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Nov. 12 1668. Portsmouth Capt. John Tinker to Pepys.
Particulars of prize goods left by Capt. Taply on board the Allventure, in hopes of obtaining a grant of them from the Duke of York, and during his absence, embezzled and sold by the boatswain.
Wants candles and hand spikes.
Will be straitened for room if ordered to take in the Edgar's guns.
The wharfs are old, and have a great weight already. [2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 70.]
Encloses, Certificate by Abra. French, and 2 others, to the officers at Portsmouth, of sails and cables taken out of the Charity of St. Malo for the use of the Adventure, by order of their captain, Nov. 30, 1667.
With note the boatswain confesses to selling the goods for 27/. 10s. Od., and that the gunner should be examined about 2 guns that he is said to have sold. [Copy. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 701.]
@@@ Nov. 12 1668 Woolwich Edw. Byland to Pepys.
Asks for spruce deals to fit the Pearl, or must work oak; also for a supply of broom, reed, and hoods and funnels for the Portsmouth.
The undertakers are desirous that the Phoenix should be cut down.
A merchant ship came aboard the Portsmouth's head, and broke it; had the pilot before Col. Middleton, and the owners will stand to the charge, which will be about 40s.
Wants the plumber to mend the pump, the yard being without water. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 72.]
@@@ Nov. 12 1668. Portsmouth Capt. Ant. Deane to the Navy Commissioners .
Account of the new ship building, which has been hindered by rainy weather; can not well launch these 3 weeks, as it would be a great charge and double the time to finish her afloat; but if they desire her launched, can do it next spring [tide]. Has used his utmost diligence.
The Milford, which is to sail with her, need not be fitted until she is launched, as no boatswain appears, and not one rope is cut out for her rigging. The timber shall be let alone as desired; wants 10 or 12 large grindstones when the stores come down. [1 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 71.]
@@@ Nov. 12 1668. Whitehall Dispensation for Sir Wm. Glynne, Bart., High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, to reside in Bedfordshire, London, or Westminster, when his occasions require. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 25, f. 73.] === So some people needed permission to move. Does being High Sheriff make a difference? Sir William Glynne MP’s parliamentary bio. says he was elected in 1659 and 1660, and was High Sheriff only for the year of 1688-9; an MP has to be free to live in London/Westminster. https://www.historyofparliamenton…
A picture of The Prince, the flagship of the Navy in 1672, hangs in the Queen's House, Greenwich. Apparently on June 6 Charles II and Lord High Admiral James visited the fleet in the Thames Estuary. The picture also shows the Royal yachts Catherine and Cleveland.
Reading the annotations above, it is unclear to me if this was the ship Pepys knew. But a 17th century warship is a warship is a warship, right?
This article is about the renovations being performed on the masterpiece, with some great photos. Dig around ... you'll find some interesting things: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/top…
This article says the grapefruit spontaneously invented itself in Barbados where it should not be, and was identified in the mid-1660's. It's a fascinating article, BTW, even if you're not a grapefruit fan.
A personal aside, my reaction to antibiotics is becoming compromised. But I have a great reaction to pulverized grapefruit seeds, which is a natural antibiotic. That's just one of the puzzles presented by this mysterious fruit, which can kill you if eaten with some medications.
I shall know certainly in a day or two the time when the Earl of Carlisle must go; if it happens that he must make haste, the paying of the Mary Rose's company would perhaps be a cause that he might stay for the ship; this his Royal Highness desires to prevent, and thinks the continuation of the growing charge must be submitted to, till there be a certainty of the Earl's voyage.
The King having resolved to send a ship to fetch the Prince of Tuscany from Spain, his Royal Highness believes that Portsmouth will be the most convenient place for her to sail from, but does not think fit to send one bigger than a fourth-rate.
Which of 3 named do you judge most proper for the voyage?? I have notice that the Elgar has arrived safe at Spithead. There will be money requisite for paying her off there. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 69.]
Nov. 11 1668. Warrant to the Treasury Commissioners to order the officers of works to open the ground, dig brick, earth, and sand in Richmond Park, and cut stake, furze, and fern to burn the bricks, erecting kilns, &c., that the lodges, walls, and bridges there may be sufficiently repaired. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 30, f. 88.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Warrant to the Duke of Buckingham, Master of the Horse, to swear in Wm. Legg as page of honour, in place of Sidney Godolphin. Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 30, f. 88.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Dublin Sir George Carteret to the Navy Commissioners.
Though my son James gave his hand to the purser of the Oxford for the whole sum, the purser only charged him with 142/., and acknowledges by his account that all the rest was employed by himself in victualling the frigate at Gottenburg.
Providing care be taken to discharge my son, I am realy, on the first notice, to pay the money either here or in London. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 66.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Certificate by Wm. Sheldon that John Bateman of Woolwich, seaman, is fit to officiate in the absence of the purser of the Centurion. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 67.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Harwich Certificate by Commissioner John Taylor, that John Gregory, late clerk of the cheque at the yard at Harwich, had the same rooms in which Mr. Homewood executed the office, and that he had no other all the time he was in that service. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 68.]
Annexing, Memorandum that John Gregory served as clerk of the cheque from 15 May 1666, to 31 March 1668, for which time he prays an allowance of 8/. a year for house rent, according to his Royal Highness' order, upon appointing the execution of the clerk of the cheque and the clerk of the survey's duties by two distinct persons, with the allowance of 50/. a year, and 8/. for house rent, to the former, and 40/., with 8/. house rent, to the latter;
but Gregory lodged in his office in the yard, undergoing many inconveniences by the straitness of the office, to save the allowance of house rent, so as to make his salary better able to support him; he had no more office room than his predecessors, except one room ordered to be built, but not yet finished. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 681.]
Nov. 11 1668. The King to the President of the College [of Physicians].
We have chosen Tim. Clarke to succeed the late Dr. Quatremaine as second physician to the royal person, and give you notice thereof, that he may be received into the same place in the college as enjoyed by Dr. Quatremaine. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 31, f. 12.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Bristol James Baskerville to Williamson.
