Sunday 13 July 1662

(Lord’s day) … [Having by some mischance hurt my cods, – L&M] I had my old pain all yesterday and this morning, and so kept my bed all this morning. So up and after dinner and some of my people to church, I set about taking down my books and papers and making my chamber fit against to-morrow to have the people come to work in pulling down the top of my house. In the evening I walked to the garden and sent for Mr. Turner (who yesterday did give me occasion of speaking to him about the difference between him and me), and I told him my whole mind, and how it was in my power to do him a discourtesy about his place of petty purveyance, and at last did make him see (I think) that it was his concernment to be friendly to me and what belongs to me. After speaking my mind to him and he to me, we walked down and took boat at the Tower and to Deptford, on purpose to sign and seal a couple of warrants, as justice of peace in Kent, against one Annis, who is to be tried next Tuesday, at Maidstone assizes, for stealing some lead out of Woolwich Yard. Going and coming I did discourse with Mr. Turner about the faults of our management of the business of our office, of which he is sensible, but I believe is a very knave. Come home I found a rabbit at the fire, and so supped well, and so to my journall and to bed.


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First Reading

daniel  •  Link

"I had my old pain all yesterday"

does this refer to his kidney stones?

dirk  •  Link

Diary of Ralph Josselin

Sunday 13 July 1662:
"A good day, hopes of a kindly season for harvest, the good lord command it. reports as if the King would respite the penalties on the act of uniformity as to himself for a time, god in mercy command it, god good to me in the word. harvest comes on.

dirk  •  Link

"does this refer to his kidney stones?"

Yes. But Sam underwent surgery for a bladder stone - not a kidney stone which would have been inoperable at the time.

See background info:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

A. De Araujo  •  Link

"I had my old pain"
when Sam died they found a lot of kidney stones at his autopsy; so it might be a renal calculus;anyway it is an awful pain and he should have been drinking lots of water or draft,because it is summertime and the warm weather gets you dehydrated, concentrates your urine etc etc;

A. Hamilton  •  Link

Having recently prepared a house for moving

I am quite impressed with Sam's command of his time and his sense of priorities.

Cumgranissalis  •  Link

Oh wot be the problem???"...who yesterday did give me occasion of speaking to him about the difference between him and me)..." "...After speaking my mind to him and he to me,..."

Cumgranissalis  •  Link

The privy would it be again , or just the roof will me missing, then all that muck be upsetting Mrs Turner ? they be such neighbours, or would it be a case me 'ouse be lower than yours and when skidalling around on the leads Sam can see into Turners rooms?.

Cumgranissalis  •  Link

"...found a rabbit at the fire..." now Sam can have fur hat, to go with his beaver.

Paul Chapin  •  Link

Another ellipsis
Can someone with L&M tell us Sam's first words after "Lord's day" in this entry?

Terry Foreman  •  Link

"Having by some mischance hurt my cods. I had my old pain...."

Miss Ann  •  Link

"Having by some mischance hurt my cods. I had my old pain..." - I wonder what or how?

Terry Foreman  •  Link

Did Sam forget to latch his cod-piece securely, when up by 5 o'clock yesterday, and bump against furniture when getting his house in order? Oy: Some mischance!

GrahamT  •  Link

Nowadays, we give someone, with whom we are angry, a piece of our mind, but Sam goes one better: "...I told him my whole mind..."

DrCari  •  Link

Sam's old pains....Sam's surgical incision never fully closed, resulting in a chronic seeping discharge. From time to time the area would become inflamed and swollen. Perhaps this might be the source of the current complaint along with the obvious Urinary stones.

Bradford  •  Link

"I wonder how?"---Believe me, Miss Ann, that what's some of us august readers ask ourselves afterwards even today.

A. De Araujo  •  Link

"hurt my cods"
It could not have been riding a bicicle; now Lance Armstrong-God bess him-had his "cods" removed because of cancer.

Robert Gertz  •  Link

Poor Turner...Sam seemed to really enjoy turning the screws.

Second Reading

Terry Foreman  •  Link

Indeed, RG, what is "the difference between him and me"?

Sam's threat to Turner is existential: "I told him my whole mind, and how it was in my power to do him a discourtesy about his place of petty purveyance" (L&M note last year's March discussion of the possession of that place: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… )

Gerald Berg  •  Link

Say it ain't so DrCari! That's disgusting. I'd like to know more.

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