Sunday 23 June 1667
(Lord’s day). Up to my chamber, and there all the morning reading in my Lord Coke’s Pleas of the Crowne, very fine noble reading. After church time comes my wife and Sir W. Pen his lady and daughter; and Mrs. Markham and Captain Harrison [L&M suggest “Hannum”. P.G.] (who come to dine with them), by invitation and dined with me, they as good as inviting themselves. I confess I hate their company and tricks, and so had no great pleasure in [it], but a good dinner lost. After dinner they all to church, and I by water alone to Woolwich, and there called on Mr. Bodham: and he and I to see the batterys newly raised; which, indeed, are good works to command the River below the ships that are sunk, but not above them. Here I met with Captain Cocke and Matt. Wren, Fenn, and Charles Porter, and Temple and his wife. Here I fell in with these, and to Bodham’s with them, and there we sat and laughed and drank in his arbour, Wren making much and kissing all the day of Temple’s wife. It is a sad sight to see so many good ships there sunk in the River, while we would be thought to be masters of the sea. Cocke says the bankers cannot, till peace returns, ever hope to have credit again; so that they can pay no more money, but people must be contented to take publick security such as they can give them; and if so, and they do live to receive the money thereupon, the bankers will be happy men. Fenn read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King’s revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved by the present Lords Commissioners; which will, I think, spoil the credit of all his Majesty’s service, when people cannot depend upon payment any where. But the King’s declaration in behalf of the bankers, to make good their assignments for money, is very good, and will, I hope, secure me. Cocke says, that he hears it is come to it now, that the King will try what he can soon do for a peace; and if he cannot, that then he will cast all upon the Parliament to do as they see fit: and in doing so, perhaps, he may save us all. The King of France, it is believed, is engaged for this year;1 so that we shall be safe as to him. The great misery the City and kingdom is like to suffer for want of coals in a little time is very visible, and, is feared, will breed a mutiny; for we are not in any prospect to command the sea for our colliers to come, but rather, it is feared, the Dutch may go and burn all our colliers at Newcastle; though others do say that they lie safe enough there. No news at all of late from Bredagh what our Treaters do. By and by, all by water in three boats to Greenwich, there to Cocke’s, where we supped well, and then late, Wren, Fenn, and I home by water, set me in at the Tower, and they to White Hall, and so I home, and after a little talk with my wife to bed.
17 Annotations
First Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
",,,reading in my Lord Coke's Pleas of the Crowne, very fine noble reading."
L&M note this is *The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown and Criminal Causes* by Sir Edward Coke http://www.constitution.org/coke/…
"Very fine noble reading" indeed!!
Pepys had picked up "my Lord Coke's volumes" 29 March 1665. http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
Robert Gertz • Link
"After dinner they all to church, and I by water alone to Woolwich, and there called on Mr. Bodham: and he and I to see the batterys newly raised; which, indeed, are good works to command the River below the ships that are sunk, but not above them."
Interesting that Penn feels no great obligation to dash off after dinner on state business. Though of course he had been quite busy earlier. One wonders what he said to Bess of Sam's Woolwich trip's necessity.
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However nasty their dinners may be, the Penns had been entertaining the Pepys quite a bit recently. Seems only fair they'd expect to be invited to dine.
tg • Link
Here I met with Captain Cocke and Matt. Wren, Fenn, and Charles Porter, and Temple and his wife. Here I fell in with these, and to Bodham’s with them, and there we sat and laughed and drank in his arbour, Wren making much and kissing all the day of Temple’s wife.
Well it's nice to see that there were other unscrupulous ... heros... in Sam's social circles.
JWB • Link
Turenne
Half Dutch Protestant turned eventually back to Rome, the general earn his spurs in the 30 Yrs War and seems to have been always in camp. A hero of Napoleon, he paid close attention to logistics, avoided sieges and kept forces active.
Terry Foreman • Link
JWB, very keenly observed, as always:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henr…'Auvergne,_Vicomte_de_Turenne
cum salis grano • Link
Men under pressure from not having solutions to the crisis of the moment , do strange things, some fiddle, some seek moths, some go sailing, some play golf, some into the arms of welcoming bosom, anything will do until someone fills the breach.
cum salis grano • Link
Some names change do to future disputes
Armentieres was taken on the 28th May;
Charleroi [Charleroi] on the 2nd June,
St. Winox {?} on the 6th,
Fumes [ ?rumes]on the 12th,
Ath [Ath?] on the 16th,
Toumay [Tournai?}on the 24th;
the Escarpe [?] on the 6th July,
Courtray [?] on the 18th,
Audenarde [Oudenaade?]on the 31st; and
Lisle { Lille} on the 27th August.
