"I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man."
L&M: This is contrary to Clarendon's view (recoded in 1671-2) that Ashley by now had 'got no ground': Life, ii. 351. Southampton was 55, and ill with gout and the stone. Rumours of his resignation or dismissal were current throughout 1662-4, partly because he had delegated most of his work to his secretary, Sir Philip Warwick. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The French ambassador, de Cominges noted the rising reputation of Ashley as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a dispatch of 30 March/9 April: PRO, PRO 3 1/3, no. iii, f. 91r. But Southampton retained office until his death in 1667.
"But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol’s means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London"
L&M: Gilbert Sheldon. The bishops (together with Clarendon and Southampton,the Lord Treasurer) had been out of favour with the King since February, when they had opposed an indulgence bill for the relief of Catholics which both Buckingham and Ashley had supported. 'From that time, Clarendon wrote,' the King never treated any of them [the bishops] with that respect as he had done formerly, and often spake of them too slightly; which easily encouraged others not only to mention their persons very negligently, but their function and religion itself': Life, ii. 351. It is possible that Ashley had been sarcastic at the expense of the bishops in the debate (8 May) on the fees they paid in translation: LJ, xi. 519.
"And I do believe that my Lord do find some other things go against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other day in the House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General [Monk] and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted;"
L&M: Bruce had moved the order for drafting of this (abortive) bill. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The Commons Journals (having no information about proceedings in committee) do not report the proposal to make exceptions for Sandwich and Albemarle. But they were exempted under another bill (also abortive) which aimed at cancelling the grant of certain Crown lands: CJ, viii. 487.
"I offered him [Sandwich] a way of evading the greatest part of his debt honestly, by making himself debtor to the Parliament, before the King’s time, which he might justly do, yet he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and put himself to the kindness of the King and Duke,"
L&M: He owed £1200: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The restored monarchy honored the debts owed by the revolutionary governments. The Duke's orders for the making out of bills on Sandwich's accounts were issues on 29 and 30 May: BL, Add. 9314, f. 5r. For the payments, see PRO, Adm. 20/4, pp. 248-9, 251.
"So in the evening home, and after supper (my father at my brother’s) and merrily practising to dance, which my wife hath begun to learn this day of Mr. Pembleton, but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited that she do well already, though I think no such thing."
L&M: The lessons continued until the following 27 May.
"Off the Exchange with Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street Lombard Street Running from the junction with Poultry, Threadneedle Street and Cornhill south-west to meet Gracechurch Street. It was a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from a part of Northern Italy known as Lombardy. , where Alexander Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, if he be not a little conceited,"
L&M: Aubrey (i. 126) records that he had been a precocious scholar, 'in his accedence [Latin grammar] at four years old and a quarter'. He was a writer of lyrics and epigrams, an anthologist and a dramatist .
The virginals[a] (or virginal) is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vir…
Oyer and terminer In English law, oyer and terminer (/ˈɔɪ.ər ... ˈtɜːrmɪnər/; a partial translation of the Anglo-French oyer et terminer, which literally means "to hear and to determine"[1]) was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat. The commission was also known by the Law Latin name audiendo et terminando, and the Old English-derived term soc and sac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oye…
"At noon home to dinner...and...there came in Captain Grove, and I found him to be a very stout man, at least in his discourse he would be thought so, and I do think that he is, and one that bears me great respect and deserves to be encouraged for his care in all business."
L&M: Edward Grove, naval captain, acted as a river agent for the Navy Board -- an efficient onw, but fussy and boastful, to judge by his correspondence. On 21 February last, he had impressed Pepys by his willingness to defend the Board against the Exchequer's bailiffs. In 1665 he was guilty of cowardice during te Battle if Lowestoft, when Pepys write him off as a 'prating coxcomb...of no courage': https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… In 1664 Pepys had considered him as a possible husband for his sister Paulina: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"I to the office, where at the choice of maisters and chyrurgeons for the fleet now going out,"
L&M: This squadron sailed to Portugal and the Mediterranean in early May, more than a month later than expected: PRO, Adm. 106/7, no. 199; HMC, Heathcote, pp. 65-6, 80; CSPD 1663-4, p. 130.
