‘baste, v.3 Etym: Of uncertain origin, not known before 16th cent . . Possibly . . a figurative use of baste v.2: compare anoint in sense of thrash. trans. To beat soundly, thrash, cudgel. . . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 1 Dec. (1970) I. 307, I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely.’
‘baste, v.2 Etym: Origin unknown . . 1. a. To moisten (a roasting joint, etc.) by the application of melted fat, gravy, or other liquid, so as to keep it from burning, and improve its flavour. . . 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 106 Tie your Lobsters to the Spit alive, baste them with Water and Salt.
b. transf. or fig. . . 1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 183 That basts his arrogance with his owne seame* . . ‘ * = 1. Fat, grease. Obs.
‘lambaste, v. Etymology: ? < lam v. + baste v.3 a. trans. To beat, thrash. colloq. . . 1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. viii. 52 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy., Otherwise they would be fin'd, and lambasted with a good Cudgel . .
b. fig. To scold, castigate. 1886 Harper's Mag. July 321/2 With an avalanche of facts, sarcasm and ridicule..a more complete lambasting and more vigorous and thorough roasting than Wise gave Bontelle was never known . . 1867 W. H. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lambusting, a starting with a rope's end.’
‘crew, n.1 Etym: < Old French creue increase . . . . 4. A number of persons classed together (by the speaker) from actual connection or common characteristics; often with derogatory qualification or connotation; lot, set, gang, mob, herd. . . a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. ii. 72 Winke at the Duke of Suffolkes insolence, At Beaufords Pride, at Somersets Ambition, At Buckingham, and all the Crew of them. . . a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 54 Lady Kitty..You want some tale to run tattling with, to the rest of the crew. Hetty. Crew? I don't understand what your ladyship means by the crew; tho' we are servants, we may be as good Christians as other people, I hope . . ‘ [OED]
‘nonconformist, n. and adj. A. n. 1. a. . . after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the consequent ejection from their livings of those ministers who refused to conform: a member of a Church which is separated from the Church of England; (in modern use, usually) a Protestant Dissenter . . 1665 Act 17 Chas. II c. 2 (title) , An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations . . ‘ [OED]
‘Presbyterian, n. and adj. . . B. adj. 1. Relating to or characterized by government by presbyters or presbyteries; designating a particular form or system of church polity (see note); belonging to or maintaining this system. In Presbyterian Churches no higher order than that of presbyter or elder is recognized, the ‘bishop’ and ‘elder’ of the New Testament being held to be identical . . 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. Pref. sig. ¶¶¶1, By dispersing in printed bookes..their Sabbath speculations, & Presbyterian (that is more then either Kingly; or Popely) directions for the obseruation of the Lords day . . ‘ [OED]
‘buck, n.9 U.S. In the game of poker, any article placed in the pool with the chips. . . P1. fig. to pass the buck (to) , to make a scapegoat or dupe of (a person); to shift responsibility (to another). colloq. (orig. U.S.). 1912 W. Irwin Red Button 341 The Big Commissioner will get roasted by the papers and hand it to the Deputy Comish, and the Deputy will pass the buck down to me, and I'll have to report how it happened . . ‘ [OED]
‘coarse slang. 1. intr. To defecate. 1846 Swell's Night Guide 57 ‘Where's the plant, cully?’..‘Fenced, in a dunniken.’..‘What? Fenced in a crapping ken?’ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 132 Crap, to ease oneself by evacuation. Crapping case, or ken, the water-closet. Generally called crapping-castle . . ‘
It’s obvious - to me at any rate - that this 19th century slang has nothing to do with whatever Pepys was doing 200 years before.
OED has: ‘ . . II . . 8. Extended to the light repast or refection taken by the members of a monastery at close of day, after the reading or conference mentioned in sense 7.
. . 9. Hence, in gen. use, A light meal or repast: one consisting of light viands or delicacies (e.g. fruit, sweets, and wine), or that has needed little preparation (often ‘a cold collation’). ‘A repast; a treat less than a feast’ (Johnson). Originally applied to a repast between ordinary meals, and still retaining much of that character.
