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Pepys-Map : 28th - 29th November 1661

Two more entries posted.

The events for 28th November 1661 are modelled as follows:

• Samuel receives letters from Sir Edward Montagu in Tangier. The letters are brought to him from Whitehall by Will Hewer - although Will didn't carry the letters all the way from Tangier, I have recorded his role as "courier" in the correspondence event.
• Samuel and Peter Pett work at the Navy Office.
• Samuel and Denis Gauden start on a journey to Whitehall but get waylaid at a tavern on Mark Lane.
• The pair continue on from the tavern by coach.
• Pepys and Gauden visit Sir George Carteret (the Navy Treasurer).
• They then visit visit Sir Edward Hyde (the Chancellor).
• Pepys and Gauden drink with many others at the Fountain Inn.
• Finally the pair walk home.

I did not attempt to model the reported news that Montagu recaptured an "Englishman" (a ship ?) belonging to a Mr. Parker.

The events for 29th November 1661 are:

• Samuel goes to Westminster Hall. This is at the summons of William's Batten and Penn, but this fact is not modelled.
• Pepys, Batten, Penn and George Carteret dine as guests of William Coventry.
• Pepys, Batten and Penn travel to Whitehall by boat.
• The trio disucss Navy business with the Duke of York. Captain Robert Holmes is mentioned as one of the subjects of discussion - this is modelled using an event-subject association. Also mentioned as a subject of discussion is the striking of sails by foreign ships on the Thames - but with no topic to represent this rathe complex subject, I've not attempted to associate it with the discussion event.
• Samuel and William Penn attend a performance of the play 'Love at First Sight'. Due to a full house, the pair are forced to separate for the performance. Thus I have modelled each one's participation as a member of the audience separately. Samuel pays 18d for his seat - this is modelled as a purchase-price occurrence on the performance event and scoped by the topic for Samuel.
• Samuel returns home via St. Pauls Churchyard.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 28th November 1661.
Topic map for 29th November 1661.

Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 27th November 1661

In today's entry, the following events are modelled:

• The maid Dorothy leaves the employ of the Pepys. This is modelled by setting today as the end date for the office-holding event that connects Dorothy to the office of "Pepys' Maid".
• Samuel sits for Mr. Savill. This required a new event type of "Portrait Sitting" with Samuel playing the role "Portrait Sitter" and Mr. Savill playing the role "Painter".
• Samuel dines with Lady Jemima Montagu.
• Samuel and Lady Montagu have a discussion. Pepys gives the subject of discussion as 'divinity' which I have interpreted here by making "Religion" the subject of the discussion event.
• Samuel, Robert Ferrers and Henry Moore attend a performance of Hamlet at the Theatre Royal.
• Samuel returns home from the theatre.
• Elizabeth Pepys and Mary Wight visit Lady Montagu. I have assumed that this event must have taken place after Samuel's visit to Lady Montagu and have finished before his return home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 27th November 1661.

Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 25th - 26th November 1661

Two more entries posted today.

In the entry for 25th November 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel and David Lambert visit Westminster Hall.
• Samuel meets Clement Stankey at Westminster Hall.
• Samuel and David Lambert have wine and oysters at The Dog.
• Samuel dines with William Penn and Edward Massey at The Swan.
• Samuel and William Penn attend a performance of The Country Captain.
• Samuel attends a performance of The Bondman which is also attended by Clement Stankey and Mary Archer.
• The trio go to The Fleece, but they do not end up drinking there.
• The trio travel to The Mitre by coach.
• Drinking at the Mitre
• Samuel and Clement Stankey accompany Mary Archer to her home in Old Jewry.
• More drinking at the Mitre.
• Samuel returns home. In the diary he says that he drinks until well after midnight, so this event occurs on 26th November 1661.

Events for 26th November 1661 are:

• A large dinner at the Wight's house with a number of guests including Pepys and his wife.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel, Williams Penn and Batten and others drink at the Navy Office.
• Samuel returns home from the office.
• At some point during the day, Elizabeth has an argument with her maid Dorothy.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 25th November 1661.
Topic map for 26th November 1661.

People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 23rd-24th November 1661

Two more entries posted today.

In the entry for 23rd November 1661 the following events are modelled:

• Samuel and Elizabeth travel to Westminster. We are not told the method of travel.
• Elizabeth visits her father.
• The couple return home (we are not told what Samuel did while Elizabeth was at her father's).
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel and Peter Pett travel to Cheapside by coach...
• ...where Samuel meets with the portait painter Savill.
• Samuel dines at the Wardrobe.
• More work at the Navy Office.
• Samuel, Williams Penn and Batten and George Cocke drink and play cards at Samuel's house. This is modelled as two separate events - a recreation event and a drinking event that overlap.
• William Penn dines with the Pepys.
• Samuel also tells us that he has sent a chine of beef to William Wight as a gift. This is modelled as a gift-event.

