Oudart (Oudant), Nicholas -- a Fleming, secretary to Mary, Dowager Princess of Orange from c. 1651. He was to become Latin Secretary to Charles II in 1666. He wrote an account of good practices of highway construction in the Netherlands, that Pepys refers to on Sat. 1 November, 1662. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… [L&M Index and iii.246, n.2]
His naturalization: Oudart's, &c. Nat. Sir Edward Turner reports Amendments in the Bill for Naruralizing of Nicholas Oudart Esquire, and others: Which he read in his Place. Resolved, That John Van de Hoeux, Abigail Bourchier, Wm. Geering, and Elizabeth Hodgkin, who have produced no Certificates of their receiving the Sacrament, be left out of the Bill. He also presents a List of Names recommended by his Majesty, the Lord Chancellor, and others, amounting to Thirty-six in Number. Resolved, That the said Names be added in the Bill. Resolved, That the Bill, with those Amendments and Additions, be ingrossed.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 12 December 1660', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 205-07. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 31 October 2005.
A portrait? NPG 288 Probably Nicholas Oudart by William Dobson Date: circa 1645 Medium: oil on canvas http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search…
Was his original full name François Nicolas Dubiez d’Ignancourt Oudart?
c.1150, from O.E. herebeorg, from here "army, host" (see harry) + beorg "refuge, shelter" (related to beorgan "save, preserve")[Ger. Herberg "hostel"][cf. burg "fortress", bourge, borough, etc.]; perhaps modeled on O.N. herbergi, from P.Gmc. *kharjaz + *berg-. Sense shifted in M.E. to "refuge, lodgings," then to "place of shelter for ships." http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
Thanks, CGS for directing the analyis back to the Navy!
GRC, I had the same reaction to linkless Lord Lauderdale; but a search yields two links in 1660, and it turns out that his name is John Maitland http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
The search for the Hoard leads to "the Cole Harbour."
L&M note: "A stone gateway."
In this Richard III Society discussion of investigations into the fate of Edward IV's sons, structures excavated in the Tower are identified (Fig. 1) as "Cole Harbour" and (Fig. 2) "Cole (Cold) Harbour Tower and Gate." http://www.r3.org/bookcase/misc/w…
"Mr. Coventry...did tell me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the business of the Victuallers’ money to be paid by himself, contrary to old practice"
We were introduced to this Thursday 12 June 1662: "But a great difference happened between Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, about passing the Victualler’s account, and whether Sir George is to pay the Victualler his money, or the Exchequer; Sir George claiming it to be his place to save his threepences. It ended in anger, and I believe will come to be a question before the King and Council." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Pepys, who chose to stay out of it, may prove to have been right.
"Cheapside Hoard" - plausible place; all jewelry; no gold or silver
"The numerous and diverse objects of the Hoard had lain undisturbed in their deeply interred hiding place for some 300 years until they were dug up during excavation work in Cheapside in London [England] in 1912. Thus all the recovered objects date to before the mid-17th century, which was a time when Cheapside had been 'the principle market street in London' and was noted for its goldsmiths' shops." http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/n…
Lovely photographs of the jewelry. Thanks for the lead, Judith Boles!
"the King’s warrant runs for me on my Lord’s part, and one Mr. Lee for Sir Harry Bennet, to demand leave of the Lieutenant of the Tower for to make search."
L&M note: "The treasure (of gold, silver and jewels) was supposed to have been hidden by John Barkstead, a goldsmith of the Strand, who had been Lieutenant of the Tower, 1652-60. Recently he had been arrested in Holland, and in April 1662 had been executed. It was alleged that he had been unable to recover his hoard before he fled abroad at the Restoration. Several attempts have been made since Pepys's time (e.g. in 1958) to find it...."
Insurrectionists targeted the civil concord of City and Crown, insofar as the Lord Mayor’s Day / Show is the ritual journey on the Thames of the Lord Mayor from London to Westminster to again pledge allegiance by the nation's prosperous commercial center to the monarch.
That this was a critical symbol and more is argued by John Patrick Montaño, “The Quest for Consensus: The Lord Mayor’s Shows in the 1670s,” in *Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration : Literature, Drama, History* by Gerald Maclean (ed.) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/…
Quakers were at this time often mistaken for Fifth-Monarchy insurrectionists because these were two of the several groups of nonconformists -- Quakers publicly distinguished themselves by their dress and regular meetings; whereas the true insurrectionists, the Fifth-Monarchy men among them were secretive irregulars.
