route.
When the rain falls on Spitalfields, dripping off the roofs and splashing onto the pavements, filling the gutters and coursing down the pipes, it overflows the culverts and drains to restore the flow of the Black Ditch, the notorious lost river of Spitalfields that once flowed from here to Limehouse Dock.
This was the watercourse that transmitted the cholera in 1832. An open sewer piped off in the 19th century, the Black Ditch has been co-opted into the drainage system today, but it is still running unrecognized beneath Spitalfields – an underground river with a very bad reputation.
How interesting Elizabeth was buying lace today, it being St. Audrey's Day:
In The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.278, the shepherdess, Mopsa, says, as a straight-line for the shepherd-clown: “Come you promis'd me a tawdry-lace, and a paire of sweet Gloves.”
“Tawdry” was the common pronunciation of “St. Audrey”. Tawdry-lace referred to lace bought at the annual medieval fair of St. Audrey, on October 17 in Ely. The fair was known as a place to buy gaudy knick-knacks and gewgaws in which unsophisticated country folk delighted.
“Sweet gloves” was the common term for perfumed gloves, and gloves were special gifts as we have heard before.
These lines were written 80 years before Pepys, of course. But old traditions lived on, even subconsciously.
“At the Fair of St. Audry, at Ely, in former times, toys of all sorts were sold, and a description of cheap necklaces, which under the denomination of ‘tawdry laces’, long enjoyed great celebrity.” -- Chambers' Book of Days (October 17).
Nicely said, James. You take control of what you can. Cleaning and moving furniture is one way women deal with stress. I'm sure the Pepys' maids have been happy to mop soot these last few days. The alternative was so horrific -- as is our 11 year deadline.
"... Michael Honywood, D.D., was rector of Kegworth, co. Leicester, and seeking refuge at Utrecht during the Rebellion, ..."
Inland Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until it was overtaken by the port city of Amsterdam during the 17th century, in the Dutch golden age of trade and advances in science, art and military power. Oud-Amelisweerd Palace and Castle Duurstede are both near Utrecht.
"... in our way seeing the Duke of York bring his Lady this day to wait upon the Queen, the first time that ever she did since that great business; and the Queen is said to receive her now with much respect and love; ..."
On New Year's Day, 1661, Anne Hyde, the clandestine bride of James, Duke of York, was formally received at court. Rupert and Edward dined with the rest of the Royal family, in public; and on this occasion there was a most unseemly contest between the Roman chaplain of Queen Mother Henrietta Maria, and the Anglican chaplain of Charles II, for the honor of saying grace. In struggling through the crowd assembled to see the King dine, the Anglican priest fell down, and the Roman gained the table first and said grace. His victory was greeted by the disorderly courtiers with shouts of laughter. "The King's chaplain and the Queen's priest ran a race to say grace," they declared, "and the chaplain was floored, and the priest won."[8]
[8] Strickland's Henrietta Maria, Queens of England, VIII. p. 232. From MSS. of Père Cyprian Gamache.
Excerpted from Rupert, Prince Palatine by EVA SCOTT Late Scholar of Somerville College, Oxford WESTMINSTER -- ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & Co. NEW YORK -- G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1900 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/ep…
Exactly, Deep Thought ... let's see what his symptoms are next March before we diagnose him. That's the P in PTSD - POST traumatic stress disorder. What we are seeing here is current.
Pepys seems quite good about self-care ... eating regularly, and takes time for his hobbies (singing, girl friends, outings with Elizabeth for supper, reading and star gazing). More fresh veggies and some regular exercise would be good.
"... Mr. Wayth and I eat a bit of victuals in my old closet, now my little dining-room, which makes a pretty room, ..."
Two dining rooms? I suppose "confidential" lunches in the big dining room are too easy for miscellaneous people to include themselves in. And now Elizabeth can have her ladies and painters to lunch in style, and Pepys and his co-conspirators don't have to curb their conversation, or politely sit for hours when they need to be away on the King's business. Poor maids running up and down stairs with all these additional bowls of food.
"He and I to discourse about our accounts, and the bringing them to the Parliament, and with much content to see him rely so well on my part."
