“Dr. William Harvey’s practice was not very great towards his later end; he declined it, unless to a special friend, — e.g. my Lady Howland, who had a cancer in her breast, which he did cut-off and seared, but at last she died of it.” http://www.she-philosopher.com/ib…
Dr. Harvey, of circulation fame, died in 1657. I have yet to discover who Lady Howland was.
Sunday 21 February 1664 -- “I spent all the morning there drawing up a letter to Mr. Coventry about preserving of masts,”
23 February 1664: Further Corr., pp. 15-19. Pepys argued, largely on the advice of Warren, that the best method would be to submerge the masts in the water of creeks. He opposed the building of a mast-house at Deptford, and the suggestion of keeping them in the proposed new dock at Chatham. (Per L&M footnote)
Tuesday 12 July 1664 – “After dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten to view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in.”
SPOILER: In 1689, after Pepys had retired, a wet-dock for masts was built at Deptford.
There are probably more mentions, but I have not corralled them.
The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer was an office in the English Exchequer. The office originated in early times as the clerk of the Lord High Treasurer at the Receipt of the Exchequer. He was responsible for filing and entering the Teller's Bills from the Tellers of the Exchequer, certifying monies received to the Lord Treasurer, and auditing the books of the Tellers. The title of Auditor was officially attached to the post, combined with that of Tally Writer, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
For such an unpopular person, Sir Robert Long, 1st Bart. of Draycot, seems to have been trusted with a great deal of power over the money.
"One which put out his Holland ancient was a Zeelander come from St. Christopher’s with sugar, cotton and indigo taken by the Breda."
What is a Holland ancient?
"a Zeelander come from St. Christopher’s with sugar, cotton and indigo" presumably means a ship from Zeeland loaded with sugar etc., returning from St. Kitts.
"MS: ‘Says-Court May.1:65.’ P visited Sayes Court in the evening (‘it being dark and late’ - diary) on this day, perhaps in response to the letter though he does not mention it (ibid). E was not there and states in his own diary only that he went to London on 1 May. He had presumably departed before P arrived.
This reads: 28th April, 1665. I went to Tunbridge, to see a solemn exercise at the free-school there. Having taken orders with my marshal about my prisoners, and with the doctor and chirurgeon to attend the wounded enemies, and of our own men, I went to London again, and visited my charge, several with legs and arms off; miserable objects, God knows.
16th May, 1665. To London, to consider of the poor orphans and widows made by this bloody beginning, and whose husbands and relations perished in the London frigate, of which there were fifty widows, and forty-five of them with child."
If anyone knows where Evelyn's trip to London on May Day 1665 is recorded, I'd love to hear.
"Up and to Mr. Povy’s, and by his bedside talked a good while. Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of getting of money, and would fain have me to concur in the thinking of some other way of disposing of the place of Treasurer to one Mr. Bell, but I did seem slight of it, and resolved to try to do the best or to give it up."
My understanding of this is that Povy is relieved to be rid of the responsibility of raising money for Tangier, but is discouraging Pepys from selling the Treasurer-ship to Bell. Pepys will ignore Povy's advice and try to sell to Bell anyways, but if he's stuck with the job, he is resolved to do his best.
Can anyone check Pedro's entry today with the official record please?
"The Duke proposes consideration of what attempt could be made on the Dutch Fleet at Texel that had been hinted by Prince Rupert, Sandwich and Downing. They we left to consider."
Is Downing on board? -- seems to me his life in The Hague would be difficult now. Or has Downing been writing letters to Sandwich and the Duke of York making recommendations?
And I suspect the last sentence is: "Then we left to consider."???
In October 1663 we had a discussion about the plague being in Amsterdam:
"... the plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to Hambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their ships coming into the river."
Bubonic plague was endemic in N. Africa and the Near East. This outbreak in Holland was at its height in the summer of 1664. The 1665 outbreak in England was unrelated. (L&M note)
So apparently, we cannot blame the capture of Dutch prize ships and sailors for the epidemic. More likely it came from those East Indiamen, and fleas taking a ride on the exotic goods from the Ottoman empire.
