"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. [Cowley, Davideies, Bk. III]
"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…
L&M note: "I.e. the other ports on that coast...Sandwich had been one of those mainly responsible for the sale of Dunkirk...."
"it seems Spong is so far thought guilty...but that I thought him to be a very innocent fellow"
L&M note: "John Spong, Chancery clerk, at his examination, deposed that he had been informed that the Fifth-Monarchy men had bribed some of the Tower guard, and had planned to rise on St. Bartholomew's Day....Pepys wrote in November to Spong's fiend, William Lilly, the astrologer, saying he had spoken to several privy counsellors on Spong's behalf and could, regretfully, do no more....Spong was released on 24 January 1663...."
One would think a good astrologer would have known what was coming and what was not.
"a bridge for Tangier"
L&M note: "A jetty 100 feet long, equipped with a capstan crane...[constucted under the guidance of] Deptford shipwrights...."
"He showed me our commission"
L&M note: "Pepys was a member of the Commission until Mat 1679 and served as its Treasurer from March 1665."
"what is whispered, that young Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King being married to his mother"
L&M note: "This is an early appearance of this rumor - in July 1663 Clarendon was accused of spreading it in order to alienate the King and the Duke of York.... The story became widespread in the 1670s with the growth of the movement to make Crofts (Monmouth) Charles's successor. It was solemnly denied in three proclamations issued in 1679-80. His mother was Lucy Walter (d. 1658)."
Another take on "Admiral Sir William Penn(b.1621 - d.1670)
"Penn was born, married and buried in Bristol. He was Cromwell's Sea General who was responsible, with General Venables, for the British capture of Jamaica in 1655. Jamaica became the base for British slavery and piracy and for British colonial expansion in the West (see Port Royal). Admiral Penn had also been rewarded for his services in Ireland to the Cromwellian Commonwealth with a castle and a confiscated estate in Ireland (1656, Macroom Castle). An interesting fact, which speaks of the continual duplicity of the Penn family, is that the Coat of Arms which appears with his battle armour at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol is a fraud. The Admiral and the Penn family were not entitled to use the Coat of Arms which belonged to the Penns of Penn in Buckinghamshire. The Admiral and his family merely appropriated the Coat of Arms just as they had appropriated their Irish estate and African slaves for themselves and the isle of Jamaica for England. William Penn, the Admiral's son, was to take this appropriation further with his proprietorship of Pennsylvania." http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~rsteph…
"All this day soldiers going up and down the town, there being an alarm and many Quakers and others clapped up; but I believe without any reason: only they say in Dorsetshire there hath been some rising discovered."
L&M note: "A company of foot and a troop of horse had been sent into the city at the Lord Mayor's request, and over 300 were arrested (though not all were imprisoned) - Quakers from the Bull and Mouth meeting [congregation] in Aldersgate, and Anabaptists from Glovers' Hall. Arrests continued throughout November, many Quakers not being released until January 1663.... There had been rumors of a plot in Dorset since July....Cf. W. Denton to Sir R. Verney, London, 30 October 1662: 'Here hath long been news of a plot and rioting about Sherborne in Dorsetshire...a hot alarm to King, General and City...'. In London, he continued, Ludlow was to have acted as leader, and the plan was to time the rising for Lord Mayor's day, the 29th, 'about noon, when all were busy, or at night when all were drunk'...."
A small piece of toast or bread soaked in gravy or other liquid or used as a garnish. [From sip, alteration of sop.] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
For a less epic view of Tripe: "Tripe is a type of edible offal made from the stomach of various domestic animals. Beef tripe is typically made from the first three of a cattle's four stomachs, the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum tripe is also seen, but with much less frequency. Sheep and pork tripe are also produced.
"Fresh tripe, which includes bits of the stomach's last content, smells very unappetizing for humans. Nevertheless, is a favourite of many dogs and other carnivores. Tripe has to be watered and meticulously cleaned for human consumption.
