Hello,

In doing some family research and have found that Richard Cocke of Henrico,
Virginia, circa 1627, is said to have been related to Captain Cocke.  Richard
was "patented" 100 acres in the Virginia colony initially and accrued more land
later.  Captain George Cocke is said to have sailed to/visited Virginia prior to
Richard Cocke arriving in VA.

Do we know the names of any of Captain George Cocke's children?  Based on death
dates, I don't believe Richard was a son, but I could be wrong.

Does anyone know anything about Captain Cocke's wife Anna Maria (Solomons) of
Danzig?  I got the most info on her from a post by Pauline on the Pepys' Diary
site.

Interestingly, several family members had DNA tests done and were surprised to
find Polish and German DNA population markers when we thought we were
Anglo-Irish.  Anna Maria's line could explain this background.

Thanks for any help on Captain Cocke and Anna Maria!

Lessons from 10 years of Pepys's diaries online
Cory Doctorow at 2:18 AM Thursday, Apr 14, 2011

For ten years, Phil Gyford has been republishing Samuel Pepys's diaries online
in one-entry-per-day chunks. On the way, he and a growing community of readers,
historians, literary scholars and enthusiasts have annotated Pepys's legendary
accounts of life in 17th century London. In this presentation, Phil walks us
through the most surprising and interesting moments in his decade of
Pepysianism, from random Twitterers who've taken on the personae of other
characters in Pepys's saga to Google mashups of Pepys's London. I saw him
present this earlier this year at The Story in London and it was marvellous.

Links, slideshow, podcast etc. @
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/14/lessons-from-10-year.html

Oops yes, that reminds me that I forgot to post this 'Site News' piece here on
Wednesday when I posted it on the site - I was in a bit of a rush!

----
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/04/13/12411.php

My talk about the diary as an online story

I’ve given a talk about this website three times in recent months, and the most
recent event, SkillSwap Seeking Stories, has put up an audio recording of my
talk. I’ve also put up the slides I used that evening, so you can try recreating
the talk in the comfort of your own chair…

Here’s the presentation on SlideShare (requires Flash).
http://www.slideshare.net/philgyford/the-diary-of-samuel-pepys-by-phil-gyford-at\
-skillswap-brighton

And here’s the audio on Huffduffer (requires Flash, or can be downloaded as an
MP3).
http://huffduffer.com/skillswap/38755

You’ll have to make educated guesses about when to move on to the next slide if
you’re really trying to follow along!

The talk has varied a little each time, but not too much. It’s always about
looking at the diary as if it were a story, and how best to tell a complex
narrative like this online.
----


On 15 Apr, 2011, at 02:33, robinsonmf wrote:

> Lessons from 10 years of Pepys's diaries online
> Cory Doctorow at 2:18 AM Thursday, Apr 14, 2011
>
> For ten years, Phil Gyford has been republishing Samuel Pepys's diaries online
in one-entry-per-day chunks. On the way, he and a growing community of readers,
historians, literary scholars and enthusiasts have annotated Pepys's legendary
accounts of life in 17th century London. In this presentation, Phil walks us
through the most surprising and interesting moments in his decade of
Pepysianism, from random Twitterers who've taken on the personae of other
characters in Pepys's saga to Google mashups of Pepys's London. I saw him
present this earlier this year at The Story in London and it was marvellous.
>
> Links, slideshow, podcast etc. @
> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/14/lessons-from-10-year.html
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>



--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

Cooper, Samuel (1607/8–1672), miniature painter, was born probably in
Blackfriars, London, the elder child of Richard Cooper (b. 1577) and Barbara
Hoskins (b. c.1590), who were married on 1 September 1607 at the church of St
Nicholas Cole Abbey, near Blackfriars. Barbara, the daughter of John Hoskins, at
that time an inmate of the Fleet prison although the family was of substance,
was the sister of John Hoskins (c.1590–1665), the miniaturist. Richard Cooper
was originally from York, where the family retained its geographical base. About
1610 Richard and Barbara seem to have died or otherwise relinquished the charge
of their children, so Samuel and his brother, Alexander Cooper (bap. 1609, d.
c.1660), were brought up by their uncle John Hoskins, evidently in the
neighbourhood of Blackfriars, a district much favoured by artists and craftsmen
because of its traditional freedom from the trade restrictions imposed in the
rest of the City by the livery companies.
Continued: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/5.html

In the diary:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/3691.php

Was there any way, in the 1660s, Pepys could have, as it were, jotted down notes
while on his walks about the city? Using what writing implement, on what
surface? Or was every incident and detail recalled at a later time?

