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Pepys-Map : March Roundup

The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.

This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to March 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online.

Pepys-Map : 1st - 2nd April 1662

Two more entries posted today.

In the entry for 1st April 1662, there is a sequence of events worth noting for the way in which the temporal relationships are modelled. The sequence starts when Pepys, Paulina Montagu and others attend a performance of "The Maid in the Mill". During the performance, Paulina Montagu is taken ill, so Pepys takes her to the Grange (a nearby tavern) where she "did what she had a mind to", and then the pair return to the play. This gives us the following events:

1. A performance of "The Maid in the Mill"
2. Paulina Montagu's illness
3. Samuel and Paulina Montagu travel from the Opera to the Grange
4. Samuel and Paulina Montagu return from the Grange to the Opera

(1) is the wrapper event that events (2) - (4) all occur during, but (4) can be said to occur after the end of (2), so we have the following event relationships:

• (2) occurs during (1)
• (3) occurs during (1) and is caused by (2)
• (4) occurs during (1) and occurs after (2)

New and updated topic maps

Topic map for 1st April 1662
Topic map for 2nd April 1662
Culture in the diary
Dates in the diary
People in the diary
Places in the diary

Pepys-Map : 21st - 31st March 1662

Lots more entries uploaded today which takes us to the end of March and finally gets me caught up again. Yay!

Watch this space for the end-of-month roundup...

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 21st March 1662
Topic map for 22nd March 1662
Topic map for 23rd March 1662
Topic map for 24th March 1662
Topic map for 25th March 1662
Topic map for 26th March 1662
Topic map for 27th March 1662
Topic map for 28th March 1662
Topic map for 29th March 1662
Topic map for 30th March 1662
Topic map for 31st March 1662

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

Pepys-Map : 16th - 20th March

5 more entries uploaded today, with no major ontology changes.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 16th March 1662
Topic map for 17th March 1662
Topic map for 18th March 1662
Topic map for 19th March 1662
Topic map for 20th March 1662

Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 8th - 15th March 1662

Another big batch update today. The only new addition to the ontology is a new event type "Arrest" with participation roles "Accused" and "Accuser", used for the capture or arrest of individuals. Accuser role is played by the one bringing the charge.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 8th March 1662
Topic map for 9th March 1662
Topic map for 10th March 1662
Topic map for 11th March 1662
Topic map for 12th March 1662
Topic map for 13th March 1662
Topic map for 14th March 1662
Topic map for 15th March 1662

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

Pepys-Map : 3rd - 7th March 1662

Five new entries posted today.

The only new addition to the ontology is the creation of a new event type 'Vote of Parliament' which is used to record a vote in the House of Parliament.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd March 1662
Topic map for 4th March 1662
Topic map for 5th March 1662
Topic map for 6th March 1662
Topic map for 7th March 1662

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

Pepys-Map : 1st-2nd March 1662

Entries posted for 1st and 2nd March 1662.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st March 1662
Topic map for 2nd March 1662

Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : February Round-up

The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.

This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to February 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,

Pepys-Map : 26th - 28th February 1662

Three more days entries posted today, taking us to the end of February 1662.

Events modelled for 26th February 1662 :

• Samuel works with John Birchensha on a composition. This is modelled as a recreation event.
• Samuel pays monies owed to Joshua Kirton.
• Samuel settles a debt to William Joyce.
• Sam meets with and misrecognises an unamed man from the Navy Office. Only the meeting is modelled here.

For 27th February 1662 :

• Samuel and John Birchensha argue about Birchensha's music theories.
• Samuel spends the morning writing down what he has learned from Birchensha.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Sam works on his correspondence at home.

Finally, for 28th February 1662:

• Sam and William Penn travel to Whitehall Palace by coach.
• Samuel delivers a map of Tangiers to James Stuart. The map was sent by Sir Edward Montagu and was created by one Martin Beckman. Beckman's position in the employ of Montagu has been modelled as an office-holding event, where the office is ommitted as we are not told the nature of his position.
  The map has been modelled as a topic, allowing a text-subject association to connect the map with the territory depicted (Tangiers) and a new created-by association to connect the map with Beckman.
• Sam travels to Mr. Savill's by boat.
• At Mr. Savills, Samuel sits for his portrait.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Henry Moore visits Pepys at home.
• Sam works at the Navy Office and while there receives salary (modelled as a payment-event).
• Sam returns home and beats his servant Wayneman Birch.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 26th February 1662.
Topic map for 27th February 1662.
Topic map for 28th February 1662.

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

Pepys-Map : 25th February 1662

In today's entry there is just one new addition to the ontology. The events modelled are as follows:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel and Henry Moore visit a coffee house (that is not named) and discuss the recent storms and the damage caused. I have not modelled the subject of this discussion for the time being.
• At some point during the day, Samuel reads a statement written by Charles Sackville regarding the murder that he is accused of. To model this, I have introduced a new association type "text-subject", and modelled Charles Sackville's statement (which is published) as a text, and the murder as the text subject.
• Samuel dines at home.
• The Hunts visit the Pepys.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office again.
• Samuel has supper at home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 25th February 1662.
Core ontology for the diary.

Pepys-Map : 23rd-24th February 1662

Two more entries posted today. The entry for 23rd February 1662 is quite short with only two events:

• Samuel reads more of Fuller's 'A History of the worthies of England'.
• William Penn sups with Samuel at his home.

