'black . . 2. Characterized in some way by this quality or colour. a. Having black hair or eyes; dark-complexioned . . Now rare. In early use chiefly with reference to the (descriptive) surnames or nicknames of particular individuals. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xi. 414 Wæs ðis tosceaden hweðre, þætte for hiora missenlice feaxes hiwe oðer wæs cueden se blaca Heawald, oðer se hwita Heawald . . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1970) II. 91 Took up Mr. Hater and his wife..I find her to be a very pretty modest black woman . . 2001 G. Ryman Lust (2003) 74 He was not at all bad-looking, what Michael called a black Celt: slightly sallow skin, a heavy beard and black eyes.
. . black Irish adj. and n. sometimes derogatory (a) adj. describing an Irish person, or one of Irish ancestry, having dark hair and a dark complexion or eyes . . 1875 Amer. Bibliopolist Dec. 260/1 The same usage still prevails among the vulgar as in the phrases, ‘black Irish’, ‘black Dutch’, describing certain well known types of Celts and Teutons (Hollanders, probably), differing widely from the prevailing type of either race in respect of their black eyes and hair, and gypsy-like, tawny complexions . . ‘
‘coronation, n. Also ME coronacioun, ME coronatyown, coronacyone, ME–15 coronacyon, coronacion, (ME corenacyon, 15 cronation, 16 corronation) < Old French coronacion < Latin corōnātiōn . . ’
‘taking n. . . 4. a. Condition, situation, state, plight (in unfavourable sense). Only in phr. in, †at (a) taking , often with defining adj. Obs. exc. Sc. . . 1592 J. Lyly Midas i. ii, These boyes be droonk! I would not be in your takings. . . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 12 Jan. (1971) IV. 13 The poor boy was in a pitiful taking and pickle. . . 1837 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 65 We are all in sad taking with influenza.’ [OED]
' . . In 1800, the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George III chose this opportunity to drop his claim to the now defunct French throne, whereupon the fleurs de lis, part of the coat of arms of all claimant Kings of France since the time of Edward III, were also removed from the British royal arms. Britain recognised the French Republic by the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 . . '
Re: OC’s head: ‘ . . [It] was stuck on a post, and displayed in Westminster Hall, where it remained until at least 1684. Pepys mentions going to look at it. It then went missing (the legend is that it was blown off in a gale and taken by a sentry), and turns up again in 18th London as a collectors item – much sought after as an investment by proprietors of then fashionable ‘museums of curiosities’. It became a more settled possession in 1824, when it was bought by the Wilkinson family from Kent – who kept it until 1960.
But was this macabre object really Cromwell’s head? Much time and ink was spent trying to answer that question . When the British Archaeological Institute examined it in 1911 a photo was published in the Daily Express – which led to calls for it to be bought for the nation. Prime Minister Asquith answered questions about it in the Commons. Finally in 1935 a major forensic examination was undertaken by two scientists whose 100 page report is, by their own admission, “neither pleasant nor lightweight to read.” They confirmed the identity of the head.
Eventually in 1960 the head was accepted by Cromwell’s Cambridge College, Sidney Sussex, and buried in an unmarked place in the chapel.’
'in Westminster Hall' should be, I suggest, 'ON Westminster Hall', i.e outside for all to see and take a lesson from - and to be finally blown away . .
' . . 3. loosely, as a general epithet of admiration or praise: Worthy, excellent, good, ‘capital’, ‘fine’, ‘famous’, etc.; ‘an indeterminate word, used to express the superabundance of any valuable quality in men or things’ (Johnson). arch. (Cf. braw adj.) . . b. of things. . . a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iii. ii. 79 This is a braue night to coole a Curtizan. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 104 We wil make a brave Breakfast with a piece of powdered Bief . . ' [OED]
‘gracy, adj. Editorial misreading of lazy; taken to mean ‘full of teaching about grace, evangelical’. 1848 Diary & Corr. S. Pepys 14 Apr. 1661 (ed. 3) 213 Heard Mr. Jacomb, at Ludgate, upon these words, ‘Christ loved you and therefore let us love one another’, and made a gracy [1970 lazy] sermon, like a Presbyterian.’
and ‘lazy’:
‘lazy, adj. and n. Etym: obscure . . 2. a. . . Formerly of literary style . . : Languid, having little energy. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 37v, Melancthon..came to this low kinde of writyng, by vsing ouer moch Paraphrasis in reading: For studying therbie to..make euerie thing streight and easie, in smothing and playning all things to much, neuer leaueth, whiles the sence it selfe be left, both lowse and lasie.’