I was just browsing the British History site and noticed they've added some
records people might find interesting:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx?gid=54

On a quick look I couldn't see anything directly related to the Pepys household,
but someone else might have better luck!



London Hearth Tax: City of London, 1662
(2011)
The returns of the Hearth Tax assessment for the City of London in 1662, as
collected by the AHRC London Hearth Tax Project (2007-2010). The full project
database may be downloaded from SAS-Space (http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/ ).

London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666
(2011)
The returns of the Hearth Tax assessment for metropolitan London in 1666, as
collected by the AHRC London Hearth Tax Project (2007-2010). The full project
database may be downloaded from SAS-Space (http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/).

London Hearth Tax: Westminster 1664
(2011)
The returns of the Hearth Tax assessment for the City of Westminster in 1664, as
collected by the AHRC London Hearth Tax Project (2007-2010). The full project
database may be downloaded from SAS-Space (http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/ ).


--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

Pepys and the Playhouse
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/05/21/12551.php

Anyone in London next month might be interested in this “dramatic reading” about
Samuel Pepys and the theatre. Here’s the full blurb:

> PEPYS AND THE PLAYHOUSE
> A dramatic reading devised and presented by Colin Pinney
> Thursday 16 June 2011, 7pm (doors open 6:15pm)
>
> In his own words Pepys gives a frank picture of the intrigues and affairs
(including his own) of the 1660s, wrestling with his conscience - and sometimes
his wife - as he follows the drama, on and offstage, of the Restoration
playhouse.  This was the age of plague, fire - and Nell Gwyn.  The performance
takes place in the Withdrawing Room of Dr Johnson's historic house in the City
of London.
> In costume.
>
> "Hugely enjoyable" - Cheltenham Festival
>
> £15/£13 concessions , includes a glass of wine, must be booked in advance.
> To book tickets online go to our website
http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/events.htm or contact us to arrange payment by
cheque on 020 7353 3745 or curator@...
> There are many unavoidable steps at Dr Johnson's House
>
> Dr Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE
> www.drjohnsonshouse.org
> 020 7353 3745



--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

A Biblical Blueprint Meets the Fire Code and the Neighbors

DORDRECHT, the Netherlands — If Noah had run into the modern nanny
state, or nimby, or a few of the other obstacles that Johan Huibers
has been facing, the animal kingdom might look a lot different today.

Mr. Huibers, 60, the successful owner of a big construction company,
has spent the last few years building an ark, identical in size to the
one Noah is said in the book of Genesis to have built: 300 cubits in
length, or 450 feet; 30 cubits high, or about three stories; and 50
cubits, or 75 feet, wide. The cubit of the Bible, Mr. Huibers said,
was the distance between finger tips and elbow, or in his case roughly
18 inches.

He is building the ark out of Swedish pine, because some versions of
the Bible describe the wood God ordered Noah to use as “resin wood,”
which Mr. Huibers says is pine.

“We should finish by the middle of July,” he said, leading a visitor
through the ark’s cavernous decks, still rich with the smell of fresh
pine. “Maybe later.”

Unlike Noah, Mr. Huibers had to conform to Dutch fire safety
standards. To do so, he installed a special anchor that qualifies the
2,970-ton ark as a building, rather than a vessel. Moreover, he will
have to paint the ark, inside and out, with three coats of
fire-retardant varnish. (Noah covered his ark with pitch, making it
waterproof but hardly fire retardant.)

And then there are the neighbors.

[more]  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/world/europe/30ark.html?hp

I hope he left room for the dinosaurs:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2000/04/03/dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark

Jenny

Sun Headed Into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict
Sunspots may disappear altogether in next cycle.



