I wonder if this is linked to the right Arthur Bassett? The link goes to Sir Arthur Bassett, MP, an excellent Royalist from a leading West Country family, who was no longer serving in Parliament.
In the 1660's he was dealing in local politics in Barnstaple. I've posted the highlights from his Parliamentary bio. in our Encyclopedia, but since he never had anything to do with Tangier, I'm not adding it here.
Out of town celebrating and/or preparing for his marriage to Lady Betty Pickering? This additional work only increases Pepys' pique on the subject of Mr. Creed. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
"Which Ambassador would this be? Several seem to be on the move."
Later I find that Sir Daniel Harvey, Ambassador to the Grand Seignor, and his retinue of 26 persons left Deal for Turkey on 15 Aug. 1668 See Vol. 245, Nos. 1 and 126 infra.
"Hearing that Mr. Fitzmaurice, executor to Thos. Amory, had neglected to supply the ships on the coast of Ireland with victuals as promised, gave order for their supply other ways, and with some difficulty remitted some moneys; hopes there will be no further complaint."
Denis Gauden is in a difficult position. His Victualling contract is being contested, as Pepys tells us https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… so while he wants to perform responsibly, I'm sure he doesn't want to over extend himself doing other people's contracts.
Pepys sees little of him for about two months while this situation works its way through the Committee. I'm sure both Pepys and Gauden were happy that Rupert wasn't on the committee, but Allin's complaints have not been helpful.
"Could we go back to the beginning and start again when the diary stops?"
I second your plea, Karen ... we await Phil's decision on that. However, that Terry Foreman is taking his third run through updating links and L&M citations gives me hope that the blog will be around for years to come. I also still have to read the beginning.
IMHO this is a national treasure, and should be funded as an educational resource whenever Phil is ready to retire. But his guiding hand keeping the usual nasty chatter at bay is irreplaceable.
Welcome aboard, Regis ... my French is awful, but I'll do anything I can to help you share your family stories here. I'm sending Phil Gyford an email asking him to share my email address with you so we can do some preliminary agonizing away from public view.
If anyone wants to join our conversation, feel free to join us.
Stephane, if you're lurking, this could be very interesting.
"Leatherseller's Hall. Sir Thos. Davies to Williamson.
"I send my letter by Ralph Smith, warden of the Stationers’ Company; we have preferred indictments against 3 illegal printers, and doubt not the next sessions to convict them; ..."
Pepys knew Sir Thomas: L&M Companion: Davies, Sir Thomas (1631-80). Bookseller ('the little fellow'): a contemporary of Pepys' at St Paul's School. Master of the Stationers' Company 1668-70, and of the Drapers' 1677-8; Sheriff 1667-8; Lord Mayor 1676-7. He inherited a large fortune, consisting mainly of the Ebury Estate in Westminster which later passed to the Grosvenors, Dukes of Westminster. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The leathermakers would work closely with the booksellers in the binding of sold books. Logically, the more books the more profit. Maybe the penalties for working on counterfeit books were so onerous the officials were discouraging their members from chasing the easy money?
Fancy in London August 1664: "At night is brought home our poor Fancy, which to my great grief continues lame still, so that I wish she had not been brought ever home again, for it troubles me to see her." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder how Fancy survived the killing of the dogs at the start of the plague? Maybe she has been in the country for a few years?
"By mid July [1665] over 1,000 deaths per week were reported in the city. It was rumored that dogs and cats spread the disease, so the Lord Mayor ordered all the dogs and cats destroyed. Author Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Years estimated that 40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats were killed. The real effect of this was that there were fewer natural enemies of the rats who carried the plague fleas, so the germs spread more rapidly." https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
I wonder if Pepys knew this ... and how many others went blind from "over study":
Dr. Peter Heylyn afterwards lost his sight through over study, and died on Holy Thursday, 1663, in his 63rd year.
