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Saturday 3 May 1662

Sir W. Pen and I by coach to St. James’s, and there to the Duke’s Chamber, who had been a-hunting this morning and is come back again. Thence to Westminster, where I met Mr. Moore, and hear that Mr. Watkins is suddenly dead since my going. To dinner to my Lady Sandwich, and Sir Thomas Crew’s children coming thither, I took them and all my Ladys to the Tower and showed them the lions1 and all that was to be shown, and so took them to my house, and there made much of them, and so saw them back to my Lady’s. Sir Thomas Crew’s children being as pretty and the best behaved that ever I saw of their age. Thence, at the goldsmith’s, took my picture in little,2 which is now done, home with me, and pleases me exceedingly and my wife. So to supper and to bed, it being exceeding hot.

  1. The Tower Menagerie was not abolished until the reign of William IV.
  2. Miniature by Savill.

Sunday 4 May 1662Friday 2 May 1662

11°C / 52°F
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  • N Cumgranissalis on Wed 4 May 2005, 02:38am

    Are we over our little pet peeve,ist we?

  • N Australian Susan on Wed 4 May 2005, 03:30am

    “I took them and all my Lady’s”
    That’s about 12 children if they all went. What a brave man! Just as well they behaved themselves: imagine a mob of badly behaved children running riot near lions and Sam having to explain…..(Anyone else remember “yon lion’s e’t our Albert and ‘im in ‘is Sunday clothes too.” ??)

  • N Pauline on Wed 4 May 2005, 07:14am

  • N Pedro on Wed 4 May 2005, 11:48am

    Meanwhile in Tangier.

    The Queen

  • N Ann on Wed 4 May 2005, 02:31pm

    OK, I’m confused (proceeding on the adage that there are no stupid questions….) I thought Sam went to Portsmouth to see the queen land? Did I miss something, or just misunderstand….

  • N JonTom Kittredge on Wed 4 May 2005, 02:41pm

    Awaiting the Queen
    Ann, I may be wrong, but my impression that Sam and the rest of the officers went to Portsmouth on Navy business (paying off ships), but they were *hoping* that they would be there for the Queen’s arrival, expected any day. Though, if I’m right, they didn’t hang around much extra time to catch her. Sam did say that he prolonged his visit a day, but that was to see La Belle Pierce and her friend, not the new Queen!

  • N A. Hamilton on Wed 4 May 2005, 05:35pm

    showed them the lions

    All those children and only one chaperone! Sam was fortunate, as know those who remember the fate of Jim, Who Was Eaten By a Lion, and its moral:
    “… [A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse
    For fear of finding something worse.”

    http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/809.html

  • N language hat on Wed 4 May 2005, 07:37pm

    “Anyone else remember…”

    Susan is referring to this delightful account of the Ramsbottoms’ ill-fated trip to Blackpool:
    http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1672.html

    *Its* moral is:

    “What, waste all our lives raising children
    To feed ruddy lions? Not me!”

  • N Nix on Wed 4 May 2005, 07:40pm

    ‘And ‘im in his Sunday clothes, too.’ —


    http://oldpoetry.com/oprintall/Marriott%20Edgar

    (Scroll down to Albert and the Lion)

  • N Glyn on Wed 4 May 2005, 10:13pm

    According to Pedro the new queen has been sailing from Lisbon since 15 April (19 days ago). What’s she coming in, a rowing boat?

  • N Glyn on Wed 4 May 2005, 10:25pm

    The Return of Albert

    http://wuff.me.uk/monologues/P10.html

    Just in case anyone was completely overwhelmed by Albert’s tragic end, here’s his miraculous escape. These were music hall/vaudeville monologues rather than poems, most famously as declaimed by the English comedian Stanley Holloway (“Brief Encounter”, “My Fair Lady”).

  • N Pedro on Wed 4 May 2005, 11:23pm

    The Calendar.
    Sorry Glyn and everyone, reading Dirk’s background wrongly, I have subtracted 10 days instead of added from the Continental calendar. One of the problems of an Englishman translating from a Portuguese account.

    She sailed on the 25th April as the diary goes.

  • N Bradford on Wed 4 May 2005, 11:41pm

    AND if you follow Nix’s link, not only can you learn about The Return of Albert, right after it you also gets a pome about ASPARAGUS! (cf. the butter and eggs and sparagus a few days back in jolly Queenless Portsmouth)

  • N Australian Susan on Thu 5 May 2005, 02:58am

    So glad everyone else liked Albert and the Lion. If I ask my husband how a business trip has been, he is wont to answer (in broad Lancashire accent) “There war no wrecks and nobody drownded, in fact nuffin’ to laff at at all”.
    Re Sam having no other help - he probably had his boy with him, but Wayneman would almost certainly have been agog to see the lions too and not much asssistance with excited children. Maybe Lady Jem is old enough to have a lady’s maid of her own, or perhaps the Sandwich’s “boy” accompanied them.

  • N Robert Gertz on Thu 5 May 2005, 04:30am

    Sir Thomas Crew’s well-behaved children…Benefit of a good Puritan household? After all the Crews produced Tom’s sis, our wonderful Lady Jemina Sr.

    Wonder if Beth got to go to see the lions and enjoy the kids’ antics…A little heartwrenching watching Sam with them, I imagine.

  • N Cumgranissalis on Fri 6 May 2005, 04:01am

    Child hood behaviour by Hannah Woolly who uses 3 letter taboo word
    The duty of Children to their Parents
    http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=searchReq
    or
    http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl
    then
    Woolley, Hannah The Gentlewoman’s Companion: or, A Guide to the Female ?ex

  • N dirk on Fri 6 May 2005, 04:50am

    The duty of Children to their Parents
    (Cumgranissalis)

    Direct link:

    http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi-bin/sgml2html/wwrp.pl?act=text&f=%2Fdata%2Fwomen_writers%2Fdata%2Fwoolley.sgm&offset=40604&len=6897&prior=1&next=1&endpos=47073&elmt=div2&t=Section-%20%20The%20duty%20of%20Children%20to%20their%20Parents.%20%20%20

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