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About Wednesday 26 August 1663

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Sandwich's finances...According to his 2 biographers (Ollard and Harris) there isn't a great deal of information in Sandwich's manuscripts which detail his finances, and nothing that details’ today’s diary entry. In general the limited information around this time shows that Sandwich may have expected to have money coming in from various places (£4,000 year granted from the Restoration, rents from lands, the Wardrobe (which he estimated at £7,000 year), etc. The truth was that the Wardrobe took the hit for a lot of the expenses of the pageantry associated with the Restoration, forcing it into great debt from which it never seemed to recover. Charles would promise funds and not deliver on the amounts promised, and if lucky the Wardrobe would get a fraction of the promised amount. No money in the Wardrobe meant no pay for Sandwich.
Harris gives a few pages of fragmented accounting summary (as there isn't alot to support the details) and explains that "The grants which Charles II made to his supporter were generous, nut unreal. They were made in a time of uncertainty; they were based in the perquisites of an office which was months in arrears, or fee farm rents in scattered countries. The grants, too, were looked upon with disfavor by a certain section, and there was at times a talk of the restitution of lands...Although he was partly the victim of a bad system, he was undeniably careless. His accounts were badly supervised. He estimated his income at what was then the large sum of £8,oo per year, and spent in a princely fashion." (Harris vol I, p 258). The combination of bad accounting, no money coming in, Sandwich’s extravagant nature and generosity all combined to leave him in a state of lifelong financial troubles.

About Wednesday 26 August 1663

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“A Good Husband For the King ????”

Our Sam works his “nine to five”
Impressing all with dedication and drive
But to marry Charles Stuart?
Annotators will see through it
Civil Partnerships won’t be law ‘til 2005!

About Monday 17 August 1663

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"nor a boy…" Good catch Tom, but we can't blame Elizabeth for the departure of Wayneman. Perhaps both Sam and Elizabeth were on the demanding side????

About Saturday 15 August 1663

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Sharing my Mind

by Sam

Oh come all you scholars
Surely you’ll find
The many uses I have
Of the word mind

There’s the minding of me
Yes my wife must obey
To do what I ask her
And work hard each day

Out of sight out of mind
While my wife was away
My mind started to wander
With Mrs. Lane I did play

To my mind is a saying
That you can surely see
It’s my way of thinking
And all about me

Minding my P’s and Q’s
When in Naval company
Leaves an impression on the Duke
That I’m a stellar employee

Mind over matter is easy
For a man such as me
I have a stunning brain power
You all must agree

When I give a piece of my mind
I use my rule to measure and see
That I don’t give too much away
And I save some for me

But my great mind is so full
That some advice I can share
I’ll pass along these words of wisdom
Live by them if you dare

Peace of mind is a quality
Of those truly blessed
Who create their own harmony
And to hell with the rest

About Friday 14 August 1663

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Gee Robert, Maybe Sam whipped out a copy of his letter to his father regarding Brampton and pointed out the line that read "You cannot but thinke that for mee to part with twenty pounds a yeare out of my purse in steade of haveing 30£ a yeare and the rent of Sturtlow as the Will gives mee is an unwellcome burthen".....he's obviously going to make him work for his keep. I think it's called hush money, or perhaps "hush up" money.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/indepth…

About Wednesday 12 August 1663

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I've been furthering my research on this subject and even before Sam's time Shakespeare looked at the choices of A or B above and said....
"To B, or not to B, that is the question".. will report more on this important topic as I dig deeper into the subject....

About Wednesday 12 August 1663

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"but I find it will be best not to examine it, for I doubt she’s in fault too, and therefore I seek to put it off from my hearing, and so to bed and there entertained her with great content, and so to sleep."
Oh, come on you astute readers--this is Sam (or any man?) at his best! Bess comes home, chats up about her woes at Brampton. Sam sees 2 choices:

A. Get into a "discussion" with his wife about the issue.

B. Keep his mouth shut and go "entertain her with great content" in bed.

Obviously the 2 are exclusive choices as A would NOT lead to B! Doesn't take a master mind to figure out what Sam would do!
I'm printing up some of those little bracelets right now that say "WWSD" (what would Sam do). I'll be selling them for a dollar on ebay with funds donated to research on how little men have changed over the years. This falls into the research category of survival of the fittest as any man without enough brains to have figured this out would have never made it to the sack to pass on his gene pool.........

PS Alan --loved your entry on IKEA!

About Tuesday 11 August 1663

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Susan and Pedro --As always, thanks for the info! I think that Jerome's method would be the preferable one today!

