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from the new building, as the old tavern was destroyed in the Great Fire (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 768). ↩

Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the “dangerous trade” of the samphire gatherer (King Lear, act iv sc. 6) who supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old London cries was “I ha’ Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!” ↩

A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that town was sold to Louis XIV. ↩

In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I, in 1608, out of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. The New Exchange stood where Coutts’s banking-house now is. “It was built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly with milliners, sempstresses, and the like.” It was also called “Britain’s Burse.”

“He has a lodging in the Strand⁠ ⁠… to watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at.”

Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, act i sc. 1

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Probably Joyce Norton, see note 88. ↩

Pepys apparently was ignorant of the instructions in the Levitical law, “Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot.” Exodus 29:20. (See also Leviticus 8:23, 14:14.) ↩

Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England about 1646. ↩

William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II to return to England immediately. He was knighted after the King’s return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he was removed to the King’s Bench. He was turned out of his office in 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, and died November 23rd of the same year. ↩

James Howell directed a letter from Middleburg in Zealand, June 6th, 1619, to “Captain Francis Bacon, at the Glass house in Broad Street.” Monk was lodged there in February, 1659⁠–⁠60. The place was burned in the Great Fire. ↩

Luke Cheynell, a hop merchant, is mentioned not very respectfully in Select City Quæries, by Mercurius Philalethes, Part I, London, 1660. This may be the same person. ↩

Colonel, afterwards Sir Robert Slingsby, Comptroller of the Navy, whose father. Sir Guildford Slingsby, held the same office. See ante, September 5th. ↩

Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II to return to England immediately. ↩

The Mercurius Politicus of September 30th, 1658, sets forth:

That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head Coffeehouse, in Sweetings Rents, by the “Royal Exchange, London.”

“Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called tee, sold in almost every street in 1659.”

Rugge’s Diurnal

It is stated in Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 593 “that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those issued from ‘the Great Turk’ (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into England from Holland about 1650. The English “East India Company” purchased and presented 2lbs. of tea to Charles II in 1660, and 23⅔lbs. in 1666. The first order for its importation by the company was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143lbs., was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood’s Report on the Old Records at the India Office, 1890, p. 26). By act 12 Car. II, capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet. ↩

“The Princess Royal came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so excellent a Princess as without question she is.”

Rugge’s Diurnal

A broadside, entitled Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the Princess Royal of Aurange, Congratulated on Her Most Happy Arrival, September the 25th, 1660, was printed on the 29th. ↩

The Tredagh, a third-rate of fifty guns, had its name changed to Resolution. ↩

A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland. It measures seven miles northeastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840. ↩

A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World⁠ ⁠… by John Speed, London, 1631, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Sir Wm. Doyly was M.P. for the borough of Great Yarmouth. ↩

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