Victoria Jaggard

National Geographic News

Published June 14, 2011

Enjoy our stormy sun while it lasts. When our star drops out of its
latest sunspot activity cycle, the sun is most likely going into
hibernation, scientists announced today.

Three independent studies of the sun's insides, surface, and upper
atmosphere all predict that the next solar cycle will be significantly
delayed—if it happens at all. Normally, the next cycle would be
expected to start roughly around 2020.

The combined data indicate that we may soon be headed into what's
known as a grand minimum, a period of unusually low solar activity.

The predicted solar "sleep" is being compared to the last grand
minimum on record, which occurred between 1645 and 1715.

Known as the Maunder Minimum, the roughly 70-year period coincided
with the coldest spell of the Little Ice Age, when European canals
regularly froze solid and Alpine glaciers encroached on mountain
villages.

[more...]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110614-sun-hibernation-solar-cyc\
le-sunspots-space-science/

According to my husband, whose hobby is studying such things, the increase
in CO2 is helping to cancel out the effects of this. Umm - not sure how I
ought to feel about global warming at this point, if that's true, though I
imagine my grandchildren might have a different take on it.

Jenny

http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/06/26/12735.php

Site News: Combatting spam annotations

Over the last few days there has been an increasing amount of spam annotations
appearing. I’ve now added an extra question to the annotations form which will
hopefully prevent automated spammers from successfully posting things. It’s a
simple enough question that you shouldn’t have any problems with it!

Many thanks to Mary and, especially, Paul Chapin, who have been doing a grand
job flagging spam annotations for me to delete. It’s made my response much
quicker and easier.

I’ve had an increasing number of spam comments on my personal site too — more
than one a minute for a while on Friday afternoon — and have ended up switching
comments off entirely for the moment there.

Let me know if you have any problems with the new system when posting
annotations. It’s an annoying extra hurdle, but hopefully it will keep the site
free from spam.




--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

PTSD's Trauma Symptoms Ring Out Through Ages
While the term "post-traumatic stress syndrome" hints at a modern invention, the
ill effects of combat stress have been documented back to the Iliad and Samuel
Pepys.
http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/ptsds-trauma-symptoms-ring-out-through-ages-\
32993/

The British Journal of Psychiatry 143: 64-68 (1983)
Samuel Pepys and post-traumatic stress disorder
RJ Daly
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/143/1/64#otherarticles

An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries

Press release / news story:
Sotheby's to Offer Possibly the Most Seductive Image in British Art at Old
Masters Sale
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48796

Didn't find a buyer in the room tonight:

Sotheby's Catalogue with description:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2011/old-master-british-pa\
intings-evening-l11033#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.L11033.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.L11033.htm\
l/42/

LOT 42 Sir Peter Lely
oil on canvas
123.8 by 156.8 cm.; 48¾ by 61¾ in.
ESTIMATE  600,000-800,000 GBP ($ 1,000,800 - 1,334,400)