Contrast this remark with everything else -- both substance and tone -- in this day's entry.
Methinks, for all his recent protestations about wedded bliss, his heart is elsewhere: there is his persistent concern with a broader pleasure (hedonic) principle.
Helas, Robert Gertz, he is, perhaps as befits a junior in years and rank: Sir John Mennes, Comptroller of the Navy, was born in 1599; Sir William Penn, Commissioner of the Navy, was born in 1621.
A L&M note sez "The Comptroller's duties were miscellaneous, and recognised to be particularly difficult [perhaps beyond a life-long sea-dog, but hardly fit for another like]. Both Mennes and Batten [Penn's Superior officer in the Civil War, and now Surveyor of the Navy] resisted [the] appointments" Pepys records here.
Surprise! Bureaucratic inefficiencies abounding; Pepys's hand isn't yet firmly on the Navy's tiller.
"Anybody know anything about the “matted Gallery” (presumably ‘laid, spread, or hung with matting or mats’)?"
Looking ahead a bit -- but this is not exactly a "spoiler": 1662/63, May "23rd To White Hall, where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report £200,000 per annum And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and took their papers for our perusal, and so parted." http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFi…
Other great halls, e.g., Guildhall, also had such galleries as you suppose, language hat.
“I must here take notice, that Rosalinda, a famous Whig Partizan, has most unfortunately a very beautiful Mole on the Tory Part of her Forehead; which being very conspicuous, has occasioned many Mistakes, and given an Handle to her Enemies to misrepresent her Face, as tho’ it had Revolted from the Whig Interest. But, whatever this natural Patch may seem to intimate, it is well known that her Notions of Government are still the same. This unlucky Mole, however, has mis-led several Coxcombs; and like the hanging out of false Colours, made some of them converse with Rosalinda in what they thought the Spirit of her Party, when on a sudden she has given them an unexpected Fire, that has sunk them all at once. If Rosalinda is unfortunate in her Mole, Nigranilla is as unhappy in a Pimple, which forces her, against her Inclinations, to Patch on the Whig Side.
“I am told that many virtuous Matrons, who formerly have been taught to believe that this artificial Spotting of the Face was unlawful, are now reconciled by a Zeal for their Cause, to what they could not be prompted by a Concern for their Beauty. This way of declaring War upon one another, puts me in mind of what is reported of the Tigress, that several Spots rise in her Skin when she is angry, or as Mr. Cowley has imitated the Verses that stand as the Motto on this Paper,
———She swells with angry Pride, And calls forth all her Spots on ev’ry Side. [Davideis, Bk III. But Cowley’s Tiger is a Male.]
“When I was in the Theatre the Time above-mentioned, I had the Curiosity to count the Patches on both Sides, and found the Tory Patches to be about Twenty stronger than the Whig; but to make amends for this small Inequality, I the next Morning found the whole Puppet-Show filled with Faces spotted after the Whiggish Manner. Whether or no the Ladies had retreated hither in order to rally their Forces I cannot tell; but the next Night they came in so great a Body to the Opera, that they out-number’d the Enemy.
“This Account of Party Patches, will, I am afraid, appear improbable to those who live at a Distance from the fashionable World: but as it is a Distinction of a very singular Nature, and what perhaps may never meet with a Parallel, I think I should not have discharged the Office of a faithful SPECTATOR, had I not recorded it.” http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectat…
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About Nicholas Oudart
Terry F • Link
Oudart (Oudant), Nicholas -- a Fleming, secretary to Mary, Dowager Princess of Orange from c. 1651. He was to become Latin Secretary to Charles II in 1666. He wrote an account of good practices of highway construction in the Netherlands, that Pepys refers to on Sat. 1 November, 1662. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… [L&M Index and iii.246, n.2]
His naturalization:
Oudart's, &c. Nat.
Sir Edward Turner reports Amendments in the Bill for Naruralizing of Nicholas Oudart Esquire, and others: Which he read in his Place.
Resolved, That John Van de Hoeux, Abigail Bourchier, Wm. Geering, and Elizabeth Hodgkin, who have produced no Certificates of their receiving the Sacrament, be left out of the Bill.
He also presents a List of Names recommended by his Majesty, the Lord Chancellor, and others, amounting to Thirty-six in Number.
Resolved, That the said Names be added in the Bill.
Resolved, That the Bill, with those Amendments and Additions, be ingrossed.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 12 December 1660', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 205-07. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 31 October 2005.
