Sunday 29 July 1660

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• - Paul Brewster on Tue 29 Jul 2003, 11:21pm. Flag this

  … cold sermon of the Bishop of Salsbury, Duppa, and the ceremonies did not please me …
  Wheatley apparently left out the name of the bishop. L&M includes the name, Duppa, and the following note: “Brian Duppa as Lord Almoner and Gilbert Sheldon as Dean of the Chapel Royal made Whitehall Chapel the headquarters of the Laudian revival at this time.”
  

• - Pauline on Tue 29 Jul 2003, 11:39pm. Flag this

  Archbishop Laud
  http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/laud.htm

  The revival is of Archbishop Laud’s attempts to re-establish the Church of England as a part of the universal catholic church.
  

• - Barbara on Tue 29 Jul 2003, 11:43pm. Flag this

  Quite a good Sunday afternoon walk, from Whitehall to Lisson Green via Marylebone, and back. He would have ended up somewhere near what later became Lord’s Cricket Ground, where a test match begins later this week.

  
  

• - Paul Brewster on Tue 29 Jul 2003, 11:53pm. Flag this

  My Lord went to dinner at Kensington - with my Lord Camden
  L&M make the location of the dinner more specific. They place it at “Campden House on what is now Campden Hill; the largest house in the parish after Holland House.”

• - Paul Brewster on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 12:14am. Flag this

  Bishop of Salsbury, Duppa
  Wheatley notes “Brian Duppa, born March 10th, 1588-9, tutor to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles II, successively Bishop of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester. Died March 26th, 1662.”

• - Paul Brewster on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 12:54am. Flag this

  his brother Payton
  L&M identify this fellow as his brother-in-law [Thomas] Blayton.

• - chip on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 02:31am. Flag this

  Is this a case of the good puritan reared Pepys rejecting the returning liturgy? Were they, God forbid, singing in latin? I do believe Pepys is 20% wealthier, and in but a month or two. He stands to make good money at the new post.

• - Todd Bernhardt on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 12:16pm. Flag this

  Paul, thanks again for the L&M cross references, and for filling in Wheatley’s gaps (intentional or otherwise).

• - David A. Smith on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 03:50pm. Flag this

  “we are even to this day … I do think myself worth clear money about 120l.”
  Perhaps because Sam himself has made no comment on the subject, the economic relation between Pepys and Montagu has gone unremarked among us commenters.
  Rather than being a salaried employee or retainer, Sam is apparently an independent contractor. He is tasked with certain outcomes and advanced money to achieve them. He takes the risk of cost overruns but gets the benefits of cost savings and (sound of fingers rubbing together) the small gratuities that may flow his way from happy customers and supplicants.
  What we by our lights may see as venality, graft, or corruption, may have in the context of the time been simple tipping — To Insure Promptness — that even we accept as a matter of course.

• - Glyn on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 04:10pm. Flag this

  Chip: I don’t think Pepys was ever a Puritan, although his mother may well have been.

  A few months ago, someone said that Sam was attending Sunday Anglican church services when that was still technically illegal, which would imply that he had sincere beliefs of his own. Can someone more knowledgeable say if that’s correct?

• - Paul Brewster on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 04:17pm. Flag this

  Pepys: Puritan or Anglican?
  The first sentence of the L&M Companion article on Religion says, “When the diary opens, Pepys was attending the illegal Anglican services which survived, with only occasional interruption from the authorities, in the London of the Commonwealth.” It goes on to describe in an extended entry the middling course that SP seemed to navigate on matters of faith and religion.
  

• - Brian McMullen on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 04:47pm. Flag this

  SP an independent contractor? An interesting thought but, more likely, SP is functioning within the economic structure of the day. ‘Civil Service’ as we understand it is still not developed and everything ‘costs’. More likely SP is operating on ground familiar to all who can ‘afford’ to pay the price. I think ‘tipping’ (from our context) would not be understood by SP who is doing his ‘job’ and being paid for it in an ‘acceptable’ form.

• - helena murphy on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 04:50pm. Flag this

  Had Pepys’mother had puritan leanings and hoped thereby to imbue her son with similar,his behaviour with women from his student days onward would indicate failure in this arena,let us not forget Sam’s behaviour with the unfortunate Mrs Bagwell et al.

• - Arbor on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 08:32pm. Flag this

  Puritan leanings? Not really, but it must be remembered that Sam’s wife was the daughter of a Huguenot refugee from France. The Huguenots were hounded, many slaughtered and exiled from France by the Roman Catholic Church for their (Evangelical and Dissenting) beliefs. Large numbers of these refugees ended in England, and to this day Huguenot names are common.

• - Paul Brewster on Wed 30 Jul 2003, 11:24pm

  Mr. Birfett -> Mr. Borfett
  According to L&M it’s “Mr. Borfett, my Lord’s chaplain”

• - Laura K on Sun 3 Aug 2003, 12:26am. Flag this

  Sam’s wife a Huguenot?

  I didn’t realize that. Huguenot refugees came to New York State (where I live) in 1677, founding the town of New Paltz, meant to be a bastion of religious and political freedom. Their descendants, as well as restored homes and churches, are still celebrated there.

  I’m not sure if this is off-topic and constitutes annotative drift? Apologies if it does. I was happy to find a connection between Pepys and a place I love, no matter how many degrees of separation.

• - Jim Petty on Mon 31 Jul 2006, 11:31am. Flag this

  Was Sam Pepys a Puritan?.

  He was in a situation where theAnglican Church did not exist for som 15 or 20yrs. From the beginning of the Civil War to 1643 it was hard if not impossible for the average Anglican to worship as he was meant too. The (chiefly protestant) Parliament sought to destroy the Church. In 1646 the Anglican Church was abolished by law and only operated abroad, chiefly in France and that by the help of Queen Mary,(Henrietta Maria) and not with the help of the Papists. So that Pepys being a young man at the restoration of the Church would have a whole new scene opening before him. It is obvious that he chose the ancient church and over the years developed a love for it and its teachings. So much so, that at the so called Glorious Revolution, Samuel Pepys followed the strictly orthodox Non Juring side in the schism that followed and prefered to follow the Laudian teaching of the Non Juring Clergy led by the @Good Father Hickes, Bishop of Stetford. This places him firmly in the Anglican Catholic ,or traditional position. When Sam died Bishop Hickes was the officiant at his funeral I believe.