The entry for 24th February 1662 models the following events:

• Samuel takes a music lesson from John Birchensha.
• Samuel pays 5l. for the lessons he has had in the last month. This is modelled as the new 'payment' event described in this post.
• Samuel visits Mr Savill to 'set again for my picture in little' - I'm not sure if this means that Sam is sitting for a miniature to be painted or if it is related to the financing of the original portraits. For now I have simply modelled this as a visit.
• Samuel visits John Birchensha at his home in Soutwark. Where the pair discuss and play more music.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Samuel chastises Will Hewer before his wife. To model this, I have created one participation association for Samuel chastising Will and a separate one for Elizabeth playing the role of 'audience'.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 23rd February 1662
Topic map for 24th February 1662

Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 21st - 22nd February 1662

Two more entries posted today, both of which introduce new items to the ontology.

The entry for 21st February records the fact that Sam receives 80l. from Jaspar Trice. This is modelled as a "payment" event, with Samuel playing the role of recipient and Jaspar Trice playing the role of "payer". The sum paid is recorded as an occurrence of type "value" (previously used to record the value of items) on the payment event topic itself. So we have:

[event-16620221-04 : payment = "Samuel receives a payment from Jasper Trice (21st February 1662)";"16620221-04"]
occurs(event-16620221-04 : event, event-16620221-03 : during)
participation(event-16620221-04 : event,
  samuel-pepys : recipient,
  jasper-trice : payer)
{event-16620221-04, value, [[80l.]]}

In the entry for 22nd February 1662 we learn that a group of five men have been sent to Newgate Prison for the murder of a tanner in Stoke Newington. The murder itself is modelled as a new event of type "murder", with the alleged murderers playing the role "accused", the tanner playing the role "victim" and the place "Stoke Newington" playing the role "scene". A more generalised event type of "crime" has also been created and both the new "murder" event type and the existing "theft" event type have been made subclasses of it.

[event-16620222-11 : murder = "Murder of a tanner in Newington";"16620222-11"]
occurs(event-16620222-11 : event, event-16620222-10 : end)
participation(event-16620222-11 : event,
  thomas-wentworth : accused,
  john-belasyse : accused,
  henry-belasyse : accused,
  edward-sackville : accused,
  charles-sackville : accused,
  unamed-tanner : victim,
  newington : scene)

The gaoling of the five men is recorded as a separate event of type "imprisonment" with the murder event playing the role "charge" (meaning that the charge on which the men are imprisoned is for the crime described by the murder event); the men play the role "imprisoned" and "Newgate Prison" plays the role "gaol".

[event-16620222-10 : imprisonment = "Imprisonment of the Sackvilles, Belasyses and Thomas Wentworth on a charge of murder (22nd February 1662)";"16620222-10"]
occurs(event-16620222-10 : event, today : end)
participation(event-16620222-10 : event,
  thomas-wentworth : imprisoned,
  john-belasyse : imprisoned,
  henry-belasyse : imprisoned,
  edward-sackville : imprisoned,
  charles-sackville : imprisoned,
  newgate : gaol,
  event-16620222-11 : charge)

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 21st February 1662
Topic map for 22nd February 1662

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

Pepys-Map : 18th-20th February 1662

Three more entries posted today. No major ontology changes or new entities added.

Topic map for 18th February 1662.
Topic map for 19th February 1662.
Topic map for 20th February 1662.

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

Pepys-Map : 5th - 17th February 1662

Another big batch update covering the period from 5th February 1662 to 17th February 1662.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 5th February 1662.
Topic map for 6th February 1662.
Topic map for 7th February 1662.
Topic map for 8th February 1662.
Topic map for 9th February 1662.
Topic map for 10th February 1662.
Topic map for 11th February 1662.
Topic map for 12th February 1662.
Topic map for 13th February 1662.
Topic map for 14th February 1662.
Topic map for 15th February 1662.

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

Pepys-Map : 3rd-4th February 1662

Events modelled in 3rd February 1662:

• Samuel practices his music at home. This is modelled as a recreation event with Samuel Pepys playing the generic role "participant".
• Pepys, Penn and Batten work at the Navy Office.
• A dinner at the Batten's home attended by Samuel, Mrs Mills and Mrs Shipman. Although others may have been present, only the named attendees are modelled.
• Mrs Shipman drinks a toast, that Samuel estimates to be a pint and a half of wine, to the health of the Battens. It would seem that binge-drinking is not a new British disease...
• Pepys, Batten and George Carteret return to the Navy Office to do more work.
• Pepys returns to the William Batten's. This is modelled as a visiting event.
• Samuel and Elizabeth (amongst others - thought the others are not named and so are not modelled) sup with Robert Holmes. We are told that Holmes' lodgings are at Trinity House and so this additional fact is also modelled.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home.

Events for 4th February 1662:

• Samuel visits Westminster Hall. We know no more about what he did there.
• Samuel dines with Benjamin Templer and Sir John Crew at Crew's residence.
• A subpoena is served on Sameul by an unamed person on behalf of Edward Field.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office...
• ...and then returns home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 3rd February 1662.
Topic map for 4th February 1662.

