"Charged with mishandling juries, aiding arbitrary government, and having ‘undervalued, vilified and condemned Magna Carta’, he appeared at the bar of the House on 13 December, 1667."
L&M: Kelyng's conduct of two capital trials (in which he had fined both juries) had led to the appointment of a committee of investigation by the Commons in December 1667. When they reported on 11 December, it was voted that he had been guilty of: innovations amounting to the exercise of 'an arbitrary and illegal Power', that he had vilified Magna Carta (which he had called 'Magna Farta'), and that he should be brought to trial.
After he had appeared before the house on 13 December, it was resolved to take no further action against him but a motion was passed declaring illegal the fining or imprisoning of juries.
"Came Dr. Barlow, Provost of Queen's College and Protobibliothecus of the Bodleian library, to take order about the transportation of the Arundel Marbles."
Thomas Barlow (1609–1691)
Dr. Thomas Barlow was successively Bodley’s Librarian, Provost of The Queen’s College, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and bishop of Lincoln.
Barlow's knowledge of contemporary Oxford philosophical and theological studies was encyclopaedic. He was a friend and correspondent of Thomas Hobbes.
After Dr. Thomas Barlow's death, his library, including manuscript and printed books, and many pamphlets on contemporary political and ecclesiastical affairs, was divided between the Bodleian and The Queen’s College, where the bequest occasioned the building of the magnificent Upper Library.
L&M: Capt. George Cocke’s house was close to Gresham College; he also had a country house at Greenwich.
And elsewhere we are told: Broad Street -- Pepys often visited this wide road in the City as Capt. George Cocke lived here, and it also contained the Excise Office, African House and, after 1664, the office and residence of the Navy Treasurer, Sir George Carteret. In the 1660's Broad Street included what's Fig Street on the 1746 map running NE from Threadneedle St. and not just its extension beyond Throgmorton St.
How Nix can call this man "the idiot brother-in-law" I do not know. He probably did no research before posting a throw away line.
Sir Thomas Clarges (1618 - 1695) was elected to Parliament 10 (TEN) times. He has one of the longest Parliamentary biographies I've seen.
The part concerning the Diary years is not as detailed as his later services:
Sir Thomas Clarges MP’s rise from obscurity happened after 1653 when his sister, Ann, married General George Monck MP. It was as one of Monck’s close confidants that in the 1650s and 1660s he made some headway as a public servant, mainly in the army administration. Yet he proved to be no natural-born Court servant.
In the 1660s, Sir Thomas Clarges MP emerged as an articulate man of principle: a severe judge of ministerial conduct; a defender of the rights and liberties of the subject before the law and of the concept of habeas corpus; an earnest upholder of Commons privilege over the Lords and the crown; a rabid anti-papist; and a hater of foreigners, above all the French.
Devoted to monarchy in its traditional form, and loyal to the person of ‘the King’, Sir Thomas Clarges MP frequently criticized the later Stuarts for their religious inclinations, financial demands, and choice of ministers.
Alongside these prejudices were clear-minded notions of responsible government.
Little is known of his personality. Much truth can be discerned in Bishop Gilbert Burnet’s description of him as ‘an honest but haughty man’, his constant emphasis on economy in public expenditure suggesting an austere and conceited character.
By the beginning of the 1690 Parliament, the elderly Sir Thomas Clarges MP was the doyen of the Country Tories, with a substantial record as an outspoken critic of government.
Sir Thomas Clarges MP was pre-eminent among the diminishing stock of ‘old Parliament men’ whose service in the Commons dated back to the 1650s, and could claim seniority over all the major Country party figures with whom he was actively associated in his final years.
A ‘bigoted’ High Churchman, Sir Thomas Clarges MP, with his modest London origins, was not an archetypal country gentleman. Although Clarges later in life came to own much land in the home counties, his chief interests and links were always metropolitan.
Sir Thomas bought and built extensively in the St. James’s and Piccadilly areas and his distinguished rent-roll included such court figures as the Duke of Shrewsbury and Richard Jones MP, Lord Ranelagh.
Even in the last years of his life. Sir Thomas Clarges MP showed little inclination for the steadier life of a country gentleman and seldom left the capital.
Self-conscious of his acquired genteel status, Sir Thomas Clarges MP was attached to the ‘succession of posterity’ which he regarded as ‘one of the greatest blessings and felicities of this life’.
To me it's a question of vocabulary; People who were Charles II's procurers (e.g. Buckingham and Rochester) are procurers because they represented him. People who profit financially from women's activities are called pimps.
Buckingham procured Nell Gwyn.
I can't think of a known example of who pimped their daughter or wife, but it did happen. A couple of possible examples: Barbara Villiers Palmer: possibly it was her husband who dangled her alluringly in front of Charles II shortly before the Restoration, hoping for preferment? Or Francis Boyle, married to Elizabeth Killigrew (one of Charles Prince of Wales' first loves). "Black Betty" had a daughter, Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria Boyle, but before her pregnancy was too obvious the couple where whisked back to Ireland by the Boyles, and Francis acknowledged Charlotte. Francis was later created Viscount Shannon. (Charles never acknowledged Charlotte, but after she married James Howard, grandson of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk in 1663, Charles awarded Charlotte and James a 600l. per annum pension in 1667.)
