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by the Chancellor, once the residence of the Bishops of Salisbury, one of whom (Jewel) alienated it to the Sackville family. The house being afterwards pulled down, a theatre was built on its site, in which the Duke of York’s troop performed. The name is still preserved in Dorset Street. ↩

William Faithorne the elder, engraver and portrait painter, born in London in 1616. On the outbreak of the Civil War he took up arms for the King, and was confined for a time in Aldersgate as a prisoner of war. He was banished for refusing to take the oath to Oliver Cromwell, but obtained permission to return to England in 1650, when he settled at the sign of the Drake, outside Temple Bar. About 1680 he went to Printing House Yard, Blackfriars, and died May, 1691. ↩

Sir George Carteret had been appointed Treasurer of the Navy at the Restoration in succession to Richard Hutchinson. See post, July 3rd, 1660. ↩

It was customary to use carpets as table cloths. ↩

Elizabeth Montagu, sister to the Earl of Sandwich, who had married Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., of Nova Scotia, and of Tichmersh, co. Northampton. ↩

There was another Bull Head at Charing Cross. There were several Brewer’s Yards in London, but this was probably the one on the south side of the Strand, near Hungerford Market; and the Bull Head tavern was doubtless the one at Charing Cross. ↩

The house attached to the office of the Master of the Wardrobe was near Puddle Wharf, Blackfriars. It was built by Sir John Beauchamp (d. 1359), and his executors sold it to Edward III. When Stow drew up his Survey, Sir John Fortescue was lodged in the house as Master of the Wardrobe. ↩

Mrs. Sarah, Lord Sandwich’s housekeeper. ↩

Afterwards Sir Robert Holmes. He is styled “Major,” although in the navy. Thus Lord Sandwich and Sir W. Penn were called “Generals;” see also January 6th, 1661⁠–⁠2. ↩

All organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644. ↩

Frances Butler, sister to Mons. L’Impertinent; see February 17th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

The old hall of the Trinity House was at Deptford. The present building on Tower Hill was erected 1793⁠–⁠95. ↩

The letters patent appointing Pepys to the office of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, 1660. ↩

Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys’s schoolfellows, and afterwards curate of St. Lawrence Poultney. ↩

Baynard’s Castle, Thames Street, was garrisoned by the Parliament in 1648. It was destroyed in the Great Fire. ↩

The Hon. George Montagu of Horton, co. Northampton, was elected M.P. for Dover, August 16th, 1660, in place of the Earl of Sandwich. ↩

Whence it would go by water carriage. ↩

At the King’s Head there was a half-crown ordinary. ↩

William Swan is called a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary. ↩

Roger Boyle, fifth son of Richard, Earl of Cork, born April 25th, 1621 and at the age of seven created Lord Broghill. He was created Earl of Orrery in 1660. Died October 16th, 1679. ↩

Colonel John Jones was M.P. for the City of London in the Parliament summoned to meet May 8th, 1661. ↩

See ante, January 17th, 1660. ↩

A sweet drink which still survives in pharmacy, and the name is used in the United States for a special drink called mint julep. ↩

Anne Clarges, Lady Monk, and Duchess of Albemarle. ↩

This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called the King’s evil. Burn asserts, History of Parish Registers, 1862, p. 179, that “between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for the evil.” Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and all containing, as an integral part of the service, “The Office for the Healing.” The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient’s neck till the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. “My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King’s evil with three others on Tuesday.” —⁠MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II “touched” before he came to the throne. “It is certain that the King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, as at Bruges and Bruxels, during