From the Pepys diary feed, 19 December 1664:

Going to bed betimes last night we waked betimes, and from our people’s being forced to take the key to go out to light a candle, I was very angry and begun to find fault with my wife for not commanding her servants as she ought. Thereupon she giving me some cross answer I did strike her over her left ( Read more... )

From the Pepys diary feed, a bit I'd not seen before:

Dined at home very well, and spent all the afternoon with my wife within doors, and getting a speech out of Hamlett, “To bee or not to bee,” without book.

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/11/13/
I wonder what the ( Read more... )

V&A acquires earliest picture of Henry VIII's lost palace of Nonsuch
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/09/v-and-a-acquires-earliest-picture-henry-viii-lost-palace-nonsuch

The palace ( Read more... )

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.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/07/17/

Same, Sam,

My favorite parts of Pepys' journal are when he gossips about other people's marriages; they're so immediate, in a way that brings to life some of the abstractions of conduct books and sermons, or the oversized figures of ballads. Just a short mention in one of the most recent entries on the Pepys feed:

...Becky Allen is married against all ( Read more... )

So I've been watching the Pepys diary feed a little more closely lately because Pepys is basically wracked with jealousy that his wife might be having an affair with the dancing master who has been coming to their house. (His reasoning is basically, "well, I would, with a woman, so how can I believe that she wouldn't?" The thing is, he knows that ( Read more... )

This whole entry, man (various emphases mine):

So made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth 1000l. per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he, ( Read more... )

From the Pepys' Diary daily feed:

A solemn fast for the King’s murther, and we were forced to keep it more than we would have done, having forgot to take any victuals into the house.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/01/30/

People are people, even across the centuries.

From Pepys' diary:

I went away […] to my Lord’s lodgings, where my brother Tom and Dr. Thomas Pepys were to speak with me. So I walked with them in the garden, and was very angry with them both for their going out of town without my knowledge; but they told me the business, which was to see a gentlewoman for a wife for Tom, of Mr. Cooke’s ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why I'm posting this--maybe because I'm morbid, maybe because I just checked out Vanessa Harding's book on the dead in early modern Paris and London last week (not that these are mutually exclusive), but something about this bit interests me. From the Pepys diary feed:

This is the first time I have been in this church since I left ( Read more... )