"He was one of those who were employed in forging chains for the English, ..." Can anyone explain this reference to chains for the English? Chains for the Scots, I can understand. For instance:
Richard "Hannibal" Rumbold made his defiant declaration on the Edinburgh scaffold before his execution for being part of the Rye House Plot on 26 June 1685: “This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him...” This speech was rendered famous all over again during the discussions on the definition of treason at the American Constitutional Convention.
But this 1685 reference to slavery doesn't implicate Lauderdale, who was long gone by then anyways.
I've been unsuccessfully searching my files for the reference to the freeing of English slaves (whites, not indians or blacks), I recall by Charles II, except for miners who had to continue their miserable existence, from generation to generation. As I recall at least some of these miners were Scots.
Maybe it's a general reference to the brutality with which Judge Jeffries et al handled anyone who was inconvenient, and Lauderdale was a dab hand at that, even though he did take the trouble to have Charles II confirm every course of action before he took it. It was a brutal time, with or without chains.
HELP ... the link above to these much-anticipated letter(s) is dead. I checked the "letters" section and they don't start for a couple of years. Didn't the Bodleian like them being on the internet or something???
Hi Terry -- referring to our exchange a couple of weeks ago about the location of the Countess of Sandwich, it appears quite a few courtiers are in town, even if the action has moved into Castlemaine's apartment. My current theory is that the Sandwiches are lying low ... the Earl has been sick for about 4 months, and when you're not feeling well you lose a lot of money at cards, and may say something unwise ... they have a low profile because the House of Lords are discussing punishing Puritans who have only-lately come to love the monarchy ... and the Countess has had to deal with their son the Viscount who just killed someone. The Viscount and the villagers would be upset about that, even if it was an accident. So instead I'm wondering why she has come to London now. It seems staying at Hinchinbrooke would be wiser. As a writer, I am fascinated by motive. I love Pepys' diary because he is so transparent about motive most of the time. The Countess' motive may be as simple as she left her summer clothes at The Wardrobe ... or she needs some new shoes. Or perhaps she's heard reports on the Earl's behavior ... we shall see ...
"Then Captain Cocke coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business of his hemp, ..." Now what? I suppose this refers to the contract of March 12, 1663:
"all the morning with Captain Cocke ending their account of their Riga contract for hemp." The drawing-up of this contract was begun 18 February. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sam spent several days going over old accounts with Capt. George Cocke, learning about hemp, negotiating a deal, having it written up, etc. and now George wants to complain about bad treatment? He got lots of access to the decision-makers during the process. Fortunately this gripe session doesn't appear to have ruined the working relationship, but really ... Pepys was in no mood for this one!
Of course, we can never know who Mr. Armourer was, but here's a guess:
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/… In 1654, Anne Hyde was appointed a maid of honor to Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, the eldest daughter of King Charles of England, the widow of William II, Prince of Orange and the mother of the young William III, Prince of Orange who would marry Anne’s daughter Mary. Given the situation, it was natural that Anne should come into contact with members of the exiled English royal family including King Charles’ second surviving son, James, Duke of York. Anne was very attractive and stylish, and attracted many men, including James, Duke of York.
I read "... great discourse being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am ashamed ..." to mean Pepys was ashamed of gossiping with Creed ... opinions about your betters could be trouble. Remember how paranoid Pepys was at Christmas, fearing he would bump into Carteret (maybe it was Mennes?). Right now he's worried Mr. Hater will be "outed", and he will be compromised for not firing him. John Creed appears to be one of his BFFs, but if things go south ... I wonder if Creed was jealous of Pepys' relationship with Sandwich, and superior position which might have been his?
"So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her off."
✹ Pauline on 9 May 2006 • Link • Flag ... I don't think he [Sam] means she looks dowdy. He appears to think that she can't be brought into fashion -- fancy clothes alone won't do it. Remember that at the beginning of the diary she was living in London to go through a series of treatments to straighten out her neck (with Sam as her guardian). I am afraid she is not a straight-carriaged and pretty young girl.
