It would by nice to know how typical this had been BEFORE the Great Fire.
I wondered the same Terry, although I’m sure many of these fires will have been accidental, how many may have been purposely set? emboldened pyromaniacs anyone?
So home, and having brought home with me from Fenchurch Street a hundred of sparrowgrass,1 cost 18d. We had them and a little bit of salmon, which my wife had a mind to, cost 3s.
It’s not the first time Sam’s mentioned vegetables but I think that’s the first time he’s let us know how much they cost him.
I’m from the south east of England, and for what it’s worth, like Mr. Gunning and Louise Hudson I have always used on the up and up to mean above board, honest, respectable.
I agree, it would be interesting to know more about restoration mourning customs. Sam didn’t go to Brampton for the funeral but as he was paying off mercers and drapers it’s reasonable to assume that the fifty quid covered mourning attire and accessories…fancy black suit and curtains!?!
…of my being crying by my mother’s bedside, laying my head over hers and crying, she almost dead and dying.. Unhappily prophetic dream of Sam’s on Monday night.
“…and there without any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting him the new ship” Does this mean that su marido was party to the exchange of favors?
"I did get her hand to me under my cloak and did remove her glove, but she didn't want to touch my thing today, whatever the matter was, and I was loath to force her to to it, for fear that she would cause her husband to take notice thereof." This seems to clear up whether or not Betty Michell’s husband was aware of Pepys lascivious shenanigans.
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Third Reading
About Sunday 5 May 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
It would by nice to know how typical this had been BEFORE the Great Fire.
I wondered the same Terry, although I’m sure many of these fires will have been accidental, how many may have been purposely set? emboldened pyromaniacs anyone?
About Saturday 27 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
I thank God, having not been put to buy a coal all this dear time, that during this war poor people have been forced to give 45s. and 50s., and 3l..
356 years later and energy costs are prohibitive thanks to the latest European war, plus ça change.
About Sunday 21 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
Fundraising time again... indeed SDS…stable, horse, carriage, coachman, stable boy, livery, let alone the pair of organs to St Olave’s!!
About Saturday 20 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
So home, and having brought home with me from Fenchurch Street a hundred of sparrowgrass,1 cost 18d. We had them and a little bit of salmon, which my wife had a mind to, cost 3s.
It’s not the first time Sam’s mentioned vegetables but I think that’s the first time he’s let us know how much they cost him.
About Wednesday 17 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
I’m from the south east of England, and for what it’s worth, like Mr. Gunning and Louise Hudson I have always used on the up and up to mean above board, honest, respectable.
About Sunday 14 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
Girls running over the bowling green at Jamaica House on cherry garden street. A bucolic scene alien to modern day Bermondsey…and its Millwall fans.
About Saturday 6 April 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
I agree, it would be interesting to know more about restoration mourning customs. Sam didn’t go to Brampton for the funeral but as he was paying off mercers and drapers it’s reasonable to assume that the fifty quid covered mourning attire and accessories…fancy black suit and curtains!?!
About Wednesday 27 March 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
…of my being crying by my mother’s bedside, laying my head over hers and crying, she almost dead and dying..
Unhappily prophetic dream of Sam’s on Monday night.
About Tuesday 26 March 1667
Trevor M Randall • Link
Sir Leoline Jenkins - Ah another Llewellyn spelling.
About Sunday 24 March 1666/67
Trevor M Randall • Link
Thank you for the Spitalfields Life tip Hillary, and for the link Terry the blog features some wonderful pictures from inside St. Olave’s.
About Saturday 2 March 1666/67
Trevor M Randall • Link
A decade late but thank you for the Dryden insight Gillian Bagwell
About Friday 1 February 1666/67
Trevor M Randall • Link
“…and there without any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting him the new ship”
Does this mean that su marido was party to the exchange of favors?
About Sunday 27 January 1666/67
Trevor M Randall • Link
"I did get her hand to me under my cloak and did remove her glove, but she didn't want to touch my thing today, whatever the matter was, and I was loath to force her to to it, for fear that she would cause her husband to take notice thereof."
This seems to clear up whether or not Betty Michell’s husband was aware of Pepys lascivious shenanigans.
Second Reading
About Sunday 3 December 1665
Trevor M Randall • Link
Yes and thanks GrahamRA from the 2022s