' . . But where is he that cropped their offerings— The pick-purse of enchantments, riding by, Whistling his "Go and Be Hanged, That's Twice Good bye"?
Who such a frolic pomp of blessing made To kiss a little pretty dairymaid. . . . And country wives with bare and earth-burnt knees, And boys with beer, and smiles from balconies. . . .
The greensleeve girl, apprentice-equerry, Tending great men with slant-eye mockery: "Then Mr Sam says, ‘Riding's hot,’ he says, Tasting their ale and waving twopences. . . . "
Into one gaze they swam, a moment swirled, One fiery paintbox of the body's world— Into Sam's eye, that flying bushranger— Swinging their torches for earth's voyager . . '
‘narrow seas, n. 1. Chiefly with the (also in sing.). The seas separating Great Britain from Ireland and from continental Europe. Esp. in early use (in sing.) applied to the English Channel; subsequently spec. (until the introduction of the legal concept of international waters) both the English Channel and the southern North Sea, over which the English monarch claimed sovereignty . . a1450–1500 (▸1436) Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 7 (MED), No man may denye..That we bee maysteres of the narowe see. . . 1595 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. i. 240 Sterne Fawconbridge Commands the narrow seas. . . 1807 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 17 Great Britain has the sovereignty of what are called the narrow seas. . . 1995 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 59 620 Submarines would prevent hostile navies from undertaking any serious operations in the narrow seas around Britain.’
‘rule of thumb, n. Etym: < rule n.1 + of prep. + thumb n., probably so called on account of the thumb being used as a reference for approximate measurements of various kinds . .
A suggestion that the phrase refers to an alleged rule allowing a husband to beat his wife with a stick the thickness of his thumb cannot be substantiated (compare the discussion by H. D. Kelly in Jrnl. for Legal Educ. 44 (1994) 341–65); it also poses semantic problems. The suggestion appears to be of late 20th-cent. origin, probably arising from a misunderstanding of the pun in the following passage (discussing the alleged rule mentioned above):
1976 D. Martin Battered Wives 31 [In 19th-cent. America] the common-law doctrine had been modified to allow the husband ‘the right to whip his wife, provided he used a switch no thicker than his thumb’—a rule of thumb, so to speak.
A. n. 1. As a mass noun. Method or procedure derived from practice or experience, rather than theory or scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method. Chiefly in by rule of thumb. a1658 J. Durham Heaven upon Earth (1685) ii. 217 Many profest Christians are like to foolish builders, who build by guess, and by rule of thumb . . ‘
'The “Christian calendar” is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome . . (it) has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon . . Two main versions . . have existed in recent times: The Julian . . and the Gregorian . . The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their rules for calculating Easter. But (both) inherited a lot of their structure from the ancient Roman calendar. Therefore a study of that calendar is also relevant here.' http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal…
‘beˈtwit, v. Emphatic of twit n.1 1661 S. Pepys Diary 2 Apr. (1970) II. 65 Strange how these men..betwitt and reproach one another with their former conditions.’
‘twit, v. 1. a. trans. To blame, find fault with, censure, reproach, upbraid (a person), esp. in a light or annoying way; to cast an imputation upon; to taunt. . . 1594 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 178 Doth he not twit our soveraigne Lady here, As if that she had sobornde or hired some to sweare against his life . . ’
‘occasion, n.1 I. Senses relating to action arising from a chance or opportunity. 1. a. A conjunction of circumstances favourable or suitable to an end or purpose, or admitting of something being done or effected; an opportunity. In early use: esp. †an opportunity of attacking, of fault-finding, or of giving or taking offence; an opportunity for trouble (obs.).
to take occasion : to take advantage of an opportunity.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1970) I. 311, I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pett. . . 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 597 Here..we may take occasion to correct an error which occurred at p. 582. . . 1943 K. A. Porter Let. 29 May (1990) iv. 267, I take occasion for a little side-swipe at the high-powered Hollywood aspects of this war as photographed by such fakes as Zanuck et al.’
