Letters from or to Sir Edward Mountagu ("my Lord," Earl of Sandwich)

    1656

    • 11 Mar 1656, Edward Mountagu to Samuel Pepys (0 annotations)
      You are upon sight hereof to pay unto Captain Hare or his assignees the sum of one hundred and fourscore pounds lawful money of England for so much received of him h[ereby?] in pieces of eight…
    • 27 Nov 1656, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      By Tuesday post I acquainted your Honour with Mr Meadows’ answers to both the questions, as likewise particularly to what your last letter commanded me. Yesterday my Lady Pickering came hither to pack up…
    • 11 Dec 1656, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      Your Honour’s enclosed to Mr Wheeler I have delivered, and sent the dozen stools, and half-dozen cushions. My Lady Pickering was herself here and see the books and silver bedstead well placed,…

    1657

    • 8 Jan 1657, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I have spoke with Colonel Ingoldsby who tells me that he hath an order (but not of his own procuring) whereby Mr Trafford and he are joined in the seeing so many loads of wood laid out for such a use.…
    • 5 Dec 1657, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      My Thursday’s letter to Mr Barnwell mentioned my receipt of the £417 as also Mr Barton’s lodging here since this late business of the maid, which I am glad to understand by Roger [Pepys]…
    • 8 Dec 1657, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      The things are come from onboard, and one of the boxes shall come this week to Hinchingbrooke and the rest kept till further order. The horse Roger purposeth to set out with tomorrow.…
    • 22 Dec 1657, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I was this morning removing the cedar into the back-entry when your Lordship’s commands came to me, and I find it just of a length to receive it. The cup (I have formerly mentioned in a letter) I have…
    • 26 Dec 1657, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      This week your Honour I hope hath received five-dozen of bottles of Rhenish wine from Captain Holland. In my last by Tuesday post I gave you an account concerning the cup, cedar and mourning.…

    1659

    • 20 Oct 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      The Commissioners of the Great Seal their Commissions deter­mined the last night. The Judges have been at their several Courts to assign the term and ’tis expected they will all sit the time of their…
    • 22 Oct 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I have (not without much importunity) got Mr Scott to go speak with Mrs Crew. All that hath yet been done in the business is to know his demands which is a hundred pounds for his skill and pains in the…
    • 3 Dec 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I wrote to your Lordship by the carrier, and since that received your Lordship’s of the 29 of November with one to Mr Andrews. I received a while since the remainder of the dollars, which I was…
    • 6 Dec 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      Yesterday’s fray in London will most likely make a great noise in the Country, and deservedly, as being the soonest began the hottest in the pursuit and the quietest in the close of any we have…
    • 8 Dec 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I wrote to your Lordship by Saturday post (which letter your Lordship this week mentions not the receipt of) giving you an account of Mr Creed’s payment of the remaining dollars due upon the bill…
    • 8 Dec 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      I wrote today more largely by the carrier, though so late that I had not time to read over what I had wrote. Since noon I am informed Plymouth town and castle, and Colchester have declared for a…
    • 15 Dec 1659, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      This morning proclamation was made for a Parliament and the City (as if satisfied therewith) have commanded all men to be quiet and forbear farther violence. I have done as your Lordship…

    1660

    • 12 Jan 1660, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      There was one sent to me this morning from Sir Anthony Cooper to let me know that several were putting in for your Lordship’s lodgings, and that he did desire to know your intentions concerning…

    1661

    • 29 Aug 1661, Samuel Pepys to Edward Mountagu (0)
      We have been under very great doubts concerning your Lordship’s well-being, till your letters of the 22 and 28 of July from Alicante eased us, and from them we have reason to hope you have ere this…