Monday 4 November 1661
In the morning, being very rainy, by coach with Sir W. Pen and my wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Hunt’s, and he and I to Mr. Coventry’s about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home again, only I to the Mitre (Mr. Rawlinson’s), where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, had got us a most brave chine of beef, and a dish of marrowbones. Our company my uncle Wight, Captain Lambert, one Captain Davies, and purser Barter, Mr. Rawlinson, and ourselves; and very merry. After dinner I took coach, and called my wife at my brother’s, where I left her, and to the Opera, where we saw “The Bondman,” which of old we both did so doat on, and do still; though to both our thinking not so well acted here (having too great expectations), as formerly at Salisbury-court. But for Betterton he is called by us both the best actor in the world. So home by coach, I lighting by the way at my uncle Wight’s and staid there a little, and so home after my wife, and to bed.
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Robert Gertz • Link
Sam's behaving himself I see...Picking Beth up for the show, etc. There's a nice air of conjugal companionship in this entry as well as respect for Beth's opinion (of course she agreeing with him no doubt that helped...)
Anyone else see "Stage Beauty"? I was a little disappointed with the Betterton in it.
vicente • Link
The Bondman
bought a copy of play + refs at
http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive…
"...saw “The Bondman” acted; an excellent play and well done. But above all that ever I saw, Betterton do the Bond man the best...."
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"...White-Fryars, where we saw “The Bondman” acted most excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more and more pleased with Betterton’s action...."
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"....and I and my wife sat in the pit...." 'salisbury court'
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Mary House • Link
What would you do with a plate of marrowbones? Suck the marrow out of them or maybe first break them to get at the marrow?
john lauer • Link
Marrow-ball soup goes by various (ethnic) names. Very tasty.
Pauline • Link
"What would you do with a plate of marrowbones? "
In these times, we suck the marrow out or twirl it out with the tip of a knife. Best hot, or at least warm.
upper_left_hand_corner • Link
Marrowbones: Osso buco anybody?
Mary • Link
marrowbones.
Long-shanked, slender spoons were made, expressly for extracting the marrow from the bones. They turn up in antique shops with fair regularity.
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Louise Hudson • Link
Marrow is usually spread on bread.
john • Link
Beef-marrow consumption ceased for a while due to BSE (mad-cow disease).
Louise Hudson • Link
Not in Sam's day, surely.
Terry Foreman • Link
"But for Betterton he is called by us both the best actor in the world. "
Mrs Pepys had a dog named Betterton in 1664 (Shorthand Letters, p. 22) -- perhaps so-called because of his acting. (L&M note)
Terry Foreman • Link
"by coach with Sir W. Pen and my wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Hunt’s, and he and I to Mr. Coventry’s about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home"
L&M: Sc. 'homewards', Mrs Pepys being dropped by Tom's in Salisbury Court on the way.
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San Diego Sarah • Link
George Palmer, John Love, and other English merchants, to Sandwich
Written from: In Faro
Date: 4 November 1661
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 73, fol(s). 600
Document type: Original
Hearing that "the Turks" are in strength, and infest all parts of the Mediterranean, entreat a convoy for their ships.
FROM:
Carte Calendar Volume 32, June - December 1661
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Edward Edwards, 2005
Shelfmark: MS. Carte Calendar 32
Extent: 464 pages
https://wayback.archive-it.org/or…
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Faro is a municipality, the southernmost city and capital of the district of the same name, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far…
This map suggests Faro has a sheltered harbor.
https://mapcarta.com/Faro
Ir was normal for the Navy to provide escort ships for fleets of merchantmen.
San Diego Sarah • Link
Also from the Carte Collection:
William Staines to Sandwich
Written from: Tetuan
Date: 4 November 1661
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 73, fol(s). 602-603
Document type: Holograph
When the Admiral had left Tetuan the writer acquainted the Governor with the Admiral's message; and obtained from him a warrant for the free trading here of merchant ships.
Enters, at great length, into the details of his negotiations for satisfactory Articles of Peace.
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William Lever to Sandwich
Written from: Malaga
Date: 4 November 1661
Shelfmark: MS. Carte 73, fol(s). 604
Document type: Holograph
Reports that Vice-Adm. Sir John Lawson left him at Malaga with charge to make provision of various necessary stores for the service of the squadron.
Communicates various advices & passages of news received from England, and from Madrid; amongst them the encounter between the respective retinues of the French and Spanish Ambassadors to the Court of Whitehall, in a struggle for precedence, which he says cost the French 14 lives, and the Spaniard three ...
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Tetuan -- Tétouan, north-central Morocco. The city lies along the Martil River (Wadi Martil), 7 miles (11 km) from the Mediterranean Sea. In the 16th century Tétouan was populated by Moorish Andalusian refugees. Spanish troops captured it in 1860 ... https://www.britannica.com/place/…
Malaga -- https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
Admiral Sir John Lawson - https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
No info on William Staines or William Lever sadly.