Sunday 26 August 1660

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• N Paul Brewster on Tue 26 Aug 2003, 11:09pm

  Somehow Wheatley got the last two sentences of this short entry confused
  Per L&M: “Dined at home, and with my wife to church again in the afternoon. Home again and walked in the garden and on the leads till night; and so to supper and to bed.”

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 26 Aug 2003, 11:15pm

  Leads
  per L&M Select Glossary

• N chip on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 01:33am

  This week Pepys gets the best seat, but the sermon is dry! It would appear morning service is men dominated. Pepys always mentions accompanying Elizabeth to service in the afternoons. It seems a lazy August day…

• N Podsnap on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 02:08am

  “On the leads”. I didn’t know that this practise went so far back. I remember people sitting on the flat parts of their roofs in the evening, away from the noise and bustle of what was going on down below.

• N vincent on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 03:17am

  Oh! well! stargazing! ‘tis better to watch the skulls(on the river even tho it’s their day off) than to be driven out of one’s skull, by a nice boring sermon.(still better than being on the tyles, being a wee good laddy, no nice bonnets to admire)
  

• N Roger Arbor on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 07:27am

  Nice to see Samuel getting the benefit of the carpenter’s work of 18 July, when the “door to the leads” was built. These roofplace ‘retreats’ are very much in evidence all over the place in the City…but usually these days with a garden. Next to the Tower Gateway ‘Docklands’s Light Railway’ station is a roofplace bowling green; bit of a surprise when you first see it!

• N gerry on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 04:03pm

  Sunning,partying or even sleeping on the leads is still very much a part of New York culture. Except that nowadays people call it “Tar Beach”.

• N diphi on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 06:46pm

  I am curious about the pronunciation of the word “leads” referring to rooftop spaces.

  Does it rhyme with “heads” or “heeds?”

• N Paul Brewster on Wed 27 Aug 2003, 07:04pm

  Leads
  According to the OED, it rhymes with “heads”.

• N john lauer on Thu 28 Aug 2003, 02:29am

  Leads
  — as natural as ‘pencil leads’.