‘against . . IV. In relation to time. 10. In anticipation of, in preparation for, in time for . . . . 1577–87 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) i. ii. v. 121 This furniture is to be provided against his installation. . . 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 80 If I chose to order any new Cloaths against my Marriage. 1758 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) II. 435 Having a Sermon to write against the Assizes at Bedford.’ [OED]
‘Neighbourhood . . II. Abstract uses. 6. a. Friendly relations between neighbours; neighbourly feeling or conduct. Now rare. . . 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction 81 Then farewell kinde neighbour-hood, farewell good fellowship. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Living i. §1. 8 Works of nature, recreation, charitie, friendlinesse and neighbourhood. 1708 Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man ii, in Misc. (1711) 149 All the Laws of Charity, Neighbourhood, Allyance and Hospitality . . ‘
‘cunning, adj. Etym: Original type *cunnende, present participle of can v.1 (infinitive Old English cunnan . . ), in its earlier sense ‘to know’; hence originally = ‘knowing’ . .
. . 2. a. Possessing practical knowledge or skill; able, skilful, expert, dexterous, clever. (Formerly the prevailing sense; now only a literary archaism.) . . a1616 Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 276 And I thought he had beene valiant, and so cunning in Fence. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. xix, The tools of Cunninger workmen . .
. . 4. Possessing keen intelligence, wit, or insight; knowing, clever. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia vi. 106 Wiser heads, and cunninger wits . .
. . 5. a. In bad sense: Skilful in compassing one's ends by covert means; clever in circumventing; crafty, artful, guileful, sly. (The prevailing modern sense.) . . a1616 Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 108 Whatsoeuer cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee. . . 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvi. 54 Like cunning thieves, desiring that the prey..should not escape out of their hands. 1752 Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋1 The cunning will have recourse to stratagem, and the powerful to violence . . ‘
‘George, n. Etym: < the male forename George, especially as the name of a saint . . . . 1. b. spec. A representation of St George, typically jewelled or enamelled, and forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter; . . . . a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 30 Looke on my George, I am a Gentleman. 1672 E. Ashmole Hist. Inst. Order Garter 221 At the middle of the Collar before, is to be fastned the Image of St. George armed, sitting on Horseback, who having thrown the Dragon upon his back, encounters him with a tilting Spear . . . . 1964 C. V. Wedgwood Trial of Charles I (1967) viii. 218 He now took off his George,..and gave it to the Bishop with the one word ‘Remember’. 1997 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 22/1 King George IV's Greater George was worn by Charles I, Charles II and James II... . . ‘
‘tell . . 21.a. To count out (pieces of money) in payment; hence, to pay (money) . . . . 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 84 His promise should passe for ready pay, and for money told on the nayle. . . 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 44 He told the Money into my Hand. 1739 Joe Miller's Jests No. 200, The money'd Man fell to telling out the Sum in Shillings.
. . fig. 1637 J. Shirley Gamester iv. ii, Let her tell down Her virgin tears on Delamore's cold marble.’
Remember also that this was in the middle of the Little Ice Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt… when temperatures were lower than today; and in a much smaller London the heat island effect of living ion a conurbation, very obvious today, would have been minimal. So the nights would have been distinctly chillier than now even if the day, as today was, was hot: 24 C.
Digestions were also more robust and well able to handle slightly 'high' meat OK, which today would give most stomachs indigestion and loosen the bowels of some.
‘lead, n. Pronunciation: /lɛd/ . Etym: Old English léad . . 1. a. The heaviest of the base metals, of a dull pale bluish-gray colour, fusible at a low temperature, and very useful from its softness and malleability. Chemical symbol Pb . . . . 7. pl. a. The sheets or strips of lead used to cover a roof; often collect. for a lead flat, a lead roof . . 1578–9 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 538 Mending the leddes over the librarie chambers. . .1625 Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 261 A Goodly Leads upon the Top, railed with Statua's interposed. . . 1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) I. ii. xviii. 231 A cat..whom she used to meet in the evenings, upon the leads of the house . . ‘
‘half-shirt, n. Obs. A kind of shirt front for men . . worn in 17th c. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 13 Oct. (1970) II. 195 This day left off half-shirts and put on a wastecoate. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 June (1971) V. 191 This day put on a half-shirt first this summer, it being very hot . . ‘
Worn to look smart and to cut down on laundry bills; later called a ‘dicky’:
‘dicky Etym: The senses here included may belong to two or more words of distinct origin . . another group is probably closely related to dick n.2* . . . . III. As a name of articles of clothing . . 6. A detached shirt-front. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum, Dickey, a sham shirt. . . 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx. 75 Wretched Beaux..who sport a lace dickey. . . 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums iii. 23 Come awa doon..an' put on a clean dickey
* dial. A leather apron. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words, Dick, a leather apron and bib, worn by poor children in the North . .’
