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Princess Henrietta came into London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all safely arrived at Whitehall.Rugge’s Diurnal

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The bookseller’s, see ante, February 12th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

St. Olave’s, Hart Street. ↩

Dr. Rimbault says that Father Smith built his organ in Westminster Abbey in 1662, and that it cost £120 (Hopkins on the Organ, 1855, p. 82). The organ which Pepys heard must therefore have been one put in temporarily. ↩

See ante, August 30th. ↩

The Henrietta was formerly the Lambert, see ante, May 23rd. ↩

The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See September 3rd, 1662. ↩

To cry was to bid. ↩

Mr. Borfett was Lord Sandwich’s chaplain, see ante, July 29th. ↩

Afterwards Sir Stephen Fox, see ante, May 24th. ↩

William Lawes, elder brother of the more celebrated Henry Lawes, and educated under the same master, John Cooper. For a time he held the situation of a gentleman of the chapel, but at the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the royal army and obtained the rank of captain. He was killed at the siege of Chester, in 1645. Charles I regretted his loss greatly, and went in to mourning for him. The chief work of Lawes was Choice Psalmes Put Into Music for Three Voices. The Psalms were set to the well-known paraphrase of Sandys, and this volume was published in 1648 by Henry Lawes. ↩

“A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof.”

Notes and Queries, First Series, vol. viii p. 122

“In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000.”

Rugge’s Diurnal

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This Dutch pleasure boat is mentioned on August 15th, 1660. On January 13th, 1660⁠–⁠61, Pepys comes to the conclusion that Rett’s yacht is much superior to the Dutch boat. ↩

Montelion, the Prophetical Almanac for the Year 1660, 8vo., with frontispiece, by John Phillips. The Montelions for 1661 and 1662 were written by Thomas Flatman. It would appear that Pepys bought the Montelion for 1661. ↩

The Rump, or the Mirror of the Late Times, a comedy by John Tatham, acted at Dorset Court, and printed in 1660 and 1661. ↩

The date of the origin of smoke-jacks does not appear to be known, but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke-jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Cooking, 1634⁠–⁠1866 (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and one by a spring. ↩

Painful, i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the “painful magistrates.” ↩

Cornelianum dolium is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius’s tub. There is a description of the play in the European Magazine, vol. xxxvii (1805), p. 343. ↩

Sir Arnold Breames, Brahams, or Brames, of Bridge Court, Kent, was son of Charles Breames, of Dover, and was knighted at Canterbury, May 27th, 1660. He married, first, Joanna, daughter of Walter Henflete (or Septvans), secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls, and thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, of Wingham, Bart. ↩

“The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of interest.”

Smyth’s Sailor’s Word Book

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Rev. John Turner, rector of Eynesbury. ↩

Elizabeth Pickering, who married John Creed in 1668. ↩

A celebrated place of entertainment in the Strand, by Temple Bar, largely associated with the fame of Ben Jonson. The Royal Society held its dinners here for many years. In 1787 Messrs. Child, the bankers, bought the freehold, and pulling the building down erected Child’s Place on the site. This was destroyed in 1879. ↩

The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the same relation to the viol