John Bland's wife, Sarah Green Bland, shared in the management of his trading business, and was in Virginia at his death in 1680.
Thomas Povey, whom Bland in his will refers to as his 'choicest friend', was associated with them in some of their enterprises (the Tangier victualing among them); and took legal action against the widow and executors in 1691.
Giles Bland, their son, was also employed in Tangier, married Thomas Povey's daughter, Frances Povey. He was executed in 1677 for his part in the Virginian rebellion of 1676; his mother, Sarah Green Bland, shocked the Navy Board by writing in vindication of his innocence 'comparing thereof to that of his sacred Majesty'.
"Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having received so lately a token from Mrs. Russell, ..."
Apart from feeling bad about leaving Mrs. Russell holding a large load of tallow, Pepys must have felt happy today. He spends hours in the afternoon at the bookstore spending the King's reimbursement on books for his own library apparently guilt-free, he has a drink at lunchtime with Elizabeth to celebrate the shortest day of the year (which it wasn't) and never mentions his vows, he visits his brother and the shoemaker to discuss personal things and the theater, and goes home after dark. Not a word about Sandwich, even when learning his brother-in-law is dying. Pretty warm weather after rain, ice and snow has an amazing effect.
December 10, 1663: "Calling at Wotton’s, my shoemaker’s, today, he tells me ... that Harris is come to the Duke’s house again; and of a rare play to be acted this week of Sir William Davenant’s: the story of Henry the Eighth with all his wives."
Davenant revived Shakespeare's Henry VIII at the Duke's House Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields. There is no evidence of Davenant altering this particular play, although he usually did because he did not own the copyright to the originals. Henry VIII was first performed in 1613, and appeared in print in 1623. Downes (p.24) describes this revival as a great success and that Thomas Patrick Betterton played Henry VIII, 'he being instructed in it by Sir William (Davenant), who had had it from Old Mr. Lowen, that had his Instructions from Mr. Shakespeare himself ....' [Henry or Joseph] Harris appeared as Wolsey, and Betterton's wife, Mary Saunderson, was Queen Katherine.
Yer, Terry ... it was quite a vision for a moment.
Anyways, to quote your annotation of 28 Oct., 2016, "In August. to save money, public dining days by members of the royal family on certain days of the week before 'Persons of good Fashion and good Appearance' had been discontinued." Sadly you didn't give the link, and I have been unable to find it.
So my reading of this was that the royal family had taken up public dining again, but in modest surroundings.
Some of the books listed above are available free of charge through archive.org. This evening I found this post:
Dear Internet Archive Patrons, We need your help to make sure the Internet Archive lasts forever. On November 9, 2016 we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. This is a firm reminder that the Internet Archive must also design for change. So we set a new goal: to create a copy of our collections in the Internet Archive of Canada. This will cost millions. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons when government surveillance may be on the rise. The Internet Archive is a non-profit library built on trust. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t accept ads. We don’t collect your personal information. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. If everyone reading this gave $50, we could end our fundraiser right now. If you find us useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.
If you enjoy books on archive.org, please be aware of the following which I found posted tonight:
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Lord Berkeley (John, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
Lord Berkeley (John, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
Lord Berkeley (John Berkeley, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
I'd love to know what "altogether" means here ... "In the altogether" means naked in British slang, so that was my first mental picture! Clearly erroneous -- too cold. The tables being down probably means that they had been folded up and put away (a la hotel banquet/ball rooms today). So Charles II has started dining at a raised table enclosed by a rail with just a few people recently ... maybe "altogether" means this was becoming a frequent event.
This change could be a sign that Charles' efforts at "austerity" were easing? We know Carteret's message last week that the Navy's bills were current was not true ... see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ... so perhaps someone in the central accounting office had fudged the books and had announced good news prematurely ... or some other source of funds had presented itself? It's impossible to make a case with only two examples.
Alternatively, perhaps Charles thought it was important to show he wasn't intimidated by the recent plotters, and that in spite of Catherine's illness, everything was normal at Court. see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… for the plot.
