What was true of Palmer in 1680 was not in 1662, evidently -- or so L&M, -- and we know there are changes in time and the randy conduct of the Court grew increasingy public as C II's reign went on.
"Under the influence of [Sir Henry] Bennett [Baron Arlington], who became Secretary of State in October, 1662, and of the Earl of Bristol, who assumed the leadership of the English Catholics, Charles issued on December 26, 1662, a declaration announcing his intention of exempting from the penal ties of the Act of Uniformity peaceable persons [including Catholics] whose conscientious scruples prevented them from conforming. Parliament was invited to pass an Act which would enable him to exercise 'with a more universal satisfaction' his inherent dispensing power." http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/…
In the Western-rite churches they end on January 6, Epiphany, or Three King's Day, the festival of Christ's birth in Eastern-rite churches (~Orthodox Christmas).
in Aqua Scripto, do you read from the 1680 map you so very helpfully added to the Whitehall info page?! On Jan. 1 L&M noted that Lady Castlemaine’s house was next door to Sandwich’s on King Street; the Roque map of 1746, which is a different London puts many things in (still) other places. (in time...)
"Sir J. Lawson...come...from the Streights...with great renown among all men, and, I perceive, mightily esteemed at Court by all" and to the great envy of Sandwich, who had had his own time in the Mediterranean (the rivalry was bared by Sandwich to Pepys on 27 June): http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Evidence commanding assent, I concur with the directional sense of "to the Change-ward" that I first considered, then rejected as not parallel to "homeward".
For future reference, the L&M READER'S GUIDE to each Volume of *The Diary of Samuel Pepys* says "Punctuation is almost all editorial, except for certain full-stops, colons, dashes amd parentheses...." "Single hyphens are editorial, and respreent Pepys's habit of disjoining compound words (e.g.Wh.hall/White-hall)...."
Finally, the 'ward' and 'yard' I cited (and doubly sourced) were nowise invented or imaginary.
Poultry is the eastward extension of the broad NWW-ESE Cheapside, at 2:00 (just north of East) on the east edge of this segment of the 1746 Roque map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
The Pall Mall extends across two segments of the 1746 map. It stretches SWW to NEE from St. James Street, SW of the massive St. James Square,in the SW corner of this segment: http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
“What follows is the true tale of this mythic beverage, loved by millions of Englishmen, which explains why, for over a decade, I have dreamed about introducing it to Americans…dreams have power.”
"According to the L&M notes, this was the most extensive work undertaken to Pepys’ house during the time that he lived there. The roof extension resulted in the provision of four extra rooms, including a new, wainscotted dining-room (so handy, when the kitchen is on the ground floor!) The main timber structures were made in the Deptford dockyard and the total cost (for both Pepys and Batten lodgings) rose above £320." and the comment that the invoices on file were not itemized - so, Australian Susan, we don't know what sum is bothering Sam'l.
Blackfriars (aka Black Fryers) Stairs down to the Thames are at the end of Water Street on the South-central edge of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
"What's up?" inquires Pepys. "O hallo, Mr. Pepys," says Batten, -- then sotto voce, turning away from the sailors to his junior colleague: "I'm 'doing right to the King' by paying these tickets at a discount" *** Sam'l blanches: Batten is under no constraint to short these poor men for the sake of the coffers of the King; besides, it's the Ninth Day of Christmas, and a poor winter awaits them -- the sailors, not Pepys or Batten, that's for sure!
The Treasury Office (Navy) in the 1660's is the "Pay Office" on this segment of the 1746 map. To find it go to the SW corner, NWN up [Broad] Street that runs in front of Gresham College past Ester Sreet on the left and the next building on the left is the "Pay Office". http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
"In fine, I find that there is nothing almost but bawdry at Court from top to bottom, as, if it were fit, I could instance, but it is not necessary"
I found myself puzzled by a Diarist's discussing with himself whether it were suitable for him to provide examples of debauchery in his Diary (deciding it isn't, he then notes a common conjecture about one!) Jesse, methinks you may be right.
"we saw 'The Villaine' again; and the more I see it, the more I am offended at my first undervaluing the play"
Sam applies the experimental method to his judgment, and revises it accordingly - a worthy virtue.
***
"The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and to set to my business for all the year again tomorrow."
Today more than ever he is feeling his status as a gentleman! He is not one of hoi polloi; so his willingness to follow his oath and abstain from the theatre has more than one payoff.