I hope the Edgar has arrived at Portsmouth, the winds promising fair. Part of the fleet that set sail some days after her has put back again.
George Bishop, a captain in the late rebellion, the ringleader or archbishop of the Quakers, was buried at the Quakers' burying ground near Revielitte Church, attended by a more numerous company than I ever saw at a funeral before, most of them of that sect. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 61.]
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. Falmouth Thos. Holden to Hickes.
The Brothers' Adventure has come from London for Virginia, the Dartmouth and 2 victuallers for Tangier, and the Industry of Falmouth from Alicant, laden with fruit; she was chased by 2 or 3 Turkish men-of-war.
I beg for a land waiter's place void in this port. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 62.] === A landwaiter -- noun A British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc. -- Dictionary.com
@@@ Nov. 11 1668. J. Evelyn [Commissioner for sick and wounded mariners] to Williamson.
I have promised you 40 times to do Mr. Smith all the right in my power, but Smith is never satisfied unless he can be his own carver, which cannot be without injury to the other officer.
Smith was employed by a surgeon at Margate, and was to receive his recompense from him, and not from the Commissioners, who could not constitute a new and independent officer, being bound up to certain numbers and places by their instructions.
Smith, not being satisfied with what the surgeon allowed him, appealed to the Commissioners; as they could not satisfy him, they advised him to submit it to arbitration, which was consented to; on the determination being sent, the Commissioners gave his former antagonist two orders on the Exchequer, with an injunction to allow Smith to the full of his agreement.
I cannot make out how he now comes to trouble you or clamour against me, who am only one of the Commissioners, after the great pains that have been taken, and the lapse of time that has occurred; the only thing I can do is to stop the orders in the Exchequer, until our surgeon at Dover has given him new satisfaction.
This is really hard, after arbitration and a silence of many months about it till now; but as I said, this I will do: si violandum in jus, violandum est amici causâ, or if you please imperii; for qui amicum habet, habet imperatorem. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 65.]
"If Sam gets his horses and carriage does that not advertise to the world that Sam is living well above his official salary and so draw suspicion? May be no one who matters real cares - everyone in Sam's new circle is on the make."
Oh, yes, they did care. I have the impression it was a matter of the degree of influence peddling / excessive gratuities / purchased contracts that mattered. When the elite were ready to impeach someone, all the details would surface. But until then, go forth and do your damndest.
Pepys has been Clerk of the Acts for 8 years now, and while it was good to be humble and ill-dressed at the beginning, when he started needing to be influential in the King's business, he had to dress for success or no one would have taken him seriously. He is now the longest-serving member of the Navy Board, and an authority on the business end of the war effort. The coach tells his peers that he is ready to take his seat at the "big table". If he was still slouching around in his 1662 outfits and taking off his hat when addressed by Downing, he couldn't address Parliament.
In our day of billionaires wearing jeans and black turtleneck shirts, this seems ridiculous ... but how else could someone identify who to take seriously? Queen Elizabeth and other monarchs made rules about what color and types of clothes certain classes of people could wear. There were too many ruffians dressed like noblemen, and the confusion got in the way of the order of things.
I think we can agree Pepys has earned his coach; if he was paid the correct salary, he'd be getting top pay, and I think he'd welcome not having to do the double bookkeeping to remind himself of an agreement made months before the gratuity rolls in.
I still wonder why the Navy Board didn't have their own stables and a couple of office coaches, just as they had their own rivermen.
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. Capt. Wm. Poole to Thos. Hayter.
Asks for 80 blank tickets for the purser of the Crown, as the women tire him out of his life. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 54.] === Can you imagine writing a memo to headquarters like that about a colleague? The Stuarts enjoyed a good laugh.
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. Harwich Capt. Silas Taylor to the Navy Commissioners.
Has gone on with the hulk as far as he is able without receiving the money imprested to him; the seamen he is forced to make use of will not trust; has expended 7/. or 8/. The hulk stands still at present, and the muster boat will scarce come about without money to provide for them that sail her. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 55.]
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. Sir Denis Gauden to the Navy Commissioners.
They will find Victualling by his account that he delivered sea victuals for 58,470 men for one day at Tangier, which has not been yet rated. Desires they will determine it, that his accounts may be settled; hopes they will allow him the same price as given at Leghorn, and where else the service abroad has called for supply, considering the charge and hazard of transporting it from England.
With note that he is to bring his demand of increase of price, and the grounds of it. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 56.]
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. The Edgar, Spithead Capt. John Wettwang to the Navy Commissioners.
We have had bad weather in the passage, and carrying sail to get about the Land's End, both the main and fore mast gave way in the spavings, being tongued with oak; he that made them deserves to be hanged, for if we had been on a lee shore, and forced to carry sail, all would have gone by the board; 3 of the chain plates have also broken.
We were forced to get down the main topmast on deck, and so come here with it, otherwise it would have been gone.
The ship is good, and sails and steers as well as any I have been in.
I desire orders as to entering the men that came from Portsmouth; they were promised by Mr. Tippetts to be entered from the day they left, and the officers hope to be paid from the date of their warrants. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 57.]
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. Portsmouth Hugh Salesbury to Williamson.
The Edgar from Bristol has arrived for repairs, having sprung her mainmast, and lost her main topmast. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 59.]
@@@ Nov. 10 1668. Note of the proceedings on the adjournments of the Houses of Parliament, 20 Dec. 1586, 15 Feb. 1587, 30 July 1661, 9 May 1668, 11 Aug. 1668, and 10 Nov. 1668. [11 pages, Latin. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 60.] === I suppose Charles II needed inspiration on what to say?
Nor does Elizabeth throw Sir Robert Holmes in Pepys' face ... that was pre-Diary. Nor the gent. from her coach rides to Brampton a year ago. Maybe Pepys spared himself the recital of the full list of her suitors?
Kevin, the small 'l' italicized, or capital 'L' italicized, is Pepys way of indicating pounds. They used a small 's' to indicate shillings. Deb got 10 pounds sterling.
