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which had for its sign, Morat, or the Turk’s Head. It is frequently referred to in subsequent pages. ↩

Sir Peter Buck was Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham before his appointment as Clerk of the Acts about 1600. He died in 1625, and was succeeded as Clerk of the Acts by Dennis Fleming. ↩

Simon Beale is mentioned again on September 26th, 1668, where he is said to have been one of Oliver’s guards. ↩

Henry Jermyn, second son of Thomas Jermyn and nephew of the Earl of St. Alban’s, born 1636; Master of the Horse to the Duke of York, 1660⁠–⁠1675; created Baron Dover of Dover, 1685, and Earl of Dover, 1689; succeeded as third Baron Jennyn of St. Edmondsbury, 1703. He died, April 6th, 1708. The report in the text was of course false. ↩

Murrough O’Brien, sixth Baron of Inchiquin, in Ireland, advanced to the earldom of Inchiquin in 1654. ↩

Afterwards Sir John Lawrence. ↩

Sir Thomas Bond was a Roman Catholic Comptroller of the Household to the Queen Dowager; created a baronet in 1658 by Charles II, to whom, whilst in exile, he had advanced large sums. He died in 1685, and lies buried at Camberwell, in which parish he had purchased an estate at Peckham, and built a house alienated by his son, Sir Henry, to Chief Justice Trevor. —⁠B. ↩

Alexander Fraizer, M.D. (of Montpelier), was physician in ordinary to Charles II, and was knighted by the king, with whom he was a great favourite. In 1651 and 1652 he had been in attendance on the royal family at St. Germains. He died May 3rd, 1681. Dr. Munk says, “His character was never of the highest.” Roll of the Royal College of Physicians 1878, vol. ii, p. 232. ↩

The Princess Royal died on December 24th. ↩

William Warren, a rich tradesman of Wapping, was knighted in 1661, see post, April 17th, 1661. Le Neve says he was “a great builder of ships for King Charles II.” A square built on the site of his residence was named “Sir William Warren’s Square.” ↩

Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, presumably the first part, is given by Downes as one of the plays acted by the King’s Servants, and he gives the following cast⁠—“King: Mr. Wintersel; Prince: Mr. Burt; Hotspur: Mr. Hart; Falstaff: Mr. Cartwright; Poyns: Mr. Shatterel.” ↩

Will Wayneman appears by this to have been forgiven for his theft (see ante). He was dismissed on July 8th, 1663. ↩

Or Princess Royal. ↩

This was the rising of the Fifth Monarchy men under Thomas Venner. See post, January 7th, 1660⁠–⁠61. ↩

Anthony Joyce, who married Kate Fenner. ↩

Meat cut crosswise and broiled was said to be carboned. Falstaff says in King Henry IV, Part L, act v, sc. 3, “Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so; if he do not, if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me.” ↩

Robert Barnwell died June, 1662. See June 4th. ↩

The King dissolved the Convention Parliament on December 24th, 1660. The King’s and the Lord Chancellor’s speeches are printed in Cobbett’s Parliamentary History, vol. iv, pp. 170⁠–⁠78. ↩

The Trinity House was at Deptford. In 1671 the Corporation removed to Water Lane, and in 1795 to the present house on Tower Hill. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted at Whitehall in 1622, and published in 1647. It was revived in November, 1660. ↩

Downes does not give the cast of this play. After the Restoration the acting of female characters by women became common. The first English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes, at Rutland House in 1656. ↩

Several of the Jewel Office rolls are in the British Museum. They recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars of all the plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and sweetmeats. The Museum possesses these rolls for the 4th, 9th, 18th, 30th, and 31st Eliz.; for the 13th Charles I; and the 23rd, 24th, 26th, and 27th of Charles II —⁠B. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, first published in 1616. ↩

William Joyce, brother of Anthony, married Mary Fenner. ↩

Peter Beckford, who resided in Dr. Fuller’s neighbourhood. Mr. Beckford, of Maidenhead, tailor, left two sons, one of whom, Thomas, a clothworker, became Sheriff of London, and was knighted on the 29th December, 1677. He is the slop-seller mentioned post, February 21st, 1667⁠–⁠8. His brother, Peter Beckford, probably the person alluded to in January 1st, 1668⁠–⁠9, had a son of the same names, who rose to the rank of colonel in the army, having estates in Jamaica, and settling in that island. He became President of the Council there, in the latter part of Charles II’s reign; was made Governor and Commander-in-Chief by William III, and died (1710) immensely rich. Governor Beckford had a son of the same names, who was father of the well-known Alderman Beckford, and grandfather of the author of Vathek. There is a token of a Peter Beckford in Field Lane, “at the Guy of Worick,” see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 598. ↩

The Fables of Æsop Paraphrased in Verse by John Ogilby, London, 1665, a folio in vellum, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

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