Coventry is preparing for an official Parliamentary hearing at Westminster. Do we have access to a copy of Pepys' report? It must have been enormous to document all the expenditures and over-runs in the last year.
"That the Parliament is likely to fall foul upon some persons; and, among others, on the Vice-chamberlaine, though we both believe with little ground."
Any guesses on who the Vice Chamberlain might be?
How nice to be able to answer my own question:
Sir George Carteret (Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70)
And, as Pepys says, it's hard to think of what grounds Sir George could be charged with. He's just old and influential, and the young bucks want to take charge, which cannot be grounds for censure.
Wood entered the household of Prince Charles as a child.
He was knighted at Oxford during the Civil War, when he was acting as clerk-comptroller of the green cloth and chosen to accompany Queen Henrietta Maria to France as her treasurer and receiver-general.
He spent most of the Interregnum in Paris, although in 1649 he compounded for his delinquency as a Royalist with a fine of £273. He was in Paris in November 1651 when he married his second wife, Mary Gardiner, a maid of honor to the queen mother.
Nevertheless, during the Interregnum Wood was able to expand his Suffolk estate.
At the Restoration Wood offered Sir Edward Hyde £500 to be continued as clerk comptroller. He was soon promoted to clerk of the green cloth, and granted the valuable manor of Tottenham Court at an annual rent of £66 13s. 4d.
At the general election of 1661 he failed to be returned, but after the death of Phineas Andrews MP in September 1661, which created a vacancy at Hythe, he succeeded in entering Parliament after running unopposed. But he refused to visit Hythe, so finally commissioners were sent to London to swear him in.
He was an inactive Member of the Cavalier Parliament.
With his experience in Queen Mother Henrietta Maria’s household, Sir Henry Wood, 1st Bart. was selected to fetch Catherine of Braganza from Portugal.
On his return with the new queen consort in May 1662, James Butler, Duke of Ormonde wrote to Charles II that ‘he is universally cursed and as universally curses all volunteer eaters’.
His unpopularity continued. His attempts to economize in the Household provoked Sir Herbert Price to urge Ormonde to return to England ‘to defend us against this mad dog’.
His appearance was odd, his conduct eccentric, and he did not often address the House. But on 25 Nov. 1664 he was determined to present a petition from Sir Henry Chester about the Bedfordshire election. He refused to give way to Lord Cramond, Thomas Richardson, and, according to Thomas Clifford: "the novelty of Sir Henry Wood’s standing up carried it against my lord, and he made as methodical and as rational a discourse as the matter could bear."
Andrew Marvell described him as one of the government whips in the excise debate: “Then damning cowards ranged the vocal plain, Wood these commands, knight of the horn and cane, Still his hook-shoulder seems the blow to dread, And under’s armpit he defends his head. The posture strange men laughed at, of his poll Hid with his elbow like the spice he stole. Headless St. Denis so his head does bear, And both of them alike French martyrs were.”
On 15 October, 1651 after taking a tortuous and often fraught route across southern England, Charles II reached the coast at Brighton.
The ship chosen to receive him was the collier Surprise, about 34 tons, 42 feet long and 30 feet broad. Her captain and owner, Nicholas Tattersell or Tattersall, had already agreed to take an unnamed passenger and his attendants across to France, but when he met the party and recognized the King, he was furious at being exposed to such danger. Delicate negotiation followed, and Tattersell eventually agreed to make the voyage in return for a further £200.
The Surprise duly crossed the Channel, and on 16 October, 1651 Charles II landed at Fecamp.
When the monarchy was restored in 1660, Charles II promptly bought the Surprise from Tattersell and renamed her the Royal Escape. The King had her moored in the Thames off Whitehall Palace, and showed her off to important visitors. Perhaps she was also a reminder of the potential insecurity of his position, or of God’s providence in preserving his life (or both).
As for Nicholas Tattersell, Charles II treated him with considerable generosity.
Charles commissioned him as captain of the frigate Sorlings on 25 July 1660 , then promoted him to captain of the powerful Third Rate man-of-war Monck on 20 April 1661, in which capacity Tattersell served until 12 February 1663. He then returned to his old life, albeit cushioned by the security of a £100 annuity for life,
By 1669 Nicholas Tattersell was skipper of the ketch Happy Entrance, trading between Sussex and London.