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Clark Kent, also there is nothing so desireable as something you can't have. Grass is greener, etc. Pepys would also do it to pay Elizabeth back for the tantrum she's throwing; he's being punished, so he might as well sin and deserve the pain.
I have returned no acknowledgment for your zeal for me in any late concernment at the Council Board. I am not like one that is deeply upon the score, and therefore unwilling to consider my debts; I think with great satisfaction of the honour of being esteemed worthy to be obliged by you, and can only promise that I will endeavour to give you no cause to repent of your great generosity. [S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 51.] === I wonder if this is Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Bart., MP for Westmorland, and Gov. of Carlisle Castle? https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and many more mentions ... search on MUSGRAVE under annotations.
If it is, Carlisle isn't far enough away.
@@@ Nov. 9 1668. Falmouth Thos. Holden to Hickes.
Arrival of ships, viz: the Good Hope and 50 more from Wales with coals; also 20 or 30 merchantmen from Yarmouth, bound for France, and the 2 Marys from London, who are to take in pilchards for the Straits. S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 52.]
@@@ Nov. 9 1668. Whitehall Reference to the Commissioners for alterations in the Tower,
of the petition of Rachel Brewster, for leave to enclose a piece of ground for a wharf near the Tower, where some tenements stood which were demolished by the King's order in the late fire. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 18, p. 339.]
@@@ Nov. 9 1668. Whitehall Report of Sir S. Fox, 12 Sept. 1668 (on the petition of Major Ben. Henshaw], that 113/. 4d. Od. was paid to him, as Major to the Island of Jersey from 18 Oct. 1664 to 28 July 1665;
and that from the latter date till his company was disbanded, 27 Sept. 1667, he received only the pay of a captain;
also report of the Duke of Albemarle, 9 Oct. 1668, that if his Majesty thinks fit to allow him major's pay at 8s. a day, besides his captain's pay, there will be due to him 316/.
With reference of the whole to the Treasury Commissioners, 9 Nov., to consider whether he may have the particulars proposed in his petition of 22 Aug. last, in consideration of the shortness of his pày. [1] pages. S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 53.]
@@@ Nov. 8 1668. Portsmouth Capt. John Tinker, master attendant, to Pepys.
Sends a memorandum from Mr. Eastwood of the names of ships worked upon by his father:
Tong has done nothing yet in looking after embezzled goods, nor durst without warrant. He says the only cause that moves him to undertake the business is that his trade is spoiled by reason that the goods embezzled are sold at a cheaper rate than they can do, but knows not how to believe him. Another ropemaker, a man of credit, has promised to give private information, if his name be not discovered as an informer.
Begs their acceptance of a small parcel of buckhorn; entreats payment of his bills. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 46.]
@@@ Nov. 8 1668. Hull Chas. Whittington to Williamson.
Six vessels have arrived from Holland, one of which met with a great ship of Sir Philip Warwin's, laden from Riga, in a leaky condition, and ready to be forsaken by her men; but by timely assistance she was brought safe into Humber.
A Swede come in from Stockholm reports that another, laden with merchant goods, put into Christiana, and coming out again, sank to the bottom. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 47.]
@@@ Nov. 8 1668. Deal Rich. Watts to Williamson.
The Success and Drake are still here; the country remains “very whist,” attending only to their wheat season, which the farmers confess to be as good as they can desire. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 49.]
@@@ Nov. 8 1668. Sec. Trevor to Williamson.
Let me have the treaty of the Pyrenees between the two crowns; if there is anything distinct from the treaty itself, concerning the Renounce, I would be glad to see it.
Endorsed [by Williamson], “3 books sent him." [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 50.]
Nov. 7 1668. Bristol Dan. Furzer to the Navy Commissioners.
Sends an account of goods put on board the Edgar, from those left in the yard at Conpill, and the stores of the Harp. With note of a copy taken of the above, 10 Nov., for Col. Middleton. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 42.]
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. M. Wren to the Navy Commissioners.
Desires them to give directions for fitting the Mary Rose, the Earl of Carlisle having chosen her for carrying him to Gottenburg; so that in case the Earl's departure is pressed, he may not stay for the vessel that is to carry him.
Will send the Duke's order for it on coming to St. James's. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 44. ]
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Portsmouth Capt. Ant. Deane to the Navy Commissioners.
Sends 2 contracts; one is for timber ready to be delivered, as soon as they order the 300/. which was laid aside for ready payment; if they will order Mr. Hayter or Mr. Ewers to receive it, remittance shall be found for it.
Asks if the contracts are right, being unaccustomed to make them.
The deals and wainscoat have arrived. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 45.]
Nov. ? 1668. Petition of Elizabeth, wife of Thos. Wyndham, to the King.
Having attended his Majesty at Trent, after the battle of Worcester, he was pleased to give her a warrant for a lease in reversion of several small leases for 31 years, but its passing is obstructed as being a breach of rule; yet the same thing has been granted by his predecessors, and by his Majesty since his restoration; begs an order therefore for the lease to pass, notwithstanding any restriction or limitation. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 30.]
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Whitehall The King to Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Treasurer of the Navy,
You are to deliver up to Sir Thos. Osborne and Sir Thos. Littleton, appointed Commissioners for the Navy Treasurership, the house lately used for that office, excepting one room needful for keeping your papers and making up your accounts. [Draft. S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 40.] === Hard to argue with this, Lord Anglesey. L&M: The Treasurer of the Navy had official lodgings at Whitehall, and a residence at Deptford. In 1664 Carteret had persuaded Charles II that he needed a house and office, which was located on Broad Street. I am guessing this is the house referred to.
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Whitehall The King to the Master, wardens, &c., of the Pewterers' Company of London.
We approve your admission of James Taudin, a naturalized subject, into your society, and request that he be not molested as others have been, by the malicious exercise of by-laws, and thus have to seek relief from hard usage, he being our servant. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 25, f. 72.] === Be nice to the French immigrant, or else.