This is a bit more morally ambiguous, surely for some of us in the 21c who have approved of the common touch he has shown in the past and commended in himself -- but perhaps his distancing himself from mere "citizens" is situational, applying at the theatre, and other places to see and be seen.
"My Lord's" house in town in 1662 et sqq. was in Westminster in King Street in the SW of the 1746 map, W and parallel to Parliament Street, S of White Hall http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
The City is divided into twenty six different sections called Wards. Each has its own Warden, or Alderman, to take care of running of each Ward. The Wards were named as follows....Twenty five of the City Aldermen are elected for a term, which used to be their lifetime, but is now up until the retiring age of a Magistrate. The twenty sixth Alderman (Bridge Gate Ward) must be a former Lord Mayor, and must also have been a Sherrif of the City. This has come to be, due to the change of City juristiction of the ward. Southwark, which formed Bridge Gate Ward, was in ancient times, a part of the City. This is no longer the case, but the old tradition carries on. The Aldermen also have the final vote on who is to be Lord Mayor of London for the next year. The Liverymen of the City elect two final candidates from the list of nominees, and the Aldermen choose from these. http://barryoneoff.co.uk/html/the…
Comments
First Reading
About Tuesday 6 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Why so shy?" of being "willing to be seen at this end of the town"?
Was there a concentration of Catholic power-brokers around St James's Palace? if so, what's an anti-Catholic boy doing there?
(just a conjecture; though our boy may secretly be James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree...)
About Monday 5 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
What was true of Palmer in 1680 was not in 1662, evidently -- or so L&M, -- and we know there are changes in time and the randy conduct of the Court grew increasingy public as C II's reign went on.
in Aqua Scripto, the 1680 diagram is WONDERFUL! http://www.londonancestor.com/map…
About Tuesday 6 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
The King’s declaration re liberty of conscience
"Under the influence of [Sir Henry] Bennett [Baron Arlington], who became Secretary of State in October, 1662, and of the Earl of Bristol, who assumed the leadership of the English Catholics, Charles issued on December 26, 1662, a declaration announcing his intention of exempting from the penal ties of the Act of Uniformity peaceable persons [including Catholics] whose conscientious scruples prevented them from conforming. Parliament was invited to pass an Act which would enable him to exercise 'with a more universal satisfaction' his inherent dispensing power." http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/…
About Monday 5 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"When do the twelve days of Christmas end?"
In the Western-rite churches they end on January 6, Epiphany, or Three King's Day, the festival of Christ's birth in Eastern-rite churches (~Orthodox Christmas).
About Monday 5 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
in Aqua Scripto, do you read from the 1680 map you so very helpfully added to the Whitehall info page?!
On Jan. 1 L&M noted that Lady Castlemaine’s house was next door to Sandwich’s on King Street; the Roque map of 1746, which is a different London puts many things in (still) other places.
(in time...)
About Monday 5 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Sir J. Lawson...come...from the Streights...with great renown among all men, and, I perceive, mightily esteemed at Court by all" and to the great envy of Sandwich, who had had his own time in the Mediterranean (the rivalry was bared by Sandwich to Pepys on 27 June):
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 30 December 1662
Terry F • Link
Evidence commanding assent, I concur with the directional sense of "to the Change-ward" that I first considered, then rejected as not parallel to "homeward".
For future reference, the L&M READER'S GUIDE to each Volume of *The Diary of Samuel Pepys* says "Punctuation is almost all editorial, except for certain full-stops, colons, dashes amd parentheses...."
"Single hyphens are editorial, and respreent Pepys's habit of disjoining compound words (e.g.Wh.hall/White-hall)...."
Finally, the 'ward' and 'yard' I cited (and doubly sourced) were nowise invented or imaginary.
About Sunday 4 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
And why fear being seen by Mr Coventry, whose esteem in the last fortnight and in 1662's summary has been so valued?
About Poultry
Terry F • Link
Poultry is the eastward extension of the broad NWW-ESE Cheapside, at 2:00 (just north of East) on the east edge of this segment of the 1746 Roque map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Pall Mall
Terry F • Link
The Pall Mall extends across two segments of the 1746 map. It stretches SWW to NEE from St. James Street, SW of the massive St. James Square,in the SW corner of this segment: http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
and, moving east, [Pall] Mall continues on to the intersection of The Hay Market and Cockspur. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Cider
Terry F • Link
Pedro on Sun 1 Jan 2006, 9:00 pm
"syder…for tonight we merry be."
