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has been asserted that she was married. She was sixty-five years of age. ↩

The Corporation of the Trinity House received its first charter from Henry VIII in 1514. In 1604 a select class was constituted, called elder brethren, the other members being called younger brethren. By the charter of 1609 the sole management of affairs was conferred on the elder brethren, the younger brethren having, however, a vote in the election of Master and Wardens. Among some miscellaneous manuscripts of Samuel Pepys, which were in the possession of Mr. S. J. Davey, of 47, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, in 1889, was a copy of this oath, in which Pepys swore to “use” himself “as becometh a younger brother for the time you shall so continue.” At the end is the following memorandum: “I tooke this oath at ye Trinity House in London (Sir Wm. Rider, Dep. Maistcr for the Earl of Sandwich), this 15th day of Feb., 1661.⁠—Samuel Pepys.” Pepys was Master of the Trinity House in 1676. ↩

A fourth-rate, of forty guns, a prize from Portugal; in 1665 it was commanded by Captain John Pearce. —⁠B. ↩

In Lent, of which the observance, intermitted for nineteen years, was now reviving. We have seen that Pepys, as yet, had not cast off all show of Puritanism.

“In this month the Fishmongers’ Company petitioned the King that Lent might be kept, because they had provided abundance of fish for this season, and their prayer was granted.”

Rugge

—⁠B. ↩

Lewis Phillips of Brampton. He was uncle to John Jackson, who married Samuel Pepys’s sister Paulina. ↩

“A dreadful storm of wind happened one night in February, anno 1661⁠–⁠62, which, though general, at least, all over England, yet was remarkable at Oxford in these two respects;⁠—1. That though it forced the stones inwards into the cavity of Allhallow’s spire, yet it overthrew it not. And 2. That in the morning, when there was some abatement of its fury, it was yet so violent, that it laved water out of the river Cherwell, and cast it quite over the bridge at Magdalen College, above the surface of the water, near twenty foot high; which passage, with advantage of holding by the College wall, I had then curiosity to go to see myself, which otherwise perhaps I should have as hardly credited, as some other persons now may do.”

Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire, p. 5

—⁠B. ↩

A tragicomedy, by Sir William Davenant; taken from Measure for Measure, with the characters of Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing added; published in Davenant’s Works, 1673. ↩

This actress, so called from the character she played in the Siege of Rhodes, was Frances or Elizabeth Davenport, who was born March 3rd, 1642. Evelyn saw her on January 9th, 1661⁠–⁠62, she being soon after taken to be “My Lord Oxford’s Miss.” She was induced to marry Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last Earl of Oxford, after indignantly refusing to become his mistress, and discovered, when too late, that the nuptial ceremony had been performed by the earl’s trumpeter, in the habit of a priest. For more of her history, see Mémoires de Grammont. Ashmole records the birth of the Earl of Oxford’s son by Roxalana, April 17th, 1664, which shows that the liaison continued. The child was called Aubrey Vere. —⁠Ward’s Diary, p. 131. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 20) places Mrs. Davenport first on the list of the four principal actresses who boarded in Sir William Davenant’s house. Davies and Curll supposed this actress to be Mrs. Marshall, but this was owing to a confusion between the characters Roxana and Roxalana. Mrs. Marshall was the original Roxana in Lee’s Rival Queens, produced at the Theatre Royal in 1677. The translator of Grammont’s Memoirs added to the confusion by translating Hamilton’s “Roxelane” into “Roxana.” ↩

“Sunday, Jan. 12. This morning, the Portuguese, 140 horse in Tangier, made a salley into the country for booty, whereof they had possessed about 400 cattle, 30 camels, and some horses, and 35 women and girls, and being six miles distant from Tangier, were intercepted by 100 Moors with harquebusses, who in the first charge killed the Aidill with a shot in the head, whereupon the rest of the Portuguese ran, and in the pursuit 51 were slain, whereof were 11 of the knights, besides the Aidill. The horses of the 51 were also taken by the Moors, and all the booty relieved.

“Tuesday, Jan. 14. This morning, Mr. Mules came to me from the Governor, for the assistance of some of our men into the castle.

“Thursday, Jan. 16. About 80 men out of my own ship, and the Princess, went into Tangier, into the lower castle, about four of the clock in the afternoon.

“Friday, Jan. 17. In the morning, by eight o’clock, the Martyr came in from Cales (Cadiz) with provisions, and about ten a clock I sent Sir Richard Stayner, with 120 men, besides officers, to the assistance of the Governor, into Tangier.”

Lord Sandwich’s Journal, in Kennet’s Register

On the 23rd, Lord Sandwich put one hundred more men into Tangier; on the 29th and 30th, Lord Peterborough and his garrison arrived from England, and received possession from the Portuguese; and, on the 31st, Sir Richard Stayner and the seamen re-embarked on board Lord Sandwich’s fleet. —⁠B. ↩

Stoke Newington. ↩

The following account of this transaction is abridged from the Mercurius Publicus of the day: “Charles Lord Buckhurst, Edward Sackville, Esq., his brother; Sir Henry Belasyse, K.B., eldest son of Lord Belasyse; John Belasyse, brother to Lord Faulconberg; and Thomas Wentworth, Esq., only son of Sir G. Wentworth, whilst in pursuit