For 24th November 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel and George Cocke attend church at St. Clements Eastcheap. The sermon is given by Josias Alsop.
• Samuel and George Cocke go for a drink at the Sun tavern on Threadneedle St.
• Samuel visits Lady Jemima Montagu at the Wardrobe and while there has dinner. This is modelled as a visiting event with a dining event occurring during it.
• Samuel visits Jane Turner, who we are told is ill. The visit is modelled as one event and the illness as a separate event starting before this day.
• Samuel drinks with John Young and Daniel Rawlinson at the Mitre.
• Samuel dines with William Batten.
• Samuel receives an invitation to dinner from William Wight. As Pepys makes it obvious that this is a result of the gift he made the previous day, I have added a cause-result association between the gift event and the correspondence event for the receipt of the invitation.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 23rd November 1661.
Topic map for 24th November 1661.

Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 22nd November 1661

The entry for 22nd November 1661 seems to involve a lot of financial transactions. Presumably such transactions occur quite frequently without mention, but in this entry Pepys gives us some idea of the costs of his life-style. The events modelled are:

• Dinner at the Dolphin with William Batten & family and George Cocke and his wife.
• A performance by an unamed group of musicians for the diners.
• A payment of 40s made to the musicians for their services. In this case, I have treated the performance event above as the item purchased. As in previous instances, the purchase price of the item is attached to the item using an occurrence.
• A payment of 4l. for the dinner. The recipient of this money is not specified.
• Samuel travels to the Temple by foot.
• Samuel pays 30s. for legal advice from John Fountaine. The advice (the thing purchased) is modelled as an item.

Also in this entry a new maid, Sarah, is hired by Elizabeth Pepys, This office-holding event is modelled in the pepys-diary-people.ltm topic map.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 22nd November 1661

People in the diary.
Dates in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 13th - 21st November

Another big batch update as I try and catch up. This time 9 new topic maps uploaded going from 13th November to 21st November Again there are no major modelling issues here, although a new event type, "Sleeping" was introduced to model Sam falling asleep in church...

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 13th November 1661
Topic map for 14th November 1661
Topic map for 15th November 1661
Topic map for 16th November 1661
Topic map for 17th November 1661
Topic map for 18th November 1661
Topic map for 19th November 1661
Topic map for 20th November 1661
Topic map for 21st November 1661

Core ontology for the diary.
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 8th - 12th November 1661

I'm posting entries for five days from 8th to 12th November 1661 inclusive.

There are no new modelling challenges raised by any of these new entries.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 8th November 1661.
Topic map for 9th November 1661.
Topic map for 10th November 1661.
Topic map for 11th November 1661.
Topic map for 12th November 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 6th - 7th November 1661

Posting two more entries today.

Events for 6th November 1661 are:

• Samuel breakfasts with John Davenport, Mr. Furbisher and William Bernard at the Sun tavern. A breakfast of wine, anchovies and pickled oysters doesn't seem like the best way to start the day to me.
• Samuel goes from the breakfast to dinner with Nicholas Osborne and his wife at the Victualling Office.
• Sam visits Henry Moore (we are not told where the visit takes place).
• Samuel goes to see the Lord Privy Seal on business.
• Samuel plays the lute at home (modelled as a performance event).

Events for 7th November 1661 are:

• Roger Hill visits Samuel at his home. I have not modelled Mr. Hill's desire to teach Samuel to play the Theoboro, nor Samuel's determination for him not to.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office
• Peter Pett dines as a guest of Samuel's
• Samuel calls on Tom Trice and they discuss a writ that Trice is to serve against Samuel's father. The writ is modelled as an item that is the subject of the discussion event used to describe this meeting.
• Samuel visits Dr. Williams.
• Samuel visits Henry Moore for advice. I have assumed that the advice Samuel seeks is on the writ, and so I have made the writ the subject of the discussion event that describes this meeting.
• Samuel calls on Thomas Fenner.
• Samuel receives a letter from Sir Edward Montagu in Lisbon.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 6th November 1661.
Topic map for 7th November 1661.

Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 5th November

I've fallen a little bit behind with the topic maps due to travelling.

The events modelled for 5th November 1661 are as follows:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Thomas Pepys and William Armiger dine with Samuel at the Pepys' house.
• Samuel and William Penn pay a visit to Elizabeth Batten.
• William Batten travels to Chatham (the travelling event started some time before Pepys and Penn visit Lady Batten).
• Samuel, Penn and George Cocke go drinking at the Dolphin Tavern
• Pepys and Penn return to Lady Batten's
• Pepys returns home from the Batten's.

In addition to posting this entry, I've begun to make changes to the representation of marriage. Up to now, marriage has been represented as a simple association like:

married-to(samuel-pepys : spouse, elizabeth-pepys : spouse)

Marriage is now modelled as an event, allowing us to specify the temporal bounds on the marriage and to use the marriage as a subject in its own right.
I've made use of scoped names to present different ways of presenting and indexing the marriage event. e.g.

[thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage
  = "Marriage of Thomas Fenner and Katherine Kite"
  = "Marriage to Katherine Kite";"Fenner, Thomas;marriage to Katherine Kite" / thomas-fenner
  = "Marriage to Thomas Fenner";"Kite, Katherine;marriage to Thomas Fenner" / katherine-kite]
participation(
  thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage : event,
  katherine-kite : spouse, 
  thomas-fenner : spouse )

This is particularly useful for scoping the married name of women. e.g.