People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 1st - 2nd February 1662

Events recorded in the topic map for 1st February 1662 are:

• Samuel and Commissioner Pett work together at the Navy Office
• Samuel and William Penn discuss moving Penn's son to Cambridge...
• ...while Commissioner Pett continues working
• At some point during this time, William Penn tells Samuel that he has received news from Sir Edward Montagu of the destruction of the enemy fleet at Algiers by a storm.
• Pepys and Pett visit Mr. Savill (to admire Pepys' portraits)
• The pair dine at the Wardrobe with Jemima Montagu
• Samuel passes on the news from Sir Edward to Jemima Montague
• Pepys and Pett return to the Navy office and continue working.
• Samuel returns home and writes letters to his father, to his brother John, and to Dr William Fairbrother. We know from the diary entry that the reason for the latter is to find out about a Mr. Burton at Magdalene college, Cambridge.

This entry shows some interesting event relationships. Penn receives news from Sir Edward Montagu by letter, the subject of this "correspondence-event" is the "Destruction of the enemy fleet at Algiers". This destruction is itself an event and is then used as the subject role player in an event-subject association for the event representing the correspondence from Montagu to Penn; the event representing the passing of this news from Penn to Pepys; and for the event representing the passing of the news from Pepys to Lady Montagu. Thus we have a single anchor that ties together all of the events allowing the relationship between them to be shown more clearly in the topic map.

Additionally there is a cause-effect relationship between the discussion between Penn and Pepys on the subject of Penn's son and the letter written by Samuel to Dr. Fairbother on the subject of Hezekiah Burton.

The entry for 2nd February 1662 is more straightforward:

• Pepys attends the morning service at St. Olave
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine at home
• The pair then attend the afternoon service at St. Olaves (given by an 'Oxford man' of whom Pepys has a suitably low opinion ;-)
• The rest of the day is spent in reading and supper.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 1st February 1662.
Topic map for 2nd February 1662.

People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : January Roundup

The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.

This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to January 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,

Pepys-Map : 30th-31st January 1662

Two more entries posted today which takes us to the end of January 1662. The entries are both relatively short and do not involve many events. The entry for 30th January 1662 mentions that the day is a fast-day in memory of Charles I. To model this, I have added a new event of type "fast".

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 30th January 1662.
Topic map for 31st January 1662.

Pepys diary core ontology.

Pepys-Map : 22nd - 29th January 1662

Final catch-up post with another 8 entries covered today.

Hopefully over the coming weeks I'll be able to get back to a once-a-day or every-other-day publishing schedule.

Watch out for the January batch update during the coming week!

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 22nd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 23rd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 24th Janaury 1662 Topic map for 25th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 26th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 27th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 28th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 29th Janaury 1662
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 15th - 21st January 1662

More catch up!

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 15th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 16th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 17th Janaury 1662 Topic map for 18th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 19th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 20th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 21st Janaury 1662
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 3rd - 9th January 1662

First of the "catch-up" posts today. The main changes ontologically is in the expression of the temporal relationships between events as mentioned in an earlier post. I intend to expand on this in more detail at a later date.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 3rd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 4th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 5th Janaury 1662 Topic map for 6th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 7th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 8th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 9th Janaury 1662

Core ontology of the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map December Round-Up

The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.

This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to December 1661. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,

Brief Hiatus...

Sorry for the brief lull in the postings - and the late arrival of the December update.

Normal service will be resumed ASAP

Pepys-Map : 27th December 1661 - 2nd January 1662

Todays posting is a catch up of the new year period.

Starting from the entries for 1662, I've chosen to make the ordering of events a bit more explicit in the topic map. Rather than relying on sort names to imply an ordering between the events that occur on a day, I now use the start-after role to indicate a sequence of one event following another.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 27th December 1661.
Topic map for 28th December 1661.
Topic map for 29th December 1661.
Topic map for 30th December 1661.
Topic map for 31st December 1661.
Topic map for 1st January 1662.
Topic map for 2nd January 1662.

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

Pepys-Map : 22nd - 26th December 1661

A catch up over the christmas period, with entries posted for 22nd to 26th of December.

One point worth noting is that the PSIs I am using for dates are based on the Gregorian calender, meaning that they roll over from December 1661 to January 1662 in this period. I am using the "common" convention of the new year starting on January 1st, rather than the ecclesiastical year start.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 22nd December 1661,
Topic map for 23rd December 1661,
Topic map for 24th December 1661,
Topic map for 25th December 1661,
Topic map for 26th December 1661,

Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 19th - 21st December 1661

Three more entries posted.

For 19th December 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Elizabeth sits for Mr. Savill. Samuel attends the sitting and his participation is modelled using the 'audience' role type.
• Samuel and Elizabeth travel home from Mr. Savill's by coach.
• During the coach ride, the couple have an argument.
• Samuel dines with William Warren at the Dolphin.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel returns home from the office.

For 20th December 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel dines at the Wardrobe.
• Samuel and Henry Moore meet William Swan in the street.
• The trio go drinking at a local tavern during which they discuss religion. This is modelled as two separate events, a drinking event and a discussion with the discussion occurring during the drinking.
• Samuel and Henry Moore go to the Royal Exchange.
• Sameul discusses maritime law (or as Pepys puts it 'Dominion of the Sea') with Henry Moore .
• Samuel returns home.
• Samuel reads more of Selden's Mare Clausum.

