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6 Annotations

First Reading

Cumgranissalis  •  Link

more on horsing it and Ware
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
from Paul Chapin on Mon 20 Sep 2004, 3:46 am |
Great Bed of Ware
Description: http://oak.atlantia.sca.org/18/18…
Photo: http://www.pbase.com/image/250063…

http://www.antiquemaps.com/uk/roa…
between Puckeridge and Hare street. http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.c…
http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/…
Puckeridge, where Pepys ?baited?, was obviously an important
http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.c…

http://www.londonancestor.com/sto…

Paul Timbrell  •  Link

How interesting is the use of bayte.The Oxford dictionary gives bait as 'a snack on a journey' and 'feed for a horse' as two of the word's meanings. Webster seems to have not come across such meanings for bait. When fruit picking in Gloucestershire in the 1960s and lorry-driving in Herefordshire in the 1980s my workmates all had 'bait-time' for their mid-morning snack. I had always taken it to be local slang. So, Sam had his bait-time too three hundred years ago.

Second Reading

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References

Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.

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