"Sir R. Ford’s daughter is married to a fellow without friends’ consent"
L&M note: "This is probably the match between Rebecca Ford and John Oviat, merchant, of St Olave's; they were not married in the parish church. Parents' consent was not required by law until the Marriage Act of 1753. Oviat was a beneficiary under his mother-in-law's will of 1681, so that any estrangement which may have occurred was temporary."
"I hear to-day how old rich Audley is lately dead...the scrivener in Fleet Street, at whose house he lodged."
L&M note: "Hugh Audley, Scrivener, usurer, and the last of the Clerks of the Court of Wards, d. 15 Nov. 1662, 'infinitely rich': Richard Smyth, *Obituary*, p. 56. He is said to have been worth £400,000 at his death: see ‘The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley’(1662). Pepys's schoolfellow was Thomas Davies, a grandson of Audley's sister, Elizabeth Peacock, and heir to the residuary estate, together with his younger brother Alexander Davies, through whom it later descended to the Grosvenor family.... The Scrivener of Fleet Street was John Ray (Rea), with whom Audley had lodged near Temple Bar since c.1654 and against whom he had brought an action in Chancery in 1661-2...."
The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, was licensed for performance by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants at the Phoenix; it was granted by the Master of the Revels, Sir Henry Herbert, on May 7, 1622.
"we could use a Background section on Sam’s household", etc.
A. Hamilton, keen suggestion: for this shuffle about Sarah, Jane, W. Gosnell, etc., I went to the L&M Companion for such a section; individual Background info soon in need of updates (Sarah's not gone yet) in vain. Here's another something we could add to L&M's excellent apparatus.
To be more precise, the Johari Window is about awareness in interpersonal relationships; in the interpersonal relationships we have with Samuel Pepys and his world (and with one another) there are hidden matters all around ("Noises Off!"); there are also matters of which we can be aware that others -- Sam'l included -- are not.
"I to my cozen Roger Pepys to advise about treating with my uncle Thomas"
It surely can't be about the abatement for Piggott’s money demanded by Mr. Phillips, since we haven't heard that Sam has heard from his father, whom he wrote Tuesday night [and posted just Wednesday]. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder what this is about; there are other matters of which we are not told, and not just what Sam can't know.
language hat's caution reminds me of the usefulness of the Johari Window - a graphic model of interpersonal relationships http://www.augsburg.edu/education…
Coinage and Money in Later Stuart England & A Brief History of British Regal Copper Production during the Late Seventeenth Century http://www.kipar.org/historical-r…
from L&M Companion Heath, John, kt 1664 (1614-91). Lawyer; son of Sir Robert Heath, C.J. (d. 1649); Auditor of the Court of Wards 1643-6; Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster 1653-83; and M.P. for Clitheroe 1661-Jan. 79. He served on the commission of enquiry into Chatham Chest 1662, and was Recorder of Gravesend 1686-8. In 1664 he married at St. Olave's a niece of Sir John Mennes - Margaret. daughter of Sir Matthew Mennes of Sandwich, and widow of John Pretyman.
from L&M Companion Davies, Sir Thomas (1631-80). Bookseller ('the little fellow'): a contmporary of Pepys's at St Paul's School. Master of the Stationers' Company 1668-70, and of the Drapers' 1677-8; Sheriff 1667-8; Lord Mayor 1676-7. He inherited a large fortune, consisting mainly of the Ebury Estate in Westminster which later passed to the Grosvenors, Dukes of Westminster.
"This day Mr. Moore told me that for certain the Queen-Mother is married to my Lord St. Albans, and he is like to be made Lord Treasurer."
L&M note: "Both accounts were untrue....St. Albans was a close friend of Henrietta-Maria and managed her finances. The rumour about their marriage was widespread...."
Thursday http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… we wondered about the job description of "Messenger" -- if Mr Moore is not a Messenger, he is a Courier, bringing Pepys the daily buzz.
"Newes that Sir J. Lawson hath made up a peace now with Tunis and Tripoli, as well as Argiers, by which he will come home very highly honoured."
L&M note: "This treaty (on 5 October 1662) differed slightly from that with the Algerines (q.v. 22 May, 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ). For its terms and its negotiation (much protracted by the pirates' keenness to do each other in the eye), see CSPVen.... There is a copy of the Tunis treaty in the Pepys papers in Rawls.... For the growth of Lawson's repute (and Sandwich's jealousy of it), see 27 June http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ."