Timber scale from the Mary Rose: Gresham College | Lecture Archive HISTORY FROM BELOW: MATHEMATICS, INSTRUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY Dr Stephen Johnston http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.as…...
I followed the link and find Gresham College has 1,900 talks available free of charge, and lots of different subjects to choose from. Needless to say, I signed up. This lecture on the Timber Rule from the Mary Rose (Henry VIII's pride and joy that tipped over in heavy seas, the remains of which can be seen at Portsmouth) is somewhere in archives, and I did not go digging tonight. But you can have some fun doing it ...
Capt. John Allen -- Clerk of the Ropeyard, Chatham 1660-1663 -- (L&M Companion) Yesterday the hemp arrives from Archangel ... today hob-nobbing with the rope maker at his house. Quality time with Coventry, Batten and Mennes. Cousin Sandwich might make an unpleasant stink, but Pepys doesn't have anything to worry about really.
As of 1660, Naval Board General powers (L&M Companion): The Board was to make most of its decisions jointly. It was required to meet twice a week, the hours and days being varied during parliamentary session for the benefit of the members who were MP's or peers.
In 1660 when it was getting into its stride and in crises, during the war and after, it met more frequently. Two members constituted a quorum. The clerks were present except when the Board resolved to meet "close".
According to Claire Tomalin's "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self" pp 49-50:
The members of the Navy Board were appointed by Charles II and whoever he chose to listen to. In 1660 that was Sandwich, as vice-admiral, James, Duke of York and his secretary, William Coventry.
They agreed the board should consist of four principal officers, as it had done under King Charles -- treasurer, comptroller, surveyor and clerk of the acts -- and three commissioners, a system that had worked well under the commonwealth.
Sir George Carteret, an impeccable royalist whose service at sea had begun under King Charles, was appointed Treasurer.
The comptrollership went to two aged cavaliers, first Sir Robert Slingsby (who died within a year), then Sir John Mennes, whose naval career went back to the 1620s. He had fought with Prince Rupert probably against William Penn.
The surveyor, with particular responsibility for the dockyards and the design, building and repair of ships, was Sir William Batten, a professional who had served on both sides during the civil war.
Of the commissioners, Sir William Penn was given a brief to take an interest in every aspect of the board's work, also owed his appointment to his years of experience as a naval commander.
Another commisioner, Peter Pett, the master-shipwright at Chatham, had served Cromwell; no change of government could unseat him because the Pett family had a monopoly of shipbuilding in the Thames yards.
Lord Berkeley, the third commissioner, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
There were further officers working at the more distant dockyards, Harwich and Portsmouth, some with histories of service to the commonwealth. Other minor officials left over from commonwealth days contrived to hang on in lesser Jobs.
Each officer of the Navy Board was served by two clerks, chosen by himself and usually owing their jobs to personal connections, just as their master did. Pepys was quick to defend his two, Tom Hayter and Will Hewer, against any criticism and to attack inefficiency among the other.
The rest of the staff served everyone: two messengers, a doorkeeper, a porter and couple of watchmen; and there were boatmen ready to take all the board official up or down river at all times.
Navy Board organization ... I imagine they had a Calendar, with the likely whereabouts of the members in case a quorum needed to be called. Pepys as Clerk is in charge of the office. Someone is supposed to be in the office at all times to meet with passing Captains and vendors.
This works well enough, unless Parliament is in session. An example of this happened last year:
"Up late and by water to Westminster Hall ... Up to the Lobby, and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told them if they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John Minnes being already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such business there, which they thought well of, and so I went home and prepared myself to go after dinner with Sir W. Batten."
Penn was probably ill at the time, so Pepys needed permission to go with Batten, leaving only under-clerks in the office.
"For example, today Pepys travels to wet and windy Woolwich, to examine a hempe ship ... Why him?"
On November 23 a hemp ship from Archangel was feared lost, and Pepys spent a day trying to get insurance on it before hearing that it was safe. But Pepys was hooked on insurance education for the rest of the week. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
If this is the same ship, Pepys would be the person in the office most familiar with what should be in the hold. No barrels of straw with a couple of pounds of hemp lying on top, thank you very much. The Navy Board might also be interested in hearing first hand why it was so late.
