Monday 21 October 1661

Annotations

• N J A Gioia on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 01:01pm

  and so against my judgment and conscience … to the Opera, which is now newly begun

  ‘my name is sam, and i’m a theater-holic.’

• N Rex Gordon on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 02:31pm

  “he having bought much of Crowne lands”

  L&M explain: Crown and church lands were now, after the confiscations of the revolution, restored to their legal owners without compensation to their purchasers. The goldsmith was John Pargiter, sen., who had purchased Crown lands in Buckinghamshire: S.J. Madge, Domesday of Crown lands, p. 403. He was several times fined by the Goldsmith’s Company for bad workmanship, and in March 1668 his name was removed by the Court of Aldermen from the list of nominees for the office of alderman. He may have been the Pargiter prosecuted in 1669 for coin clipping: PRO, SP 29/256, no. 17. If he was, Sam’s assessment of his business character was astute indeed.

• N Wim van der Meij on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 03:00pm

  ‘Love and Honour’ is a tragi-comedy by Sir W. Davenant, first acted at the Blackfriars.

• N David A. Smith on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 04:09pm

  “I do most know and believe to be a cheating rogue”
  Paste the smile in place, quaff the beer, then escape his presence, go home, close the door, and in quiet candlelit privacy let your feelings rip in precise encrypted shorthand.
  We have all felt this way …

• N David A. Smith on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 04:12pm

  “of which, God forgive me! I am very glad”
  Here is why we love to read Sam:
  Believing Pargiter to be a rogue, and having established that he was an opportunist who cheerfully capitalized on others’ misfortune, Sam now quite understandably rejoices (silently) at the confiscation of Pargiter’s treacherous profits.
  And then, as if crossing himself before the padre, he interjects a “God forgive me!” with an exclamation point.
  So we have scene, character, and the dichotomous nature of emotional doublethink — all in nine words.

• N David Ross McIrvine on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 05:27pm

  *LOVE AND HONOUR*

  According to T.W. Craik, in Volume V of *The Revels History of Drama in English*, Charles II lent his Coronation robes to Betterton for a performance of *Love and Honour*. Whether it was the performance Sam is at, I’m not sure, but as we know Betterton has already begun to perform at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in August, when Sam saw *Hamlet*.

• N Pedro. on Fri 22 Oct 2004, 10:40pm

  On this day..

  100 men who formed the Tangier Horse were paraded at St.George’s Field in Southwalk. On return to England they became the 1st Royal Dragoons.

• N andy on Sat 23 Oct 2004, 08:39pm

  man of the world

  ……
  what a phrase, that has survived centuries.

  And I think we can allow Sam a few furtive vists to the theatre and opera!