CATALOGUE NOTE
Possibly the most seductive image in British art, this ravishing portrait was
recorded as; "Nell Gwin
naked leaning on a bed, with her Child by Sr Peter Lilly. This picture was
painted at the express
command of K. Charles 2d nay he came to Sr Peter Lillys house to see it painted
when she was
naked on purpose. afterwards this picture was at Court. where the Duke of
Buckingham took it
from (when K. James went away,) as may others did the like."
These words were written by George Vertue in 1723 when he visited Buckingham
House to see
the collection of the courtier, John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. The presence
in the RoyalCollection of such a fascinating picture was confirmed by the
publication in 1758 of the Catalogue
of... Pictures... belonging to King James the Second,  where reference is made
under no. 305 to
such a picture being artfully concealed – "By Danckers and Sir Peter Lely. The
sliding piece before
Madame Gwynn's picture naked, with a cupid." Following the Duke's death, his
title was inherited
by his young son who died in Italy a few years later. The portrait was probably
still at Buckingham
House in 1746, as 'a naked Lady and son, Lely' is recorded in an inventory of
that year.
This is the enticing background which may lie behind the portrait which until
2007 hung at
Chiddingstone Castle (fig 1). The portrait had been purchased at the great
Lowther Castle sale in
1947 where it was in the company of over forty other British portraits from the
seventeenth
century, and where it was described as 'Portrait of Nell Gwyne as Venus
reclining in a landscape
with a cupid and a stone vase by her side'. It is unclear when it had entered
the Lonsdale
collection, but Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale was prominent at the Royal
Court in the
eighteenth century, being Lord of the Bedchamber, Constable of the Tower and
Lord Privy Seal,
and he could well have acquired the picture from Buckingham House.
The portrait's first appearance in a major exhibition was in 1956 when Sir
Oliver Millar concluded
that it 'may be the portrait in the King's and Buckingham's collections'. When
he prepared the
catalogue for the 1972 Lely exhibition he noted that 'the portrait cannot be
linked decisively' with
the entry in James II's inventory quoted above, and went on to suggest that it
could instead be the
Duchess of Cleveland. However, two factors militate against this. Firstly, the
portrait dates from
the mid 1660s by which time the duchess had been superseded by others in the
King's affections,
and secondly her aristocratic background would mean that is would be unlikely
that she would be
depicted in such a pose. The evidence of the very specific description in James
II's inventory and
in George Vertue's notes support the identification of the sitter as Nell Gwyn,
and it is fitting that
such a picture should be removed from the Royal Collection by the Duke of
Buckingham as he
was a great friend and admirer of hers.
The question of likeness with Lely is always a difficult subject as even his
contemporaries
commented on the fact that many of his sitters looked similar – 'Mr Walker, ye
Painter swore Lilly's
Pictures, was all Brothers and Sister'. By far the most satisfactory conclusion
is to regard the
picture as an idealized portrait of Nell Gwyn, and Malcolm Rogers, one of the
leading authorities
on seventeenth century portraits who worked at the National Portrait Gallery in
London for 19
years, has always believed that the sitter is 'likely to be Nell Gwyn' and is
unconvinced by the
comparison with the Duchess of Cleveland.
Of all Charles II's colourful mistresses, Nell Gwyn "Pretty, witty Nell," was
certainly the most widely
known and the most popular. Much of her attraction lies in the fact that she
rose from being a
penniless orange seller to become a favorite of the King and the mother of a
Duke (fig. 2).
Probably through a connection to Henry Killigrew, son of the proprietor of the
King's Theatre, she
became a minor actress. On 3rd April 1665 Pepys visited the Duke's Theatre and
noticed 'pretty,
witty Nell' amongst the audience, and in December the next year he first saw her
on the stage and
admired her comic acting. She attracted the attention of Charles Sackville, Lord
Buckhurst with
whom she had a brief liaison, and by 1668 she was amongst several actresses
introduced to
Charles II as possible mistresses. By 1669 she was pregnant with her first child
by the King, andthe child was christened Charles on 7th June 1670.The next year
her second son James was
born, and she moved to a substantial house at the west end of Pall Mall.
Generous gifts from the
King followed, including a pension and the grant of Burford House at Windsor.
Her ready wit and
her colourful language were a stark contrast to the formalities of Court life,
and the King clearly
found this refreshing. Her lowly origins led to much comment from other ladies
at Court, but Nell
was never at a loss for the requisite repartee. Sir Francis Fane heard her
response to a supposed
slight from the Duchess of Cleveland – she 'clapt her on the shoulder, and saide
she perceaved
that persons of one trade loved not one another'. Her main rival for the King's
affections was
Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, and one of the best known if
unsubstantiated
anecdotes concerns an occasion in Oxford in March 1681 when an angry mob
surrounded her
coach thinking that its passenger was the Duchess of Portsmouth. 'Pray good
people be silent, I
am the Protestant whore!' was her response to the crowd. Though she was never
granted a title
herself, she had the satisfaction of seeing her son Charles created Duke of St.
Albans in 1684, a
year before the King's death.
Sir Peter Lely, moved to England in the early 1640s and following the recent
death of Sir Anthony
van Dyck and William Dobson, soon established himself as the most gifted
portrait artist in the
country (Cornelis Johnson having returned to Holland). Lely's immense talent was
recognised by
the Restoration Court and by October 1661, King Charles II was to grant him an
annual pension of
£200 as the King's Principal Painter 'as formerly to Van Dyck', as well as
naturalisation. The
portraits which he executed over the following decades of the King, his family,
his mistresses and
many of the other central figures at the court, have allowed later generations
an insight into this
glamorous if licentious world.
Lely was an inveterate collector of Old Master drawings and paintings himself,
and was hugely
influenced by earlier artists. His ultimate debt to Titian in this picture is
clear and would not have
been lost on King Charles II, who was himself acutely aware of his late father's
collecting and
patronage, and was particularly familiar with van Dyck's artistic style. Lely
briefly owned the latter
artist's Cupid and Psyche (Royal Collection), in which Psyche reclines in a
strikingly similar pose
(in reverse) to the Venus in the present painting. Diana Dethloff has pointed
out a reference to
Lely placing a 'Naked woman and a cupid' by the Dutch artist Dirk Freres over
the chimney in the
'main middle room' in his Covent Garden house (see D. Dethloff, 'The Executors'
Account Book
and the Dispersal of Sir Peter Lely's Collection', Journal of the History of
Collections, 8, 1996, no.
1) and also notes a 'Venus and Cupid whole figure, in a Landskip' by Paris
Bordone in Lely's
possession (reproduced in 'Sir Peter Lely's Collection', The Burlington
Magazine, LXXXIII, August
1943, pl. B).
LITERATURE
Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary &c., Lowther Castle 1879, Lonsdale Mss. Lowther
Castle, Large
Gallery, no. 24, 'Nell Gwynne as Venus Sir P. Lely';
G. Vertue, 'Vertue Note Books', I, Walpole Society, XVIII, London 1930, p. 97
(referring to the
Whitehall picture);
O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of
Her Majesty the
Queen, London, 1963, p. 119 (referring to the same);
D. Piper, Catalogue of Seventeenth-Century Portraits in the National Portrait
Gallery 1625-1714,Cambridge, 1963, p. 149;
S. Wynne, '"The Brightest Glories of the British Spheres", Women at the Court of
Charles II', in the
exhibition catalogue, Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II, National
Portrait Gallery,
London, 2001, p. 46 (referring to the Whitehall picture)