So for most of the Diary years, Capt. Tattersell would have been a celebrity in Brighthelmstone, talking about the good ol' days when he saved the King.
"There was, in a manner, no night between Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly for those who, finding no nook or hole to put their heads because the houses were not able to contain the people who flocked thither from all parts of the neighboring country, for the most part were constrained to walk the streets [of The Hague]."
At 2 a.m. the drums beat to assemble the soldiers and citizens; Charles II rose early l to receive the States of Holland.
1 And dressed in a plain-stuff suit, with a plume of red feathers.
A procession of Dutch and English on horseback went from The Hague to Schevening, Charles II riding bareheaded and dressed in black or purple in the middle of the three foremost horsemen.
Charles II was met by Admiral Edward Montagu, Stayner, Crew, and others, and greeted Montagu with a kiss, and entered his shallop with all his relatives, while the Royal Standard was hoisted, and the sailors shouted and threw their caps and doublets into the air.
At 11 o'clock the royal party boarded the Naseby, newly decked with silken flags, scarlet coverings, and the like, and dined in the coach.' 2
2 For the whole voyage, etc., cf. Dryden, Astraa Jfedux, 11. 216 sqq.
After dinner Charles II changed the names of the ships in the fleet, as that of the Naseby to the Royal Charles.
140 CHARLES II AND HIS COURT
That done, Queen Mother Henrietta Maria, the Princess Royal, and Prince William of Orange took leave of Charles II, and James, Duke of York went on board the London, and Henry, Duke of Gloucester on the Swiftsure.
"Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary to what I thought him to have been) very active and stirring. Upon the quarter-deck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester."
Charles II supped alone in the coach.
On the way, the royal fleet came to Rotterdam, and Charles II's ship was visited by the Burgomaster, amid salutes of gun, the whole harbor being decorated with English colors. Charles stood amidships in a wig and dark clothes, bareheaded, to receive the Burgomaster. %%% I wonder why Pepys doesn’t mention stopping at Rottendam? And Charles in a wig? – but bareheaded? Maybe that means he didn’t wear a hat.
Edmund Waller MP writes one of his graceful little poems about Queen Catherine:
"TEA COMMENDED BY HER MAJESTY (c. 1680)" "Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays, Tea both excels, which she vouchsafes to praise, The best of queens, and best of herbs we owe To that bold nation which the way did shew To the fair region where the sun does rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize. The Muse's friend, tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene, Fit on her birthday to salute the queen."
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About Wednesday 19 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
I, for one, am happy that none of the plans to rebuild London as an open city with straight boulevards and open vistas happened. Partly it's because there is a history and an attachment to our past represented in every street name. And partly because I like the anarchy of it all.
Today I found this article on how the French kings used geometry in architecture and garden design to reinforce the importance of the monarchy. Apparently, design creates a false sense of security and order in our primitive minds.
Nice picture of Versailles and the Tuileries gardens as designed by Louis XIV ... he wrote instructions about where people had to stand in order to see the best view/not upset his design.
A little chaos is good for you.
https://longreads.com/2019/09/27/…
About Enfield, Middlesex
San Diego Sarah • Link
The route from London to Huntingdon is still based on the Roman Ermine Street, which my father called "the Old North Road":
Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate, where one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London was located.
From here it runs north up Norton Folgate, Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington Road and Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham, Edmonton and Eastern Enfield (Ponders End, Enfield Highway, Enfield Wash and Freezywater) to Royston.
This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10.
At this point it crosses another Roman road, the Icknield Way.
From Royston, the route was formerly the A14 to the A1, but is now the A1198 to Godmanchester (Durovigutum). Ignoring bypasses and modern diversions, the road through Huntingdon to the Alconbury junction on the A1 roughly follows the route.
Gleaned from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erm…
About Thursday 21 November 1661
San Diego Sarah • Link
It's interesting that we know the names of Pepys' book seller(s), but never learn the name of his book binder(s).
