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Heydon, John, b. 1629. Advice to a daughter: in opposition to the Advice to a sonne; or, Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life. London: Printed by J. Moxon for Francis Cossinet, 1658.
The e-text is available to subscribers to Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Advice to a daughter, in opposition to the advice to a son. Or, directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters in this life. Under these general heads: I. Studies, &c. II. Love and marriage. III. Travel. IV. Government. V. Religion. Conclusion. By Eugenius Theodidactus. The second edition. With a word of advice to T.P. London, printed by T.J. for F. Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower street, Anno 1659..
A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions, shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Money, Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes, Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excize, etc. With several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Warres, The Church, Universities, Rents & Purchases, Usury & Exchange, Banks & Lombards, Registries for Conveyances, Beggars, Ensurance, Exportation of Money & Wool, Free-ports, Coins, Housing, Liberty of Conscience, etc.
The Same being frequently applied to the present State and Affairs of Ireland.
Gracious Street "Gracious Street" or Gracechurch Street meeting house began as an inn like Bull and Mouth, acquired after the 1666 Great Fire, but was rebuilt as something more like our idea of a meeting house.
George Fox died at a house next door, after a meeting here on 13th January 1691 (or 1692, adjusted for the 1752 calendar change). After his funeral at the meeting house, some 4,000 people accompanied his body to Bunhill Fields for burial.
Gracechurch Street became one of the most important Quaker Meetings, and the neighbourhood around it became the centre of the Quaker business community in the city. By the eighteenth century 20-25% of the immediate population were Quakers. City Friends mingled piety with prosperity and earned reputations as sober, honest tradesmen. Some, like the Barclays, Lloyds, and Gurneys, made fortunes in trade and banking. Quaker financial knowhow and investment was important to the success of Pennsylvania. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/qu…
Being a description of where to find coaches and carriers in London to travel to various parts of the Kingdom.
"The Carriers of Braintree and Bocking in Essex do lodge at the sign of the Tabard in Gracious street, near the Conduit. They do come on Thursdays, and go away on Fridays." http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.c…
By May 1662, Sarah was well and accompanied Elizabeth wherever she went. On 13 June, "in the evening my wife and I, and Sarah and the boy, a most pleasant walk to Halfway house " Of a sudden, on 10 July. Sam records: "when my wife was up, did call her and Sarah, and did make up a difference between them, for she is so good a servant as I am loth to part with her." This quarrel will continue until November, when it becomes a quarrel between Elizabeth and Sam; and on 2 December, Sam records: "my wife and I had another falling out about Sarah, against whom she has a deadly hate, I know not for what, nor can I see but she is a very good servant." By then and it is clear that she must go, and so she did, on 5 December 1662.
"summoned by the Commissioners for the Lieutenancy"
L&M note: "A militia act (14 Car. II c.3 [14 Car. II."An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom." From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 5 March 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 486-89. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 05 December 2005.]) had just been passed, and under it a commission of lieutenancy was appointed to act for London. Pepys, with a salary less than £500 p.a., was liable to be charged with providing a foot-soldier and his arms."
Mr. Chetwind "made Will one of his executors."
L&M note: "James Chetwind and Will Symons were members of Pepys's 'old crew' of government clerks -- the former in the Exchequer, the latter in the Council Office. Chetwind had died a bachelor, and in his will (13 November 1662; proved 13 January 1662) left ca. £2000 in the hands of bankers, as well as other property. Symon's daughter was a beneficiary (£200) as well as his wife."
"a copy or two of the state of my uncle’s estate, which I prepared last night"
L&M note: "Two copies in Pepys's hand (the first entitled 'Mr Robert Pepys his Estate at the Time of his Death. July 5 1661.) are in PL.... For details see *Comp[anion].*: Pepys, Robert'. Cf. Thomas Pepys the Turner to John Pepys (father of Samuel), 17 February 1663: 'My father and all of us ar sorie for the assertion that my cos samuell hath given us of the smalness of that estate which by most knowing persons was said and belived to be aboundantly Larger than it doth prove it self and of that troble which it hath occasioned...."
To bardi: for some of us who have studied the details of Pauline's fine postings at "Pepys, Robert (uncle)" http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… or "Uncle Robert's Will" http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… many matters remain unclear, and Sam'l doesn't always spell them out even as they play out.
“masts of New England;" Courtesy of Bob T on Mon 28 Nov 2005, 1:18 pm
There are a lot of places here in New Brunswick, (Eastern Canada), where there are large stands of tall, very straight trees. One of their characteristic is, they don’t have any branches, except at the top.... They are called “Navy Pines” locally.
Terry F on Wed 30 Nov 2005, 8:58 pm Bob T, are “Navy Pines” Eastern white pines? These are large (>40 m) trees… which historically were prized for their use as ships’ masts. http://www.globalforestscience.or…
“masts of New England; …” Courtesy of Michael Robinson on Mon 28 Nov 2005, 7:49 am | Link
For an older history of the Mast Road in New Hampshire and brief discussion of the the marking of suitable white pine trees as “King’s Wood” see below. A “spoiler alert,” however, this does include some discussion of the mast business in New England in the later C 17th. and C 18th.:
Mary, surely you are right, and have explained it, and after the boat trip he drinks a *warm* morning draft.
He's been going to Deptford about the remodeling every little whipstitch lately, but today it's just too darned cold (here Robert Gertz is correct) to go except by foot; and when he gets there he surveys with pleasure the New England masts (surely Eastern white pine).
He was dragooned by Pett to go by water, not to go to Deptford.
1300 is a scanning error for 3001 = £300, and even £159 p.a., still is WAY too much for what Pett does(n't do), esp. for our man, who is worth "660l., or thereabouts," but does more than Commissioner Pett for the good of the King (and we have Samuel Pepys's word for it).
- dragooned by Mr. Pett to go to Deptford; - disturbed by what he sees Wood (Batten's co-conspirator) and others do; - displeased with Pett's Chest accounts; - found the Russian Ambassador's entourage very strange; - was in pain at the cold he had got.
Why should Pepys imagine uniformed footmen the universal norm? Or, I guess, why shouldn't he?!
(Odd that "livery" means the opposite of a constrained uniformity, according to its "ETYMOLOGY: Middle English liveri, from Old French livree, delivery, from feminine past participle of livrer, to deliver, from Latin liberare, to free, from liber, free." http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/L021…
Perhaps, Jeannine, his ongoing theme of their indifferent care about getting the best materials for the best prices -- in the background is Sam's concern about conflicts of interest, monopolistic practices as well as sloppy work in holding suppliers to specs -- he always characterizing his own best efforts as expended for the welfare of the King.
AUSTRALIA was a place to which Sarah could be transported -- had she been turned over to a Dutch colonizer for an indefinite servitude in New Holland (which, after 1616. they called the area about the Gulf of Carpentaria, where they had landed in 1606) -- to save A. De Araujo's hash a bit; though, yes, as wildtubes notes, "A British penal colony was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about 161,000 transported English convicts were settled there until the system was suspended in 1839." http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A01…
"The name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but they were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust…
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First Reading
About Friday 14 December 1660
Terry F • Link
R.I.P the FUMIFUGIUM link vincent supplied; available now are this work and others by Evylyn at an FTP site at the Pennsylvania State University:
ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/humanit…
(copy and paste this address into your browser)
About Contemporary diaries
Terry F • Link
John Evelyn’s Diary is available for download via FTP -
and so are other works by Evelyn
at this site at the Pennsylvania State University
ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/humanit…
(copy and paste this site in your browser)
About Newgate Market
Terry F • Link
Newgate Market
Look at the upper-left corner of this section of the 1746 map, north of Pater Noster Row and St Paul's, it is bordered on the north by Newgate Street.
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Heydon's 'Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne ... by Eugenius Theodidactus'
Terry F • Link
Heydon, John, b. 1629.
Advice to a daughter: in opposition to the Advice to a sonne; or,
Directions for your better conduct through the various and most
important encounters of this life.
London: Printed by J. Moxon for Francis Cossinet, 1658.
The e-text is available to subscribers to Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Advice to a daughter, in opposition to the advice to a son. Or, directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters in this life. Under these general heads: I. Studies, &c. II. Love and marriage. III. Travel. IV. Government. V. Religion. Conclusion. By Eugenius Theodidactus. The second edition. With a word of advice to T.P. London, printed by T.J. for F. Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower street, Anno 1659..
Image of John Haydon http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcoll…
About Petty's 'A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions'
Terry F • Link
A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions,
shewing the Nature and Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Money, Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes, Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excize, etc. With several intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Warres, The Church, Universities, Rents & Purchases, Usury & Exchange, Banks
& Lombards, Registries for Conveyances, Beggars, Ensurance, Exportation of Money & Wool, Free-ports, Coins, Housing, Liberty of Conscience, etc.
The Same being frequently applied to the present State and Affairs of Ireland.
London, Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662. by William Petty --
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.c…
About Gracious (Gracechurch) Street
Terry F • Link
Gracious Street
"Gracious Street" or Gracechurch Street meeting house began as an inn like Bull and Mouth, acquired after the 1666 Great Fire, but was rebuilt as something more like our idea of a meeting house.
George Fox died at a house next door, after a meeting here on 13th January 1691 (or 1692, adjusted for the 1752 calendar change). After his funeral at the meeting house, some 4,000 people accompanied his body to Bunhill Fields for burial.
Gracechurch Street became one of the most important Quaker Meetings, and the neighbourhood around it became the centre of the Quaker business community in the city. By the eighteenth century 20-25% of the immediate population were Quakers. City Friends mingled piety with prosperity and earned reputations as sober, honest tradesmen. Some, like the Barclays, Lloyds, and Gurneys, made fortunes in trade and banking. Quaker financial knowhow and investment was important to the success of Pennsylvania. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/qu…
About Gracious (Gracechurch) Street
Terry F • Link
Gracious Street in 17c travel
John Taylor, The Carriers Cosmography, 1637.
Being a description of where to find coaches and carriers in London to travel to various parts of the Kingdom.
"The Carriers of Braintree and Bocking in Essex do lodge at the sign of the Tabard in Gracious street, near the Conduit. They do come on Thursdays, and go away on Fridays."
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.c…
About Sarah (Pepys' maid)
Terry F • Link
By May 1662, Sarah was well and accompanied Elizabeth wherever she went. On 13 June, "in the evening my wife and I, and Sarah and the boy, a most pleasant walk to Halfway house "
Of a sudden, on 10 July. Sam records: "when my wife was up, did call her and Sarah, and did make up a difference between them, for she is so good a servant as I am loth to part with her."
This quarrel will continue until November, when it becomes a quarrel between Elizabeth and Sam; and on 2 December, Sam records: "my wife and I had another falling out about Sarah, against whom she has a deadly hate, I know not for what, nor can I see but she is a very good servant." By then and it is clear that she must go, and so she did, on 5 December 1662.
-- to be replaced as chamber-maid by Jane Birch http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… and this, just as Sam a companion for Elizabeth arrived, Winifred Gosnell http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About William Swan
Terry F • Link
Pepys calls Swan "a very rogue" 5 December 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"rogue" a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl…
About Friday 5 December 1662
Terry F • Link
"summoned by the Commissioners for the Lieutenancy"
L&M note: "A militia act (14 Car. II c.3 [14 Car. II."An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom." From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 11: 5 March 1663', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 486-89. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 05 December 2005.]) had just been passed, and under it a commission of lieutenancy was appointed to act for London. Pepys, with a salary less than £500 p.a., was liable to be charged with providing a foot-soldier and his arms."
Mr. Chetwind "made Will one of his executors."
L&M note: "James Chetwind and Will Symons were members of Pepys's 'old crew' of government clerks -- the former in the Exchequer, the latter in the Council Office. Chetwind had died a bachelor, and in his will (13 November 1662; proved 13 January 1662) left ca. £2000 in the hands of bankers, as well as other property. Symon's daughter was a beneficiary (£200) as well as his wife."
