The Maypole had been taken down during the Interregnum.
By one account a new 134-foot maypole was put up in May 1661 by a party of sailors under James, Duke of York.
By another account, John Clarges is credited with setting up the new Maypole in the Strand at the time of the Restoration, upon its former site. Clarges was farrier to Colonel George Monck, and father of Anne 'Nan' Clarges (who married Monck after serving him during his imprisonment). John Clarges lived over his forge at the junction of the Strand and Drury Lane, near where the Maypole was set up.
I recall reading somewhere that the pole was taken down during the year and hung on the sides of some nearby buildings. I'll post these citations when I find them.
To clarify the New Theatre encyclopedia entry: The New Theatre was previously called the Theatre Royal (also known as the Vere Street Theatre). This is where Thomas Killegrew's King's company was established, after renovations to an old indoor tennis court in November, 1660. The company moved to Drury Lane in early 1663, and the building became a site for fencing matches.
Not so fast ... it wasn't necessarily alcoholic ... annotations from Saturday 30 May 1663 (condensed for readability): http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"... Creed and I ... to the New Exchange, and there drank our morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; ... and I believe it is very good."
✹ Ken Welsh on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag Well I'll be. All along I thought his morning draught was alcoholic and it turns out to be the same drink as little Miss Muffett enjoyed.
✹ dirk on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag morning draught: Could be alcoholic or not: beer (never wine or anything stronger -- and beer was consumed here for its nutritional value), whey, or even by this time hot chocolate... Cf. "Up and Mr. Creed brought a pot of chocolate ready made for our morning draft." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
✹ Mary on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag whey: Apparently whey was considered to be more wholesome for adults at this period than whole milk; the latter was deemed most suitable for infants and the elderly. (L&M)
✹ Don McCahill on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag Whay: Wasn't the Thames terribly polluted by this time, and thus undrinkable? This led people to drink other things, and whey would be one of the few non-alcoholic drinks available.
✹ Nix on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag Perhaps the morning draught was fermented whey --http://jds.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/11/...
✹ in Aqua Scripto on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag no Yogurt: it be milk that be going sour, mixed with a little baccilus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lact…...
"... then to the Duke’s house, and there saw “The Slighted Mayde,” wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor.
"The play is not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in all particulars, are better than at the other house." So Gosnell was good on the stage. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Pepys has made a mistake: Today is Charles II's birthday. He was crowned on April 23, 1661. There was talk about making a new order of nobility celebrated on May 29 as Royal Oak Day, but it never came to anything.
Thanks, Terry ... that link has these annotations (and many more):
vicenzo on 1 Feb 2005 • Link • Flag the title Mistress as used by Bard has a heavier overtones than Mrs. Mrs. being less intimate;
Mary on 31 Jan 2005 • Link • Flag Miss/Mrs. -- At this time, the appellation 'miss' could be less than respectful and signify a mistress (in the carnal sense) or a whore. Cf. John Evelyn's comment on the prostitutes of Venice; "The common misses go abroad bare fac'd."
So calling her Mrs. Ashwell implies an element of respect for Ashwell's position, more than just Ashwell which refers to her position of a senior servant. Maybe why he changed her title now will be revealed later. And maybe it was just a slip of the pen at an emotional time.
"Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and Parliament make the Hall full of people ..." so the MPs and the Lords are mingling, doing business in Westminster Hall.
But what does Term mean? Was Westminster School there too ... and the boys are there because they haven't been sent home for the summer break yet?
"... but I continued in my chamber vexed and angry till he went away, pretending aloud, that I might hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs. Ashwell not being within they could not dance." this confirms my theory that Ashwell provided the music while the dance lesson went on.
Is it significant that Pepys now refers to her as MRS, Ashwell instead of just Ashwell??? I've been wondering why she is not being held somewhat accountable for chaperoning ...
""Mr Holliard's pills" Do we know the ingredients? maybe senna?"
