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

epub:type="se:name.publication.book">Somers’ Tracts ed. 1812, vol. vii, p. 554. —⁠B. ↩

Charles wrote of the Queen to Clarendon on May 21st:

“If I have any skill in physiognomy, which I think I have, she must be as good a woman as ever was born. Her conversation, as much as I can perceive, is very good, for she has wit enough, and a most agreeable voice. You would wonder to see how well we are acquainted already. In a word, I think myself very happy, for I am confident our two humours will agree very well together.”

Lister’s Life of Clarendon, ii 144

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“I came to the Wardrobe in London to my family, where I met a letter from Captain Teddiman to Mr. Samuel Pepys, showing the news of Sir John Lawson’s having made peace with Algiers, they agreeing not to search our ships.”

—⁠Lord Sandwich’s Journal, May 23rd

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A comedy, by Henry Glapthorne, printed 1640. ↩

The dulcimer (or psaltery) consisted of a flat box, acting as a resonating chamber, over which strings of wire were stretched. These were struck by little hammers. ↩

Shaving with pumice stone. See also on the 31st of this month. ↩

Farthingales had gone out of fashion in England during the reign of Charles I, and therefore their use by the Portuguese ladies astonished the English. Evelyn also remarks in his Diary on this ugly custom (May 30th, 1662). ↩

The Red Bull Playhouse in Clerkenwell. See note 631. ↩

Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy, with additional scenes. Printed in 1663. ↩

Backwell carried on business as a goldsmith at the “Unicorn” in Lombard Street. ↩

Foxhall, Faukeshall, or Vauxhall, a manor in Surrey, properly Fulke’s. Hall, and so called from Fulke de Breaute, the notorious mercenary follower of King John. The manor house was afterwards known as Copped or Copt Hall. Sir Samuel Morland obtained a lease of the place, and King Charles made him Master of Mechanics, and here “he (Morland), anno 1667, built a fine room,” says Aubrey, “the inside all of looking-glass and fountains, very pleasant to behold.” The gardens were formed about 1661, and originally called the “New Spring Gardens,” to distinguish them from the “Old Spring Gardens” at Charing Cross, but according to the present description by Pepys there was both an Old and a New Spring Garden at Vauxhall. Balthazar Monconys, who visited England early in the reign of Charles II, describes the “Jardins Printemps” at Lambeth as having lawns and gravel walks, dividing squares of twenty or thirty yards enclosed with hedges of gooseberry trees, within which were planted roses. ↩

Salt beef. ↩

The Royal James, formerly the Richard; not the same ship as the James, another second-rate. ↩

A very singular book by Dr. Thomas Bayly⁠—Herba Parietis; or, the Wallflower, as it grew out of the Stone Chamber belonging to Newgate. London, 1650, folio. —⁠B. ↩

Peace with Algiers. See ante, May 22nd. ↩

“An Act for the Uniformity of public prayers and administration of sacraments and other rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons in the Church of England.”

13 and 14 Car. II, cap. 4

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Cruzado, a Portuguese coin of 480 reis. It is named from a cross which it bears on one side, the arms of Portugal being on the other. It varied in value at different periods from 2s. 3d. to 4s.

“Believe me, I had rather lost my purse
Full of cruzados.”

Shakespeare, Othello, act iii, sc. 4

—⁠M. B. ↩

Sir Peter Ball was the Queen’s Attorney-General, and Evelyn mentions, in his Diary (January 11th, 1661⁠–⁠62), having received from him the draft of an act against the nuisance of the smoke of London. ↩

There is a beautiful copy of The Workes of King Charles the Martyr, and Collections of Declarations, Treaties, etc. (2 vols. folio, 1662), in the Pepysian Library, with a very interesting note in the first volume by Pepys (dated October 7th, 1700), to the effect that he had collated it with a copy in Lambeth Library, presented by Dr. Zachary Cradock, Provost of Eton. “This book being seized on board an English ship was delivered, by order of the Inquisition of Lisbon, to some of the English Priests to be perused and corrected according to the Rules of the Index Expurgatorius. Thus corrected it was given to Barnaby Crafford, English merchant there, and by him it was given to me, the English preacher resident there A.D. 1670, and by me as I then received it to the Library at Lambeth to be there preserved. Nov. 2, 1678. Ita testor, Zach. Cradock.⁠—From which (through the favour of the most Reverend Father in God and my most honoured Friend his Grace the present Archbishop of Canterbury) I have this 7th of October, 1700, had an opportunity given me there (assisted by my clerk, Thomas Henderson), leisurely to overlook, and with my uttermost attention to note the said Expurgations through each part of this my own Book.” Whole sentences in the book are struck through, as well as such words as Martyr, Defender of the Faith, More than Conqueror, etc. ↩

That is, by the old style. The new style was not introduced until 1752; see note 47 and note 762. ↩

Mr. Fisher, described on the 15th of this month as an old cavalier and a good-humoured man. ↩

Sir Harry Vane the younger was born 1612. Charles signed on June