THE Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House by Rev. G. N. GODWIN, B.D. https://archive.org/stream/civilw… Chapter VIII - Sufferings of the Clegy
Portsmouth is on the Solent, protected by the Isle of Wight. One of the Navy's favorite roadsteads serving the port is called Spithead:
"In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Spithead like this:
"Spithead, roadstead, at the entrance of Portsmouth harbour, Hants, extending 2 miles NW. and SE. along the SW. side of the Spit Sand, with an average breadth of 1½ mile; its natural advantages for safe anchorage, and its vicinity to the great naval establishments of Portsmouth, have made it a favourite rendezvous of the British fleet, and the system of fortifications intended for the defence of Portsmouth harbour and dockyards is also designed as a protection for the roadstead at Spithead, a term which is often applied, in a more extended sense, to the whole of the channel which separates the NE. coast of the Isle of Wight from the mainland of Hants." https://www.visionofbritain.org.u…
"Asks the nature and profits of the place of housekeeper at the Hill House, Chatham; ..."
I wonder why Matthew Wren asked Pepys about this ... surely someone in Chatham would be better placed to know the perks. But this gives us an insight on the opportunities Pepys had to collect "gratuities" in return for his favorable opinion.
'Charles II: August 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 516-565. British History Online
Aug. 2. 1668 St. James's Palace. M. Wren to Sam. Pepys.
Asks the nature and profits of the place of housekeeper at the Hill House, Chatham; the last that had it being dead, several people apply for it; shall not else know how to inform his Royal Highness which way to bestow it. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 244, No. 63.]
Everything was a profit center for the King ... or in this case, James, Duke of York ... to bestow.
Pepys seems to have enjoyed going to St. Mary's Church, Putney. He does it from time to time throughout the Diary, never mentions the vicar's name, but usually remarks on the "fine people" in the congregation. It is located by the Thames, so it would be a nice boat ride for him on a Sunday morning.
St. Mary's Church (in full, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin), Putney, is an Anglican church in Putney, London, sited next to the River Thames, ... There has been a centre of Christian worship on this site from at least the 13th century, ,,. It is also noteworthy because in 1647, during the English Civil War, the church was the site of the Putney Debates on the English constitution.
Inscribed on a wall of the church is a quote from the Putney debates (1647) by Col. Thomas Rainsborough: "For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_…
A description of the development of London, with a few nods to Pepys, the plague, and the Great Fire, but mostly about Covent Garden and the inns, theaters and coffee shops the Diary has acquainted us with ... https://www.andreazuvich.com/hist…
"My business was to meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, ..."
"Robert Boyle still sanctioned the use of dried excrement, blown into the eyes for the treatment of cataracts." Run, Pepys, run ... https://www.historyextra.com/peri…
A couple pf reasons Louis XIV may not have infected everyone at the French Court were that the good Dr. Vallot seems to have isolated him (as best he could), and -- from another part of the same blog:
"Louis XIV liked his windows open. He did not care much if the weather was good or bad, as soon as he entered a room, Louis opened all windows. His mistresses did not like this habit much. Madame de Maintenon complained of it regularly, saying the King does not care whether she felt cold due to the windows being open. It was rumoured Louis developed this habit because of his odour."
Of course, Madame de Maintenon wasn't a factor in 1663, and Louis' dislike of bathing is well documented, so who knows if this was true of his behavior before and during the measles episode. But as we know from COVID, viruses don't spread easily in well-ventilated places.
Well, Liz, yes. And more hypocrital than even that.
Pepys is a male chauvenist, disapproving of bad language and explicit plays, while not linking them in any way to his own behavior, or to his enjoyment of smutty French novels about naught girls in boarding schools which have to be burned so no one knows he bought and read them.
It's the old double standard which has, thankfully, receeded to the point that you find it odd. Being old, I remember reading Lady Chatterley's Lover in the 1960's with a brown wrapping paper cover, so people wouldn't know AND JUDGE. Why do you think Wheatley et al censored The Diary?