Otherwise, I have not seen anyone checking on recently-arrived ships before. Paying off the crew of men-of-war, yes, but a cargo ship?
Australian Susan: You have the right idea, but the wrong name. It's a Bill of LADING:
Today a bill of lading is a legal document between the shipper of goods and the carrier detailing the type, quantity and destination of the goods being carried. The bill of lading also serves as a receipt of shipment when the goods are delivered at the predetermined destination. This document must accompany the shipped goods, no matter the form of transportation, and must be signed by an authorized representative from the carrier, shipper and receiver.
I have no idea if they were in use in the 17th century, but they must have had something along these lines.
From about 1655, a pint of rum was given to every sailor in the Navy every day. Half was served at 12 noon, and the other half at between 5 or 6 p.m. (the amount decreased in later years). Known as Pusser’s Rum (the name a corruption of Purser, the person who issued the rum), sailors had a daily tot of rum until the practice ended on 31 July 1970.
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About Sarah Bland
San Diego Sarah • Link
John Bland's wife, Sarah Green Bland, shared in the management of his trading business, and was in Virginia at his death in 1680.
Thomas Povey, whom Bland in his will refers to as his 'choicest friend', was associated with them in some of their enterprises (the Tangier victualing among them); and took legal action against the widow and executors in 1691.
Giles Bland, their son, was also employed in Tangier, married Thomas Povey's daughter, Frances Povey. He was executed in 1677 for his part in the Virginian rebellion of 1676; his mother, Sarah Green Bland, shocked the Navy Board by writing in vindication of his innocence 'comparing thereof to that of his sacred Majesty'.
About Thursday 10 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having received so lately a token from Mrs. Russell, ..."
Apart from feeling bad about leaving Mrs. Russell holding a large load of tallow, Pepys must have felt happy today. He spends hours in the afternoon at the bookstore spending the King's reimbursement on books for his own library apparently guilt-free, he has a drink at lunchtime with Elizabeth to celebrate the shortest day of the year (which it wasn't) and never mentions his vows, he visits his brother and the shoemaker to discuss personal things and the theater, and goes home after dark. Not a word about Sandwich, even when learning his brother-in-law is dying. Pretty warm weather after rain, ice and snow has an amazing effect.
About Henry VIII (William Shakespeare)
San Diego Sarah • Link
December 10, 1663:
"Calling at Wotton’s, my shoemaker’s, today, he tells me ... that Harris is come to the Duke’s house again; and of a rare play to be acted this week of Sir William Davenant’s: the story of Henry the Eighth with all his wives."
Davenant revived Shakespeare's Henry VIII at the Duke's House Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields. There is no evidence of Davenant altering this particular play, although he usually did because he did not own the copyright to the originals. Henry VIII was first performed in 1613, and appeared in print in 1623. Downes (p.24) describes this revival as a great success and that Thomas Patrick Betterton played Henry VIII, 'he being instructed in it by Sir William (Davenant), who had had it from Old Mr. Lowen, that had his Instructions from Mr. Shakespeare himself ....' [Henry or Joseph] Harris appeared as Wolsey, and Betterton's wife, Mary Saunderson, was Queen Katherine.
For more information : http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Thursday 10 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Tallow ... worthy as any tacky weevil infested cheese." Pull the other leg,
cumgranosalis. Weevils like wheat, pasta and rice, but not cheese!
About Monday 7 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Yer, Terry ... it was quite a vision for a moment.
Anyways, to quote your annotation of 28 Oct., 2016, "In August. to save money, public dining days by members of the royal family on certain days of the week before 'Persons of good Fashion and good Appearance' had been discontinued." Sadly you didn't give the link, and I have been unable to find it.
So my reading of this was that the royal family had taken up public dining again, but in modest surroundings.