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Dublin Capt. Rob. Hooper to the Navy Commissioners.
Could not sail The Harp for Kinsale because of the wind; though some dispraise the ship, questions not but she may go a longer voyage. Knows nothing of any former proceedings, nor can find out any person that was concerned therein.
The purser was constrained to supply us with provisions, there being none of the victualler's agents here; knows him to be much in debt in that place, yet has prevailed with him for more victuals.
Will not be backward to depart when the wind serves. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 43.]
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Whitehall Pass for Anne Nevill, Mary Tuchet, Katherine Berry, Anne Berrington, Marg. Smith, Anne Chaworth, and their servants, to France. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 41.] === A girls' weekend in Paris? A group of novices bound for a Catholic nunnery? Spies sent to tempt Louis XIV?
Glad to see this Parliamentary bio has been cleaned up. Never doubt the power of an email to a historian, if you give them the citation and link so it's easy to do.
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As of Nov. 7 1668, William, Lord Allington, MP is still petitioning Henry Bennet, Lord Arlington, for the position of Gov of Tangier. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Paris William, Lord Allington, to Lord [Arlington].
I declined writing, knowing you receive constant intelligence of what passes at this Court from better hands. I am waiting at Paris for the return of spring, and intend for England on the beginning of the sessions of Parliament.
I have not heard that the Earl of Middleton has yet gone to Tangiers; if that affair be stopped, I wish I were settled there myself, or in anything else; you have full power to dispose of me as you think best.
If you have any command, a letter sent to my mother's, in Drury Lane, will infallibly find me out. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 33.] === William, 3rd Baron Alington of Killard MP, of whom Pepys had a poor opinion. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl… Lord Alington appears to be vacationing after the death of his wife and child.
@@@ Nov. 1 1668. Paris [Sam.] Puffendorf to [Williamson].
Pray tell me whether in [Chancellor Francis] Bacon's works there is not a treatise on the mode and inducements for the rest of Europe to make war on Spain. The late Cardinal Richelieu had it translated into French, and printed in 1635, but it can no longer be found. I have had put into the [French] Gazette what is devised here, but is pretended to be written from London. [French. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 34.]
@@@ Nov. 7 1668. Whitehall Petition of Elizabeth, wife of Thos. Wyndham, the King's servant, to the King,
for a lease in reversion of lands, tenements, tithes, and prebends specified, in Middlesex, Berkshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, and Cheshire, for 31 years, and at the present rents.
His Majesty, since his restoration, has recompensed all those who were anyways aiding or assisting in his preservation after the battle of Worcester, and as she daily attended on him when he lay concealed at Trent, she conceives she ought to be reckoned among the number.
With reference thereon to the Treasury Commissioners; their report, 19 Nov. 1668, that it has not been usual to grant leases over the heads of present tenants, and is contrary to the rules to grant lands for a longer period than 31 years in the whole, and that the better way of gratifyng such as have so well deserved has been by a pension out of the Exchequer, which pensions have been constantly paid;
and further report of Lord Ashley, 14 May 1669 that the petition is disallowed, as being not agreeable to rule. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 35.] === Sept. 15-18, 1651, as Charles II was trying to escape from England after losing the second Battle of Worcester, he stayed at Trent Manor, Trent, Dorset (between Sherborne and Yeovil), the home of Francis Wyndham. https://www.theguardian.com/envir…
In the Diary times the best-known Huguenot church in London was “L’Eglise Protestant” in Threadneedle St. in the City.
It dealt with the wave of refugees in the 1680's by building a temporary wooden shack as an annex known as “L’Eglise de l’Hôpital,” in Brick Lane on the corner at Fournier St., Spitalfields. The big church we see there today opened in 1743, 60 years later.
Sad news: After more than ten years, the cultural organisation devoted to the history of the Huguenots of Spitalfields is closing. This was the brainchild of Charlie De Wet, who voluntarily worked on this idea for a decade, spreading inspiring stories about this wave of immigrants and transformed British perceptions of the Huguenots’ contribution to society.
The wooden spools we see today hanging in the streets of Spitalfields indicate houses where Huguenots once resided. These symbols were put there in 1985, commemorating the tercentenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes which brought the Huguenots to London, and introduced the word ‘refugee’ to the English language.
Yes, I learned about the Huguenots in history at school, but I wasn't perceptive enough to rediscover their London when I lived there. Articles like the following have made me appreciate their enormous contributions to the richness of the end of the 17th century onwards. The 20,000-plus refugees injected talent and ethics into working class London: https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021…
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About Thursday 12 November 1668
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Nov. 12 1668.
Deal
Rich. Watts to [Williamson].
A great Ostend man-of-war ran against his Majesty's ship Drake, and broke her bowsprit.
Eight Ostend Spanish men-of-war and 55 merchantmen are in the Downs, bound for Spain.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 74.]
About Thursday 12 November 1668
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The volume of Domestic State Papers covering correspondence from Oct. 1668 to Dec. 1669 is at
https://play.google.com/books/rea…
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These are the two letters Stephane found interesting:
Nov. 12 1668.
Portsmouth
Capt. John Tinker to Pepys.
Particulars of prize goods left by Capt. Taply on board the Allventure, in hopes of obtaining a grant of them from the Duke of York, and during his absence, embezzled and sold by the boatswain.
Wants candles and hand spikes.
Will be straitened for room if ordered to take in the Edgar's guns.
The wharfs are old, and have a great weight already.
[2 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 70.]
Encloses,
Certificate by Abra. French, and 2 others, to the officers at Portsmouth,
of sails and cables taken out of the Charity of St. Malo for the use of the Adventure, by order of their captain, Nov. 30, 1667.
With note
the boatswain confesses to selling the goods for 27/. 10s. Od.,
and that the gunner should be examined about 2 guns that he is said to have sold.
[Copy. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 701.]
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Nov. 12 1668
Woolwich
Edw. Byland to Pepys.
Asks for spruce deals to fit the Pearl, or must work oak;
also for a supply of broom, reed, and hoods and funnels for the Portsmouth.