. . 1534 N. Udall tr. Terence Floures for Latine Spekynge 75 (R.) Such bankettes are called collacions, a collatum, tu, that is of laiyng together every one his porcion. . . 1664 S. Pepys Diary 6 July (1971) IV. 197 Came to the Hope about one, and there..had a collacion of anchoves, Gammon, &c. . . 1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant II. 205 A plentiful and delicate collation was spread..with abundance of fruit and wine.'
‘spent, adj. 1. a. Of material things: Expended, consumed, used up completely. a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 8 These Eyes, like Lampes, whose wasting Oyle is spent, Waxe dimme. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 329 The..cause of our Arriuall here, was in regard of our fresh Water that was spent. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 34 When the Liquor wherin they swim is almost spent and dried up.’
[OED]
Deer breed in the autumn rutting season, after which they are indeed culled. These bucks were surplus young males, unable to defeat the top stags for a share of their harems.
‘jackanapes, n. Etym: Precise origin uncertain. So far as yet found, the word appears first as an opprobrious nickname of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk (murdered 1450), whose badge was a clog and chain, such as was attached to a tame ape. Hence, in a poem of 1449 . . Suffolk is styled ‘the Ape-clogge’, and in somewhat later satirical invectives is referred to as an ape, and entitled Jack Napes ; this being inferentially already a quasi- proper name for a tame ape, as it is seen to be in 1522 . .
. . 6. attrib. a1616 Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 103 You, Iack 'Nape: giue-'a this Letter to Sir Hugh, by gar it is a shallenge..I will teach a scuruy Iack-a-nape Priest to meddle, or make. . . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 5 July (1970) I. 193 This morning my brother Tom brought me my Jackanapes coat with silver buttons.’ [OED]
OED has: ‘highfalutin | highfaluting, n. and adj. Etym: < high adj.: the origin of the second element is unknown; it was perhaps a whimsical pronunciation of fluting, or a grandiose equivalent of flying or flown. orig. U.S. slang. A. n. Absurdly pompous speech or writing; bombast. B. adj. Absurdly pompous or bombastic in style.’
‘wench, n. Etym: Middle English wenche , shortened form of early Middle English wenchel . . 1. a. A girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Now dial. . . a1616 Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 32 Prythee how many Boyes and Wenches must I have. 1648 O. Cromwell Let. to Norton 3 Apr., The money I shall need for my two little Wenches; and thereby I shall free my Son from being charged with them. . . 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 A clean-shankit, straught, tight, weel-far'd winch.
. . b. A girl of the rustic or working class. . . 1620 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote x. 59 Seeing none but the three wenches, he was somewhat troubled.
. . c. As a familiar or endearing form of address; used chiefly in addressing a daughter, wife, or sweetheart. Now only dial. or arch. . . 1623 Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 168 [Katharine to Patience, her woman.] When I am dead, good Wench, Let me be vs'd with Honor.
. . 2. A wanton woman; a mistress. Obs. exc. arch. More explicitly common, light, or wanton wench , wench of the stews. . . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1972) VII. 238 Find my wife mightily out of order and reproaching of Mrs. Pierce and Knipp as wenches, and I know not what . .
. . 3. a. A female servant, maidservant, serving-maid; also †handmaid, †bondwoman. . . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 10 Mar. (1970) I. 85 My wife was up making of caps for me, and the wench making an end of a pair of stockings.'
. . Ultimately, the epitaph by his friend John Evelyn still provides one of the best summaries of the character of Edward Montagu, first earl of Sandwich:
My Lord Sandwich was prudent as well as valiant, and always governed his affairs with success, and little loss, he was for deliberation and reason … deplorable was the loss of one of the best accomplished persons, not only of this nation but of any other: he was learned in the Mathematics, in Music, in Sea affairs, in political … was of a sweet obliging temper; sober, chaste, infinitely ingenious and a true noble man, an ornament to the court, and his prince. (Evelyn, 3.616–19)
I agree with Tonyel: it seems extraordinary that he didn't deliver the money (which one might think of as £100k in today's money) straight away before he went for his dinner.
‘fair adj. . . III. Free from blemish or disfigurement. . . 8.b. Of water: Clean, pure. Now rare . . c1340 Cursor M. (Fairf.) 20212 Ho..wasshed hir bodi in faire water. . . 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxvi. 43 A Dish of Rice boiled in fair Water . . ‘ [OED]
‘gallantry, n. 1. Gallants collectively; gentry, fashionable people. Obs. 1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 133 Hector..and all the gallantry of Troy. . . 1660 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 357, I went to Hyde Park, where was His Majesty, and abundance of gallantry . . ‘ [OED]
The Civil Wars began because of the debacle of the two Bishop's wars in which Charles I attempted to impose bishops on the presbyterian Scots, who didn't want them. His defeat led to the recall of the English Parliament and his fatal quarrel with it in 1641:
' . . The Scots under Leslie and Montrose crossed the River Tweed, and Charles’ army retreated before them. In a short time, the invaders overran the whole of Northumberland and County Durham (see Battle of Newburn.) Charles had to leave the two counties in Scots hands as a pledge for the payment of Scots expenses when he agreed to peace and signed the Treaty of Ripon in October 1640. The impoverished King had to summon another parliament to grant him the supplies which he needed to make that payment . . [it] attacked his Government, impeaching (and eventually executing) his chief supporters, Strafford and Laud.'
‘ . . In June 1661, as second to Montagu, now earl of Sandwich, he was sent to the straits to subdue the Barbary corsairs and secure England's new acquisition, Tangier. During the next four summers he was commander of a powerful Mediterranean squadron . . in . . the first encounter [of the Second Anglo-Dutch War] off Lowestoft, on 3 June 1665 . . After he and the duke had pounded their way through the Dutch centre and destroyed their admiral's flagship, in the ensuing chase Lawson was struck in the knee by a musket ball. The wound was not considered dangerous but gangrene set in and he died at Greenwich on 29 June . . ‘ [DNB]
'But now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had waited for my coming till they grew impatient; and scarce had Alan spoken, when the captain showed face in the open door. "Stand!" cried Alan, and pointed his sword at him. The captain stood, indeed; but he neither winced nor drew back a foot. "A naked sword?" says he. "This is a strange return for hospitality." "Do ye see me?" said Alan. "I am come of kings; I bear a king's name. My badge is the oak. Do ye see my sword? It has slashed the heads off mair Whigamores than you have toes upon your feet. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals . . '
'crambo, n. Etym: apparently a popular variation of crambe n.* 1. a. A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rhyme. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1970) I. 149 From hence to The Hague again, playing at Crambo in the waggon . . '
' . . 3. = crambo 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. viii. 110 in Wks. II, F. Ioule, owle, foule, troule, boule. P. Crambe, another of the Diuell's games! 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 114 Where every Iouial Tinker, for his chinke, May cry, mine host, to crambe, giue vs drinke; And doe not slinke, but skinke, or else you stinke. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) , Crambe or Crambo, a Term us'd among School-boys, when in Rhiming, he is to forfeit, who repeats a word that was said before.' [OED]
‘masty, adj. Etym: < mast n.2 . . Compare mastiff Now Eng. regional. 1.†a. Of a pig: fattened. Obs. c1450 (▸c1380) Chaucer House of Fame 1777 Ye masty swyn, ye ydel wrechches . .
b. Chiefly of a person: burly, big-bodied. a1593 Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. sig. H4v, A masty slaue he is. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 14 May (1970) I. 138 Some masty Duchmen came on board. . . 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincolnshire 88 Masty, very large and big: as ‘They're a masty family’. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 186/2 Masty, of a person; big and strong.’ [OED]
Comments
Second Reading
About Sunday 22 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘baste, v.3 Etym: Of uncertain origin, not known before 16th cent . . Possibly . . a figurative use of baste v.2: compare anoint in sense of thrash.
trans. To beat soundly, thrash, cudgel.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 1 Dec. (1970) I. 307, I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely.’
‘baste, v.2 Etym: Origin unknown . .
1. a. To moisten (a roasting joint, etc.) by the application of melted fat, gravy, or other liquid, so as to keep it from burning, and improve its flavour.