‘drawer, n.1 . . 2. spec. One who draws liquor for customers; a tapster at a tavern . . . . 1597 Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 9 He drawes it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need. . . 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 16. ⁋5 Thundering to the drawer for another bottle . . ‘
‘breed . . 10 b. To train up (young persons) in the arts of life; to educate, tutor, bring up. Also with complemental object, as ‘to breed him a scholar, a papist’, and with to, ‘to breed him to a profession, to the law’, etc. (Bring up is the ordinary modern equivalent in all shades of meaning.) . . (c) Also to breed up. arch. or Obs. 1611 Bible (A.V.) Transl. Pref. 3 Boyes that are bred up in the Scriptures. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) iv. 14 Very few Gentlemen..will bee at the cost to breed up two [sons] in the University. . . 1736 Pendarves in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 229 The poor duchess is often reproached with her being bred up in Burr-street, Wapping . . ‘
‘trotter, n. Etym: < trot v. compare medieval Latin trotārius . . . . 3. Usually pl. The feet of a quadruped, esp. those of sheep and pigs as used for food . . . . c1560 J. Lacy Wyl Bucke his Test. (Copland) sig. B.i, For to make the Trotters of the Bucke. Take the fowre fete and skalde them ..and that ben the Trotters. . . 1872 M. Jewry Every-day Cookery 72/2 Perfectly cleanse and blanch the trotters.’
‘gossip n. . . 1.d. In relation to one who acts as godfather or godmother on the same occasion: A fellow-sponsor. . . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Dec. (1972) VII. 394, I took my pretty gossip to White-hall with us.
. . 2.b. esp. Applied to a woman's female friends invited to be present at a birth. . . a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 55 They are as good evidence to prove where they were born, as if we had the deposition of the Midwife, and all the Gossips present at their Mothers labours.’
and
‘token n. . . 15. Phrases (in which the sense of token becomes vague): a. by the same token or (somewhat arch.) by this (or that) token : (a) on the same ground; for the same reason; in the same way . . . . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1970) I. 70 Up in the morning, and had some red Herrings to our breakfast while my boot-heel was a-mending; by the same token, the boy left the hole as big as it was before. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 13 Apr. (1970) III. 64, I went to the Temple to church, and there heard another [sermon]. By the same token, a boy, being asleep, fell down a high seat to the ground.‘
Moreland was no fool: ‘ . . an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power ..’ [wikipedia] but: ‘ . . his politics [were] . . shifty . . he was a place-hunter and careerist . . his personality does seem to have attracted the particular abhorrence of his fellows.
[However he had a] talent for innovation . . over a wide field, from mechanical water-pumps for domestic and industrial use, to a mechanical glister machine for giving himself enemas while in bed, to the speaking trumpet, and a proto-steam engine . . ’ [DNB]
' . . The seemingly impenetrable shorthand of the six volumes marked ‘journal’ discouraged examination until, it seems, the successful publication of Evelyn's diary (1818) prompted Magdalene to have Pepys's manuscript deciphered. An impecunious undergraduate of neighbouring St John's College, John Smith, was hired, and learned the characters by comparing Pepys's shorthand of Charles II's escape story with the longhand version. He did not know that the manual for the system, Thomas Shelton's Tutor to Tachygraphy (1642), was in the library. A first selection from the revealed text was published in 1825 . . ' (DNB)
It is hardly 'bragging' to write something that remains hidden from the world for 165 years.
I agree with Bill that 'loosing' = 'looseness' here tho' OED does not give this meaning; also that 'Crow' is no more than an English surname.
‘looseness . . 4. Laxity (of the bowels), esp. as a morbid symptom; diarrhœa . . 1586 T. Randolph in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 121 He fell into a greate losenes of his bodye. . . 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xi. 232 If rubarb be justly affirmed to be an excellent medicine in loosenesses . . ‘
34 years later SP would have found a safe and lucrative home for his £1000:
‘ . . [In 1694] the credit of William III's government was so low in London that it was impossible for it to borrow the £1,200,000 (at 8 per cent) that the government wanted.
