Sunday 9 September 1660

Annotations

• N Pauline on Tue 9 Sep 2003, 11:41pm

  Trained Bands
  http://www.routiers.org/bands1.htm
  

• N Alan Bedford on Wed 10 Sep 2003, 12:13am

  Was Sam’s position in one of the Trained Bands due to his position with the Navy, or was it the Privy Seal? (or both?)

  I gather from his apparent disappointment that it may have involved remuneration, and I’m a little surprised that this seems to be the first mention.

• N Rick Ansell on Wed 10 Sep 2003, 12:32am

  Peyps was a member of the Honourable Artillery Company, who provided the officers for the London Trained Bands. At the time it was just ‘The Artillery Company’. The company was originally formed in 1537 and has existed ever since.

  The information on the ‘Trained Bands’ page regarding the present HAC is wrong. The Honourable Artillery Company, whilst it has a ceremonial role, is an operational unit. It forms part of the Territorial Army, the Reserve portion of the army. Its primary role is covert surveillance and target acquisition, providing patrols who supply targeting information from concealed positions, usually behind enemy lines.

  http://www.hac.uk.com/regiment.htm

  The HAC is, however, both an army unit and a Guild of the City of London with considerable independent wealth and property. Peyps name will be recorded in one of the treasures of the HAC, the ‘Ancient Vellum Book’ of the HAC which records the names of members from 1611 to 1682 and contains the signatures of various important guests of the company, including that of Charles II.

  Rick

• N Paul Brewster on Wed 10 Sep 2003, 01:05am

  we are all like to be speedily disbanded and then I lose the benefit of a muster
  L&M have a different take on this one. “Sandwich’s regiment … was disbanded in November…. The order in which the regiments were disbanded was determined by lots drawn in full Privy Council in the presence of the King; in this case on 28 September…. Sandwich was among the last regiments paid off. Pepys as colonel’s Secretary and Muster-Master (at any rate in name) was paid for each muster.” We’ll here about this again on the 17th of November 1660.

  Back on the 4th of January 1660, L&M noted a reference to “my Lord’s troop” with the following “Appointed to the command of a regiment of horse in September 1659, Montagu had been dismissed on the fall of Richard Cromwell in the following spring. His men were now commanded by Col. Matthew Alured, but Pepys (who has taken on as colonel’s secretary without performing any function - a fairly common practice) … still referred to the regiment as ‘my Lord’s’. The command was remodeled on 12 January, and Montagu became colonel again on 20 April.”
  

• N Holt Parker on Wed 10 Sep 2003, 10:07pm

  Milles
  Sam is very fond of Miles as a preacher and clergyman. See already the entries for 20 Aug 1660 (http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/08/19/): “A very good minister”, with chip’s annotation on St. Olave’s Church (also http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/1214.php); and an almost identical entry coming up on Oct. 21, 1660.

  10th Sunday after Trinity
  Psalm 119:73-80
  Epistle 1Cor. 12;1-11
  Gospel Luke 19:41-47
  (http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1549/Readings_TrinityB_1549.htm#10%20Trinity)

  At this point, Mills had not yet adopted the full service of the Book of Common Prayer. On Sunday Nov. 4, Sam says “Mr. Mills did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer,” though its clear that he does do the readings appointed for the day.