Since our encyclopedia doesn't have a medicine section, I reprint a purgative recipe from last year ... I haven't discovered any pill recipes yet:
✹ dirk on 29 Apr 2006 • Link • Flag 17th c. purgative A recipe from *the* 17th c. standard work by Nicholas Culpeper's: "The Complete Herbal and English Physician" "Syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhubarbaro -- Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb" Take of whole Barley, the roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagus, of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, Endive, smooth Sow-thistles, of each two handfuls, Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumitory, tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden-hair, white and black, Cetrachs, Liquorice, winter Cherries, Dodder, of each six drams, to boil these take 16 pounds of spring water, strain the liquor, and boil in it six pounds of white sugar, adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb, six drams of Spikenard, bound up in a thin slack rag the which crush often in boiling, and so make it into a Syrup according to art. It cleanses the body of venemous humors, as boils, carbuncles, and the like; it prevails against pestilential fevers, it strengthens the heart and nutritive virtue, purges by stool and urine, it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat, and provokes sleep. [...] This I believe, the Syrup cleanses the liver well, and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with hypocondriac melancholy. [...] http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66…....
"On a slightly indelicate note, why does he record taking the pill the day after by which time he would presumably know the outcome, or otherwise?"
It is unclear to me why Pepys records a lot of things, pill consumption included. Unless he anticipates referring back to it when he goes back to see Dr. Holliard for a refill of his prescription (sorry -- no such things then of course!). Transit time can be fascinating if you are a hypochondriac, which I think Sam tended to be. Every sore throat and sniffle is so carefully documented.
I Googled Royal Society, Pett, and 1662 or 1663, and up came the book review I copied on Dr. John amongst other references. Redoing the search tonight (possibly in a different order) up came Peter Pett as being a FRS member as of 1662 ... so I nominate Peter Pett now and am more than happy to abandon the mysterious Dr, John ...
Confusingly, tonight I also found lists of the 8,000 members of the R.S. since inception, and there are TWO Peter Petts as original members ... on the R.S. site one is listed as a Sir, and according to a Wikipedia list one was a lawyer (but each list missed the detail captured on the other list). And no Dr. John Pett ever on either list. https://royalsociety.org/~/media/…
My apologies for confusing everyone. And thank you, Sasha, for the Pell info. Axe Yard had illustrious residents.
I've been wondering where Ashwell was in all this; surely she should have been chaperoning Mrs. Pepys? If they were in collusion to enable Elizabeth's bad behave, Pepys should have fired her. In my imagine Ashwell plays the dance music for these lessons, and once when she went downstairs to bring up a jug of water and glasses, Pepys walks in and finds Elizabeth and Pemberton alone. Ashwell didn't get into trouble because she was doing her job. Or something. I suppose we will never know ...
John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles ... https://books.google.com/books?is… Noel Malcolm, Jacqueline Stedall - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography The Books denyd, &c., and Dr. Pell noe freind to the Royall Society. ... 'Pett' would seem to be Sir John Pett, F.R.S.; but there is a possibility that Hooke meant Sir ...
Looking at the text of the book, it is no more helpful. Apart from this I have not been able to find anything, under general search, Hooke's diary or biographies, or histories of the Royal Society..
Sir John Pett was a member of the Royal Society. However, Google gives me no other information. Given that Christopher Pett was the 11th child, and Peter was one brother, there's lots of room for other smart older brothers. Any information anyone?
On second thoughts, "But, Lord! in what a poor condition her best chamber is, and things about her, ..., but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary to my expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it." Pepys is reporting that they are messy. We know they don't have wardrobes to hang things in (things were folded into chests) ... that good help is hard to find and harder to keep ... and goodness knows, they all stank. If you don't like it, you need to invent cupboards, Sam!
As I read it, Dr, and Mrs. Clerke live in Whitehall -- possibly in the Palace itself -- which was built: "In 1529, Henry Vlll got fed up with Westminster Palace and built himself another one which he called Whitehall Palace. It covered 23 acres and it was the official royal residence until it burned down in 1698." If so the Clerke's accommodations could have been about 135 years old. I suspect it was harder to do renovations in the Palaces than at the Navy buildings (where they could use Navy Yard workmen who had access to wood, etc., and could prefab off-site, and where there was less-frequented space to set up scaffolding, etc.). In which case, I'm not surprised Pepys' bedroom was nicer than the Clerkes'.
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About Monday 1 June 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
The Maypole had been taken down during the Interregnum.
By one account a new 134-foot maypole was put up in May 1661 by a party of sailors under James, Duke of York.
By another account, John Clarges is credited with setting up the new Maypole in the Strand at the time of the Restoration, upon its former site. Clarges was farrier to Colonel George Monck, and father of Anne 'Nan' Clarges (who married Monck after serving him during his imprisonment). John Clarges lived over his forge at the junction of the Strand and Drury Lane, near where the Maypole was set up.
I recall reading somewhere that the pole was taken down during the year and hung on the sides of some nearby buildings. I'll post these citations when I find them.