About Tuesday 11 August 1663

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"Grammont says that Catherine went to Bladud’s spring in Bath."
I am curious if anyone knows what exactly one was supposed to do at these curing waters at Bath, Turnbridge, etc. --just soak, or some ritual of healing or what. Any ideas anyone?

About Tuesday 11 August 1663

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"After the Queen is come back she goes to the Bath". The trips to Turnbridge and then to the Baths were trips made in an attempt to cure Catherine's infertility. It was believed that by taking the waters under a strict routine as her doctors advised her that she may actually conceive. The original thought was that she go to Turnbridge and from there to the Waters of Bourbon, but since Bourbon was a longer and more expensive trip, one of the Royal phsicians, Sir Alexander Fraser, "came to the rescue, and declared that he had analysed the Bourbon springs, when in attendance there with the Queen-mother, and found they exactly resembled those of Bath." (Davidson, p. 196). While in Bath Charles and Catherine will be the guest of Dr. Pierce, who had a mansion known as Abbey House. No doubt Dr. Pierce will fill Sam's ears with entertaining stories and gossip from this trip.

About Monday 10 August 1663

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"Can he really be writing this with a straight face?”
My thought is that Sam would not consider his extra-marital sexual exploits in the same realm as that of Charles' court, or what he is pondering about Sandwich. The difference is that Sam's activity has been clandestine and "secret". It's probably NOT the sexual activity outside of marriage that Sam cares about, but rather how it looks when it's known about and made public that is at issue. Usually people who gossip (like Sam does) love to gossip ABOUT other people but HATE to be the target of gossip themselves, so hidden extra-maritial sex would fly, but public activity would not. Sam, as much as we admire him for other things, is all about moral appearances as opposed to being committed to it's actual practice.

About Friday 7 August 1663

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Paul--Bravo on the poetry! Hopefully you'll bring us more!

And Mary, with today's theme of Sam and his love of his measuring rule your comment "Neither brother seems to be measuring up to Sam’s expectations at present" was in perfect thematic harmony!

About Friday 7 August 1663

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"and I find him not so thorough a philosopher, at least in Aristotle"...
I suppose that Sam spends his days filling his speech with great quotes of Aristotle, like these perhaps?

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes…

P.S. Obviously Aristotle wasn't a feminist (and neither is Sam!)

About Saturday 1 August 1663

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"Now match the four men to the four horses they rode and the four chambers they slept in.”
Thank you Roy I loved this--- somehow, when I read about the ongoing Pepys sleeping arrangements I think I'd prefer the "John Wayne" style where a man just slept with his horse.....it would be a lot easier to keep track of.

About Friday 31 July 1663

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“Sir Charles Barkeley hath still such power over the King”

From “The King’s Friend” by Hartmann (Bio of Berkeley).

“ In the month of July the King conferred a Viscountcy in the peerage of Ireland upon his favourite.. ..It seems that the titles first chosen for him were Viscount Berkeley of Drummore and Baron Berehaven. But there were already two Lords Berkeley ….. and it was considered that the existence of three peers bearing the same name as part of their principle titles would create too much confusion. It was therefore decided to revive the original family name of Fitzhardinge, and the next titles chosen were Viscount Fitzhardinge of Leitrim and Baron of Tully, County Antrim. For some reason these too were not considered quite satisfactory, and finally on July 11, 1663, a warrant was issued for the grant to Sir Charles Berkeley, junior, of the titles Viscount Fitzhardinge, of Berehaven, Kerry, and Baron Berkeley, of Rathdown, County Dublin, with special remainder in default of male issue to Sir Charles Berkeley, senior, Treasurer of the Household, and the heirs male of his body. This curious remainder to the father of the recipient of a title must be comparatively rare in the annals of the peerage. To explain the choice of the name Fitzhardinge a clause was inserted to the effect that Sir Charles Berkeley was the second son of Sir Charles Berkeley, of Bruton, of the noble family of Barons Berkeley ‘of which George, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who deduces his descent from Robert Fitzhardinge descended from the Kings of Denmark, is chief. “ ( p 102)
Berkeley, now Fitzhardinge, was given a coat of arms. Of note, Berkeley was not an Irishman, but, like poor Roger Palmer (Castlemaine’ cuckold husband), “it was the practice then to confer Irish peerages on occasions when there was some awkwardness in the conferment of the peerage at all… The French Ambassador wrote to Louis XIV on July 5/15: ‘The King has made young Berkeley a lord. It has been kept secret for some time for fear of annoying the House of Commons, which has loudly shown it displeasure’. The displeasure expressed by the Commons was no doubt partly due to the fact that Sir Charles Berkeley had not as yet rendered such meritous services to the country as would in their eyes justify his being created a peer, and partly also to the fact that they shared Pepys suspicions about the nature of the services he was rendering to the King. But Charles II himself did not see why he should not hounour his friend in this manner for the sole and simple reason that he was his friend.” (p 103-104)

About Thursday 30 July 1663

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“By this means Sir G. Carteret hath married two daughters this year both very well”

Information from “All For the King” by Balleine (Carteret’s bio), pages 138-140.