I am going round for the second time - the first was interrupted so that I missed much of the middle - and enjoy reading comments from my brash younger self, Christo - oh to be a stripling of 59 again . .
jude cooper r emaps: have a look at http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ' Here’s a chronological summary of the most useful historical London maps available online . . '
This website has become an encyclopedia about Pepys so it is the first place to look for background information.
‘clap . . Etymology: Middle English clappen . . 11. esp. To put (with promptitude or high-handedness) in prison or custody; to imprison, confine. Also simply to clap up ( †to clap fast ): ‘to imprison with little formality or delay’ (Johnson). c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. F, Then art thou clappyd in the flete or clynke. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 667 The King caused him to be clapt in prison. . . 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 142 Let him be clapt up in Gaol till he pays the whole . . 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 95 Some were clapt in prison.’
‘Desire v. . . 6.c. to d. a person to do something (the most freq. construction). a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 212, I desyre you to shew me where ye have ben. . . 1681 W. Temple Mem. iii, in Wks. (1731) I. 342 The Duke of Monmouth being Chancellor, I desir'd the King to speak to him . . ‘
When you get to my age (69), one realises that modern dentistry (= crowns and implants, etc.), if one can afford it, is a wonderful boon compared to what went before. A mutual pact of silence is good manners: 'I won't tell you about my last session at the dentist if you don't tell me about yours . . '
Bob Waring: I’m here & intending to go round again as I missed out a large section 10 years ago when I retired. I too am struck by the erudition of the post from my self re eggs of 10 years ago! Scrolling down I was minded to post again on this topic & then saw my post from 2004.
We had a very jolly lunch party to celebrate what Phil had created on May 26 2012 after the annual Pepys church service + lecture at St Olave’s organised by the Pepys Club http://www.pepys-club.org.uk on the anniversary of his death.
‘tiffin, n. Etym: Appears to have originated in the English colloquial or slang tiffing < tiff v.2 to take a little drink or sip . . 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Tiffing, eating, or drinking out of meal time. 1867 H. Wedgwood Dict. Eng. Etymol., Tiffin, now naturalised among Anglo-Indians in the sense of luncheon, is the North country tiffing (properly sipping). In India and neighbouring eastern countries, A light midday meal; luncheon. 1800 Ward in Carey's Life (1885) vi. 137 Krishna came to eat tiffin (what in England is called luncheon) with us . . ‘
‘ . . II. 5.d. to sell or let by the candle . . : to dispose of by auction in which bids are received so long as a small piece of candle burns, the last bid before the candle goes out securing the article . . This appears to have been a custom adopted from the French . . 1680 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 287 The new marked ground..was let by inch of candle in the town hall. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 Mere pecuniary Matches, or Marriages made by the Candle . . 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. IX. 84 Where British faith and honour are to be sold by inch of candle . . 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), There is also a kind of Excommunication by Inch of Candle; wherein, the Time a lighted Candle continues burning, is allow'd the Sinner to come to Repentance, but after which, he remains excommunicated to all Intents and Purposes.’
‘Sheathing 1. b. The action of putting on a protective layer to a ship's bottom; the method or manner in which this is done. . . a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 346/2 Another Sheathing is with double Planks. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 153 Mr. John Sish took no ordinary Care in Strengthening her, and in her Shething, which was as well performed as in any Ship that ever sailed on the Sea . .
2. a. A protective layer or covering laid on the outside of the bottom of a wooden ship, to protect the planks from the borings of marine animals. Formerly of boards, etc., later usually of thin plates of metal (copper). Also a wooden covering sometimes used to protect the submerged parts of iron ships from corrosion by the water. . . 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 32 We saw some of the sheathing swim by vs. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xx, She had her sheathing strip'd at seven Years end to repair the Plank, but not for any defect in the Sheathing it self. 1728 in 6th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. App. ii. 155 A new method for preserving the plank and sheathing of Ships . . ‘
Comments
Second Reading
About Tuesday 30 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
'black . . 2. Characterized in some way by this quality or colour.
a. Having black hair or eyes; dark-complexioned . . Now rare. In early use chiefly with reference to the (descriptive) surnames or nicknames of particular individuals.
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xi. 414 Wæs ðis tosceaden hweðre, þætte for hiora missenlice feaxes hiwe oðer wæs cueden se blaca Heawald, oðer se hwita Heawald
. . 1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1970) II. 91 Took up Mr. Hater and his wife..I find her to be a very pretty modest black woman . .