Pimping and procuring are two different functions.
(In February, 1668 I see Charles had not forgotten his obligations: Feb. 25. 1668 Whitehall. Warrant to Lord Ashley, treasurer of prizes, to pay 200l. as the King's free gift to Elizabeth Boyle, Viscountess Shannon. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 26, f. 27.])
'Charles II: February 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 204-261. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
"... he enjoyed a successful career during the commonwealth, becoming a serjeant-at-law, judge of assize, and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, ..."
John Turner was a Serjeant at Law, which means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
All barristers belong to an Inn Of Court. Pepys reports meeting Jane Turner at Roger Pepys' office at his Inn suggesting that John, like Roger, was a member of the Middle Temple.
The Middle Temple and Inner Temple are the two Inns of Court which occupy a magnificent site between Fleet Street and the Thames. They share the site with the historical Temple Church. Well worth a visit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tem…
This Diary entry gets a special mention in the following article about cock ale, and it's uses as not only a cure for TB, but as an aphrodisiac. No wonder Pepys enjoyed it.
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About Sir John Kelyng (Lord Chief Justice 1665-71)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Charged with mishandling juries, aiding arbitrary government, and having ‘undervalued, vilified and condemned Magna Carta’, he appeared at the bar of the House on 13 December, 1667."
L&M: Kelyng's conduct of two capital trials (in which he had fined both juries) had led to the appointment of a committee of investigation by the Commons in December 1667. When they reported on 11 December, it was voted that he had been guilty of:
innovations amounting to the exercise of 'an arbitrary and illegal Power',
that he had vilified Magna Carta (which he had called 'Magna Farta'),
and that he should be brought to trial.
After he had appeared before the house on 13 December, it was resolved to take no further action against him but a motion was passed declaring illegal the fining or imprisoning of juries.
See https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
About Thursday 17 October 1667
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Came Dr. Barlow, Provost of Queen's College and Protobibliothecus of the Bodleian library, to take order about the transportation of the Arundel Marbles."
Thomas Barlow (1609–1691)
Dr. Thomas Barlow was successively Bodley’s Librarian, Provost of The Queen’s College, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and bishop of Lincoln.
Barlow's knowledge of contemporary Oxford philosophical and theological studies was encyclopaedic. He was a friend and correspondent of Thomas Hobbes.
After Dr. Thomas Barlow's death, his library, including manuscript and printed books, and many pamphlets on contemporary political and ecclesiastical affairs, was divided between the Bodleian and The Queen’s College, where the bequest occasioned the building of the magnificent Upper Library.
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodl…
About George Cocke ("Captain")
San Diego Sarah • Link
L&M: Capt. George Cocke’s house was close to Gresham College; he also had a country house at Greenwich.
And elsewhere we are told:
Broad Street -- Pepys often visited this wide road in the City as Capt. George Cocke lived here, and it also contained the Excise Office, African House and, after 1664, the office and residence of the Navy Treasurer, Sir George Carteret. In the 1660's Broad Street included what's Fig Street on the 1746 map running NE from Threadneedle St. and not just its extension beyond Throgmorton St.
About Sir Thomas Clarges
San Diego Sarah • Link
How Nix can call this man "the idiot brother-in-law" I do not know. He probably did no research before posting a throw away line.
Sir Thomas Clarges (1618 - 1695) was elected to Parliament 10 (TEN) times. He has one of the longest Parliamentary biographies I've seen.
The part concerning the Diary years is not as detailed as his later services:
Sir Thomas Clarges MP’s rise from obscurity happened after 1653 when his sister, Ann, married General George Monck MP. It was as one of Monck’s close confidants that in the 1650s and 1660s he made some headway as a public servant, mainly in the army administration. Yet he proved to be no natural-born Court servant.
In the 1660s, Sir Thomas Clarges MP emerged as an articulate man of principle:
a severe judge of ministerial conduct;
a defender of the rights and liberties of the subject before the law and of the concept of habeas corpus;
an earnest upholder of Commons privilege over the Lords and the crown;
a rabid anti-papist;
and a hater of foreigners, above all the French.
Devoted to monarchy in its traditional form, and loyal to the person of ‘the King’, Sir Thomas Clarges MP frequently criticized the later Stuarts for their religious inclinations, financial demands, and choice of ministers.
Alongside these prejudices were clear-minded notions of responsible government.
Little is known of his personality. Much truth can be discerned in Bishop Gilbert Burnet’s description of him as ‘an honest but haughty man’, his constant emphasis on economy in public expenditure suggesting an austere and conceited character.