In order to induce subscription to the loan, the subscribers were to be incorporated by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The Bank was given exclusive possession of the government's balances, and was the only limited-liability corporation allowed to issue bank notes. The lenders would give the government cash (bullion) and issue notes against the government bonds, which can be lent again. The £1.2m was raised in 12 days; half of this was used to rebuild the navy . . ‘
In 1660 Lady S was 35 and her eldest daughter [= Lady/Mrs Jem?] probably not much under 18, as she married Lord S [= E Montague] in 1642 [DNB].
One can imagine SP [just 27] enjoying a dinner tete a tete but definitely no hanky panky with either. It was Betty Lane he 'sat and talked with her, &c.'
The main thing to bear in mind, especially if you are, like me, no longer young, is that they were young and full of joie de vivre, in the full tide of life.
In this case SP, sans electricity, called a torch a torch:
‘torch, n. Etym: Middle English < Old French torche < late popular Latin *torca . . The primary sense is taken to have been ‘a twist’, ‘something twisted’, torches having been made of twisted tow dipped in pitch, or the like . . 1. a. A light to be carried in the hand, consisting of a stick of resinous wood, or of twisted hemp or similar material soaked with tallow, resin, or other inflammable substance . . now also = electric torch n. 2. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 467/187 With-oute liȝht of torche. . . 1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 82 Follow his torch, he goes to Calcas tent. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict., A Torch..a Staff of Deal on which Wax-Candles are . . 1906 Daily Chron. 14 July 5 The ordinary tarred-rope torch . . ‘ [OED]
' . . b. in consideration of: in view of, upon taking into account, in respect of, in return for . . 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 Wherefore, in consideration of the premisses, be it enacted, etc. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxvi. 310 Who in consideration of ten duckets that we gave them, fell to diving into the sea. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ix. 286 In consideration of this benefit they should pay into the exchequer 400,000 l. every year . . ' [OED]
Comments
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About Wednesday 12 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
This is the sense here:
‘against . . IV. In relation to time.
10. In anticipation of, in preparation for, in time for . .
. . 1577–87 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) i. ii. v. 121 This furniture is to be provided against his installation.
. . 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 80 If I chose to order any new Cloaths against my Marriage.
1758 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) II. 435 Having a Sermon to write against the Assizes at Bedford.’ [OED]
About Tuesday 11 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
I agree that ’chargeable' = costly here.
‘Neighbourhood . . II. Abstract uses.
6. a. Friendly relations between neighbours; neighbourly feeling or conduct. Now rare.
. . 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction 81 Then farewell kinde neighbour-hood, farewell good fellowship.
1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule of Holy Living i. §1. 8 Works of nature, recreation, charitie, friendlinesse and neighbourhood.
1708 Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man ii, in Misc. (1711) 149 All the Laws of Charity, Neighbourhood, Allyance and Hospitality . . ‘
About Saturday 8 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘cunning, adj. Etym: Original type *cunnende, present participle of can v.1 (infinitive Old English cunnan . . ), in its earlier sense ‘to know’; hence originally = ‘knowing’ . .
. . 2. a. Possessing practical knowledge or skill; able, skilful, expert, dexterous, clever. (Formerly the prevailing sense; now only a literary archaism.)
. . a1616 Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 276 And I thought he had beene valiant, and so cunning in Fence.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. xix, The tools of Cunninger workmen . .
. . 4. Possessing keen intelligence, wit, or insight; knowing, clever.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia vi. 106 Wiser heads, and cunninger wits . .
. . 5. a. In bad sense: Skilful in compassing one's ends by covert means; clever in circumventing; crafty, artful, guileful, sly. (The prevailing modern sense.)
. . a1616 Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 108 Whatsoeuer cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee.
. . 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvi. 54 Like cunning thieves, desiring that the prey..should not escape out of their hands.
1752 Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋1 The cunning will have recourse to stratagem, and the powerful to violence . . ‘
Clearly sense 4 is meant here.
About Friday 7 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
'Peter Pett and the Sovereign of the Seas' by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1645–50 is now at:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/server/show/…
About Monday 3 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘George, n. Etym: < the male forename George, especially as the name of a saint . .
. . 1. b. spec. A representation of St George, typically jewelled or enamelled, and forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter; . .
. . a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 30 Looke on my George, I am a Gentleman.
1672 E. Ashmole Hist. Inst. Order Garter 221 At the middle of the Collar before, is to be fastned the Image of St. George armed, sitting on Horseback, who having thrown the Dragon upon his back, encounters him with a tilting Spear . .