"Following the disappearance of the Norse population, expeditions from England and Norway came to Greenland throughout the 16th and 17th centuries ... it was primarily the European whalers who came into contact with the Inuits.
"This resulted in extensive trade, and the Inuits were particularly taken with the Europeans' small glass beads, which today are used in the national costume."
"Christian IV's expeditions were sent by King Christian IV of Denmark to Greenland and Arctic waterways during the years 1605-1607. The expeditions were commissioned in order to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and reassert Danish sovereignty over Greenland.
"The expeditions were mostly unsuccessful, partly due to its leaders lacking experience with the difficult arctic ice and weather conditions and partly due to its leaders eventually being given instructions to search for the Eastern Settlement on the east coast of Greenland, which was almost inaccessible at the time due to southward-drifting ice.
"The pilot on all three trips was James Hall, who ... trusted "Frobisher's Strait" to be in southern Greenland, whereas it is in fact a bay projecting into southern Baffin Island. The expeditions were respectively commanded by John Cunningham (or "Hans Køning"; 1605), Godske Lindenov (1606), and Carsten Richardson (1607). The Danes had a falling out with the English over the route being taken, far to the south of that recorded in the Bergen and Trondheim archives. They also sometimes searched for the imaginary Island of Buss."
In the same vein, King Christian commissioned an expedition to North America in 1619. The expedition was captained by Dano-Norwegian navigator and explorer, Jens Munk. The ships were searching for the Northwest Passage. The expedition arrived in Hudson Bay landing at the mouth of Churchill River, settling at what is now Churchill, Manitoba. However, it was a disastrous voyage, with cold, famine, and scurvy killing most of the crew."
Hi, Terry ... how nice of you to join us! You raise an interesting point: Do the nobility go home for Easter? Is there a master calendar for when the Court is active? As I understood it, personal servants -- like the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber -- were usually "on duty" for 3 months before switching over to the next "shift" so they got time to care for their own activities. Then there are Cabinet members like Sandwich who have apartments around Whitehall Palace and are "on call" all the time. And there are civil servants like Pepys who live at work, and are "on call" all the time. And finally there are "consultants" like Sir Robert Moray, Barbara Villiers Palmer and Van Dyke who have "grace and favor" quarters in convenient places for the Royals to call on. Factor in evacuations for the plague, summer progressions so the Whitehall sewers can be dug out, the out-of-towners visited, and food supplies in other parts of the country eaten, plus trips to Newmarket for the racing, and weekends at Hampton Court ... someone had a very big planning calendar somewhere. The logistics of all this boggles my mind.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Sunday 3 May 1663 (Lord’s day). So made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Penn showed me the young lady which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth 1,000l. per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However he got this good luck to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart. &&& ✹ Terry Foreman on 20 Dec 2014 • Link • Flag "... the young lady which young Dawes ... hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian" The marriage license of John Dawes of St. Olaves, Hart St. (bachelor, aged 30) and Christian Hawkins (spinster, aged 16) is dated 21 April 1663. It states that that the bride's parents were dead and that consent had been given by her aunt, the wife of [Sir Andrew] Rickard of St. Olave's. A petition by Dawes to Charles II about the disputed guardianship is in the National Archives.
OOOOoooooppppps ... I'm starting rumors: Please ignore the above post. This is Lady Jemima Montagu, "Mrs/Lady Jem" -- Daughter of Lord Sandwich, and she marries Philip Carteret in 1665. Nevertheless, there has been no mention of where the Countess of Sandwich is living in months. And now the daughter has come to town and is staying with her grandfather, Lord Crew (correct spelling!). While papa goes home to Chelsea. So I'm still wondering where Lady Sandwich is these days.
Lady Jem. has come to town, and is staying with her father, Lord Crewe. Her husband has been sick for months, and although he is at Whitehall today, he goes "home" to Chelsea. Apparently the Montagus are not seeing each other ... ? Perhaps one day "someone" will post Sandwich's diary along with these daily entries so it makes a bit more sense. In the meantime, does anyone know what's going on?