. . 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 106 Tie your Lobsters to the Spit alive, baste them with Water and Salt.
b. transf. or fig.
. . 1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 183 That basts his arrogance with his owne seame* . . ‘
* = 1. Fat, grease. Obs.
‘lambaste, v. Etymology: ? < lam v. + baste v.3
a. trans. To beat, thrash. colloq.
. . 1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. viii. 52 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy., Otherwise they would be fin'd, and lambasted with a good Cudgel . .
b. fig. To scold, castigate.
1886 Harper's Mag. July 321/2 With an avalanche of facts, sarcasm and ridicule..a more complete lambasting and more vigorous and thorough roasting than Wise gave Bontelle was never known . .
1867 W. H. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lambusting, a starting with a rope's end.’
[OED]
About Friday 20 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘crew, n.1 Etym: < Old French creue increase . .
. . 4. A number of persons classed together (by the speaker) from actual connection or common characteristics; often with derogatory qualification or connotation; lot, set, gang, mob, herd.
. . a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. ii. 72 Winke at the Duke of Suffolkes insolence, At Beaufords Pride, at Somersets Ambition, At Buckingham, and all the Crew of them.
. . a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 54 Lady Kitty..You want some tale to run tattling with, to the rest of the crew. Hetty. Crew? I don't understand what your ladyship means by the crew; tho' we are servants, we may be as good Christians as other people, I hope . . ‘ [OED]
About Thursday 19 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘nonconformist, n. and adj.
A. n. 1. a. . . after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and the consequent ejection from their livings of those ministers who refused to conform: a member of a Church which is separated from the Church of England; (in modern use, usually) a Protestant Dissenter . .
1665 Act 17 Chas. II c. 2 (title) , An Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations . . ‘ [OED]
About Thursday 19 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘Presbyterian, n. and adj.
. . B. adj. 1. Relating to or characterized by government by presbyters or presbyteries; designating a particular form or system of church polity (see note); belonging to or maintaining this system. In Presbyterian Churches no higher order than that of presbyter or elder is recognized, the ‘bishop’ and ‘elder’ of the New Testament being held to be identical . .
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. Pref. sig. ¶¶¶1, By dispersing in printed bookes..their Sabbath speculations, & Presbyterian (that is more then either Kingly; or Popely) directions for the obseruation of the Lords day . . ‘ [OED]
About Wednesday 18 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘buck, n.9 U.S. In the game of poker, any article placed in the pool with the chips.
. . P1. fig. to pass the buck (to) , to make a scapegoat or dupe of (a person); to shift responsibility (to another). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1912 W. Irwin Red Button 341 The Big Commissioner will get roasted by the papers and hand it to the Deputy Comish, and the Deputy will pass the buck down to me, and I'll have to report how it happened . . ‘ [OED]
Nowt to do with deer.
About Wednesday 11 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
The OED has:
‘coarse slang.
1. intr. To defecate.
1846 Swell's Night Guide 57 ‘Where's the plant, cully?’..‘Fenced, in a dunniken.’..‘What? Fenced in a crapping ken?’
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 132 Crap, to ease oneself by evacuation. Crapping case, or ken, the water-closet. Generally called crapping-castle . . ‘
It’s obvious - to me at any rate - that this 19th century slang has nothing to do with whatever Pepys was doing 200 years before.
About Monday 9 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘ . . II . . 8. Extended to the light repast or refection taken by the members of a monastery at close of day, after the reading or conference mentioned in sense 7.
. . 9. Hence, in gen. use, A light meal or repast: one consisting of light viands or delicacies (e.g. fruit, sweets, and wine), or that has needed little preparation (often ‘a cold collation’). ‘A repast; a treat less than a feast’ (Johnson).
Originally applied to a repast between ordinary meals, and still retaining much of that character.
. . 1534 N. Udall tr. Terence Floures for Latine Spekynge 75 (R.) Such bankettes are called collacions, a collatum, tu, that is of laiyng together every one his porcion.
. . 1664 S. Pepys Diary 6 July (1971) IV. 197 Came to the Hope about one, and there..had a collacion of anchoves, Gammon, &c.
