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Wednesday 26 December 1660

In the morning to Alderman Backwell’s for the candlesticks for Mr. Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. Crew’s, and there took some money of Mr. Moore’s for my Lord, and so to my Lord’s, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with a message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her goods, and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being soundly washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the last of whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and there having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by water, and dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how much fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the death of the Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father Bowyer’s where I met my wife, and with her home by water.

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  • N vincent on Sat 27 Dec 2003, 02:36am

    “took a short cut and it not be boxing day?” “…(being soundly washed going through the bridge)…”

  • N dirk on Sat 27 Dec 2003, 07:07pm

    “being soundly washed going through the bridge”

    Sounds like there’s water dripping off the bridge? Or maybe the weather is rough?

  • N George on Sat 27 Dec 2003, 07:32pm

  • N Mary on Sun 28 Dec 2003, 09:42am

    Passage by boat beneath London Bridge.

    In the 17th Century the bridge had nineteen stone arches, the bases of their piers being protected by ‘starlings’ composed of wood and rubble. When the tide was either ebbing or flowing, the narrowness of the waterways beneath the bridge could create very hazardous conditions; so much so that many people preferred to land one side of the bridge and walk beyond it to pick up their boat again on the farther side. Even at slack tide, the chop on the river on a breezy/windy day could mean a good wetting as the waves broke against the starlings.

  • N Glyn on Mon 29 Dec 2003, 04:05pm

    From Susanna

  • N Todd Bernhardt on Mon 29 Dec 2003, 07:19pm

    re: “for the death of the Princess!”

    Can someone with access to L&M confirm whether or not this exclamation point belongs? As Paul Brewster has pointed out in the past, Sam rarely uses them, and they’re mostly the result of scanning errors or Wheatley’s editorial enthusiasm.

  • N Mary on Tue 30 Dec 2003, 07:52am

    Punctuation.

    No exclamation mark in L&M, Todd.

  • N Nigel Pond on Tue 30 Dec 2003, 03:10pm

    The Thames

    Just a minor point. The Thames today is tidal only as far as Teddington Lock.

  • N Mary on Tue 30 Dec 2003, 05:24pm

    The tidal Thames.

    (Mainly for our overseas colleagues). Lest there be any confusion, note that Teddington is close to Hampton Court Palace and roughly 14 miles WSW of the City of London. Thus the river remains tidal well beyond the confines of London itself.

  • N vincent on Tue 30 Dec 2003, 08:34pm

    Tidal Thames “tems”: sailing/rowing downstream I believe I understand but was it possible to go through the arches up stream , on incoming tide maybe, [ 2 meter differential When? ]. It was because the water was patially in the dam [weir effect] mode above the bridge that the river could “Ice up”.

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