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

Clement Clerke of Lawnde Abbey, co. Leicester, created a baronet in 1661. ↩

Robert Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, eldest son of the Earl of Manchester, whom he succeeded in 1671. ↩

Robert Bernard, created a baronet in 1662, served in Parliament for Huntingdon, before and after the Restoration, and died in 1666. His son and successor, Sir John Bernard, the second baronet, at the time of his death, in 1669, was one of the knights of the shire for the county of Huntingdon. The inscription upon his monument in Brampton Church is given in the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i p. 113. Sir Nicholas Pedley, who was also burgess for Huntingdon, married a daughter of Sir Robert Bernard. —⁠B. ↩

John Burr, the clerk who accompanied Pepys to sea. ↩

The Rolls Chapel, where were kept the rolls and records of the Court of Chancery until the erection of the Record Office in Fetter Lane in 1856. ↩

On February 28th Pepys styles the Royal Exchange the Old Exchange; now it is the Great Exchange. ↩

“Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange (Exit tyrannus, Regum ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels’ handwriting. He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and against the Exchange made a bonfire.

In the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659⁠–⁠60, where this act is said to be by order of Monk: “The Loyal Subjects Teares for the Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the expunging of Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus, by order of General Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, etc. London, 1660.” ↩

The Harp was a sixth-rate of eight guns, built at Dublin in 1656. ↩

Laud Crisp was afterwards page to Lady Sandwich. ↩

Thomas Blagrave was one of the Gentlemen of the Royal Chapel, and a cornet-player of repute. ↩

Major Richard Creed, who commanded a troop under Lambert when that general surrendered to Ingoldsby: see April 24th following. He was imprisoned with the rest of the officers, but his name does not recur in the Diary, nor is it known whether he was related to John Creed, so frequently mentioned hereafter. ↩

Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661. ↩

Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of huntsman’s cap. ↩

In the MS. there is the following note appended to this: “In an error here, for I did not take leave of them till the next day.” ↩

“In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report said, there was £20,000 worth of harm done.”

—⁠B. ↩

William, second son of Edward, first Lord Montagu of Boughton, and first cousin to Sir Edward Montagu. He was appointed Lord Chief Baron 1676. Died 1707, aged 89. ↩

There is a token of the Pope’s Head tavern in Chancery Lane described in Boyne’s Trade Tokens, by Williamson, 1889, vol. i p. 554. ↩

The name Mary-le-bone has been corrupted from St. Mary-le-bourne, but this is a still further corruption, and an amazing instance of popular etymology. ↩

Sir Sidney Montagu, brother of the first Earl of Manchester, and the father of “my Lord,” had married for his second wife one of the Isham family, of Lamport. ↩

Long Reach, between Erith and Gravesend. ↩

Vice-Admiral John Lawson, knighted by Charles II in September, 1660. ↩

Edmund Ibbott, S.T.B., chaplain of the ship, in 1662 made rector of Deale. Died 1677. ↩

Captain Roger Cuttance, commander of the Naseby, afterwards the Charles. ↩

A reach of the Thames near Tilbury. ↩

“A small hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for ventilation. That in the deck is a small hatchway.”

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Robin Clerke, Captain of the Speaker, afterwards the Mary. ↩

John Bernard and Nicholas Pedley, reelected in the next Parliament. The latter had been a Commissioner of the Wine Office. Sir Edward Montagu had set up Lord Mandeville, the Earl of Manchester’s eldest son, and Mr. G. Montagu, as candidates. See ante, March 14th. ↩

Sir E. Montagu’s flag was on board the Naseby when he went to the Sound in 1658. ↩

Mr. Hill, who