"But this my Lord did not tell me, but is my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without doubt falling past hopes." Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon did not fall out of favor until 1667, so I am puzzled by this. Sandwich is giving Pepys this impression, so perhaps it means Sandwich doesn't like Hyde's attitude towards Monmouth? Anyone know what this is about?
Sam and Elizabeth are exhausted from the strain of having old, sick father Pepys around for weeks, along with dancing lessons, maids being fired with no replacements, lots of guests to meals, negotiating accounts and law suit results with relatives and staff, and then yesterday Pepys goes out for the day to see all the May Day festivities and pretty people in Hyde Park, leaving Elizabeth behind to clean up. He gets home, achey from using muscles for the first time in months, and complains all the way to bed. This morning he sleeps in, goes down stairs, sees something he doesn't like, and calls her a beggar (meaning all she's good for is cleaning). Then he takes umbridge when she reminds him that he's a tailor's son (upstart!) so he storms out on another pointless walk to the Exchange (to let off steam?), leaving her to do more cleaning. Men!
Buckden is a village 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of St. Neots and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Huntingdon. Buckden is in Huntingdonshire, a district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England. The small hamlets of Stirtloe and Hardwick are also in the parish of Buckden. The River Great Ouse forms the eastern boundary of the parish in the Great Ouse river valley in the neighbouring parish of The Offords.
The hamlet of Stirtloe is situated to the south of Buckden, and is now separated from the village itself by only 220 yards (200 m) of fields.
... the new southern bypass for Huntingdon would require the construction of a section of road in an east-west direction between the village of Buckden and Brampton.
Buckden is the location of Buckden Towers (or Buckden Palace), one of the many former residences of the Bishop of Lincoln. In the Middle Ages the diocese of Lincoln extended almost to London, so Buckden lay near the middle of the diocese. A house was built by the mid-12th century, where the bishop of Lincoln held court, but it burnt down in 1291 and rebuilt. Further re-building and extending of the palace took place in the 15th century, including the addition of the red brick tower which is of the same design as Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, although the tower at Buckden has only 4 storeys. Buckden Palace accommodated Catherine of Aragon for a short time before she moved to Kimbolton Castle. The palace was neglected in the first half of the 17th century. A survey in 1647 listed the building and features, including a Great Chamber, chapel, brick tower, and gatehouse; all enclosed by a moat. The grounds contained at least 4 fishponds with about 200 deer in the deer park.
Buckden's location on the Great North Road meant that it was a coach stop during the 18th century. There were 4 coaching inns in the village. The Lion dates back to the 15th century. The George Inn which had its own courtyard and forge. The Vine dated back to the first half of the 17th century. The Spread Eagle was originally built in the 17th century; it had stabling and paddocks.
On Friday 18 June 1641, "hundreds of women and boys, armed with Daggers and Javelins, in a very tumultuous and riotous Manner" entered part of the land at Buckden that belonged to the Bishop of Lincoln and they "turned in a great herd of cattle".
In 1661 a charity school was founded in Buckden for the education of boys in the parish.
The Anglican church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, consists of a chancel (with organ chamber and vestry), nave, west tower, north aisle, south aisle and porch. A church was listed in the Domesday book, but nothing from that remains. The church contains elements from the 13th century but it was greatly enlarged in the 15th century. The large buttresses to the north were added in the 17th century.
"Because this linkage of Jews and Freemasons would prove so controversial and volatile, it is important to examine the Stuart context that fueled the rumors and the reality. Although the question of Stuart sympathy for Catholicism was the burning public issue of the latter part of Charles II's reign, it was intrinsically linked with less known but broader issues of tolerance that would eventually define the "modern" Masonic theme of universal brotherhood. In the Stuart Temple of Wisdom, not only Protestants and Catholics, but Jews and Moslems, would be welcomed as comrades in chivalric fraternity.
"In Tangier, the projected gateway to the Levant, the governors' cooperation with Jewish interpreters was crucial to completion of the great Mole and stone forts, projects of continuing interest to Sir Robert Moray and Christopher Wren."
