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George Vines and Dick Vines. ↩

J. Scott was husband of Judith, another daughter of Chief Justice Richard Pepys. ↩

Paulina, sister of Samuel, who was born 1640, and married John Jackson of Brampton, co. Hunts. She had two sons, Samuel and John, the second being heir to his uncle Samuel. ↩

This was probably Joyce Norton, who was cousin to the Turners as well as to Pepys. She was the daughter of Richard Norton of South Creake and his wife, Barbara Pepys. ↩

Antoine de Neuville, Seigneur de Bordeaux. ↩

Probably Hugh May, who after 1662 was established as an architect. ↩

John Harding was one of the Gentlemen of the King’s Private Music in 1674. ↩

The Emblems, Divine and Moral of Francis Quarles was first published in 1635. There is no copy of this book now in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Mrs. Bell; she died of the plague. ↩

Dr. Robert Mossum, author of several sermons preached in London, and printed about the time of the Restoration, who was in 1666 made Bishop of Derry. In the title-page of his Apology in Behalf of the Sequestered Clergy, printed in 1660, he calls himself “Preacher of God’s word at St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, London,” and at the end, “one of the sequestered clergy.” This pamphlet is reprinted in Somers Tracts, vol. vii p. 237, edit. 1812. ↩

Declamations at St. Paul’s School, in which there were opponents and respondents. ↩

William Simons. ↩

Henry Scobell was Clerk to the House of Commons. I. ↩

Henry Elsynge, born at Battersea, appointed Clerk of the House of Commons through the influence of Archbishop Laud, resigned in 1648 to avoid taking part in the proceedings against Charles I. He retired to Hounslow, where he died 1654. I. ↩

Miles’s Coffee House in Old Palace Yard, where was held the Rota Club, founded by James Harrington, which is referred to again further on. ↩

John Bradshaw (born 1586), President of the Council of State, died at the Deanery, Westminster, on October 31st, 1659. ↩

Sir Harry Vane the younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a charge of conspiring the death of Charles I. ↩

Raby Castle in Durham, now the seat of Sir Harry Vane’s descendant, the Duke of Cleveland. ↩

Mr. Jennings is mentioned again August 8th, 1660. ↩

Ralph Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He is frequently mentioned by Pepys. ↩

There are two tokens of the Star Tavern in Cheapside, one dated 1648 and the other 1652 (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i 1889, pp. 562, 563). ↩

Captain Okeshott is not mentioned again in the Diary. ↩

James Harrington, the political writer, born January, 1611, author of Oceana, and founder of a club called The Rota, in 1659, which met at Miles’s coffeehouse in Old Palace Yard, and lasted only a few months. He attended Charles I on the scaffold. In 1661 he was sent to the Tower, on suspicion of treasonable designs, and was removed from thence to St. Nicholas Island, near Plymouth, but his intellect having failed his friends obtained his discharge on giving security for his behaviour. He died September 11th, 1667. Henry Nevill and Harrington “had every night a meeting at the (then) Turke’s Head, in the New Palace Yard, where they take water, the next house to the Staires, at one Miles’s, where was made purposely a large oval table, with a passage in the middle, for Miles to deliver his coffee. About it sat his disciples and the virtuosi.” —⁠Aubrey’s Bodleian Letters 1813, vol. ii pt. 2, p. 371 ↩

Sir William Poultny, or Pulteney, subsequently M.P. for Westminster, and a Commissioner of the Privy Seal under King William. Died 1671. Grandfather to William Earl of Bath. ↩

Edward Gold, the merchant. His name occurs among the Governors of Sir Roger Cholmley’s school at Highgate. ↩

William Petty, M.D., an eminent physician and the founder of Political Economy (or Political Arithmetic, as he called it), born May 16th, 1623. He was elected Professor of Music at Gresham College by the interest of Captain John Graunt. Knighted in 1661. He died December 16th, 1687. His widow was created Baroness Shelburne in the Peerage of Ireland, and their eldest son succeeded to the title. ↩

Thomas Doling. ↩

Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of Charles I, for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written on his tombstone, “Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late king.” ↩

Thomas Pepys, Samuel’s brother, born 1634 and died 1664. He carried on his father’s business as a tailor. ↩

The game of battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis courts, and was a very violent game. ↩

Edward Walgrave, or Waldegrave, of Lawford, Essex, father of Mrs. Crew. ↩

Captain Philip Holland, at one time captain of Assurance (see December 11th, 1660); he renewed his commission on June 3rd, 1660. ↩

The Swan tavern in Fenchurch Street. ↩

Sir Arthur Haselrigge, Bart., of Nosely, co. Leicester, and M.P. for that county. He brought forward the Bill