Chris, There were the Sheriffs of the City of London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriffs_of_the_City_of_London Pepys will report a parish constable on...
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gillianbagwell
Mar 2, 2013 12:23 am
Hi, Chris! Fancy meeting you here. I bet someone on this list will come up with an answer. Gillian...
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plaguey1
Mar 3, 2013 12:42 am
.. and hello Gillian! Fellow Restoration nut and author! Really appreciate all the comments and links. Given me lots to think about. And thanks Eric. I will...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 3, 2013 5:20 pm
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed http://www.pepysdiary.com/news/2013/03/03/14009/ If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s...
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gillianbagwell
Mar 3, 2013 8:11 pm
Chris, See if you can find "The A-Z of Restoration London." It's Ogilby & Morgan's 1676 map laid out on gridded squares like a modern A-Z. I bought mine at the...
I've been wondering if I've missed something with these reports... I thought it was well known that Charterhouse Square was an old plague pit, so all the news...
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gillianbagwell
Mar 17, 2013 6:11 pm
Exactly, Phil. I've read that many victims of the 1665 plague were buried there. Maybe it's just that this is the first time there's been much excavation...
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Guy Consterdine
guyleslie
Mar 17, 2013 9:19 pm
The skeletons found in the Crossrail pit are from the Black Death, a far more devastating plague than the London Plague of 1665. The Black Death, in the 1340s...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Mar 17, 2013 10:17 pm
The BBC report I read concluded these were Black Death victims - not the 1665 outbreak. I thought most of those were burred in their churchyards. Pepys...
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gillianbagwell
Mar 18, 2013 5:53 pm
I realize that the skeletons they have found in Charterhouse date from the 14th century, not the 17th. What I was expressing surprise about was that, as Phil...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 18, 2013 7:24 pm
London has two great attributes -- history and beer. OK it has more, but those are the two we're concerned with today. Many years ago, in the city’s most...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 19, 2013 3:53 pm
The first mention of Edward Lloyd’s coffee house was in the London Gazette in February 1688. Six months later William of Orange and a party of Dutch troops...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 20, 2013 7:31 pm
SPOILER: Samuel Pepys in 1666 (misremembered a bit) as a possible precursor of present-day southern-tier Europeans _______ Why the Cyprus Bailout Could Set...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 23, 2013 3:24 am
For his first exhibition of new work since 2008, Simon Lewty presents a remarkable group of drawings in which compelling new developments are immediately...
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IAN GREENWOOD
ian74889
Mar 23, 2013 12:13 pm
I wonder how you make a 'chance discovery' of 17th century shorthand? Did someone leave it on the tube? Was it placed accidentally in your in-tray? Were you...
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Dorothy Willis
magister96003
Mar 23, 2013 3:46 pm
... I translate it as, he was goofing around looking at Google Images and thought “Hey, that’s kind of pretty! Never saw that before.” He stopped and...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Mar 24, 2013 11:28 pm
Pepys was using the shorthand in a simple utilitarian way. He wouldn't, of course, have heard of it, but I am sure he would agree with my assessment that this...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 25, 2013 9:56 am
The artist could also, of course, have simply used one of the modern forms of shorthand, which would have looked very similar, and been equally impenetrable to...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 25, 2013 5:16 pm
Broadcast:Saturday 23 March 2013 12:26PM (view full episode)<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/the-science-show-23rd-march-2013/4582092>...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 25, 2013 5:59 pm
The podcast is a very interesting tale -- focusing on Newton's career in London post-1687. Terry Foreman ... From: terry foreman...
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plaguey1
Mar 26, 2013 9:36 am
Does anyone know the best Pepys walk in London? I am here briefly and really want to maximise my time. Also, are there any good plague or fire walks?...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 26, 2013 10:18 am
Hi, I don't know the best guided walk, but in case you haven't seen them, we do have three guides to walks on the site, put together by Glyn Thomas, which you...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Mar 29, 2013 8:17 pm
The water in the Pantiles was discovered in 1606 by a young nobleman and led to the formation of Tunbridge Wells. Over the past 400 years, visitors including...
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plaguey1
Mar 31, 2013 6:15 pm
Thanks so much, Phil. I shall certainly check them out....
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Richard Histon
rhiston
Apr 8, 2013 7:49 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rw3yy Scant detail, a three part series, but I'd wager there will be something about Pepys and/or Evelyn... The Century That...
Sent by Roger Brown. ... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:11 PM Subject: Old Bailey Proceedings Online celebrates tenth anniversary ...
