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

(speedy notice hereof having been given the King) one of the Querries were sent from him, with command to imprison the footmen, and dismiss them out of his service, which put an end to the present disturbance. These footmen were also commanded to make their submission to the Court of Claims, which was accordingly done by them the 30th April following, and the canopy then delivered back to the said Barons.” Whilst this disturbance happened, the upper end of the first table, which had been appointed for the Barons of the Cinque Ports, was taken up by the Bishops, judges, etc., probably nothing loth to take precedence of them; and the poor Barons, naturally unwilling to lose their dinner, were necessitated to eat it at the bottom of the second table, below the Masters of Chancery and others of the long robe. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Robert Pye, Bart., of Faringdon House, Berks; married Anne, daughter of the celebrated John Hampden. They lived together sixty years, and died in 1701, within a few weeks of each other. ↩

John Glynne (born 1602) had been Recorder of London (1643); and during the Protectorate, Chief Justice of the Upper Bench (1655); nevertheless, he acted with considerable adroitness at the time of the Restoration, and was in consequence knighted and appointed King’s Serjeant, and his son created a baronet. He died November 15th, 1666. ↩

John Maynard, the eminent lawyer; M.P. for Totnes, 1640; made Serjeant to Cromwell in 1653, and afterwards King’s Serjeant by Charles II, who knighted him. In 1661 he was chosen burgess for Berealston, and sat in every Parliament till the Revolution, for that Borough, or Plymouth. It was he who made one of the most famous of legal jokes. William III, in allusion to his age, having said that he must have outlived most of the judges and lawyers of his own standing, Maynard answered, “And I had like to have outlived the law itself if your Highness had not come over.” In March, 1689, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal; and, soon resigning from infirmity, died October 9th, 1690, aged eighty-eight. The popular feeling respecting Glynne and Maynard was echoed by Butler, who wrote:

“Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard
To make good subjects traitors strain hard?”

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Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652. In the Public Advertiser of Tuesday, June 16⁠–⁠22, 1657, we find the following: “In Bishopsgate Street in Queen’s Head Alley, at a Frenchman’s house, is an excellent West India drink called chocolate, to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and also unmade at reasonable rates.” —⁠M. B. ↩

A chamber is a small piece of ordnance. ↩

There are several tokens of the King’s Head in Tower Street. One of these of Thomas Mills is dated 1666, see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 772). ↩

The Chances, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, published in the folio of 1647. Revived at this time. ↩

At Temple Bar. See note 300. ↩

Elizabeth Walpole of Broomsthorpe, married to Edward Pepys, who died December 22nd, 1663. She died in 1669. ↩

Godalming, Surrey. It has been supposed that Godliman Street in London obtained its name from the sale of leather prepared at Godalming. ↩

It was an established custom for all classes to go a-maying in Hyde Park. The practice was for a time discontinued during the Commonwealth, but about 1654 it was revived, to the disgust of the Puritans. ↩

The Montagu (formerly the Lime) was a third-rate of fifty-two guns, built at Portsmouth in 1654 by Mr. Tippetts. ↩

The house wherein the murder was committed in August, 1628, is situated at the upper end of the High Street, at Portsmouth, and a portion still remains. A representation of the front of the house is given in Brayley’s Graphic Illustrator, p. 240. —⁠B. ↩

A Red Lion still exists in High Street, at the corner of Market Street, but it is no longer the best inn in the town. ↩

Archbishop Abbot’s Hospital, on the north side of the High Street, Guildford, was founded in 1619. The Grammar School, at the upper end of High Street, dates from the reign of Henry VIII. ↩

Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, born October 22nd, 1660, died May 5th, 1661. He was the first of eight children by Anne Hyde. —⁠B. ↩

Frank Perkin. Jane, youngest sister of Pepys’s father, married J. Perkin. ↩

Edward, second Earl of Manchester, appointed to this office on June 1st, 1660. ↩

“Whatever the Swans may have done in the City,
The Swan here in King Street has sung her last Ditty,”

from The Search After Claret, or a Visitation of the Vintners, a poem in two cantos, printed for E. Hawkins, London, February 24th, 1691. ↩

The popular taste was formerly for sweet wines, and sugar was frequently mixed with the wine. ↩

The text meant is Job 14:14, “All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” —⁠B. ↩

The King’s Head, see March 27th, 1664. —⁠B. ↩

Richard Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy from 1651. He was succeeded by Sir George Carteret in 1660. ↩

By Beaumont and Fletcher. Acted at court in 1613. After the Restoration, Mohun played Melantius; Hart, Amintor; and Mrs. Marshall, Evadne.