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

For further particulars respecting Sir J. Lawson’s fight with the Turks, see post, June 27th. ↩

Penn accompanied the Duke of Ormonde to Ireland in July, 1662, and he took the opportunity of visiting his estates in Cork and his government of Kinsale. ↩

Mr. Watkins is mentioned as a clerk of the Privy Seal on July 11th and 24th, 1660. ↩

This appears to have been a predecessor of Powell’s more famous puppet-show. An Italian puppet-show was exhibited at Charing Cross in 1666 and 1667. ↩

The mourning was for the king’s aunt, the Queen of Bohemia. ↩

Richard Marriott was Housekeeper of Hampton Court Palace. He died 1664, and was succeeded by James Marriott (see note 2592). ↩

Thomas Pepys’s shop was in Bride Lane. ↩

The Earl of Sandwich’s letter to Lord Chancellor Clarendon (dated May 15th, 1662) contains an account of the Queen’s safe landing. He writes,

“The Queen as soone as she came to her lodgings received my Lady Suffolk and ye Ladyes very kindly, and appointed them this morninge to come and putt her in that habit they thought would be most pleasing to ye Kinge; and I doubt not, but when they have done there parts she will appeare wth much more advantage and very well to ye Kinges contentment.”

Rugge, in his Diurnal, tells us that the queen attired herself in the English fashion soon after she landed. ↩

Nathaniel Crew, born 1633, fifth son of John, first Lord Crew; he himself became third Lord Crew in 1697. Sub-Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1659. Took orders in 1664, and was Rector of Lincoln College in 1668; Dean of Chichester, 1669; Bishop of Oxford, 1671; Bishop of Durham, 1674; sworn of the Privy Council in 1676. He was very subservient to James II, and at the Revolution was excepted from the general pardon of May, 1690, but he was allowed to keep possession of the bishopric of Durham. ↩

Mr. Knightly is referred to once or twice subsequently in the Diary, and described as a neighbour. ↩

John Racket, elected bishop of that see, December 6th, 1661. He died October 28th, 1670, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. ↩

Henry Cooke, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. See note 643. ↩

To ears accustomed to the official words of speeches from the throne at the present day, the familiar tone of the following extracts from Charles’s speech to the Commons, on the 1st of March; will be amusing:

“I will conclude with putting you in mind of the season of the year, and the convenience of your being in the country, in many respects, for the good and welfare of it; for you will find much tares have been sowed there in your absence. The arrival of my wife, who I expect some time this month, and the necessity of my own being out of town to meet her, and to stay some time before she comes hither, makes it very necessary that the Parliament be adjourned before Easter, to meet again in the winter.⁠ ⁠… The mention of my wife’s arrival puts me in mind to desire you to put that compliment upon her, that her entrance into the town may be with more decency than the ways will now suffer it to be; and, to that purpose, I pray you would quickly pass such laws as are before you, in order to the amending those ways, and that she may not find Whitehall surrounded with water.”

Such a bill passed the Commons on the 24th June. From Charles’s Speech, March 1st, 1662. —⁠B. ↩

For note on Mrs. Davenport, who was deceived by a pretended marriage with the Earl of Oxford, see ante. Lord Oxford’s first wife died in 1659. He married, in 1672, his second wife, Diana Kirke, of whom nothing more need be said than that she bore an inappropriate Christian name. ↩

The Halfway House, Rotherhithe, was a place of entertainment frequently visited by Pepys on his way to Deptford, towards which it was a halfway house. ↩

Lord Sandwich’s housekeeper. ↩

Charles Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine’s son by the King, was born in June, 1662; created Duke of Southampton, 1675; succeeded his mother as Duke of Cleveland in 1709, and died September 9th, 1730. ↩

A droll formed out of the Duke of Newcastle’s play of The Variety, and printed in the Wits, or Sport Upon Sport, 1672; acted by Killigrew’s company, March 11th, 1661⁠–⁠62. See Sir Henry Herbert’s Register of Plays Performed at the Restoration, in Malone’s Shakespeare, by Boswell, vol. iii, p. 275. It is no wonder that Lacy performed his part so well, as he had been brought up as a dancing master. He afterwards procured a lieutenant’s commission in the army, which he soon quitted for the stage, and was the author of four plays. Died 1681, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. ↩

The second title of Shirley’s play of The Changes. Thumpe, Sir Gervase’s man, was one of Lacy’s most celebrated parts.

“For his just acting all gave him due praise,
His part in The Cheats, Jony Thumpe, Teg, and Bayes.
In these four excelling; the Court gave him the Bays.”

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The articles of peace between Charles II and the city and kingdom of Algiers, concluded August 30th, 1664, by Admiral Thomas Allen, according to instructions from the Duke of York, being the same articles concluded by Sir John Lawson, April 23rd, 1662, and confirmed November 10th following, are reprinted in