Up and to my office, whither I search for Brown the mathematical instrument maker, who now brought me a ruler for measuring timber and other things so well done and in all things to my mind that I do set up my trust upon it that I cannot ha…
All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very earnest against Mr. Grant’s report…
We were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took a Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock. By the way talking of several businesses of the navy. So to the office, where Sir Wm. Pen (the first time that he has been
Up both of us very betimes and to the Yard, and see the men called over and choose some to be discharged. Then to the Ropehouses and viewed them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga hemp, the latter proved the
Up about 6 o’clock, and found the people to have just done, and Hannah not gone to bed yet, but was making clean of the yard and kitchen. Will newly gone to bed. So I to my office.And having given some order to Tom Hater, to whom I gave lea…
MartinVT has posted 387 annotations/comments since 10 January 2016. That makes more sense, thanks! Now, does parlor=best chamber? And do S&E sleep there or in a second floor BR? Sarah — yesterday he wrote that he went "up and down with them…
"Quarter days ... Apparently the Navy didn't follow this tradition, or the Pay would have been done last month" The Navy generally paid its dockyard workers late, often shockingly late. Whether this was through lack of funds, incompetence o…
Nate Lockwood has posted 101 annotations/comments since 10 April 2013. San Diego Sarah: Or perhaps they did, and it wasn't considered an uncommon problem? San Diego Sarah: Or perhaps they did, and it wasn't considered an uncommon problem? D…
OED lists many definitions for "close", most of them having to do with an enclosed space or piece of land, or, in Scottish usage, a narrow passage. The most relevant to England in Pepys’ time are the following: 1637 The outer close of His h…
Up pretty early (though of late I have been faulty by an hour or two every morning of what I should do) and by water to the Temple, and there took leave of my cozen Roger Pepys, who goes out of town to-day. So to Westminster Hall, and there…
Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, and I took him to my viall maker’s, and there I heard the famous Mr. Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over expected. I took him to the tave…
Up and dispatched things into the country and to my father’s, and two keggs of Sturgeon and a dozen bottles of wine to Cambridge for my cozen Roger Pepys, which I give him. By and by down by water on several Deall ships, and stood upon a st…