The undertakers are desirous that the Phoenix should be cut down.
A merchant ship came aboard the Portsmouth's head, and broke it;
had the pilot before Col. Middleton, and the owners will stand to the charge,
which will be about 40s.
Wants the plumber to mend the pump, the yard being without water.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 72.]
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Nov. 12 1668.
Portsmouth
Capt. Ant. Deane to the Navy Commissioners .
Account of the new ship building, which has been hindered by rainy weather;
can not well launch these 3 weeks, as it would be a great charge and double the time to finish her afloat;
but if they desire her launched, can do it next spring [tide].
Has used his utmost diligence.
The Milford, which is to sail with her, need not be fitted until she is launched,
as no boatswain appears, and not one rope is cut out for her rigging.
The timber shall be let alone as desired;
wants 10 or 12 large grindstones when the stores come down.
[1 pages. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 71.]
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Nov. 12 1668.
Whitehall
Dispensation for Sir Wm. Glynne, Bart., High Sheriff of Oxfordshire,
to reside in Bedfordshire, London, or Westminster, when his occasions require.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 25, f. 73.]
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So some people needed permission to move. Does being High Sheriff make a difference?
Sir William Glynne MP’s parliamentary bio. says he was elected in 1659 and 1660, and was High Sheriff only for the year of 1688-9; an MP has to be free to live in London/Westminster.
https://www.historyofparliamenton…
About The Royal Prince
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A picture of The Prince, the flagship of the Navy in 1672, hangs in the Queen's House, Greenwich. Apparently on June 6 Charles II and Lord High Admiral James visited the fleet in the Thames Estuary. The picture also shows the Royal yachts Catherine and Cleveland.
Reading the annotations above, it is unclear to me if this was the ship Pepys knew. But a 17th century warship is a warship is a warship, right?
This article is about the renovations being performed on the masterpiece, with some great photos. Dig around ... you'll find some interesting things:
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/top…
About Barbados
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This article says the grapefruit spontaneously invented itself in Barbados where it should not be, and was identified in the mid-1660's. It's a fascinating article, BTW, even if you're not a grapefruit fan.
A personal aside, my reaction to antibiotics is becoming compromised. But I have a great reaction to pulverized grapefruit seeds, which is a natural antibiotic. That's just one of the puzzles presented by this mysterious fruit, which can kill you if eaten with some medications.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/arti…
About Wednesday 11 November 1668
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Nov. 11 1668.
M. Wren to the Navy Commissioners.
I shall know certainly in a day or two the time when the Earl of Carlisle must go;
if it happens that he must make haste, the paying of the Mary Rose's company would perhaps be a cause that he might stay for the ship;
this his Royal Highness desires to prevent, and thinks the continuation of the growing charge must be submitted to, till there be a certainty of the Earl's voyage.
The King having resolved to send a ship to fetch the Prince of Tuscany from Spain, his Royal Highness believes that Portsmouth will be the most convenient place for her to sail from,
but does not think fit to send one bigger than a fourth-rate.
Which of 3 named do you judge most proper for the voyage??
I have notice that the Elgar has arrived safe at Spithead.
There will be money requisite for paying her off there.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 69.]
About Wednesday 11 November 1668
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Nov. 11 1668.
Warrant to the Treasury Commissioners
to order the officers of works to open the ground, dig brick, earth, and sand in Richmond Park, and cut stake, furze, and fern to burn the bricks, erecting kilns, &c., that the lodges, walls, and bridges there may be sufficiently repaired.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 30, f. 88.]
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Nov. 11 1668.
Warrant to the Duke of Buckingham, Master of the Horse,
to swear in Wm. Legg as page of honour, in place of Sidney Godolphin.
Minute. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 30, f. 88.]
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Nov. 11 1668.
Dublin
Sir George Carteret to the Navy Commissioners.
Though my son James gave his hand to the purser of the Oxford for the whole sum,
the purser only charged him with 142/., and acknowledges by his account that all the rest was employed by himself in victualling the frigate at Gottenburg.
Providing care be taken to discharge my son, I am realy, on the first notice, to pay the money either here or in London.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 66.]
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Nov. 11 1668.
Certificate by Wm. Sheldon
that John Bateman of Woolwich, seaman, is fit to officiate in the absence of the purser of the Centurion.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 67.]
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Nov. 11 1668.
Harwich
Certificate by Commissioner John Taylor,
that John Gregory, late clerk of the cheque at the yard at Harwich,
had the same rooms in which Mr. Homewood executed the office,
and that he had no other all the time he was in that service.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 68.]
Annexing,
Memorandum that John Gregory served as clerk of the cheque from 15 May 1666, to 31 March 1668,
for which time he prays an allowance of 8/. a year for house rent, according to his Royal Highness' order, upon appointing the execution of the clerk of the cheque and the clerk of the survey's duties by two distinct persons, with the allowance of 50/. a year, and 8/. for house rent, to the former, and 40/., with 8/. house rent, to the latter;
but Gregory lodged in his office in the yard, undergoing many inconveniences by the straitness of the office, to save the allowance of house rent, so as to make his salary better able to support him;
he had no more office room than his predecessors, except one room ordered to be built, but not yet finished.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 681.]
About Wednesday 11 November 1668
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Nov. 11 1668.
The King to the President of the College [of Physicians].
We have chosen Tim. Clarke to succeed the late Dr. Quatremaine as second physician to the royal person, and give you notice thereof, that he may be received into the same place in the college as enjoyed by Dr. Quatremaine.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 31, f. 12.]
About Wednesday 11 November 1668
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The volume of Domestic State Papers covering correspondence from Oct. 1668 to Dec. 1669 is at
https://play.google.com/books/rea…
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Nov. 11 1668.
Bristol
James Baskerville to Williamson.
I hope the Edgar has arrived at Portsmouth, the winds promising fair.
Part of the fleet that set sail some days after her has put back again.