About Monday 1 June 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
To clarify the New Theatre encyclopedia entry:
The New Theatre was previously called the Theatre Royal (also known as the Vere Street Theatre). This is where Thomas Killegrew's King's company was established, after renovations to an old indoor tennis court in November, 1660. The company moved to Drury Lane in early 1663, and the building became a site for fencing matches.
About The Adventures of Five Hours (Sir Samuel Tuke)
San Diego Sarah • Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Monday 1 June 1663
'Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o’clock, and made an end of “The Adventures of Five Houres,” and it is a most excellent play.'
About Monday 1 June 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
'To Dr. King, Dean of Tuam (Anglican), he observed in conversation, “The Scots have dealt very ill with me, very ill.”'
Charles II sounds like Donald Trump!
About Saturday 30 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Finally Creed leaves ... I wonder if these hilarious 'men's' nights have contributed to the recent communications problems with Mrs. P.
About Morning draught
San Diego Sarah • Link
Not so fast ... it wasn't necessarily alcoholic ... annotations from Saturday 30 May 1663 (condensed for readability):
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"... Creed and I ... to the New Exchange, and there drank our morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; ... and I believe it is very good."
✹ Ken Welsh on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
Well I'll be. All along I thought his morning draught was alcoholic and it turns out to be the same drink as little Miss Muffett enjoyed.
✹ dirk on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
morning draught: Could be alcoholic or not: beer (never wine or anything stronger -- and beer was consumed here for its nutritional value), whey, or even by this time hot chocolate...
Cf. "Up and Mr. Creed brought a pot of chocolate ready made for our morning draft." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
✹ Mary on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
whey: Apparently whey was considered to be more wholesome for adults at this period than whole milk; the latter was deemed most suitable for infants and the elderly. (L&M)
✹ Don McCahill on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
Whay: Wasn't the Thames terribly polluted by this time, and thus undrinkable? This led people to drink other things, and whey would be one of the few non-alcoholic drinks available.
✹ jeannine on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
Little Miss Muffet http://www.enchantedlearning.com/…...
✹ Nix on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
Perhaps the morning draught was fermented whey --http://jds.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/11/...
✹ in Aqua Scripto on 31 May 2006 • Link • Flag
no Yogurt: it be milk that be going sour, mixed with a little baccilus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lact…...
About Winifred Gosnell
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... then to the Duke’s house, and there saw “The Slighted Mayde,” wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor.
"The play is not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in all particulars, are better than at the other house." So Gosnell was good on the stage. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Friday 29 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pepys has made a mistake: Today is Charles II's birthday. He was crowned on April 23, 1661. There was talk about making a new order of nobility celebrated on May 29 as Royal Oak Day, but it never came to anything.
About Tuesday 26 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Thanks, Terry ... that link has these annotations (and many more):
vicenzo on 1 Feb 2005 • Link • Flag
the title Mistress as used by Bard has a heavier overtones than Mrs.
Mrs. being less intimate;
Mary on 31 Jan 2005 • Link • Flag
Miss/Mrs. -- At this time, the appellation 'miss' could be less than respectful and signify a mistress (in the carnal sense) or a whore. Cf. John Evelyn's comment on the prostitutes of Venice; "The common misses go abroad bare fac'd."
So calling her Mrs. Ashwell implies an element of respect for Ashwell's position, more than just Ashwell which refers to her position of a senior servant. Maybe why he changed her title now will be revealed later. And maybe it was just a slip of the pen at an emotional time.
About Wednesday 27 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and Parliament make the Hall full of people ..." so the MPs and the Lords are mingling, doing business in Westminster Hall.
But what does Term mean? Was Westminster School there too ... and the boys are there because they haven't been sent home for the summer break yet?
About Tuesday 26 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... but I continued in my chamber vexed and angry till he went away, pretending aloud, that I might hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs. Ashwell not being within they could not dance." this confirms my theory that Ashwell provided the music while the dance lesson went on.
Is it significant that Pepys now refers to her as MRS, Ashwell instead of just Ashwell??? I've been wondering why she is not being held somewhat accountable for chaperoning ...
About Sunday 24 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
""Mr Holliard's pills" Do we know the ingredients? maybe senna?"