. . 1964 C. V. Wedgwood Trial of Charles I (1967) viii. 218 He now took off his George,..and gave it to the Bishop with the one word ‘Remember’.
1997 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 22/1 King George IV's Greater George was worn by Charles I, Charles II and James II... . . ‘
About Sunday 2 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘tell . . 21.a. To count out (pieces of money) in payment; hence, to pay (money) . .
. . 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 84 His promise should passe for ready pay, and for money told on the nayle.
. . 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 44 He told the Money into my Hand.
1739 Joe Miller's Jests No. 200, The money'd Man fell to telling out the Sum in Shillings.
. . fig.
1637 J. Shirley Gamester iv. ii, Let her tell down Her virgin tears on Delamore's cold marble.’
About Saturday 1 September 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
Remember also that this was in the middle of the Little Ice Age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt… when temperatures were lower than today; and in a much smaller London the heat island effect of living ion a conurbation, very obvious today, would have been minimal. So the nights would have been distinctly chillier than now even if the day, as today was, was hot: 24 C.
Digestions were also more robust and well able to handle slightly 'high' meat OK, which today would give most stomachs indigestion and loosen the bowels of some.
About Sunday 26 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED explains:
‘lead, n. Pronunciation: /lɛd/ . Etym: Old English léad . .
1. a. The heaviest of the base metals, of a dull pale bluish-gray colour, fusible at a low temperature, and very useful from its softness and malleability. Chemical symbol Pb . .
. . 7. pl. a. The sheets or strips of lead used to cover a roof; often collect. for a lead flat, a lead roof . .
1578–9 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 538 Mending the leddes over the librarie chambers.
. .1625 Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 261 A Goodly Leads upon the Top, railed with Statua's interposed.
. . 1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) I. ii. xviii. 231 A cat..whom she used to meet in the evenings, upon the leads of the house . . ‘
About Saturday 25 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
‘half-shirt, n. Obs. A kind of shirt front for men . . worn in 17th c.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 13 Oct. (1970) II. 195 This day left off half-shirts and put on a wastecoate.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 28 June (1971) V. 191 This day put on a half-shirt first this summer, it being very hot . . ‘
Worn to look smart and to cut down on laundry bills; later called a ‘dicky’:
‘dicky Etym: The senses here included may belong to two or more words of distinct origin . . another group is probably closely related to dick n.2* . .
. . III. As a name of articles of clothing
. . 6. A detached shirt-front.
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum, Dickey, a sham shirt.
. . 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx. 75 Wretched Beaux..who sport a lace dickey.
. . 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums iii. 23 Come awa doon..an' put on a clean dickey
* dial. A leather apron.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words, Dick, a leather apron and bib, worn by poor children in the North . .’
About Wednesday 22 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘drawer, n.1 . .
2. spec. One who draws liquor for customers; a tapster at a tavern . .
. . 1597 Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 9 He drawes it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.
. . 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 16. ⁋5 Thundering to the drawer for another bottle . . ‘
About Tuesday 21 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘breed . . 10 b. To train up (young persons) in the arts of life; to educate, tutor, bring up. Also with complemental object, as ‘to breed him a scholar, a papist’, and with to, ‘to breed him to a profession, to the law’, etc. (Bring up is the ordinary modern equivalent in all shades of meaning.)
. . (c) Also to breed up. arch. or Obs.
1611 Bible (A.V.) Transl. Pref. 3 Boyes that are bred up in the Scriptures.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) iv. 14 Very few Gentlemen..will bee at the cost to breed up two [sons] in the University.
. . 1736 Pendarves in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 229 The poor duchess is often reproached with her being bred up in Burr-street, Wapping . . ‘
About Friday 17 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘trotter, n. Etym: < trot v. compare medieval Latin trotārius . .
. . 3. Usually pl. The feet of a quadruped, esp. those of sheep and pigs as used for food . .
. . c1560 J. Lacy Wyl Bucke his Test. (Copland) sig. B.i, For to make the Trotters of the Bucke. Take the fowre fete and skalde them ..and that ben the Trotters.
. . 1872 M. Jewry Every-day Cookery 72/2 Perfectly cleanse and blanch the trotters.’
About Wednesday 15 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED offers:
‘gossip n. . . 1.d. In relation to one who acts as godfather or godmother on the same occasion: A fellow-sponsor.
. . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Dec. (1972) VII. 394, I took my pretty gossip to White-hall with us.
. . 2.b. esp. Applied to a woman's female friends invited to be present at a birth.
