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

and died five weeks after his consecration on the 16th March. He wrote many controversial pamphlets. ↩

Gustavus XI, King of Sweden. ↩

“Both Sir Williams” is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn. ↩

Colonel, afterwards Sir Robert Slingsby, Bart., appointed Comptroller of the Navy in 1660. He died October 28th, 1661, and Pepys grieved for his loss. ↩

Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, youngest daughter of Charles I, who was born June 16th, 1644, at Exeter. She was known as “La belle Henriette.” In May, 1670, she came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV to her brother Charles II, but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and was attributed to poison. It was the occasion of one of the finest of Bossuet’s Oraisons Funèbres. ↩

Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622. He was tried as one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled The Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and Earthing of Hugh Peters That Crafty Fox, was printed October 3rd, 1660. ↩

Major Hart; he lived in Cannon Street; see post, September 20th. ↩

The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company. ↩

The Bear at the Bridge foot was a famous tavern at the Southwark end of old London Bridge, on the west side of High Street. It was pulled down in December, 1761. ↩

Liberty to hold an annual fair in Southwark on September 7th, 8th, and 9th, was granted to the City of London by the charter of 2 Edward IV (November 2nd, 1462). Though the allowed time for its continuance by charter was only three days, it generally continued, like other fairs, for fourteen days. ↩

Thomæ Bartholini Anatomia, Hagæ Comitis, 1660, Joannis Rosini Antiquitatum Romanarum Corpus, Amstelodami, 1685, Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica, 1683, are in Pepys’s library. ↩

A gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to 10s. ↩

Elizabeth Stradwick, sister of Richard Pepys, and wife of Thomas Stradwick. ↩

Probably an Indian rattan cane. ↩

Elegies on the Duke of Gloucester’s death were printed. One of these was entitled, “Some Teares dropt on the Herse of the incomparable Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.” ↩

The Mitre in Wood Street was kept by William Proctor, who died insolvent of the plague, 1665 (see July 31st, 1665). The tavern was destroyed in the Great Fire (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 800). ↩

Nathaniel Hardy, D.D., was for many years preacher at the church of St. Dionis Backchurch, and on August 10th, 1660, he was appointed rector of that parish. He was son of Anthony Hardy, and born in the Old Bailey, September 14th, 1618. He became a prominent Presbyterian minister, but after the Treaty of Uxbridge, 1644, he changed his opinions, and preached a recantation sermon in London. He was appointed Dean of Rochester, December 10th, 1660, and vicar of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Died at Croydon, June 1st, 1670, and was buried in the church of St. Martin’s. ↩

Aubrey de Vere, then twentieth Earl of Oxford, survived till March 12, 1702⁠–⁠3, when the title became extinct. ↩

This is the Mall in St. James’s Park, which was made by Charles II, the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the Commonwealth. Charles II also formed the canal by throwing the several small ponds into one. ↩

“The Queen-mother of France,” says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, “died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince’s mourning.” ↩

According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell’s waiting-woman, in Oliver’s lifetime, and they lived together fifty years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years dying 1721⁠–⁠22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver compelled him to marry. (Noble’s Life of Cromwell, vol. ii pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707. ↩

Elizabeth, wife of Oliver Cromwell. ↩

“A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he gains 6s., and has to ‘hand i’ the cap,’ or pool, 4s. for the next deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B 2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal.”

Hindley’s Tavern Anecdotes

—⁠M. B. ↩

The Vice-Admiral. ↩

The Old Swan tavern in Thames Street was a very old house, and mention of it is found as early as 1323. There is a token of Richard Evans dated 1668, which must have been issued