"... two pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily; and they tell me the Queen is Sir. Richard Ford’s daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at White Hall Bridge, and the great guns on the other side went off: ..."
I read this as: The first pageant featured Sir Richard Ford's daughter as a Queen, and an unknown young man as a King. The second pageant featured the real Charles II and Queen Catherine under a canopy, with 100,000 barges, and Pepys can't see where they moored because there was so much chaos.
28th April, 1665. I went to Tunbridge, to see a solemn exercise at the free-school there. Having taken orders with my marshal about my prisoners, and with the doctor and chirurgeon to attend the wounded enemies, and of our own men, I went to London again, and visited my charge, several with legs and arms off; miserable objects, God knows.
"28 April Pepys to Sir William Clark: The Duke of York had on the 25th written a strong protest about the victualing."
Since the fleet was off Texel by the 25th, I suspect this letter was written by York on the 21st, and received by Pepys on the 25th.
The Journals of Montagu and Allin, both edited by Anderson say: On the 21st the Fleet had sailed after being in sight of Orford Ness.
Maybe William Penn Jr. or Hewer brought the letter(s) home for Pepys?
The other alternative was that it was written on the 25th and brought by carrier pigeon from Texel to London, because I don't think a sailing ship and a relay of horses could make it in three days.
Just in case you've forgotten why Pepys wrote to Albermarle about victualing/watermen problems:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… Friday 17 March 1665 -- The Duke did give us some commands, and so broke up, not taking leave of him. But the best piece of news is that instead of a great many troublesome Lords, the whole business is to be left with the Duke of Albemarle to act as Admiral in his stead; which is a thing that do cheer my heart. For the other would have vexed us with attendance, and never done the business.
L&M footnote: Albemarle (George Monck) is to assume the role ['Admiral on Land'] the Admiralty Committee of the Privy Council (the 'troublesome Lords') played during the previous fall's campaign.
Clearly the Duke of York's decision paid off today.
On February 2, 1659/60 Pepys learned about a bogus petition to Parliament which deprived the watermen of some benefits which were now given or shared with the hackney drivers.
In an annotation to that page by Terry of 19 March, 2017 he specifically notes: “On the day before this second address was presented the Council of State had drawn up its list of official watermen -- places coveted principally because they gave freedom from impressment: CSPD 1659-60, p. 343.“
I don’t recall hearing about that privilege being changed.
"✹ Montresor on 28 Dec 2010 • Link • Flag "Is it possible that this rebellious display by the republican soldiery was directed in protest against the impending trial, in the very same courtroom that once was the Star Chamber's own, of Col. John Jones, for his participation in the execution of Charles I --- a trial that Pepys was to participate in, and in which he was supposed to testify against Jones? No wonder he hid in the attic during these martial demonstrations."
NO NO NO NO ... Col. Jones had been embezzling funds from the Irish, and Pepys et al were to testify, presumably with some incriminating paperwork.
True, Col. Jones becomes a Regicide after Charles II returns later in the year, but right now Parliament is nominally in control, so that is not an issue yet.
These troops are the remnants of the departing Parliamentary troops (paid off by Pepys that morning until the money ran out) which are being replaced by Monck's incoming troops. All this has been negotiated between the City fathers, Parliament and Monck, but there are "feelings" in the ranks.
On the subject of pay, according to my book on FAIRFAX (Sir Thomas) -- unfortunately on loan to a friend so I can't give you the exact quote -- Army pay was about 2 years in arrears. Parliament had offered the men a few months' pay in order to disband, but they were refusing to go. The opposite of the usual strike ... they were staying ON the job, terrifying the politicians.