A portrait? NPG 288
Probably Nicholas Oudart
by William Dobson
Date: circa 1645
Medium: oil on canvas
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search…
Was his original full name
François Nicolas Dubiez d’Ignancourt Oudart?
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
harbor
c.1150, from O.E. herebeorg, from here "army, host" (see harry) + beorg "refuge, shelter" (related to beorgan "save, preserve")[Ger. Herberg "hostel"][cf. burg "fortress", bourge, borough, etc.]; perhaps modeled on O.N. herbergi, from P.Gmc. *kharjaz + *berg-. Sense shifted in M.E. to "refuge, lodgings," then to "place of shelter for ships." http://www.etymonline.com/index.p…
Thanks, CGS for directing the analyis back to the Navy!
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
And yes, Lauderdale is the L in "cabal"
(Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
GRC, I had the same reaction to linkless Lord Lauderdale; but a search yields two links in 1660, and it turns out that his name is John Maitland http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
The search for the Hoard leads to "the Cole Harbour."
L&M note: "A stone gateway."
In this Richard III Society discussion of investigations into the fate of Edward IV's sons, structures excavated in the Tower are identified (Fig. 1) as "Cole Harbour" and (Fig. 2) "Cole (Cold) Harbour Tower and Gate." http://www.r3.org/bookcase/misc/w…
There is skull-duggery here....
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"Mr. Coventry...did tell me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the business of the Victuallers’ money to be paid by himself, contrary to old practice"
We were introduced to this Thursday 12 June 1662: "But a great difference happened between Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, about passing the Victualler’s account, and whether Sir George is to pay the Victualler his money, or the Exchequer; Sir George claiming it to be his place to save his threepences. It ended in anger, and I believe will come to be a question before the King and Council."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Pepys, who chose to stay out of it, may prove to have been right.
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"Cheapside Hoard" - plausible place; all jewelry; no gold or silver
"The numerous and diverse objects of the Hoard had lain undisturbed in their deeply interred hiding place for some 300 years until they were dug up during excavation work in Cheapside in London [England] in 1912. Thus all the recovered objects date to before the mid-17th century, which was a time when Cheapside had been 'the principle market street in London' and was noted for its goldsmiths' shops." http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/n…
Lovely photographs of the jewelry. Thanks for the lead, Judith Boles!
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Mr Coventry "prepares to bedaub [Sir G.C.] and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day."
L&M note: "Carteret was royalist Governor of Jersey, 1643-51. For some of the stories criticising his conduct there, see [Wed. 24 June 1663]."
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"I was forced to stay so long in the ale-house hard by, till my boy run home for my cloak"
L&M note: "When out of doors a gentleman was properly dressed only if he carried a sword or wore an upper garment."
* * *
"Mr. Secretary Morris, to whom Sir H. Bennet would give the upper hand;"
L&M note: "Both were Secretaries of State, but Morice was the senior by appointment."
About Thursday 30 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"the King’s warrant runs for me on my Lord’s part, and one Mr. Lee for Sir Harry Bennet, to demand leave of the Lieutenant of the Tower for to make search."
L&M note: "The treasure (of gold, silver and jewels) was supposed to have been hidden by John Barkstead, a goldsmith of the Strand, who had been Lieutenant of the Tower, 1652-60. Recently he had been arrested in Holland, and in April 1662 had been executed. It was alleged that he had been unable to recover his hoard before he fled abroad at the Restoration. Several attempts have been made since Pepys's time (e.g. in 1958) to find it...."
Robert Gertz was that you?
About Wednesday 29 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Insurrectionists targeted the civil concord of City and Crown, insofar as the Lord Mayor’s Day / Show is the ritual journey on the Thames of the Lord Mayor from London to Westminster to again pledge allegiance by the nation's prosperous commercial center to the monarch.
That this was a critical symbol and more is argued by John Patrick Montaño, “The Quest for Consensus: The Lord Mayor’s Shows in the 1670s,” in *Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration : Literature, Drama, History* by Gerald Maclean (ed.) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/…
About Wednesday 29 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Today's theme seems to be loose ends:
- Sir G. Carteret’s accounts for the last year;
- an impending presentation on the morrow (of Sir. G.C.'s accounts?);
- a letter about trouble regarding Uncle Robert's will http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
- the mysterious letter from Sandwich "upon matters of concernment"...
- the lately incarcerated, who were likely innocent;
Loose ends, not auguring for an untroubled sleep....
About Wednesday 29 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"most of the...people...clapped up [last Sunday are] so poor, and silly, and low, that they do not fear them at all."
