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Hace 3 días · William Hewer (1642 – 3 December 1715), sometimes known as Will Hewer, was one of Samuel Pepys ' manservants, and later Pepys's clerk, before embarking on an administrative career of his own. Hewer is mentioned several times in Pepys' diary and was ultimately the executor of Pepys' will.
Hace 3 días · From time to time we chrono-critics chastise Sam for his 17th century failings ... and in recompense, we must give him his due. When the moment is right (note the shrewdness: his ask follows Montagu's compliments and expressions of trust), he asks not for himself but his father. Good on yer, mate. .
Hace 4 días · In August 1662 Deane met Samuel Pepys, the Clerk of the Acts and member of the Navy Board. Pepys was impressed with Deane's ability and saw in him a potential rival for Christopher Pett, against whom Pepys held a political grudge.
Hace 12 horas · The patrician diarist and senator Marino Sanudo – the Serenissima’s Samuel Pepys – recorded in 1515 that resentment of the Jews had reached fever pitch. Even during Holy Week, ‘they do whatever they want,’ he complained; the preacher ‘thunders against them’, concluding that ‘it is all right to take everything the Jews have and put it towards the defence of the state, since they ...
Hace 1 día · Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 5 June 1661. Share this: Twitter; Email; Print;
Hace 3 días · It was in 1665, on the 7th of September, that Samuel Pepys accompanied Thomas Povey "merrily to Swakely, Sir R. Viner's. A very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir James Harrington's lady.
Hace 2 días · Several versions of one theme have long marked commentary on Ireland and Irishness. Ideas of a culture where temporality is disrupted, a society in which past and present are somehow coeval. In Ireland, the 'pathography' phenomenon is complicated by the way in which this interest in memoir and the language of trauma arose alongside the emergence of other narratives of the past. The concepts of ...