“Parent’s in Careret’s position in those days were all agog to marry their daughters ‘well’. This meant a young man with a title, a manor, a deer-park and at least £2000 a year. Anne [eldest] was the first of the girls to find a husband. Evelyn notes in his Diary; '1662, November 4. I was invited to the wedding of the daughter of Sir George Carteret, married to Nicholas Stanning, Knight of the Bath, by the Bishop of London in the Savoy Chapel, after which was an extraordinary feast.’ Stannings’ father had been one of the Royalist leaders in the west in the early days of the War, and had worked in close touch with Sir George, distributing the munitions as fast as they arrived in St. Malo. The son had been created a Baronet in 1663, and later made Governor of Plymouth, and Anne became mistress of the fine estate at Marystowne in Devon.” [note says she must have died prior to 1670, when Sir Nicolas married again].
“Eight months later it was the turn of Carolina. The Archbishops’s license gave permission to “Thomas Scott, bachelor, aet 20, to marry Carolina de Carteret, aet 15 [note this is an error, she was 14 at this time], at the French Church in the Savoy.’ The fact that these wedding both took place in the French Huguenot Chapel shows that the family still preferred the French to the English Service. Evelyn again gives the date:’1663, July 16. Sir George Carteret had married his daughter Carolina to Sir Thomas Scott of Scott’s Hall, Kent. The gent. is thought to be the son of Prince Rupert’. Pepys disapproved of this marriage. “she was in her hanging sleeves’, he wrote ‘but a month or two ago, and is a very young child’; and he misliked the bridegroom, who he speaks of elsewhere as ‘Mr. Scott the bastard’. Scott’s mother had been Prince Rupert’s mistress, and had lived apart from her husband for twelve years before the baby was born. Her husband had repudiated the child, ‘pleading it was unlawfully got’, said Pepys, ‘a little while before his death he did own the child and left him his estate. ‘”[quote goes on from above diary entry]
“So small Carolina became the mistress of Scott’s Hall in the parish of Brabourne near Ashford. When her father and Evelyn paid her a visit a few weeks later, the latter wrote: “I accompanied Mr. Vice-Chamberlain to his lately married son-in-law. We took barge as far as Gravesend, thence to post to Rochester, whence in a coach with six horse’s to Scott’s Hall, a right noble seat uniformly built with a handsome gallery. It stands in a park well stored, with land fat and good. We were exceedingly feasted by the young knight, and in his pretty chapel heard an excellent sermon by his Chaplin.’ Unfortunately Carteret had not considered what an awful mother he was inflicting on poor Carolina. She wrote to her son, “I shall be happy to see your wife, but, as I wrote to her, not while I am under the frowns and neglect of her father and mother.’ Later, however, she realized that her son’s rich father-in law might be made useful, and for the rest of Carteret’s life he was pestered with begging letters from her.”
Also to note: Carteret and Rupert {who is believed to be the boy’s real father} were enemies. Back in March 1653 Carteret, acting on the behalf of Charles (not yet King, but next in line) and Rupert entered into a ‘tug of war’ over the ownership of some guns taken by Rupert’s on a buccaneering cruise. Charles claimed ownership, Carteret, as always acted with non wavering loyalty to do what the then exiled Charles had asked and the result was a lifelong (?) enemy in Rupert. It’s not stated anywhere I’ve found as of yet, if they ever made amends or if Rupert maintained any part in his supposedly bastard child’s life, but this could mean another “awful in-law” for Carteret. (page 107). Rupert, however (per a foot note in Grammont) did provide for 2 of his bastard children by other mistresses in his will, but I'm not sure if Thomas received any inheritance from him when he died or if he was ever "officially claimed" by Rupert.

Finally, to note and Pepys will mention this (not a big spoiler, but interesting to note when we see it), Carteret is a wonderful and extremely devoted father (and by all accounts husband, too). Sam will get to know the girls more over the next year or so. He will not immediately come across the 2 older boys as they have already left the nest. The other interesting Carteret marriage (details withheld) will involve our Sam offering advice to the hopeful suitor and will be a fun filled adventure for us to look forward to.

About Tuesday 28 July 1663

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"Three cheers for Sam’s long weekend"
Alan, what amazed me is that he kept each day totally separate so there was never a hint that he was recording the long weekend at one time. He even managed to keep the "suspense" of the lost dog going from one day to the next without "hinting" about it in his first entry.