The BBC today put out this short film about how it's done:
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0…
About Goring House
San Diego Sarah • Link
Arlington House is the last image revealed ...
https://www.facebook.com/Timetrav…
About Spitalfields
San Diego Sarah • Link
When the rain falls on Spitalfields, dripping off the roofs and splashing onto the pavements, filling the gutters and coursing down the pipes, it overflows the culverts and drains to restore the flow of the Black Ditch, the notorious lost river of Spitalfields that once flowed from here to Limehouse Dock.
This was the watercourse that transmitted the cholera in 1832. An open sewer piped off in the 19th century, the Black Ditch has been co-opted into the drainage system today, but it is still running unrecognized beneath Spitalfields – an underground river with a very bad reputation.
About Wednesday 17 October 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
How interesting Elizabeth was buying lace today, it being St. Audrey's Day:
In The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv.278, the shepherdess, Mopsa, says, as a straight-line for the shepherd-clown:
“Come you promis'd me a tawdry-lace, and a paire of sweet Gloves.”
“Tawdry” was the common pronunciation of “St. Audrey”.
Tawdry-lace referred to lace bought at the annual medieval fair of St. Audrey, on October 17 in Ely. The fair was known as a place to buy gaudy knick-knacks and gewgaws in which unsophisticated country folk delighted.
“Sweet gloves” was the common term for perfumed gloves, and gloves were special gifts as we have heard before.
These lines were written 80 years before Pepys, of course.
But old traditions lived on, even subconsciously.
“At the Fair of St. Audry, at Ely, in former times, toys of all sorts were sold, and a description of cheap necklaces, which under the denomination of ‘tawdry laces’, long enjoyed great celebrity.” -- Chambers' Book of Days (October 17).
About Monday 24 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
Nicely said, James. You take control of what you can. Cleaning and moving furniture is one way women deal with stress. I'm sure the Pepys' maids have been happy to mop soot these last few days. The alternative was so horrific -- as is our 11 year deadline.
About Monday 13 January 1661/62
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... Michael Honywood, D.D., was rector of Kegworth, co. Leicester, and seeking refuge at Utrecht during the Rebellion, ..."
Inland Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until it was overtaken by the port city of Amsterdam during the 17th century, in the Dutch golden age of trade and advances in science, art and military power. Oud-Amelisweerd Palace and Castle Duurstede are both near Utrecht.
Beautiful photos at https://www.theguardian.com/trave…
About Monday 4 April 1664
San Diego Sarah • Link
I'm here on another mission this morning, and just happened to see Pedro's 2007 annotation:
"Another rule of history.
"Don't invade Iraq unless your name is Genghis Khan."
About Tuesday 1 January 1660/61
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... in our way seeing the Duke of York bring his Lady this day to wait upon the Queen, the first time that ever she did since that great business; and the Queen is said to receive her now with much respect and love; ..."
On New Year's Day, 1661, Anne Hyde, the clandestine bride of James, Duke of York, was formally received at court. Rupert and Edward dined with the rest of the Royal family, in public; and on this occasion there was a most unseemly contest between the Roman chaplain of Queen Mother Henrietta Maria, and the Anglican chaplain of Charles II, for the honor of saying grace. In struggling through the crowd assembled to see the King dine, the Anglican priest fell down, and the Roman gained the table first and said grace. His victory was greeted by the disorderly courtiers with shouts of laughter. "The King's chaplain and the Queen's priest ran a race to say grace," they declared, "and the chaplain was floored, and the priest won."[8]
[8] Strickland's Henrietta Maria, Queens of England, VIII. p. 232. From MSS. of Père Cyprian Gamache.
Excerpted from Rupert, Prince Palatine
by EVA SCOTT
Late Scholar of Somerville College, Oxford
WESTMINSTER -- ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & Co.
NEW YORK -- G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1900
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/ep…
About Thursday 20 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
Louise ... I bet he does that cataloging now!
About Saturday 15 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
Exactly, Deep Thought ... let's see what his symptoms are next March before we diagnose him. That's the P in PTSD - POST traumatic stress disorder. What we are seeing here is current.
Pepys seems quite good about self-care ... eating regularly, and takes time for his hobbies (singing, girl friends, outings with Elizabeth for supper, reading and star gazing). More fresh veggies and some regular exercise would be good.
