"You say that I am ignoring the time-honored traditions of the Royal Navy? And what might they be? I shall tell you in three words. Rum, buggery, and the lash! Good morning sirs."
"And what are the oaths he has to read every Lord's day”?
What about this of 28 June, last month?: “My mind is now in a wonderful condition of quiet and content, more than ever in all my life, since my minding the business of my office, which I have done most constantly; and I find it to be the very effect of my late oaths against wine and plays, which, if God please, I will keep constant in, for now my business is a delight to me, and brings me great credit, and my purse encreases too.” http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… Perhaps he made a resolution he hasn’t shared with us?
"My wife and I lay talking long in bed" So Beth was with him all the while, and indeed, as Pauline suggested yesterday, she came to him at the office from home.
"But what has vexed me to-day was that by carrying the key to Sir W. Pen's last night, it could not in the midst of all my hurry to carry away my books and things, be found, and at last they found it in the fire that we made last night” That the hand is quicker than the mind is as true of me (and others I know) as it was of Sam. Methinks we need an English word for this (dys)ability.
“The Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions….
“In 1621, King James I directed the Privy Council to establish a temporary committee to investigate the causes of a decline in trade and consequent financial difficulties. The Board’s formal title remains The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar…
"The origins of the Privy Council may be found in the medieval king's Council. The great lords and prelates were regarded as the king's natural counsellors;...The continuing task of administration...required a more compact and permanent body of advisers drawn from the chief ministers of state (the Chancellor, the Treasurer and the Keeper of the Privy Seal), a few bishops, secular peers and senior household officials, and occasionally judges, lawyers and other laymen. [...] "Under the Tudors the Privy Council....enjoyed powers which would now be characterised as political, administrative, legislative and judicial, but which were only gradually differentiated. [...] "The political authority of the Privy Council, at its height under the later Tudors and the early Stuarts, began to decline under Charles II. Political power passed to the secretaries of state and other ministers dominating boards such as the Treasury and the Admiralty who came to depend during the eighteenth century upon their command of a majority in Parliament. Membership of the Privy Council became either a political formality or a public honour....," which is true of the appointments noted by the 6th jun 1660 letters to Pepys (see the quotation thereof by vincent[cungranissalis]).
"my wife coming to me, I staid long with her discoursing….So to my office”….
Pauline, this sequence was what I had in mind, tho what you say is true. Often Sam does tell us when he goes somewhere; but it scarcely matters, since the roofless condo he’s described (room-sized cold-shower-stalls on several levels) is very uninhabitable.
"Up early..., and my wife coming to me I staid long with her discoursing about her going into the country,...and yet in some considerations I would be glad she was there, because of the dirtiness of my house and the trouble of having of a family there."
Two concerns voiced by us seem answered in this one long sentence: (1) Sam cares about Elizabeth's also living in a house being remodeled (my wife and I had to live so after a fire came up into our apartment -- and there was rain, but there was light-weight plastic sheeting); (2) he cares about his parents' welfare.
"The army" of 1660 in the Diary are Gen. George Monck's regiments, which were the germ of the British Army.
"After the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate died a slow death, and with it died the New Model army. For a time in 1659 it looked as if the New Model army forces loyal to different Generals might wage war on each other. But in the end the New Model Army regiments which had been garrisoning Scotland under the command of General George Monck were able to march on London, to oversee the Crowning of Charles II, without significant opposition from the regiments under other Generals.... With the exception of Monck's own regiment which became the Coldstream Guards, the New Model Army disbanded after the Restoration of 1660." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_…
"The Restoration of Charles II saw the Model Army kept as a standing force, and the King raised further regiments loyal to the Crown. On 26 January 1661 Charles II issued the warrant that is acknowledged as the official beginning of the British Army." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
"got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my work....the rain coming into my house, the top being open."
I thought I understood what the raising of the roof entailed, but now confess to having trouble envisioning this. Is Sam able to see (visualize) "the design of [his] work" and make like Gene Kelly rejoicing in the film "Singing in the Rain" while looking down through the same opening through which the rain is coming?
"in good earnest, my head is so full of business that I cannot understand it as otherwise I should do"-- reply to my preceeding: He IS the only one of the Sandwich crew left to manage the office and the docks &c. at Deptford; and there is the state of his house: overwhelming responsibilities.
