Tuesday 7 May 1661

Annotations

• N Josh on Fri 7 May 2004, 11:54pm

  “an ordinary by the Old Exchange, where we come a little too late”

  Get to the buffet too late, and all the good vittles is gone.

• N dirk on Sat 8 May 2004, 12:01am

  “we had very good cheer for our 18d. a-piece”

  Taking into account a factor 90 (see earlier discussions), this would amount to approx

• N Australian Susan on Sat 8 May 2004, 12:44am

  “staid among my workmen all day”
  Sam is now on their backs again - no slacking now!

• N Vicente on Sat 8 May 2004, 03:03am

  For 27 pounds and 7 shillings and the tanner a year, you could support one of the lesser families {there being 848,000 of them and only 1/2 a million families on the bright side of the coin got a bigger income}in style.”…but we had very good cheer for our 18d. a-piece,…”[each that is?] for the Lad that only had a known income of less than 2 shillings a day, eighteen months past.
  ‘Tis amazing how quickly one gets used to the Toffs life.
  Working for the government, one had a subsidize meal at the MOD[& con] Cafeteria with ox tongue or liver & onions etc. for 2/- [1950’s][oh! sweet memories]

• N Australian Susan on Sat 8 May 2004, 04:28am

  “staid a great while and drunk a great deal of wine”
  It seems that the host and his wife who ran this place made their money by keeping the customers entertained so they stayed on and drank after eating their meal (which was subsidised by the wine?)

• N Lawrence on Sat 8 May 2004, 12:35pm

  My Lady, I find, is, since my going, gone to the Wardrobe.
  Per L&M… Sandwich, as Master, had the right of residence at the King’s Wardrobe, near Puddle Dock.

• N Vicente on Sat 8 May 2004, 07:36pm

  What was the event? to close up shop today. “…being much stopped in our way by the City traynebands, who go in much solemnity and pomp this day to muster before the King and the Duke, and shops in the City are shut up every where all this day….”

• N Vicente on Sat 8 May 2004, 07:45pm

  Evelyn says nowt, just his experiments with the lads.”…May 7: I waited on Prince Rupert to our Assembly, where we tried severall experiments in Mr. Boyles Vaccuum: a man thrusting in his arme, upon exhaustion of the ayre had his flesh immediatly swelled, so as the bloud was neere breaking the vaines, & unsufferable: he drawing it out, we found it all speckled: …”

  http://astext.com/history/ed_1662.html#1662
  Interesting experiment , now we use the technique “called a hyperbaric chamber”Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, the Unit provides recompression treatment for decompression illness (DCI) and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for carbon monoxide poisoning, osteoradionecrosis and other wounds and infections.
  http://www.hyperchamber.com/
  One of many interesting sites.

  
  

• N Vicente on Sat 8 May 2004, 07:52pm

  Events of the day from the Rev. of Essex:
  “…May: 7. rode to London on which day the city forces mustered in Hide park where a remonstrance was got of the soldiers for restoring Bishops. found Mr Harlakenden pretty well. - {. no peeking.}. viz. May.5. the Duke of Yorkes only son died and was privately buried. 6: some were hurt in the view by scaffold breaking and one killed if not more: in the throng at the Commons door to go out to the King in the upper house Alderman Fowk was said to lose 50. links of his gold chain. I apprehend this Parliament. The convocation met in Pauls I saw 12 Bishops there etc. We returned to Colne with Mr H. {… ..}Veddy Strange, no comment from Sam on that, I wonder why?

• N Emilio on Sun 9 May 2004, 01:46am

  “Sam is now on their backs again - no slacking now!”

  I suspect Sam is enjoying supervising them—being in the middle of things, watching his ideas gradually come to life, making sure the work is done right… . Judging from the diary entries, he also doesn’t seem the kind of supervisor who glorifies himself by complaining what a poor job the men would be doing “if I didn’t watch them every second”. If only we could all have such easy-to-please managers!
  

• N Emilio on Sun 9 May 2004, 01:57am

  Does the last sentence mean Sandwich is going off on a ship, the Hope, and we thus won’t be seeing him for a while? I imagine Sam wouldn’t be eager to go on a sea voyage so quickly after returning from Portsmouth.
  

• N Vicente on Sun 9 May 2004, 02:44am

  The Hope, a basin where the good fleet doth lie[ no biblical thougths now]”… having sent my Lord a letter to-night to excuse myself for not going with him to-morrow to the Hope, whither he is to go to see in what condition the fleet is in….”
  ref:”… Scull the waterman came and brought me a note from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he tarrying there till his master be gone. …”
  http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/01/
  ‘…This morning, the wind came about, and we fell into the Hope,1 and in our passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that was upon it to keep anybody…”
  http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/03/
  “…A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.
  It seems to me that they are in an anchorage (

• N Pedro. on Sun 9 May 2004, 09:18am

  The Hope and the Sick Note.

  I had always read this to be a ship, but with Vincente’s information I now lean towards a place name. Around the area there are also Stanford-le-Hope and Hope’s Green.
  Sandwich, I think, is preparing to go to check out Tangier and maybe Sam is trying to avoid this in case he gets asked to go?

• N Kevin Sheerstone on Sun 9 May 2004, 10:17am

  The Hope - Pedro and others.

  The Hope (or Hope Reach) is shown on the endpaper maps of my “Everybody’s Pepys” as being that stretch of the Thames between Tilbury and the mouth of the Medway, at which point the estuary begins. I used to live in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, which is on a diminutive stream named the Hope. Stream is the word: we used to jump it without getting wet. It enters the Thames about two miles south of Stanford and three miles east of Tilbury.
  

• N Vicente on Sun 9 May 2004, 07:12pm

  For a visual of Hope and Mucking [they do say, where theres Muck there is money or as Sir Bacon did quote: money like muck should be spread.]
  http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=570000&Y=185000&width=500&height=300&client=public&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&scale=100000&down.x=10&down.y=13
  

• N Phil on Mon 10 May 2004, 10:30pm

  I’ve realised that Wheatley gave a footnote to the first time ‘The Hope’ was referred to (27 March 1660), describing it as “A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.” So I’ve created a background page for it now. Thanks for all the detective work!