How nice of Lady Caroline Carteret Scott to invite Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke to visit with his newly-married sister and the rest of the Carterets at Scott’s Hall. Everyone is getting to know each other.
John Brisbane/Brisband was Carteret's assistant treasurer to the navy. I wonder why Coventry didn't ask him to keep an eye on the bookkeeping instead of Pepys.
I found out more about him from an entry about his wife's family:
The title devolved on Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier’s aunt, Margaret, baroness Napier, second daughter of the 2nd Lord Napier, and widow of John Brisbane, Esq., secretary of the royal navy in England, who died in 1684, while preparing to set out for Portugal, to which country he had been appointed envoy extraordinary.
Lady Napier was awarded a pension of £200 sterling from Charles II, 4 August 1683, on account of the public services of her husband. She died in September 1706. She had two sons and a daughter, who all predeceased their mother.
Lots more information about the Napier family, who were cousins of, and ran with, the Earl of Montrose during the Civil Wars, at http://www.electricscotland.com/h…
"We, fearing the canonicall hour would be past before we got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness send away the license and wedding ring. So that when we come, though we drove hard with six horses, yet we found them gone from home; and going towards the church, met them coming from church, which troubled us. But, however, that trouble was soon over; hearing it was well done: they being both in their old cloaths; my Lord Crew giving her, there being three coach fulls of them. The young lady mighty sad, which troubled me; but yet I think it was only her gravity in a little greater degree than usual. "
I think we may have lost something in translation here, or Pepys was exhausted when writing.
The story to me is that they were running late, so reluctantly sent a rider ahead with the license and ring because the service had to be completed by a set time. They followed in the coach at full gallop, stopped at Dagenhams, but everyone had already left. So they headed towards the church, and met everyone coming away from the service. Pepys missed it! Grandpa Lord Crew gave away Mrs. Jem (since Sandwich is at sea). There were three other coach-loads of witnesses. People were dressed in their usual clothes ... which wasn't uncommon in those days. You wore your best dress to your wedding. And these folk's usual "old" clothes would be pretty fancy.
Perhaps if it had been held during peace-time, at Court, with Charles and Catherine in attendance, there would have been more of a dressy do. But knowing they could all be dead soon, they moved up the wedding by 3 days, and happily just got on with it. Ask anyone who remembers WWII -- that's how it was then, too.
Poor girl sounds terrified. It's a shame Philip was so shy before the wedding.
Rochester, Kent -- John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton was governor of Rochester from 1663 to 1667, and Lieutenant-General of the Kent militia.
Gad’s Hill, near Rochester on the London Road, was a dangerous and notorious spot for highwaymen. Many famous people were robbed there, including ambassadors, dukes and many seafarers journeying to London from the coastal ports. Because of its reputation, Shakespeare even featured it as the location for the robbery of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV.
Ald. Francis Dashwood’s father was a Somerset yeoman. He established himself in business in London, married Alice Sleigh, and started trading with a Turkey, His son, Sir Samuel Dashwood, became Lord Mayor of London in 1702.
Francis' third son, another Francis, and Samuel joined their father's business and became leading silk importers. They were members of the British East India Company and the Worshipful Company of Vintners. They prospered despite the disruption in trade caused by the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Pocahontas, one of the first Native Americans to visit Europe, landed at Gravesend when illness forced her to abandon her return journey to America on March 21, 1617. Pocahontas died just a few hours after coming ashore. Only 21, she experienced much in her short life and left a young son, Thomas Rolfe. He was taken back to London and completed her aborted journey home in adulthood, while his mother was buried at St. George’s church, where today a handsome bronze figure embodies her presence.
The Ship & Lobster, Gravesend, is the first and last pub on the Thames. This pub was supposedly founded when Charles II and his brother James raced barges here.
The Browne family have been Lords of the Manor around Brentwood for generations:
In 1221 St. Osyth's priory, owner of Costed manor, was licensed to build a chapel at Brentwood, dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. The chapel was to be subject to the mother church of South Weald, the rights of which were safeguarded. The advowson of the chapel passed with Costed until 1544, when it was granted by the Crown to William Sackville.
It was later acquired by Sir Antony Browne, whose reversionary grant of Costed in 1553 stipulated that he should pay the chaplain's salary. Thereafter it passed, like Costed, with the manor of South Weald.
In 1440 the inhabitants of Brentwood complained to the pope that South Weald church was so far away that in bad weather they were deprived of divine services. The pope ordered the abbot of St. Osyth to inquire into the matter, and to allow the Brentwood chaplain to administer the sacraments in emergencies.