By the beginning of the 1690 Parliament, the elderly Sir Thomas Clarges MP was the doyen of the Country Tories, with a substantial record as an outspoken critic of government.
Sir Thomas Clarges MP was pre-eminent among the diminishing stock of ‘old Parliament men’ whose service in the Commons dated back to the 1650s, and could claim seniority over all the major Country party figures with whom he was actively associated in his final years.
A ‘bigoted’ High Churchman, Sir Thomas Clarges MP, with his modest London origins, was not an archetypal country gentleman. Although Clarges later in life came to own much land in the home counties, his chief interests and links were always metropolitan.
Sir Thomas bought and built extensively in the St. James’s and Piccadilly areas and his distinguished rent-roll included such court figures as the Duke of Shrewsbury and Richard Jones MP, Lord Ranelagh.
Even in the last years of his life. Sir Thomas Clarges MP showed little inclination for the steadier life of a country gentleman and seldom left the capital.
Self-conscious of his acquired genteel status, Sir Thomas Clarges MP was attached to the ‘succession of posterity’ which he regarded as ‘one of the greatest blessings and felicities of this life’.
https://www.historyofparliamenton…
About Monday 10 February 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
Where does that question come from, Gerald?
To me it's a question of vocabulary;
People who were Charles II's procurers (e.g. Buckingham and Rochester) are procurers because they represented him.
People who profit financially from women's activities are called pimps.
Buckingham procured Nell Gwyn.
I can't think of a known example of who pimped their daughter or wife, but it did happen. A couple of possible examples:
Barbara Villiers Palmer: possibly it was her husband who dangled her alluringly in front of Charles II shortly before the Restoration, hoping for preferment?
Or Francis Boyle, married to Elizabeth Killigrew (one of Charles Prince of Wales' first loves). "Black Betty" had a daughter, Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria Boyle, but before her pregnancy was too obvious the couple where whisked back to Ireland by the Boyles, and Francis acknowledged Charlotte. Francis was later created Viscount Shannon.
(Charles never acknowledged Charlotte, but after she married James Howard, grandson of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk in 1663, Charles awarded Charlotte and James a 600l. per annum pension in 1667.)
Pimping and procuring are two different functions.
(In February, 1668 I see Charles had not forgotten his obligations:
Feb. 25. 1668
Whitehall.
Warrant to Lord Ashley, treasurer of prizes,
to pay 200l. as the King's free gift to Elizabeth Boyle, Viscountess Shannon.
[S.P. Dom., Entry Book 26, f. 27.])
'Charles II: February 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 204-261. British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
About Sir Orlando Bridgeman (Lord Keeper, 1667-1672)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"On 30 May 1660, Bridgeman was made Serjeant-at-Law"
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About John Bradshaw
San Diego Sarah • Link
"serjeant-at-law, 1648"
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Job Charlton (MP Ludlow, Salop, 1659-78)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Geoffrey Palmer (Attorney General 1660-70)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... and serjeant-at-law in October 1660."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir William Morton
San Diego Sarah • Link
"At the Restoration, Morton became Serjeant-at-Law on 6 July 1660, ..."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir John Glynne
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... he enjoyed a successful career during the commonwealth, becoming a serjeant-at-law, judge of assize, and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, ..."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Edward Coke (Lord Chief Justice, 1613-16)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"On 20 June 1606, Coke was made a Serjeant-at-Law, a requirement for his elevation to Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,.."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Thomas Richardson (Chief Justice, King's Bench)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"In 1614, he was Lent Reader at Lincoln's Inn, and on 13 October of the same year became serjeant-at-law."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Robert Foster (Lord Chief Justice 1660-3)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"serjeant-at-law, 1636"
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About William Ellis
San Diego Sarah • Link
"... on 26 August 1669 he took the degree of serjeant-at-law, ..."
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir Matthew Hale (Chief Baron of the Exchequer)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"serjeant-at-law, 1654"
Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir John Kelyng (Lord Chief Justice 1665-71)
San Diego Sarah • Link
"He was one of the first group of serjeants to be appointed after the Restoration ..."
A Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About Sir William Wilde
San Diego Sarah • Link
A Serjeant at Law means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
About John Turner (lawyer)
San Diego Sarah • Link
John Turner was a Serjeant at Law, which means a senior barrister, senior even to a Queen's/King's Counsel (QC/KC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ser…
All barristers belong to an Inn Of Court. Pepys reports meeting Jane Turner at Roger Pepys' office at his Inn suggesting that John, like Roger, was a member of the Middle Temple.
The Middle Temple and Inner Temple are the two Inns of Court which occupy a magnificent site between Fleet Street and the Thames. They share the site with the historical Temple Church. Well worth a visit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tem…
About Monday 2 February 1662/63
San Diego Sarah • Link
This Diary entry gets a special mention in the following article about cock ale, and it's uses as not only a cure for TB, but as an aphrodisiac. No wonder Pepys enjoyed it.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/arti…