Thursday 10 April 1662
To Westminster with the two Sir Williams by water, and did several businesses, and so to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore to dinner. Yesterday came Col. Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved to embarque for England this week.
Thence to the office all the afternoon. My Lord Windsor came to us to discourse of his affairs, and to take his leave of us; he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now going.
Late at the office. Home with my mind full of business. So to bed.
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Mary K McIntyre • Link
"I cannot down with their dull company..."
Sorry to be so tardy w/my $0.02, but it was a v busy week. There is a variant on this usage in current urban speak: "I'm down with that," i.e. to agree with another's statement or proposal.
It's long been observed that regional or dialectical speech in Canada and the US resembles 16th-18th c BritSpeak. This is a kind of cool example, yes?
language hat • Link
Not a "variant" but a coincidental similarity.
Still, a fun coincidence, as long as we don't let it influence our interpretation of Pepys' usage (which still seems mysterious to me).
Mary K McIntyre • Link
L Hat, we may have to take this into another room... but why just a coincidence?
language hat • Link
There's no plausible connection between a late-20th-century usage and a rare 17th-century one.
vicenzo • Link
Windsor did the correct move by coming to the Horses mouth as Penn was the Admiral who removed Jamaica from Spanish Care."...he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now going..."
[Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655.]
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I'm under the impression that Capt Batten was also on this hunt back '55
Second Reading
Margaret Rose • Link
I'm enjoying the saga of the Queen. The history nerd in me is thrilled to see "first hand" the life of Catherine.
Terry Foreman • Link
"Yesterday came Col. Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved to embarque for England this week."
L&M: She embarked on Sunday 13 April, after mass: Sandwich, p. 132. Col. Richard Talbot (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York; later Earl of Tyrconnel) appears to have left the fleet in the Tagus on 27 March: ib., p. 128.
Terry Foreman • Link
"My Lord Windsor came to us to discourse of his affairs, and to take his leave of us; he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now going."
L&N: The new Governor had been negotiating with the Navy Board for boats and yawls: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
He arrived in Jamaica in July: CSPCol. 1661-8, p. 99.