The "completion" of the Mole is key to this entry. Certainly at the time of agreeing to build the Mole in 1663, Pepys makes no mention of Wren and Moray, and presumably doesn't know them yet. And Charles II's interest in the Jews hasn't been mentioned in any of the annotations on religion and the implementation of the Book of Common Prayer, even though 1666 was only three years away and Millennialism was alive and well in England.
Perhaps I just haven't read enough of the Dairy yet ...
I notice Sam pops up to the Exchange from time to time. Sometimes this leads to something, but like today, sometimes it doesn't. Is it just a nice place to walk to, and get some fresh air, and possibly bump into interesting traders and wealthy people? Maybe he doesn't want to tell the Diary that Elizabeth sent him to get some more red thread? Perhaps he walks passed the book sellers on the way? This would be a way of hearing what 'the people' are talking about. Or perhaps he was fed up with everyone at the office, and his father and the complainer at home, so he just went "out".
On Mondays in 1663 Pepys goes to meetings with James, Duke of York, the Tangier Committee, etc., and he becomes responsible for giving progress up-dates. I wonder if someone took "minutes" of these meetings ... if those notes were circulated to people who couldn't attend ... how he took the presumably large documents and accounts to their offices (i.e. in boxes, or did he take "briefs" in a briefcase?) ...
'Those who stayed at the London headquarters found that the work tended to be less than exciting. The clerks who worked for the corporation were called ‘writers’ because they were copying documents by hand, again and again. Each dispatch — whether the minutes of a meeting or an account — would have to be copied up to five times. ...
'One of the most thorough accounts of the drudgery of office work was given by prolific writer and lifelong Company official Charles Lamb, who worked there from 1792 to 1825. His life at the office was one many of us might recognise: he became chummy with his co-workers and enjoyed the financial stability. But he also was kept awake at night with anxiety over his work, having “terrors” of “imaginary false entries” and account errors. And he dreamed of retirement.
'“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don’t know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls, without relief, day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four, without ease or interposition,” he wrote poet William Wordsworth in 1822. “O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”'
Thursday 31 July 1662 "... At noon Mr. Coventry and I by his coach to the Exchange together; and in Lumbard-street met Captain Browne of the Rosebush: at which he was cruel angry: and did threaten to go to-day to the Duke at Hampton Court, and get him turned out because he was not sailed. But at the Exchange we resolved of eating a bit together, which we did at the Ship behind the Exchange, and so took boat to Billingsgate, and went down on board the Rosebush at Woolwich, and found all things out of order, but after frightening the officers there, we left them to make more haste, and so on shore to the yard, and did the same to the officers of the yard, that the ship was not dispatched. Here we found Sir W. Batten going about his survey, but so poorly and unlike a survey of the Navy, that I am ashamed of it, and so is Mr. Coventry."
Paul Chapin on 1 Aug 2005 • Link • Flag
Coventry and Brown(e) ... I think the "he" that was "cruel angry" was Coventry, angry at Browne because he had not yet sailed the Rosebush for Jamaica as he was supposed to. Coventry threatened to go to the Duke (James) and have Browne dismissed from his command ("turned out") for dereliction of duty. Then over lunch Coventry and Pepys decided to check on the ship, and found her unready for sea ("all things out of order"). They put a scare into the officers, on the ship and in the yard, deciding that that was the most effective way to get things in order and the ship under way.
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About John Maitland (2nd Earl of Lauderdale)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"He was one of those who were employed in forging chains for the English, ..." Can anyone explain this reference to chains for the English? Chains for the Scots, I can understand. For instance:
Richard "Hannibal" Rumbold made his defiant declaration on the Edinburgh scaffold before his execution for being part of the Rye House Plot on 26 June 1685: “This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him...” This speech was rendered famous all over again during the discussions on the definition of treason at the American Constitutional Convention.
But this 1685 reference to slavery doesn't implicate Lauderdale, who was long gone by then anyways.
I've been unsuccessfully searching my files for the reference to the freeing of English slaves (whites, not indians or blacks), I recall by Charles II, except for miners who had to continue their miserable existence, from generation to generation. As I recall at least some of these miners were Scots.
