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

Col. Francis Hacker commanded the guards at the King’s execution. ↩

Axtell had guarded the High Court of Justice. ↩

Crowe was fined for Alderman in 1663, see post, December 1st of that year, but he appears to have taken the office subsequently, see October 15th, 1668. ↩

The old gate was taken down in 1617, and rebuilt in the same year from a design by Gerard Christmas. The gate was injured in the Great Fire, but was repaired and remained until 1761. ↩

Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys Cockerell’s sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End. ↩

The edition in the Pepysian Library of Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to Be Read in Churches is dated 1673. ↩

See ante, August 8th. ↩

The child was born October 22nd. ↩

William Lilly, the astrologer and almanac-maker, born 1602. He lived in the Strand, and died in 1681. His Merlinus Anglicus Junior was read to the Parhament’s troops in Scotland as promising victory. ↩

Elias Ashmole, the antiquary, born May 23rd, 1617. He was for a time in the royal army, but subsequently he settled in London, and became associated with the astrologers. He was made Windsor Herald on June 18th, 1660. Died May 18th, 1692. ↩

John Booker, astrologer (born 1603, died 1667); mentioned in Hudibras, part ii, canto iii, line 1093. ↩

Eugene Maurice of Savoy, youngest son of Thomas of Savoy, by Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, whose title he inherited. He married Olympia Mancini, one of the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, more than suspected of poisoning practices (like the Brinvilliers). His youngest son was the celebrated general, Prince Eugene of Savoy. —⁠B. ↩

The History of the Thrice Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon Queen of England. London 1660. Dedicated “to the Paragon of Vertue and Beauty, her Grace the Dutchess of Aubemarle, etc.,” by John Dauncy. The dedication ends with the wish “that the Rising Sun of your Grace’s Vertues and Honours may still soar higher, but never know a declension.” ↩

Alderman Sir Richard Browne was one of the commissioners sent to Charles II at Breda to desire his speedy return to England. See note 248. ↩

Johannis Henrici Alstedii Encyclopædia, 1630, bound in two volumes folio, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Lord Hinchinbroke and Sidney Montagu. ↩

When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I on January 30th and the restoration of Charles II on May 29th. The change of Lord Mayor’s day from the 29th of October to the 9th of November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled “An Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term,” by which it was enacted, “that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on a Sunday, and in that case on the day following.” ↩

Officers of the Wardrobe. ↩

Wife of Mr. Davis, belonging to the Navy Office. The appellation of my Lady is used in the same sense as the French word Madame. —⁠B. ↩

The Woman’s Prize, or Tamer Tamed, a comedy by John Fletcher, and a sort of sequel to Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, published in the folio edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1647. ↩

At Walthamstow. ↩

Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this year Phineas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd. ↩

Rev. Thomas Case, see ante, May 15th. ↩

Rev. Simeon Ash, one of the leading Presbyterian ministers. ↩

Philip Nye, minister of Kimbolton and rector of Acton, Middlesex. He succeeded Daniel Featley in the latter living in 1642, and was turned out at the Restoration. He died in 1672. ↩

Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald heads at St. Thomas’s Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643⁠–⁠4, he was chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas’s Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard’s having cut thirty for the stone in one year, who all lived. ↩

“Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the