Today's entry is quite short but introduces the use of scope to distinguish between sources.
The main events of the day are:
According to the diary we know only that the play was performed at some location on Drury Street. This is modelled as a fairly light "participation" association:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, unamed-theatre-drury-lane : place)
However, Latham & Matthews add a footnote that says that the play was most probably a performance of "Orpheus and Eurydice" at the Cockpit Theatre, performed by a company under Jean Channoveau. This gives a much richer participation association:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, cockpit-theatre : place, orpheus-and-eurydice : performed-work, channoveaus-company : performer)
However, as Latham & Matthews is a secondary source, we may want to distinguish between that information and the information extracted from the text. So this second association is scoped, using the topic for the Latham & Masters text as a scoping topic:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, cockpit-theatre : place, orpheus-and-eurydice : performed-work, channoveaus-company : performer) / lm-ii
Note, that up to now this approach of distinguishing secondary information from primary information has not been used. In future I intend to principally use it where secondary information contradicts the primary information. Going back through the posts and determining what really comes from the primary source is an excercise for the reader right now!
One other item of note for today's entry. On the pepysdiary.com site, "Lord Somersett" is linked to a page for a Thomas Somerset. A bit of googling and browsing of peerage websites leads me to believe that the Lord Somerset of 1661 was an Edward Somerset, not Thomas. I have used Edward in my representation of this event.
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Topic map for today's entry.
People in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry is relatively straightforward. The following events are modelled.
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Catching up with three diary entries.
One new use of the event-based structure has turned up in these entries. In the entry for 27th August, Samuel has a discussion with Lady Montague about the preparations Ned Montague is making for a journey to be undertaken by Sir Edward Montague. In particular, that Ned has spent some 5000 pounds on this. This is modelled as a discussion event, the subject of which is a purchasing event where the purchased item is the future journey which is itself represented as a travelling event.
A similar structure is used in the entry for 28th August where Samuel plays a prank on Sir William Penn by forging a letter which purports to be from the thief who stole a tankard from Penn recently. Hence the theft event is made the subject of the corresepondence event that represents the sending of the letter.
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Topic Map for 26th August
Topic Map for 27th August
Topic Map for 28th August
People in the diary.
Artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Today is a Sunday, so its off to church twice with dinner in between. Then the Pepys are visited by Lady Batten and an unidentified daughter. Later, John Pepys arrives and John and Samuel resolve what to do about Paulina. The two men then go to William Wight's for supper before walking home together as far as St. Pauls where each go their separate ways.
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Family relationships ontology.
In today's entry Samuel works in the office, and then visits Sir William Batten to visit a ‘strange creature ’ (a primate of some species) from brought Guinea by Captain Holmes. He then visits Richard Ford with Colonel Slingsby to dicuss the rental of Ford's house by the Navy Office (it is adjacent to the current premises). He is visited at home by Henry Isham, with whom he drinks in the Mitre. A commended performance of Hamlet is followed by more drinking with a John Spong in the Sampson.
Quite a bit of development today. I've added a grounds-of association, as we seem to be having a number of places which are in the grounds of another (St Paul's Churchyard, Hatfield House vinyard, etc.). I've also created creature and a primate subclass for the strange creature, and a generic place-of-origin association which is intended to cover everything from nationality to object source.
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Two forward entries today to match the retrospective entries yesterday.
On 22nd August 1661 Samuel works at the Privy Seal, attends a family gathering at his uncle Fenner's (popping out for a drink with his father and uncle Wight), attends church, and then dines at his uncle Wight's.
On 23rd August 1661 Samuel visits his father, with whom he visits Dr Williams, where they have a discussion (I think this probably about Robert Pepys' will, but this is not stated explicity). They go on to Tom Trice's, who they take to an alehouse. There they discuss and sign the will of Robert Pepys, and leave to swear this infront of a judge (in an unnamed location). They return to the alehouse for a while, and then Samuel and Dr Williams dine at a cookshop. Finally, Samuel goes to William Joyce's to meet his wife, who he takes to the Opera.
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I've started working backwards as well as forward, so here's 29th June and 30th June 1661.
On the 29th, Samuel receives a letter from the Duke of York (James Stuart, the brother of the King), complaining about a delay in a fleet. As a result, Pepys goes with William Penn and William Batten to Deptford, where he examines the boats. He then goes to a tavern, the Bell, and meets friends (from ‘our old club’) with whom he stays and drinks; James Chetwind recommends a book.
On the 30th Samuel and wife go to church, and then dine at home. Samuel then goes with ‘Sir Williams both’ to Whitehall where they meet the Duke of York, and relay to him the cause of the above delays. Pepys then walks in Gray's Inn Walk, and appreciates the ladies.
