Wednesday 14 June 1665
Up, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke’s and other places, about Tangier business, but to little purpose. Among others to my Lord Treasurer’s, there to speak with him, and waited in the lobby three long hours for to speake with him, to the trial of my utmost patience, but missed him at last, and forced to go home without it, which may teach me how I make others wait. Home to dinner and staid Mr. Hater with me, and after dinner drew up a petition for Mr. Hater to present to the Councill about his troublesome business of powder, desiring a trial that his absence may be vindicated, and so to White Hall, but it was not proper to present it to-day. Here I met with Mr. Cowling, who observed to me how he finds every body silent in the praise of my Lord Sandwich, to set up the Duke and the Prince; but that the Duke did both to the King and my Lord Chancellor write abundantly of my Lord’s courage and service.1 And I this day met with a letter of Captain Ferrers, wherein he tells [us] my Lord was with his ship in all the heat of the day, and did most worthily. Met with Creed, and he and I to Westminster; and there saw my Lord Marlborough2 brought to be buried, several Lords of the Council carrying him, and with the herald in some state. Thence, vexed in my mind to think that I do so little in my Tangier business, and so home, and after supper to bed.
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First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Today at Gresham College — from the Hooke Folio Online
June 14. 1665. (petrifyd bone) viper skin from mr Henshaw.) monstrous Lamb skin)
An account was giuen of the Expt. of the growth of Garden cresses in a Receiuer after air was admitted /to it/, whereby in the space of one week It was grown vp to the height of 2 or 3 inches, whereas the whole week befor when the Receiuer stood exhausted [In margin]Vz. It did not grow at all
(Blunts modules of chariot)
Hugens Letter ^ /may 29 1665/ about Heuelius hauing printed 60 sheets of the first comet. 2ly. about the difficulty of making mr Hookes new grinding instrument)
Viper biting a dog not mortall)
English tobacco oyle giuen to a shee cat, following it wth 2 or 3 drop of Spt. of Asa foetida, the cat sick but recouerd the same on a bore catt)
Orderd that the committe for the variation doe meet againe tomorrow morning at Wh Hall
mr mar & mr Philips brought in their Obseruations which were orderd to be kept. . . .
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/cell/Ho…
Terry Foreman • Link
Pepys's life is too busy for him to take his place among the Virtuosos.
dirk • Link
Evelyn's diary today:
"I got home:"
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...and then to bed presumably? :-)
Bradford • Link
"waited in the lobby three long hours for to speake with him, . . . but . . . forced to go home without it, which may teach me how I make others wait."
As one's mama used to say, "Let this be a lesson to you."
JWB • Link
Marlborough
The Marlborough we all know, the 1st Duke, John Churchill, is 15 in 1665, attending St. Paul's & honorary page to Duke of York.
Terry Foreman • Link
The correspondence of the Royal Society with Dutch scientists in wartime
"Hugens Letter ^ /may 29 1665/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chri…
about Heuelius hauing printed 60 sheets of the first comet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joha…
2ly. about the difficulty of making mr Hookes new [lens-]grinding instrument" (illustrated, along with his microscope-setup, by Hooke in his newly-published *Micrographia* http://lane.stanford.edu/portals/… )
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The operation of NGO's across battle-lines continues: e.g. the Middle East Cancer Consortium http://mecc.cancer.gov/about.html
Terry Foreman • Link
"English tobacco oyle giuen to a shee cat, following it wth 2 or 3 drop of Sp[iri]t. of Asa foetida"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaf…
Interesting that the experiment attends to the cat's gender.
Pedro • Link
“Of the four distinguished men who died after the late action with the Dutch and were buried in Westminster Abbey…”
Four of the distinguished Gentlemen, and as for the tarpaulins that also died…
Albatross • Link
A three hour wait must have been particularly difficult insofar as "People" and "Us Weekly" had not yet been invented.
Michael Robinson • Link
Issued today ...
By the King. A proclamation for a thanksgiving for the late victory by His Majesties naval forces.
[Variant title Proclamation for a thanksgiving for the late victory by His Majesties naval forces ...] [end of text] Given at our court at Whitehall the fourteenth day of June, 1665. in the seventeenth year of our reign.
London : printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1665.
2 sheets (versos blank) ; obl. 1⁰.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C3312, Steele, I, 3421
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
The correspondence of the Royal Society with Dutch scientists in wartime
"Hu[y]gens Letter ^ /may 29 1665/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chri…
about Heuelius hauing printed 60 sheets of the first comet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joha…
2ly. about the difficulty of making mr Hookes new [lens-]grinding instrument" (illustrated, along with his microscope-setup, by Hooke in his newly-published *Micrographia* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic… )
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The operation of NGO's across battle-lines continues: e.g. the Middle East Cancer Consortium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid…
StanB • Link
Of the four distinguished men who died after the late action with the Dutch and were buried in Westminster Abbey, the Earl of Marlborough was interred on June 14th, Viscount Muskerry on the 19th, the Earl of Falmouth on the 22nd, and Sir Edward Broughton on the 26th
Interesting to note the dates above and below
Today we remember Professor Stephen Hawking who's Ashes will be interred at Westminister Abbey today 15th June lying alongside Sir Isaac Newton who was 23 at the time of this diary entry 2 great men immortalised forever RIP
Geoff Hallett • Link
Why did Sam never get recognition with a title?