Image of SIR William Batten's will in full, posted here as 4th image down. Whatever Sam or we might come to think of Sir W., "A servant named Mingo was made keeper of the Harwich lighthouse in the will left by his master, Royal Navy surveyor Sir William Batten." The will is posted here to record Mingo as among Black "Alternatives" to "Servants and Ayahs": "Mingo - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper (198KB)" Document | Transcript. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.u…
"I broached the business of our being abused about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not."
L&M note: "The flag-makers were over-charging: below [ 13 August ]. John Young, a principal contractor, was a friend of Batten, and served later as an overseer of his will." Sam's quarrel as a proleptic Sir W.B., R.I.P.; also see Pauline's background post on John Young (b) http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Batten's response to this ambush seems to be what Sam awaits with relish: besides his known growing mastery of the nitty-gritty details of the affairs at the docks and yards at Deptford and Woolwich, his reading Hollond is probably not a secret; I wonder if his ace will prove to be his re-reading & annotating -- his superior understanding -- of the Duke's formal charge to the Naval Office ("Instructions").
"in the evening Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber a little troubled and melancholy, to my lute late,..."
What a juxtaposition! Mathematiques, a lute and "Melancholy Baby": a short read of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1632) http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~rlblair/…
L&M note refers to 5 February; Mary on The duke's Institucions.
“There's a long note here by L&M. These instructions (largely stereotyped) were issued by every High Admiral at the start of his term of office. The Instructions of 1662 (based largely on those of 1640) remained substantially in force until Nelson's day. Pepys preseved two Mss copies of them .
“Officially the Navy Board could only act within the terms so established or by obtaining a special warrant for additional powers, but in practice there tended to be more flexibility than this.” http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Sam goes back to the basics; thanks, Mary.
"...all the morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in the margin thereof.”
Pray, tell what instructions these be? Searching, I find some 26 days ago (pre-deluge, &c.) consistent with Sam’s interests in the Ropeyard at Woolwich, and his reading of Mr. Holland [Hollond’s] discourse of the Navy” and its “diseases” three days ago: those being “such instructions as concern the officers of the Yard” of 2 July: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… (Just a not entirely uneducated guess.)
"There were three pews in the Navy Board gallery. The one below would be at the front, and therefore the Battens, by rank, would expect to sit there. (L&M)"
Sam's lot returning to morning service after two weeks away: Sunday 20 July 1662 he had rain in his house http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Sunday 13 July 1662 he had hurts his cods http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Nor does he tell his Diary about the sermon or preacher today.
This is true perhaps of the churches that practice infant baptism, whose adherents are the preponderance of Christians globally -- Catholics and the Protestants of the "Dynastic" (C of E) and "Magisterial" (Lutheran & Calvinist) Reformations.
However, Michael L, those of the "Radical" Reformation practice only "believers' baptism" of those who have reached the "age of discretion" and make their own "profession of faith." This is practiced notably by Baptists (the largest US Protestant family today), who stem from 17c English separatists who found in Holland the like-minded Mennonites, refugees from Bohemia and a species of "Anabaptists" = "Again-baptizers". so-called because the first generation, believing Scripture authorized only "believers' baptism," had themselves been baptized as infants, and so they underwent a second, "true" baptism -- and this persists for some adult "baptized" converts. Nor do the the Holiness/Pentecostal Movements practice infant baptism, presently the fastest-growing Christian groups, globally.
It occurs to me that the model ship posted by GrahamT is probably accessible only to those who are members of the "Pepys Diary Discussion" SmartGroup; but that is an incentive for those who do not yet belong to do so -- it's free, painless and rewarding: http://www.smartgroups.com/group/…
"causing the model hanging in my chamber to be taken down and hung up in my office, for fear of being spoilt by the workmen, and for my own convenience of studying it."
Further actions on/in whichever court: mixed doubles; tag-team; changing partners; 40-love; individual and national dignities at stake...at stake...at the stake....
Add to post about the garden returned to a tennis court: offstage event in synch with with events occurring in The Bedchamber, By Jeannine Kerwin -- grand read, for which thank you very much, Jeannine (aided by Pedro): back-and-forth; changes of service; temper-tantrums; stalking off the court; flacks; clacks; humiliation; careers on the lin. There are losers -- but are there any winners in the long run?
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First Reading
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Already posted by vincent [cumgranissalis] on Tue 14 Oct 2003, 7:28 pm | Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… [I leapt before I looked.]
more on This Admiral:
http://49.1911encyclopedia.org/B/…
http://www.rickard.karoo.net/peop…
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Image of SIR William Batten's will in full, posted here as 4th image down. Whatever Sam or we might come to think of Sir W., "A servant named Mingo was made keeper of the Harwich lighthouse in the will left by his master, Royal Navy surveyor Sir William Batten."
The will is posted here to record Mingo as among Black "Alternatives" to "Servants and Ayahs": "Mingo - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper (198KB)" Document | Transcript. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.u…
About Tuesday 29 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"I broached the business of our being abused about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not."