Many Quakers who were imprisoned throughout November were held until January. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Quakers were at this time often mistaken for Fifth-Monarchy insurrectionists because these were two of the several groups of nonconformists -- Quakers publicly distinguished themselves by their dress and regular meetings; whereas the true insurrectionists, the Fifth-Monarchy men among them were secretive irregulars.
About Tuesday 28 October 1662
Terry F • Link
See what draws our interest!!
So far we have spent 7/8 = 0.875 of our annotations on 11/88 = 0.125 of this entry.
About Tuesday 28 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"ridiculous talk”
Contrast this remark with everything else -- both substance and tone -- in this day's entry.
Methinks, for all his recent protestations about wedded bliss, his heart is elsewhere: there is his persistent concern with a broader pleasure (hedonic) principle.
SP the goal-oriented man?
About Tuesday 28 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"my wife...and I passing an hour or two in ridiculous talk"
Sweet nothings? = everythings in an affectionately companionionable marriage; but perhaps Sam'l means here what he says/writes in its aftermath.
About Monday 27 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"Sir Will P is now Minnes’ assistant?"
Helas, Robert Gertz, he is, perhaps as befits a junior in years and rank: Sir John Mennes, Comptroller of the Navy, was born in 1599; Sir William Penn, Commissioner of the Navy, was born in 1621.
A L&M note sez "The Comptroller's duties were miscellaneous, and recognised to be particularly difficult [perhaps beyond a life-long sea-dog, but hardly fit for another like]. Both Mennes and Batten [Penn's Superior officer in the Civil War, and now Surveyor of the Navy] resisted [the] appointments" Pepys records here.
Surprise! Bureaucratic inefficiencies abounding; Pepys's hand isn't yet firmly on the Navy's tiller.
About Monday 27 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"Anybody know anything about the “matted Gallery” (presumably ‘laid, spread, or hung with matting or mats’)?"
Looking ahead a bit -- but this is not exactly a "spoiler":
1662/63, May "23rd To White Hall, where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report £200,000 per annum And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and took their papers for our perusal, and so parted."
http://www.bootlegbooks.com/NonFi…
Other great halls, e.g., Guildhall, also had such galleries as you suppose, language hat.
About Patches, Black
Terry F • Link
“I must here take notice, that Rosalinda, a famous Whig Partizan, has most unfortunately a very beautiful Mole on the Tory Part of her Forehead; which being very conspicuous, has occasioned many Mistakes, and given an Handle to her Enemies to misrepresent her Face, as tho’ it had Revolted from the Whig Interest. But, whatever this natural Patch may seem to intimate, it is well known that her Notions of Government are still the same. This unlucky Mole, however, has mis-led several Coxcombs; and like the hanging out of false Colours, made some of them converse with Rosalinda in what they thought the Spirit of her Party, when on a sudden she has given them an unexpected Fire, that has sunk them all at once. If Rosalinda is unfortunate in her Mole, Nigranilla is as unhappy in a Pimple, which forces her, against her Inclinations, to Patch on the Whig Side.
“I am told that many virtuous Matrons, who formerly have been taught to believe that this artificial Spotting of the Face was unlawful, are now reconciled by a Zeal for their Cause, to what they could not be prompted by a Concern for their Beauty. This way of declaring War upon one another, puts me in mind of what is reported of the Tigress, that several Spots rise in her Skin when she is angry, or as Mr. Cowley has imitated the Verses that stand as the Motto on this Paper,
———She swells with angry Pride,
And calls forth all her Spots on ev’ry Side.
[Davideis, Bk III. But Cowley’s Tiger is a Male.]
“When I was in the Theatre the Time above-mentioned, I had the Curiosity to count the Patches on both Sides, and found the Tory Patches to be about Twenty stronger than the Whig; but to make amends for this small Inequality, I the next Morning found the whole Puppet-Show filled with Faces spotted after the Whiggish Manner. Whether or no the Ladies had retreated hither in order to rally their Forces I cannot tell; but the next Night they came in so great a Body to the Opera, that they out-number’d the Enemy.
“This Account of Party Patches, will, I am afraid, appear improbable to those who live at a Distance from the fashionable World: but as it is a Distinction of a very singular Nature, and what perhaps may never meet with a Parallel, I think I should not have discharged the Office of a faithful SPECTATOR, had I not recorded it.”
http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectat…
About Monday 27 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"------She swells with angry Pride,
And calls forth all her Spots on ev'ry Side
(Davideis, Bk III. But Cowley's Tiger is a Male.)"
http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectat…