Monday 2 July 1660
Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full.
Met with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the principal Officers of the Navy, among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action before our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad.
At night supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid pretty well again.
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First Reading
vincent • Link
Purser(pusser) are well known to get good deals ' tis their nature;
Sir George Carteret , John, Lord Berkely (of Stratton) divided up New Jersey http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Ber…
Officers and commissioners all big wheeler dealers:
chip • Link
How curious that 3 of 8 names on the list go on to found two colonies in the states, next to one another! Although I believe it is William Penn's son that stands on the top of city hall in Philadelphia, facing east by the way.
Paul Brewster • Link
to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action before our patents were passed
L&M: "These orders were issued by the Privy Council on 4 July, and had the effect of bringing the existing (temporary) Admiralty commissions to an end, of empowering the new Navy Board to act, and of having all papers delivered to Pepys."
Paul Brewster • Link
to let me pay my club
from the OED, club n.
10. a. A combination of contributions to make up a total sum, e.g. to defray the expense of an entertainment. Obs.
1659
vincent • Link
William Penn the son is the one that got the Land Grant for the Great State and who helped Plan Philly: because CII owed the father monies; the Penn Penn was a Quaker, for the layout of Philly
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/P…
more :http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/William_Penn.htm
short brief on the son
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb…
Mary • Link
let me pay my club
I wonder if Pepys misunderstood his invitation or whether Purser Washington phrased it badly? Until comparatively recently in UK (at least in London) an invitation to eat WITH someone in a public place meant that one's meal would be paid for, but an invitation to JOIN someone for a meal meant that one paid one's own way. Has anyone any idea how far back this distinction was recognised?
Grahamt • Link
Club in this sense is not as obsolete as OED says:
It is still common to say to "club together" to pay for something in common.
A. De Araujo • Link
"to invite me and to let me pay" It is called "Dutch Treat" in New York and I believe in the english speaking places in general
Susanna • Link
Also North and South Carolina
Sir George Carteret and John, Lord Berkeley, who as Vincent noted would become the proprietors of the New Jersey colony, were also among the Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony (the future North and South Carolina). Both Sir George and Lord John are still remembered in the names of counties in the Carolinas, Carteret in North Carolina and Berkeley in South Carolina.
The other Lords Proprietors of Carolina, by the way, were our old friend Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; John Colleton of Barbados; Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; the kingmaker himself, George Monck, Duke of Albemarle; Sir William Berkeley (Lord John's brother); and William, Lord Craven.
Jay Sames • Link
For the record, I'm almost certain that the statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia's City Hall faces south, down Broad Street.
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Wm. Penn the younger's statue spinning?
"The statue actually faces northeast, towards Penn Treaty Park in the Fishtown section of the city, which commemorates the site where William Penn signed a treaty with the local Native American tribe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil…
Terry Foreman • Link
"William Penn the son is the one that got the Land Grant for the Great State"
Pennsylvania will not be a state for 116 years: The Province of Pennsylvania also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. The proprietary colony's charter remained in the hands of the Penn family until the American Revolution, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was created and became one of the original thirteen states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro…
Terry Foreman • Link
"Sir George Carteret , John, Lord Berkely (of Stratton) divided up New Jersey"
?/ James, the Duke of York did it: In March 1664, King Charles II granted his brother, James, the Duke of York, a Royal colony that covered New Netherland and present-day Maine. Later in 1664, the Duke of York gave the part of his new possessions between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to Sir George Carteret in exchange for settlement of a debt. The territory was named after the Island of Jersey, Carteret's ancestral home. The other section of New Jersey was sold to Lord Berkeley of Stratton, who was a close friend of the Duke. As a result, Carteret and Berkeley became the two English Lords Proprietors of New Jersey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro…
Third Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
"At night supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid pretty well again."
Pepys is still enjoying his elevation in life -- not taking things for granted increases the pleasure.
It sounds to me as if Jane Birch had a sprained ankle, and stayed in bed -- with it consequently elevated -- for a few days. Easy to do when the stairs are not consistently spaced, and you're dealing with long skirts and heavy things like buckets of water.
San Diego Sarah • Link
Names, Rev. Ralph -- we need names!!!
Who knew the "the bonds of iniquity" existed in Earls Colne.
William Crosby • Link
I was thinking about his lame maid Jane. Way too young for a lot of the normal occupational maladies like tendinitis, or other degenerative orthopedic problems, but it occurs to me that she may well of had referred pain and lameness from a pinched lumbar nerve--her quick recovery after a couple days rest would support that idea.