Finally, for 21st December 1661 we have:

• Samuel discusses the ending of Privy Seal business for the duration of the Christmas holidays. The discussion is with Sir John Robartes and takes place at his chambers in Whitehall Palace.
• Samuel visits a Mrs. Sarah and Mrs. Betty at Sir Edward Montagu's lodgings at Whitehall Palace.
• Samuel drinks with a group of civil servants ('Exchequer men') at the Dog.
• Samuel has a discussion about maritime law with Edward Falconberg.
• Samuel meets William Prior (of Brampton) at Thomas Pepys' house.
• Samuel returns home by coach.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office. We know that both Sir William Penn and Batten are present at the office too as they complain about Pepys' frequent absence!
• Samuel writes letters from his home.
• Samuel reads more of Selden's Mare Clausum.
• Also occurring today was the christening of John Hunt - an event that was attended by Elizabeth Pepys.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 19th December 1661
Topic map for 20th December 1661
Topic map for 21st December 1661

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

Pepys-Map : 15th - 18th December 1661

Four entries posted today - although all are relatively short entries.

Events for 15th December 1661 are as follows:

• Samuel attends morning service at St. Olave.
• William Penn dines with Pepys at his home.
• Samuel attends the afternoon service at St. Olave.
• Elizabeth argues with her maid, Nell.
• Samuel reads Grotius' Mare Liberum and Selden's Mare Clausum. These two texts are modelled as topics as are their respective authors.

For 16th December 1661:

• James Bollen visits Samuel Pepys at home.
• Bollen and Pepys travel by coach to the Wardrobe to call on Henry Moore.
• Bollen, Moore and Pepys travel on to Chelsea to the home of the Privy Seal, Sir John Robartes.
• Bollen, Moore, Pepys and Robartes attend to Privy Seal business.
• Elizabeth Pepys visits Elizabet Hunt (this takes place while Samuel is working).
• Samuel, Elizabeth and Sarah dine at Sir Edward Montagu's lodgings. I have assumed that "Sarah" refers to Elizabeth's maid.
• Samuel and Elizabeth attend a perfomance of 'Cutter of Coleman Street' at the Opera.
• The Pepys return home by coach.

For 17th December:

• Samuel visits Mr. Savill to view the progress on his portrait.
• Samuel is called to work at the Privy Seal (this is simply modelled as a working event).
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel has supper at home.
• Samuel reads more of Selden's 'Mare Clausum'.

For 18th December:

• Samuel works at the Navy office.
• Elizabeth sits for Mr. Savill.
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine with Jemima Montagu. I have assumed that the location referred to by Pepys as "Lady Sandwich's" is the Montagu's main London residence.
• Samuel and his brother Thomas visit Jane Turner.
• Samuel returns to the Montagu's.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 15th December 1661
Topic map for 16th December 1661
Topic map for 17th December 1661
Topic map for 18th December 1661

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

Pepys-Map : 13th - 14th December 1661

Two more entries posted today.

In the entry for 13th December 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel dines at home.
• Elizabeth Pepys sits for Mr. Savill's portrait while Samuel watches. Samuel's role is modelled using the 'audience' role type.
• The Pepys return home.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office with Penn and Batten.
• Pepys, Penn and Batten drink at the Steelyard (a merchants area in the city) and are joined by Elizabeth Batten and John Cox. This is all modelled as a single drinking event.
• There is some musical performance during the group's time at the tavern. This is modelled as a performance event, but we are not told who is the performer or what is performed. The drinkers in the previous event are all assumed to have been audience to the performance.
• Samuel returns home by coach.

The entry for 14th December 1661 is quite short and only the following events are modelled:

• Sameul and Elizabeth dine at home.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel returns home from the office.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 13th December 1661.
Topic map for 14th December 1661.

Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 12th December 1661

In the entry for 12th December 1661 the following events are modelled:

• William Bowyer and John Gregory visit Samuel at his home.
• Pepys, Bowyer and Gregory go to the Dolphin for their morning draught.
• Samuel dines with Lady Montagu and Sir John Crew at the Wardrobe.
• Samuel goes to Westminster in search of Sir John Robartes.
• Pepys and Robartes work on Privy Office matters.
• Pepys visits William Penn at his home.

In the course of writing up today's topic map, I discovered (thanks to my birthday present to myself of the L&M Companion volume) that I have made a couple of errors in the interpretation of the diary.

Firstly, "The Wardrobe" is most likely a reference to the headquarters of the Kings Great Wardrobe which was off Puddle Dock Hill and not in Wardrobe Court. Secondly, Pepys frequent business with the Lord Privy Seal is as a result of him acting as deputy for Sir Edward Montagu who holds the position of clerk in the Privy Office. So in fact, when Pepys works with the Lord Privy Seal, it is more likely on Privy Office business than on Navy business.

To address the first issue, I have created a new topic representing the headquarters of the Wardrobe at Puddle Dock Hill. The second issue raises the problem of the names of certain events which may be misleading. There is also the issue of making retrospective changes to the entries made so far. My feeling is that the best way to do this is to consolidate the entries into a single topic map and then use either tolog or a TM4J application of some sort to manipulate topics as required. More thought is needed on this.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 12th December 1661,

Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 9th - 11th December 1661

Three more entries posted today for 9th, 10th, and 11th December 1661. As there are no real new modelling issues to confront in these entries, I just provide the links to the new and updated topic maps.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 9th December 1661
Topic map for 10th December 1661
Topic map for 11th December 1661

Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 7th - 8th December 1661

The first entry covered today is for 7th December 1661 and requires the introduction of a new event type. The events modelled are:

• Captain Ferrers and Emmanuel Luffe visit Samuel Pepys at home.
• Emmanuel Luffe plays Samuel's theoboro (modelled as a performance event).
• Ferrers and Luffe breakfast with Pepys.
• When they leave, Samuel and Elizabeth discuss purchases for Elizabeth.
• Meanwhile, Ferrers and Luffe have a run-in with some watermen at Tower Stairs. This is modelled as a conflict event that occurs during Samuel and Elizabeth's discussion event.
• During the fight, Emmanuel Luffe receives a head wound. This is modelled as a new type of event - an injury event. The injury event type is subclassed from the health event type. Emmanuel Luffe is modelled as the injured party (a role subclassed from patient).
• Luffe returns to Seething Lane and Elizabeth treats his wounds (the travelling event is implied).
• Henry Moore and Samuel Pepys visit Ned Montagu at Worcester House but are unable to see him. This is modelled as a visit to Worcester House.
• Pepys and Moore dine at Wilkinson's cookhouse.
• Samuel works at the Privy Seal.
• Samuel travels to the Navy Office by boat.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Captain Holmes arrives at the Navy office and he talks to Samuel. Amongst other things, Samuel hears of Holmes' opinion of Sir John Minnes. This is all modelled as a discussion event that occurrs during the preceding working event, with John Minnes as the subject of the discussion.
• John Cox visits Samuel at the Navy Office.
• Samuel returns home and writes a letter to his father. Again the travelling event is implied in the change of location for this event from the preceding event.

For 8th December, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel receives a letter from William Smallwood, conveying Tom Trice's answer to Pepys' Chancery bill. This is modelled as a correspondence event between Smallwood and Pepys with the subject of the event being Pepys' Chancery bill.
• Samuel dines at the Wardrobe with Lady Montagu.
• Lady Montagu tells Samuel of the christening of William Rumbold's son Charles. The christening itsel is also modelled as a separate event.
• Thomas Pepys (the brother) visits Samuel at his home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 7th December 1661.
Topic map for 8th December 1661.

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

Pepys-Map : 6th December 1661

In the entry for 6th December 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel meets friends at Westminster hall.
• Samuel and friends drink wine at The Dog.
• Samuel, Penn and Batten dine as guests of George Carteret at his lodgings in Whitehall Palace. According to L&M, this would be the lodgings granted to Carteret by his position as Vice Chamberlain, hence the location topic is named "Lodgings of the Vice Chamberlain". The lodgings are not within the confines of Whitehall Palace as shown in L&M, but are instead in the Great Court which adjoins the palace.
• Signing of a contract. This is a charter granted to the East India company by the Crown. Pepys only says that the East India Company is represented by "govenors", but there are no names nor any numbers. For now I have only modelled the people that we know to be present (Pepys, Penn, Batten and Carteret as witnesses). The charter itself is modelled as an item (in the artifacts topic map) and is made the subject of this event and of the following discussion event.
• A discussion with the King. Pepys, Penn, Batten and Carteret have a discussion with the King and the Duke of York in the Kings Closet. The Kings Closet is part of Whitehall Palace and so its location is modelled using a located-in relationship.
• Samuel and the others return to Carteret's lodgings to complete their business. This is modelled as a working event.
• Samuel speaks with the Lord Privy Seal in the Council Chambers. This is also modelled as a working event. Again the Council Chambers are a part of Whitehall Palace.
• Pepys returns home by coach with Penn and Batten.

Topic map for 6th December 1661

Artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 3rd-5th December 1661

Three more topic maps posted today covering the period from 3rd to 5th December 1661.

Events modelled for 3rd December 1661

• Samuel sits for Mr. Savill
• Samuel visits the Wardrobe
• Samuel and Henry Moore go to the Temple to work on Pepys' legal business. I have assumed here that this is the Chancery bill against Tom Trice.
• Samuel dines with Lady Montagu and Lady Wright.
• Samuel travels to the Navy Office by boat.
• Sam returns home.

Events for 4th December 1661:

• Samuel travels to Whitehall with Williams Batten and Penn. Samuel reports seeing the body of a man who drowned the previous day. This is recorded as a separate death event.
• Samuel goes to the Temple to deal with the surrender of Sturtlow.
• Samuel and others dine at the 3 Tuns.
• After dinner, Sam takes a boat to Cheapside to meet his wife at Mr. Savills. This gives us evidence for the location of the painter's workshop which is now recorded as being on Cheapside.
• Elizabeth sits for Mr. Savill.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home by coach.

Events for 5th December 1661:

• Samuel sits for Mr. Savill
• Samuel and William Batten work on Navy business at the Treasury Office
• William Batten dines at home.
• Batten returns to the Treasury Office.
• William Penn dines with Pepys at his home.
• Penn, Pepys and his wife travel to the Opera by coach.
• Penn travels on to Whitehall by coach.
• Samuel and Elizabeth attend a performance of Hamlet at the Opera.
• The pair visit Jane Turner at her home.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 3rd December 1661.
Topic map for 4th December 1661.
Topic map for 5th December 1661.

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

Pepys-Map : 2nd December 1661

Although short, the entry for 2nd December 1661 results in quite a few separate events.

• An initial sequence in which Samuel goes to Mr. Savills; finds him out; meets Henry Moore on the way home and the pair then return to Seething Lane. This results in the following sequence of events in the topic map:
  • Samuel travels from Seething Lane to Mr. Savills place of business.
  • Samuel travels from Mr. Savills place of business and stops at some unamed place en-route to his home.
  • Samuel meets Henry Moore that the unamed place where the previous travelling event ended.
  • Samuel and Henry Moore travel from the meeting point to Pepys home.
• Pepys and Moore talk at Pepys home.
• Henry Moore dines with Samuel Pepys.
• Henry Moore takes his leave to do some work at the Lord Privy's office. This is modelled simply as a working-event taking place at the Lord Privy chambers with Moore as the worker.
• Clement Sankey and Mary Archer call on Samuel Pepys at home.
• All three go to the Opera by coach.
• A performance of 'The Mad Lover' attended by Pepys, Clement Sankey and Mary Archer.
• Clement Sankey and Mary Archer dine with Pepys at his home.

You might notice that in some cases the travelling has been modelled in more detail than in other cases. For example, Sam's return home from Mr. Savill is modelled as having two legs, but this is in some way necessary to model his meeting Henry Moore (the alternative being to simply model the meeting with Moore as being an event that occurred during the journey from Savill's to Pepyp's home). On the other hand the trio of Clement Sankey, Mary Archer and Samuel Pepys must have travelled *back* from the Opera in order to participate in the final dining-event at Pepys' home, however I have chosen not to model this particular travelling event at all as the fact that they all changed location can be deduced from the location of the performance event and the subsequent dining event and we have no additional information (such as mode of transport) to convey.

This question of the level of detail of the modelling is something that occurs in many places in the work on the diary. Another good example is the modelling of event sequencing. Right now there is an implicit event sequencing that uses sort names for the events so that they sort into (approximately) chronological order. A more explicit way to model this would be to specify the start and end points of events relative to each other (e.g. event A starts after event B). At the moment, the choice to not model this information is a question of balancing the additional manual effort against the additional information conveyed. Some helpful tooling could quite possibly change my mind...

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 2nd December 1661.

Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 1st December 1661

In today's posting for 1st December 1661, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel attends the morning service at St. Olaves.
• Clement Sankey dines with the Pepys.
• After diner, Samuel and Clement drink and talk...
• ...while Elizabeth goes to the afternoon service at St. Olaves.
• Clement Sankey stays for supper with the Pepys. We are told that the meal includes brawn and gherkins.
• Samuel and his brother Thomas discuss Thomas Townshend's daughter.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 1st December 1661.

Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.

November Update

The full topic map for the Pepys Diary up to the end of November 1661 is now available for download as a 3.3MB XTM file or browsing online.

Pepys-Map : 30th November 1661

Final entry for November. The following events are modelled for 30th November 1661:

• Samuel works on legal matters with Lewis Phillips and Dr. John Williams at the Temple. I have assumed that this work is to do with Pepys' Chancery bill against Tom Trice and so have made that the subject of the working-event.
• Samuel dines at the Wardrobe.
• Samuel travels home from the Wardrobe.
• Pepys works at the Navy Office.
• Pepys, Batten and Cocke drink a bottle of sack at the Navy Office.
• Pepys returns home from the Navy Office.

The monthly roundup will go up soon - it comes out at 3.3 meg of XTM (yikes!). Watch this blog!

New and update topic maps:

Topic map for 30th November 1661.

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.

Pepys-Map : 25th - 28th October 1661

Four more entries posted today.

The events modelled for 25th October 1661 are:

• Samuel goes to Whitehall Palace. We are not told how or for what reason, so only a travelling event is modelled.
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine with Jemima Montague at the Wardrobe.
• Samuel and Elizabeth attend a performance of 'Love and Honour'.
• Samuel and Elizabeth meet Elizabeth Pearse and Mrs. Clifford in the street.
• Samuel and Elizabeth walk home via George Hunt's shop where Sam checks on the repairs to his lute.
• Samuel chastises Will Hewer for showing a lack of respect to him and his wife.

For 26th October the modelled events are:

• Henry Mordaunt and George Carteret visit William Penn and Samuel at the Navy Office.
• Samuel and William Penn attend a performance of 'The Country Captain' at the Theatre Royal.
• Samuel receives news of the death of Robert Slingsby. The death is modelled as one event and Samuel's receipt of the news as a separate event.
• Samuel and William Penn drink at the Mitre.

For 27th October:

• Samuel attends church at St. Olaves where he and Penn and Batten discuss Slingsby's death.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Samuel and Elizabeth attend church at St. Olaves.
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine with William and Mary Wight.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home from the Wights'.

Finally, for 28th October:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Samuel retrieves his repaired lute from George Hunt, paying 29s. for it. This event is modelled as new annotations on the original repair event created for 9th October 1661. We add the end date for the repair, an occurrence recording the price as 29s., and add a participation association that has George Hunt playing the role of 'repairer'.
• Samuel, Robert Ferrers and a friend of Ferrers' go to a performance of Argalus and Parthenia at the Theatre Royal.
• The three men then go drinking at the Ringo Alehouse.
• Samuel purchases a belt from a belt-maker that he sends for from the alehouse.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 25th October 1661
Topic map for 27th October 1661
Topic map for 28th October 1661
Topic map for 29th October 1661

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

Pepys-Map : 23rd-24th October 1661

Two more entries posted today.

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

• Samuel breakfasts with William Penn and Daniel Tresswell at Tresswell's lodgings in Whitehall.
• Samuel dines with William Penn at the Leg tavern in King Street.
• Samuel and Penn take a coach to the Lord Privy Seal's home in Chelsea.
• Samuel and Penn discuss business of Penn's with the Lord Privy Seal. Is this the same business as referred to in the entry for 21st October 1661 ? It is not clear from the entry, so I have not set an event subject for this event.
• Samuel attends another performance of 'Love and Honour' at the Opera.
• Samuel visits Robert Slingsby at his home.
• Thomas Holliard calls on Robert Slingsby while Sam is there. It seems from the entry that Holliard might have offered medical advice to both Pepys and Slingsby, but there is nothing concrete to model.

In this day's entry, Samuel also mentions that the workers at the Navy Office have been invited to the Lord Mayor's dinner. At present I am not sure of the best way to model this. It could be a form of correspondence event, although the way it is described I think that it might be second-hand news received from Slingsby (who is Sam's boss at the Navy Office). I've flagged this as a TODO in the LTM topic map for today.

The entry for 24th October 1661 is modelled as follows:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.


• Samuel dines with Peter Llewellyn. We are not told where (perhaps at the Pepys' home ?)


• Samuel visits Robert Slingsby at his home.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 23rd October 1661
Topic map for 24th October 1661

People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 21st-22nd October 1661

Entries for 21st and 22nd October posted today.

Events modelled for 21st October:

• Samuel takes a coach with Henry Moore to Sir John Robarte's house in Chelsea, but find him not at home.


• Sam and Henry Moore have breakfast (cake and ale!) with John Pargiter at some unknown location.


• Samuel goes to the Lord Privy Chambers and there has a discussion with William Penn about some business of Penn's.


• Samuel dines at the Wardrobe.


• Sam attends a performance of William Davenant's "Love and Honour" at the Opera in Lincolns Inn Fields.


• Sam travels home and once there does some work before retiring.

For 22nd October, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.


• A deputation from the Duke of York visits the Navy Office. To model this, I have created a new topic type for a group of people. We are not told who is in this particular group, nor if they specifically visit Samuel. For this reason I have simply modelled the event as the group visiting the Navy Office.


• Samuel visits Robert Slingsby who is suffering from a fever. The illness is modelled as a separate event that is known to have started on or before this day.


• Samuel visits his aunts Mary Wight and Sarah Norbury. It is not clear if he visits the pair separately or together. I have assumed the latter due to the family relationship between Wight and Norbury (they are sisters). It seems likely, therefore, that Sam went to visit Aunt Wight and found that Aunt Norbury was there too.

New and updated topic maps:

Topic map for 21st October 1661.
Topic map for 22nd October 1661.

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

Pepys-Map : 18th-20th October 1661

Three new entries mapped today with one new concept added.

The diary entry for 18th October gives details of Pepys' self-treatment for his swollen groin. To model this I have created a new type of event, "medication-event" which should typically have role players "patient", "applied-by" (not necessarily a doctor, as in this case) and "medication". I have created a subclass of medication "poultice" to cover this particular treatment, and then made an instance of this class ("bran and vinegar poultice"). The entry for the diary event is:

[event-16611018-06 : medication-event 
  = "Samuel applies a poultice to his tumor (18th October 1661)";"16611018-06"]
occurs(event-16611018-06 : event, today : on)
participation(event-16611018-06 : event, 
  samuel-pepys : patient,
  samuel-pepys : applied-by,
  bran-poultice : medication)
[bran-poultice : poultice = "A poultice of bran and vinegar"]
{bran-poultice, description, 
  [[...a poultice of a good handful of bran with half a pint of vinegar and a pint of 
water boiled till it be thick, and then a spoonful of honey put to it and so spread
in a cloth and laid to it]] } / samuel-pepys

Note: the definitions for the medication-event topic type and the patient and applied-by role types are contained in the pepys-diary-ontology.ltm file. The definitions for the medication topic type and the poultice topic type are in the pepys-diary-culture.ltm file.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 18th October 1661.
Topic map for 19th October 1661.
Topic map for 20th October 1661.

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

Pepys-Map : 12th - 17th October

A batch update of missed posts from this week, though most of the entries were quite short. A few new people an places have been introduced. One interesting example is that of "The Exchequer" which, like many government functions is the name of both a building and an institution. To avoid the Topic Naming Constraint which requires that two topics with the same name in the same scope get merged, the building and institution are modelled as follows:

[exchequer-institution : institution = "The Exchequer (institution)";"Exchequer, The;institution"
  = "The Exchequer" / institution
  @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/290.php"]

[exchequer-building : building 
  = "The Exchequer (building)";"Exchequer, The;building"
  = "The Exchequer" / building
  @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/242.php"]

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 12th October 1661
Topic map for 13th October 1661
Topic map for 14th October 1661
Topic map for 15th October 1661
Topic map for 16th October 1661
Topic map for 17th October 1661

Culture in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 11th October 1661

A very short entry today as Pepys is suffering from a 'bruise' which keeps him in bed all day. The only event is the arrival of his brother Thomas, cousin Thomas and John Snow (a relative by marriage) for dinner which Pepys himself is not able to attend.

However, I seem to have inadvertently censored Pepys illness from yesterdays topicmap (possibly because the thought of a 'late bruise in one of my testicles' is just a bit too painful). So that has been added, with 10th October recorded as the start date.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 10th October.
Topic map for 11th October.

People in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 8th - 10th October 1661

Posted entries for 8th 9th and 10th October today. Most of the modelling is straightforward. The only new addition is a "repairing-event" which is used to model the occassion on 9th when Samuel puts his theboro (an instrument) in to be repaired.

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 8th October.
Topic map for 9th October.
Topic map for 10th October.

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

Pepys-Map : 6th-7th October 1661

• Samuel goes to the service at St. Olave's
• Samuel dines at home
• Samuel goes to the service at St. Gregory's by St. Pauls
• Sam visits Martha Batten
• William Penn calls on Martha Batten during Samuel's visit.
• William Penn and Martha Batten dine as guests of Samuel.

• Samuel goes to Thomas Fenner's house - his intention is to meet with Margaret Kite, but she does not turn up, hence this is only a travelling-event.
• Samuel visits Dr. Williams to find him ill. The illness is modelled as a separate event starting at some point on or before this day.
• Samuel receives a letter about the legal wranglings over the lease-hold of Sturtlow. To link this event with a previous related event in which the lease hold was sold to William Luffe, I have created a topic for the leasehold with a subject indicator and edited the topic map for 21st July 1661 to add that subject indicator to the topic representing the leasehold in the appropriate event. Now when the two maps are merged we find that this letter is about the leasehold that was sold on 21st July.

Pepys-Map : 4th-5th October 1661

Two more entries posted today.

The topic map for 4th October makes use of the same merging principles used in the topic map for 3rd October to refer back to the loan of 50 pounds agreed on that day - today, the money is received by Samuel's apprentice, Will Hewer. To make it easier to model the transaction, I have introduced a topic specifically for the 50 pounds borrowed from Mr Battersby. So I have updated the borrowing-event in the topic map for 3rd October to show the 50 pounds as the "borrowed item", and have also shown it in the topic map for 4th October as the "delivered item" received by Will Hewer.

The topic map for 5th October is more straightforward. I have chosen to model Samuel's efforts to hang a model ship in his room simply as "work"...should there be a speciailised "DIY" event type I wonder :-)

New and updated topic maps:
Updated topic map for 3rd October.
Topic map for 4th October.
Topic map for 5th October.

Artifacts in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : 3rd October 1661

Today's entry makes use of topic map merging to handle a reference to a previous event.

The event in question is a disucssion of the performance of Vittoria Corombona that took place on 2nd October. To make a reference to the performance event, I have simply created a topic whose subject identifier is the address of the topic created for the performance event. The reference is made using a relative URI and it assumes that the topic map for 2nd October is located in the same directory as that for 3rd October (which is the case for the archived LTM files). The result is the following LTM code:

[event-16611002-05-ref @"16611002.ltm#event-16611002-05"]

I have also made an editorial pass through the topic types defined in the core ontology file today, creating sort names that omit the indefinite article to improve the sorting in displays like Omnigator and TM4Web.

This can then be used as any other event topic. For example, we discover today that Elizabeth Batten and her son had been at the same performance. We can model this as:

[event-16611002-05-ref @"16611002.ltm#event-16611002-05"]
participation(event-16611002-05-ref : event,
  william-batten-son : audience,
  elizabeth-batten : audience)

We can also use the event as the subject of the discussion event that takes place today:

[event-16611003-09 : discussion 
  = "Samuel discusses yesterday's performance of 
      'Vittoria Corombona' with the Battens (3rd October 1661)";"16611003-09"]
...
event-subject(event-16611003-09 : event, event-16611002-05-ref : subject)

New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd October 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.

Pepys-Map : September Roundup

The latest monthly roundup has just been uploaded to the website. The XTM file of all diary entries so far can be found here. The HTML rendition of the topic map can be entered here.

As always comments and suggestions are very welcome!

Pepys-Map : 1st-2nd October 1661

Two short entries posted today.

In the entry for 1st October, the following events are modelled:

• Samuel and Elizabeth have a discussion about music and about singing lessons for Elizabeth.
• Theodore Goodgroome arrives and Samuel and Elizabeth have a singing lesson with him.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office
• Samuel works on his papers at home.
• Samuel has supper of bread and cheese.

For the 2nd October the following events are modelled:

• Samuel, Thomas Fenner and Margaret Kite spend the morning appraising Margaret's inheritance.
• The trio go to a cookshop on Bishopsgate Street for dinner.
• Samuel buys some sack wine for Thomas Fenner and Margaret Kite at an unamed tavern. The diary does not say if the three of them drank anything there.
• Samuel and Elizabeth take a coach to the Theatre Royal.
• A performance of John Webster's play 'Vittoria Corombona' or 'The White Devil' at the Theatre Royal.
• Samuel and Elizabeth tak