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Nov. 3rd, 2008 10:50 pmWednesday 3. November
Lay somewhat long abed from the lateness of yesternight and I talking with Sir R. W. about his mission to Her Majesty and minding him to wear not his boots which did so vex Her Grace with their odor; so by boat to the bridge it being very cold and biting and then on to our lodgings at the Kings Head at the bottom of the Strand and a very good dinner and excellent wine all paid for by my Lord, then to bed in anticipation of tomorrow’s audience, I again laying with Sir R. W.
The anecdote of Queen Elizabeth complaining of Sir Roger's stinky boots is supposedly true! The King's Head Inn is attested to in Pepys and is at that time (1660s) a hangout of government officials. It was pointed out to me that an inn of that name and in that location (just up the street a piece from the place where Charles I was beheaded) might date to post 1649 but until I can follow this up the name will stand.
Lloyd, Howell A. The Rouen campaign, 1590-1592; politics, warfare and the early-modern state, by Howell A. Lloyd. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973.
Picard, Liza, Elizabeth's London : everyday life in Elizabethan London, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
Lay somewhat long abed from the lateness of yesternight and I talking with Sir R. W. about his mission to Her Majesty and minding him to wear not his boots which did so vex Her Grace with their odor; so by boat to the bridge it being very cold and biting and then on to our lodgings at the Kings Head at the bottom of the Strand and a very good dinner and excellent wine all paid for by my Lord, then to bed in anticipation of tomorrow’s audience, I again laying with Sir R. W.
The anecdote of Queen Elizabeth complaining of Sir Roger's stinky boots is supposedly true! The King's Head Inn is attested to in Pepys and is at that time (1660s) a hangout of government officials. It was pointed out to me that an inn of that name and in that location (just up the street a piece from the place where Charles I was beheaded) might date to post 1649 but until I can follow this up the name will stand.
Lloyd, Howell A. The Rouen campaign, 1590-1592; politics, warfare and the early-modern state, by Howell A. Lloyd. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973.
Picard, Liza, Elizabeth's London : everyday life in Elizabethan London, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