"Tripe is the muscular lining of beef stomach (can also be from sheep or pigs, but rarely). It comes in 4 types: the fat part of the first belly (called gras double in France), and three different sections of the honeycomb (the second stomach of the cow)--light, dark, and the partial honeycomb of the 2nd belly's extreme end.
"One thing is sure, this delectable, gelatinous, and blonde membrane--celebrated by Homer and by Rabelais--is tough to digest. Ideally it's cooked some 12 hours. And it should never be eaten by the dyspeptic or goutish.
"How indigestible is it? According to Rabelias, so indigestible that Gargamelle gave birth to Gargantua after eating a huge dish of godebillios (the fat tripes of oxen fattened on rich guimo-meadows).
"How delectable? According to Homer, it was prepared in honor of Achilles, son of Thetis and Peleus, petulant hero of the Trojan war, killer of Hector who ultimately fell at the hand of Paris.
"And it is reputed to be the cause of the quarrel in the 11th century between William the Conquerer (in French history, William the Bastard; in English, King of England, Duke of Normandy) and the enormously fat and sensuous Phillip I, King of France. Phillip's jest over tripe supposedly provoked a promise by William "that he would come and be churched at Notre Dame de Paris with 10,000 lances instead of candles."
"Then again, it was shkemhe chorba, tripe soup, that fueled the disciplined Christian Jannissaries of the Ottoman Empire on to their storied exploits--making and unmaking sultans to the tune of their military "Turkish music." http://www.soupsong.com/ftripe.ht…
Methinks Sam is ambivalent about the palace intrigues.
He BOTH hopes that Lady Castlemaine remain a very visible celebrity, AND is aware that the whole shebang could cause troubles, as are others, evidently.
Pepys introduces inventory control to the Royal Navy.
"I fell to draw out my conceptions about books for the clerk that cheques in the yard to keep according to the distinct works there, which pleases me very well, and I am confident it will be of great use."
"For many centuries, blood-letting was considered a tried and true remedy for certain conditions. It was recommended for fevers, inflammations, a variety of disease conditions and, ironically, for hemorrhage...A brief selection of material, in word and image, on bloodletting [from] Henry Clutterbuck M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians, *On the Proper Administration of Blood-Letting, for the Prevention and Cure of Disease*(London, 1840), [which] gives a brief history and outlines the proper use of the treatment." http://www.library.ucla.edu/libra…
"I have some trouble about my brother Tom, who is now left to keep my father?s trade, in which I have great fears that he will miscarry for want of brains and care." Wed. 23 July 1662: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The Greek phrase missed out of the Project Gutenberg transcription is: τά εφ ήμιν χγ τά γχ εφ ώμιν - L&M note: "Epictetus' warning against worry; cf. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Glyn, it seems that "the Duke's House" here is our old friend "The Opera", Lincoln's Inn Fields, a theatre created from a tennis court by Davenant in 1661: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ; but, yes, methinks tonight it was reserved for select clients only, for the premier of what turned out to be a theatrical dud; yet it was an event at which to see and be seen.
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About Monday 27 October 1662
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. [Cowley, Davideies, Bk. III]
"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
L&M note that as many as 15 patches was not altogether uncommon.
About Monday 27 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"it was not Dunkirk, but the other places"
L&M note: "I.e. the other ports on that coast...Sandwich had been one of those mainly responsible for the sale of Dunkirk...."
"it seems Spong is so far thought guilty...but that I thought him to be a very innocent fellow"
L&M note: "John Spong, Chancery clerk, at his examination, deposed that he had been informed that the Fifth-Monarchy men had bribed some of the Tower guard, and had planned to rise on St. Bartholomew's Day....Pepys wrote in November to Spong's fiend, William Lilly, the astrologer, saying he had spoken to several privy counsellors on Spong's behalf and could, regretfully, do no more....Spong was released on 24 January 1663...."
One would think a good astrologer would have known what was coming and what was not.
