Saturday 14 September 1661

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• N Eric Walla on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 01:44am

  Oh sorry, Uncle, but I just can’t refuse a request by Sir Slingsby, now could I?

  Wasn’t it a pre-arranged appointment this time, Sam? I am afraid I must agree that our boy is shirking his responsibility here.

• N RexLeo on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 02:40am

  ”..thinking to go together to my aunt Kite’s that is dead; but before we had dined comes Sir R. Slingsby and his lady, and a great deal of company, to take my wife and I out by barge to shew them the King’s and Duke’s yachts…”

  Let the dead bury the dead. P is off with the living to have a jolly good time with his wife.

• N Ruben on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 07:25am

  comes Sir R. Slingsby
  You can not refuse the Comptroller of the Navy invitation if you do not want to risk your job!
  Aunt is dead already and she will stay like that for eternity, so she will be honored another day…
  

• N helena murphy on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 07:59pm

  Sam’s being shown the king’s and the duke’s yachts should also help his future promotional opportunities.There are times when he has to see after himself by putting his self interests before a deceased aunt,who was herself left financially secure in life through marriage to a successful butcher.

• N Lawrence on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 08:23pm

  The letter I assume is to his Father in Brampton, I think he has to have them in by midnight, and it will cost him 2d, unless of course they go by express, would Sam have used a local shop to dispatch them?, I just wondered what time the local shops would have shut?

• N Michael Robinson on Wed 15 Sep 2004, 08:41pm

  For a description and discussion of the Postal Service in London and parts beyond in the C 17th. see:-

  http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/Letter2.html
  

• N dirk on Thu 16 Sep 2004, 03:25am

  John Evelyn’s diary today:

  “I presented my “Fumifugium” dedicated to his Majestie who was pleased I should publish it by his special Command; being much pleasd with it:”
  

• N Australian Susan on Thu 16 Sep 2004, 10:26am

  Thanks, Michael - fascinating site!