No child and no resolution. Yes, I see this as the principal tragedy in their lives, particularly E's. Not the fact of not having children but that there was nothing else for her to do but have children.
Money and today's equivalent. 7 pounds monthly household costs = @500 pounds today. 1 book for 4 1/2 pounds = @ 325 pounds today. Either households are cheap or books very expensive.
I wondered that myself Terry. I assume crosses are Christian crosses ie people wishing him ill so hence the "for the whole world seems to smile upon me,".
I really love that phrase he uses on occasion: "then he went away again". A glimpse of how it appeared to a person back then. No one goes away again now.
As I like to say every time I hear an English citizen say extraordinary. It is extraordinary how ordinary extraordinary is to the English! But in SP's case today, I could feel the love.
Just to point out: Lead poisoning would not have affected multiple people simultaneously.
WR to grain contamination: If it were the fault of the grain I would have expected some comment on even more people falling ill at the time of these deaths.
Speaking of grain contamination if someone mentioned A. Huxley's The Devils of Loudon I missed that.
RE: Oz Sue's surprise at the use of "tacky lovehearts". Have a look at Franz Hal's Laughing Cavalier from 1624, esp. the embroidery work on the sleeve. Heart work if you can see it. Makes me think it has been around a lot longer than that. In addition, I always wondered how that shape came to represent a human heart till I saw a pair of swans entwining from their breasts to their heads. They outlined our heart of love. No idea if it is coincident.
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About Friday 30 January 1662/63
Gerald Berg • Link
What I need is a good foot massage.
About Wednesday 14 January 1662/63
Gerald Berg • Link
No child and no resolution. Yes, I see this as the principal tragedy in their lives, particularly E's. Not the fact of not having children but that there was nothing else for her to do but have children.
About Wednesday 24 December 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Money and today's equivalent. 7 pounds monthly household costs = @500 pounds today.
1 book for 4 1/2 pounds = @ 325 pounds today.
Either households are cheap or books very expensive.
About Sunday 30 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
A fitting end.
About Tuesday 25 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Pedro's link is-- shall we say---- naught active?
Easy to laugh at the Fanatiques but every age has them. No less today.
About Wednesday 12 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Wind.
About Tuesday 4 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
CGS Grain of Salt, Vicente. Tone is unmistakeable.
About Saturday 1 November 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Look up Oregon trail ruts for an idea of what a bad rut would look like. 150 years later and still deep in the rut.
About Friday 31 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I wondered that myself Terry. I assume crosses are Christian crosses ie people wishing him ill so hence the "for the whole world seems to smile upon me,".
About Thursday 16 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Never pay out a contract before the work is complete. Never. Until heaven reigns on earth this will always true.
About Monday 13 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I really love that phrase he uses on occasion: "then he went away again". A glimpse of how it appeared to a person back then. No one goes away again now.
He used a variant today also: "forth".
About Monday 13 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
WR to the "lusty young gentlemen".
Ahem. That would be different kind of flute and a different kind of milk.
About Saturday 11 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Let the lawyers, parsons and physicians loose,
To rob and kill the world.
Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb the Great
1725
About Wednesday 8 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
As I like to say every time I hear an English citizen say extraordinary. It is extraordinary how ordinary extraordinary is to the English! But in SP's case today, I could feel the love.
About Monday 6 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
I thought this an absolutely beautiful entry! I could feel place, time and his reckoning
through it.
About Sunday 5 October 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Dancing would be done at Sandwich's country estate? I'm sure he could afford a fine dance band out there in the boonies.
About Monday 22 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
From Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great (1725):
King Arthur: I feel a sudden Pain within my Breast,
Nor know I whether it arise from Love,
Or only the Wind-Cholick. Time must shew.
About Saturday 20 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
Just to point out: Lead poisoning would not have affected multiple people simultaneously.
WR to grain contamination: If it were the fault of the grain I would have expected some comment on even more people falling ill at the time of these deaths.
Speaking of grain contamination if someone mentioned A. Huxley's The Devils of Loudon I missed that.
About Wednesday 17 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
RE: Oz Sue's surprise at the use of "tacky lovehearts". Have a look at Franz Hal's Laughing Cavalier from 1624, esp. the embroidery work on the sleeve. Heart work if you can see it. Makes me think it has been around a lot longer than that. In addition, I always wondered how that shape came to represent a human heart till I saw a pair of swans entwining from their breasts to their heads. They outlined our heart of love. No idea if it is coincident.
Loved the 'fight with a feather'.
About Monday 15 September 1662
Gerald Berg • Link
leads for lead roof. i.e. On the roof.