Saturday 21 April 1660

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• N WKW on Mon 21 Apr 2003, 11:30pm

  This sentence is less startling once one looks up “coach”:

  “At night late singing with W. Howe, and under the barber’s hands in the coach.”

  —-that is, apparently after music-making with Will Howe that night, Pepys had a shave in the “captain’s stateroom in [a] large ship” (“Shorter Pepys,” glossary). No doubt he left off vocalizing for the duration.
  

• N vincent on Mon 21 Apr 2003, 11:59pm

  “For my Lord commanded me that I should not enter his name in my book”. Publick Record? “Shades of a Politician, it seems obviously not to be his Diary(he mentions the name so he does not expect any body to read his private thoughts) that he is keeping, but to a another ledger maybe the daily ledger(Admirals log?) or could it be the ships log ?.
  

• N Emilio on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 02:06am

  “they had set up the King

• N mary on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 07:19am

  Sam’s book

  We discussed the possible nature of Sam’s journal/book after the April 11th entry. Today’s entry seems to confirm that he is indeed keeping a day-book that logs all the important political transactions, visitors etc. that involve Mountagu on board the Naseby, just as a good political secretary should.

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 02:41pm

  The man who wasn’t there … the shadowy Mr. Norwood.
  Our link points to Mr Henry Norwood. A footnote for this day in Wheatley: “A Major Norwood had been Governor of Dunkirk; and a person of the same name occurs as one of the esquire of the body at the Coronation of Charles II. Richard Norwood of Danes Court, in the Isle of Thanet” [footnote attributed to Lord Braybrooke] The Wheatley Index contains entries for both Norwood (Mr.) and Norwood (Colonel).

• N steve h on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 05:08pm

  Pickled oysters

  “Oysters were still eaten on their own, of course, as an hors d’oeuvre or in the main meal, and since the 17th Century they had routinely been pickled for transport to inland towns or for long voyages. Small fresh oysters were eaten raw; large ones were stewed with herbs and spices, or were roasted or baked in pies.”

  from the History of Oysters in Britain at
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A283105

  We don’t see pickled oysters much in the United States these days, though they were popular up through the firat half of the century. Maybe refrigeration did them in. What about England? They sound like they could be pub food.
  

• N Phil on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 05:26pm

  This info would be useful on the Oysters background page Steve. http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/373.php

• N Glyn on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 09:03pm

  I’ve never seen oysters on sale as pub food, Steve, but you can get other shellfish in pubs. You often see booths outside pubs, soccer grounds and London Street Markets that sell tubs of cockles, mussels, whelks, and jellied eels. And there are people who will bring them around the more traditional pubs selling them with the permission of the pub owner.

• N Nix on Tue 22 Apr 2003, 10:17pm

  For Glyn and our other British friends, fresh oysters are a common appetizer or snack food in the more ambitious U.S. restaurants and taverns (even in the deserts of Arizona!) — many feature an “oyster bar” with different varieties of oysters and clams on the half shell, typically displayed on ice. Smoked oysters are likewise fairly common (canned in the supermarket), but I’ve never encountered them pickled.

• N vk on Wed 23 Apr 2003, 09:42am

  House of Lords

  The Independant minority purged the Presbyterians from the Commons in December 1648.

  It was not until more than a month later, January 1649, that the Independants (a.k.a. the Rump) got into a disagreement with the House of Lords and decided they had the right to act all by themselves. A couple of months later they abolished the House of Lords.

  Since Monck allowed the Presbyterians to return and thus restore the pre-1649 House of Commons, the Lords seem to feel that their abolishment has been negated. When the Commons summoned the upcoming Parliament, however, they did not say anything about the Lords.

  Most of the House of Lords joined the King at the beginning of the civil war and have not sat in Westminster since. There were only twelve active Lords when the House was abolished in ‘49.

• N Capt.Petrus.S. Dorpmans on Wed 9 Jan 2008, 01:03pm

  21st. APR 1660.
  “… for whom my Lord gave a convoy to carry him to the Brill…”

  Den Briel - Brielle
  Gemeente Brielle
  
  
  Provincie Zuid-Holland
  Hoofdplaats Brielle
  Oppervlakte
  - Land
  - Water 31,12 km²
  27,49 km²
  3,63 km²
  Inwoners
  Bevolkingsdichtheid 15.931 (1 juni 2007)?
  580 inw./km²
  Geografische ligging 51°53’ NB 4°11’ OL
  Geografische ligging {{{coordinaten}}}
  Belangrijke verkeersaders N15
  Station(s) {{{station}}}
  Netnummer 0181
  Postcodes 3230 - 3235
  Officiële website www.brielle.nl
  Politiek
  Burgemeester (lijst) G.W.M. van Viegen
  Bestuur {{{bestuur}}}
  Zetels
  {{{partijen}}} {{{zetels}}}
  Bevolkingspiramide
  
  Brielle , vroeger Den Briel, is een stad en gemeente in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland gelegen op het eiland Voorne. De gemeente telt 15.931 inwoners (1 juni 2007, bron: CBS) en beslaat 31,32 km² waarvan 3,71 km² wateroppervlak is. Naast de stad Brielle zelf omvat de gemeente ook de dorpen Vierpolders en Zwartewaal. Brielle zelf heeft ruim 9000 inwoners.

  Brielle is gelegen aan de Brielse Maas, een afgedamd gedeelte van de Maas dat zich tot belangrijk recreatiegebied ontwikkeld heeft. Het ligt ten oosten van de oude vaargeul Brielse Gat. Tot 1700 werd dit water gebruikt als verbinding naar Rotterdam, daarna trad verzanding op waardoor het Gat minder goed bevaarbaar werd.
  

• N cgs on Fri 11 Jan 2008, 05:18am

  coach, n.
  [In 16th c. coche, a. F. coche (masc., in 16th c. occas. fem.).
  1556….

  1. a. A large kind of carriage: in 16th and 17th centuries, …….

  1606 DEKKER Sev. Sinnes IV. (Arb.) 31 In euery street, carts and Coaches make such a thundring.

  1615 STOW Eng. Chron. Jas. I an. 1605 867/2 In the yeere

  1564 Guylliam Boonen, a dutchman, became the Queene’s Coachmanne, and was the first that brought the vse of Coaches into England..Lastly, even at this time,

  1605, began the ordinary vse of Caroaches.

  1621 SIR R. BOYLE in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 20, I..took back the bay gelding..for my coche.
  …….

  2. Naut. An apartment near the stern of a man of war, usually occupied by the captain.

  [ from this date]
  1660 PEPYS Diary 3 May, The Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach. Ibid. (1828) I. 94 The King supped alone in the coach.

  1691 T. H[ALE] Acc. New Invent. 120 Cuddie, Fore-castle, Coaches.