George Bishop, a captain in the late rebellion, the ringleader or archbishop of the Quakers, was buried at the Quakers' burying ground near Revielitte Church, attended by a more numerous company than I ever saw at a funeral before, most of them of that sect.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 61.]
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Nov. 11 1668.
Falmouth
Thos. Holden to Hickes.
The Brothers' Adventure has come from London for Virginia,
the Dartmouth and 2 victuallers for Tangier,
and the Industry of Falmouth from Alicant, laden with fruit; she was chased by 2 or 3 Turkish men-of-war.
I beg for a land waiter's place void in this port.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 62.]
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A landwaiter -- noun
A British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc. -- Dictionary.com
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Nov. 11 1668.
J. Evelyn [Commissioner for sick and wounded mariners] to Williamson.
I have promised you 40 times to do Mr. Smith all the right in my power, but Smith is never satisfied unless he can be his own carver, which cannot be without injury to the other officer.
Smith was employed by a surgeon at Margate, and was to receive his recompense from him, and not from the Commissioners, who could not constitute a new and independent officer, being bound up to certain numbers and places by their instructions.
Smith, not being satisfied with what the surgeon allowed him, appealed to the Commissioners;
as they could not satisfy him, they advised him to submit it to arbitration, which was consented to;
on the determination being sent, the Commissioners gave his former antagonist two orders on the Exchequer, with an injunction to allow Smith to the full of his agreement.
I cannot make out how he now comes to trouble you or clamour against me, who am only one of the Commissioners, after the great pains that have been taken, and the lapse of time that has occurred;
the only thing I can do is to stop the orders in the Exchequer, until our surgeon
at Dover has given him new satisfaction.
This is really hard, after arbitration and a silence of many months about it till now; but as I said, this I will do:
si violandum in jus, violandum est amici causâ, or if you please imperii; for qui
amicum habet, habet imperatorem.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 65.]
About Wednesday 11 November 1668
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"If Sam gets his horses and carriage does that not advertise to the world that Sam is living well above his official salary and so draw suspicion? May be no one who matters real cares - everyone in Sam's new circle is on the make."
Oh, yes, they did care. I have the impression it was a matter of the degree of influence peddling / excessive gratuities / purchased contracts that mattered. When the elite were ready to impeach someone, all the details would surface. But until then, go forth and do your damndest.
Pepys has been Clerk of the Acts for 8 years now, and while it was good to be humble and ill-dressed at the beginning, when he started needing to be influential in the King's business, he had to dress for success or no one would have taken him seriously.
He is now the longest-serving member of the Navy Board, and an authority on the business end of the war effort. The coach tells his peers that he is ready to take his seat at the "big table".
If he was still slouching around in his 1662 outfits and taking off his hat when addressed by Downing, he couldn't address Parliament.
In our day of billionaires wearing jeans and black turtleneck shirts, this seems ridiculous ... but how else could someone identify who to take seriously?
Queen Elizabeth and other monarchs made rules about what color and types of clothes certain classes of people could wear. There were too many ruffians dressed like noblemen, and the confusion got in the way of the order of things.
I think we can agree Pepys has earned his coach;
if he was paid the correct salary, he'd be getting top pay, and I think he'd welcome not having to do the double bookkeeping to remind himself of an agreement made months before the gratuity rolls in.
I still wonder why the Navy Board didn't have their own stables and a couple of office coaches, just as they had their own rivermen.
About Tuesday 10 November 1668
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The volume of Domestic State Papers covering correspondence from Oct. 1668 to Dec. 1669 is at
https://play.google.com/books/rea…
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Nov. 10 1668.
Capt. Wm. Poole to Thos. Hayter.
Asks for 80 blank tickets for the purser of the Crown, as the women tire him out of his life.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 54.]
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Can you imagine writing a memo to headquarters like that about a colleague? The Stuarts enjoyed a good laugh.
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Nov. 10 1668.
Harwich
Capt. Silas Taylor to the Navy Commissioners.
Has gone on with the hulk as far as he is able without receiving the money imprested to him;
the seamen he is forced to make use of will not trust;
has expended 7/. or 8/.
The hulk stands still at present, and the muster boat will scarce come about without money to provide for them that sail her.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 55.]
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Nov. 10 1668.
Sir Denis Gauden to the Navy Commissioners.
They will find Victualling by his account that he delivered sea victuals for 58,470 men for one day at Tangier, which has not been yet rated.
Desires they will determine it, that his accounts may be settled;
hopes they will allow him the same price as given at Leghorn, and where else the service abroad has called for supply, considering the charge and hazard of transporting it from England.
With note that he is to bring his demand of increase of price, and the grounds of it.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 56.]
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Nov. 10 1668.
The Edgar, Spithead
Capt. John Wettwang to the Navy Commissioners.
We have had bad weather in the passage, and carrying sail to get about the Land's End,
both the main and fore mast gave way in the spavings, being tongued with oak;
he that made them deserves to be hanged, for if we had been on a lee shore, and forced to carry sail, all would have gone by the board;
3 of the chain plates have also broken.
We were forced to get down the main topmast on deck, and so come here with it, otherwise it would have been gone.
The ship is good, and sails and steers as well as any I have been in.
I desire orders as to entering the men that came from Portsmouth;
they were promised by Mr. Tippetts to be entered from the day they left,
and the officers hope to be paid from the date of their warrants.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 57.]
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Nov. 10 1668.
Portsmouth
Hugh Salesbury to Williamson.
The Edgar from Bristol has arrived for repairs, having sprung her mainmast, and lost her main topmast.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 59.]
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Nov. 10 1668.
Note of the proceedings on the adjournments of the Houses of Parliament,
20 Dec. 1586, 15 Feb. 1587, 30 July 1661, 9 May 1668, 11 Aug. 1668, and 10 Nov. 1668.
[11 pages, Latin. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 60.]
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I suppose Charles II needed inspiration on what to say?
About Tuesday 10 November 1668
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Nor does Elizabeth throw Sir Robert Holmes in Pepys' face ... that was pre-Diary. Nor the gent. from her coach rides to Brampton a year ago. Maybe Pepys spared himself the recital of the full list of her suitors?