[katherine-kite : woman = "Katherine Kite"; "Kite, Katherine"
  = "Katherine Fenner";"Fenner, Katherine" / thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage
  @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/750.php"]

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 5th November 1661.
Family relationships ontology.
People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 3rd - 4th November

Two more days of events posted today. The events modelled for 3rd November are:

• Samuel takes medication (presumably for his unmentionable swelling...).
• Samuel reads Thomas Fuller's 'History of Holy War'.
• Samuel attempts (and gives up) composing a song extolling his virtues as a man of liberal genius. This is modelled simply as a recreation event involving Sam as the only participant.
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine on pullet.

For 4th November, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel, Elizabeth and William Penn share a coach to Whitehall.
• Elizabeth visits Mrs. Hunt.
• Samuel and William Penn do some business (presumably Navy business) with William Coventry.
• Samuel, Elizabeth and Penn return home by coach.
• Samuel dines at the Mitre with many others. The dinner is described as including chine of beef and marrowbones.
• Elizabeth visits Thomas Pepys.
• Sam takes a coach to Thomas Pepys' home to pick up Elizabeth.
• Sam and Elizabeth travel to the Opera by coach.
• A performance of 'The Bondman' at the Opera. We are told that there has been a previous performance at Salisbury Court Playhouse. We also know that Betterton is in today's performance.
• Samuel and Elizabeth travel home together by coach as far as William Wight's house.
• Elizabeth continues home by coach.
• Samuel visits William Wight.

New and updated topic maps :

Topic map for 3rd November 1661
Topic map for 4th November 1661

Core ontology for the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 2nd November 1661

Today's entry introduces one new event type and the problems of the unknown. There is also an editorial note on names.

The events modelled for this entry are:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office, joined by William Penn and the new Comptorller of the Navy Sir John Mennes. Sir John's new position is modelled as an office holding event (starting today and finishing in the year 1671)


• Samuel dines as a guest of Lady Jemima Montagu at Wardrobe Court.


• Samuel travels home by coach with "the two young ladies" from the Wardrobe. It is not clear who those ladies are, so they are modelled here as two unknown women.


• Samuel's female guests return "home" by coach with Captain Ferrers. By home, I have assumed that the ladies in question live with Lady Montague, though there is no real proof of that.


• Wayneman Birch, one of Samuel's servants, lets off some gunpowder outside the house.


• Elizabeth Pepys "chides" young Birch. This is modelled as a new type of event, "chastisement" with Birch being the "chastised" and Elizabeth the "chastiser". The cause of the chastisement (the letting off of gunpowder) is modelled using the cause-result association introduced previously.


• Another chastisement event (a beating this time) befalls young Birch when Samuel finds out and catches him lying about where he got the gunpowder from. Kids today, huh?

On the subject of names, it is a common problem with the diary that multiple spellings of names exist. For example in today's entry, the new Comptroller is referred to by Pepys as "Sir John Minnes", but by Latham and Matthews as "Sir John Mennes". Having recently purchased Robert Latham's index to the diaries, I am proposing to now use the head name as the principle display/sort name for all people and places covered by the index. This means that I have some editorial work to do, particularly as Latham uses women's maiden name as the head entry in the index where possible, but it should hopefully lead to a more consistent approach to naming and to the specification of sort names.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 2nd November 1661.

Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 1st November 1661

Today's entry has the following events modelled:

• Samuel and Wiilliam Penn travel to Westminster by coach.
• Samuel does business with Ned Montagu.
• Samuel meets William Penn at Whitehall
• Samuel and Penn dine at the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, and then go on to the theatre for a performance of 'The Jovial Crew'
• Samuel, Penn and Penn's son (also William and latterly the more famous of the two) dine at Samuel's house.

The diary mentions that Penn the younger is "lately come from Oxford". I wonder if this is because it is the end of term or if it is as a result of his expulsion (he was expelled from Christ Church for being a Quaker). If it is the latter, then it might be quite good to add this as another event.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 1st November 1661.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : October roundup

The full Pepys topic map up to the end of October 1661 is now posted.

You can browse the topic map or download the XTM file (2.6M).

Comments are welcome!

Pepys-Map : 31st October 1661

The events modelled for 31st October 1661 are as follows:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office
• While Samuel is at the Navy Office, William Prior calls on Pepys at his home on Seething Lane. As with previous events where a visitor finds that the person they intend to see is not present, this is modelled as William Prior visiting the Seething Lane house location, but not visiting a particular person.
• Samuel and William Prior meet at Thomas Pepys' residence to discuss the sale of Mr Barton's house. The sale is modelled as an event of type "Legal Transaction" and is made the subject of a discussion event.
• Samuel discusses matters arising from the court case at Gravely with Sir Robert Bernard. This is modelled as a discussion event, with the subject role being played by the court session event from the topic map for 20th September 1661.
• Samuel and Thomas Fenner drink at an unamed alehouse.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 31st October 1661.
Artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.