. . 1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant II. 205 A plentiful and delicate collation was spread..with abundance of fruit and wine.'
About Thursday 5 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘spent, adj. 1. a. Of material things: Expended, consumed, used up completely.
a1616 Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 8 These Eyes, like Lampes, whose wasting Oyle is spent, Waxe dimme.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 329 The..cause of our Arriuall here, was in regard of our fresh Water that was spent.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 34 When the Liquor wherin they swim is almost spent and dried up.’
[OED]
Deer breed in the autumn rutting season, after which they are indeed culled. These bucks were surplus young males, unable to defeat the top stags for a share of their harems.
About Thursday 5 July 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘jackanapes, n. Etym: Precise origin uncertain. So far as yet found, the word appears first as an opprobrious nickname of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk (murdered 1450), whose badge was a clog and chain, such as was attached to a tame ape. Hence, in a poem of 1449 . . Suffolk is styled ‘the Ape-clogge’, and in somewhat later satirical invectives is referred to as an ape, and entitled Jack Napes ; this being inferentially already a quasi- proper name for a tame ape, as it is seen to be in 1522 . .
. . 6. attrib.
a1616 Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 103 You, Iack 'Nape: giue-'a this Letter to Sir Hugh, by gar it is a shallenge..I will teach a scuruy Iack-a-nape Priest to meddle, or make.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 5 July (1970) I. 193 This morning my brother Tom brought me my Jackanapes coat with silver buttons.’ [OED]
About Friday 29 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
OED has:
‘highfalutin | highfaluting, n. and adj.
Etym: < high adj.: the origin of the second element is unknown; it was perhaps a whimsical pronunciation of fluting, or a grandiose equivalent of flying or flown. orig. U.S. slang.
A. n. Absurdly pompous speech or writing; bombast.
B. adj. Absurdly pompous or bombastic in style.’
‘wench, n. Etym: Middle English wenche , shortened form of early Middle English wenchel . .
1. a. A girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Now dial.
. . a1616 Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 32 Prythee how many Boyes and Wenches must I have.
1648 O. Cromwell Let. to Norton 3 Apr., The money I shall need for my two little Wenches; and thereby I shall free my Son from being charged with them.
. . 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 A clean-shankit, straught, tight, weel-far'd winch.
. . b. A girl of the rustic or working class.
. . 1620 T. Shelton tr. Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote x. 59 Seeing none but the three wenches, he was somewhat troubled.
. . c. As a familiar or endearing form of address; used chiefly in addressing a daughter, wife, or sweetheart. Now only dial. or arch.
. . 1623 Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 168 [Katharine to Patience, her woman.] When I am dead, good Wench, Let me be vs'd with Honor.
. . 2. A wanton woman; a mistress. Obs. exc. arch.
More explicitly common, light, or wanton wench , wench of the stews.
. . 1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1972) VII. 238 Find my wife mightily out of order and reproaching of Mrs. Pierce and Knipp as wenches, and I know not what . .
. . 3. a. A female servant, maidservant, serving-maid; also †handmaid, †bondwoman.
. . 1660 S. Pepys Diary 10 Mar. (1970) I. 85 My wife was up making of caps for me, and the wench making an end of a pair of stockings.'
About Tuesday 19 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
DNB opines:
. . Ultimately, the epitaph by his friend John Evelyn still provides one of the best summaries of the character of Edward Montagu, first earl of Sandwich:
My Lord Sandwich was prudent as well as valiant, and always governed his affairs with success, and little loss, he was for deliberation and reason … deplorable was the loss of one of the best accomplished persons, not only of this nation but of any other: he was learned in the Mathematics, in Music, in Sea affairs, in political … was of a sweet obliging temper; sober, chaste, infinitely ingenious and a true noble man, an ornament to the court, and his prince. (Evelyn, 3.616–19)
About Thursday 14 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
I agree with Tonyel: it seems extraordinary that he didn't deliver the money (which one might think of as £100k in today's money) straight away before he went for his dinner.
About Wednesday 13 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘fair adj. . . III. Free from blemish or disfigurement.
