Tuesday 18 April 1665
Up and to Sir Philip Warwicke, and walked with him an houre with great delight in the Parke about Sir G. Carteret’s accounts, and the endeavours that he hath made to bring Sir G. Carteret to show his accounts and let the world see what he receives and what he pays.
Thence home to the office, where I find Sir J. Minnes come home from Chatham, and Sir W. Batten both this morning from Harwich, where they have been these 7 or 8 days.
At noon with my wife and Mr. Moore by water to Chelsey about my Privy Seale for Tangier, but my Lord Privy Seale was gone abroad, and so we, without going out of the boat, forced to return, and found him not at White Hall. So I to Sir Philip Warwicke and with him to my Lord Treasurer, who signed my commission for Tangier-Treasurer and the docquet of my Privy Seale, for the monies to be paid to me.
Thence to White Hall to Mr. Moore again, and not finding my Lord I home, taking my wife and woman up at Unthanke’s. Late at my office, then to supper and to bed.
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First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
Read today's intel about Holland in the Carte Collection at the Bodleian
Earl of Falmouth [Charles Berkeley, formerly Viscount Fitzhardinge] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char… to Ormond http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Written from: From aboard the Charles http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Date: 18 April 1665
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Document type: Holograph; endorsed by Ormond
Communicates news of the state of naval preparations in Holland, brought over by Colonel [Algernon] Sydney. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alge…
Mentions a suit of the writer's near connection, Colonel Bagot, http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/r… of the particulars of which Mr Sydenham, one of the Duke's gentlemen in waiting, is apprised.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/s…
Martin • Link
"the endeavours that he hath made to bring Sir G. Carteret to show his accounts and let the world see what he receives and what he pays."
Interesting that accountability by public figures was an issue 1665, much as (in the US) we expect disclosure of assets, liabilities and tax returns by candidates for national office -- although in this case, the question appears to be how Carteret spends public funds. On April 7, Pepys wrote: "...in my Lord Treasurer’s chamber with Sir Philip Warwicke till dark night, about fower hours talking of the business of the Navy Charge, and how Sir G. Carteret do order business, keeping us in ignorance what he do with his money."
Robert Gertz • Link
Despite Sam's frequent sneers it appears Minnes and Batten actually do do a deal of naval work.
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"So I to Sir Philip Warwicke and with him to my Lord Treasurer, who signed my commission for Tangier-Treasurer and the docquet of my Privy Seale, for the monies to be paid to me." Safely home at last. Now lets get this little money-maker printing for Pepys, Inc.
Robert Gertz • Link
"...taking my wife and woman up at Unthanke’s."
Betty Martin or Mrs. Bagwell?
(Yes, I know he means Mercer...But the implied comic possibilities are just too good to pass up.)
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
"my commission for Tangier-Treasurer and the docquet of my Privy Seale, for the monies to be paid to me."
L&M: Dated 18 April, this authorized payment (in quarterly installments) of up to £70,000 p.a. to Pepys. But it did not cover payments in the current quarter: see
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Thence home to the office, where I find Sir J. Minnes come home from Chatham, and Sir W. Batten both this morning from Harwich, where they have been these 7 or 8 days." i.e. APRIL 11 – 18, 1665
In December 1664 Sir William Batten obtained a patent from Charles II to provide two lighthouses at Harwich.
Chatham shipyard employed 800 people in 1665, at a time where there was only a couple of dozen towns of more than 5,000 people in England.
San Diego Sarah • Link
"Thence to White Hall to Mr. Moore again, and not finding my Lord ..."
I wonder if Sandwich is back in town?