Many appear to be in French speaking Belgium
?all preparing Waterloo?
need some insight to territorial expansion.
Chloé • Link
"the King’s declaration in behalf of the bankers, to make good their assignments for money, is very good, and will, I hope, secure me"
Money will always control us !
GrahamT • Link
"Many appear to be in French speaking Belgium"
Wallony is the French speaking part of Belgium.
Flanders is traditionally Flemish/Dutch speaking but this area has changed hands so often that it is now almost bilingual, being split between Holland, France and Belgium. Lille, Bergues (Berg St Winox), Fumay (Fumes) and Armetieres, for example are in France; Charleroi, Tournai, Ath, Kortrijk (Cortray) in Belgium; There is a Route de l'Escarpe in Dieppe, but no town in Flanders; maybe it has a Flemish name now.
Second Reading
Terry Foreman • Link
In Earl’s Colne, Essex
Diary of Ralph Josselin
June. 23. hot and dry extreme. a sad face of our nation(,) the French said [to be] in the downs(,) lord you are in heaven. help. preached a sermon of repentance affectionately http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earl…
Terry Foreman • Link
Sir Edward Coke -- almost a relative of Samuel Pepys
Dr John Pepys (1576-1652) of Ashtead, Surrey; Pepys's third cousin once removed; father of Jane Turner. The much-loved man of business and executor to Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke. He married Anne, daughter of Terry Walpole of Houghton, Norf., in 1610. They had a son Edward (named after Coke) and two daughters, Elizabeth (Dyke) and Jane (Turner), and lived for some time in Salisbury Court, possibly in the house the Turners occupied in the diary period. Their Ashtead house was taxed on ten hearths. (L&M Companion)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
Terry Foreman • Link
"Cocke says, that he hears...that the King will try what he can soon do for a peace;....The great misery the City and kingdom is like to suffer for want of coals in a little time is very visible, and, is feared, will breed a mutiny; for we are not in any prospect to command the sea for our colliers to come"
The Dutch fleet blockaded the Thames until the end of July when peace was signed. (L&M note)
Terry Foreman • Link
"Cocke says the bankers cannot, till peace returns, ever hope to have credit again; so that they can pay no more money, but people must be contented to take publick security such as they can give them"
L&M: "They" were the departmental treasurers or cashiers, such as Pepys, Cocke and Fenn.
Terry Foreman • Link
"But the King’s declaration in behalf of the bankers, to make good their assignments for money, is very good, and will, I hope, secure me."
L&M: Steele, no, 3493 (18 June). For its effects on stopping a run on the banks, see The case of the bankers and their creditors stated and examined by the rules of lawes, policy, and common reason, as it was inclosed in a letter to a friend / by a true lover of his King and country, and a sufferer for loyalty.
Turner, Thomas, d. 1679.
[London: s.n.],
Early English Books Online
Terry Foreman • Link
"But the King’s declaration in behalf of the bankers, to make good their assignments for money, is very good, and will, I hope, secure me."
L&M: Steele, no, 3493 (18 June). For its effects on stopping a run on the banks, see The case of the bankers and their creditors stated and examined by the rules of lawes, policy, and common reason, as it was inclosed in a letter to a friend / by a true lover of his King and country, and a sufferer for loyalty.
Turner, Thomas, d. 1679.
[London: s.n.],
Early English Books Online
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo…
Terry Foreman • Link
"The great misery the City and kingdom is like to suffer for want of coals in a little time is very visible, and, is feared, will breed a mutiny; for we are not in any prospect to command the sea for our colliers to come, but rather, it is feared, the Dutch may go and burn all our colliers at Newcastle; though others do say that they lie safe enough there."
L&M: The Dutch fleet blockaded the Thames until the end of July when peace was signed. Fear for the Newcastle colliers was widespread: see e.g. CSPD 1667, p. 190: Savile Corr. (ed. W. D. Cooper), pp. 16, 17.
arby • Link
Two good dinners "lost" in two days.