The busse was also in the English herring fishery.
“In September 1662 a scheme — similar to those of 1580, 1615 and 1661 — for building herring busses had been inaugurated by the Council of Royal Fishery, the King himself undertaking to provide ten. The council had been established in August 1661: Pepys became a member of the corporation appointed to succeed it in 1664….” L&M iii.268.n.3
"his Majesty’s resolution to give 200l. to every man that will set out a Busse"
L&M note: "In September 1662 a scheme -- similar to those of 1580, 1615 and 1661 -- for building herring busses had been inaugurated by the Council of Royal Fishery, the King himself undertaking to provide ten. The council had been established in August 1661: Pepys became a member of the corporation appointed to succeed it in 1664...."
Sam surely has no sense of false dignity, methinks, if he perched on the Conduit head, sword and all, gawking and straining to see (but not "laughing and jeering") the spectacle - the Baroque specialty - like any other common fellow not on a formal reviewing-stand. The image of the Conduit head at the top of the site pjk shared deseerves a look: http://www.follies.btinternet.co.…
pjk, lovely image of the Conduit head, which might serve as a "fountain," and explain Pepys's situation and the experience of those surrounding it and beneath him!
"Heads-up! water coming down!" (at least it isn't dirty)
"This is the second time I’ve noticed Sam not unwilling to work on a Sunday."
This has troubled us before, A. Hamilton -- Saturday 12 July, Nix asked "When was the weekend invented?" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… and there was an extensive discusssion of the "work week," the rise of the weekend, and the Sabbath, etc.
L&M has *quarrefour*; in the Large Glossary of the Companion "(Fr. *carrefour*): crossroads: 'formerly quite naturalised, but now treated only as Fr. (OED)"
L&M note: "Three envoys had been sent by the Tsar Alexis....Evelyn wrote: [27 I went to Lond: to see the Enterance of the Russian Ambassador, whom his Majestie ordered should be received with much state, the Emperor his Master having not onely ben kind to his Majestie in his distresse, but banishing all Commerce with our Nation during the Rebellion: & first then the Citty Companies & Traind bands were all in their stations, his Majesties Army & Guards in greate order: his Excellency came in a very rich Coach, with some of his chiefe attendants; many of the rest on horse back, which being clad in their Vests, after the Eastern manner, rich furrs, Caps, & carrying the present, rendred a very exotic and magnificent shew: Some carrying Haukes, furrs, Teeth, Bows, &c:...] The envoys were accommodated at York House, Strand, which had been furnished for them by the Wardrobe at a cost of £850.... This embassy created wonders among Londoners. Sir E. Harley, writing to his wife, adds his own contribution to the stories going around, by assuring her that the 'ambassador's bill of fare is daily four oxen and three partrides'.... Diplomatic and trading relations had since about 1620 become very spasmodic...."
"masts of New England"
L&M note: "New England supplies had first been regularly tapped in the 1650s, and by now the Navy Board obtained most of its larger masts from there. They were usually 27 ins. or more in diameter: see Pepys's notes in Rawls...."
Ironmonger's Hall as a venue today Photographic images of the several lovely rooms in the Hall as and where it is now; in the Diary days it was also well-appointed and more centrally located. http://www.ironhall.co.uk/hall/in…
“Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all.”
As the nonconformist Rev. Ralph Josselin "began to remove [his] things from the vicarage to [his] own house on the green in earnest [praying,] lord you that knows the names, dwelling occupations of yours. Know me and mine and dwell with us I pray thee, and let our habitation, be a dwelling of peace and righteousness” -- as though he were about to be left behind.
Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection) 25.11.1662 (Tuesday 25 November 1662)
"A fine frost after much wet, we began to remove our things from the vicarage to my own house on the green in earnest. lord you that knows the names, dwelling occupations of yours. Know me and mine and dwell with us I pray thee, and let our habitation, be a dwelling of peace and righteousness" http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earl…
Edmund Wingate, renowned mathematician, credited with inventing the slide-rule, taught English to Queen Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I)[and now Queen Mother]. http://www.users.waitrose.com/~da…
Perhaps OT, but an interesting connection (small world).
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About Busse
Terry F • Link
The busse was also in the English herring fishery.
“In September 1662 a scheme — similar to those of 1580, 1615 and 1661 — for building herring busses had been inaugurated by the Council of Royal Fishery, the King himself undertaking to provide ten. The council had been established in August 1661: Pepys became a member of the corporation appointed to succeed it in 1664….” L&M iii.268.n.3
No doubt the busses were the instruments of the fishing conflicts between the Dutch and the English: for the war of words see
Grotius, Hugo http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
and Selden, John http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About John Selden
Terry F • Link
A better link for Selden in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica http://85.1911encyclopedia.org/S/…
About Friday 28 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"his Majesty’s resolution to give 200l. to every man that will set out a Busse"
L&M note: "In September 1662 a scheme -- similar to those of 1580, 1615 and 1661 -- for building herring busses had been inaugurated by the Council of Royal Fishery, the King himself undertaking to provide ten. The council had been established in August 1661: Pepys became a member of the corporation appointed to succeed it in 1664...."
"good rings"
L&M note: "For funeral rings, see Saturday 13 April 1661 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… "
"writing out a copy of my uncle’s will"
L&M note: "This copy has not been traced."
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Sam surely has no sense of false dignity, methinks, if he perched on the Conduit head, sword and all, gawking and straining to see (but not "laughing and jeering") the spectacle - the Baroque specialty - like any other common fellow not on a formal reviewing-stand. The image of the Conduit head at the top of the site pjk shared deseerves a look: http://www.follies.btinternet.co.…
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
pjk, lovely image of the Conduit head, which might serve as a "fountain," and explain Pepys's situation and the experience of those surrounding it and beneath him!
"Heads-up! water coming down!"
(at least it isn't dirty)
About Sunday 23 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"This is the second time I’ve noticed Sam not unwilling to work on a Sunday."
This has troubled us before, A. Hamilton -- Saturday 12 July, Nix asked "When was the weekend invented?" http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… and there was an extensive discusssion of the "work week," the rise of the weekend, and the Sabbath, etc.
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Conduit
OED 2. a structure from which water is distributed or made to issue: a fountain. Obs. or arch.
"I walked to the Conduit in the Quarrefowr...(the spouts thereof running very near me upon all the people that were under it)"
About Busse
Terry F • Link
"BUSSE:...two- or three-masted vessel chiefly for the North Sea fishery, heavily built and of about 60 tons"
Large Glossary, L&M Companion
About Aldersgate Street
Terry F • Link
Aldersgate Street
Major north-south street on the east end of the map
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Gracious (Gracechurch) Street
Terry F • Link
Grace Church Street
On the right side of the map (middle, vertically) Grace Church Street runs north from Eastcheap to Cornhill http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"the Conduit in the Quarrefowr, at the end of Gracious-street and Cornhill"
The crossroads is at the right-hand side of the map 1/3 of the way down
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
Puzzling to me only is "the Conduit"
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"Quarrefowr"
L&M has *quarrefour*; in the Large Glossary of the Companion "(Fr. *carrefour*): crossroads: 'formerly quite naturalised, but now treated only as Fr. (OED)"
About Thursday 27 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"the Russia Embassador"
L&M note: "Three envoys had been sent by the Tsar Alexis....Evelyn wrote:
[27 I went to Lond: to see the Enterance of the Russian Ambassador, whom his Majestie ordered should be received with much state, the Emperor his Master having not onely ben kind to his Majestie in his distresse, but banishing all Commerce with our Nation during the Rebellion: & first then the Citty Companies & Traind bands were all in their stations, his Majesties Army & Guards in greate order: his Excellency came in a very rich Coach, with some of his chiefe attendants; many of the rest on horse back, which being clad in their Vests, after the Eastern manner, rich furrs, Caps, & carrying the present, rendred a very exotic and magnificent shew: Some carrying Haukes, furrs, Teeth, Bows, &c:...] The envoys were accommodated at York House, Strand, which had been furnished for them by the Wardrobe at a cost of £850.... This embassy created wonders among Londoners. Sir E. Harley, writing to his wife, adds his own contribution to the stories going around, by assuring her that the 'ambassador's bill of fare is daily four oxen and three partrides'.... Diplomatic and trading relations had since about 1620 become very spasmodic...."
"masts of New England"
L&M note: "New England supplies had first been regularly tapped in the 1650s, and by now the Navy Board obtained most of its larger masts from there. They were usually 27 ins. or more in diameter: see Pepys's notes in Rawls...."
About Wednesday 26 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Sam's lately been treated to some pretty fancy digs; perhaps it's about appearances, or keeping up with the Mennes's.
About Wednesday 26 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Or, in Sam's case, anything for the sake of making very pretty -- after months of dirt.
About Ironmongers' Hall
Terry F • Link
Location of Ironmongers' Hall
near the right edge halfway up at the intersection of Fenchurch Street and Billeter Lane, s. of Billeter Square
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/Se…
About Ironmongers' Hall
Terry F • Link
Ironmonger's Hall as a venue today
Photographic images of the several lovely rooms in the Hall as and where it is now; in the Diary days it was also well-appointed and more centrally located.
http://www.ironhall.co.uk/hall/in…
About Tuesday 25 November 1662
Terry F • Link
“Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all.”
As the nonconformist Rev. Ralph Josselin "began to remove [his]
things from the vicarage to [his] own house on the green in earnest [praying,] lord you that knows the names, dwelling occupations of yours. Know me and mine and dwell with us I pray thee, and let our habitation, be a dwelling of peace and righteousness” -- as though he were about to be left behind.
About Tuesday 25 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Fit for the end times
Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)
25.11.1662 (Tuesday 25 November 1662)
"A fine frost after much wet, we began to remove our things from the vicarage to my own house on the green in earnest. lord you that knows the names, dwelling occupations of yours. Know me and mine and dwell with us I pray thee, and let our habitation, be a dwelling of peace and righteousness" http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earl…
About Tuesday 25 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Edmund Wingate, renowned mathematician, credited with inventing the slide-rule, taught English to Queen Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I)[and now Queen Mother]. http://www.users.waitrose.com/~da…
Perhaps OT, but an interesting connection (small world).