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About Tuesday 26 August 1662

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"which I perceive makes good riddance"

Riddance, delivrance. [issuance]
To make a riddance, debarasser, mettre en ordre. [to get rid of, to put in order]
To make a good riddance of a thing, se tirer heureusement d'une affaire. [to handle a thing fortunately]
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Mulberries

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To preserve Mulberries dry. The mulberries must not be too ripe, but rather a reddish green, and tart: having prepared the same quantity of blown sugar as of fruit, put in the mulberries and let them boil; the sugar should be first clarified with the juice of mulberries instead of water: when they have boiled take the pan from the fire, scum it, and set it in a stove till next day; then take them out, drain them from the syrup, and put them up in boxes for use.
---The Ladies Assistant. 1787.

About Thursday 31 July 1662

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"and much proud I am of getting thus far into his books"

To get into ones books, gagner l'affection de quêcun. [to gain the affection of someone]
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Old Fish Street

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Fish Street (Old), Ward of Queenhithe, is described in 1708 as "a considerable and pleasant street between Bread Street east and Old 'Change west." The eastern portion of Old Fish Street was swept away in forming Queen Victoria Street, and the remainder absorbed in Knight-Rider Street. The Church of St. Mary Magdalen on the north, and that of St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, on the south side of Knight-Rider Street, were both in Old Fish Street before the name was changed .

In this Old Fish Street is one row of small houses, placed along in the midst of Knightrider's Street, which row is also of Bread Street Ward. These houses, now possessed by fishmongers, were at the first but moveable boards or stalls, set out on market-days, to show their fish there to be sold; but procuring license to set up sheds, they grew to shops, and by little and little to tall houses of three or four stories in height, and now are called Fish Street.—Stow, p. 129.

Old Fish Street was very early one of the chief centres of the fish trade in London, Old Fish Street and Old Fish Street Hill, which runs from it to the Thames, with Queenhithe as their landing-quay, forming the western fish-market of London before Billingsgate supplanted Queenhithe and became the only fish-market. In the Statutes and Ordinance of the Fishmongers, 8 Edward I. (1280), it is provided that in respect of penalties for certain fraudulent proceedings, as the "dubbing" of baskets, etc., "this matter is to be cried at London Bridge, and in Eldefistrate [Old Fish Street], and elsewhere in the City where need shall be." There are to be two Hallmotes of fishmongers in the year for the recapitulating and amending the laws of the trade; the one against the Feast of St. Martin, and the other against Lent; "to which Hallmote shall come all the fishmongers who belong to the hallmote of the one fishmongery and the other.. . . . And one Hallmote shall be holden at the Bridge -and the other at Westfistrete, and all shall come to the one Hallmote and the other," and any making default "shall give 21 pence without release of aught or any pardon being granted." Old Fish Street was noted for its taverns. There is a tavern token of the King's Head in Old Fish Street with the head of Henry VII. upon it, and in the Beaufoy Collection, Guildhall, is a similar token of the Will Somers Tavern, in Old Fish Street, with the figure of Will Somers, Henry VIII.'s jester, upon it. Another tavern in this street had the head of Cardinal Wolsey for its sign.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Edmund Calamy

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On his majesty's return, he appointed Mr. Calamy one of his chaplains; the duty of which office, owing to prevailing animosities, he performed, it is generally said, no more than once but Pepys in his 'Diary,' June 6, 1660, notes that "his letters tell him that Mr Calamy had preached before the king in a surplice:" he indeed adds a note, "this I heard afterwards to be false," but he appears to mean the use of the surplice. It is certain that Calamy preached once subsequently. Pepys notes under August 12, 1660, "(Lords Day) To White Hall Chapel, where Mr Calamy preached and made a good sermon upon these words, 'To whom much is given, of him much is required.' He was very officious with his three reverences to the king as others do." It is evident that the king's Presbyterian chaplain was closely watched; but it appears also evident, judging from his text, that if he was ready to pay all the usual marks of reverence to his majesty, he was not disposed to shrink from reminding him of the duties as well as the privileges which his exalted position devolved upon him. Besides his chaplaincy, Calamy was offered the bishopric of Lichfield and Coventry, which it is thought he would have accepted, if he could have subscribed to the terms of the king's declaration. His moderation was such, that he appeared only desirous of removing those restrictions which affected the Presbyterian clergy, accompanied with such reforms in the services of the church as would have allowed a conscientious performance of their pastoral duties. But finding the temper of the high Church party set upon their rejection by acts of further restraint and intolerance, he seized upon the opportunity of the passing of the Act of Uniformity to resign his living. Being well received at court, his friends recommended him to petition for an indulgence; but his request was fruitless. He did not, like some of the other ejected ministers, attempt to assemble a congregation elsewhere, but still continued to attend the church in which he had so long officiated. On one of these occasions, when no clergyman attended, some of his friends requested him to preach. After some hesitation he ascended the desk, from which it had always been his custom to deliver his discourses, and preached upon the concern of old Eli for the ark of God, into which he introduced some matter that touched upon recent events; which being deemed seditious, he was committed to Newgate, where he lay, until the outcry raised by his friends induced the king to order his liberation. He lived to see London in ashes; which event had such an effect upon his nerves, that he survived the melancholy spectacle little more than a month. He died October 29, 1666.
---Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 2. 1868

About Saturday 9 August 1662

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"in short I find him the most ingenuous person I ever found in my life" We’ve had annotations about the word “ingenuous” before and probably will again. Which word was Pepys thinking of?

