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

Cannon Street Station now stands. The Rhenish wine-house occupied the ground floors of the front in Thames Street. ↩

Thomas, Earl of Ossory, K.G., the accomplished son of the Duke of Ormond. Died 1680, aged forty-six. ↩

The Duke of York’s marriage took place September 3rd, 1660. Anne Hyde was contracted to the Duke at Breda, November 24th, 1659. ↩

A tragedy, by Thomas Middleton, acted before the court at Whitehall, January 4th, 1623⁠–⁠4. The plot is taken from a story in Reynolds’s God’s Revenge Against Murder, book i, hist. iv. ↩

Perhaps a letter of recommendation to some constituency. ↩

Randle Cotgrave’s valuable French and English Dictionary was first published in 1611, and several editions were subsequently issued. ↩

The cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday is of considerable antiquity. It is shown in the first print of Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty. ↩

Christ’s College, Cambridge. ↩

His son-in-law William Joyce. ↩

The Hampshire was a fourth-rate of thirty-eight guns, built at Deptford in 1653 by Phineas Pett. ↩

Massinger’s play, which was first published in 1624. ↩

Thomas Betterton, younger but eldest surviving son of Matthew Betterton of Westminster, said to be under-cook to Charles I, but who (writes Colonel Chester) described himself in his will as a “gentleman.” Thomas was baptized at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, August 11th, 1635. He joined the company of actors formed by Rhodes, bookseller (and formerly wardrobe keeper to the Blackfriars Company), which commenced to act at the Cockpit, in Drury Lane, in 1659. When, after the Restoration, Davenant took over Rhodes’s company, Betterton became his principal actor. Betterton died April 28th, 1710, and was buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey on May 2nd. ↩

Sir Paul Neile, of White Waltham, Berks, son of Richard Neile, Archbishop of York (1632⁠–⁠40). A member of the first council of the Royal Society, and a constant attendant at the meetings. He was frequently the bearer of messages from Charles II. We learn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, that on July 17th, 1661, “Sir Paul Neile having mentioned that the king had within four days past desired to have a reason assigned why the sensitive plants stir and contract themselves upon being touched, it was resolved that Dr. Wilkins, Dr. Clarke, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Evelyn, and Dr. Goddard be curators for examining the fact relating to these plants.” ↩

Love’s Mistress, or the Queen’s Masque, by Thomas Haywood, published in 1636. The plot is borrowed from the Golden Ass of Apuleius. ↩

Thomas Woodcock, afterwards ejected from St. Andrew’s Undershaft. ↩

This report of the death of Cardinal Mazarin appears to have been premature, for he did not die until the 9th of March, 1661. ↩

Charles XI, son of Charles (X) Gustavus. He succeeded his father in 1660. ↩

Wigg, a kind of north country bun or teacake, still so called, to my knowledge, in Staffordshire. —⁠M. B. ↩

Alderman and Colonel of the red regiment of Trainbands. He was one of the Commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II to return to England immediately. ↩

When Pepys saw this play on March 1st he called it by its second title The Queen’s Masque. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted before the court in 1611 by the King’s Players. ↩

Although Balthasar St. Michel, Mrs. Pepys’s brother, is frequently mentioned, there is no further notice of this lady in the Diary. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted before the court in 1622. ↩

Sir William Batten was elected M.P. for Rochester March 21st, 1660⁠–⁠61, and held the seat till his death, when he was succeeded by Richard Head, Alderman of Rochester, who was elected November 2nd, 1667. ↩

The Duke of Anjou became Duke of Orleans on the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660. ↩

Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655. ↩

The four members elected for London were Alderman John Fowke, Alderman William Love, John Jones, and Alderman Sir William Thompson. ↩

The Red Bull was situated in St. John’s Street, Clerkenwell. ↩

A tragedy, by W. Rowley. ↩

Probably Argal Baron, of Croydon, Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle, and said to have been a distinguished Royalist. —⁠B. ↩

Zachary Crofton, born in Ireland. His first living was at Wrenbury, Cheshire, from which he was expelled in 1648 for refusing to take the Engagement. When he came to London he was for sometime minister of St. James’s, Garlickhithe, and then obtained the cure of St. Botolph, Aldgate, which he held till he was ejected for Nonconformity. He was said to be zealous for the Restoration, but he was committed to the Tower for defending the Solemn League and Covenant. In 1667 he opened a school near Aldgate. He was the author of several works, and died in 1672. ↩

Noise, see ante, May 7th, 1660. ↩

Rollo, Duke of Normandy, a tragedy by John Fletcher, published in 1640. It was previously published in 1639 as The Bloody Brother. ↩

A Portuguese city on the Malabar or western coast of Hindostan. ↩

A comedy by John Fletcher, licensed October, 1624. ↩

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