About Friday 13 November 1668
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Kevin, the small 'l' italicized, or capital 'L' italicized, is Pepys way of indicating pounds. They used a small 's' to indicate shillings. Deb got 10 pounds sterling.
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Clark Kent, also there is nothing so desireable as something you can't have. Grass is greener, etc.
Pepys would also do it to pay Elizabeth back for the tantrum she's throwing; he's being punished, so he might as well sin and deserve the pain.
I think/hope Deb is smarter than that ... ???
About Monday 9 November 1668
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The volume of Domestic State Papers covering correspondence from Oct. 1668 to Dec. 1669 is at
https://play.google.com/books/rea…
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Nov. 9 1668.
Sir P. Musgrave to [Williamson].
I have returned no acknowledgment for your zeal for me in any late concernment at the Council Board.
I am not like one that is deeply upon the score, and therefore unwilling to consider my debts;
I think with great satisfaction of the honour of being esteemed worthy to be obliged by you, and can only promise that I will endeavour to give you no cause to repent of your great generosity.
[S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 51.]
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I wonder if this is Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Bart., MP for Westmorland, and Gov. of Carlisle Castle?
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
and many more mentions ... search on MUSGRAVE under annotations.
If it is, Carlisle isn't far enough away.
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Nov. 9 1668.
Falmouth
Thos. Holden to Hickes.
Arrival of ships, viz: the Good Hope
and 50 more from Wales with coals;
also 20 or 30 merchantmen from Yarmouth, bound for France,
and the 2 Marys from London, who are to take in pilchards for the Straits.
S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 52.]
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Nov. 9 1668.
Whitehall
Reference to the Commissioners for alterations in the Tower,
of the petition of Rachel Brewster, for leave to enclose a piece of ground for a wharf near the Tower, where some tenements stood which were demolished by the King's order in the late fire.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 18, p. 339.]
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Nov. 9 1668.
Whitehall
Report of Sir S. Fox, 12 Sept. 1668 (on the petition of Major Ben. Henshaw],
that 113/. 4d. Od. was paid to him, as Major to the Island of Jersey from 18 Oct. 1664 to 28 July 1665;
and that from the latter date till his company was disbanded, 27 Sept. 1667, he received only the pay of a captain;
also report of the Duke of Albemarle, 9 Oct. 1668, that if his Majesty thinks fit to allow him major's pay at 8s. a day, besides his captain's pay, there will be due to him 316/.
With reference of the whole to the Treasury Commissioners, 9 Nov., to consider whether he may have the particulars proposed in his petition of 22 Aug. last, in consideration of the shortness of his pày.
[1] pages. S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 53.]
About Sunday 8 November 1668
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The volume of Domestic State Papers covering correspondence from Oct. 1668 to Dec. 1669 is at
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Nov. 8 1668.
Portsmouth
Capt. John Tinker, master attendant, to Pepys.
Sends a memorandum from Mr. Eastwood of the names of ships worked upon by his father:
Tong has done nothing yet in looking after embezzled goods, nor durst without warrant.
He says the only cause that moves him to undertake the business is that his trade is spoiled by reason that the goods embezzled are sold at a cheaper rate than they can do, but knows not how to believe him.
Another ropemaker, a man of credit, has promised to give private information, if his name be not discovered as an informer.
Begs their acceptance of a small parcel of buckhorn;
entreats payment of his bills.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 46.]
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Nov. 8 1668.
Hull
Chas. Whittington to Williamson.
Six vessels have arrived from Holland, one of which met with a great ship of Sir Philip Warwin's, laden from Riga, in a leaky condition, and ready to be forsaken by her men;
but by timely assistance she was brought safe into Humber.
A Swede come in from Stockholm reports that another, laden with merchant goods, put into Christiana, and coming out again, sank to the bottom.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 47.]
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Nov. 8 1668.
Deal
Rich. Watts to Williamson.
The Success and Drake are still here;
the country remains “very whist,” attending only to their wheat season, which the farmers confess to be as good as they can desire.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 49.]
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Nov. 8 1668.
Sec. Trevor to Williamson.
Let me have the treaty of the Pyrenees between the two crowns;
if there is anything distinct from the treaty itself, concerning the Renounce, I would be glad to see it.
Endorsed [by Williamson], “3 books sent him."
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 50.]
About Saturday 7 November 1668
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Nov. 7 1668.
Bristol
Dan. Furzer to the Navy Commissioners.
Sends an account of goods put on board the Edgar, from those left in the yard at Conpill, and the stores of the Harp.
With note of a copy taken of the above, 10 Nov., for Col. Middleton.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 42.]
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Nov. 7 1668.
M. Wren to the Navy Commissioners.
Desires them to give directions for fitting the Mary Rose,
the Earl of Carlisle having chosen her for carrying him to Gottenburg;
so that in case the Earl's departure is pressed, he may not stay for the vessel that is to carry him.
Will send the Duke's order for it on coming to St. James's.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 44. ]
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Nov. 7 1668.
Portsmouth
Capt. Ant. Deane to the Navy Commissioners.
Sends 2 contracts;
one is for timber ready to be delivered, as soon as they order the 300/.
which was laid aside for ready payment;
if they will order Mr. Hayter or Mr. Ewers to receive it, remittance shall be found for it.
Asks if the contracts are right, being unaccustomed to make them.
The deals and wainscoat have arrived.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 45.]
About Saturday 7 November 1668
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Nov. ? 1668.
Petition of Elizabeth, wife of Thos. Wyndham, to the King.
Having attended his Majesty at Trent, after the battle of Worcester, he was pleased to give her a warrant for a lease in reversion of several small leases for 31 years, but its passing is obstructed as being a breach of rule;
yet the same thing has been granted by his predecessors, and by his Majesty since his restoration;
begs an order therefore for the lease to pass, notwithstanding any restriction or limitation.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 30.]
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Nov. 7 1668.