About Sunday 23 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... Mr. Wayth and I eat a bit of victuals in my old closet, now my little dining-room, which makes a pretty room, ..."
Two dining rooms? I suppose "confidential" lunches in the big dining room are too easy for miscellaneous people to include themselves in. And now Elizabeth can have her ladies and painters to lunch in style, and Pepys and his co-conspirators don't have to curb their conversation, or politely sit for hours when they need to be away on the King's business. Poor maids running up and down stairs with all these additional bowls of food.
About Wednesday 19 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
James ... click through on "the bastard" and you'll see that the encyclopedia agrees with you, and provides his name.
About Thursday 20 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
"He and I to discourse about our accounts, and the bringing them to the Parliament, and with much content to see him rely so well on my part."
Coventry is preparing for an official Parliamentary hearing at Westminster. Do we have access to a copy of Pepys' report? It must have been enormous to document all the expenditures and over-runs in the last year.
About Saturday 15 September 1666
San Diego Sarah • Link
"That the Parliament is likely to fall foul upon some persons; and, among others, on the Vice-chamberlaine, though we both believe with little ground."
Any guesses on who the Vice Chamberlain might be?
How nice to be able to answer my own question:
Sir George Carteret (Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70)
And, as Pepys says, it's hard to think of what grounds Sir George could be charged with. He's just old and influential, and the young bucks want to take charge, which cannot be grounds for censure.
About Sir Henry Wood (Clerk of the Board of the Green Cloth)
San Diego Sarah • Link
What we need to know about Sir Henry Wood MP:
Wood entered the household of Prince Charles as a child.
He was knighted at Oxford during the Civil War, when he was acting as clerk-comptroller of the green cloth and chosen to accompany Queen Henrietta Maria to France as her treasurer and receiver-general.
He spent most of the Interregnum in Paris, although in 1649 he compounded for his delinquency as a Royalist with a fine of £273. He was in Paris in November 1651 when he married his second wife, Mary Gardiner, a maid of honor to the queen mother.
Nevertheless, during the Interregnum Wood was able to expand his Suffolk estate.
At the Restoration Wood offered Sir Edward Hyde £500 to be continued as clerk comptroller. He was soon promoted to clerk of the green cloth, and granted the valuable manor of Tottenham Court at an annual rent of £66 13s. 4d.
At the general election of 1661 he failed to be returned, but
after the death of Phineas Andrews MP in September 1661, which created a vacancy at Hythe, he succeeded in entering Parliament after running unopposed. But he refused to visit Hythe, so finally commissioners were sent to London to swear him in.
He was an inactive Member of the Cavalier Parliament.
With his experience in Queen Mother Henrietta Maria’s household, Sir Henry Wood, 1st Bart. was selected to fetch Catherine of Braganza from Portugal.
On his return with the new queen consort in May 1662, James Butler, Duke of Ormonde wrote to Charles II that ‘he is universally cursed and as universally curses all volunteer eaters’.
His unpopularity continued. His attempts to economize in the Household provoked Sir Herbert Price to urge Ormonde to return to England ‘to defend us against this mad dog’.
His appearance was odd, his conduct eccentric, and he did not often address the House.
But on 25 Nov. 1664 he was determined to present a petition from Sir Henry Chester about the Bedfordshire election. He refused to give way to Lord Cramond, Thomas Richardson, and, according to Thomas Clifford:
"the novelty of Sir Henry Wood’s standing up carried it against my lord, and he made as methodical and as rational a discourse as the matter could bear."
Andrew Marvell described him as one of the government whips in the excise debate:
“Then damning cowards ranged the vocal plain,
Wood these commands, knight of the horn and cane,
Still his hook-shoulder seems the blow to dread,
And under’s armpit he defends his head.
The posture strange men laughed at, of his poll
Hid with his elbow like the spice he stole.
Headless St. Denis so his head does bear,
And both of them alike French martyrs were.”
highlights from https://www.historyofparliamenton…
About Brighton
San Diego Sarah • Link
On 15 October, 1651 after taking a tortuous and often fraught route across southern England, Charles II reached the coast at Brighton.
