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About Tuesday 25 February 1661/62

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This discussion about the word "doubt" is crazy to me. Lord B. and his sidekicks have concocted a fanciful lie about why they killed this poor innocent man. How could an innocent man have confessed to them? And SP doubts (is uncertain) that their "very good tale" "will be proved otherwise." In the event, he was right.

About Movies set in Pepys' time

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@Nix, here's the current (2/2014) Samuel Pepys Filmography from IMDb:

1. "The Great Fire" (2014) (TV) Played by Daniel Mays
2. "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" - When Knowledge Conquered Fear (2014) TV episode Played by Tom Konkle
3. "The British" (2012) TV series Played by Samuel West
4. Stage Beauty (2004) Played by Hugh Bonneville
5. London (2004) (TV) Played by Philip Jackson
6. The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (2003) (TV) Played by Steve Coogan
7. England, My England (1995) Played by John Shrapnel
8. "Magic Grandad" - Famous People: Samuel Pepys (1994) TV episode, Played by John Warnaby
9. The Pyrates (1986) (TV) Played by John Rapley
10. "Complete and Utter History of Britain" - James the McFirst to Oliver Cromwell (1969) TV episode, Played by Michael Palin
11. "From Cover to Cover" - Episode #1.5 (1958) TV episode, Played by Nigel Sharpe
12. "ITV Television Playhouse" - And So to Bed (1957) TV episode, Played by George Benson
13. "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" - Ninety Sail (1954) TV episode, Played by Mervyn Johns
14. Courageous Mr. Penn (1942) Played by Henry Oscar (aka "Penn of Pennsylvania" - UK (original title))
15. Thank You, Mr. Pepys (1938) Played by Edmund Gwenn
16. Nell Gwyn (1934) Played by Esme Percy
17. Colonel Blood (1934) Played by Arthur Chesney
18. Nell Gwyn (1926) Played by Johnny Butt
19. The Glorious Adventure (1922) Played by Lennox Pawle

About Martin Beckman

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BECKMAN, Sir MARTIN (d. 1702), colonel, chief engineer and master gunner of England; Swedish captain of artillery; entered service of Charles II as engineer, 1660; accompanied Lord Sandwich's expedition to Algiers and Tangiers, 1661-2; third engineer of Great Britain, 1670, second engineer, 1681, and chief engineer, 1685; accompanied Prince Rupert to Holland, 1673; on commission for strengthening fortifications of Portsmouth, 1678; major; served with Lord Dartmouth at Tangiers, 1683; knighted, 1685; head of royal laboratory at Woolwich, 1688; served under Major-general Thomas Tollemache in Ireland and France, 1691-4, and was colonel commanding ordnance train for sea expedition, 1692; commanded ordnance trains in expeditions against Gibraltar and France, 1695-6.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Wednesday 26 February 1661/62

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To CAST, to fling or throw; also to think or contrive
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Wednesday 26 February 1661/62

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@Clement above. I think SP's attempts to "cast up" accounts will indeed be a bit simple. It may be a bit of a spoiler alert but in a few months SP will make his "first attempt being to learn the multiplication-table".

About Sunday 23 February 1661/62

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"My cold being increased, I staid at home all day"

COLD.
3. A disease caused by cold; the obstruction of perspiration.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Sunday 23 February 1661/62

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@Gerald, Aristotle (and Solon) in the Nicomachean Ethics got there first: "Must no one at all, then, be called happy while he lives; must we, as Solon says, see the end?"

About Act of Uniformity 1662

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The effect of these provisions of the Act of Uniformity was that a large number of the non-episcopal accepted the conditions imposed — that they should be episcopally ordained, accept the Prayer Book system as now set forth, and renounce the obligations into which they had entered for the destruction of Episcopacy, and for opposing the Crown by force of arms. These incumbents thus legalized their position, and qualified themselves to carry out the system of the Church of England according to its long-established principles. Those ministers who declined to accept these conditions and to "conform" to the Church system, and who were hence called "Nonconformists," amounted in number to about eight hundred; and on August 24, 1662, they were obliged by the provisions of the Act to vacate their benefices. Some of these established themselves as ministers of separate congregations of Presbyterians or Independents, or of some of the many other sects which were gradually formed among the remnant of the Puritans.
---The Reformation of the Church of England. J.H. Blunt, 1882

About Act of Uniformity 1662

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Sorry, the about section was from:
---A History of the English Episcopacy. T. Lathbury, 1886.

About Act of Uniformity 1662

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The book of common prayer, as revised by the convocation [the Savoy conference], was submitted to and approved by the parliament; and measures were immediately taken to secure its adoption throughout the country. On the 19th May, 1662, an act, called the Act of Uniformity, received the royal assent. It was enacted that it should come into operation on the 24th of the ensuing August. By this act every minister was compelled to subscribe to every thing contained in the book of common prayer. It was also enacted, that no minister should officiate in the church of England without episcopal ordination.
---The Reformation of the Church of England. J.H. Blunt, 1882

About Cookshops

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Even a colonial like me knows this:

takeaway
1. (chiefly UK, Australia and New Zealand, of food) To be eaten off the premises.
Synonyms
(to be eaten off premises): to go (North America)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tak…

About Friday 8 August 1662

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From Sean Adams above: "a man that cannot sit still in his chamber -- is not fit for business
The reference may to Pascal."

By coincidence, Blaise Pascal will die 11 days from today, in Paris.

About Ralph Mountagu

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MONTAGU, RALPH, first Duke of Montagu (1638?-1709), son of Edward Montagu, second baron Montagu of Boughton; master of the horse to the Duchess of York; ambassador extraordinary to Louis XIV, 1669; purchased the mastership of the great wardrobe, 1671; privy councillor, 1672; again ambassador extraordinary to Louis XIV, 1676; unsuccessfully intrigued for the post of secretary of state; being denounced by the Duchess of Cleveland, returned to England without permission, to find himself struck out of the privy council (1678) and superseded as ambassador; negotiated with the French ambassador, offering to procure Danby's fall within six months; his papers seized; produced two letters, which were voted as sufficient ground for Danby's impeachment, 1678; escaped arrest after the dissolution of parliament, 1678; unsuccessfully endeavoured to get Monmouth declared Prince of Wales; retired to France, 1680; succeeded as Baron Montagu, 1684, and returned to England on the accession of James II; took up William's cause at the revolution; privy councillor and created Viscount Monthermer and Earl of Montagu, 1689; the mastership of the wardrobe restored to him; several lawsuits concerning the Albemarle property caused by his marriage with Elizabeth Cavendish, widow of Christopher Monck, second duke of Albemarle, 1692; became Marquis of Monthermer and Duke of Montagu, 1705.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About King's Bench Court

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King's Bench, the highest Court of Common Law in England, is so called, because the King sometimes sat there in person on an high bench, and the Judges, to whom the judicature belongs in his absence, on a low bench at his feet: or because this Court determines pleas between the Crown and the subject of treasons, felonies, and other pleas, which properly belong to the King: and also in whatsoever relates to the loss of life or member of any subject, in which the King is concerned, as he is a sufferer by the loss of the life or limbs of his subjects. Here likewise are tried breaches of peace, oppression, and misgovernment; and this Court corrects the errors of all the Judges and Justices of England, in their judgments and proceedings, not only in pleas of the Crown, but in all pleas, real, personal, and mix'd; except only pleas in the Exchequer. This Court is general, and extends to all England; and where ever it is held the law supposes the Sovereign to be there in person. In this Court there commonly sit four Judges, the first of which is stiled the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench; and sometimes the Lord Chief Justice of England; whose salary is 4000l. a year, and the puisne Judges 1500l. a year each. Chamberlain's Present State. The Court of King's Bench in Westminster Hall is in the south east corner
---London and Its Environs Described. R. Dodsley, 1761.

About Sunday 16 February 1661/62

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"a good draft of mulled ale"

To MULL Wine, to soften, to make sweet or gentle, to burn, i.e. to make hot, and season it with Spice, Sugar, &c.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Monday 3 June 1661

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From the Dictionary of National Biography for WM: "became abbot of St. Martin near Pontoise; resigned in favour of Cardinal Bouillon at the request of the French government, 1670, but continued to enjoy the revenues"

About Wednesday 30 April 1662

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"the Mayor and burgesses did desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship"

BURGESS, an Inhabitant of Burgh, or Borough; also one that serves for a Borough in Parliament.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.