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About Sunday 21 December 1662

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"I and Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers fell to a cold goose pye of Mrs. Sarah’s"

To make a Goose Pye.
HALF a peck of flour will make the Walls of a goose pye. Raise your crust just big enough to hold a large goose; first have a pickled dried tongue boiled tender enough to peel, cut off the root, bone a goose and a large fowl : take half a quarter of an ounce of mace beat fine, a large tea-spoonful of beaten pepper, three tea-spoonfuls of salt; mix all together, season your fowl and goose with it, then lay the fowl in the goose, and the tongue in the fowl, and the goose in the same form as if whole. Put half a pound of butter on the top, and lay on the lid. This pye is delicious, either hot or cold, and will keep a great while. A slice of this pye cut down across makes a pretty little side-dish for supper.
---The Complete Housewife. E. Smith, 1766.

About Sir William Petty

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PETTY, Sir WILLIAM (1623-1687), political economist; studied on the continent and became the friend of Hobbes; Oxford professor of anatomy, 1651; executed for the Commonwealth the 'Down Survey' in Ireland, the first attempt on a large scale at carrying out a survey scientifically, and superintended the redistribution of lands in Ireland; acquiesced in the Restoration; knighted and made an original member of the Royal Society, 1662; published economic treatises, 1662-90, in which he rejected the old 'prohibitory' system, and showed the error of the supporters of the 'mercantile' system in regarding the abundance of the precious metals as the standard of prosperity; analysed the sources of wealth as being labour and land.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thursday 18 December 1662

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@San Diego Sarah: "Oh, that's why it took Pepys six months to read Hollond's book ... he was copying it"

More likely he bought the books unbound and didn't have them bound until he decided to keep them in his library.

Unbound ... Until the 19th century, books were sold as unbound leaves that were bound to a buyer's specifications. http://www.alibris.com/glossary/g…

About Sunday 21 December 1662

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"my simple Lord Chandois"

SIMPLE, pure, unmix’d, Uncompounded, plain, void of Ornament; also downright, void of Deceit, Harmless; also Silly or Foolish.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Sunday 21 December 1662

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"and advised him to give it quite over"

SP uses the phrase "give over" (but never "give off") many times in the Diary.

To give off, cesser, laisser, quitter, abandonnir. [stop, leave, leave, abandon]
To give over, as give off, I give it over for lost.
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Tuesday 30 December 1662

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I think Grahmt has the correct annotation, a ward designates a district, a "quartier," of London.

A WARD, District or Portion of the City of London committed to the special Charge of one the Aldermen; also a Prison.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1734.

Ward, Quartier de Ville; Prison; Pupil.
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

In Change-Ward are:
Part of the Strand; Part of Church-lane, New Round-court; Part of Old Round-court; Part of York-buildings, and therein Part of Villars-street, George-street, Duke-street, Buckingham-street, and Off-alley; George-alley, Long-alley, Harvey-court; Part of Half-moon-street; Part of Little Bedford-street; Part of Durham-yard, and therein Milzan's-wharf.
---A survey of the cities of London and Westminster. John Stow, 1735. [This work is an update of the original by Stow. Following is a selection from that earlier work.]

Moreover, in the yeere 1550, the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, purchasing the liberties of the Burrough of Southwarke, appointed the same to be a Ward Of London; and so became the number of thirteene wards on the East, twelve on the West, and one South the River Thames, in the said Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey; which in all arise to the number of 26. Wards and 26. Alderman of London to governe them. [Change Ward is not listed.]
---The survey of London. John Stow, 1633.

About Tuesday 24 February 1662/63

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“he says we shall trounce him”

To TROUNCE ... to sue at Law ...
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Trapan, Trepan

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To TREPAN, to ensnare or decoy.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About William Lawes

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LAWES, WILLIAM (d. 1645), musical composer; elder brother of Henry Lawes; gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1603; wrote the music for Shirley's masque, 'The Triumph of Peace,' performed, 1634; lost his life fighting for the royalists at the siege of Chester.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

Henry Lawes: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Monday 15 December 1662

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"my assessment of 42l. to the Loyal Sufferers"

On 30 September 1662 SP was assessed 30l. for the Sufferers"

About Monday 15 December 1662

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‘and so driving through the backside of the Shambles in Newgate Market, my coach plucked down two pieces of beef into the dirt”

SHAMBLES, a Place where Butchers sit and sell Meat
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Friday 27 February 1662/63

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"There is also a very excellent piece of the King, done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with the officers of the Company kneeling to him to receive their Charter."

This famous picture, which is still in the possession of the Company, was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition, 1889. It is supposed to have been planned by Holbein, but finished by another painter. There is no trace of Holbein's hand in the heads on the left of the king. The picture appears to have been injured at the time of the Great Fire, and Pepys had some thoughts of buying it (see Diary, August 29th, 1668).
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Monday 23 February 1662/63

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“we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw “The Wilde Gallant,” performed by the King’s house...though I hope to save it back again by forbearing two plays at Court for this one at the Theatre...the last play that is likely to be acted at Court before Easter, because of the Lent coming in, I was the easier content to fling away so much money.”

@Terry, SP seems to know when he’s attending a play at Court (and paying for it) and when he’s not. Perhaps Evelyn was wrong. Wheatly seems to think so:

The Court theatre was so far public that persons could get in by payment.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Capt. Edward Spragge

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Edward Spragge, knighted for his gallant conduct as a captain in the first sea-fight with the Dutch in 1665, son of Lichfield Spragge, captain of horse and Governor of Roscommon, and Mary, second daughter of Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. After rendering many important naval services to his country, he was unfortunately drowned, on August 11th, 1673, whilst passing in a boat to the "Royal Charles," from his own ship, which had been disabled in the action with Van Tromp. He was buried in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey, September 23rd, 1673. He left the bulk of his property to Dorothy Dennis and his three children by her who bore his name. (See Chester's "Westminster Abbey Registers," p. 182.)
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Wassail, Wassell

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WASSAIL, WASSEL, an ancient Custom, still used in some Places on Twelfth day at Night, of going about with a Great Bowl of Ale, drinking of Healths
WASSEL BOWL, WASTEL BOWL, a large Cup or bowl, wherein the Saxons, at their public Entertainments, drank Healths to one another; which Custom is still retain’d in some Parts of England to this Day.
WASSELLERS a Company of People, who make merry and drink together; Also Wenches that go about from House to House, singing at Christmas.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Bate's 'Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia'

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A pamphlet by George Bate, M.D., first published anonymously in 1649, and frequently reprinted. It was translated into Italian and published at Venice in 1652. After the Restoration it was reprinted and a second part added. The following is the title: "Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia; simul ac juris Regii et Parlamentarii brevis enarratio. A. 2455 Lutetiae Parisiorum pro R. R. An. Dom. 1649." 12°. Address to the reader signed "Theodorus Veridicus." "Elenchi Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia pars prima; simul ac Juris Regii & Parlamentarii brevis enarratio, ab autore Geor. Batio, M.D. Regiae Majestatis Protomedico recognita & aucta AEre Christianae Anno 1660. Londini typis J. Flesher & prostant apud R. Royston in Ivy Lane, 1661." 8vo. "Pars Secunda. Simul ac Regis Effugii mirabilis e Praetio Wigornia enarratio. Londini, 1663."
---Wheatley, 1896.