"All other matters are as well as upon so hard conditions with my uncle Thomas we can expect them." A Hamilton : I read this as: "All other matters are as well as we can expect them, given the hard conditions demanded by my uncle Thomas. "
Even though married women were able to keep their own property after the Married Women's Property Act of 1882, their income was still added to their husband's for Income Tax purposes until 1990.
Extract from Taxation Magazine dated 9 July 2014: Some years ago, the government of the time took a bold step when it introduced independent taxation. Until that time, married women’s income had been returned for them for tax purposes by their husbands. Her income was clearly his.
The couple’s income was aggregated and taxed on the husband, subject to a wife’s earned income relief, which he received if the wife was employed or self-employed. (My note - HE, not she!)
It was possible to elect for separate assessment allowing a woman to submit a confidential wife’s return, but the tax computation remained the same, only with horrendous adjustments to work out how to share the tax between the couple.
Then, in 1990, the government suddenly noticed that married women were relatively independent entities and introduced separate assessment where husbands and wives each returned their own income and were taxed on it accordingly. For younger readers, let me stress this is not a typo. It was in 1990, not 1890.
Anyone who watched this year's University Boat Race on Easter Sunday will be able to picture small boats on the Thames in high winds. Not somewhere I would have wanted to be any more than Sam.
All of the BBCs In Our Time programmes, including the one on The Royal Society from 23 March 2006, can currently be found available through the website for downloading.
First light is a short while before dawn breaks in the UK.
The Great Bed was here in Ware for a year and very impressive it was. It took up virtually the whole room it was in.
Piped water is taken for granted now in most parts of the UK but I stayed in a house in Cornwall in 1961 and 1962 where there was a tank in the roof and a hand pump to fill it from a well. My grandfather bought a bungalow in Essex in the 1940s with a well, too. Drinking water had to be boiled in both places. The house where I lived until 2014 was on an estate built as social housing in the 1950s. After the houses were sold into private ownership, no one seemed to have a record of where the pipes and drains ran which caused problems if there was a blockage. A bit like the Navy Office complex, maybe?
Thanks to Sam and annotators above, I can hear my late mother's voice singing one of her old Sunday School songs: 'Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves. At the time of harvest, and the time of reaping we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves. ' It's a lovely memory for Mothering Sunday.
1 March is always St David's Day but Quinquagesima moves with Easter. Or rather it will, unless Easter becomes a fixed date. Report from www.churchtimes.co.uk on 22 January 2016: A MOVE by the Coptic Pope to unify and fix the date of Easter was supported by the Primates during their gathering, the Archbishop of Canterbury reported last week. Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria has proposed that all Churches celebrate Easter on the second Sunday of April. The Primates joined Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch in supporting this, Archbishop Welby said last Friday. There was a "promising chance" that the proposal would come to fruition, he said, despite the fact that "the first attempt to do this was in the tenth century; so it may take a little while." He predicted that it would take "between five and ten years" to come into effect.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph this week, a mother reported that as late as 1971 she was not even allowed to see a baby stillborn at 35 weeks.
Also, the comment from Charles that the child was 'a month and 3 hours old' may just have referred to the last assignation with his mistress. It couldn't have been true of the foetus if the sex was known.
Having read all the explanations and links above with many thanks to the previous contributors, I think I have got my head round the land issues. However, two things that Sam specifically mentioned have passed with little or no comment. Firstly, he eventually agreed to 'settle' all my uncle's estate that he has left. Does this mean he kept Brampton for his lifetime only, and then it passed to his cousins, or was he referring to the complete agreement whereby he kept Brampton and they took Gravely? And he was 'forced to promise' a half share of anything else he finds, which he has agreed to, and noted to that effect on the reverse of the list he gave them and the one he kept himself, although he doesn't think there is any more to be added. Nowadays, personal estate would be anything except land. So the £376 would be the value of cash, household goods and anything else as listed by Sam for his cousins.
I second everything in this review. It is an amazing exhibition. I was just a tad disappointed that I didn't see any mention of this website as a source of further information.
Re Michelle's comment above. We haven't yet seen signs of Sam 'cheating on her all the time'. An appreciation of beauty in other women, yes, but so far that's about it. Unless others have been noticing more than I?