Censorship is and always has been to protect other people, but not yourself. You want to know everything, and knowledge is power. Men wanted to know about sex, but they wanted their women to be ignorant so the man's performance would not be judged sub-par.
Except for Charles II who, I understand, had Rochester teach women his favorite activities so he wouldn't have to exert himself, and was guaranteed a good time from the start.
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died of the measles. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi. The story and translated bits come from https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
By Wednesday, June 6, Louis XIV had regained most of his strength, was meeting his ministers on matters of State, and no longer felt any discomfort.
@@@ The next entry I know about is when Louis XIV and Queen Marie-Thérèse left Versailles to return to the Louvre on Saturday, June 9.
Monsieur Vallot records that Louis was completely recovered from the measles, and was welcomed by people of quality and importance, who all congratulated him on his recovery.
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died of the measles. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi. The story and translated bits come from https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
On Tuesday, June 5 Louis XIV was almost back to normal again.
Monsieur Vallot records that Louis spent most of the day out of bed, held a council meeting lasting nearly 2 hours, ate normally, and entertained himself with a walk in the gardens.
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi. The story and translated bits come from https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
Things looked even better on Monday, June 4.
Louis XIV devoured more soup, had a clyster, and decided at 5 p.m. that he felt well enough to get dressed and go for a walk.
Which Monsieur Vallot reported he did for the next three hours “without feeling weak.”
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About Tuesday 4 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
I wonder if this is linked to the right Arthur Bassett? The link goes to Sir Arthur Bassett, MP, an excellent Royalist from a leading West Country family, who was no longer serving in Parliament.
In the 1660's he was dealing in local politics in Barnstaple. I've posted the highlights from his Parliamentary bio. in our Encyclopedia, but since he never had anything to do with Tangier, I'm not adding it here.
About Tuesday 4 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Creed’s being out of town"
Out of town celebrating and/or preparing for his marriage to Lady Betty Pickering? This additional work only increases Pepys' pique on the subject of Mr. Creed.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 4 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Which Ambassador would this be? Several seem to be on the move."
Later I find that Sir Daniel Harvey, Ambassador to the Grand Seignor, and his retinue of 26 persons left Deal for Turkey on 15 Aug. 1668
See Vol. 245, Nos. 1 and 126 infra.
About Saturday 1 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Sir Denis Gauden to the Navy Commissioners.
"Hearing that Mr. Fitzmaurice, executor to Thos. Amory, had neglected to supply the ships on the coast of Ireland with victuals as promised,
gave order for their supply other ways, and with some difficulty remitted some moneys;
hopes there will be no further complaint."
Denis Gauden is in a difficult position. His Victualling contract is being contested, as Pepys tells us https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… so while he wants to perform responsibly, I'm sure he doesn't want to over extend himself doing other people's contracts.
Pepys sees little of him for about two months while this situation works its way through the Committee. I'm sure both Pepys and Gauden were happy that Rupert wasn't on the committee, but Allin's complaints have not been helpful.
About Sunday 2 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Could we go back to the beginning and start again when the diary stops?"
I second your plea, Karen ... we await Phil's decision on that. However, that Terry Foreman is taking his third run through updating links and L&M citations gives me hope that the blog will be around for years to come. I also still have to read the beginning.
IMHO this is a national treasure, and should be funded as an educational resource whenever Phil is ready to retire. But his guiding hand keeping the usual nasty chatter at bay is irreplaceable.
About Wednesday 19 February 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
Welcome aboard, Regis ... my French is awful, but I'll do anything I can to help you share your family stories here. I'm sending Phil Gyford an email asking him to share my email address with you so we can do some preliminary agonizing away from public view.
If anyone wants to join our conversation, feel free to join us.
Stephane, if you're lurking, this could be very interesting.
About Monday 3 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Leatherseller's Hall.
Sir Thos. Davies to Williamson.
"I send my letter by Ralph Smith, warden of the Stationers’ Company;
we have preferred indictments against 3 illegal printers, and doubt not the next sessions to convict them; ..."