About Thursday 10 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Some of the books listed above are available free of charge through archive.org. This evening I found this post:
Dear Internet Archive Patrons,
We need your help to make sure the Internet Archive lasts forever. On November 9, 2016 we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. This is a firm reminder that the Internet Archive must also design for change. So we set a new goal: to create a copy of our collections in the Internet Archive of Canada. This will cost millions. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons when government surveillance may be on the rise. The Internet Archive is a non-profit library built on trust. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t accept ads. We don’t collect your personal information. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. If everyone reading this gave $50, we could end our fundraiser right now. If you find us useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.
About Anon's 'Cabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government...'
San Diego Sarah • Link
If you enjoy books on archive.org, please be aware of the following which I found posted tonight:
Dear Internet Archive Patrons,
We need your help to make sure the Internet Archive lasts forever. On November 9, 2016 we woke up to a new administration promising radical change. This is a firm reminder that the Internet Archive must also design for change. So we set a new goal: to create a copy of our collections in the Internet Archive of Canada. This will cost millions. For us, it means keeping our cultural materials safe, private and perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons when government surveillance may be on the rise. The Internet Archive is a non-profit library built on trust. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t accept ads. We don’t collect your personal information. But we still need to pay for servers, staff and rent. If everyone reading this gave $50, we could end our fundraiser right now. If you find us useful, please give what you can today. Thank you.
About Tangier Committee
San Diego Sarah • Link
OOOppps ... "Perhaps I just haven't read enough of the Dairy yet ..." that should be DIARY of course!
About Tuesday 8 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Lord Berkeley (John, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
About Sir John Berkeley (1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Lord Berkeley (John, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
About Sir John Berkeley (1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Lord Berkeley (John Berkeley, 1st Lord Berkeley of Stratton), the third commissioner to the Navy Board as of 1660, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
About Monday 7 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
I'd love to know what "altogether" means here ... "In the altogether" means naked in British slang, so that was my first mental picture! Clearly erroneous -- too cold. The tables being down probably means that they had been folded up and put away (a la hotel banquet/ball rooms today). So Charles II has started dining at a raised table enclosed by a rail with just a few people recently ... maybe "altogether" means this was becoming a frequent event.
This change could be a sign that Charles' efforts at "austerity" were easing? We know Carteret's message last week that the Navy's bills were current was not true ... see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ... so perhaps someone in the central accounting office had fudged the books and had announced good news prematurely ... or some other source of funds had presented itself? It's impossible to make a case with only two examples.
Alternatively, perhaps Charles thought it was important to show he wasn't intimidated by the recent plotters, and that in spite of Catherine's illness, everything was normal at Court. see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… for the plot.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall. So many questions.
About Sunday 6 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
JWB posted this in the encyclopedia in 2006:
Timber scale from the Mary Rose:
Gresham College | Lecture Archive
HISTORY FROM BELOW: MATHEMATICS, INSTRUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Dr Stephen Johnston
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.as…...
I followed the link and find Gresham College has 1,900 talks available free of charge, and lots of different subjects to choose from. Needless to say, I signed up. This lecture on the Timber Rule from the Mary Rose (Henry VIII's pride and joy that tipped over in heavy seas, the remains of which can be seen at Portsmouth) is somewhere in archives, and I did not go digging tonight. But you can have some fun doing it ...
About Saturday 5 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Capt. John Allen -- Clerk of the Ropeyard, Chatham 1660-1663 -- (L&M Companion)
Yesterday the hemp arrives from Archangel ... today hob-nobbing with the rope maker at his house.
Quality time with Coventry, Batten and Mennes.
Cousin Sandwich might make an unpleasant stink, but Pepys doesn't have anything to worry about really.
About Friday 4 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
As of 1660, Naval Board General powers (L&M Companion):
The Board was to make most of its decisions jointly. It was required to meet twice a week, the hours and days being varied during parliamentary session for the benefit of the members who were MP's or peers.
In 1660 when it was getting into its stride and in crises, during the war and after, it met more frequently. Two members constituted a quorum. The clerks were present except when the Board resolved to meet "close".
According to Claire Tomalin's "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self" pp 49-50:
The members of the Navy Board were appointed by Charles II and whoever he chose to listen to. In 1660 that was Sandwich, as vice-admiral, James, Duke of York and his secretary, William Coventry.