Noooo, not these Dutchmen. Pepys never mentions drinking Gin, so there is no Encyclopedia place for this information: Gin emerged in England in varying forms at the beginning of the 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration it enjoyed a brief resurgence. There were some 400 small Dutch and Flemish distillers in Amsterdam alone by 1663. The formation by King Charles I of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, where members had the sole right to distil spirits in London and Westminster and up to 21 miles beyond, improved both the quality of English gin and its image; it also helped English agriculture by using surplus corn and barley. Dutch gin, known as jenever, or Madam Geneva, was distilled with barley. English troops fighting in the Thirty Years War discovered this drink, which is the origin of the phrase “Dutch Courage.” For more information, see http://www.ginvodka.org/history/g…
"... having got a great cold I think by my pulling off my periwigg so often."
Why did he pull it off a lot today? ... maybe he did that so Charles II wouldn't recognize him? -- but that would only take a few minutes. He did spend quite a lot of time outside today, so maybe it was windy. I wonder how they anchored their wigs on their heads. In the annotations it says: “Men had to learn ‘wig behaviour’ — you tossed the wig aside when bowing, or it all fell over your face.” -- From Ann Pasternak Slater's review in the 29 April 2006 "Guardian Review". So apparently it just slipped around up there. Or he did more than the usual amount of bowing today?
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About Friday 5 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Breast cancer was a problem:
“Dr. William Harvey’s practice was not very great towards his later end; he declined it, unless to a special friend, — e.g. my Lady Howland, who had a cancer in her breast, which he did cut-off and seared, but at last she died of it.”
http://www.she-philosopher.com/ib…
Dr. Harvey, of circulation fame, died in 1657. I have yet to discover who Lady Howland was.
About Friday 5 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pepys must be disappointed. He’s been working on finding a place to lay masts in water for ages:
13 January 1664 -- Dr. Whistler explained to Pepys why keeping masts dry was inadvisable: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…...
Sunday 21 February 1664 -- “I spent all the morning there drawing up a letter to Mr. Coventry about preserving of masts,”
23 February 1664: Further Corr., pp. 15-19. Pepys argued, largely on the advice of Warren, that the best method would be to submerge the masts in the water of creeks. He opposed the building of a mast-house at Deptford, and the suggestion of keeping them in the proposed new dock at Chatham. (Per L&M footnote)
Tuesday 12 July 1664 – “After dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten to view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in.”
SPOILER: In 1689, after Pepys had retired, a wet-dock for masts was built at Deptford.
There are probably more mentions, but I have not corralled them.
About Friday 5 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... Sir Robert Long, to give him my Privy Seal and my Lord Treasurer’s order for Tangier Tallys; ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aud…
The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer was an office in the English Exchequer. The office originated in early times as the clerk of the Lord High Treasurer at the Receipt of the Exchequer. He was responsible for filing and entering the Teller's Bills from the Tellers of the Exchequer, certifying monies received to the Lord Treasurer, and auditing the books of the Tellers.
The title of Auditor was officially attached to the post, combined with that of Tally Writer, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
For such an unpopular person, Sir Robert Long, 1st Bart. of Draycot, seems to have been trusted with a great deal of power over the money.
About Thursday 4 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"One which put out his Holland ancient was a Zeelander come from St. Christopher’s with sugar, cotton and indigo taken by the Breda."
What is a Holland ancient?
"a Zeelander come from St. Christopher’s with sugar, cotton and indigo" presumably means a ship from Zeeland loaded with sugar etc., returning from St. Kitts.
And I'm guessing "the Breda" is a British ship.
About Monday 1 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"MS: ‘Says-Court May.1:65.’ P visited Sayes Court in the evening (‘it being dark and late’ - diary) on this day, perhaps in response to the letter though he does not mention it (ibid). E was not there and states in his own diary only that he went to London on 1 May. He had presumably departed before P arrived.
http://www.romanbritain.freeserve…... "
This link no longer works. My access to Evelyn's Diary is:
http://brittlebooks.library.illin…
This reads:
28th April, 1665. I went to Tunbridge, to see a solemn exercise at the free-school there.