. . 8.b. Of water: Clean, pure. Now rare . .
c1340 Cursor M. (Fairf.) 20212 Ho..wasshed hir bodi in faire water.
. . 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxvi. 43 A Dish of Rice boiled in fair Water . . ‘ [OED]
About Saturday 9 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘gallantry, n.
1. Gallants collectively; gentry, fashionable people. Obs.
1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 133 Hector..and all the gallantry of Troy.
. . 1660 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 357, I went to Hyde Park, where was His Majesty, and abundance of gallantry . . ‘ [OED]
About Thursday 7 June 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
The Civil Wars began because of the debacle of the two Bishop's wars in which Charles I attempted to impose bishops on the presbyterian Scots, who didn't want them. His defeat led to the recall of the English Parliament and his fatal quarrel with it in 1641:
' . . The Scots under Leslie and Montrose crossed the River Tweed, and Charles’ army retreated before them. In a short time, the invaders overran the whole of Northumberland and County Durham (see Battle of Newburn.) Charles had to leave the two counties in Scots hands as a pledge for the payment of Scots expenses when he agreed to peace and signed the Treaty of Ripon in October 1640. The impoverished King had to summon another parliament to grant him the supplies which he needed to make that payment . . [it] attacked his Government, impeaching (and eventually executing) his chief supporters, Strafford and Laud.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish…
About Monday 28 May 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
RW: I think the answer is 'no': the uncensored versions are copyright and in print but not on the web.
About Saturday 26 May 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘ . . In June 1661, as second to Montagu, now earl of Sandwich, he was sent to the straits to subdue the Barbary corsairs and secure England's new acquisition, Tangier. During the next four summers he was commander of a powerful Mediterranean squadron . . in . . the first encounter [of the Second Anglo-Dutch War] off Lowestoft, on 3 June 1665 . . After he and the duke had pounded their way through the Dutch centre and destroyed their admiral's flagship, in the ensuing chase Lawson was struck in the knee by a musket ball. The wound was not considered dangerous but gangrene set in and he died at Greenwich on 29 June . . ‘ [DNB]
About Tuesday 22 May 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
The famous literary round-house:
10. The Siege of The Round-House
http://classiclit.about.com/libra…
'But now our time of truce was come to an end. Those on deck had waited for my coming till they grew impatient; and scarce had Alan spoken, when the captain showed face in the open door.
"Stand!" cried Alan, and pointed his sword at him. The captain stood, indeed; but he neither winced nor drew back a foot.
"A naked sword?" says he. "This is a strange return for hospitality."
"Do ye see me?" said Alan. "I am come of kings; I bear a king's name. My badge is the oak. Do ye see my sword? It has slashed the heads off mair Whigamores than you have toes upon your feet. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals . . '
Great stuff.
About Saturday 19 May 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
'crambo, n. Etym: apparently a popular variation of crambe n.*
1. a. A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rhyme.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 19 May (1970) I. 149 From hence to The Hague again, playing at Crambo in the waggon . . '
' . . 3. = crambo
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. viii. 110 in Wks. II, F. Ioule, owle, foule, troule, boule. P. Crambe, another of the Diuell's games!
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 114 Where every Iouial Tinker, for his chinke, May cry, mine host, to crambe, giue vs drinke; And doe not slinke, but skinke, or else you stinke.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) , Crambe or Crambo, a Term us'd among School-boys, when in Rhiming, he is to forfeit, who repeats a word that was said before.'
[OED]
About Monday 14 May 1660
Chris Squire UK • Link
‘masty, adj. Etym: < mast n.2 . . Compare mastiff Now Eng. regional.
1.†a. Of a pig: fattened. Obs.
c1450 (▸c1380) Chaucer House of Fame 1777 Ye masty swyn, ye ydel wrechches . .
b. Chiefly of a person: burly, big-bodied.
a1593 Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. sig. H4v, A masty slaue he is.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 14 May (1970) I. 138 Some masty Duchmen came on board.
. . 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincolnshire 88 Masty, very large and big: as ‘They're a masty family’.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 186/2 Masty, of a person; big and strong.’ [OED]