By the early 16th century the chapel was an occasional meeting-place for clergy of Chafford deanery. Wistan Browne, who succeeded to the manor in 1575, closed the chapel and planned to pull it down. That caused a riot at Brentwood in 1577, when about 30 women, armed with hot spits and other weapons, assaulted a schoolmaster and locked themselves in the chapel.
Other local inhabitants petitioned in Chancery against Wistan Browne. Browne, then sheriff of Essex, was summoned before the Privy Council, which considered him mainly to blame for the trouble, ordered the Essex magistrates to deal gently with the rioters, and referred the case to the High Commission. The chapel was saved,
but there was further trouble in 1616 and 1617, when the townsmen sued another lord of the manor, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1623), in the Exchequer for failing to provide a chaplain, and for misappropriating the chaplain's house. Browne was ordered to appoint a new chaplain within the year, but the court ordered the townsmen to pay half the cost of repairing the chaplain's house. The disputes probably reflected the Puritan sympathies of the town ...
In 1650 it was proposed that Brentwood chapel should be made a parish church.
The Restoration ended such plans, but from the later 17th century the chapel gradually became more independent. Its first surviving records date from 1694.
In 1708, after a complaint by the vicar of South Weald, the chaplain of Brentwood admitted that he had no right to baptize children, but seven years later the inhabitants of Brentwood successfully petitioned the bishop for leave to set up a font in the chapel.
In 1221 St. Osyth's priory, owner of Costed manor, was licensed to build a chapel at Brentwood, dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. The chapel was to be subject to the mother church of South Weald, the rights of which were safeguarded. The advowson of the chapel passed with Costed until 1544, when it was granted by the Crown to William Sackville.
It was later acquired by Sir Antony Browne, whose reversionary grant of Costed in 1553 stipulated that he should pay the chaplain's salary. Thereafter it passed, like Costed, with the manor of South Weald.
In 1440 the inhabitants of Brentwood complained to the pope that South Weald church was so far away that in bad weather they were deprived of divine services. The pope ordered the abbot of St. Osyth to inquire into the matter, and to allow the Brentwood chaplain to administer the sacraments in emergencies.
By the early 16th century the chapel was an occasional meeting-place for clergy of Chafford deanery. Wistan Browne, who succeeded to the manor in 1575, closed the chapel and planned to pull it down. That caused a riot at Brentwood in 1577, when about 30 women, armed with hot spits and other weapons, assaulted a schoolmaster and locked themselves in the chapel.
Other local inhabitants petitioned in Chancery against Wistan Browne. Browne, then sheriff of Essex, was summoned before the Privy Council, which considered him mainly to blame for the trouble, ordered the Essex magistrates to deal gently with the rioters, and referred the case to the High Commission. The chapel was saved,
but there was further trouble in 1616 and 1617, when the townsmen sued another lord of the manor, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1623), in the Exchequer for failing to provide a chaplain, and for misappropriating the chaplain's house. Browne was ordered to appoint a new chaplain within the year, but the court ordered the townsmen to pay half the cost of repairing the chaplain's house. The disputes probably reflected the Puritan sympathies of the town ...
In 1650 it was proposed that Brentwood chapel should be made a parish church.
The Restoration ended such plans, but from the later 17th century the chapel gradually became more independent. Its first surviving records date from 1694.
In 1708, after a complaint by the vicar of South Weald, the chaplain of Brentwood admitted that he had no right to baptize children, but seven years later the inhabitants of Brentwood successfully petitioned the bishop for leave to set up a font in the chapel.
After the Reformation, Roman Catholic worship was maintained in south-west Essex by a few staunch families, notably the Petres of Ingatestone and of Thorndon Hall, West Horndon. [That’s the same Lady Elizabeth Petre who stiffed Anthony Joyce.)
In the later 16th and the earlier 17th century there were frequent prosecutions of local recusants, including Mary, wife of John Wright of Brook Street (1589), and Ann, wife of John Wright of South Weald (1639).
A return of South Weald papists in 1706 included Sir Thomas Manby's household, 14 in number, Joan Wright with her two sons and a kinsman, and George Pomfrett's family, with 14 others.
In the 18th century the leading Catholic families in South Weald parish were Manby of Bawds Hall, and Wright of Wealdside.
Brentwood was established in the 12th century as a clearing within the great forest of Essex, which covered much of the area. Wood was burnt here (hence ‘burnt wood’) and people settled in the vicinity, attracted initially by the old Roman road from London to Colchester.
The fledgling medieval town became popular with pilgrims travelling from the north and east of England on their quest to worship at the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. At that time Brentwood’s parish church was in South Weald, some distance away. Consequently, a small chapel in the High Street was built in the early 13th century as a chapel-of-ease to the parish’s church in South Weald and dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket. The High Street’s chapel was used until the 1830s when a new parish church to serve the town of Brentwood was built close-by on land that had once been a nursery garden. The ruins of the Brentwood’s old chapel are still present on the High Street.
Royalty passed through Brentwood in the 1390s when Richard II and his entourage made their pilgrimage through the town on his way to worship at Canterbury Cathedral. He rested at an inn in the High Street and his personal emblem, the white hart, became the name for that inn.
Another inn, originally known as the Gun, now the Swan, has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. According to local legend, Marian Protestant martyr William Hunter stayed at the inn the night before his execution. He was burnt as a heretic on March 27, 1555 and an elm tree grew in the same location as his martyrdom shortly afterwards.
Brentwood has witnessed a fast pace of change, in its population, its buildings and its infrastructure. Nevertheless, when you scrape away the layers of progress and redevelopment, underneath it, the old Brentwood is still there (just) to be enjoyed by modern-day residents and visitors.
You can read more about the towns and villages of Brentwood, Warley, Shenfield and Hutton, and their journeys through time in "Brentwood and Around Through Time," by Kate J. Cole and published by Amberley Publishing. Kate also writes about aspects of Essex local history on her blog, www.essexvoicespast.com and on her Facebook page @KateJCole.
Kate gives regular talks to clubs and societies around Essex on the Witches of Elizabethan Essex and Great Dunmow, and Henry VIII’s Reformation
John Wright, of Brentwood, Essex. His name indicates he might be a relative of Sir Harry Wright, husband of Anne Crew Wright of Dagenhams. His four Diary mentions make him sound like family, or a close retainer, of the Wrights, Crews and/or Sandwiches.
One recurring theme through the annotations will be references to a 1930's children's book, The Heir of Charlecote. By 1665 I couldn't stand it any more, broke down and bought a copy -- and have since shared it with several friends. They don't write children's books like that any more. It's a 1600-ish adventure story about a young boy by the name of Lucy -- probably this Tom Lucy's grandfather.
The Heir of Charlecote is by Mark Dallow, available at www.abebooks.com .
I've read Gillian Bagwell's book, and greatly enjoyed it. Gillian is an American, and while she has the story factually straight, and correctly portrays the places and dangers, she turned Jane Lane into something of a Victorian suffragette. Knowing that, please enjoy "The September Queen"/"The King's Mistress" -- Jane was one of many women "liberated" by the Civil Wars and had wonderful adventures. (Have you noticed women fill in for the men during wars, but when the men come home, everyone promptly forgets that things were going fine without them? We need more books on the adventures of Stuart era women. Gillian made a good try.)
On Tuesday 24 January, 1659/60, Samuel and Elizabeth attend the wedding of Capt. Tom Lucy ... which was more ribald than today, and he didn't enjoy it.
"I hear that my Will is come in thither and laid down upon my bed, ill of the headake, which put me into extraordinary fear; and I studied all I could to get him out of the house, and set my people to work to do it without discouraging him, and myself went forth to the Old Exchange ..."
Pepys says "my Will" instead of the usual 'Hewer,' indicating he likes the young man ... and then tells the maids to get him out of the house A.S.A.P. while he goes to the Exchange and the Joyce's and anywhere else he can think of for a few hours. If Hewer had had the plague, what were they supposed to do? Put him shivering on the pavement? Thank goodness it wasn't the case, but this is an insight to Pepys' [lack of] character.
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About Friday 4 August 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
How nice of Lady Caroline Carteret Scott to invite Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke to visit with his newly-married sister and the rest of the Carterets at Scott’s Hall. Everyone is getting to know each other.
About Queenhithe
San Diego Sarah • Link
After 2,000 years, Queenshithe is being gentrified, and a big mosaic showing its history and importance has been installed.
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/…
About Vizard
San Diego Sarah • Link
A fan covered the face of a lady when necessary ... some lovely Stuart fans can be seen here:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/…
About John Brisbane
San Diego Sarah • Link
John Brisbane/Brisband was Carteret's assistant treasurer to the navy. I wonder why Coventry didn't ask him to keep an eye on the bookkeeping instead of Pepys.
