Saturday 10 April 1669
Up, and to the Excise-Office, and thence to White Hall a little, and so back again to the ’Change, but nobody there, it being over, and so walked home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Seymour to visit me, a talking fellow: but I hear by him that Captain Trevanion do give it out every where, that I did overrule the whole Court-martiall against him, as long as I was there; and perhaps I may receive, this time, some wrong by it: but I care not, for what I did was out of my desire of doing justice. So the office, where late, and then home to supper and to bed.
5 Annotations
First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
"Captain Trevanion do give it out every where, that I did overrule the whole Court-martiall against him,"
Sounds like Captain Trevanion's "tar" background's seeping out.
john • Link
"and perhaps I may receive, this time, some wrong by it"
Who, exactly, is saying this?
Andrew Hamilton • Link
John :
Sam is expressing a concern that Captain Trevanion’s complaints may turn Navy opinion against Sam himself.
nix • Link
I read it the opposite way -- as Trevanion making a threat (or at least a prediction of bad fortune) in Samuel's direction.
Second Reading
psw • Link
Nix is correct; Trevanion has it out for Sam.