Monday 28 July 1662

Annotations

• N Terry F. on Thu 28 Jul 2005, 11:03pm

  “Will lying there at my feet”

  L&M note: “Sc. in a truckle bed.”

• N Terry F. on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 01:25am

  “…all the morning abstracting the Duke

• N Terry F. on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 01:40am

  L&M note refers to 5 February; Mary on The duke

• N dirk on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 01:59am

  John Evelyn’s diary

  28 July 1662:
  “His Majestie going to sea to meete Queene-mother (now coming againe for England), met with such ill-weather, as greately indangerd him. I went to Greenewich to waite on the Queene now landed.”

• N Stolzi on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 02:02am

  Aw, how sweet.

  He is “a little troubled and melancholy” because his Elizabeth is not there!

• N stolzi on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 02:10am

  Dirty and messy as the house is,
  “the wench” has to sleep there in case of fire or thieves.

  Lucky wench.

• N Cumgranissalis on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:33am

  La Wench, she be having the nite sky to ‘erself,[and a free shower] and have a free night of not be debugging ‘imself [Sam] of his extra nutritional calories. ‘

• N Robert Gertz on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 04:05am

  Nice of Sam to think of poor Lady Jem in his own moment of melancholy…And Bess must have appreciated getting to be the bearer of such news.

  So would that be our Jane in Will’s bed valiantly guarding la maison Pepys? Or is she gone with Bess as maid?

  “Now, one of us must stay in the house of course to watch over things.” Pepys notes.

  Ay, sir…Will and ?Jane nod.

  “It should be perfectly safe. But whoever stays should be prepared to take action to rouse the watch if necessary. Someone agile, with a strong voice…Yet one whom any thief would be inclined to spare because she…er…Whoever…Appears unlikely to do them harm.”

  Will eyes Sam…Sam eyes Will…They eye ?Jane…

• N Terry F. on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 05:09am

  “in the evening Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber a little troubled and melancholy, to my lute late,…”

  What a juxtaposition! Mathematiques, a lute and “Melancholy Baby”: a short read of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1632)
  http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~rlblair/burton.html

• N Mary on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 07:19am

  the wench.

  Probably the skivvy rather than Jane, who is more likely to have gone into the country with Elizabeth. Sam is to keep going with a skeleton staff whilst the works are accomplished.

• N Robert Gertz on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:52am

  Terry, now I have this image of Sam on lute struggling to play “Melancholy Baby” while Will below covers his ears…Much as our Will misses Elisabeth too.

• N Nix on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 04:19pm

  “a troubled though willing goodbye, because of the bad condition of my house to have a family in it” —

  It strikes me as odd that Samuel would feel the need to repeat in his diary this rationale for the departure. This feels much more like writing for the public — not the normal tone of his writing.

• N Cumgranissalis on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:49pm

  “…in the evening Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber a little troubled and melancholy…” Could it be this, he failed to get the rite answer?
  ….”Professor Shane Frederick, from the MIT Sloan school of management, in the United States, tried out the three questions on 3,000 students from eight universities, but fewer than half of them got the first question correct.
  When told that a “horse and saddle cost a total of 1 guinea and that the Horse costs 1 quid more than the saddle, they were then asked to work out the cost of the saddle. Most said 1 bob . - which is incorrect. Although Prof Frederick admitted to thinking the answer was 1 bob when he first saw the question, he said he was amazed by how many people kept it as their final answer. …”
  plagiarized and lifted to fit the 17 C. from
  http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1636262005

• N Robert Gertz on Fri 29 Jul 2005, 11:20pm

  I noted the repeated statement too, Nix. However I took it as Sam trying to convince himself he’d done the right thing when at heart he wishes he’d encouraged Beth’s reluctance to leave.

  Of course he may be thinking on the expense and money wasted…

• N Australian Susan on Sat 30 Jul 2005, 02:19am

  So if Jane has gone with Elizabeth, Will is with Sam in the Penn house, Sarah is camping out in the damp Pepys house, where is Wayneman?

• N Mary on Sat 30 Jul 2005, 07:18am

  Where is Wayneman?

  Gone into the country with Elizabeth and Jane, who is his sister? Always useful to have a lad to run messages, draw water, keep the townees fine shoes clean, chop wood ……… plenty of opportunities for a lad to make himself useful to employer and host alike.