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to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, ‘In the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord Lambert?’ She said, ‘He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.’ Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, and that she received £100 for her pains.” —⁠B. ↩

Captain, afterwards Admiral Sir Thomas Teddiman. ↩

The Worcester (formerly the Dunkirk) was a third-rate of forty-eight guns, built at Woolwich in 1651 by Mr. Russell. ↩

John Coppin was captain of the Lambert, afterwards the Henrietta. ↩

Sir John Lawson (see ante, note 52). ↩

Sir Richard Stayner, knighted and made a Vice-Admiral by Cromwell, 1657, and after the Restoration sent to command at Tangier till the Governor arrived. ↩

Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward himself, or from the Rump Parliament.

Kennett’s Register, p. 163

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Thomas Wendy of Haselingfield. ↩

Isaac Thornton of Smallwell. ↩

He had represented Cambridgeshire in the preceding Parliament. ↩

Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his arms in consequence. ↩

A Major Norwood had been Governor of Dunkirk; and a person of the same name occurs as one of the esquires of the body at the Coronation of Charles II. Richard Norwood of Danes Court, in the Isle of Thanet, see December 1st, 1662. —⁠B. ↩

Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South Holland. ↩

Pepys’s guess at E. Montagu’s business is confirmed by Clarendon’s account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on behalf of the King. (History of the Rebellion, book xvi)⁠—Notes and Queries, vol. x p. 3 —⁠M. B. ↩

Allhallows the Great, a church in Upper Thames Street. The old church destroyed in the Great Fire was also known as “Allhallows in the Ropery.” ↩

As trustees for Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the Royal Exchange. ↩

The Paradox was a sixth-rate of twelve guns. ↩

“The Blacksmith” was the same tune as “Green Sleeves.” The earliest known copy of “The Praise of the Blacksmith” is in “An Antidote against Melancholy,” 1661. See Roxburghe Ballads, ed. W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii p. 126. (Ballad Society.) ↩

The London was a second-rate of sixty-four guns, built at Chatham in 1657 by Captain Taylor. ↩

Colonel Richard Ingoldsby had been Governor of Oxford under his kinsman Cromwell. He signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I, but was pardoned for the service here mentioned, and made K.B. at the Coronation of Charles II. He afterwards retired to his seat at Lethenborough, Bucks, and died 1685. He was buried in the church of Hartwell, near Aylesbury. ↩

Edward, second Earl of Manchester, whose father, Henry, first earl, had been chosen Speaker of the House of Lords in 1641. ↩

Ancestor of the Earls of Verulam. He was made Master of the Rolls, November following. Born 1594, and died December 31st, 1683. ↩

See ante, February 28th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

Of Easton Mauduit, Bart., grandson to the Attorney-General of both his names. Died 1679. ↩

Of Long Stanton, co. Cambridge, Bart. ↩

Of Allerton Maleverer, Yorkshire, Bart. ↩

The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes (Voyage and Residence of Charles II in Holland, p. 5): “Many considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs.” ↩

As there were several of this name it is impossible to say which Mr. Pett is meant. ↩

Captain Thomas Sparling, of the Assistance. ↩

In 1656 was published “The Yellow Book, or a serious letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration the first of May 1656, which she is desired to communicate in Hide Park to the Gallants of the Times a little after sunset. Also a brief account of the names of some vain persons that intend to be there.” ↩

The Nonsuch was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker. ↩

Captain Henry Cuttance, of the Cheriton, afterwards the Speedwell. ↩

“His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found