Having taken orders with my marshal about my prisoners, and with the doctor and chirurgeon to attend the wounded enemies, and of our own men, I went to London again, and visited my charge, several with legs and arms off; miserable objects, God knows.
16th May, 1665. To London, to consider of the poor orphans and widows made by this bloody beginning, and whose husbands and relations perished in the London frigate, of which there were fifty widows, and forty-five of them with child."
If anyone knows where Evelyn's trip to London on May Day 1665 is recorded, I'd love to hear.
About Monday 1 May 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Not a heartening start to a FABULOUS day:
"Up and to Mr. Povy’s, and by his bedside talked a good while. Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of getting of money, and would fain have me to concur in the thinking of some other way of disposing of the place of Treasurer to one Mr. Bell, but I did seem slight of it, and resolved to try to do the best or to give it up."
My understanding of this is that Povy is relieved to be rid of the responsibility of raising money for Tangier, but is discouraging Pepys from selling the Treasurer-ship to Bell. Pepys will ignore Povy's advice and try to sell to Bell anyways, but if he's stuck with the job, he is resolved to do his best.
About Sunday 30 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Can anyone check Pedro's entry today with the official record please?
"The Duke proposes consideration of what attempt could be made on the Dutch Fleet at Texel that had been hinted by Prince Rupert, Sandwich and Downing. They we left to consider."
Is Downing on board? -- seems to me his life in The Hague would be difficult now. Or has Downing been writing letters to Sandwich and the Duke of York making recommendations?
And I suspect the last sentence is: "Then we left to consider."???
About Sunday 30 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
In October 1663 we had a discussion about the plague being in Amsterdam:
"... the plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to Hambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their ships coming into the river."
Bubonic plague was endemic in N. Africa and the Near East. This outbreak in Holland was at its height in the summer of 1664. The 1665 outbreak in England was unrelated. (L&M note)
So apparently, we cannot blame the capture of Dutch prize ships and sailors for the epidemic. More likely it came from those East Indiamen, and fleas taking a ride on the exotic goods from the Ottoman empire.
About Saturday 23 August 1662
San Diego Sarah • Link
HA ... proofreading! -- should be 10,000 barges of course! Nevertheless, what a sight.
About Saturday 23 August 1662
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... two pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily; and they tell me the Queen is Sir. Richard Ford’s daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at White Hall Bridge, and the great guns on the other side went off: ..."
I read this as: The first pageant featured Sir Richard Ford's daughter as a Queen, and an unknown young man as a King. The second pageant featured the real Charles II and Queen Catherine under a canopy, with 100,000 barges, and Pepys can't see where they moored because there was so much chaos.
About Friday 28 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN
http://brittlebooks.library.illin…
28th April, 1665. I went to Tunbridge, to see a solemn exercise at the free-school there.
Having taken orders with my marshal about my prisoners, and with the doctor and chirurgeon to attend the wounded enemies, and of our own men, I went to London again, and visited my charge, several with legs and arms off; miserable objects, God knows.
About Friday 28 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"28 April Pepys to Sir William Clark: The Duke of York had on the 25th written a strong protest about the victualing."
Since the fleet was off Texel by the 25th, I suspect this letter was written by York on the 21st, and received by Pepys on the 25th.
The Journals of Montagu and Allin, both edited by Anderson say: On the 21st the Fleet had sailed after being in sight of Orford Ness.
Maybe William Penn Jr. or Hewer brought the letter(s) home for Pepys?
The other alternative was that it was written on the 25th and brought by carrier pigeon from Texel to London, because I don't think a sailing ship and a relay of horses could make it in three days.
About Friday 28 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
Just in case you've forgotten why Pepys wrote to Albermarle about victualing/watermen problems:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
Friday 17 March 1665 -- The Duke did give us some commands, and so broke up, not taking leave of him. But the best piece of news is that instead of a great many troublesome Lords, the whole business is to be left with the Duke of Albemarle to act as Admiral in his stead; which is a thing that do cheer my heart. For the other would have vexed us with attendance, and never done the business.