Maybe it's a general reference to the brutality with which Judge Jeffries et al handled anyone who was inconvenient, and Lauderdale was a dab hand at that, even though he did take the trouble to have Charles II confirm every course of action before he took it. It was a brutal time, with or without chains.
About Sunday 17 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
HELP ... the link above to these much-anticipated letter(s) is dead. I checked the "letters" section and they don't start for a couple of years. Didn't the Bodleian like them being on the internet or something???
About Friday 15 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Hi Terry -- referring to our exchange a couple of weeks ago about the location of the Countess of Sandwich, it appears quite a few courtiers are in town, even if the action has moved into Castlemaine's apartment. My current theory is that the Sandwiches are lying low ... the Earl has been sick for about 4 months, and when you're not feeling well you lose a lot of money at cards, and may say something unwise ... they have a low profile because the House of Lords are discussing punishing Puritans who have only-lately come to love the monarchy ... and the Countess has had to deal with their son the Viscount who just killed someone. The Viscount and the villagers would be upset about that, even if it was an accident. So instead I'm wondering why she has come to London now. It seems staying at Hinchinbrooke would be wiser. As a writer, I am fascinated by motive. I love Pepys' diary because he is so transparent about motive most of the time. The Countess' motive may be as simple as she left her summer clothes at The Wardrobe ... or she needs some new shoes. Or perhaps she's heard reports on the Earl's behavior ... we shall see ...
About George Cocke ("Captain")
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Then Captain Cocke coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business of his hemp, ..." Now what? I suppose this refers to the contract of March 12, 1663:
"all the morning with Captain Cocke ending their account of their Riga contract for hemp." The drawing-up of this contract was begun 18 February. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sam spent several days going over old accounts with Capt. George Cocke, learning about hemp, negotiating a deal, having it written up, etc. and now George wants to complain about bad treatment? He got lots of access to the decision-makers during the process. Fortunately this gripe session doesn't appear to have ruined the working relationship, but really ... Pepys was in no mood for this one!
About Friday 15 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Of course, we can never know who Mr. Armourer was, but here's a guess:
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/…
In 1654, Anne Hyde was appointed a maid of honor to Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, the eldest daughter of King Charles of England, the widow of William II, Prince of Orange and the mother of the young William III, Prince of Orange who would marry Anne’s daughter Mary. Given the situation, it was natural that Anne should come into contact with members of the exiled English royal family including King Charles’ second surviving son, James, Duke of York. Anne was very attractive and stylish, and attracted many men, including James, Duke of York.
http://archive.org/stream/travels…
says that Henry, Duke of Gloucester was conducted by Nicholas Armorer to Teylingen, where he joined his sister on January 26, 1654.
It's possible ... any other ideas?
About Tuesday 12 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
I read "... great discourse being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am ashamed ..." to mean Pepys was ashamed of gossiping with Creed ... opinions about your betters could be trouble. Remember how paranoid Pepys was at Christmas, fearing he would bump into Carteret (maybe it was Mennes?). Right now he's worried Mr. Hater will be "outed", and he will be compromised for not firing him. John Creed appears to be one of his BFFs, but if things go south ... I wonder if Creed was jealous of Pepys' relationship with Sandwich, and superior position which might have been his?
About Jemima Carteret (b. Mountagu, "Mrs/Lady Jem")
San Diego Sarah • Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her off."
✹ Pauline on 9 May 2006 • Link • Flag
... I don't think he [Sam] means she looks dowdy. He appears to think that she can't be brought into fashion -- fancy clothes alone won't do it. Remember that at the beginning of the diary she was living in London to go through a series of treatments to straighten out her neck (with Sam as her guardian). I am afraid she is not a straight-carriaged and pretty young girl.
About Thursday 7 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Thank you, Phil. I was wondering why I wasn't confused.
About Wednesday 6 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
To which country did Greenland "belong" in Charles II's day? Fishing rights were contested even in those days.
http://www.greenland.com/en/about… :
"Following the disappearance of the Norse population, expeditions from England and Norway came to Greenland throughout the 16th and 17th centuries ... it was primarily the European whalers who came into contact with the Inuits.
"This resulted in extensive trade, and the Inuits were particularly taken with the Europeans' small glass beads, which today are used in the national costume."
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr… :
"Christian IV's expeditions were sent by King Christian IV of Denmark to Greenland and Arctic waterways during the years 1605-1607. The expeditions were commissioned in order to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and reassert Danish sovereignty over Greenland.
"The expeditions were mostly unsuccessful, partly due to its leaders lacking experience with the difficult arctic ice and weather conditions and partly due to its leaders eventually being given instructions to search for the Eastern Settlement on the east coast of Greenland, which was almost inaccessible at the time due to southward-drifting ice.
"The pilot on all three trips was James Hall, who ... trusted "Frobisher's Strait" to be in southern Greenland, whereas it is in fact a bay projecting into southern Baffin Island. The expeditions were respectively commanded by John Cunningham (or "Hans Køning"; 1605), Godske Lindenov (1606), and Carsten Richardson (1607). The Danes had a falling out with the English over the route being taken, far to the south of that recorded in the Bergen and Trondheim archives. They also sometimes searched for the imaginary Island of Buss."
In the same vein, King Christian commissioned an expedition to North America in 1619. The expedition was captained by Dano-Norwegian navigator and explorer, Jens Munk. The ships were searching for the Northwest Passage. The expedition arrived in Hudson Bay landing at the mouth of Churchill River, settling at what is now Churchill, Manitoba. However, it was a disastrous voyage, with cold, famine, and scurvy killing most of the crew."
About Monday 4 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Hi, Terry ... how nice of you to join us! You raise an interesting point: Do the nobility go home for Easter? Is there a master calendar for when the Court is active? As I understood it, personal servants -- like the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber -- were usually "on duty" for 3 months before switching over to the next "shift" so they got time to care for their own activities. Then there are Cabinet members like Sandwich who have apartments around Whitehall Palace and are "on call" all the time. And there are civil servants like Pepys who live at work, and are "on call" all the time. And finally there are "consultants" like Sir Robert Moray, Barbara Villiers Palmer and Van Dyke who have "grace and favor" quarters in convenient places for the Royals to call on. Factor in evacuations for the plague, summer progressions so the Whitehall sewers can be dug out, the out-of-towners visited, and food supplies in other parts of the country eaten, plus trips to Newmarket for the racing, and weekends at Hampton Court ... someone had a very big planning calendar somewhere. The logistics of all this boggles my mind.
About Sir Andrew Rickard
San Diego Sarah • Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sunday 3 May 1663 (Lord’s day).
So made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Penn showed me the young lady which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth 1,000l. per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However he got this good luck to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart.
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✹ Terry Foreman on 20 Dec 2014 • Link • Flag
"... the young lady which young Dawes ... hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian" The marriage license of John Dawes of St. Olaves, Hart St. (bachelor, aged 30) and Christian Hawkins (spinster, aged 16) is dated 21 April 1663. It states that that the bride's parents were dead and that consent had been given by her aunt, the wife of [Sir Andrew] Rickard of St. Olave's. A petition by Dawes to Charles II about the disputed guardianship is in the National Archives.
About Monday 4 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
OOOOoooooppppps ... I'm starting rumors: Please ignore the above post. This is Lady Jemima Montagu, "Mrs/Lady Jem" -- Daughter of Lord Sandwich, and she marries Philip Carteret in 1665. Nevertheless, there has been no mention of where the Countess of Sandwich is living in months. And now the daughter has come to town and is staying with her grandfather, Lord Crew (correct spelling!). While papa goes home to Chelsea. So I'm still wondering where Lady Sandwich is these days.
About Monday 4 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Lady Jem. has come to town, and is staying with her father, Lord Crewe. Her husband has been sick for months, and although he is at Whitehall today, he goes "home" to Chelsea. Apparently the Montagus are not seeing each other ... ? Perhaps one day "someone" will post Sandwich's diary along with these daily entries so it makes a bit more sense. In the meantime, does anyone know what's going on?
About Monday 4 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
"But this my Lord did not tell me, but is my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without doubt falling past hopes." Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon did not fall out of favor until 1667, so I am puzzled by this. Sandwich is giving Pepys this impression, so perhaps it means Sandwich doesn't like Hyde's attitude towards Monmouth? Anyone know what this is about?
About Saturday 2 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Sam and Elizabeth are exhausted from the strain of having old, sick father Pepys around for weeks, along with dancing lessons, maids being fired with no replacements, lots of guests to meals, negotiating accounts and law suit results with relatives and staff, and then yesterday Pepys goes out for the day to see all the May Day festivities and pretty people in Hyde Park, leaving Elizabeth behind to clean up. He gets home, achey from using muscles for the first time in months, and complains all the way to bed. This morning he sleeps in, goes down stairs, sees something he doesn't like, and calls her a beggar (meaning all she's good for is cleaning). Then he takes umbridge when she reminds him that he's a tailor's son (upstart!) so he storms out on another pointless walk to the Exchange (to let off steam?), leaving her to do more cleaning. Men!
About Stirtloe, Cambridgeshire
San Diego Sarah • Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buc… -- some (ir)relevant highlights:
Buckden is a village 3.7 miles (6.0 km) north of St. Neots and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Huntingdon. Buckden is in Huntingdonshire, a district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England. The small hamlets of Stirtloe and Hardwick are also in the parish of Buckden. The River Great Ouse forms the eastern boundary of the parish in the Great Ouse river valley in the neighbouring parish of The Offords.
The hamlet of Stirtloe is situated to the south of Buckden, and is now separated from the village itself by only 220 yards (200 m) of fields.
... the new southern bypass for Huntingdon would require the construction of a section of road in an east-west direction between the village of Buckden and Brampton.
Buckden is the location of Buckden Towers (or Buckden Palace), one of the many former residences of the Bishop of Lincoln. In the Middle Ages the diocese of Lincoln extended almost to London, so Buckden lay near the middle of the diocese. A house was built by the mid-12th century, where the bishop of Lincoln held court, but it burnt down in 1291 and rebuilt. Further re-building and extending of the palace took place in the 15th century, including the addition of the red brick tower which is of the same design as Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, although the tower at Buckden has only 4 storeys. Buckden Palace accommodated Catherine of Aragon for a short time before she moved to Kimbolton Castle. The palace was neglected in the first half of the 17th century. A survey in 1647 listed the building and features, including a Great Chamber, chapel, brick tower, and gatehouse; all enclosed by a moat. The grounds contained at least 4 fishponds with about 200 deer in the deer park.
Buckden's location on the Great North Road meant that it was a coach stop during the 18th century. There were 4 coaching inns in the village. The Lion dates back to the 15th century. The George Inn which had its own courtyard and forge. The Vine dated back to the first half of the 17th century. The Spread Eagle was originally built in the 17th century; it had stabling and paddocks.
On Friday 18 June 1641, "hundreds of women and boys, armed with Daggers and Javelins, in a very tumultuous and riotous Manner" entered part of the land at Buckden that belonged to the Bishop of Lincoln and they "turned in a great herd of cattle".
In 1661 a charity school was founded in Buckden for the education of boys in the parish.
The Anglican church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, consists of a chancel (with organ chamber and vestry), nave, west tower, north aisle, south aisle and porch. A church was listed in the Domesday book, but nothing from that remains. The church contains elements from the 13th century but it was greatly enlarged in the 15th century. The large buttresses to the north were added in the 17th century.
About Tangier Committee
San Diego Sarah • Link
According to this Masonic history site:
http://www.themasonictrowel.com/A…
"Because this linkage of Jews and Freemasons would prove so controversial and volatile, it is important to examine the Stuart context that fueled the rumors and the reality. Although the question of Stuart sympathy for Catholicism was the burning public issue of the latter part of Charles II's reign, it was intrinsically linked with less known but broader issues of tolerance that would eventually define the "modern" Masonic theme of universal brotherhood. In the Stuart Temple of Wisdom, not only Protestants and Catholics, but Jews and Moslems, would be welcomed as comrades in chivalric fraternity.