"a bridge for Tangier"
L&M note: "A jetty 100 feet long, equipped with a capstan crane...[constucted under the guidance of] Deptford shipwrights...."
"He showed me our commission"
L&M note: "Pepys was a member of the Commission until Mat 1679 and served as its Treasurer from March 1665."
"what is whispered, that young Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King being married to his mother"
L&M note: "This is an early appearance of this rumor - in July 1663 Clarendon was accused of spreading it in order to alienate the King and the Duke of York.... The story became widespread in the 1670s with the growth of the movement to make Crofts (Monmouth) Charles's successor. It was solemnly denied in three proclamations issued in 1679-80. His mother was Lucy Walter (d. 1658)."
"The Villaine"
L&M note: "See 20 October http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… . Now at the Cockpit theatre, Whitehall Palace."
About General information
Terry F • Link
The Maritime History Virtual Archives
http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica…
About Admiral William Penn
Terry F • Link
Another take on "Admiral Sir William Penn(b.1621 - d.1670)
"Penn was born, married and buried in Bristol. He was Cromwell's Sea General who was responsible, with General Venables, for the British capture of Jamaica in 1655. Jamaica became the base for British slavery and piracy and for British colonial expansion in the West (see Port Royal). Admiral Penn had also been rewarded for his services in Ireland to the Cromwellian Commonwealth with a castle and a confiscated estate in Ireland (1656, Macroom Castle). An interesting fact, which speaks of the continual duplicity of the Penn family, is that the Coat of Arms which appears with his battle armour at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol is a fraud. The Admiral and the Penn family were not entitled to use the Coat of Arms which belonged to the Penns of Penn in Buckinghamshire. The Admiral and his family merely appropriated the Coat of Arms just as they had appropriated their Irish estate and African slaves for themselves and the isle of Jamaica for England. William Penn, the Admiral's son, was to take this appropriation further with his proprietorship of Pennsylvania." http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~rsteph…
About Sunday 26 October 1662
Terry F • Link
"All this day soldiers going up and down the town, there being an alarm and many Quakers and others clapped up; but I believe without any reason: only they say in Dorsetshire there hath been some rising discovered."
L&M note: "A company of foot and a troop of horse had been sent into the city at the Lord Mayor's request, and over 300 were arrested (though not all were imprisoned) - Quakers from the Bull and Mouth meeting [congregation] in Aldersgate, and Anabaptists from Glovers' Hall. Arrests continued throughout November, many Quakers not being released until January 1663.... There had been rumors of a plot in Dorset since July....Cf. W. Denton to Sir R. Verney, London, 30 October 1662: 'Here hath long been news of a plot and rioting about Sherborne in Dorsetshire...a hot alarm to King, General and City...'. In London, he continued, Ludlow was to have acted as leader, and the plan was to time the rising for Lord Mayor's day, the 29th, 'about noon, when all were busy, or at night when all were drunk'...."
About Saturday 25 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Mexican chicken in mole ["MO-lay"] sauce
Indeed, language hat, my favorite Mexican cook occasionally used coffee or even Coca Cola in hers, depending on what she had at hand.
About Saturday 25 October 1662
Terry F • Link
sippet
A small piece of toast or bread soaked in gravy or other liquid or used as a garnish. [From sip, alteration of sop.] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/…
About Tripe
Terry F • Link
For a less epic view of Tripe:
"Tripe is a type of edible offal made from the stomach of various domestic animals. Beef tripe is typically made from the first three of a cattle's four stomachs, the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum tripe is also seen, but with much less frequency. Sheep and pork tripe are also produced.
"Fresh tripe, which includes bits of the stomach's last content, smells very unappetizing for humans. Nevertheless, is a favourite of many dogs and other carnivores. Tripe has to be watered and meticulously cleaned for human consumption.
"Tripe is eaten in many parts of the world...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
About Tripe
Terry F • Link
Tripe
"Tripe is the muscular lining of beef stomach (can also be from sheep or pigs, but rarely). It comes in 4 types: the fat part of the first belly (called gras double in France), and three different sections of the honeycomb (the second stomach of the cow)--light, dark, and the partial honeycomb of the 2nd belly's extreme end.
"One thing is sure, this delectable, gelatinous, and blonde membrane--celebrated by Homer and by Rabelais--is tough to digest. Ideally it's cooked some 12 hours. And it should never be eaten by the dyspeptic or goutish.
"How indigestible is it? According to Rabelias, so indigestible that Gargamelle gave birth to Gargantua after eating a huge dish of godebillios (the fat tripes of oxen fattened on rich guimo-meadows).
"How delectable? According to Homer, it was prepared in honor of Achilles, son of Thetis and Peleus, petulant hero of the Trojan war, killer of Hector who ultimately fell at the hand of Paris.
"And it is reputed to be the cause of the quarrel in the 11th century between William the Conquerer (in French history, William the Bastard; in English, King of England, Duke of Normandy) and the enormously fat and sensuous Phillip I, King of France. Phillip's jest over tripe supposedly provoked a promise by William "that he would come and be churched at Notre Dame de Paris with 10,000 lances instead of candles."
"Then again, it was shkemhe chorba, tripe soup, that fueled the disciplined Christian Jannissaries of the Ottoman Empire on to their storied exploits--making and unmaking sultans to the tune of their military "Turkish music."
http://www.soupsong.com/ftripe.ht…
About Friday 24 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Methinks Sam is ambivalent about the palace intrigues.
He BOTH hopes that Lady Castlemaine remain a very visible celebrity, AND is aware that the whole shebang could cause troubles, as are others, evidently.
Very titillating.
About Friday 24 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Pepys introduces inventory control to the Royal Navy.
"I fell to draw out my conceptions about books for the clerk that cheques in the yard to keep according to the distinct works there, which pleases me very well, and I am confident it will be of great use."
About Thursday 23 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Bloodletting
"For many centuries, blood-letting was considered a tried and true remedy for certain conditions. It was recommended for fevers, inflammations, a variety of disease conditions and, ironically, for hemorrhage...A brief selection of material, in word and image, on bloodletting [from] Henry Clutterbuck M.D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians, *On the Proper Administration of Blood-Letting, for the Prevention and Cure of Disease*(London, 1840), [which] gives a brief history and outlines the proper use of the treatment." http://www.library.ucla.edu/libra…
About Wednesday 22 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Tom evidently also has cognitive limitations
"I have some trouble about my brother Tom, who is now left to keep my father?s trade, in which I have great fears that he will miscarry for want of brains and care." Wed. 23 July 1662: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry F • Link
To read the Greek clearly, just hit "Preview," whether the Greek is in Unicode or you have Firefox or not (I don't).
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Phil, BTW, when I preview another post, the Greek reads fine: this is crazy-making!
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry F • Link
About the last legal matters of the day:
"by water with Mr. Smith...there being a verdict against me...for my joining with others in committing Field to prison..."
L&M note: "For the case, see http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… . Robert Smith, messenger to the Navy Office, was its principal police officer."
"Mrs. Goldsborough's business"
L&M note that this was one of the disputes inherited with Uncle Robert's Will http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Phil, I posted Greek fine on 9 Sept., but this is gibberish: another example of the hash caused by the site in recent posts.
About Tuesday 21 October 1662
Terry F • Link
The Greek phrase missed out of the Project Gutenberg transcription is:
τά εφ ήμιν χγ τά γχ εφ ώμιν - L&M note: "Epictetus' warning against worry; cf. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About Monday 20 October 1662
Terry F • Link
Glyn, it seems that "the Duke's House" here is our old friend "The Opera", Lincoln's Inn Fields, a theatre created from a tennis court by Davenant in 1661: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ; but, yes, methinks tonight it was reserved for select clients only, for the premier of what turned out to be a theatrical dud; yet it was an event at which to see and be seen.