Court of Wards. Resolved, upon the Question by the Parliament, That the Records lately belonging to the late Court of Wards, be transferred into the Court of Exchequer: And that Humfrey Salwey Esquire do take them into his Care and Custody, as well such as are already transferred into the said Court, as also all such Records, Evidences, and Writings, as remain in the Custody of Hugh Audley Esquire, as Clerk of the said late Court: Who is hereby required to deliver them accordingly, by Inventory, to be kept for the Benefit of the Publick: And that the said Mr. Salwey be authorized to deliver them out, as he shall receive Orders, from time to time, by any of the Courts of Justice sitting at Westminster. Ordered, by the Parliament, That the Amendments to the Bill touching bringing in the Arrears of the late Court of Wards be reported on Thursday-sevennight.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 14 March 1651', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 548-49. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 22 November 2005.
It appears the Court of Wards under Audley mat have engaged in accounting irregularities to the benefit of the guardian.
perhaps the spitting sheet could have been similar to a “duvet cover”
As puzzled as ever, I wonder then what to make of the OED citation of 1684 A. HALL Will (Somerset Ho.), One paire of spitting sheetes now used upon my bed.
Verily, without L&M and the OED we'd be where Wheatley was. The L&M text lacks "—[?? D.W.]" and the reference is to the Large Glossary in the L&M Companion, p. 613. The entry in full with no typos this time is:
"SPITTING-SHEET: iii.262 sheet for spitting on in sickness: *OED* P but in general use."
My THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE OED, is the 25th U.S. printing, July 1986. Our passage from Pepys Diary (= "P" in the Glossary entry) is quoted in Vol. II, p. 633 as an example of: Spitting, vbl. sb.; 4. attr. a. In sense 'for spitting in or on', as spitting-box, -cup, -dish, -kettle, -pan, etc.
"Scrivener, usurer, and the last of the Clerks of the Court of Wards, d. 15 Nov. 1662, "infinitely rich": Richard Smyth, *Obituary*, p. 56. He is said to have been worth £400,000 at his death: see 'The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley'(1662)...." L&M note, 23 Nov. 1662.
Cantica Sacra. Ad Duas & Tres Voces composita, cum Basso continuo ad Organum, etc. Cantus Primus (Secundas). (Bassus.) (Bassus Continuus.) Richard Dering Godbid pro Joh. Playford http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obid…
"He was born the illegitimate son of Henry Dering of Liss, Hampshire. By 1610 he had traveled to Italy, gaining a BMus in that year from Christ Church, Oxford. 1612-16 he traveled with the British ambassador to Venice. In 1617 he was organist to the community of English Benedictine nuns in Brussels. He returned to England in 1625 as organist to the Catholic Queen Henrietta Maria and 'musician for the lutes and voices' to King Charles I.
"Dering wrote three books of motets with continuo, two of canzonets and one of continuo madrigals, and is represented in many MSS and anthologies. His music shows varying degrees of Italian influence; the continuo madrigals and small concertato motets are very much in the idiom of Grandi or d'India, with wayward modulations and dramatic expression; the Cantio Sacra (1618) contains 6-part motets that recall a more conventionally expressive Italian madrigal-like idiom.
"Dering's music must have had a wide appeal, for much of it was brought out by the enterprising Antwerp publisher Pierre Phalèse between 1612 and 1628. Dering's two- and three-voice pieces were published in London by John Playford in 1662, long after the composer's death, but they may have been written in the Spanish Netherlands, for one has a text honoring St James as patron saint of Spain. It is likely that Dering took the pieces with him to England: they were certainly sung in Henrietta's chapel, and they were used for private devotion during the Commonwealth (when they were reputedly Oliver Cromwell's favorite music)." http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Dering.h…
Balty asked for another job using Pepys’ influence, 6 April 1660
"This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire to be here with me as Reformado, which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to Captain Stokes for him that he should be there." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"This day come the King’s pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistolles."
L&M note: "Paid by France in exchange for Dunkirk; transported from Calais to Tower Wharf in 'three stout and stately pleasure-boats, viz. His Majesties, the Duke of Yorks and the Duke of Albemarls':.... The total payable was 5 m. livres (£800,000): 2 m. at once, and the rest in quarterly installments over three years. Pepys is mistaken about the figures: the immediate down-payment amounted to c. 250,000 pistoles...."
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About Sunday 23 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"Sir R. Ford’s daughter is married to a fellow without friends’ consent"
L&M note: "This is probably the match between Rebecca Ford and John Oviat, merchant, of St Olave's; they were not married in the parish church. Parents' consent was not required by law until the Marriage Act of 1753. Oviat was a beneficiary under his mother-in-law's will of 1681, so that any estrangement which may have occurred was temporary."
"I hear to-day how old rich Audley is lately dead...the scrivener in Fleet Street, at whose house he lodged."
