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Capt. Robert Ferrer

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  • - Sjoerd Spoelstra on Wed 19 May 2004, 11:54pm. Flag this

    Captain Ferrer or Ferrers started out as Montague’s “Cornet”, and then as his “master of horse”.

    A Cornet is a low ranking cavalry officer that carried the troop flag (or cornet).

    The family name means “horse-shoer and iron worker”.
    He seems from the diary to be a very dashing fellow, almost literally in the entry of May 19 1661 where he jumps from a balcony on a bet.

    To have a “master of horse” at all seems to be somewhat of a luxury item, together with “a French cook” and “and his lady and child to wear black patches”.

    So maybe the dashing, the drinking, gambling and womanising were all part of the job profile.

  • - Phil Gyford on Mon 22 Nov 2004, 09:32pm. Flag this

    Husband of Jane: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/3331.php

  • - Pauline on Wed 8 Dec 2004, 03:43am. Flag this

    from L&M Companion
    A dashing and volatile soldier—cornet in Sandwich’s regiment from c. 1656; lieutenant by 1660, and captain from Aug. 1660. By 1663 he appears to have a commission in Sir C. Berkeley’s regiment. He was a member of Sandwich’s household, accompanied him to sea in 1661-2 and was his Master of Horse in the Spanish embassy. His accounts and letters (normally signed without a final ‘s’—are in the Sandwich papers. In Dec. 1668 he was given the place as yeoman tailor in the Great Wardrobe which Pepys had once hoped to obtain for his father. He had died by July 1673. His wife Jane, sister of a Scottish earl, was thought by her family to have married beneath her.

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References in the diary

A graph of all the references in the diary

1660
May: 2
Aug: 18
1661
Feb: 7, 12
Mar: 25
Apr: 27
May: 19, 27
Jun: 12, 13
Aug: 10, 14, 17
Sep: 2
Oct: 4, 14, 28
Nov: 2, 11, 15, 27
Dec: 7
1662
May: 11, 25, 28
Jul: 6, 16
Sep: 12, 27
Oct: 3, 7, 12, 17, 20
Nov: 25
Dec: 14, 21
1663
Jan: 22, 25
Feb: 8, 13
Mar: 20, 22, 27
Apr: 29
May: 1, 2
Jun: 10, 11, 17, 19
Jul: 22
Sep: 20
Dec: 21, 22, 24
1664
May: 2
Jun: 4, 6, 20
Jul: 13
1665
Jun: 14, 15, 24
Oct: 25, 26, 30, 31
Nov: 23
1666
Jan: 6, 9
Feb: 20, 25
1667
Oct: 28
1668
Nov: 10
Dec: 31
1669
Apr: 5