2001 G. Ryman Lust (2003) 74 He was not at all bad-looking, what Michael called a black Celt: slightly sallow skin, a heavy beard and black eyes.
. . black Irish adj. and n. sometimes derogatory (a) adj. describing an Irish person, or one of Irish ancestry, having dark hair and a dark complexion or eyes . .
1875 Amer. Bibliopolist Dec. 260/1 The same usage still prevails among the vulgar as in the phrases, ‘black Irish’, ‘black Dutch’, describing certain well known types of Celts and Teutons (Hollanders, probably), differing widely from the prevailing type of either race in respect of their black eyes and hair, and gypsy-like, tawny complexions . . ‘
About Thursday 25 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘coronation, n. Also ME coronacioun, ME coronatyown, coronacyone, ME–15 coronacyon, coronacion, (ME corenacyon, 15 cronation, 16 corronation) < Old French coronacion < Latin corōnātiōn . . ’
About Wednesday 24 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘taking n. . . 4. a. Condition, situation, state, plight (in unfavourable sense). Only in phr. in, †at (a) taking , often with defining adj. Obs. exc. Sc.
. . 1592 J. Lyly Midas i. ii, These boyes be droonk! I would not be in your takings.
. . 1663 S. Pepys Diary 12 Jan. (1971) IV. 13 The poor boy was in a pitiful taking and pickle.
. . 1837 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 65 We are all in sad taking with influenza.’ [OED]
About Tuesday 23 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
' . . In 1800, the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George III chose this opportunity to drop his claim to the now defunct French throne, whereupon the fleurs de lis, part of the coat of arms of all claimant Kings of France since the time of Edward III, were also removed from the British royal arms. Britain recognised the French Republic by the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 . . '
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engl…
About Monday 22 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re: OC’s head: ‘ . . [It] was stuck on a post, and displayed in Westminster Hall, where it remained until at least 1684. Pepys mentions going to look at it. It then went missing (the legend is that it was blown off in a gale and taken by a sentry), and turns up again in 18th London as a collectors item – much sought after as an investment by proprietors of then fashionable ‘museums of curiosities’. It became a more settled possession in 1824, when it was bought by the Wilkinson family from Kent – who kept it until 1960.
But was this macabre object really Cromwell’s head? Much time and ink was spent trying to answer that question . When the British Archaeological Institute examined it in 1911 a photo was published in the Daily Express – which led to calls for it to be bought for the nation. Prime Minister Asquith answered questions about it in the Commons. Finally in 1935 a major forensic examination was undertaken by two scientists whose 100 page report is, by their own admission, “neither pleasant nor lightweight to read.” They confirmed the identity of the head.
Eventually in 1960 the head was accepted by Cromwell’s Cambridge College, Sidney Sussex, and buried in an unmarked place in the chapel.’
[http://www.eyes-and-ears.co.uk/sq…]
'in Westminster Hall' should be, I suggest, 'ON Westminster Hall', i.e outside for all to see and take a lesson from - and to be finally blown away . .
About Thursday 18 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Re 'some brave wine':
' . . 3. loosely, as a general epithet of admiration or praise: Worthy, excellent, good, ‘capital’, ‘fine’, ‘famous’, etc.; ‘an indeterminate word, used to express the superabundance of any valuable quality in men or things’ (Johnson). arch. (Cf. braw adj.)
. . b. of things.
. . a1616 Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iii. ii. 79 This is a braue night to coole a Curtizan.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 104 We wil make a brave Breakfast with a piece of powdered Bief . . ' [OED]
About Sunday 14 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Here’s what OED has to say re ‘gracy’:
‘gracy, adj. Editorial misreading of lazy; taken to mean ‘full of teaching about grace, evangelical’.
1848 Diary & Corr. S. Pepys 14 Apr. 1661 (ed. 3) 213 Heard Mr. Jacomb, at Ludgate, upon these words, ‘Christ loved you and therefore let us love one another’, and made a gracy [1970 lazy] sermon, like a Presbyterian.’
and ‘lazy’:
‘lazy, adj. and n. Etym: obscure . .
2. a. . . Formerly of literary style . . : Languid, having little energy.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 37v, Melancthon..came to this low kinde of writyng, by vsing ouer moch Paraphrasis in reading: For studying therbie to..make euerie thing streight and easie, in smothing and playning all things to much, neuer leaueth, whiles the sence it selfe be left, both lowse and lasie.’