Pepys knew Sir Thomas:
L&M Companion: Davies, Sir Thomas (1631-80).
Bookseller ('the little fellow'): a contemporary of Pepys' at St Paul's School.
Master of the Stationers' Company 1668-70, and of the Drapers' 1677-8; Sheriff 1667-8; Lord Mayor 1676-7.
He inherited a large fortune, consisting mainly of the Ebury Estate in Westminster which later passed to the Grosvenors, Dukes of Westminster.
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The leathermakers would work closely with the booksellers in the binding of sold books. Logically, the more books the more profit. Maybe the penalties for working on counterfeit books were so onerous the officials were discouraging their members from chasing the easy money?
About Wednesday 16 September 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
Fancy in London August 1664:
"At night is brought home our poor Fancy, which to my great grief continues lame still, so that I wish she had not been brought ever home again, for it troubles me to see her." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
I wonder how Fancy survived the killing of the dogs at the start of the plague? Maybe she has been in the country for a few years?
"By mid July [1665] over 1,000 deaths per week were reported in the city. It was rumored that dogs and cats spread the disease, so the Lord Mayor ordered all the dogs and cats destroyed. Author Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Years estimated that 40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats were killed. The real effect of this was that there were fewer natural enemies of the rats who carried the plague fleas, so the germs spread more rapidly."
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Wednesday 16 September 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
I wonder if Pepys knew this ... and how many others went blind from "over study":
Dr. Peter Heylyn afterwards lost his sight through over study, and died on Holy Thursday, 1663, in his 63rd year.
THE Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) and the Story of Basing House
by Rev. G. N. GODWIN, B.D.
https://archive.org/stream/civilw…
Chapter VIII - Sufferings of the Clegy
About Portsmouth, Hampshire
San Diego Sarah • Link
Portsmouth is on the Solent, protected by the Isle of Wight. One of the Navy's favorite roadsteads serving the port is called Spithead:
"In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Spithead like this:
"Spithead, roadstead, at the entrance of Portsmouth harbour, Hants, extending 2 miles NW. and SE. along the SW. side of the Spit Sand, with an average breadth of 1½ mile; its natural advantages for safe anchorage, and its vicinity to the great naval establishments of Portsmouth, have made it a favourite rendezvous of the British fleet, and the system of fortifications intended for the defence of Portsmouth harbour and dockyards is also designed as a protection for the roadstead at Spithead, a term which is often applied, in a more extended sense, to the whole of the channel which separates the NE. coast of the Isle of Wight from the mainland of Hants."
https://www.visionofbritain.org.u…
About Sunday 2 August 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Asks the nature and profits of the place of housekeeper at the Hill House, Chatham; ..."
I wonder why Matthew Wren asked Pepys about this ... surely someone in Chatham would be better placed to know the perks. But this gives us an insight on the opportunities Pepys had to collect "gratuities" in return for his favorable opinion.
About Hill House, Chatham
San Diego Sarah • Link
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
'Charles II: August 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 516-565. British History Online
Aug. 2. 1668
St. James's Palace.
M. Wren to Sam. Pepys.
Asks the nature and profits of the place of housekeeper at the Hill House, Chatham;
the last that had it being dead, several people apply for it;
shall not else know how to inform his Royal Highness which way to bestow it.
[S.P. Dom., Car. II. 244, No. 63.]
Everything was a profit center for the King ... or in this case, James, Duke of York ... to bestow.
About Putney
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pepys seems to have enjoyed going to St. Mary's Church, Putney. He does it from time to time throughout the Diary, never mentions the vicar's name, but usually remarks on the "fine people" in the congregation. It is located by the Thames, so it would be a nice boat ride for him on a Sunday morning.
St. Mary's Church (in full, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin), Putney, is an Anglican church in Putney, London, sited next to the River Thames, ... There has been a centre of Christian worship on this site from at least the 13th century, ,,. It is also noteworthy because in 1647, during the English Civil War, the church was the site of the Putney Debates on the English constitution.
