Saturday 6 October 1660

Annotations

• N Mary on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 07:33am

  Sam is late home again.

  It would be interesting to know what Elizabeth does with all these evenings on which she is left to her own devices. Sam’s hours are, in their nature, extremely irregular and evenings of quiet domesticity seem rare.

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 01:59pm

  All this morning Collonell Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready
  L&M insert “All this morning”

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 02:03pm

  for whom I wrote a letter for my Lord to sign
  L&M substitute “wrote” for “brought”. Shorthand probably looks similar.

• N Jenny Doughty on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 02:11pm

  At first I wondered if ‘catch’ was a mistranscription for ‘coach’, but since nobody’s picked up on it does anybody know what else it might mean in this context?

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 02:11pm

  well bound
  L&M point out that SP has in the past shown an inclination toward judging books by their covers.
  “bought for the love of the binding”
  http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/05/15/index.php

• N Paul Brewster on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 02:17pm

  Catch
  My guess is that the Prince is sending his things away by boat (i.e., catch). http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/1282.php

• N Ann on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 02:51pm

  Catch, from OED:
  A strongly-built vessel of the galiot order, usually two-masted, and of from 100 to 250 tons burden; = KETCH.
  
  1481-90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 397 Rede oker to send be watyr with the sayd hoppes, in Ferdes cache of Brekemlynsey. 1561 EDEN Art Navig. Pref., Fyshermen that go a trawlyng for fyshe in Catches or mongers. 1580 SIR R. BINGHAM in Spenser’s Wks. (Grosart) I. 468 A small catch or craer of Sir William Wynters. 1624 CAPT. SMITH Virginia II. 23 The river..is navigable..with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther. 1625 SIR J. GLANVILLE Voy. Cadiz (1883) 116 Catches, being short and round built, bee verie apt to turne up and downe, and usefull to goe to and fro, and to carry messages between shipp and shipp almost with anie wind. 1642 NICHOLAS Let. in Carte Coll. (1735) 89 Sir John Hotham hath lately apprehended..one of the King’s caches. a1693 URQUHART Rabelais III. lii. 429 Catches, Capers, and other Vessels.
  

• N JWB on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 03:16pm

  The Pepys-Creed rivalry most enjoyable subplot of the diary so far. You’ve got to smile at this entry’s episode.

• N seadog on Tue 7 Oct 2003, 10:24pm

  “Catch”

  Perhaps an early spelling of ketch, that is, a two-masted vessel, with the forward mast (the mainmast) being taller than the after mast (the mizzen), and with the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post (as opposed to a yawl, whereon the mizzzen is stepped aft of the rudder post.)

• N vincent on Wed 8 Oct 2003, 02:43am

  “catch” the ketch back ‘ome with ‘is things yer know, didnae ye understand Our man SP is spreckenzee Latin c=k a=o or u so one gets the ketch of the day. Oh this English, middle or vulga or common ‘tis tough to make out. Oh well back to mid atlantic and the BBC. chow

• N Dirk Van de putte on Thu 9 Oct 2003, 02:41am

  Catch vs. ketch

  Don’t forget spelling at the time was almost absolutely free. Even in Shakespeare you often find the same word spelled in two or three different ways not even a page apart! - And let’s be honest: “catch” and “ketch” do sound the same in careless pronunciation, don’t they?
  

• N vincent on Sat 11 Oct 2003, 03:22am

  J. Evelyn “I paied the greate Tax of Pole-mony, levied for the disbanding of the army, ‘til now kept up; I paid as an Esquire 10 pounds & 1s: for every Servant in my house &c: “