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About 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th July 1661

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"Tom Trice’s putting in a caveat against us"

CAVEAT, a Caution, Warning, Admonition, also a Bill entered in the Ecclesiastical Court to stop the Proceedings of one who would prove a Will to the Prejudice of another Party.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th July 1661

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SURRENDER [in Law] is a Tenant's yielding up his Lands to him that has the next Remainder or Reversion.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th July 1661

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COPY-HOLD, a Tenure for which the Tenant has nothing to shew but the Copy of the Rolls made by the Lord's Court.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

COPY-HOLD, A tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to shew but the copy of the rolls made by the steward of his lord's court. This is called a base tenure, because it holds at the will of the lord; yet not simply, but according to the custom of the manor: so that if a copy-holder break not the custom of the manor, and thereby forfeit his tenure, he cannot be turned out at the lord's pleasure.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. S. Johnson, 1756.

About Sunday 26 May 1661

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Sasha, yes indeed, Prynne took the Hebrew Bible very literally and many people died who crossed the god of that Bible. And Prynne listed them all.

"...that Deity they adore, and that Religion they imbrace is no ways to be openly blasphemed, reviled, oppugned, contemned, under pain of the most severe capital punishments, because such offences against the supreamest Majesty of God transcend any Treason against an earthly Soveraign"
---The sword of Christian magistracy supported, or, A vindication of the Christian magistrates authority under the Gospell, to punish idolatry, apostacy, heresie, blasphemy, and obstinate schism, with corporall, and in some cases with capitall punishments ... by William Prinne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. 1653.

About St Martin's-le-Grand

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Martin's (St.) Lane, the street which, since the rebuilding of the City after the Great Fire, has been called St. Martin's-le-Grand.

Martin's (St.) Le Grand, a collegiate church and sanctuary, on the site of the General Post Office (no traces remain), founded or enlarged by Ingelric, Earl of Essex, and Girard, his brother, in 1056, and confirmed by a charter of William the Conqueror in 1068. It stood within the walls of the City of London, but was a liberty by itself, the Mayor and Corporation often endeavouring, but in vain, to interfere with the privileges of the precinct. Criminals on their way to execution from Newgate to Tower Hill passed the south gate of St. Martin's, and often sought, sometimes successfully, to escape from their attendants into the adjoining sanctuary. ... At the dissolution of religious houses the college was levelled to the ground, and a kind of Alsatia established, let to "strangers born," and highly prized from the privileges of sanctuary which the inhabitants, chiefly manufacturers of counterfeit ware, latten and copper articles, beads, etc., continued to enjoy, till the Act 21 James I. c . 28 (1623), declared that all such privilege of sanctuary should thereafter be void. ... When the excavations were making in 1818 for the General Post Office, an early English crypt and the vaults of a still earlier foundation were discovered and destroyed.

The wide street now known as St. Martin's-le-grand extends north from Cheapside and Newgate Street to Aldersgate Street. It occupies the line of the old St. Martin's Lane, but is much wider. The college lay on the east of it, but the sanctuary included the west side of St. Martin's Lane. The General Post Office (the older building) occupies the whole of the east side of St. Martin's-le-Grand to St . Ann's Lane; and the entire west side is occupied by the new portion of the General Post Office, and an open space (1889) upon which the extended premises of the Post Office are to be built.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Friday 24 May 1661

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"Susan was a name usually only seen in the servant classes"

The book "The Peerage of England" (Collins, 2 vols.), 1756, has 24 women mentioned with the name Susan. No Abigails!

About Saturday 6 July 1661

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"My aunt I found in bed in a most nasty ugly pickle"

PICKLE ...
3. Condition, state. Shakespeare.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

The word seems to have had a neutral meaning for this other Sam. Our Sam used the word "pickle" on 26 September 1660 and there are more annotations there. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

About Wilkins' 'Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language'

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"In [John Wilkins's] "Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language," from 1668, Wilkins laid out a sprawling taxonomic tree that was intended to represent a rational classification of every concept, thing, and action in the universe. Each branch along the tree corresponded to a letter or a syllable, so that assembling a word was simply a matter of tracing a set of forking limbs until you'd arrived on a distant tendril representing the concept you wanted to express. For example, in Wilkins's system, De signifies an element, Deb is fire, and Deba is a flame.
The natural philosopher Robert Hooke was so impressed with Wilkins's language that he published a discourse on pocket watches in it, and proposed it be made the lingua franca of scientific research. That never happened. The language was simply too burdensome, and it soon vanished into obscurity. But Wilkins taxonomic-classification scheme, which organized words by meaning rather than alphabetically, was not entirely without use: it was a predecessor of the first modern thesaurus."
Joshua Foer. New Yorker Magazine, Dec. 24 & 31, 2012, p.88.

About Wednesday 3 July 1661

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Another contemporary text that differentiates between these four sicknesses:

But if Poison be taken into or generated in the Body ... then there breaketh out malignant Fevers, as the Measles, Small Pox, Spotted Fever, and the Plague itself.
---Cochlearia Curiosa. V.A.Moellenbrock, 1676.

About Wednesday 3 July 1661

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"who died yesterday of the spotted fever"

John Wilkins in his semi-famous book "An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language" (1668) (a forerunner of the thesaurus) differentiates as separate diseases: Spotted fever, Plague, Pox and Measles. All of these he categorizes as sicknesses with "spots in the skin."

John Wilkins: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Charles Glascock

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Pepys was very lax in his use of the term cousin. Charles Glasscocke was brother-in-law of Judith Pepys, nee Cutter.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Hatfield, Hertfordshire

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Hatfield or Bishop's Hatfield, Herts. In 1109, when the abbey of Ely was erected into a bishopric, Hatfield became an episcopal residence, and a sumptuous palace was built there. In 1538 the manor was conveyed to Henry VIII. by Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, in exchange for lands in Cambridge, Essex, and Norfolk, and the palace became a royal abode. James I. in 1607 exchanged it with Lord Salisbury for Theobalds, and built a new mansion for his minister, who died the year after it was finished. The inn mentioned by Pepys was the Salisbury Arms. The vineyard is still carefully kept, and is one of the last of its age existing. William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, succeeded his father in 1612, and died December 3rd, 1668.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Jasper Trice

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There is a monument to "Jasper Trice, gent.," in Brampton.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Graveley

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Gravely is in Cambridgeshire, although it is contiguous to Hunts.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Duck Lane

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Duck Lane was largely inhabited by booksellers. It is now renamed Little Britain.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Tuesday 2 July 1661

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Davenant's opera of the "Siege of Rhodes" was published in 1656. The author afterwards wrote a second part, which Pepys saw. The two parts, as altered, and as acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields, were published in 1663.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Wednesday 22 May 1661

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PASTY, the Crust of a Pye raised without a Dish.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

This appears to be also the modern definition, at least among the descendants of the Cornish miners of northern Michigan! http://blog.mlive.com/michigan_ap…

About Friday 26 July 1661

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Sam has been silent on the Savoy Conference which was a sop to the Presbyterians for agreeing to the return of Charles II. But the resurgent bishops were in no mood for any compromise and the Presbyterians got nothing. Sam was right not to heed Mr. Hill.

... great Expectations were raised of some farther Reformation, in Order to the uniting of Protestants; to which Purpose, the King gave Commisson to several Divines, both Episcopal and Presbyterian, to meet at the Savoy; ... the Bishops being provoked by their former Sufferings, were not very forward to make any Alterations propos'd by the Presbyterians, refusing them so much as the Change of deadly Sin in the Litany to Heinous Sin.
---Presbyterian Prejudice Display'd. Z. Grey, 1722.