L&M footnote: Albemarle (George Monck) is to assume the role ['Admiral on Land'] the Admiralty Committee of the Privy Council (the 'troublesome Lords') played during the previous fall's campaign.
Clearly the Duke of York's decision paid off today.
About Friday 28 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
On February 2, 1659/60 Pepys learned about a bogus petition to Parliament which deprived the watermen of some benefits which were now given or shared with the hackney drivers.
In an annotation to that page by Terry of 19 March, 2017 he specifically notes: “On the day before this second address was presented the Council of State had drawn up its list of official watermen -- places coveted principally because they gave freedom from impressment: CSPD 1659-60, p. 343.“
I don’t recall hearing about that privilege being changed.
About Thursday 2 February 1659/60
San Diego Sarah • Link
Somehow I don't think the Montresor of 28 Dec 2010 is the same guy!!!! 8-)
About Thursday 2 February 1659/60
San Diego Sarah • Link
"✹ Montresor on 28 Dec 2010 • Link • Flag
"Is it possible that this rebellious display by the republican soldiery was directed in protest against the impending trial, in the very same courtroom that once was the Star Chamber's own, of Col. John Jones, for his participation in the execution of Charles I --- a trial that Pepys was to participate in, and in which he was supposed to testify against Jones? No wonder he hid in the attic during these martial demonstrations."
NO NO NO NO ... Col. Jones had been embezzling funds from the Irish, and Pepys et al were to testify, presumably with some incriminating paperwork.
True, Col. Jones becomes a Regicide after Charles II returns later in the year, but right now Parliament is nominally in control, so that is not an issue yet.
These troops are the remnants of the departing Parliamentary troops (paid off by Pepys that morning until the money ran out) which are being replaced by Monck's incoming troops. All this has been negotiated between the City fathers, Parliament and Monck, but there are "feelings" in the ranks.
On the subject of pay, according to my book on FAIRFAX (Sir Thomas) -- unfortunately on loan to a friend so I can't give you the exact quote -- Army pay was about 2 years in arrears. Parliament had offered the men a few months' pay in order to disband, but they were refusing to go. The opposite of the usual strike ... they were staying ON the job, terrifying the politicians.
About Tuesday 25 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
For those of you in London on May 16 at 1 p.m. this year:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lecture…
Gresham College is featuring the guitar music Samuel would have played and enjoyed. Free of charge, also.
About Tuesday 25 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... a refreshing dutch brew of larger."
Noooo, not these Dutchmen. Pepys never mentions drinking Gin, so there is no Encyclopedia place for this information: Gin emerged in England in varying forms at the beginning of the 17th century, and at the time of the Restoration it enjoyed a brief resurgence. There were some 400 small Dutch and Flemish distillers in Amsterdam alone by 1663. The formation by King Charles I of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, where members had the sole right to distil spirits in London and Westminster and up to 21 miles beyond, improved both the quality of English gin and its image; it also helped English agriculture by using surplus corn and barley. Dutch gin, known as jenever, or Madam Geneva, was distilled with barley. English troops fighting in the Thirty Years War discovered this drink, which is the origin of the phrase “Dutch Courage.” For more information, see http://www.ginvodka.org/history/g…
About Sunday 23 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
So Richard and Morgan are good nominations, Sasha. There was a King Morgan. But Ollie isn't going to make it, of that I am quite sure.
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About Monday 24 April 1665
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... having got a great cold I think by my pulling off my periwigg so often."
Why did he pull it off a lot today? ... maybe he did that so Charles II wouldn't recognize him? -- but that would only take a few minutes. He did spend quite a lot of time outside today, so maybe it was windy. I wonder how they anchored their wigs on their heads. In the annotations it says: “Men had to learn ‘wig behaviour’ — you tossed the wig aside when bowing, or it all fell over your face.” -- From Ann Pasternak Slater's review in the 29 April 2006 "Guardian Review". So apparently it just slipped around up there. Or he did more than the usual amount of bowing today?