L&M note: "Hugh Audley, Scrivener, usurer, and the last of the Clerks of the Court of Wards, d. 15 Nov. 1662, 'infinitely rich': Richard Smyth, *Obituary*, p. 56. He is said to have been worth £400,000 at his death: see ‘The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley’(1662). Pepys's schoolfellow was Thomas Davies, a grandson of Audley's sister, Elizabeth Peacock, and heir to the residuary estate, together with his younger brother Alexander Davies, through whom it later descended to the Grosvenor family.... The Scrivener of Fleet Street was John Ray (Rea), with whom Audley had lodged near Temple Bar since c.1654 and against whom he had brought an action in Chancery in 1661-2...."
About The Changeling (Thomas Middleton and William Rowley)
Terry F • Link
The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, was licensed for performance by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants at the Phoenix; it was granted by the Master of the Revels, Sir Henry Herbert, on May 7, 1622.
The play with notes, Glossary and review: http://www.tech.org/~cleary/chang…
About Saturday 22 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"we could use a Background section on Sam’s household", etc.
A. Hamilton, keen suggestion: for this shuffle about Sarah, Jane, W. Gosnell, etc., I went to the L&M Companion for such a section; individual Background info soon in need of updates (Sarah's not gone yet) in vain. Here's another something we could add to L&M's excellent apparatus.
Phil, ref. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Saturday 22 November 1662
Terry F • Link
To be more precise, the Johari Window is about awareness in interpersonal relationships; in the interpersonal relationships we have with Samuel Pepys and his world (and with one another) there are hidden matters all around ("Noises Off!"); there are also matters of which we can be aware that others -- Sam'l included -- are not.
About Saturday 22 November 1662
Terry F • Link
The ongoing theme of Uncle Robert’s Will
"I to my cozen Roger Pepys to advise about treating with my uncle Thomas"
It surely can't be about the abatement for Piggott’s money demanded by Mr. Phillips, since we haven't heard that Sam has heard from his father, whom he wrote Tuesday night [and posted just Wednesday]. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder what this is about; there are other matters of which we are not told, and not just what Sam can't know.
language hat's caution reminds me of the usefulness of the Johari Window - a graphic model of interpersonal relationships http://www.augsburg.edu/education…
About Currency units
Terry F • Link
Coinage and Money in Later Stuart England
&
A Brief History of British Regal Copper Production during the Late Seventeenth Century
http://www.kipar.org/historical-r…
About John Heath (Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster)
Terry F • Link
from L&M Companion
Heath, John, kt 1664 (1614-91). Lawyer; son of Sir Robert Heath, C.J. (d. 1649); Auditor of the Court of Wards 1643-6; Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster 1653-83; and M.P. for Clitheroe 1661-Jan. 79. He served on the commission of enquiry into Chatham Chest 1662, and was Recorder of Gravesend 1686-8. In 1664 he married at St. Olave's a niece of Sir John Mennes - Margaret. daughter of Sir Matthew Mennes of Sandwich, and widow of John Pretyman.
About Jacobus
Terry F • Link
from L&M Large Glossary
JACOB(US)
gold sovereign coined under James I.
About Thomas Davies
Terry F • Link
from L&M Companion
Davies, Sir Thomas (1631-80). Bookseller ('the little fellow'): a contmporary of Pepys's at St Paul's School. Master of the Stationers' Company 1668-70, and of the Drapers' 1677-8; Sheriff 1667-8; Lord Mayor 1676-7. He inherited a large fortune, consisting mainly of the Ebury Estate in Westminster which later passed to the Grosvenors, Dukes of Westminster.
About Saturday 22 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"This day Mr. Moore told me that for certain the Queen-Mother is married to my Lord St. Albans, and he is like to be made Lord Treasurer."
L&M note: "Both accounts were untrue....St. Albans was a close friend of Henrietta-Maria and managed her finances. The rumour about their marriage was widespread...."
Thursday http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… we wondered about the job description of "Messenger" -- if Mr Moore is not a Messenger, he is a Courier, bringing Pepys the daily buzz.
"Newes that Sir J. Lawson hath made up a peace now with Tunis and Tripoli, as well as Argiers, by which he will come home very highly honoured."
L&M note: "This treaty (on 5 October 1662) differed slightly from that with the Algerines (q.v. 22 May, 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ). For its terms and its negotiation (much protracted by the pirates' keenness to do each other in the eye), see CSPVen.... There is a copy of the Tunis treaty in the Pepys papers in Rawls.... For the growth of Lawson's repute (and Sandwich's jealousy of it), see 27 June http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ."
About Hugh Audley
Terry F • Link
Court of Wards.
Resolved, upon the Question by the Parliament, That the Records lately belonging to the late Court of Wards, be transferred into the Court of Exchequer: And that Humfrey Salwey Esquire do take them into his Care and Custody, as well such as are already transferred into the said Court, as also all such Records, Evidences, and Writings, as remain in the Custody of Hugh Audley Esquire, as Clerk of the said late Court: Who is hereby required to deliver them accordingly, by Inventory, to be kept for the Benefit of the Publick: And that the said Mr. Salwey be authorized to deliver them out, as he shall receive Orders, from time to time, by any of the Courts of Justice sitting at Westminster.
