Sunday 28 October 1660

(Lord’s day). There came some pills and plaister this morning from Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh’s chappell. So I went to my Lord’s, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. Sidney, who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor’s show to-morrow. Mr. Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall chappell; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King’s closet (who is now gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady, he did take us into the King’s closet, and there we did stay all service-time, which I did think a great honour. We went home to my Lord’s lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went home, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed.

Monday 29 October 1660Saturday 27 October 1660

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Temperature: 10°C / 50°F

(Average for October 1660)

In Earls Colne, Essex

Diary of Ralph Josselin

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N Glyn on Tue 28 Oct 2003, 11:26pm

Edward Montagu junior had been educated in the village of Twickenham since mid-January:

http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/01/17/index.php
N Paul Brewster on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 12:06am

great day for the Consacrating of five Bishopps
L&M: “The first consecration of bishops since 1644. The service was conduct by Brian Duppa, Bishop of Winchester; the preacher of John Sudbury, Prebendary of Westminster. The new bishops were those of London (Sheldon), Salisbury (Henchman), Worcester (Morley), Lincoln (Sanderson) and St Asaph (Griffith). After further consecrations in the following December and January only two sees remained to be filled.”
N Paul Brewster on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 12:33am

there we did stay all service-time — which I thought a great honour
L&M: “Admission to the King’s Closet (where the royal entourage assembled before proceeding into chapel) was in theory limited to peers, privy councillors, and gentlemen of the bed-chamber.”

“(where the royal entourage assembled before proceeding into chapel)”
I’m not sure this was the sense of our previous discussions: http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/10/14/index.php
It’s also a little surprising in light of the statement “there we did stay all service-time” in the diary.
N Pauline on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 01:48am

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N vincent on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 04:13am

“…There came some pills and plaister this morning from Dr. Williams for my wife….”
The cure: Go off and let the little lady rest: putting the plaister on: don’t ask who ?
“…where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed….”
N vincent on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 04:18am

It always pays to know who has the key: The Key holder always likes to show his power behind the Throne. “…So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady, he did take us into the King
N David Quidnunc on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 04:41am

Child, Hill and Jemima Mountagu

Jemima must love her music — she is on very good terms with Child (a professional organist) and Hill (a singer and composer).
N Mary on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 07:59am

A closet

OED sense 1: A room for privacy or retirement; a private room; an inner chamber.

OED sense 2: The private apartment of a monarch or potentate; the private council-chamber; a room in a palace used by the sovereign for private or household devotions.

OED sense 3: a private repository for personal valuables or curiosities.
N Jenny Doughty on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 02:05pm

An interesting link is http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/030205ellis/030205diseases.html, an etext version of part of a book called ‘The Country House-wife’s companion’, published in 1750. It makes several references to different kinds of ‘plaister’ that the doctor might have prescribed for Elizabeth. The term apparently could be used for anything that was sticky and spreadable, and the connection with sticking plaster seems to have come from the practice of spreading the sticky substance onto a piece of linen or other cloth, in order to apply it to an area of the body, rather than (as could be done) spreading it directly on there. So it carries connotations, to me, not just of sticking plaster but also of ointment. We still use the phrase ‘plastering’ in the sense of ‘spreading thickly’ of course.
N Jenny Doughty on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 02:10pm

The link above seems not to work, so try this one and click on ‘Diseases and Health’. If this doesn’t work, go to the home page and click on the ‘Alternative Living’ library and follow through to this link.

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/030205ellis/030205ellis.toc.html
N David A. Smith on Wed 29 Oct 2003, 04:00pm

“with much difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in”
What we continue to like about Sam, his utter transparency both of action (here is the embarrassing thing I did) and emotion (here is the perhaps ignoble thing I thought about it). One can all but hear him cursing, tricked up in his finest velvet, hose, and buckled shoes, trying to find his way in ….