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he is able to do.” He dedicated his work on Jewish measures, 1686, to the Hon. S. Pepys, “for that good affection being begun in your youth thirty years ago in Magdalene College, Cambridge.” He was made Bishop of Peterborough 1691, and died 1719, aged 86. ↩

“Feb. 6th. General Monk being in his lodgings at Whitehall, had notice that the House had a desire to see him. He came into the Court of Wards, and being there, the Sergeant-at-Arms went to meet him with the mace, and his Lordship attended the Sergeant, who went before him with the mace on his shoulder, being accompanied with Mr. Scott and Mr. Robinson.”

Rugge’s Diurnal

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His shop was in St. Paul’s Churchyard. See ante, January 24th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

John Colet, Dean of St. Paul’s, born 1466, died September 16th, 1519. ↩

“Fox, or some other ‘weighty’ friend, on hearing of this, complained to Monk, who issued the following order, dated March 9th: ‘I do require all officers and soldiers to forbear to disturb peaceable meetings of the Quakers, they doing nothing prejudicial to the Parliament or the Commonwealth of England. George Monk.’ This order, we are told, had an excellent effect on the soldiers.”

A. C. Bickley’s George Fox and the Early Quakers, London, 1884, p. 179

The Quakers were at this time just coming into notice. The first preaching of George Fox, the founder, was in 1648, and in 1655 the preachers of the sect numbered seventy-three. Fox computed that there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison. The statute 13 and 14 Car. II cap. i (1662) was “An act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths.” Billing is mentioned again on July 22nd, 1667, when he addressed Pepys in Westminster Hall. ↩

Private cryptic code⁠—Ed. ↩

Oliver St. John, born about 1598 called to the Bar as a member of Lincoln’s Inn, 1626; M.P. for Totnes, 1640; Solicitor-General, January, 1640⁠–⁠1; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1648, and afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench. He died December 31st, 1673. His first wife, Johanna Altham, was aunt to Oliver Cromwell and to John Hampden. His second wife was Elizabeth Cromwell, first cousin to Oliver. ↩

College Entry Book, Junij 27, 1651: “Thomas ffossan, filius Thomæ ffossan, civis Londinensis, annum agens decimū Septimū e schola de St. Mary Axe apud Londinenses, admissus est Pensionarius, tutore Dno. Moreland.” —⁠M. B. ↩

The Rev. Charles Carter, a minister in Huntingdonshire; see December 23rd, 1660. ↩

John Thurloe, born 1616; Secretary of State to Cromwell; M.P. for Ely, 1656, and for the University of Cambridge in Richard Cromwell’s Parliament of December, 1658. He was never employed after the Restoration, although the King solicited his services. He died February 21st, 1668. Pepys spells the name Thurlow, which was a common spelling at the time. ↩

Balthasar St. Michel. Pepys seems to have done well for his brother-in-law in later life, although, from the entries in the Diary, he does not appear to have had a high opinion of him. St. Michel was Muster Master at Deale in 1674, Storekeeper at Tangier in 1681, and Naval Commissioner at Deptford in 1685. ↩

This was a constant trouble to the pedestrian until the rule of passing to the right of the person met was generally accepted. Gay commences his Trivia with an allusion to this⁠—

“When to assert the wall, and when resign⁠—”

and the epigram on the haughty courtier and the scholar is well known. ↩

The King’s Bench was called the Upper Bench at the time of the Commonwealth, when the word King was abolished universally. ↩

Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a staunch Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided Republican, son-in-law to Hampden, and colonel of horse under Fairfax. The son, here spoken of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for presenting a petition to the House of Commons from the county of Berks, which he represented in Parliament, complaining of the want of a settled form of government. He had, however, the courage to move for an habeas corpus, but judge Newdigate decided that the courts of law had not the power to discharge him. Upon Monk’s coming to London, the secluded members passed a vote to liberate Pye, and at the Restoration he was appointed equerry to the King. He died in 1701. —⁠B. ↩

Richard, fifth Earl of Dorset, died 1677. ↩

This was the Sackville College for the poor, at East Grinstead, founded by Robert Sackville, second Earl of Dorset, who died in 1608. There is a good account of Sackville College in the Gentleman’s Magazine for December, 1848. —⁠B. ↩

The Court of Wards and Liveries was first erected in the reign of Henry VIII for the administration of the estates of the king’s wards during their minority, and for delivery of seizin upon coming of age. The court was practically put an end to by the Long Parliament (by resolution of both houses), and was abolished 12 Car. II. ↩

Sir Thomas Widdrington and Sergeants Thomas Tyrrell and John Fountaine had just been appointed Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal. ↩

There are tokens of George Bryan at the Sugar Loaf without Temple Bar (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 761). ↩

The quaker mentioned before on the 7th of this month. ↩

Thomas Allen, afterwards created a