Wednesday 17 June 1663
Up before 4 o’clock, which is the hour I intend now to rise at, and to my office a while, and with great pleasure I fell to my business again. Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which he refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks very civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace. I brought back my money to my office, and thence to White Hall, and in the garden spoke to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is, and looks nobly. Captain Ferrers, I see, is come home from France. I only spoke one word to him, my Lord being there. He tells me the young gentlemen are well there; so my Lord went to my Lord Albemarle’s to dinner, and I by water home and dined alone, and at the office (after half an hour’s viallin practice after dinner) till late at night, and so home and to bed.
This day I sent my cozen Edward Pepys his Lady, at my cozen Turner’s, a piece of venison given me yesterday, and Madam Turner I sent for a dozen bottles of her’s, to fill with wine for her.
This day I met with Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that the King has made peace between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is well again; at which; for the family’s sake, I am very glad, but do not think it will hold long.
9 Annotations
First Reading
A. De Araujo • Link
"I brought back my money to my office"
That is not his money,is it?
tel • Link
“I brought back my money to my office”
I suspect that Sam caught the tar sellers out by finding a clerk who did not realise he was from the Navy Office and who quoted him a fair price. Having been thwarted by the cartel, Sam has another try using his own money to try to prove the point.
TerryF • Link
Spreading good cheer, reinfording family ties.
What to do with a house full of meat and drink and Bess and Ashwell,are away?
The venison is for the lovely wife of Edward.
5 June 1663 - "So to Mr. Turner’s, and there saw Mr. Edward Pepys’s lady, who my wife concurs with me to be very pretty, as most women we ever saw."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
The wine is for the mother of dear The[ophila].
TerryF • Link
Ahhh, that's 'reinforcing' family ties.
Robert Gertz • Link
Good to see Sam never forgets cousin Jane Turner...
Wonder if The and Wayneman ever hang out (or at least speak)? I know the social barrier is there but they are close in age and I'd bet Wayneman would never let a thing like class difference prevent him from chatting up a pretty girl even if it meant an ear box from Sam later. The with her bratty precociousness would probably play it Estella to his Pip but she might like his rebellious streak.
And she would've been smart enough to engineer the Great Claret Robbery.
dirk • Link
What Capt. Ferrers has been doing in France -- on My Lord's behalf
Cf.:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Australian Susan • Link
Robert G - love the Great Expectations analogy! And the speculation about the wine thieving!
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
"He tells me the young gentlemen are well there;"
The "young gentlemen" are Mountagu's two eldest sons, now in France:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
(Per L&M footnote)
Terry Foreman • Link
"the King has made peace between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is well again; at which; for the family’s sake, I am very glad, but do not think it will hold long."
Pepys was right. Cf. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… According to Clarendon, Lord Montague had objected to his son's accepting office in the household of the Queen, and had refused to pay him any allowance. Edward's undated letter of apology to his father may possibly be ascribed to this period. (Per L&M footnote)