Since our encyclopedia doesn't have a medicine section, I reprint a purgative recipe from last year ... I haven't discovered any pill recipes yet:
✹ dirk on 29 Apr 2006 • Link • Flag
17th c. purgative A recipe from *the* 17th c. standard work by Nicholas Culpeper's: "The Complete Herbal and English Physician"
"Syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhubarbaro -- Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb"
Take of whole Barley, the roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagus, of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, Endive, smooth Sow-thistles, of each two handfuls, Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumitory, tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden-hair, white and black, Cetrachs, Liquorice, winter Cherries, Dodder, of each six drams, to boil these take 16 pounds of spring water, strain the liquor, and boil in it six pounds of white sugar, adding towards the end six ounces of Rhubarb, six drams of Spikenard, bound up in a thin slack rag the which crush often in boiling, and so make it into a Syrup according to art.
It cleanses the body of venemous humors, as boils, carbuncles, and the like; it prevails against pestilential fevers, it strengthens the heart and nutritive virtue, purges by stool and urine, it makes a man have a good stomach to his meat, and provokes sleep. [...] This I believe, the Syrup cleanses the liver well, and is exceeding good for such as are troubled with hypocondriac melancholy. [...] http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66…....
About Sunday 24 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"On a slightly indelicate note, why does he record taking the pill the day after by which time he would presumably know the outcome, or otherwise?"
It is unclear to me why Pepys records a lot of things, pill consumption included. Unless he anticipates referring back to it when he goes back to see Dr. Holliard for a refill of his prescription (sorry -- no such things then of course!). Transit time can be fascinating if you are a hypochondriac, which I think Sam tended to be. Every sore throat and sniffle is so carefully documented.
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
I Googled Royal Society, Pett, and 1662 or 1663, and up came the book review I copied on Dr. John amongst other references. Redoing the search tonight (possibly in a different order) up came Peter Pett as being a FRS member as of 1662 ... so I nominate Peter Pett now and am more than happy to abandon the mysterious Dr, John ...
Confusingly, tonight I also found lists of the 8,000 members of the R.S. since inception, and there are TWO Peter Petts as original members ... on the R.S. site one is listed as a Sir, and according to a Wikipedia list one was a lawyer (but each list missed the detail captured on the other list). And no Dr. John Pett ever on either list. https://royalsociety.org/~/media/…
My apologies for confusing everyone. And thank you, Sasha, for the Pell info. Axe Yard had illustrious residents.
About Thursday 21 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
I've been wondering where Ashwell was in all this; surely she should have been chaperoning Mrs. Pepys? If they were in collusion to enable Elizabeth's bad behave, Pepys should have fired her. In my imagine Ashwell plays the dance music for these lessons, and once when she went downstairs to bring up a jug of water and glasses, Pepys walks in and finds Elizabeth and Pemberton alone. Ashwell didn't get into trouble because she was doing her job. Or something. I suppose we will never know ...
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
When I Google John Pett I get the following:
John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles ...
https://books.google.com/books?is…
Noel Malcolm, Jacqueline Stedall - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography
The Books denyd, &c., and Dr. Pell noe freind to the Royall Society. ... 'Pett' would seem to be Sir John Pett, F.R.S.; but there is a possibility that Hooke meant Sir ...
Looking at the text of the book, it is no more helpful. Apart from this I have not been able to find anything, under general search, Hooke's diary or biographies, or histories of the Royal Society..
About Wednesday 20 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Sir John Pett was a member of the Royal Society. However, Google gives me no other information. Given that Christopher Pett was the 11th child, and Peter was one brother, there's lots of room for other smart older brothers. Any information anyone?
About Monday 18 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
On second thoughts, "But, Lord! in what a poor condition her best chamber is, and things about her, ..., but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary to my expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it." Pepys is reporting that they are messy. We know they don't have wardrobes to hang things in (things were folded into chests) ... that good help is hard to find and harder to keep ... and goodness knows, they all stank. If you don't like it, you need to invent cupboards, Sam!
About Monday 18 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
As I read it, Dr, and Mrs. Clerke live in Whitehall -- possibly in the Palace itself -- which was built: "In 1529, Henry Vlll got fed up with Westminster Palace and built himself another one which he called Whitehall Palace. It covered 23 acres and it was the official royal residence until it burned down in 1698." If so the Clerke's accommodations could have been about 135 years old. I suspect it was harder to do renovations in the Palaces than at the Navy buildings (where they could use Navy Yard workmen who had access to wood, etc., and could prefab off-site, and where there was less-frequented space to set up scaffolding, etc.). In which case, I'm not surprised Pepys' bedroom was nicer than the Clerkes'.
About Sunday 17 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Thanks -- again -- Terry.