I found out more about him from an entry about his wife's family:
The title devolved on Sir Thomas Nicolson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier’s aunt, Margaret, baroness Napier, second daughter of the 2nd Lord Napier, and widow of John Brisbane, Esq., secretary of the royal navy in England, who died in 1684, while preparing to set out for Portugal, to which country he had been appointed envoy extraordinary.
Lady Napier was awarded a pension of £200 sterling from Charles II, 4 August 1683, on account of the public services of her husband. She died in September 1706. She had two sons and a daughter, who all predeceased their mother.
Lots more information about the Napier family, who were cousins of, and ran with, the Earl of Montrose during the Civil Wars, at http://www.electricscotland.com/h…
About Monday 31 July 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"We, fearing the canonicall hour would be past before we got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness send away the license and wedding ring. So that when we come, though we drove hard with six horses, yet we found them gone from home; and going towards the church, met them coming from church, which troubled us. But, however, that trouble was soon over; hearing it was well done: they being both in their old cloaths; my Lord Crew giving her, there being three coach fulls of them. The young lady mighty sad, which troubled me; but yet I think it was only her gravity in a little greater degree than usual. "
I think we may have lost something in translation here, or Pepys was exhausted when writing.
The story to me is that they were running late, so reluctantly sent a rider ahead with the license and ring because the service had to be completed by a set time. They followed in the coach at full gallop, stopped at Dagenhams, but everyone had already left. So they headed towards the church, and met everyone coming away from the service. Pepys missed it! Grandpa Lord Crew gave away Mrs. Jem (since Sandwich is at sea). There were three other coach-loads of witnesses. People were dressed in their usual clothes ... which wasn't uncommon in those days. You wore your best dress to your wedding. And these folk's usual "old" clothes would be pretty fancy.
Perhaps if it had been held during peace-time, at Court, with Charles and Catherine in attendance, there would have been more of a dressy do. But knowing they could all be dead soon, they moved up the wedding by 3 days, and happily just got on with it. Ask anyone who remembers WWII -- that's how it was then, too.
Poor girl sounds terrified. It's a shame Philip was so shy before the wedding.
About Thursday 3 August 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Rochester, Kent -- John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton was governor of Rochester from 1663 to 1667, and Lieutenant-General of the Kent militia.
Gad’s Hill, near Rochester on the London Road, was a dangerous and notorious spot for highwaymen. Many famous people were robbed there, including ambassadors, dukes and many seafarers journeying to London from the coastal ports. Because of its reputation, Shakespeare even featured it as the location for the robbery of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV.
About Alderman Francis Dashwood
San Diego Sarah • Link
Ald. Francis Dashwood’s father was a Somerset yeoman. He established himself in business in London, married Alice Sleigh, and started trading with a Turkey, His son, Sir Samuel Dashwood, became Lord Mayor of London in 1702.
Francis' third son, another Francis, and Samuel joined their father's business and became leading silk importers. They were members of the British East India Company and the Worshipful Company of Vintners. They prospered despite the disruption in trade caused by the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
About Gravesend, Kent
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pocahontas, one of the first Native Americans to visit Europe, landed at Gravesend when illness forced her to abandon her return journey to America on March 21, 1617. Pocahontas died just a few hours after coming ashore. Only 21, she experienced much in her short life and left a young son, Thomas Rolfe. He was taken back to London and completed her aborted journey home in adulthood, while his mother was buried at St. George’s church, where today a handsome bronze figure embodies her presence.
About Gravesend, Kent
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Ship & Lobster, Gravesend, is the first and last pub on the Thames. This pub was supposedly founded when Charles II and his brother James raced barges here.
About Sir Anthony Browne
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Browne family have been Lords of the Manor around Brentwood for generations:
In 1221 St. Osyth's priory, owner of Costed manor, was licensed to build a chapel at Brentwood, dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. The chapel was to be subject to the mother church of South Weald, the rights of which were safeguarded. The advowson of the chapel passed with Costed until 1544, when it was granted by the Crown to William Sackville.
It was later acquired by Sir Antony Browne, whose reversionary grant of Costed in 1553 stipulated that he should pay the chaplain's salary. Thereafter it passed, like Costed, with the manor of South Weald.
In 1440 the inhabitants of Brentwood complained to the pope that South Weald church was so far away that in bad weather they were deprived of divine services. The pope ordered the abbot of St. Osyth to inquire into the matter, and to allow the Brentwood chaplain to administer the sacraments in emergencies.
