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act i, sc. 3

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Mr. Thornbury was yeoman of the wine cellar to the king. See ante, April 23, 1661. ↩

Elizabeth Dekins or Dickins, sometimes styled Morena (or brunette), daughter of John Dekins. She died in October, 1662 (see post Oct. 3, 1662). ↩

St. Gregory’s Church was at the west end of old St. Paul’s. It was destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt. The parish was then joined to that of St. Mary Magdalen’s, Knightrider Street, and is now united to St. Martin’s, Ludgate Hill. ↩

James Buck, D.D., afterwards preacher at the Temple, a man of great learning, and rector of St. James’s, Garlickhithe, from 1661 till his death, at an advanced age, in 1685. —⁠B. ↩

Sir William Rider’s house was at Bethnal Green, and was popularly associated with the ballad of the “Beggar’s Daughter of Bethnal Green.” It was long known as the “Blind Beggar’s House.” ↩

Elizabeth Montagu, wife of Sir Daniel Harvey, who was appointed ambassador to Constantinople in 1668. ↩

Pepys had seen Shirley’s Traitor on November 22nd, 1660. ↩

Captain George Cock, a merchant possessed of large tanning works in Limerick. On July 31st, 1660, he was rewarded for his services during the Civil War with the office of searcher of the port of Newcastle, his native place; commissioner for inspecting the chest; and in November, 1664, steward for sick and wounded seamen. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1666, and died 1679. ↩

The King of Portugal was Alfonso VI, who ascended the throne in 1656, and was deposed in 1667. ↩

A part of the main riverside road was long known as Limekiln Hill, after this lime-house. ↩

A peculiar boat of ten or fifteen tons, for the herring fishery.

Smyth’s Sailor’s Word-Book

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“Wear your clothes neat, exceeding rather than coming short of others of like fortune; a charge borne out by acceptance where ever you come. Therefore spare all other ways rather than prove defective in this.”

Advice to a Son, by Francis Osborn, i. 23

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A tragicomedy by Sir William Davenant. It was originally acted at the Blackfriars, and printed in 1649.

“This play was richly cloth’d; the King gave Mr. Betterton his Coronation suit, in which he acted the part of Prince Alvaro; the Duke of York giving Mr. Harris his, who did Prince Prospero; and my Lord of Oxford gave Mr. Joseph Price his, who did Lionel, the Duke of Parma’s son. The Duke was acted by Mr. Lillistn; Evandra by Mrs. Davenport, and all the other parts being very well done. The play having a great run produc’d the Company great gain and estimation from the Town.”

Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, 1708, pp. 21, 22

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This complaint is referred to in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour, and in 1659 H. Whitmore published a little book entitled Febris Anomala, or the New Disease that now rageth throughout England. It appears to have been somewhat similar to subsequent epidemics of influenza. ↩

Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, born November 16th, 1621; Captain-General of the Forces in Tangier, Fez, and Morocco, and Chief Governor of Tangier from September 6th, 1661, to June, 1663; Privy Councillor, 1674⁠–⁠79, 1683; and in 1685 made Groom of the Stole to James II. He was created K.G. 1685, and died June 19th, 1697. ↩

For note on Tangier, see ante, September 30th, 1661. ↩

A comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, which was originally played at the Blackfriars, and printed in 1649. ↩

Host of the Mitre in Fenchurch Street. ↩

Hunt was a musical instrument maker. See ante, Oct. 25th. ↩

Henry Glapthorne’s tragicomedy. See note 914. ↩

Doubtless the same mentioned June 27th, 1661. It was a chapeau de poil, a mark of some distinction in those days, and which gave name to Rubens’s famous picture, formerly in Sir Robert Peel’s collection (now at the National Gallery), of a lady in a beaver hat, or chapeau de poil. This having been corrupted into chapeau de paille, has led to many mistakes and conjectures. ↩

Sir John Frederick, educated at Christ’s Hospital, and afterwards its president. ↩

The celebrated Quaker, and founder of Pennsylvania. ↩

Fuller’s Historic of the Holy War, fourth edition, folio, Cambridge, 1651, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Thomas Betterton, the celebrated actor, born in Westminster and baptized on August 11th, 1635, was the son of Matthew Betterton, an under-cook to Charles I, and first appeared on the stage at the Cockpit in Drury Lane, in 1659⁠–⁠60. After the Restoration, two distinct companies were established by royal authority: one called the King’s Company, under a patent granted to Thomas Killigrew; the other styled the Duke’s Company, the patentee of which was Sir William Davenant, who engaged Betterton. Mr. Robert W. Lowe, in his valuable little work, Thomas Betterton, 1891, states his belief that the character of Archas in The Loyal Subject was taken by Betterton in 1660 (see ante, note 650). Betterton died April 28th, 1710, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. ↩

A bull fight. See May 24th, 1662. —⁠B. ↩

Of Impington, great-uncle to Samuel and father of Roger Pepys, M.P., and Thomas Pepys, M.D. He died March, 1665⁠–⁠66 (see March 12th, 1665⁠–⁠66). ↩

The Court of Requests was abolished by act of parliament, 16⁠–⁠17 Car.