The Diary by Samuel Pepys (children's ebooks online TXT) 📕

printed, and has the following title: “The Wall and Glory of Jerusalem, in a Sermon preached in St. Paul’s Church, London, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, Aldermen, Common Council and Companies of the Honourable City of London, February 28, 1659, being a day of solemn Thanksgiving unto God for restoring the Parliament and Common Council and for preserving the City. By Edward Reynolds, D.D. London, 1660.” ↩

Grocers’ Hall was the scene of many important occurrences during the period of the Great Rebellion. This was the first hall on the present site between the Poultry and Princes Street, which was built in 1427. The second hall was built after the Great Fire, and the present one was opened in 1802. ↩

Changed his dress. ↩

William Howe is frequently mentioned in the Diary, and he appears more than once to have got into trouble. He is mentioned as Deputy Treasurer of the Navy, under date September 18th, 1665. ↩

As the Greyhound is mentioned so soon after the Plough it also may have been in Fleet Street. See November 12th, 1661. ↩

Probably Joyce Norton, see ante, January 7th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

A liquor made of honey and water, boiled and fermenting. By 12 Charles II cap. 23, a grant of certain impositions upon beer, ale, and other liquors, a duty of ½d. per gallon was laid upon “all metheglin or mead.” ↩

Thomas Crew, eldest son of John, afterwards first Lord Crew. ↩

Son of Sir Christopher Yelverton, the first baronet, grandson of Sir Henry Yelverton, Judge C.P., author of the Reports. He married Susan, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, which title descended to his issue. His son was afterwards advanced to the dignity of Viscount Longueville, and his grandson to the earldom of Sussex. The Yelverton Collection of MSS. belongs to Lord Calthorpe, whose ancestor married a daughter of the first Viscount Longueville. —⁠B. ↩

Probably the Sun Tavern in King Street, Westminster (see August 3rd, 1668). There is a token of this house described in Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 649. ↩

The Leg tavern in King Street appears to have been a house of good resort. It is mentioned in Burton’s Diary as the scene of a dinner of the Clothworkers’ Company, December 18th, 1656, who had then a cause before the House of Commons. Pepys frequently visited it. ↩

Charles II, or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell. ↩

Compare a letter of Mr. Luttrell to Ormond, March 9th, 1660, in Carte’s Letters, vol. ii p. 312:

“Yesterday there was a debate about the form of the dissolution, when Mr. Prynne asserted the King’s right in such bold language that I think he may be styled the Cato of this age.”

Notes and Queries, vol. x p. 2

—⁠M. B. ↩

John Creed of Oundle, Esq. From the way in which Pepys speaks of his friend, he was probably of humble origin, and nothing is known of his history previously to the Restoration, when he seems to have been a retainer in the service of Sir Edward Montagu. In 1662 he was made Secretary to the Commissioners for Tangier, and in 1668 he married Elizabeth Pickering, the niece of his original patron, by whom he had eleven children. Major Richard Creed, the eldest son, who was killed at the battle of Blenheim, lies buried in Tichmarsh Church, in Northamptonshire, where there is also a monument erected to his father, describing him as “of Oundle,” and as having served King Charles II in diverse honourable employments at home and abroad, lived with honour, and died lamented, A.D. 1701. What these employments were cannot now be ascertained. There exists still a cenotaph to the memory of the major in Westminster Abbey. Mrs. Creed, wife of John Creed of Oundle, Esq., was the only daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., by Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, and sister of Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich. See Malone’s Life of Dryden, p. 339. —⁠B. ↩

Warwick House, on the north side of Holborn, a little to the west of Gray’s Inn Gate. It had given place to Warwick Court in 1708. ↩

Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, the Parliamentary General, afterwards particularly instrumental in the King’s Restoration, became Chamberlain of the Household, K.G., a Privy Councillor, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He died in 1671, having been five times married. ↩

Sir Dudley North, K.B., became the fourth Lord North on the death of his father in 1666. He died 1677. ↩

John, third son of William, first Viscount Say and Sele, and one of Oliver’s Lords. ↩

George, fourteenth Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, created Viscount Dursley and Earl of Berkeley, 1679. There were at this time two Lord Berkeleys, each possessing a town house called after his name, which misled Pennant. George, fourteenth Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, advanced to an earldom in 1679, the peer here spoken of, lived at Berkeley House, in the parish of St. John’s, Clerkenwell, which had been in his family for three generations, and he had a country-seat at Durdans, near Epsom, mentioned by Evelyn and Pepys. He presented the library of his uncle, Sir Robert Coke, to Sion College, and that institution possesses a painted portrait of the earl in his robes. He died October 14th, 1698. The other nobleman, originally known as Sir John Berkeley, and in the service of Charles I, created in 1658 Baron Berkeley of Stratton, subsequently filled many high offices in the State.