Pepys also comments on his wife being unwell, the Portuguese Ambassador visiting the King prior to returning to Portugal (the Queen, Catherine of Braganza is in Portugal and arrangements are being made for her coming over), and on his father going to Brampton to visit the ill Robert Pepys.
22nd August later today.
The letter from the Duke is the ‘cause’ of some subsequent events, but it occurs to me that we should break the cause-result association into more fine-grained subclasses. I can think of three types of cause and effect:
Does this seem a reasonable or necessary breakdown? Comments on a popup, please.
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I'm back; Kal and I have decided to alternate weeks of updating to lighten the load.
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
I created an event type of engagement; this is for the whole period, the event of being engaged. The actual bended-knee occasion would be a proposal event; I haven't created this yet, as we have no details of it.
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Just two working events today. Pepys works at the Navy Office and then at home.
There is mention in the diary of the Navy Office reaching an agreement with a neighbour to the office, but there is not really enough detail to warrant another event.
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Quite a long diary entry for today.
Samuel spends the first half of the day working at the Navy Office, and then has an errand to run - he has to get the Lord Privy Seal to seal a document for the Lord Chancellor. The errand takes up the best part of the day with Pepys travelling to the chambers of the Privy Seal; the Lord Chancellor's home at Worcester House; and then to the Lord Privy Seal's house at Chelsea (by way of the pub, of course). I have modelled the errand itself as a "Work" event, with the various journies and carousing modelled as separate events that occur during the work event.
Samuel's journey home is eventful too. He has to walk from Chelsea, and on the way meets Mr and Mrs Marsh and they all go drinking together on their way to Westminster.
Other events described in today's entry do not involve Samuel directly. The Montague's children are all summoned to a dinner by their mother, Elizabeth Pepys dines with her father-in-law, and Katherine Fenner dies.
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Today's entry introduces one retrospective event and a small problem (cleared up!).
The retrospective event is the gift of a book made by Henry Moore to Samuel when they met on 7th August. This is easily accomodated, and I have created the event in today's topic map - so that the focus of each topic map is on the content of the diary entry, not on the happenings of the particular day.
The small issue is one of terminology. Up to now I have used the term "Book" to mean a particular text. So, the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" and Latham & Matthews annotated diaries were typed as "Book". However, in today's entry I want to record the fact that Sam reads the text "Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity", and that he was given a copy of the text as a book. Note the change of terms: the term "Text" is now used to refer to the abstract written work, and "Book" is now reserved for an individual copy of a text.
Much of the rest of the day's entry is straightforward enough. One new person is introduced, Dr Tom Pepys, but I also have added a topic for Richard Hooker (author of the text that Sam is reading).
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Cultural artifacts in the diary
Today's entry introduces one minor new ontology requirement and a few new people and places. The events described by the topic map are:
Today's entry also mentions some trouble that Sam is having with the transportation of some posessions of Sir Edward Montague. He says that he has found out where the shipment is, but does not indicate if this is the result of a letter or a message received from someone else. Because there is no concrete event to model, this information is ommitted from the topic map.
I also corrected a misnomer of the location of the performance of 'The Wits' in the file 16610815.ltm. The correct name is simply "the Opera" rather than "the Royal Opera" that I had previously.
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Corrected topic map for 15th August 1661.
Cultural artificats in the diary
Much of today's entry describes the epidemic that is sweeping London. In the topic map I have chosen to ignore the deaths related by Samuel Pepys with the exception of the death and funeral of Tom Whitton. The events documented in the topic map are:
The final sentence of the diary relates Samuel's concern for his Aunt Fenner who he says is on the point of death. However as there is little other information here, this is not modelled in the topic map.
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Another busy day described by today's diary entry.
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Topic Map for 14th August 1661
Cultural artifacts in the diary
I'm back from holidays (very nice, thank you...) and back into the diary again. Ta muchly to Stuart for his stewardship of the blog over the last couple of weeks and for getting some of the much needed tidying up done...I owe you a beer or four!
So, back to business. In today's entry:
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Cultural artifacts in the diary.
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
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Another missed entry yesterday — this time gin is not to blame, just a very busy day. So today's blog covers both 12th and 11th August.
In yesterday's entry Samuel goes to church twice; once locally and once in Clerkenwell, where he sees and comments upon the Butler sisters. He then walks in the grounds of Gray's Inn where he meets Ned Pickering, who tells him of the King's hunt the previous day. He dines at his father's and returns home.
In today's entry after spending the morning in the office, Samuel receives news that Lord Hinchingbroke (Edward Montagu junior) is unwell; he goes to visit him and finds him extremely unwell, apparently in fear of smallpox. Samuel himself is concerned that it is a result of fruit he gave him on Saturday 10th. Samuel dines with Jemima Montagu, and learns that Edward Montagu senior (Lord Sandwich) is also unwell. Finally, he dines with Sir Thomas Crew.