I have a box full of my mother's diaries which cover the last twenty-three years of her life, as well as many years' of my own diaries. I fear they would not be of interest to future generations in the same way as Sam's. I write what happens, sometimes how I feel about it, and it may never be read again. And yet I still write almost every day.
Plough Sunday was celebrated as usual on BBC Radio 4's The Archers this year on 10 January. I assume there are still some real church services somewhere in the country to encourage the scriptwriters to include it again.
I just looked at the clip again to check on the recipe. The chef first made deep cuts in the meat and stuffed them with butter and pepper as well as the ginger. Then he ground nutmeg and salt over the top. Just in case anyone is trying this at home!
Thanks John York. I watched the clip on the venison pasty. I had previously pictured Sam digging into something more like a Cornish pasty, but the programme explains that the pastry was made of rye flour and water (Ugh!) and wrapped around the joint of meat as a form of packaging and preservative. When the chef tasted the result he cut off the pastry and just took a slice of the meat. In case anyone is too late too see the clip, the meat was prepared with spices including ginger stuffed into cuts across the joint. These would have varied depending on what was available in the kitchen, then nutmeg and salt was ground over the meat. Then it was wrapped in the pastry and decorated (both for looks and as a way of strengthening the wrapping). The chef made a hole in the top and put it in a slow oven for 2 - 3 hours. Once cooked the hole was sealed by pouring in clarified butter which also filled any gaps between meat and pastry so no air could get in and spoil it.
Comments
Second Reading
About Wednesday 1 April 1663
JayW • Link
"All other matters are as well as upon so hard conditions with my uncle Thomas we can expect them."
A Hamilton : I read this as:
"All other matters are as well as we can expect them, given the hard conditions demanded by my uncle Thomas. "
About Sunday 29 March 1663
JayW • Link
Even though married women were able to keep their own property after the Married Women's Property Act of 1882, their income was still added to their husband's for Income Tax purposes until 1990.
Extract from Taxation Magazine dated 9 July 2014:
Some years ago, the government of the time took a bold step when it introduced independent taxation. Until that time, married women’s income had been returned for them for tax purposes by their husbands. Her income was clearly his.
The couple’s income was aggregated and taxed on the husband, subject to a wife’s earned income relief, which he received if the wife was employed or self-employed. (My note - HE, not she!)
It was possible to elect for separate assessment allowing a woman to submit a confidential wife’s return, but the tax computation remained the same, only with horrendous adjustments to work out how to share the tax between the couple.
Then, in 1990, the government suddenly noticed that married women were relatively independent entities and introduced separate assessment where husbands and wives each returned their own income and were taxed on it accordingly. For younger readers, let me stress this is not a typo. It was in 1990, not 1890.
About Saturday 28 March 1663
JayW • Link
Anyone who watched this year's University Boat Race on Easter Sunday will be able to picture small boats on the Thames in high winds. Not somewhere I would have wanted to be any more than Sam.
About Monday 23 March 1662/63
JayW • Link
All of the BBCs In Our Time programmes, including the one on The Royal Society from 23 March 2006, can currently be found available through the website for downloading.
First light is a short while before dawn breaks in the UK.
The Great Bed was here in Ware for a year and very impressive it was. It took up virtually the whole room it was in.
About Tuesday 10 March 1662/63
JayW • Link
Piped water is taken for granted now in most parts of the UK but I stayed in a house in Cornwall in 1961 and 1962 where there was a tank in the roof and a hand pump to fill it from a well.
My grandfather bought a bungalow in Essex in the 1940s with a well, too. Drinking water had to be boiled in both places.
The house where I lived until 2014 was on an estate built as social housing in the 1950s. After the houses were sold into private ownership, no one seemed to have a record of where the pipes and drains ran which caused problems if there was a blockage. A bit like the Navy Office complex, maybe?
About Sunday 8 March 1662/63
JayW • Link
Thanks to Sam and annotators above, I can hear my late mother's voice singing one of her old Sunday School songs:
'Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,
we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves.
At the time of harvest, and the time of reaping
we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves. '
It's a lovely memory for Mothering Sunday.
About Sunday 1 March 1662/63
JayW • Link
1 March is always St David's Day but Quinquagesima moves with Easter. Or rather it will, unless Easter becomes a fixed date. Report from www.churchtimes.co.uk on 22 January 2016:
A MOVE by the Coptic Pope to unify and fix the date of Easter was supported by the Primates during their gathering, the Archbishop of Canterbury reported last week.
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria has proposed that all Churches celebrate Easter on the second Sunday of April. The Primates joined Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch in supporting this, Archbishop Welby said last Friday. There was a "promising chance" that the proposal would come to fruition, he said, despite the fact that "the first attempt to do this was in the tenth century; so it may take a little while." He predicted that it would take "between five and ten years" to come into effect.
About Saturday 28 February 1662/63
JayW • Link
Yes indeed I am in the UK!
About Saturday 28 February 1662/63
JayW • Link
Ox cheek. Bought some from my butcher only last month and once slow cooked it was tender and tasty. I didn't have to deal with the head of course!
About Tuesday 17 February 1662/63
JayW • Link
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph this week, a mother reported that as late as 1971 she was not even allowed to see a baby stillborn at 35 weeks.
Also, the comment from Charles that the child was 'a month and 3 hours old' may just have referred to the last assignation with his mistress. It couldn't have been true of the foetus if the sex was known.
About Saturday 14 February 1662/63
JayW • Link
Having read all the explanations and links above with many thanks to the previous contributors, I think I have got my head round the land issues. However, two things that Sam specifically mentioned have passed with little or no comment. Firstly, he eventually agreed to 'settle' all my uncle's estate that he has left. Does this mean he kept Brampton for his lifetime only, and then it passed to his cousins, or was he referring to the complete agreement whereby he kept Brampton and they took Gravely? And he was 'forced to promise' a half share of anything else he finds, which he has agreed to, and noted to that effect on the reverse of the list he gave them and the one he kept himself, although he doesn't think there is any more to be added. Nowadays, personal estate would be anything except land. So the £376 would be the value of cash, household goods and anything else as listed by Sam for his cousins.
About Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
JayW • Link
I second everything in this review. It is an amazing exhibition. I was just a tad disappointed that I didn't see any mention of this website as a source of further information.
About Thursday 29 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
Just remembered there was an episode while Bess was away during the time of the work on he house.
About Thursday 29 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
Re Michelle's comment above. We haven't yet seen signs of Sam 'cheating on her all the time'. An appreciation of beauty in other women, yes, but so far that's about it. Unless others have been noticing more than I?
About Tuesday 20 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
I have a box full of my mother's diaries which cover the last twenty-three years of her life, as well as many years' of my own diaries. I fear they would not be of interest to future generations in the same way as Sam's. I write what happens, sometimes how I feel about it, and it may never be read again. And yet I still write almost every day.
About Wednesday 21 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
Plough Sunday was celebrated as usual on BBC Radio 4's The Archers this year on 10 January. I assume there are still some real church services somewhere in the country to encourage the scriptwriters to include it again.
About Saturday 10 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
I just looked at the clip again to check on the recipe. The chef first made deep cuts in the meat and stuffed them with butter and pepper as well as the ginger. Then he ground nutmeg and salt over the top. Just in case anyone is trying this at home!
About Saturday 10 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
Thanks John York. I watched the clip on the venison pasty. I had previously pictured Sam digging into something more like a Cornish pasty, but the programme explains that the pastry was made of rye flour and water (Ugh!) and wrapped around the joint of meat as a form of packaging and preservative. When the chef tasted the result he cut off the pastry and just took a slice of the meat. In case anyone is too late too see the clip, the meat was prepared with spices including ginger stuffed into cuts across the joint. These would have varied depending on what was available in the kitchen, then nutmeg and salt was ground over the meat. Then it was wrapped in the pastry and decorated (both for looks and as a way of strengthening the wrapping). The chef made a hole in the top and put it in a slow oven for 2 - 3 hours. Once cooked the hole was sealed by pouring in clarified butter which also filled any gaps between meat and pastry so no air could get in and spoil it.
About Tuesday 6 January 1662/63
JayW • Link
Night dressings = nightwear. They have been staying overnight at Lord Sandwich's lodgings.
About Tuesday 23 December 1662
JayW • Link
I thought Sam's house belonged to the Navy and was part of the perks of his office. I don't recall any entries about paying for it.