The ship chosen to receive him was the collier Surprise, about 34 tons, 42 feet long and 30 feet broad. Her captain and owner, Nicholas Tattersell or Tattersall, had already agreed to take an unnamed passenger and his attendants across to France, but when he met the party and recognized the King, he was furious at being exposed to such danger. Delicate negotiation followed, and Tattersell eventually agreed to make the voyage in return for a further £200.
The Surprise duly crossed the Channel, and on 16 October, 1651 Charles II landed at Fecamp.
When the monarchy was restored in 1660, Charles II promptly bought the Surprise from Tattersell and renamed her the Royal Escape. The King had her moored in the Thames off Whitehall Palace, and showed her off to important visitors. Perhaps she was also a reminder of the potential insecurity of his position, or of God’s providence in preserving his life (or both).
As for Nicholas Tattersell, Charles II treated him with considerable generosity.
Charles commissioned him as captain of the frigate Sorlings on 25 July 1660 , then promoted him to captain of the powerful Third Rate man-of-war Monck on 20 April 1661, in which capacity Tattersell served until 12 February 1663. He then returned to his old life, albeit cushioned by the security of a £100 annuity for life,
By 1669 Nicholas Tattersell was skipper of the ketch Happy Entrance, trading between Sussex and London.
So for most of the Diary years, Capt. Tattersell would have been a celebrity in Brighthelmstone, talking about the good ol' days when he saved the King.
info from https://jddavies.com/2015/01/19/h…
About Wednesday 23 May 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
Excerted from CHARLES II AND HIS COURT
BY A. G. A. BRETT
NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
LONDON: METHUEN & GO. LTD.
1910
https://archive.org/stream/charle…
"There was, in a manner, no night between Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly for those who, finding no nook or hole to put their heads because the houses were not able to contain the people who flocked thither from all parts of the neighboring country, for the most part were constrained to walk the streets [of The Hague]."
At 2 a.m. the drums beat to assemble the soldiers and citizens; Charles II rose early l to receive the States of Holland.
1 And dressed in a plain-stuff suit, with a plume of red feathers.
A procession of Dutch and English on horseback went from The Hague to Schevening, Charles II riding bareheaded and dressed in black or purple in the middle of the three foremost horsemen.
Charles II was met by Admiral Edward Montagu, Stayner, Crew, and others, and greeted Montagu with a kiss, and entered his shallop with all his relatives, while the Royal Standard was hoisted, and the sailors shouted and threw their caps and doublets into the air.
At 11 o'clock the royal party boarded the Naseby, newly decked with silken flags, scarlet coverings, and the like, and dined in the coach.' 2
2 For the whole voyage, etc., cf. Dryden, Astraa Jfedux, 11. 216 sqq.
After dinner Charles II changed the names of the ships in the fleet, as that of the Naseby to the Royal Charles.
140 CHARLES II AND HIS COURT
That done, Queen Mother Henrietta Maria, the Princess Royal, and Prince William of Orange took leave of Charles II, and James, Duke of York went on board the London, and Henry, Duke of Gloucester on the Swiftsure.
"Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary to what I thought him to have been) very active and stirring. Upon the quarter-deck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester."
Charles II supped alone in the coach.
On the way, the royal fleet came to Rotterdam, and Charles II's ship was visited by the Burgomaster, amid salutes of gun, the whole harbor being decorated with English colors. Charles stood amidships in a wig and dark clothes, bareheaded, to receive the Burgomaster.
%%%
I wonder why Pepys doesn’t mention stopping at Rottendam? And Charles in a wig? – but bareheaded? Maybe that means he didn’t wear a hat.
About Tea
San Diego Sarah • Link
Edmund Waller MP writes one of his graceful little poems about Queen Catherine:
"TEA COMMENDED BY HER MAJESTY (c. 1680)"
"Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays,
Tea both excels, which she vouchsafes to praise,
The best of queens, and best of herbs we owe
To that bold nation which the way did shew
To the fair region where the sun does rise,
Whose rich productions we so justly prize.
The Muse's friend, tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapours which the head invade,
And keeps that palace of the soul serene,
Fit on her birthday to salute the queen."