I had to incorpotate the map for 10th August, and provide a subject indicator for the eating of the fruit, so that a reference can be made to it in respect of the illness. As a result the map for that entry has also been updated. In the update, I have also separated out Lord Hinchingbroke from the four unknown children of Lady Montagu.
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Updated topic map for 10th August.
In today's entry Samuel meets the new chamber maid (and comments on her ugliness). He is then visited by his father, and in turn they visit his uncle Wight to discuss the estate of Robert Pepys. He visits and dines with Lady Montagu, and takes some of her children to the theatre with Captain Ferrers. Finally, they drink back at the Pepys' house.
One point to note: the children of Jemima Montagu that he takes to the theatre remain unidentified except in number (there are four of them). As Jemima had a total of 11 children, I haven't tried to guess which, and so created a topic type of "People" for groups of unnamed individuals.
Other than that, I realise that we do not actually have the Montagu's residence as a a topic; which is odd as Samuel visits them so often. I'm going to have to do a little research to find out what it is, and then I'll add it, including modelling the final event of today: Samuel taking them all home.
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A very busy day today. The following events are modelled:
Not just a lot of events, but a lot of difficult ones as well today.
Samuel's leaving of the office to see if he is actually called to lunch with Sir George I have simply left as an event. Henry Moore's reading of the bills in the Lord Privy's chambers is also classed just as an event; this is more because it seems to be some kind of legal protocol, and I don't know the details.
The main point of note, though, is an illness, pregnancy, and labour all being mentioned on one day have led me to create a class of health events, with subclasses of pregnancy, labour, and illness (more subclasses will undoubtably come... just wait for 1665). There is a patient role, and the individual events are given occurs associations using start-before today, or start on today. I included the individual events in the pepys-diary-people map as it directly relates to them, and may be referenced on more than one day. So, for instance:
/* In pepys-diary-people.ltm */ [mrs-hayter-labour : labour = "Mrs Hayter's labour (9th August 1661) @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/people/#mrs-hayter-labour"] occurs ( mrs-hayter-labour : event, date-16610809 : start ) participation ( mrs-hayter-labour : event, mrs-hayter : patient ) /* In 16610809.ltm */ [event-16610809-08 : news-event = "Samuel and his wife receive news from Thomas Hayter that his wife is pregnant (9th August 1661)";"16610809-08"] occurs ( today : on, event-16610809-08 : event ) participation ( event-16610809-08 : event, samuel-pepys : recipient, elizabeth-pepys : recipient, thomas-hayter : informant, seething-lane-house : place ) event-subject ( event-16610809-08 : event, mrs-hayter-labour : subject )
I may retrospectively implement these classes in previous entries.
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Birthdays, gin and regular updates do not mix well; an unplanned hangover-event prohibited an update yesterday, so two days today, and apologies. I shall try to avoid this again.
In yesterday's entry Samuel travels with an unnamed companion from Baldwick back to London, stopping to walk in the Hatfield House grounds. Back in London he meets Dean William Fuller at home, and with him visits Lady Montagu. There he meets Henry Moore, who reminds him he is required to wait on the Lord Privy Seal the next day.
In today's entry Samuel goes to the Privy Seal in the morning, but Lord Robartes does not turn up. He goes to the Wardrobe to eat with Henry Moore, where he sees Lady Montagu, and then returns to the Privy Seal. Lord Robartes again does not turn up, and Samuel is far from pleased. In the evening, he goes to a tavern with some friends, and notes a discussion about music which causes one member of the group to leave in anger.
I've also amended the entry for the 6th, moving the inn in Baldwick to places rather than having it as a local topic on the 6th, as it is used again in the entry for the seventh. So there is an updated file for that provided as well today.
I've also added an informant role type for news-events.
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Updated topic map for 6th August.
Today's entry models the following events:
The only point of note is the creation of an Inn topic type; differentiated from taverns in that inns offer lodging.
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In today's entry, Samuel travels to Brampton where he sees his father, on to Yelling where he meets his cousin Nightingale and discusses his Gravely lands with her. Following this conversation (specific details are not reported) he travels on to Gravely where he has a conversation with one of his tenants.
No new ontological development to report; however, I noticed in my print copy that the church in Impington where Samuel attends services yesterday is St Andrews (I left it unidentified in the topic map). I've amended the topic map for that day, and uploaded it as well.
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Amended topic map for yesterday's entry.
A repetitive day today: Samuel discusses his uncle's will with his cousin Roger and then attends church, dines, attends church again, and dines again with Roger and his uncle Talbot. Finally, another discussion with Roger; this time about politics.
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In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
Not much development today (phew!). I created an instance of Assizes for the Cambridge Assizes, and did a bit of research to find the Pepys' house in Impington was Impington Hall. Samuel mentions travelling to Impington with Roger Pepys “and his two brothers”, but the only brother of Roger I can identify is (Dr) John Pepys, so I have had to create a local topic for him (Unnamed brother of Roger Pepys). Should he ever be identified the PSI can be added.
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Another short entry today. Samuel spends the morning at the office, dines with his cousin and is visited by his brother, and then rides to Ware (en route to Cambridge); having an enlightening conversation with a Quaker on the way.
I introduced a practises religion association to document the Quaker's religion. I've also added this to Joseph Hill in people, as he is a Presbyter:
/* From ontology */ [practises-religion = "Practises Religion" = "Practised By" / practised @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#practises-religion"] [practised = "Practised" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#practised"] [adherent = "Adherent" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#adherent"] /* From people */ practises-religion ( joseph-hill : adherent, presbyterianism : practised )
Other than that, I've added an en route to role in the travelling list to show when the described journey is a stage on the way to another place.
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In celebration of the first month of the Pepys Map, I've uploaded a zip file of all the entries for July, including my retrospective revisions and editorial tidying. The zip file also includes all the ontological files, and 166107.ltm which is a simple map that merges all the others. If you can't be bothered with all of that, then 166107.xtm is the whole lot pre-merged as XTM.
I haven't overwritten the current uploads with the amended entries, in case Kal comes back from holiday and really hates what I've done; so 166107.zip is the “guest editor's” view of the month, venison pasties and all.
In today's entry the following events are modelled:
Although not much happens, this entry has led to a lot of ontological development.
Firstly, I introduced a gift event type, and giver and gift roles (the existing recipient topic is used for that role); so:
[event-16610801-03 : gift-event = "Samuel gives Mrs Browne six silver spoons for her boy (1st August 1661)" ;"16610801-03"] occurs ( event-16610801-03 : event, event-16610801-01 : during ) participation (event-16610801-03 : event, samuel-pepys : giver, mrs-browne : recipient, spoons : gift )
Secondly, due to the plethora of venison pasties consumed this month, I added a foodstuff type (individual instances thereof to occur in the culture map), and a consumed role to be added to dining events:
[event-16610801-04 : dining-event = "Samuel and company dine at Walthamstow (1st August 1661)";"16610801-04"] occurs ( event-16610801-04 : event, today : on ) participation( event-16610801-04 : event, samuel-pepys : diner, elizabeth-pepys : diner, william-batten : diner, william-penn : diner, margaret-penn : diner, venison-pasty : consumed, walthamstow : place ) /* In culture */ [venison-pasty : foodstuff = "Venison Pasty" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/subjects/#venison-pasty"]
This has been retrospectively added to the previous entries in which the food consumed is named (see the next post for the updates).
Finally, as once more there is reported news (see 29th July) I have included a news event association type:
[event-16610801-05 : news-event
= "Samuel hears his nurse's husband's opinion of Lady Batten (1st August 1661)";"16610801-05"]
occurs ( event-16610801-05 : event, today : on )
participation( event-16610801-05 : event,
samuel-pepys : recipient )
event-subject ( event-16610801-05 : event,
lady-batten : subject )
event-subject ( event-16610801-05 : event,
nurses-husband : subject )
{lady-batten, description,
[[She was such a man's whore, who indeed is known to leave her her estate.]]} / nurses-husband event-16610801-05
The timescale of this entry is a little unclear – I have worked on the principle that Mrs Browne is coincidentally in the same coach to Walthamstow, and that the interactions with her take place on the journey. Another possible interpretation is that it is she they are visiting in Walthamstow. I have also only included Samuel and Elizabeth on the return journey, as there is no explicit mention of the others returning.
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Today's entry is very short, consisting of a singing lesson, trip to the office theatre trip, and a loan.
The loan marked the only significant development. Firstly, I've added a Value topic which has been superclassed to purchase price for more general monetary occurrences. Topics for the loan event, repayment events, the loan itself, and lender and borrower roles have also been added:
[value = "Value" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/#value"] [loan-event = "A Loan" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#loan-event"] [repayment-event = "A Loan Repayment" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#repayment-event"] [lender = "Lender" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#lender"] [borrower = "Borrower" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#borrower"] [loan = "Loan" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#loan"]
Today's loan then is:
[event-16610731-05 : loan-event
= "Samuel borrows money from Sir William Batten (31st July 1661)";"16610731-05"]
occurs( event-16610731-05 : event, today : on )
participation( event-16610731-05 : event,
samuel-pepys : borrower,
sir-william-batten : lender,
loan-16610731 : loan )
[loan-16610731 = "Loan from Batten to Pepys"]
{loan-16610731, value, [[£40]]} / event-16610731-05
In honour of the end of the first month of this mapping exercise, I spent last night tidying up all the existing day entries, retrospectively implementing new topics (such as loan). It's not quite finished yet, but later today or tomorrow I'll be uploading them all. But for now:
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