Inscribed on a wall of the church is a quote from the Putney debates (1647) by Col. Thomas Rainsborough:
"For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_…
About Covent Garden
San Diego Sarah • Link
A description of the development of London, with a few nods to Pepys, the plague, and the Great Fire, but mostly about Covent Garden and the inns, theaters and coffee shops the Diary has acquainted us with ...
https://www.andreazuvich.com/hist…
About Monday 22 June 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
"My business was to meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give me the best advice he could, ..."
"Robert Boyle still sanctioned the use of dried excrement, blown into the eyes for the treatment of cataracts."
Run, Pepys, run ...
https://www.historyextra.com/peri…
About Wednesday 27 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
A couple pf reasons Louis XIV may not have infected everyone at the French Court were that the good Dr. Vallot seems to have isolated him (as best he could), and -- from another part of the same blog:
"Louis XIV liked his windows open. He did not care much if the weather was good or bad, as soon as he entered a room, Louis opened all windows. His mistresses did not like this habit much. Madame de Maintenon complained of it regularly, saying the King does not care whether she felt cold due to the windows being open. It was rumoured Louis developed this habit because of his odour."
Of course, Madame de Maintenon wasn't a factor in 1663, and Louis' dislike of bathing is well documented, so who knows if this was true of his behavior before and during the measles episode. But as we know from COVID, viruses don't spread easily in well-ventilated places.
https://partylike1660.com/five-th…
About Saturday 20 June 1668
San Diego Sarah • Link
Well, Liz, yes. And more hypocrital than even that.
Pepys is a male chauvenist, disapproving of bad language and explicit plays, while not linking them in any way to his own behavior, or to his enjoyment of smutty French novels about naught girls in boarding schools which have to be burned so no one knows he bought and read them.
It's the old double standard which has, thankfully, receeded to the point that you find it odd. Being old, I remember reading Lady Chatterley's Lover in the 1960's with a brown wrapping paper cover, so people wouldn't know AND JUDGE. Why do you think Wheatley et al censored The Diary?
Censorship is and always has been to protect other people, but not yourself. You want to know everything, and knowledge is power. Men wanted to know about sex, but they wanted their women to be ignorant so the man's performance would not be judged sub-par.
Except for Charles II who, I understand, had Rochester teach women his favorite activities so he wouldn't have to exert himself, and was guaranteed a good time from the start.
Thank God we live in a different world.
About Wednesday 27 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died of the measles. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi.
The story and translated bits come from
https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
By Wednesday, June 6, Louis XIV had regained most of his strength, was meeting his ministers on matters of State, and no longer felt any discomfort.
@@@
The next entry I know about is when Louis XIV and Queen Marie-Thérèse left Versailles to return to the Louvre on Saturday, June 9.
Monsieur Vallot records that Louis was completely recovered from the measles, and was welcomed by people of quality and importance, who all congratulated him on his recovery.
@@@
To review what a bout of the measles could have done to Louis and his Court, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Tuesday 26 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died of the measles. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi. The story and translated bits come from
https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
On Tuesday, June 5 Louis XIV was almost back to normal again.
Monsieur Vallot records that Louis spent most of the day out of bed, held a council meeting lasting nearly 2 hours, ate normally, and entertained himself with a walk in the gardens.
About Monday 25 May 1663
San Diego Sarah • Link
Starting at the end of May, 1663, Louis XIV nearly died. The progress of his disease was noted daily by his physician, Monsieur Antoine Vallot, in the Journal de la santé du Roi. The story and translated bits come from
https://partylike1660.com/louis-x…
Things looked even better on Monday, June 4.
Louis XIV devoured more soup, had a clyster, and decided at 5 p.m. that he felt well enough to get dressed and go for a walk.
Which Monsieur Vallot reported he did for the next three hours “without feeling weak.”