By the early 16th century the chapel was an occasional meeting-place for clergy of Chafford deanery. Wistan Browne, who succeeded to the manor in 1575, closed the chapel and planned to pull it down. That caused a riot at Brentwood in 1577, when about 30 women, armed with hot spits and other weapons, assaulted a schoolmaster and locked themselves in the chapel.
Other local inhabitants petitioned in Chancery against Wistan Browne. Browne, then sheriff of Essex, was summoned before the Privy Council, which considered him mainly to blame for the trouble, ordered the Essex magistrates to deal gently with the rioters, and referred the case to the High Commission. The chapel was saved,
but there was further trouble in 1616 and 1617, when the townsmen sued another lord of the manor, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1623), in the Exchequer for failing to provide a chaplain, and for misappropriating the chaplain's house. Browne was ordered to appoint a new chaplain within the year, but the court ordered the townsmen to pay half the cost of repairing the chaplain's house. The disputes probably reflected the Puritan sympathies of the town ...
In 1650 it was proposed that Brentwood chapel should be made a parish church.
The Restoration ended such plans, but from the later 17th century the chapel gradually became more independent. Its first surviving records date from 1694.
In 1708, after a complaint by the vicar of South Weald, the chaplain of Brentwood admitted that he had no right to baptize children, but seven years later the inhabitants of Brentwood successfully petitioned the bishop for leave to set up a font in the chapel.
From: https://www.british-history.ac.uk…...
About Brentwood, Essex
San Diego Sarah • Link
In 1221 St. Osyth's priory, owner of Costed manor, was licensed to build a chapel at Brentwood, dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. The chapel was to be subject to the mother church of South Weald, the rights of which were safeguarded. The advowson of the chapel passed with Costed until 1544, when it was granted by the Crown to William Sackville.
It was later acquired by Sir Antony Browne, whose reversionary grant of Costed in 1553 stipulated that he should pay the chaplain's salary. Thereafter it passed, like Costed, with the manor of South Weald.
In 1440 the inhabitants of Brentwood complained to the pope that South Weald church was so far away that in bad weather they were deprived of divine services. The pope ordered the abbot of St. Osyth to inquire into the matter, and to allow the Brentwood chaplain to administer the sacraments in emergencies.
By the early 16th century the chapel was an occasional meeting-place for clergy of Chafford deanery. Wistan Browne, who succeeded to the manor in 1575, closed the chapel and planned to pull it down. That caused a riot at Brentwood in 1577, when about 30 women, armed with hot spits and other weapons, assaulted a schoolmaster and locked themselves in the chapel.
Other local inhabitants petitioned in Chancery against Wistan Browne. Browne, then sheriff of Essex, was summoned before the Privy Council, which considered him mainly to blame for the trouble, ordered the Essex magistrates to deal gently with the rioters, and referred the case to the High Commission. The chapel was saved,
but there was further trouble in 1616 and 1617, when the townsmen sued another lord of the manor, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1623), in the Exchequer for failing to provide a chaplain, and for misappropriating the chaplain's house. Browne was ordered to appoint a new chaplain within the year, but the court ordered the townsmen to pay half the cost of repairing the chaplain's house. The disputes probably reflected the Puritan sympathies of the town ...
In 1650 it was proposed that Brentwood chapel should be made a parish church.
The Restoration ended such plans, but from the later 17th century the chapel gradually became more independent. Its first surviving records date from 1694.
In 1708, after a complaint by the vicar of South Weald, the chaplain of Brentwood admitted that he had no right to baptize children, but seven years later the inhabitants of Brentwood successfully petitioned the bishop for leave to set up a font in the chapel.
From: https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Brentwood, Essex
San Diego Sarah • Link
After the Reformation, Roman Catholic worship was maintained in south-west Essex by a few staunch families, notably the Petres of Ingatestone and of Thorndon Hall, West Horndon. [That’s the same Lady Elizabeth Petre who stiffed Anthony Joyce.)
In the later 16th and the earlier 17th century there were frequent prosecutions of local recusants, including Mary, wife of John Wright of Brook Street (1589), and Ann, wife of John Wright of South Weald (1639).
A return of South Weald papists in 1706 included Sir Thomas Manby's household, 14 in number, Joan Wright with her two sons and a kinsman, and George Pomfrett's family, with 14 others.
In the 18th century the leading Catholic families in South Weald parish were Manby of Bawds Hall, and Wright of Wealdside.