L&M note: "The flag-makers were over-charging: below [ 13 August ]. John Young, a principal contractor, was a friend of Batten, and served later as an overseer of his will." Sam's quarrel as a proleptic Sir W.B., R.I.P.; also see Pauline's background post on John Young (b)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Batten's response to this ambush seems to be what Sam awaits with relish: besides his known growing mastery of the nitty-gritty details of the affairs at the docks and yards at Deptford and Woolwich, his reading Hollond is probably not a secret; I wonder if his ace will prove to be his re-reading & annotating -- his superior understanding -- of the Duke's formal charge to the Naval Office ("Instructions").
About Monday 28 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"in the evening Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber a little troubled and melancholy, to my lute late,..."
What a juxtaposition! Mathematiques, a lute and "Melancholy Baby": a short read of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1632)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~rlblair/…
About Monday 28 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
L&M note refers to 5 February; Mary on The duke's Institucions.
“There's a long note here by L&M. These instructions (largely stereotyped) were issued by every High Admiral at the start of his term of office. The Instructions of 1662 (based largely on those of 1640) remained substantially in force until Nelson's day. Pepys preseved two Mss copies of them .
“Officially the Navy Board could only act within the terms so established or by obtaining a special warrant for additional powers, but in practice there tended to be more flexibility than this.”
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sam goes back to the basics; thanks, Mary.
About Monday 28 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"...all the morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in the margin thereof.”
Pray, tell what instructions these be? Searching, I find some 26 days ago (pre-deluge, &c.) consistent with Sam’s interests in the Ropeyard at Woolwich, and his reading of Mr. Holland [Hollond’s] discourse of the Navy” and its “diseases” three days ago: those being “such instructions as concern the officers of the Yard” of 2 July: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
(Just a not entirely uneducated guess.)
About Monday 28 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"Will lying there at my feet"
L&M note: "Sc. in a truckle bed."
About Sunday 30 March 1662
Terry F. • Link
"There were three pews in the Navy Board gallery. The one below would be at the front, and therefore the Battens, by rank, would expect to sit there. (L&M)"
A gallery of banked box-pews, perhaps not unlike those Rex Gordon cites:
http://www.fortunecity.com/athena…
About Sunday 27 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"At church alone in the pew in the morning"
Sam's lot returning to morning service after two weeks away:
Sunday 20 July 1662 he had rain in his house
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Sunday 13 July 1662 he had hurts his cods
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Nor does he tell his Diary about the sermon or preacher today.
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Jeannine's "Epilogue" -- with splicing -- belongs somehow with the original narrative (my view), but not as a Comment.
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"...baptism is only supposed to be done once..."
This is true perhaps of the churches that practice infant baptism, whose adherents are the preponderance of Christians globally -- Catholics and the Protestants of the "Dynastic" (C of E) and "Magisterial" (Lutheran & Calvinist) Reformations.
However, Michael L, those of the "Radical" Reformation practice only "believers' baptism" of those who have reached the "age of discretion" and make their own "profession of faith." This is practiced notably by Baptists (the largest US Protestant family today), who stem from 17c English separatists who found in Holland the like-minded Mennonites, refugees from Bohemia and a species of "Anabaptists" = "Again-baptizers". so-called because the first generation, believing Scripture authorized only "believers' baptism," had themselves been baptized as infants, and so they underwent a second, "true" baptism -- and this persists for some adult "baptized" converts. Nor do the the Holiness/Pentecostal Movements practice infant baptism, presently the fastest-growing Christian groups, globally.
About Foresight
Terry F. • Link
HMS Foresight was an Elizabeth class 4th Rate Frigate, built by Shish, at Deptford in 1650:Wrecked in 1698. http://www.battleships-cruisers.c…
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
It occurs to me that the model ship posted by GrahamT is probably accessible only to those who are members of the "Pepys Diary Discussion" SmartGroup; but that is an incentive for those who do not yet belong to do so -- it's free, painless and rewarding: http://www.smartgroups.com/group/…
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"causing the model hanging in my chamber to be taken down and hung up in my office, for fear of being spoilt by the workmen, and for my own convenience of studying it."
L&M note re the model: "Of The Royal James: see above http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
For a model ship worth studying see the one posted by GrahamT http://www.smartgroups.com/pictur…
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Jeannine, thank you for the moving Epilogue to a very fine, shocking and devastating narrative.
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Further actions on/in whichever court: mixed doubles; tag-team; changing partners; 40-love; individual and national dignities at stake...at stake...at the stake....
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Add to post about the garden returned to a tennis court: offstage event in synch with with events occurring in The Bedchamber, By Jeannine Kerwin -- grand read, for which thank you very much, Jeannine (aided by Pedro): back-and-forth; changes of service; temper-tantrums; stalking off the court; flacks; clacks; humiliation; careers on the lin. There are losers -- but are there any winners in the long run?
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
17c recycling.
"The garden had in turn been made from an older tennis court ('The Brake') in the 1650s.”
About Saturday 26 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"my Lord hath lost the garden to his lodgings, and that it is turning into a tennis-court"
L&M note: "The garden had in turn been made from an older tennis court ('The Brake') in the 1650s. (R).
About Figs
Terry F. • Link
Fig: encyclopedia article (keep the Quidnunc Qualifier in mind)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig
Fig hisory, varieties, selection, recipes
http://homecooking.about.com/libr…