Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
The Telegraph has an article about a million word journal kept by a puritan minister from 1677 to 1691. A relatively small part, 40,000 words, was, like Pepys’ diary, written in shorthand which has now been interpreted. It’s due to be published in 2005.
(This isn’t strictly Pepys related, and I was going to post this only to the discussion group, but I thought it might be of interest to everyone!)
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Posted: Friday 29 August 2003
So — once we get through ten years of Samuel we’ll have another 14 of the Rev. Morrice?
I doubt that I’ll live that long — and I don’t know that I want to spend my declining years contemplating the daily doings and inmost thoughts of a puritan divine. Give my Pepys the climber, the schemer, the lecher!
As a genealogist I spend a lot of time reading parish registers and the amount of un-christian invective that can be loosed by the most holy of ministers is truly remarkable - let’s give Rev Morris a chance!
I wonder if there are any cross references to Pepys and Evelyn in the Entring Book? Probably not. I can’t find a match to Morrice in the Evelyn diary.
The Morrice “Entering Book” in print from Boydell & Brewer:-
“Introductory price until 31st December 2007: £495 / US$950 Thereafter price rises to £550 / US$1,050”
Detailed description from publisher’s dedicated web-pages:-
http://www.boydell.co.uk/entringmain.htm
See also another, recent, Telegraph story:-
Decoded Roger Morrice diary reveals dark days
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:44am BST 08/08/2007
Freak weather, prisoners held without trial, bishops behaving badly: it’s the stuff of everyday news. Except these are not 21st-century reports, they are 17th-century ones.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/05/ndiary105.xml