Court of Requests, 1485-1642: a Court for the 'Poor'
The Court of Requests was an offshoot of the king's council, intended to provide easy access by poor men and women to royal justice and equity. It was established in 1483, when the chancery official responsible for sorting petitions from the poor became clerk of the council of requests. A cheap and simple procedure attracted many suitors (not all of them poor, but particularly including women), but also the enmity of some common lawyers. The records of the court cease in 1642. Its privy seal was removed during the Civil War. Although the court was never formally abolished, much of its caseload eventually passed to local small claims courts. Types of case heard included title to property, annuities, matters of villeinage, watercourses, highways, wilful escape, forgery, perjury, forfeitures to the king by recognisance and dower, jointure and marriage contracts. http://www.catalogue.nationalarch…
Courts of Requests
[...]The practice is by summons. If the party do not appear, the commissioners proceed summarily, examining the witnesses of both parties on oath, and according to their own judgment, pronounce a verdict. These courts are extremely useful, though there is something arbitrary in their constitution. If the party summoned do not appear, the commissioners have power to apprehend and commit. The time and expense of obtaining summary redress in this court are very inconsiderable, which renders it of great service to trade.
"The extent of crime (or what was considered crime) in London may be gauged by the number of prisons: ten. Newgate is pictured here; another well-known one was the Clink, immortalized in English slang.
"In most cases prisoners had to pay for their own food and lodgings; those who were in prison for debt were given an allowance from the money collected each week for the poor." http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnof…
Six Clerks' Office On the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City boundary (O. and M. 1677), opposite the Rolls. First mention: 1520 (L. and P. H. VIII. V.p. 22). Confirmation to the Six Clerks of Chancery and their successors of the house in Chancery Lane in their occupation formerly called "Harflu Inn," 31 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p.403). Other references : Tenement of the Six Clerks called Harflete Inne," 35 H. VIII. 1543 (ib. XVIII. (1), p.530). Stow says it belonged formerly to the Prior of Necton Parke, a house of Canons in Lincolnshire, called Hereflete Inne and was a Brewhouse, but "now faire builded for the Sixe Clearkes of the Chancerie" (S. 396). In Lockie, 1810, and Elmes, 1831, it is described as at No.62, a few doors from Holborn, further north than formerly. The site of the original office is now covered by the Law Institute.
"Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent for Western Christian churches. It's a day of penitence to clean the soul before the Lent fast.
"Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other churches hold special services at which worshippers are marked with ashes as a symbol of death, and sorrow for sin.[...]The service draws on the ancient Biblical traditions of covering one's head with ashes, wearing sackcloth, and fasting.
"The mark of ashes: In Ash Wednesday services churchgoers are marked on the forehead with a cross of ashes as a sign of penitence and mortality.[...] The use of ashes, made by burning palm crosses from the previous Palm Sunday, is very symbolic."
Project Canterbury has put online an authoritative and relevant ebook:
THE SEVERAL STATUTES In force for the observation of L E N T...And F I S H-dayes, at all other times Of the Y E A R. With full and ready notes in the margent, Shewing the effect in brief.
Published by a well-wisher to peace, for the information of all persons subject to the violation of the said Laws.
L O N D O N, Printed by Robert White, and are to be sold by him at his house in Warick Lane in Warick Court. 1661.
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About Sunday 20 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"You say that I am ignoring the time-honored traditions of the Royal Navy? And what might they be? I shall tell you in three words. Rum, buggery, and the lash! Good morning sirs."
- Winston Churchill addressing the Sea Lords, 1912
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com…
About Sunday 20 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"And what are the oaths he has to read every Lord's day”?
What about this of 28 June, last month?:
“My mind is now in a wonderful condition of quiet and content, more than ever in all my life, since my minding the business of my office, which I have done most constantly; and I find it to be the very effect of my late oaths against wine and plays, which, if God please, I will keep constant in, for now my business is a delight to me, and brings me great credit, and my purse encreases too.”
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Perhaps he made a resolution he hasn’t shared with us?
About Sunday 20 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"My wife and I lay talking long in bed"
So Beth was with him all the while, and indeed, as Pauline suggested yesterday, she came to him at the office from home.