Hi,

Apologies for the various problems on the site last week - things seemed to
break with perfect timing while I was away on holiday without much internet
access! More information here:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/07/07/12743.php

Before I went away a few people were finding errors when trying to post
annotations, possibly due to the new "What is Samuel's surname?" security
question. I'll be trying to work out what's going on with that, so let me know
if you've had problems with it and haven't got in touch yet.

Thanks,
Phil


--
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http://www.gyford.com/

 

I understand.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Christine

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From: "Phil Gyford" <lists@...>
To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:09:55 AM
Subject: Re: [pepysdiary] Site problems fixed

 

Hi,

As I said, I will think about it, but I'm understandably wary after what will be nearly ten years of the project! I won't be deciding anything until late next year.

Phil

On 11 Jul, 2011, at 12:59, langwidge@... wrote:

Phil,

 

please please restart the diary from the beginning.

 

 

Christine in Baltimore, MD

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From: "Charles Reiss" <charles.reiss@...>
To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:34:08 AM
Subject: Re: [pepysdiary] Site problems fixed

Hi Phil

While you're around, two things if I may...

First (and I am sure you are getting this question from others) once the Diaries conclude, is there any way - for those who came in several years late, as I did - to roll around again from the beginning day by day, without new annotations maybe? Please.

Second, in any case, thank you for a wonderful, life-enhancing enterprise. 

Best regards

Charles Reiss

On 11 July 2011 11:20, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:

 

Hi,

Apologies for the various problems on the site last week - things seemed to break with perfect timing while I was away on holiday without much internet access! More information here: http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/07/07/12743.php

Before I went away a few people were finding errors when trying to post annotations, possibly due to the new "What is Samuel's surname?" security question. I'll be trying to work out what's going on with that, so let me know if you've had problems with it and haven't got in touch yet.

Thanks,
Phil

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