. . a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 55 They are as good evidence to prove where they were born, as if we had the deposition of the Midwife, and all the Gossips present at their Mothers labours.’
and
‘token n. . . 15. Phrases (in which the sense of token becomes vague): a. by the same token or (somewhat arch.) by this (or that) token : (a) on the same ground; for the same reason; in the same way . .
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1970) I. 70 Up in the morning, and had some red Herrings to our breakfast while my boot-heel was a-mending; by the same token, the boy left the hole as big as it was before.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 13 Apr. (1970) III. 64, I went to the Temple to church, and there heard another [sermon]. By the same token, a boy, being asleep, fell down a high seat to the ground.‘
About Tuesday 14 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
Moreland was no fool: ‘ . . an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power ..’ [wikipedia] but: ‘ . . his politics [were] . . shifty . . he was a place-hunter and careerist . . his personality does seem to have attracted the particular abhorrence of his fellows.
[However he had a] talent for innovation . . over a wide field, from mechanical water-pumps for domestic and industrial use, to a mechanical glister machine for giving himself enemas while in bed, to the speaking trumpet, and a proto-steam engine . . ’ [DNB]
About Sunday 12 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
' . . The seemingly impenetrable shorthand of the six volumes marked ‘journal’ discouraged examination until, it seems, the successful publication of Evelyn's diary (1818) prompted Magdalene to have Pepys's manuscript deciphered. An impecunious undergraduate of neighbouring St John's College, John Smith, was hired, and learned the characters by comparing Pepys's shorthand of Charles II's escape story with the longhand version. He did not know that the manual for the system, Thomas Shelton's Tutor to Tachygraphy (1642), was in the library. A first selection from the revealed text was published in 1825 . . ' (DNB)
It is hardly 'bragging' to write something that remains hidden from the world for 165 years.
About Friday 10 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
I agree with Bill that 'loosing' = 'looseness' here tho' OED does not give this meaning; also that 'Crow' is no more than an English surname.
‘looseness . . 4. Laxity (of the bowels), esp. as a morbid symptom; diarrhœa . .
1586 T. Randolph in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 121 He fell into a greate losenes of his bodye.
. . 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xi. 232 If rubarb be justly affirmed to be an excellent medicine in loosenesses . . ‘
About Monday 6 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
34 years later SP would have found a safe and lucrative home for his £1000:
‘ . . [In 1694] the credit of William III's government was so low in London that it was impossible for it to borrow the £1,200,000 (at 8 per cent) that the government wanted.
In order to induce subscription to the loan, the subscribers were to be incorporated by the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The Bank was given exclusive possession of the government's balances, and was the only limited-liability corporation allowed to issue bank notes. The lenders would give the government cash (bullion) and issue notes against the government bonds, which can be lent again. The £1.2m was raised in 12 days; half of this was used to rebuild the navy . . ‘
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank…
About Saturday 4 August 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
In 1660 Lady S was 35 and her eldest daughter [= Lady/Mrs Jem?] probably not much under 18, as she married Lord S [= E Montague] in 1642 [DNB].
One can imagine SP [just 27] enjoying a dinner tete a tete but definitely no hanky panky with either. It was Betty Lane he 'sat and talked with her, &c.'
The main thing to bear in mind, especially if you are, like me, no longer young, is that they were young and full of joie de vivre, in the full tide of life.
About Monday 30 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
In this case SP, sans electricity, called a torch a torch:
‘torch, n. Etym: Middle English < Old French torche < late popular Latin *torca . . The primary sense is taken to have been ‘a twist’, ‘something twisted’, torches having been made of twisted tow dipped in pitch, or the like . .
1. a. A light to be carried in the hand, consisting of a stick of resinous wood, or of twisted hemp or similar material soaked with tallow, resin, or other inflammable substance . . now also = electric torch n. 2.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 467/187 With-oute liȝht of torche.
. . 1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 82 Follow his torch, he goes to Calcas tent.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict., A Torch..a Staff of Deal on which Wax-Candles are
. . 1906 Daily Chron. 14 July 5 The ordinary tarred-rope torch . . ‘ [OED]
What do Americans call them - if they have them?
About Monday 23 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
' . . b. in consideration of: in view of, upon taking into account, in respect of, in return for . .
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 Wherefore, in consideration of the premisses, be it enacted, etc.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxxvi. 310 Who in consideration of ten duckets that we gave them, fell to diving into the sea.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ix. 286 In consideration of this benefit they should pay into the exchequer 400,000 l. every year . . ' [OED]
'in return for' is the important meaning here.