For more info, see https://www.british-history.ac.uk…
About Brentwood, Essex
San Diego Sarah • Link
Brentwood was established in the 12th century as a clearing within the great forest of Essex, which covered much of the area. Wood was burnt here (hence ‘burnt wood’) and people settled in the vicinity, attracted initially by the old Roman road from London to Colchester.
The fledgling medieval town became popular with pilgrims travelling from the north and east of England on their quest to worship at the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. At that time Brentwood’s parish church was in South Weald, some distance away. Consequently, a small chapel in the High Street was built in the early 13th century as a chapel-of-ease to the parish’s church in South Weald and dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket. The High Street’s chapel was used until the 1830s when a new parish church to serve the town of Brentwood was built close-by on land that had once been a nursery garden. The ruins of the Brentwood’s old chapel are still present on the High Street.
Royalty passed through Brentwood in the 1390s when Richard II and his entourage made their pilgrimage through the town on his way to worship at Canterbury Cathedral. He rested at an inn in the High Street and his personal emblem, the white hart, became the name for that inn.
Another inn, originally known as the Gun, now the Swan, has been rebuilt several times over the centuries. According to local legend, Marian Protestant martyr William Hunter stayed at the inn the night before his execution. He was burnt as a heretic on March 27, 1555 and an elm tree grew in the same location as his martyrdom shortly afterwards.
Brentwood has witnessed a fast pace of change, in its population, its buildings and its infrastructure. Nevertheless, when you scrape away the layers of progress and redevelopment, underneath it, the old Brentwood is still there (just) to be enjoyed by modern-day residents and visitors.
You can read more about the towns and villages of Brentwood, Warley, Shenfield and Hutton, and their journeys through time in "Brentwood and Around Through Time," by Kate J. Cole and published by Amberley Publishing. Kate also writes about aspects of Essex local history on her blog, www.essexvoicespast.com and on her Facebook page @KateJCole.
Kate gives regular talks to clubs and societies around Essex on the Witches of Elizabethan Essex and Great Dunmow, and Henry VIII’s Reformation
Highlights taken from http://www.essexlifemag.co.uk/out…
About John Wright
San Diego Sarah • Link
John Wright, of Brentwood, Essex. His name indicates he might be a relative of Sir Harry Wright, husband of Anne Crew Wright of Dagenhams. His four Diary mentions make him sound like family, or a close retainer, of the Wrights, Crews and/or Sandwiches.
About Tuesday 1 August 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
I guess Ralph didn't read the memo right.
About Thomas Lucy
San Diego Sarah • Link
One recurring theme through the annotations will be references to a 1930's children's book, The Heir of Charlecote. By 1665 I couldn't stand it any more, broke down and bought a copy -- and have since shared it with several friends. They don't write children's books like that any more. It's a 1600-ish adventure story about a young boy by the name of Lucy -- probably this Tom Lucy's grandfather.
The Heir of Charlecote is by Mark Dallow, available at www.abebooks.com .
About Tuesday 1 August 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Public monthly fast? What public monthly fast? Ohhh ... that's just something for the servants to do -- makes them feel involved, y'know."
About Wednesday 23 May 1660
San Diego Sarah • Link
I've read Gillian Bagwell's book, and greatly enjoyed it. Gillian is an American, and while she has the story factually straight, and correctly portrays the places and dangers, she turned Jane Lane into something of a Victorian suffragette. Knowing that, please enjoy "The September Queen"/"The King's Mistress" -- Jane was one of many women "liberated" by the Civil Wars and had wonderful adventures. (Have you noticed women fill in for the men during wars, but when the men come home, everyone promptly forgets that things were going fine without them? We need more books on the adventures of Stuart era women. Gillian made a good try.)
About Monday 31 July 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
On Tuesday 24 January, 1659/60, Samuel and Elizabeth attend the wedding of Capt. Tom Lucy ... which was more ribald than today, and he didn't enjoy it.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 29 July 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"I hear that my Will is come in thither and laid down upon my bed, ill of the headake, which put me into extraordinary fear; and I studied all I could to get him out of the house, and set my people to work to do it without discouraging him, and myself went forth to the Old Exchange ..."
Pepys says "my Will" instead of the usual 'Hewer,' indicating he likes the young man ... and then tells the maids to get him out of the house A.S.A.P. while he goes to the Exchange and the Joyce's and anywhere else he can think of for a few hours. If Hewer had had the plague, what were they supposed to do? Put him shivering on the pavement? Thank goodness it wasn't the case, but this is an insight to Pepys' [lack of] character.