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in those two wonderful productions.”Sir William Lower’s Relation⁠ ⁠… of the Voyage and Residence which⁠ ⁠… Charles II hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3

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Of Pickering Lyth, in Yorkshire, M.P. for Scarborough; discharged from sitting in the House of Commons, July 21st, 1660. ↩

Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the only person entrusted by Charles II and Monk in bringing about the Restoration. ↩

“The picture of King Charles II was often set up in houses, without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered at, that the butchers’ boys would say, ‘Will you buy any Parliament rumps and kidneys?’ And it was a very ordinary thing to see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps.”

Rugge’s Diurnal

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Charles, eldest son of Dudley, afterwards fourth Lord North. On the death of his father in 1677 he became fifth Lord North. ↩

“King Charles II his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660.” 40, pp. 8. ↩

John Hayward was captain of the Plymouth. Thomas Binns commanded the Essex. ↩

When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene. ↩

See the letter printed in Lister’s Life of Lord Clarendon, vol. iii p. 404. It is dated 4th May. ↩

Philip, fifth Earl of Pembroke, and second Earl of Montgomery, died 1669. Clarendon says, “This young earl’s affections were entire for his Majesty.” ↩

William, second Earl of Salisbury. After Cromwell had put down the House of Peers, he was chosen a member of the House of Commons, and sat with them. Died 1668. ↩

Schevingen, the port of the Hague. ↩

Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland. ↩

Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married General Monk.

“The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the army, which had made public and solemn protestations thereof, after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General.”

Sir William Lower’s Relation⁠ ⁠… of the Voyage and Residence which⁠ ⁠… Charles II hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, folio

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Entendimiento, Spanish: the understanding. ↩

Kate Fenner married Anthony Joyce. ↩

Third son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton, a Privy Councillor and Master of the Ordnance, ob. 1663, aged 39. When only eighteen years of age, he had charged with his gallant father at the battle of Edgehill. His mother was first cousin to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and to John Ashburnham; and his great uncle, Sir Thomas Compton, had been the third husband of the Duke’s mother, Mary, Countess of Buckingham. —⁠B. ↩

Waistcloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which are stowed in the waist-nettings. ↩

A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to voices as well as to instruments. ↩

Henry, eldest son of Lord Bellasis, made K.B. at Charles II’s coronation. ↩

Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, Bart., married Mary, daughter of Sir Capell Bedell, Bart. Died 1671. ↩

Colonel, afterwards Sir Philip Honywood, son of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent. ↩

Colonel Silas Titus, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II, author of Killing No Murder. ↩

The jurats of the Cinque Ports answered to the aldermen of other towns. ↩

Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as “Peter the Post,” from the alacrity with which he despatched “like wild fire” all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him in the King’s cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660. ↩

Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author of the History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I, and Charles I His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids. ↩

Heneage Finch, second Earl of Winchelsea, constituted by General Monk Governor of Dover Castle, July, 1660; made Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and afterwards ambassador to Turkey. Died 1689. ↩

Sir Edward Montagu’s eldest son, afterwards second Earl of Sandwich, called by Pepys “The child.” ↩

John Maitland, second Earl, and afterwards created Marquis of March, Duke of Lauderdale, and Earl of Guilford (in England), and K.G. He became sole Secretary of State for Scotland in 1661, and was a Gentleman of his Majesty’s Bedchamber, and died in 16S2, s.p. —⁠B. ↩

“Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty