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

This clashes with the statement of Downes, who says that his company being complete, Davenant opened his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields with the two parts of the Siege of Rhodes, in the spring of 1662. Messrs. Maidment and Logan, in their edition of Davenant’s Dramatic Works, state that this performance was at Salisbury Court. ↩

Davenant’s opera of the Siege of Rhodes was published in 1656. The author afterwards wrote a second part, which Pepys saw. The two parts, as altered, and as acted at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, were published in 1663. ↩

Duck Lane was largely inhabited by booksellers. It is now renamed Little Britain. ↩

A tragicomedy, by Thomas Killigrew, first published in 1641. ↩

Robert Pepys, of Brampton, who died on the following day. ↩

Hæmorrhoids or piles. ↩

Rev. John Turner. ↩

Lewis Phillips. ↩

Talbot Pepys, sixth son of John Pepys of Impington, was born 1583, and therefore at this time he was seventy-eight years of age. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1605. He was M.P. for Cambridge in 1625, and Recorder of Cambridge from 1624 to 1660, in which year he was succeeded by his son Roger. He died of the plague, March, 1666, aged eighty-three. ↩

Gravely is in Cambridgeshire, although it is contiguous to Hunts. ↩

William Stankes, bailiff of Robert Pepys’s land. ↩

Sir Robert Bernard, Sergeant-at-Law, of Huntingdon, created baronet 1662, and died 1666. His second wife, here mentioned, was Elizabeth, relict of George, Lord Digby, died January, 1662. —⁠B. ↩

There is a monument to “Jasper Trice, gent.,” in Brampton Church, Hunts, from which it appears that he died October 27th, 1675. He is referred to on March 8th, 1659⁠–⁠60, as “Jasper” without a surname. Apparently he was brother of Tom Trice. ↩

Biggleswade, the largest town in Bedfordshire after Bedford. ↩

Hatfield or Bishop’s Hatfield, Herts. In 1109, when the abbey of Ely was erected into a bishopric, Hatfield became an episcopal residence, and a sumptuous palace was built there. In 1538 the manor was conveyed to Henry VIII by Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, in exchange for lands in Cambridge, Essex, and Norfolk, and the palace became a royal abode. James I in 1607 exchanged it with Lord Salisbury for Theobalds, and built a new mansion for his minister, who died the year after it was finished. The inn mentioned by Pepys was the Salisbury Arms. The vineyard is still carefully kept, and is one of the last of its age existing. William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, succeeded his father in 1612, and died December 3rd, 1668. ↩

Brennoralt, or the Discontented Colonel, a tragedy, by Sir John Suckling. Written about 1639, and first published in Suckling’s Works, 1646. ↩

The Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, a comedy, by Richard Brome, acted at the Cockpit, Drury Lane, in 1641. ↩

When the Savoy Conference ended, the Royal Commission having expired on that day. —⁠B. ↩

George Digby, second Earl of Bristol. Died March 20th, 1678. ↩

Lady Jemima Montagu and Lady Paulina Montagu, daughters of the Earl of Sandwich. ↩

Margaret Penn, only daughter of Sir William Penn, was married to Anthony Lowther, of Marske, North Riding, in February, 1666⁠–⁠67. ↩

Immediately. ↩

Pepys was very lax in his use of the term cousin. Charles Glasscocke was brother-in-law of Judith Pepys, née Cutter. ↩

On October 30th, 1660, Pepys saw this play at the Cockpit theatre. ↩

But not the porringer of silver. See May 29th, 1661. —⁠M. B. ↩

A dresser and seller of sheepskins. ↩

Paulina Pepys, sister of Roger Pepys and Talbot Pepys, M.D., married Hamond Claxton of Booton, co. Norfolk. ↩

See note 263. ↩

Baldock, Herts, in the district of Hitchin. It belonged at one time to the Knights Templars, who built a church there. ↩

Panyards = panniers. ↩

John, second Lord Robartes, created Viscount Bodmin and Earl of Radnor in July, 1679. At the Restoration William Viscount Say and Sele was appointed Lord Privy Seal, but he was succeeded in May, 1661, by Lord Robartes, who held the office until April, 1673. Lord Radnor died July 17th, 1685. ↩

Humphry Madge, musician in ordinary to the King, and one of the twenty-four violins under Grebus’s leadership (see note 2017). ↩

Mr. Pierce did not die at this time, and is mentioned in the Diary on September 18th, 1665. ↩

The Signet and Privy Seal office was situated in what is now Whitehall Yard, a little north of the site of the United Service Institution. ↩

A comedy acted at the Globe, and first printed in 1608. In the original entry in the Stationers’ books it is said to be by T. B., which may stand for Tony or Anthony Brewer. The play has been attributed without authority both to Shakespeare and to Drayton. ↩

The old parish church of St. James the Less, Clerkenwell, was pulled down in 1788, and the first stone of the present church was laid on December 16th of that year. The church was completed in 1792. ↩

Mrs. Frances Butler and her sister.