They agreed the board should consist of four principal officers, as it had done under King Charles -- treasurer, comptroller, surveyor and clerk of the acts -- and three commissioners, a system that had worked well under the commonwealth.
Sir George Carteret, an impeccable royalist whose service at sea had begun under King Charles, was appointed Treasurer.
The comptrollership went to two aged cavaliers, first Sir Robert Slingsby (who died within a year), then Sir John Mennes, whose naval career went back to the 1620s. He had fought with Prince Rupert probably against William Penn.
The surveyor, with particular responsibility for the dockyards and the design, building and repair of ships, was Sir William Batten, a professional who had served on both sides during the civil war.
Of the commissioners, Sir William Penn was given a brief to take an interest in every aspect of the board's work, also owed his appointment to his years of experience as a naval commander.
Another commisioner, Peter Pett, the master-shipwright at Chatham, had served Cromwell; no change of government could unseat him because the Pett family had a monopoly of shipbuilding in the Thames yards.
Lord Berkeley, the third commissioner, was appointed purely as a sign of royal favor; nothing was expected of him.
There were further officers working at the more distant dockyards, Harwich and Portsmouth, some with histories of service to the commonwealth. Other minor officials left over from commonwealth days contrived to hang on in lesser Jobs.
Each officer of the Navy Board was served by two clerks, chosen by himself and usually owing their jobs to personal connections, just as their master did. Pepys was quick to defend his two, Tom Hayter and Will Hewer, against any criticism and to attack inefficiency among the other.
The rest of the staff served everyone: two messengers, a doorkeeper, a porter and couple of watchmen; and there were boatmen ready to take all the board official up or down river at all times.
About Friday 4 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Navy Board organization ... I imagine they had a Calendar, with the likely whereabouts of the members in case a quorum needed to be called. Pepys as Clerk is in charge of the office. Someone is supposed to be in the office at all times to meet with passing Captains and vendors.
This works well enough, unless Parliament is in session. An example of this happened last year:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"Friday 10 July 1663
"Up late and by water to Westminster Hall ... Up to the Lobby, and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told them if they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John Minnes being already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such business there, which they thought well of, and so I went home and prepared myself to go after dinner with Sir W. Batten."
Penn was probably ill at the time, so Pepys needed permission to go with Batten, leaving only under-clerks in the office.
About Friday 4 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"For example, today Pepys travels to wet and windy Woolwich, to examine a hempe ship ... Why him?"
On November 23 a hemp ship from Archangel was feared lost, and Pepys spent a day trying to get insurance on it before hearing that it was safe. But Pepys was hooked on insurance education for the rest of the week.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
If this is the same ship, Pepys would be the person in the office most familiar with what should be in the hold. No barrels of straw with a couple of pounds of hemp lying on top, thank you very much. The Navy Board might also be interested in hearing first hand why it was so late.
Otherwise, I have not seen anyone checking on recently-arrived ships before. Paying off the crew of men-of-war, yes, but a cargo ship?
About Friday 4 December 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Australian Susan: You have the right idea, but the wrong name. It's a Bill of LADING:
Today a bill of lading is a legal document between the shipper of goods and the carrier detailing the type, quantity and destination of the goods being carried. The bill of lading also serves as a receipt of shipment when the goods are delivered at the predetermined destination. This document must accompany the shipped goods, no matter the form of transportation, and must be signed by an authorized representative from the carrier, shipper and receiver.
I have no idea if they were in use in the 17th century, but they must have had something along these lines.
Read more: Bill Of Lading Definition | Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/terms…
About Rum
San Diego Sarah • Link
From about 1655, a pint of rum was given to every sailor in the Navy every day. Half was served at 12 noon, and the other half at between 5 or 6 p.m. (the amount decreased in later years). Known as Pusser’s Rum (the name a corruption of Purser, the person who issued the rum), sailors had a daily tot of rum until the practice ended on 31 July 1970.
Read more at http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/beh…...
About Strong water
San Diego Sarah • Link
I found the answer and posted it under RUM.