"a copy or two of the state of my uncle’s estate, which I prepared last night"
L&M note: "Two copies in Pepys's hand (the first entitled 'Mr Robert Pepys his Estate at the Time of his Death. July 5 1661.) are in PL.... For details see *Comp[anion].*: Pepys, Robert'. Cf. Thomas Pepys the Turner to John Pepys (father of Samuel), 17 February 1663: 'My father and all of us ar sorie for the assertion that my cos samuell hath given us of the smalness of that estate which by most knowing persons was said and belived to be aboundantly Larger than it doth prove it self and of that troble which it hath occasioned...."
This, alas, is a SPOILER in more than one sense.
About Thursday 4 December 1662
Terry F • Link
To bardi: for some of us who have studied the details of Pauline's fine postings at "Pepys, Robert (uncle)" http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… or "Uncle Robert's Will" http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… many matters remain unclear, and Sam'l doesn't always spell them out even as they play out.
About Masts
Terry F • Link
“masts of New England;"
Courtesy of Bob T on Mon 28 Nov 2005, 1:18 pm
There are a lot of places here in New Brunswick, (Eastern Canada), where there are large stands of tall, very straight trees. One of their characteristic is, they don’t have any branches, except at the top.... They are called “Navy Pines” locally.
Terry F on Wed 30 Nov 2005, 8:58 pm
Bob T, are “Navy Pines” Eastern white pines? These are large (>40 m) trees… which historically were prized for their use as ships’ masts. http://www.globalforestscience.or…
About Masts
Terry F • Link
“masts of New England; …”
Courtesy of Michael Robinson on Mon 28 Nov 2005, 7:49 am | Link
For an older history of the Mast Road in New Hampshire and brief discussion of the the marking of suitable white pine trees as “King’s Wood” see below. A “spoiler alert,” however, this does include some discussion of the mast business in New England in the later C 17th. and C 18th.:
http://www.sidis.net/PASSChap12.h…
About Wednesday 3 December 1662
Terry F • Link
"by water, much against my will"
Mary, surely you are right, and have explained it, and after the boat trip he drinks a *warm* morning draft.
He's been going to Deptford about the remodeling every little whipstitch lately, but today it's just too darned cold (here Robert Gertz is correct) to go except by foot; and when he gets there he surveys with pleasure the New England masts (surely Eastern white pine).
He was dragooned by Pett to go by water, not to go to Deptford.
About Wednesday 3 December 1662
Terry F • Link
1300 is a scanning error for 3001 = £300,
and even £159 p.a., still is WAY too much for what Pett does(n't do), esp. for our man, who is worth "660l., or thereabouts," but does more than Commissioner Pett for the good of the King (and we have Samuel Pepys's word for it).
About Wednesday 3 December 1662
Terry F • Link
Not a fully pleasing day for Sam'l: he was
- dragooned by Mr. Pett to go to Deptford;
- disturbed by what he sees Wood (Batten's co-conspirator) and others do;
- displeased with Pett's Chest accounts;
- found the Russian Ambassador's entourage very strange;
- was in pain at the cold he had got.
Thank God he had a posset!
About Wednesday 3 December 1662
Terry F • Link
Why should Pepys imagine uniformed footmen the universal norm?
Or, I guess, why shouldn't he?!
(Odd that "livery" means the opposite of a constrained uniformity, according to its "ETYMOLOGY: Middle English liveri, from Old French livree, delivery, from feminine past participle of livrer, to deliver, from Latin liberare, to free, from liber, free." http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/L021…
About Wednesday 3 December 1662
Terry F • Link
Perhaps, Jeannine, his ongoing theme of their indifferent care about getting the best materials for the best prices -- in the background is Sam's concern about conflicts of interest, monopolistic practices as well as sloppy work in holding suppliers to specs -- he always characterizing his own best efforts as expended for the welfare of the King.
About Tuesday 2 December 1662
Terry F • Link
Goodbye, Sarah; so long, Jane.
About Tuesday 2 December 1662
Terry F • Link
AUSTRALIA was a place to which Sarah could be transported --
had she been turned over to a Dutch colonizer for an indefinite servitude in New Holland (which, after 1616. they called the area about the Gulf of Carpentaria, where they had landed in 1606) -- to save A. De Araujo's hash a bit; though, yes, as wildtubes notes, "A British penal colony was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about 161,000 transported English convicts were settled there until the system was suspended in 1839." http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A01…
"The name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but they were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust…