Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 15, 1922, Page Page Four, Image 4
BY MARJORIE HOWE DIXON
Of course you know that Samuel
Pepys wrote his diary in cipher, and
tHat it was some two hundred years
before it was deciphered. Due to the
fact that it was written in shorthand,
lie Could write intimately of the hap
lyings of his day, in a way he would
i\pi otherwise have dared. Hence the
lively interest we feel in hip Diary,
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liet us see how he celebrated Christinas.
There was turkey in those days
iff-Meirle England, but we find it was
served on the 23rd of December, perJwps
because it fell on a Sunday in
tlje year 1660.
i "23r,d. (l^ord's day) In the morning
t<^. church. where our pew all covered
\yitb fOsemary and baize. A stranger
made $ dull sermon. Home and
fbimd.juy wife and maid with much
r\da had made shift to spit a great
tprkey-eent me this week from Charlie
Carter. my old colleague, new minister
in Huntinghouse, but not at all
roasted, and so I was fain to stay till
two o'clock, and after that to church
with my wife, and a good sermon
there was, and so home."
"25th. (Christmas Day) In the
morning to church, where Mr. Mills,
made a very good sermon. Home to
dinner, where my brother Tom (who
this morning came to see my wife's
new mantle nut on, which do please
me very well) to a good shoulder of
mutton and chicken. After dinner
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A year later we find that Pepys went
to church as usual on Christmas day,
but that the following day he and his
wife and a group of friends found a
merry bowl with singing at an alehouse,?the
good old wassail mentioned
in Diekens and again in Irving"s
tale of Bracebridge Hall.
In the year 1662, there was Christmas
giving, just as there is now, and
the tipping of servants. On December
24th Pepys writes, "This evening Mr.
Gauden sent me against Christmas, a
great chine of beef (whatever that
may be) and three dozen tongues. I
did give 5 s, to the man that brought
it and a half a crown to the porters."
On Christmas Day Pepys heard a
sermon on the text, "Glory to God on
highj on earth peace, and good will
towards men." Later he says, "I
walked home again with great pleasure,
and there dined by my wife's bed
side with great content having a) mess
of brave plum-porridge and a roasted
pullet for dinner, and I sent for a
mince pie abroad, my wife not being
well, to make any herself yet." Evidently
his wife soon recovered for she
was able to join him at a theatre party
on the 28th of that month.
Many times Pepys held celebration
before Christmas. Thus on the 24th
of the month (1665) we And he made
this entry:
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"24th. (Sunday) To dinner, my landlady
and her daughter with me and
had mince-pies, and very merry at a
mischance her young son had, in tearing
of his new coat quite down .the
outside of his sleeve in the whol cloth.
Then to church, and placed myself In
V|? r\ar-ann'o rvaur nnrlpr fhf> nillnit. to
hear Mrs. Chamberlin in the next pew
sing-, who is daughter to Sir James
Bunce, of whom I have heard much,
and indeed she sings very finely."
Mince-pies were certainly Pepys
favorites. His wife seemed to have
gone to great measures to provide her
husband with his mince pie. In December,
1666, he wrote:
"25th. (Christmas Day) Lay pretty
long in bed, and then rose, leaving
my wife desirous of sleep, having sat
up till four this morning, seeing her
maids make mince-pies. I to church,
where our parson Mills made a good
sermon. Then home, and dines well
on some ribs of beef roasted, and
mince-pies; only my wite, brother, and
Barker, and plenty of good wine of
my own, and my heait full of true
joy; and thanks to God Almighty for
the goodness of my condition at this
day."
In 1667 Pepys spent Christmas eve
at the Queen's chapel and there witnessed
a religious presentation of the
advent of our Lord. He mentions his
amazement at the mixture of the
crowd, there being many footman and
beggar, with here and there a fine
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most concerned about his pockets being
picked. The "shew" as he called
it lasted until early morning when he
finally took a coach after drinking
some burnt wine at the Rose Tavern
door. He begins his diary for the 26th
with his ride home in the moonlight
and he stopped and "dropped money
at five or six places which he (I) was j
the willinger to do, it being Christmas- l
day." His wife was asleep when he
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making pies and in all probability
mince-pies. He retired and rose about
nine, and "to church, and there heard
a dull sermon of Mr. Mills, hut a great
many fine people at church, and so
home."
Christmas seemed to be celebrated
very quietly in England if we are to
take Pepys* activities as an example,
it is to be remembered that England
was at that time going through a period
of reconstruction politically with
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Charles the First. Christmas celebrations
were not as highly developed as
they were later, when we find the
joyous and hearty and even lively affairs
which are recorded by Dickens
and Irving.
? Twenty-five thousand dollars was
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London recently. A rare first edition
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home, where the philosopher
took up hi*/ residence upon his arrival
from Boston, is to he torn down
to provide ftfr the approach to the new
Delaware River bridge. The house is
n ramshackle shanty and the street
on which it is situated is only an alley.
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colonial. workmanship, will be preserved
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