“What follows is the true tale of this mythic beverage, loved by millions of Englishmen, which explains why, for over a decade, I have dreamed about introducing it to Americans…dreams have power.”
http://www.dryblackthorncider.com…
About Saturday 3 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"the getting of the bills well over for my building of my house here, which however are as small and less than any of the others."
An L&M note refers to 5 April 5 1662; so Mary on Wed 6 Apr 2005, 8:01 am http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
“to enlarge our houses”
"According to the L&M notes, this was the most extensive work undertaken to Pepys’ house during the time that he lived there. The roof extension resulted in the provision of four extra rooms, including a new, wainscotted dining-room (so handy, when the kitchen is on the ground floor!) The main timber structures were made in the Deptford dockyard and the total cost (for both Pepys and Batten lodgings) rose above £320." and the comment that the invoices on file were not itemized
- so, Australian Susan, we don't know what sum is bothering Sam'l.
About Blackfriars Stairs
Terry F • Link
Blackfriars (aka Black Fryers) Stairs down to the Thames are at the end of Water Street on the South-central edge of this segment of the 1746 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Friday 2 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"What's up?" inquires Pepys.
"O hallo, Mr. Pepys," says Batten, -- then sotto voce, turning away from the sailors to his junior colleague: "I'm 'doing right to the King' by paying these tickets at a discount"
***
Sam'l blanches: Batten is under no constraint to short these poor men for the sake of the coffers of the King; besides, it's the Ninth Day of Christmas, and a poor winter awaits them -- the sailors, not Pepys or Batten, that's for sure!
About Treasury office
Terry F • Link
The Treasury Office (Navy) in the 1660's is the "Pay Office" on this segment of the 1746 map. To find it go to the SW corner, NWN up [Broad] Street that runs in front of Gresham College past Ester Sreet on the left and the next building on the left is the "Pay Office". http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Thursday 1 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"In fine, I find that there is nothing almost but bawdry at Court from top to bottom, as, if it were fit, I could instance, but it is not necessary"
I found myself puzzled by a Diarist's discussing with himself whether it were suitable for him to provide examples of debauchery in his Diary (deciding it isn't, he then notes a common conjecture about one!)
Jesse, methinks you may be right.
About Thursday 1 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"we saw 'The Villaine' again; and the more I see it, the more I am offended at my first undervaluing the play"
Sam applies the experimental method to his judgment, and revises it accordingly - a worthy virtue.
***
"The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and to set to my business for all the year again tomorrow."
Today more than ever he is feeling his status as a gentleman! He is not one of hoi polloi; so his willingness to follow his oath and abstain from the theatre has more than one payoff.
This is a bit more morally ambiguous, surely for some of us in the 21c who have approved of the common touch he has shown in the past and commended in himself -- but perhaps his distancing himself from mere "citizens" is situational, applying at the theatre, and other places to see and be seen.
About Sir Edward Mountagu ("my Lord," Earl of Sandwich)
Terry F • Link
"My Lord's" house in town in 1662 et sqq. was in Westminster in King Street in the SW of the 1746 map, W and parallel to Parliament Street, S of White Hall http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Thursday 1 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Mrs. Sarah's knowledge of the King & my Lady Castlemaine
L&M note that Lady Castlemaine's house was next door to Sandwich's.
About Aldermen of the City of London
Terry F • Link
The Aldermanries of the City of London
The City is divided into twenty six different sections called Wards. Each has its own Warden, or Alderman, to take care of running of each Ward. The Wards were named as follows....Twenty five of the City Aldermen are elected for a term, which used to be their lifetime, but is now up until the retiring age of a Magistrate. The twenty sixth Alderman (Bridge Gate Ward) must be a former Lord Mayor, and must also have been a Sherrif of the City. This has come to be, due to the change of City juristiction of the ward. Southwark, which formed Bridge Gate Ward, was in ancient times, a part of the City. This is no longer the case, but the old tradition carries on.
The Aldermen also have the final vote on who is to be Lord Mayor of London for the next year. The Liverymen of the City elect two final candidates from the list of nominees, and the Aldermen choose from these. http://barryoneoff.co.uk/html/the…