"In Tangier, the projected gateway to the Levant, the governors' cooperation with Jewish interpreters was crucial to completion of the great Mole and stone forts, projects of continuing interest to Sir Robert Moray and Christopher Wren."
The "completion" of the Mole is key to this entry. Certainly at the time of agreeing to build the Mole in 1663, Pepys makes no mention of Wren and Moray, and presumably doesn't know them yet. And Charles II's interest in the Jews hasn't been mentioned in any of the annotations on religion and the implementation of the Book of Common Prayer, even though 1666 was only three years away and Millennialism was alive and well in England.
Perhaps I just haven't read enough of the Dairy yet ...
About Thursday 30 April 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
I notice Sam pops up to the Exchange from time to time. Sometimes this leads to something, but like today, sometimes it doesn't. Is it just a nice place to walk to, and get some fresh air, and possibly bump into interesting traders and wealthy people? Maybe he doesn't want to tell the Diary that Elizabeth sent him to get some more red thread? Perhaps he walks passed the book sellers on the way? This would be a way of hearing what 'the people' are talking about. Or perhaps he was fed up with everyone at the office, and his father and the complainer at home, so he just went "out".
About East India Company (English)
San Diego Sarah • Link
On Mondays in 1663 Pepys goes to meetings with James, Duke of York, the Tangier Committee, etc., and he becomes responsible for giving progress up-dates. I wonder if someone took "minutes" of these meetings ... if those notes were circulated to people who couldn't attend ... how he took the presumably large documents and accounts to their offices (i.e. in boxes, or did he take "briefs" in a briefcase?) ...
At the East India Company 200 years later Charles Lamb wrote of his life as a clerk
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/…
'Those who stayed at the London headquarters found that the work tended to be less than exciting. The clerks who worked for the corporation were called ‘writers’ because they were copying documents by hand, again and again. Each dispatch — whether the minutes of a meeting or an account — would have to be copied up to five times. ...
'One of the most thorough accounts of the drudgery of office work was given by prolific writer and lifelong Company official Charles Lamb, who worked there from 1792 to 1825. His life at the office was one many of us might recognise: he became chummy with his co-workers and enjoyed the financial stability. But he also was kept awake at night with anxiety over his work, having “terrors” of “imaginary false entries” and account errors. And he dreamed of retirement.
'“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don’t know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls, without relief, day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four, without ease or interposition,” he wrote poet William Wordsworth in 1822. “O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”'
About Capt. John Browne (c)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Thursday 31 July 1662
"... At noon Mr. Coventry and I by his coach to the Exchange together; and in Lumbard-street met Captain Browne of the Rosebush: at which he was cruel angry: and did threaten to go to-day to the Duke at Hampton Court, and get him turned out because he was not sailed. But at the Exchange we resolved of eating a bit together, which we did at the Ship behind the Exchange, and so took boat to Billingsgate, and went down on board the Rosebush at Woolwich, and found all things out of order, but after frightening the officers there, we left them to make more haste, and so on shore to the yard, and did the same to the officers of the yard, that the ship was not dispatched. Here we found Sir W. Batten going about his survey, but so poorly and unlike a survey of the Navy, that I am ashamed of it, and so is Mr. Coventry."
Paul Chapin on 1 Aug 2005 • Link • Flag
Coventry and Brown(e) ... I think the "he" that was "cruel angry" was Coventry, angry at Browne because he had not yet sailed the Rosebush for Jamaica as he was supposed to. Coventry threatened to go to the Duke (James) and have Browne dismissed from his command ("turned out") for dereliction of duty.
Then over lunch Coventry and Pepys decided to check on the ship, and found her unready for sea ("all things out of order"). They put a scare into the officers, on the ship and in the yard, deciding that that was the most effective way to get things in order and the ship under way.