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

is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I, born December 17th, 1619. He died at his house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682. ↩

The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour did not become general until the eighteenth century. ↩

John Pepys of Cottenham (who died 1604) married the daughter of John Bendish of Bower Hall, Steeple Bumsted, co. Essex, so they may have thought there was some relationship. Sir Thomas Bendish was an Essex baronet, and for many years English ambassador at the Porte. ↩

Dr. Accepted Frewen, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, died March 28th, 1664. ↩

Brian Duppa, translated from Salisbury, died March 26th, 1662. ↩

William Roberts, elected 1637, died August 12th, 1665. ↩

John Warner, elected 1637, died October 14th, 1666, aged eighty-six. ↩

William Pierce, translated from Peterborough, 1632, died April, 1670. ↩

Humphrey Henchman, elected 1660, translated to London, 1663, died October 7th, 1675, aged eighty-three. ↩

William Spurstow, D.D., Vicar of Hackney and Master of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, both which pieces of preferment he lost for nonconformity, 1662. ↩

Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I, 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and died March 31st, 1671. ↩

The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his information. ↩

James Lamb, D.D., installed prebendary of Westminster July 23rd, 1660, rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, 1662, died 1664. ↩

Fuller’s Church History of Britain. There is a copy of the edition of 1656 in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Lord Sandwich’s portrait by Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month. ↩

A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the New English Dictionary, is Bailey in 1725. ↩

The usual corruption of the name Rotherhithe. ↩

Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I’s judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. ↩

Thomas Scott, the regicide Secretary of State. See ante, note 112. ↩

John Cook, a member of Gray’s Inn, appointed Solicitor-General for the Commonwealth, and ordered to prepare the charge against Charles I. Owing to the illness of the Attorney-General, the conduct of the prosecution fell chiefly upon him. He was rewarded for his services by being made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross. In 1655 appointed Justice of the Court of Upper Bench in Ireland. He was excluded by name from the Act of Indemnity, and executed October 16th, 1660. He wrote several pamphlets, some of which were very scurrilous in language. ↩

See ante, September 5th. ↩

General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I from Windsor to Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the 13th. ↩

Second son of John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, became, after the Restoration, successively Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1667). He was created a baronet in 1660. In 1672 he was removed from the office of Lord Keeper, and he died June 25th, 1674. ↩

It is said that Le Notre, the architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles, was engaged by Charles II to arrange the improvements in St. James’s Park, but Dr. Morison seems to have been the King’s chief adviser. ↩

The Cockpit theatre in Drury Lane. ↩

Nicholas Burt ranked in the list of good actors after the Restoration, though he resigned the part of Othello to Hart, who had previously acted Cassio when Burt took the Moor.

Davies’ Dramatic Miscellanies, vol. i p. 221

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In Fleet Street, opposite Clifford’s Inn Passage. The keeper of the tavern appears to have been Edward Oldham, who issued a token (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 604). ↩

Major (afterwards Colonel) Norwood, Deputy Governor of Tangier. ↩

Dr. Herbert Croft, Dean of Hereford, consecrated Bishop of Hereford, February 9th, 1661⁠–⁠2. He succeeded Bishop Morley as Dean of the Chapel. Burnet says, “Crofts was a warm devout man, but of no discretion in his conduct; so he lost ground quickly. He used much freedom with the King, but it was in the wrong place, not in private but in the pulpit.” Bishop Croft died at Hereford, May 18th, 1691. ↩

John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of escape, and suffered death with much composure. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, first printed in 1639, and again in 1661.