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

Charles II established a Council of Trade “for keeping a control and superintendence upon the whole commerce of the nation” on November 7th, 1660. On December 1st of the same year he created a Council of Foreign Plantations. The two were united in 1672. The present Board of Trade was constituted in 1786. ↩

The Worthies of England was published in 1662. During the Commonwealth period Fuller made a visit to the Committee of Sequestrations sitting at Waltham in Essex, when they talked about his remarkable memory, and he agreed to give them an example. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I will give you an instance of my memory in the particular business in which you are employed. Your worships have thought fit to sequester an honest but poor cavalier parson, my neighbour, from his living, and committed him to prison. He has a large family of children, and his circumstances are but indifferent. If you will please to release him out of prison, and restore him to his living, I will never forget the kindness while I live.” ↩

Many years ago, but within my recollection, it was said that a former Public Orator of Cambridge, when in a similar difficulty, used to begin his sentence with “Verum enimvero.” —⁠M. B. ↩

Martha Batten was the daughter of Sir William Batten, and is frequently mentioned in the Diary. She married Mr. Castle. ↩

Gresham College occupied the house of Sir Thomas Gresham, in Bishopsgate Street, from 1596, when Lady Gresham, Sir Thomas’s widow, died. The meeting which Pepys attended was an early one of the Royal Society, which was incorporated by royal charter in 1663. ↩

The seventh edition of Francis Osborn’s works, 8vo., 1673, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Patriarchæ, sive Christi Genealogia, by Emmanuele Tesauro, published at London in 1651 and frequently reprinted. ↩

Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, held the office of Lord High Admiral from March, 1637, to June, 1642. ↩

Richard Rooth, who commanded the Dartmouth⁠—one of the ships which attended Charles II on his return to England from Scheveling. He was knighted March 9th, 1675. ↩

The surgeon and the purser. ↩

For a note on ribbons and garters at weddings, see note 156. ↩

“A Proclamation for the observation of the thirtieth of January as a day of Fast and Humiliation according to the late Act of Parliament for that purpose” is dated January 25th, 1660[⁠–⁠1661]. ↩

“The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw, and Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be hanged at Tyburn, and buried under the gallows. Cromwell’s vault having been opened, the people crowded very much to see him.”

Henry Ireton (born 1610) married Bridget, eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, Jan. 15th, 1646⁠–⁠7. He was afterwards one of Charles I’s judges, and one of the committee who superintended his execution. Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1650. He died at the siege of Limerick, November 26th, 1651. ↩

Stubbes, speaking of the hats worn by the gentlemen of his day, says,

“As the fashions be rare and strange, so are the things whereof their hats be made, diverse also; for some are of silk, some of velvet, some of taffety, some of sarcenet, some of wool, and which is more curious, some of a certain kind of fine hair⁠ ⁠… these they call bever hats, of xx, xxx or xl shillings price, fetched from beyond the sea.”

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At Apothecaries’ Hall, where Davenant produced the first and second parts of The Siege of Rhodes. Downes says, in his Roscius Anglicanus, that Davenant’s company acted at “Pothecaries Hall” until the building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields was ready. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, first produced in 1623. ↩

Margaret, daughter of Sir William Water, an alderman of York. She was mother of the Comptroller, and widow of Sir Guildford Slingsby. ↩

The Great James was in Bishopsgate Without. It is registered in the list of London taverns in 1698 (Harl. MS. 4716). ↩

“Jan. 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer. This morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (which the day before had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, Holborn), were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their coffins, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck, until the going down of the sun. They were then cut down, their heads taken off, and their bodies buried in a grave made under the gallows. The coffin in which was the body of Cromwell was a very rich thing, very full of gilded hinges and nails.”

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The timber purchased from Warren (see ante, December 29th, 1660), sent to Lynn to be conveyed to Hinchinbroke as the barge was, mentioned June 20th, 1660. ↩

A tragicomedy by Henry Glapthorne, founded on the story of the two lovers in Sydney’s Arcadia, and published in 1639. ↩

Sir Peter Ball, the Queen’s Attorney-General, and possessor of Brampton manor. ↩

This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years previously. George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I as Ambassador Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of Louis XIV to the observance of the treaties concluded with England by his father, Louis XIII, and his grandfather, Henry IV. Louis XIV took this oath at Ruel, on July 3rd, 1644, when he was