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See ante, July 8th, 1660. ↩

A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was called the Jenny. Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built by Phineas Pett in 1604. ↩

The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and his company in 1658, and they remained in it until November 15th, 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court. ↩

A tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. Kynaston’s part was Olympia. ↩

Edward Kynaston, engaged by Sir W. Davenant, in 1660, to perform the principal female characters: he afterwards assumed the male ones in the first parts of tragedy, and continued on the stage till the end of King William’s reign. He died in 1712. Who played Archas is unknown; but Betterton, as Downes tells us, was early distinguished for playing in The Loyal Subject. ↩

Daniel Milles, D.D., thirty-two years rector of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, and buried there, October, 1689, aged sixty-three. He was appointed April 17th, 1657. Newcourt (Repertorium) writes, “Dan Mills was admitted to the church in the late times of usurpation by the Commission for approving of Public Preachers, but at whose presentation I know not.” In 1667 Sir Robert Brooks presented him to the rectory of Wanstead, in Essex, which he also held till his death. ↩

It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. The Lord Chancellor’s seat is now called the Woolsack. ↩

Henry Hickman, a native of Worcestershire, took the degree of B.A. at St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, and, migrating to Oxford, obtained a fellowship at Magdalen College, from the usurping powers, which he lost in 1660, to make room for the rightful owner. He then retired to Holland and passed most of his time abroad, dying at Leyden in 1692. He wrote several theological tracts, and was considered a severe enemy to the ceremonies of the Church of England. —⁠B. ↩

Colonel John Birch, elected M.P. for Leominster in 1646, and continued until 1660. He represented Penrhyn in the parliament of 1661. ↩

Monk, Duke of Albemarle, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland with the understanding that he should perform the duties by deputy. ↩

John Robartes, second Lord Robartes, afterwards (1661) Lord Privy Seal, advanced to the Earldom of Radnor, 1679. Lord Robartes went again to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant in 1669. Died 1685. ↩

James Butler, afterwards created Duke of Ormond, and K.G., and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. ↩

Dr. (afterwards Sir William) Walker was one of the Judges of the Admiralty. ↩

Phineas Pett, Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham, was suspended on this frivolous charge, and dismissed in October. ↩

“Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The ordinary price was five or six shillings.”

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The gallery built for the officers of the Navy House remained until the restoration of the church in 1870⁠–⁠71 under the direction of Mr. (now Sir Arthur) Blomfield, A.R.A. The memorial to Pepys, erected in 1884, was placed on the wall where the gallery was situated. ↩

Thomas Pepys, M.A., M.D., son of Talbot Pepys of Middle Temple and Impington, born at Norwich, June 5th, 1621, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He died unmarried at Impington. ↩

Jo. Barclaii Argenis. Lugd. Bat. 1659 is in the Pepysian Library, as also the second and third parts published in 1689. ↩

Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who sat in judgment upon Charles I. ↩

Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was William Hewer. ↩

Hewer. ↩

12 Car. II cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, indemnity, and oblivion. ↩

The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced towards the close of the reign of Charles I, and the practice is ridiculed in the Spectator. ↩

Probably Josiah Child (born 1630), Deputy Treasurer of the Fleet, Mayor of Portsmouth, Director, and afterwards Chairman of the East India Company, which he ruled despotically. He wrote Brief Observations on Trade, 1668, a second edition of which appeared in 1690 as A New Discourse of Trade, and which went through many subsequent editions. He was created a baronet in 1678, and died June 22nd, 1699. ↩

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, who died in December of this year. ↩

Claude Lamoral, Prince de Ligne, had commanded the cavalry in the Low Countries, was afterwards Viceroy of Sicily and Governor of Milan. He died at Madrid in 1679. He had married, by dispensation, his cousin Maria Clara of Nassau, widow of his brother Albert Henry, who had died without issue. In our own time his descendant, the Prince de Ligne, was Ambassador Extraordinary from Belgium at the coronation of Queen Victoria. —⁠B. ↩

Henry Ferne, born at York in 1602, D.D. 1643, Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Dean of Ely, 1662, Bishop of Chester, February, 1661⁠–⁠62,