Ordered, by the Parliament, That the Amendments to the Bill touching bringing in the Arrears of the late Court of Wards be reported on Thursday-sevennight.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 14 March 1651', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 548-49. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 22 November 2005.
It appears the Court of Wards under Audley mat have engaged in accounting irregularities to the benefit of the guardian.
About Friday 21 November 1662
Terry F • Link
perhaps the spitting sheet could have been similar to a “duvet cover”
As puzzled as ever, I wonder then what to make of the OED citation of 1684 A. HALL Will (Somerset Ho.), One paire of spitting sheetes now used upon my bed.
About Friday 21 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Verily, without L&M and the OED we'd be where Wheatley was.
The L&M text lacks "—[?? D.W.]" and the reference is to the Large Glossary in the L&M Companion, p. 613. The entry in full with no typos this time is:
"SPITTING-SHEET: iii.262 sheet for spitting on in sickness: *OED* P but in general use."
My THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE OED, is the 25th U.S. printing, July 1986. Our passage from Pepys Diary (= "P" in the Glossary entry) is quoted in Vol. II, p. 633 as an example of:
Spitting, vbl. sb.; 4. attr. a. In sense 'for spitting in or on', as spitting-box, -cup, -dish, -kettle, -pan, etc.
About Hugh Audley
Terry F • Link
"Scrivener, usurer, and the last of the Clerks of the Court of Wards, d. 15 Nov. 1662, "infinitely rich": Richard Smyth, *Obituary*, p. 56. He is said to have been worth £400,000 at his death: see 'The way to be rich, according to the practice of the great Audley'(1662)...." L&M note, 23 Nov. 1662.
About Richard Dering
Terry F • Link
Cantica Sacra. Ad Duas & Tres Voces composita, cum Basso continuo ad Organum, etc. Cantus Primus (Secundas). (Bassus.) (Bassus Continuus.)
Richard Dering
Godbid pro Joh. Playford
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obid…
About Richard Dering
Terry F • Link
Deering (Dering), Richard c1580-1630
"He was born the illegitimate son of Henry Dering of Liss, Hampshire. By 1610 he had traveled to Italy, gaining a BMus in that year from Christ Church, Oxford. 1612-16 he traveled with the British ambassador to Venice. In 1617 he was organist to the community of English Benedictine nuns in Brussels. He returned to England in 1625 as organist to the Catholic Queen Henrietta Maria and 'musician for the lutes and voices' to King Charles I.
"Dering wrote three books of motets with continuo, two of canzonets and one of continuo madrigals, and is represented in many MSS and anthologies. His music shows varying degrees of Italian influence; the continuo madrigals and small concertato motets are very much in the idiom of Grandi or d'India, with wayward modulations and dramatic expression; the Cantio Sacra (1618) contains 6-part motets that recall a more conventionally expressive Italian madrigal-like idiom.
"Dering's music must have had a wide appeal, for much of it was brought out by the enterprising Antwerp publisher Pierre Phalèse between 1612 and 1628. Dering's two- and three-voice pieces were published in London by John Playford in 1662, long after the composer's death, but they may have been written in the Spanish Netherlands, for one has a text honoring St James as patron saint of Spain. It is likely that Dering took the pieces with him to England: they were certainly sung in Henrietta's chapel, and they were used for private devotion during the Commonwealth (when they were reputedly Oliver Cromwell's favorite music)." http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/Dering.h…
About Thursday 20 November 1662
Terry F • Link
Balty asked for another job using Pepys’ influence, 6 April 1660
"This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire to be here with me as Reformado, which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to Captain Stokes for him that he should be there." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Friday 21 November 1662
Terry F • Link
How would a spitting sheet be installed to be " very convenient"?
It seems that it's always there. Is this what L&M mean by "but [sic] in general use"?
That's a strange land; so, Bradford, I'm with you.
About Friday 21 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"spitting sheet"
"sheet for spitting on in sickness: OED P bus in general use." L&M Large Glossary
News to me! Without L&M and the OED I'd be as clueless as Wheatley.
About Friday 21 November 1662
Terry F • Link
"This day come the King’s pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistolles."
L&M note: "Paid by France in exchange for Dunkirk; transported from Calais to Tower Wharf in 'three stout and stately pleasure-boats, viz. His Majesties, the Duke of Yorks and the Duke of Albemarls':.... The total payable was 5 m. livres (£800,000): 2 m. at once, and the rest in quarterly installments over three years. Pepys is mistaken about the figures: the immediate down-payment amounted to c. 250,000 pistoles...."