Whitehall
The King to Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Treasurer of the Navy,
You are to deliver up to Sir Thos. Osborne and Sir Thos. Littleton, appointed Commissioners for the Navy Treasurership, the house lately used for that office, excepting one room needful for keeping your papers and making up your accounts.
[Draft. S.P. Dom., Cur. II. 249, No. 40.]
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Hard to argue with this, Lord Anglesey.
L&M: The Treasurer of the Navy had official lodgings at Whitehall, and a residence at Deptford. In 1664 Carteret had persuaded Charles II that he needed a house and office, which was located on Broad Street. I am guessing this is the house referred to.
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Nov. 7 1668.
Whitehall
The King to the Master, wardens, &c., of the Pewterers' Company of London.
We approve your admission of James Taudin, a naturalized subject, into your society,
and request that he be not molested as others have been, by the malicious exercise of by-laws, and thus have to seek relief from hard usage, he being our servant.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 25, f. 72.]
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Be nice to the French immigrant, or else.
It seems Jacques (James) Taudin I, London [fl. 1645 - 1680] had run afoul of the Pewterers before.
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/…
http://www.colonialsense.com/How-…
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Nov. 7 1668.
Dublin
Capt. Rob. Hooper to the Navy Commissioners.
Could not sail The Harp for Kinsale because of the wind;
though some dispraise the ship, questions not but she may go a longer voyage.
Knows nothing of any former proceedings, nor can find out any person that was concerned therein.
The purser was constrained to supply us with provisions, there being none of the victualler's agents here;
knows him to be much in debt in that place, yet has prevailed with him for more victuals.
Will not be backward to depart when the wind serves.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 43.]
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Nov. 7 1668.
Whitehall
Pass for Anne Nevill, Mary Tuchet, Katherine Berry, Anne Berrington, Marg. Smith, Anne Chaworth, and their servants, to France.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 41.]
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A girls' weekend in Paris? A group of novices bound for a Catholic nunnery? Spies sent to tempt Louis XIV?
About William Alington (3rd Baron Alington of Killard)
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Glad to see this Parliamentary bio has been cleaned up. Never doubt the power of an email to a historian, if you give them the citation and link so it's easy to do.
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As of Nov. 7 1668, William, Lord Allington, MP is still petitioning Henry Bennet, Lord Arlington, for the position of Gov of Tangier.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Saturday 7 November 1668
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The vol. of Dom. State Papers with correspondence from Oct. 1668 - Dec. 1669 is at
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Nov. 7 1668.
Paris
William, Lord Allington, to Lord [Arlington].
I declined writing, knowing you receive constant intelligence of what passes at this Court from better hands.
I am waiting at Paris for the return of spring, and intend for England on the beginning of the sessions of Parliament.
I have not heard that the Earl of Middleton has yet gone to Tangiers;
if that affair be stopped, I wish I were settled there myself, or in anything else;
you have full power to dispose of me as you think best.
If you have any command, a letter sent to my mother's, in Drury Lane, will infallibly find me out.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 33.]
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William, 3rd Baron Alington of Killard MP, of whom Pepys had a poor opinion.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Lord Alington appears to be vacationing after the death of his wife and child.
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Nov. 1 1668.
Paris
[Sam.] Puffendorf to [Williamson].
Pray tell me whether in [Chancellor Francis] Bacon's works there is not a treatise on the mode and inducements for the rest of Europe to make war on Spain.
The late Cardinal Richelieu had it translated into French, and printed in 1635,
but it can no longer be found.
I have had put into the [French] Gazette what is devised here, but is pretended to be written from London.
[French. S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 34.]
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Nov. 7 1668.
Whitehall
Petition of Elizabeth, wife of Thos. Wyndham, the King's servant, to the King,
for a lease in reversion of lands, tenements, tithes, and prebends specified,
in Middlesex, Berkshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, and Cheshire, for 31 years,
and at the present rents.
His Majesty, since his restoration, has recompensed all those who were anyways aiding or assisting in his preservation after the battle of Worcester, and as she daily attended on him when he lay concealed at Trent, she conceives she ought to be reckoned among the number.
With reference thereon to the Treasury Commissioners;
their report, 19 Nov. 1668, that it has not been usual to grant leases over the
heads of present tenants, and is contrary to the rules to grant lands for a longer
period than 31 years in the whole, and that the better way of gratifyng such as
have so well deserved has been by a pension out of the Exchequer, which pensions have been constantly paid;
and further report of Lord Ashley, 14 May 1669 that the petition is disallowed,
as being not agreeable to rule.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 249, No. 35.]
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Sept. 15-18, 1651, as Charles II was trying to escape from England after losing the second Battle of Worcester, he stayed at Trent Manor, Trent, Dorset (between Sherborne and Yeovil), the home of Francis Wyndham.
https://www.theguardian.com/envir…
About The French Church (Threadneedle St)
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In the Diary times the best-known Huguenot church in London was “L’Eglise Protestant” in Threadneedle St. in the City.
It dealt with the wave of refugees in the 1680's by building a temporary wooden shack as an annex known as “L’Eglise de l’Hôpital,” in Brick Lane on the corner at Fournier St., Spitalfields.
The big church we see there today opened in 1743, 60 years later.
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021…
About Huguenot
San Diego Sarah • Link
Sad news: After more than ten years, the cultural organisation devoted to the history of the Huguenots of Spitalfields is closing. This was the brainchild of Charlie De Wet, who voluntarily worked on this idea for a decade, spreading inspiring stories about this wave of immigrants and transformed British perceptions of the Huguenots’ contribution to society.
The wooden spools we see today hanging in the streets of Spitalfields indicate houses where Huguenots once resided. These symbols were put there in 1985, commemorating the tercentenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes which brought the Huguenots to London, and introduced the word ‘refugee’ to the English language.
Yes, I learned about the Huguenots in history at school, but I wasn't perceptive enough to rediscover their London when I lived there. Articles like the following have made me appreciate their enormous contributions to the richness of the end of the 17th century onwards. The 20,000-plus refugees injected talent and ethics into working class London:
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021…