INGENIOUS , quick-witted, full of Wit or Invention.
INGENUOUS, frank, free, open, sincere, plain.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Wednesday 6 August 1662

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“while talking with him about Sir W. Batten, and find that he is going down the wind in every body’s esteem”

To go down the wind, faire mal ses affaires. [to do his business harm]
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Tuesday 5 August 1662

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"was glad my house is begun tiling"

Plain or thack tyles, are those in ordinary use for covering of houses. They are squeezed flat, while yet soft, in a mould. They are of an oblong figure, and by 17 Ed. IV c.4 are to be 10 1/2 inches long, and 6 1/4 broad, and half an inch and half a quarter thick. But these dimensions are not over strictly kept to. Ridge, roof, or crease tyles, are those used to cover the ridges of houses, being made circular breadth-wise, like an half cylinder; they are, by the aforesaid statute, to be 13 inches long, and of the same thickness with the plain tyles. Hip or corner tyles are those which lie on the hips or corner of roofs.
---A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764.

About William Bodham

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Wheatley notes that Bodham was appointed clerk of the Ropeyard at Woolwich around April, 1664.

About Syllabub

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SILLABUB, SILLIBUB, a Potable made by Milking a Cow into a Composition of Cyder, Sugar, Spice, &c.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Timber

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TIMBER, Wood for Building.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Monday 21 July 1662

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"in the edge or rim of which was placed silver and gold medalls, very ancient, and I believe wrought, by which, if they be, they are the greatest rarity that ever I saw in my life"

MEDAL, a piece of metal representing the faces of princes, or other illustrious persons for arts, learning, arms, &c. on the one side, and some figures or emblematical representations on the other or reverse side. ... The most beautiful of the Roman medals began about the reign of Augustus, and held on till about the time of Severus, in which period they were wrought in all kinds of metals, and finished with wonderful strokes of art, and then as the empire declined, so did the excellency of their coin and medals.

WROUGHT, done, made, worked; also embellished with various ornaments.
---A new general English dictionary. T. Dyche, 1760.

About Samuel Cromleholme

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CROMLEHOLME, SAMUEL (1618-1672, head-master of St Paul's School; M.A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford; master of the Mercers' Chapel School, London; sur-master of St Paul's School 1647-51; master of Dorchester grammar school, 1651-7; head-master St Paul's School, 1657-72.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sunday 20 July 1662

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"we had a calf’s head"

To bake a calf's head.
TAKE the head, pick it and wash it very clean; take an earthen dish large enough to lay the head on, rub a little piece of butter all over the dish, then lay some long iron skewers across the top of the dish, and lay the head on them; skewer up the meat in the middle that it don't lie on the dish, then grate some nutmeg all over it, a few sweet herbs shred small, some crumbs of bread, a little lemon-peel cut fine, and then flour it all over: stick pieces of butter in the eyes and all over the head, and flour it again. Let it be well baked, and of a fine brown; you may throw a little pepper and salt over it, and put into the dish a piece of beef cut small, a bundle of sweet-herbs, an onion, some whole pepper, a blade of mace, two cloves, a pint of water, and boil the brains with some sage. When the head is enough, lay it on a dish, and set it to the fire to-keep warm, then stir all together in the dish, and boil it in a saucepan; strain it off, put it into the sauce-pan again, add a piece of butter rolled in flour, and the sage in the brains chopped fine, a spoonful of catchup, and two spoonfuls of red wine; boil them together, take the brains, beat them well, and mix them with the sauce: pour it into the dish, and send it to table. You must bake the tongue with the head, and don't cut it out. It will lie the handsomer in the dish.
---The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. Hannah Glasse, 1774.

About Tar

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STOCKHOLM TAR. A bituminous liquid obtained from the wood of Pinna sylvestris (Linn.) and other species of Pinna by destructive distillation. The tar exported from Stockholm in earlier times, and to which the term Stockholm tar was applied, was brought from the northern part of Sweden and from Finland, where the tar was produced by peasants from dry wood stumps burned in tjardalar, or specially made tar-burning ground.
---Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, 1913, v.5, p.195.

About Thursday 17 July 1662

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“I this day took a general acquittance from my Lord”

ACQUITTANCE, a Release or Discharge in Writing, of a Debt, or any other Duty, formerly due.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Fane, Lady Rachel (Countess of Bath)

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The manor [Basildon] subsequently came into the possession of the Fane family. Rachel, Countess of Bath (fifth daughter of Francis, first Earl of Westmoreland), who married, firstly, Henry Bourchier, last Earl of Bath, who died in 1654; and secondly, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex; bequeathed the manor of Basildon to her nephew, Sir Henry Fane, K.B., whose son Charles Fane, Esq., was created, in 1711, Viscount Fane and Baron of Loughgayre, in the kingdom of Ireland. The Countess of Bath was born in 1613; and died 11 Nov. 1680. She was buried at Tavistock. co. Devon. Probably this manor was bequeathed to her by her first husband.
---Transactions of the Newbury District Field Club. 4:102, 1895