Thursday 4 October 1660

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• N David A. Smith on Sat 4 Oct 2003, 11:47pm

  “he told me many things in a ship that I desired to understand”
  I love Sam’s intellectual curiosity and his unrelenting observation (“look upon them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of love or respect”). Both traits make him an admirable tour guide to the past.

• N john lauer on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 03:42am

  Cozen Thomas P., the turner (of wood on a lathe?),
  owned a ‘hardware shop’, and his brother was a joiner; so they were carpenters with special skills and tools, we presume.

• N Dave Bell on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 11:00am

  The wood-turning methods of the time could seem quite primitive, but there are people who still practice the old-style crafts. Most wood turning was done with a quite simple machine, using a treadle connected to a pole of springy wood by a cord. The cord went about the piece of wood being worked, and as the treadle was worked it turned first one way and then the other.

  This is something that can be set up in the forest, but I’ve seen them being used, and able to turn such things as chair legs and the posts used for banisters.

  Quite what cousin Thomas did, I’ve no idea, but it’s quite possible that he had learnt the trade before moving up to own a shop. On the other hand, he could still be working a lathe — there wasn’t the same divide between worker and management as developed a century later.

• N E on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 12:15pm

  In places where most people work with their hands, most people can do basic carpentry — a carpenter is a skilled craftsman, and pulls in a superior income for doing a superior job. He is a big man in the community. (It always amuses me when people refer to Jesus’ father as being “only” a carpenter. It makes sense that Jesus’ parents could afford an education for him).

  A similar argument would apply to the tailors of the Pepys family — basic sewing could be done in all households, fancy prices were paid for fancy work.

• N Paul Brewster on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 12:52pm

  From thence we two to my Lord’s
  L&M replace “at 2” with “we two”

• N Paul Brewster on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 12:56pm

  did look upon my Lord

• N Paul Brewster on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 01:04pm

  Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury
  According to L&M:
  Winchester: Brian Duppa [He of the cold sermon http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/07/29/index.php ], recently translated from Salisbury;
  Bangor: William Roberts;
  Rochester: John Warner;
  Bath and Wells: William Pierce;
  Salisbury: Humphrey Henchman [Interesting name for a Restoration Bishop], bishop-designate not consecated until 28 October.

• N Paul Brewster on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 01:07pm

  Sir Tho. Bendishes
  L&M: “Sir Thomas Bendish, until 1660 ambassador at Constantinople; his aunt had married Pepys’s great-uncle, John Pepys of Cottenham. He had five sons.

• N Paul Brewster on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 01:12pm

  how people did most of them look upon them as strange Creatures, and few with any kind of love or Respect
  yet another glimpse into SP’s religious core

• N JWB on Sun 5 Oct 2003, 04:54pm

  “But Lord!…”
  This taken with his “Humour” comment gives us insight into Pepys’ politics, not his religion. I’m reminded of Pres. Nixon,upon the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, stepping out on the town and at the end of the night wondering to a reporter where all the people were and why they weren’t celebrating.

• N vincent on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 04:56am

  “some brawn dus have good brains too”
  They do not used them so cunningly.
  The adage Do(the Pro Testant work ethick) If can’t do then teach if not preach you can always leach? money and effort do not equate.Nor does satisfaction of good clean hard days work equate with money or brains. As they say? Hard physical work never Kills, its Stress that does??

• N Lisa Lillie on Fri 15 Jun 2007, 07:41pm

  Additional information concerning Sir. Tho. Bendish-

  Knight and Second Baronet of Steeple Bumpstead
  Was incarcerated in the Tower in 1642 for writing a pamphlet which denounced the recent actions of Parliament

  Bendish was appointed to the ambassadorship in 1647, replacing Sir Sackvile Crow. The son in question was probably John, Bendish’s eldest surviving son.

  Thomas Bendish also kept a journal which I believe is now housed in the ERO. Other substantial documents pertaining to the Bendish family are kept at the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota.