Thursday 1 March 1659/60
In the morning went to my Lord’s lodgings, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my Lord’s pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut Mr. Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew’s, whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. Yelverton, my old school-fellow at Paul’s School, to bring the thanks of the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old Mr. Crew and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before we went to dinner, it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew’s coachman, was to be buried in the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed with a blow of one of his horses that struck his skull into his brain. From thence Mr. Sheply and I went into London to Mr. Laxton’s; my Lord’s apothecary, and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he and I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of matters in the country, among other things telling me that my uncle did to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes.
This day the Parliament did vote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month.
11 Annotations
First Reading
Hhomeboy • Link
Sheply is Montagu's Steward at Hinchinbrooke...so, while moves are being made to prepare the return of the Stuart's and then to arrest all those connected to the regicide, the patronage appointments are already falling into place...
mary • Link
abut Mr. Sheply....
Latham & Matthews give 'but Mr. Sheply' which makes better sense.
David Quidnunc • Link
People
MR. THOMAS Crew (1624-97) -- eldest son of John Crew (and brother of Jemima, Mountagu's wife) and a member of Parliament. His will indicates he was a strict puritan. On 25 January, Pepys mentions helping to send Thomas Crew's portrait to Hinchingbrooke. (L&M, Vol. 1)
SIR HENRY YELVERTON (1633-70) -- a man with some political ambition, and according to one Dorothy Osborne, "a very pretty little gentleman."
-- Robert Latham's companion volume (10) to the diary
Martin K. Foys • Link
"my uncle did to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me"
Sounds like all of Sam's hard work is about to pay off . . .
r thompson • Link
Why has the font size been reduced? I can hardly read the diary on my laptop and the annotation sections are unreadable. r.t.
Todd Bernhardt • Link
re: font size
Richard, if you're using Internet Explorer, make sure your "Text Size" (found under the View drop-down menu) is set to Medium. If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel and are on a PC, you can quickly change the text-size setting by holding down the Ctrl key and using the wheel.
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
"I went to Mr. Crew’s, whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. Yelverton, my old school-fellow at Paul’s School, to bring the thanks of the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament."
L&M note the "thanks" was a letter, later published as The second addresse from the gentlemen of the County of Northampton, to his excellency the Lord Generall Monck. [London: s.n., 1660] [full text] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
Terry Foreman • Link
"This day the Parliament did vote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month."
Dissolving Parliament: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... and out of the box where my Lord’s pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own use and left the rest."
Has Montagu had some flyers printed, and Pepys takes some? Anyone know what these papers were about?
Third Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
Sir Henry Yelverton “was arrested as a royalist suspect in 1659, but on his release … that he was still ready to serve the King by raising 500 horse and securing Northampton. ... With Thomas Crew he presented to George Monck an address of thanks from Northamptonshire for the recall of the secluded Members.” -- https://www.historyofparliamenton…
So my reading of this is that Sir Henry Yelverton MP had come to pick up John Crew MP in order to carry the thanks from the County of Northamptonshire to Gen. Monck, but Montagu and his father-in-law were detained elsewhere, possibly attending the burial of John the coachman. After waiting a while, Pepys, Thomas Crew, possibly Mr. Sheply, and Sir Henry Yelverton MP trooped into the dining room and ate anyways. Why waste a good meal?
San Diego Sarah • Link
"In the morning went to my Lord’s lodgings, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my Lord’s pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own use and left the rest."
Easier to get forgiven than ask for permission, Pepys?
"Has Montagu had some flyers printed, and Pepys takes some?"
My guess 4 years later is that Pepys wanted to know what Sandwich knew, and what was influencing Sandwich's actions. In my day I read my grandparents' old Readers Digests and LIFE magazines to find things to talk to them about. Pepys' need for intelligence was more pressing than that, of course.