About Thursday 11 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
A modern poem inspired by this entry:
' . . But where is he that cropped their offerings—
The pick-purse of enchantments, riding by,
Whistling his "Go and Be Hanged, That's Twice Good bye"?
Who such a frolic pomp of blessing made
To kiss a little pretty dairymaid. . . .
And country wives with bare and earth-burnt knees,
And boys with beer, and smiles from balconies. . . .
The greensleeve girl, apprentice-equerry,
Tending great men with slant-eye mockery:
"Then Mr Sam says, ‘Riding's hot,’ he says,
Tasting their ale and waving twopences. . . . "
Into one gaze they swam, a moment swirled,
One fiery paintbox of the body's world—
Into Sam's eye, that flying bushranger—
Swinging their torches for earth's voyager . . '
http://allpoetry.com/poem/8521527…
About Wednesday 10 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘narrow seas, n. 1. Chiefly with the (also in sing.). The seas separating Great Britain from Ireland and from continental Europe. Esp. in early use (in sing.) applied to the English Channel; subsequently spec. (until the introduction of the legal concept of international waters) both the English Channel and the southern North Sea, over which the English monarch claimed sovereignty . .
a1450–1500 (▸1436) Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 7 (MED), No man may denye..That we bee maysteres of the narowe see.
. . 1595 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. i. 240 Sterne Fawconbridge Commands the narrow seas.
. . 1807 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 17 Great Britain has the sovereignty of what are called the narrow seas.
. . 1995 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 59 620 Submarines would prevent hostile navies from undertaking any serious operations in the narrow seas around Britain.’
About Saturday 6 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
‘rule of thumb, n. Etym: < rule n.1 + of prep. + thumb n., probably so called on account of the thumb being used as a reference for approximate measurements of various kinds . .
A suggestion that the phrase refers to an alleged rule allowing a husband to beat his wife with a stick the thickness of his thumb cannot be substantiated (compare the discussion by H. D. Kelly in Jrnl. for Legal Educ. 44 (1994) 341–65); it also poses semantic problems. The suggestion appears to be of late 20th-cent. origin, probably arising from a misunderstanding of the pun in the following passage (discussing the alleged rule mentioned above):
1976 D. Martin Battered Wives 31 [In 19th-cent. America] the common-law doctrine had been modified to allow the husband ‘the right to whip his wife, provided he used a switch no thicker than his thumb’—a rule of thumb, so to speak.
A. n. 1. As a mass noun. Method or procedure derived from practice or experience, rather than theory or scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method. Chiefly in by rule of thumb.
a1658 J. Durham Heaven upon Earth (1685) ii. 217 Many profest Christians are like to foolish builders, who build by guess, and by rule of thumb . . ‘
About Wednesday 3 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
Here's the up to date Tondering link:
'The “Christian calendar” is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome . . (it) has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon . . Two main versions . . have existed in recent times: The Julian . . and the Gregorian . . The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their rules for calculating Easter. But (both) inherited a lot of their structure from the ancient Roman calendar. Therefore a study of that calendar is also relevant here.'
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal…
About Tuesday 2 April 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘beˈtwit, v. Emphatic of twit n.1
1661 S. Pepys Diary 2 Apr. (1970) II. 65 Strange how these men..betwitt and reproach one another with their former conditions.’
‘twit, v.
1. a. trans. To blame, find fault with, censure, reproach, upbraid (a person), esp. in a light or annoying way; to cast an imputation upon; to taunt.
. . 1594 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 178 Doth he not twit our soveraigne Lady here, As if that she had sobornde or hired some to sweare against his life . . ’
About Sunday 31 March 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘occasion, n.1 I. Senses relating to action arising from a chance or opportunity.
1. a. A conjunction of circumstances favourable or suitable to an end or purpose, or admitting of something being done or effected; an opportunity. In early use: esp. †an opportunity of attacking, of fault-finding, or of giving or taking offence; an opportunity for trouble (obs.).
to take occasion : to take advantage of an opportunity.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Dec. (1970) I. 311, I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pett.
. . 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 597 Here..we may take occasion to correct an error which occurred at p. 582.
. . 1943 K. A. Porter Let. 29 May (1990) iv. 267, I take occasion for a little side-swipe at the high-powered Hollywood aspects of this war as photographed by such fakes as Zanuck et al.’
About Thursday 28 March 1661
Chris Squire UK • Link
I am going round for the second time - the first was interrupted so that I missed much of the middle - and enjoy reading comments from my brash younger self, Christo - oh to be a stripling of 59 again . .
jude cooper r emaps: have a look at http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ' Here’s a chronological summary of the most useful historical London maps available online . . '
This website has become an encyclopedia about Pepys so it is the first place to look for background information.
About Saturday 23 March 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘clap . . Etymology: Middle English clappen . .
11. esp. To put (with promptitude or high-handedness) in prison or custody; to imprison, confine. Also simply to clap up ( †to clap fast ): ‘to imprison with little formality or delay’ (Johnson).
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. F, Then art thou clappyd in the flete or clynke.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 667 The King caused him to be clapt in prison.
. . 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 142 Let him be clapt up in Gaol till he pays the whole . .
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 95 Some were clapt in prison.’
About Thursday 21 March 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘Desire v.
. . 6.c. to d. a person to do something (the most freq. construction).
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 212, I desyre you to shew me where ye have ben.
. . 1681 W. Temple Mem. iii, in Wks. (1731) I. 342 The Duke of Monmouth being Chancellor, I desir'd the King to speak to him . . ‘
About Monday 11 March 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
When you get to my age (69), one realises that modern dentistry (= crowns and implants, etc.), if one can afford it, is a wonderful boon compared to what went before. A mutual pact of silence is good manners: 'I won't tell you about my last session at the dentist if you don't tell me about yours . . '
About Wednesday 6 March 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
Bob Waring: I’m here & intending to go round again as I missed out a large section 10 years ago when I retired. I too am struck by the erudition of the post from my self re eggs of 10 years ago! Scrolling down I was minded to post again on this topic & then saw my post from 2004.
We had a very jolly lunch party to celebrate what Phil had created on May 26 2012 after the annual Pepys church service + lecture at St Olave’s organised by the Pepys Club http://www.pepys-club.org.uk on the anniversary of his death.
About Friday 1 March 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED explains:
‘tiffin, n. Etym: Appears to have originated in the English colloquial or slang tiffing < tiff v.2 to take a little drink or sip . .
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Tiffing, eating, or drinking out of meal time.
1867 H. Wedgwood Dict. Eng. Etymol., Tiffin, now naturalised among Anglo-Indians in the sense of luncheon, is the North country tiffing (properly sipping).
In India and neighbouring eastern countries, A light midday meal; luncheon.
1800 Ward in Carey's Life (1885) vi. 137 Krishna came to eat tiffin (what in England is called luncheon) with us . . ‘
The word has now gone out of use in Britain.
About Thursday 28 February 1660/61
Chris Squire UK • Link
Here's OED 's penny's worth:
‘ . . II. 5.d. to sell or let by the candle . . : to dispose of by auction in which bids are received so long as a small piece of candle burns, the last bid before the candle goes out securing the article . . This appears to have been a custom adopted from the French . .
1680 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 287 The new marked ground..was let by inch of candle in the town hall.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 Mere pecuniary Matches, or Marriages made by the Candle
. . 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. IX. 84 Where British faith and honour are to be sold by inch of candle
. . 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), There is also a kind of Excommunication by Inch of Candle; wherein, the Time a lighted Candle continues burning, is allow'd the Sinner to come to Repentance, but after which, he remains excommunicated to all Intents and Purposes.’
‘Sheathing
1. b. The action of putting on a protective layer to a ship's bottom; the method or manner in which this is done.
. . a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 346/2 Another Sheathing is with double Planks.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 153 Mr. John Sish took no ordinary Care in Strengthening her, and in her Shething, which was as well performed as in any Ship that ever sailed on the Sea . .
2. a. A protective layer or covering laid on the outside of the bottom of a wooden ship, to protect the planks from the borings of marine animals. Formerly of boards, etc., later usually of thin plates of metal (copper). Also a wooden covering sometimes used to protect the submerged parts of iron ships from corrosion by the water.
. . 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 32 We saw some of the sheathing swim by vs.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xx, She had her sheathing strip'd at seven Years end to repair the Plank, but not for any defect in the Sheathing it self.
1728 in 6th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Rec. App. ii. 155 A new method for preserving the plank and sheathing of Ships . . ‘