"To my office, and thence to Sir W. Batten’s, where Major Holmes was lately come from the Streights, but do tell me strange stories of the faults of Cooper"
"But it being my birthday and my day of liberty regained to me, and lastly, the last play that is likely to be acted at Court before Easter, because of the Lent coming in, I was the easier content to fling away so much money."
L&M: I.e. on the visit to the LIF. It was not until 1675 that the King allowed a company to charge fir admission to a court performance at Whitehall --- much to Evelyn's disgust (29 September): E. Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 121.
" The play being done, we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw “The Wilde Gallant,” "
L&M: Dryden's first comedy; published in 1669. The play was now performed by the King's Company in the Great Hall, Whitehall, which stood between the Banqueting House and the Thames. In December 1662 stepping for seats and a stage 27 ft. wide were constructed there: E. Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 25-6.
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Second Reading
About Friday 15 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"In Scotland, it seems, for all the newes-books tell us every week that they are all so quiett, and everything in the Church settled,"
L&M: E.g. the report from Edinburgh in Kingd. Intell., 6 April, p. 209: 'this country is in all peace and quietness, and most willing to submit to his Majestie in everything'.
Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 15 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man."
L&M: This is contrary to Clarendon's view (recoded in 1671-2) that Ashley by now had 'got no ground': Life, ii. 351. Southampton was 55, and ill with gout and the stone. Rumours of his resignation or dismissal were current throughout 1662-4, partly because he had delegated most of his work to his secretary, Sir Philip Warwick. Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The French ambassador, de Cominges noted the rising reputation of Ashley as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a dispatch of 30 March/9 April: PRO, PRO 3 1/3, no. iii, f. 91r. But Southampton retained office until his death in 1667.
About Friday 15 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol’s means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London"
L&M: Gilbert Sheldon. The bishops (together with Clarendon and Southampton,the Lord Treasurer) had been out of favour with the King since February, when they had opposed an indulgence bill for the relief of Catholics which both Buckingham and Ashley had supported. 'From that time, Clarendon wrote,' the King never treated any of them [the bishops] with that respect as he had done formerly, and often spake of them too slightly; which easily encouraged others not only to mention their persons very negligently, but their function and religion itself': Life, ii. 351. It is possible that Ashley had been sarcastic at the expense of the bishops in the debate (8 May) on the fees they paid in translation: LJ, xi. 519.
About Friday 15 May 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"And I do believe that my Lord do find some other things go against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other day in the House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General [Monk] and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted;"
L&M: Bruce had moved the order for drafting of this (abortive) bill. See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The Commons Journals (having no information about proceedings in committee) do not report the proposal to make exceptions for Sandwich and Albemarle. But they were exempted under another bill (also abortive) which aimed at cancelling the grant of certain Crown lands: CJ, viii. 487.
About Wednesday 29 April 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"I offered him [Sandwich] a way of evading the greatest part of his debt honestly, by making himself debtor to the Parliament, before the King’s time, which he might justly do, yet he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and put himself to the kindness of the King and Duke,"
L&M: He owed £1200: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… The restored monarchy honored the debts owed by the revolutionary governments. The Duke's orders for the making out of bills on Sandwich's accounts were issues on 29 and 30 May: BL, Add. 9314, f. 5r. For the payments, see PRO, Adm. 20/4, pp. 248-9, 251.
About Saturday 25 April 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"So in the evening home, and after supper (my father at my brother’s) and merrily practising to dance, which my wife hath begun to learn this day of Mr. Pembleton, but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited that she do well already, though I think no such thing."
L&M: The lessons continued until the following 27 May.
About Friday 24 April 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"sending my boy by the way to enquire after two dancing masters at our end of the town for my wife to learn, of whose names the boy brought word."
:&M: Pembleton was chosen: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Friday 10 April 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"Off the Exchange with Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street
Lombard Street
Running from the junction with Poultry, Threadneedle Street and Cornhill south-west to meet Gracechurch Street. It was a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from a part of Northern Italy known as Lombardy.
, where Alexander Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, if he be not a little conceited,"
L&M: Aubrey (i. 126) records that he had been a precocious scholar, 'in his accedence [Latin grammar] at four years old and a quarter'. He was a writer of lyrics and epigrams, an anthologist and a dramatist .
About Friday 27 March 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
"to a tavern, and there paid my uncle Wight three pieces of gold for himself, my aunt, and their son that is dead, left by my uncle Robert,"
L&M: The Wights had been left 20s. each to buy rings.
About Wednesday 25 March 1663
Terry Foreman • Link
" I cannot have my dinner as I ought in memory of my being cut for the stone, but I must have it a day or two hence."
L&M: The feast this year was held on 4 April:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Virginals
Terry Foreman • Link
The virginals[a] (or virginal) is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vir…
About Tuesday 17 March 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
More for the hyper=curious
Oyer and terminer
In English law, oyer and terminer (/ˈɔɪ.ər ... ˈtɜːrmɪnər/; a partial translation of the Anglo-French oyer et terminer, which literally means "to hear and to determine"[1]) was the Law French name for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sat. The commission was also known by the Law Latin name audiendo et terminando, and the Old English-derived term soc and sac.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oye…
About Sunday 12 July 1668
Terry Foreman • Link
Vincent van Gigh
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lo…
It was the custom for a long time.
About Friday 13 March 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
"At noon home to dinner...and...there came in Captain Grove, and I found him to be a very stout man, at least in his discourse he would be thought so, and I do think that he is, and one that bears me great respect and deserves to be encouraged for his care in all business."
L&M: Edward Grove, naval captain, acted as a river agent for the Navy Board -- an efficient onw, but fussy and boastful, to judge by his correspondence. On 21 February last, he had impressed Pepys by his willingness to defend the Board against the Exchequer's bailiffs. In 1665 he was guilty of cowardice during te Battle if Lowestoft, when Pepys write him off as a 'prating coxcomb...of no courage': https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… In 1664 Pepys had considered him as a possible husband for his sister Paulina: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 12 March 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
"I to the office, where at the choice of maisters and chyrurgeons for the fleet now going out,"
L&M: This squadron sailed to Portugal and the Mediterranean in early May, more than a month later than expected: PRO, Adm. 106/7, no. 199; HMC, Heathcote, pp. 65-6, 80; CSPD 1663-4, p. 130.
About Monday 9 March 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
Charles II 1662 fine work Crown
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/…
About Friday 6 March 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
"To my office, and thence to Sir W. Batten’s, where Major Holmes was lately come from the Streights, but do tell me strange stories of the faults of Cooper"
L&M: Cooper had taught arithmetic etc. to Pepys, who had hgad him made sailing master in the Reserve: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… For this affair, see R. Ollard, Pepys, pp;. 124-6; https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About George Jolliffe
Terry Foreman • Link
George Joliffe
He had had attended Pepys after his operation for the stone in 1658 and had died shortly afterwards at an early age. (L&M fn. 2/27/1663)
About Monday 23 February 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
"But it being my birthday and my day of liberty regained to me, and lastly, the last play that is likely to be acted at Court before Easter, because of the Lent coming in, I was the easier content to fling away so much money."
L&M: I.e. on the visit to the LIF. It was not until 1675 that the King allowed a company to charge fir admission to a court performance at Whitehall --- much to Evelyn's disgust (29 September): E. Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, p. 121.
About Monday 23 February 1662/63
Terry Foreman • Link
" The play being done, we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw “The Wilde Gallant,” "
L&M: Dryden's first comedy; published in 1669. The play was now performed by the King's Company in the Great Hall, Whitehall, which stood between the Banqueting House and the Thames. In December 1662 stepping for seats and a stage 27 ft. wide were constructed there: E. Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 25-6.