About Sunday 20 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"But what has vexed me to-day was that by carrying the key to Sir W. Pen's last night, it could not in the midst of all my hurry to carry away my books and things, be found, and at last they found it in the fire that we made last night”
That the hand is quicker than the mind is as true of me (and others I know) as it was of Sam. Methinks we need an English word for this (dys)ability.
About Council of Trade
Terry F. • Link
Today's Board of Trade was "the King's Councell for Trade” referred to in the Diary on Jan 22, 1660. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
“The Board of Trade is a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions….
“In 1621, King James I directed the Privy Council to establish a temporary committee to investigate the causes of a decline in trade and consequent financial difficulties. The Board’s formal title remains The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar…
About Privy Council
Terry F. • Link
The Privy Council & what Charles II made of it
"The origins of the Privy Council may be found in the medieval king's Council. The great lords and prelates were regarded as the king's natural counsellors;...The continuing task of administration...required a more compact and permanent body of advisers drawn from the chief ministers of state (the Chancellor, the Treasurer and the Keeper of the Privy Seal), a few bishops, secular peers and senior household officials, and occasionally judges, lawyers and other laymen.
[...] "Under the Tudors the Privy Council....enjoyed powers which would now be characterised as political, administrative, legislative and judicial, but which were only gradually differentiated.
[...] "The political authority of the Privy Council, at its height under the later Tudors and the early Stuarts, began to decline under Charles II. Political power passed to the secretaries of state and other ministers dominating boards such as the Treasury and the Admiralty who came to depend during the eighteenth century upon their command of a majority in Parliament. Membership of the Privy Council became either a political formality or a public honour....," which is true of the appointments noted by the 6th jun 1660 letters to Pepys (see the quotation thereof by vincent[cungranissalis]).
http://www.catalogue.nationalarch…
About Saturday 19 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"my wife coming to me, I staid long with her discoursing….So to my office”….
Pauline, this sequence was what I had in mind, tho what you say is true. Often Sam does tell us when he goes somewhere; but it scarcely matters, since the roofless condo he’s described (room-sized cold-shower-stalls on several levels) is very uninhabitable.
About Saturday 19 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"To the Downs to meet the Queen"
L&M note: “The Queen Mother.”
About Saturday 19 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"my wife coming to me" from another Navy family house? Whom does she pal with?
About Saturday 19 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"Up early..., and my wife coming to me I staid long with her discoursing about her going into the country,...and yet in some considerations I would be glad she was there, because of the dirtiness of my house and the trouble of having of a family there."
Two concerns voiced by us seem answered in this one long sentence:
(1) Sam cares about Elizabeth's also living in a house being remodeled (my wife and I had to live so after a fire came up into our apartment -- and there was rain, but there was light-weight plastic sheeting);
(2) he cares about his parents' welfare.
About Privy Council
Terry F. • Link
Privy Council per vincent(cumgranisalis) re-pointed:
(6 th jun 1660) My letters tell me, that...
Sir. Ant. Cooper http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ,
Mr. Hollis http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… ,
and Mr. Annesly http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… , late President of the Council of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Army
Terry F. • Link
"The army" of 1660 in the Diary are Gen. George Monck's regiments, which were the germ of the British Army.
"After the death of Oliver Cromwell, the Protectorate died a slow death, and with it died the New Model army. For a time in 1659 it looked as if the New Model army forces loyal to different Generals might wage war on each other. But in the end the New Model Army regiments which had been garrisoning Scotland under the command of General George Monck were able to march on London, to oversee the Crowning of Charles II, without significant opposition from the regiments under other Generals.... With the exception of Monck's own regiment which became the Coldstream Guards, the New Model Army disbanded after the Restoration of 1660." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_…
"The Restoration of Charles II saw the Model Army kept as a standing force, and the King raised further regiments loyal to the Crown. On 26 January 1661 Charles II issued the warrant that is acknowledged as the official beginning of the British Army." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist…
About Friday 18 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my work....the rain coming into my house, the top being open."
I thought I understood what the raising of the roof entailed, but now confess to having trouble envisioning this. Is Sam able to see (visualize) "the design of [his] work" and make like Gene Kelly rejoicing in the film "Singing in the Rain" while looking down through the same opening through which the rain is coming?
About Friday 18 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
"in good earnest, my head is so full of business that I cannot understand it as otherwise I should do"-- reply to my preceeding: He IS the only one of the Sandwich crew left to manage the office and the docks &c. at Deptford; and there is the state of his house: overwhelming responsibilities.
About Friday 18 July 1662
Terry F. • Link
Another day about Sam's pre|occupations; about Beth, nought
About Court of Requests
Terry F. • Link
Court of Requests, 1485-1642: a Court for the 'Poor'
The Court of Requests was an offshoot of the king's council, intended to provide easy access by poor men and women to royal justice and equity. It was established in 1483, when the chancery official responsible for sorting petitions from the poor became clerk of the council of requests. A cheap and simple procedure attracted many suitors (not all of them poor, but particularly including women), but also the enmity of some common lawyers. The records of the court cease in 1642. Its privy seal was removed during the Civil War. Although the court was never formally abolished, much of its caseload eventually passed to local small claims courts. Types of case heard included title to property, annuities, matters of villeinage, watercourses, highways, wilful escape, forgery, perjury, forfeitures to the king by recognisance and dower, jointure and marriage contracts.
http://www.catalogue.nationalarch…
Courts of Requests
[...]The practice is by summons. If the party do not appear, the commissioners proceed summarily, examining the witnesses of both parties on oath, and according to their own judgment, pronounce a verdict. These courts are extremely useful, though there is something arbitrary in their constitution. If the party summoned do not appear, the commissioners have power to apprehend and commit. The time and expense of obtaining summary redress in this court are very inconsiderable, which renders it of great service to trade.
About Prisons
Terry F. • Link
Prisons
"The extent of crime (or what was considered crime) in London may be gauged by the number of prisons: ten. Newgate is pictured here; another well-known one was the Clink, immortalized in English slang.
"In most cases prisoners had to pay for their own food and lodgings; those who were in prison for debt were given an allowance from the money collected each week for the poor."
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnof…
About Six Clerks' Office
Terry F. • Link
Six Clerks' Office
On the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City boundary (O. and M. 1677), opposite the Rolls.
First mention: 1520 (L. and P. H. VIII. V.p. 22).
Confirmation to the Six Clerks of Chancery and their successors of the house in Chancery Lane in their occupation formerly called "Harflu Inn," 31 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p.403).
Other references : Tenement of the Six Clerks called Harflete Inne," 35 H. VIII. 1543 (ib. XVIII. (1), p.530).
Stow says it belonged formerly to the Prior of Necton Parke, a house of Canons in Lincolnshire, called Hereflete Inne and was a Brewhouse, but "now faire builded for the Sixe Clearkes of the Chancerie" (S. 396).
In Lockie, 1810, and Elmes, 1831, it is described as at No.62, a few doors from Holborn, further north than formerly.
The site of the original office is now covered by the Law Institute.
From: 'Six Clerks' Office', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…. Date accessed: 19 July 2005.
About Ash Wednesday
Terry F. • Link
Ash Wednesday
"Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent for Western Christian churches. It's a day of penitence to clean the soul before the Lent fast.
"Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other churches hold special services at which worshippers are marked with ashes as a symbol of death, and sorrow for sin.[...]The service draws on the ancient Biblical traditions of covering one's head with ashes, wearing sackcloth, and fasting.
"The mark of ashes: In Ash Wednesday services churchgoers are marked on the forehead with a cross of ashes as a sign of penitence and mortality.[...] The use of ashes, made by burning palm crosses from the previous Palm Sunday, is very symbolic."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/rel…
About Lent
Terry F. • Link
Lent in the Anglican tradition, 1661
Project Canterbury has put online an authoritative and relevant ebook:
THE SEVERAL STATUTES In force for the observation of L E N T...And F I S H-dayes, at all other times Of the Y E A R. With full and ready notes in the margent, Shewing the effect in brief.
Published by a well-wisher to peace, for the information of all persons subject to the violation of the said Laws.
L O N D O N, Printed by Robert White, and are to be sold by him at his house in Warick Lane in Warick Court. 1661.
http://justus.anglican.org/resour…