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12th a warrant for the execution of Vane by hanging at Tyburn on the 14th, which sentence on the following day “upon humble suit made” to him, Charles was “graciously pleased to mitigate,” as the warrant terms it, for the less ignominious punishment of beheading on Tower Hill, and with permission that the head and body should be given to the relations to be by them decently and privately interred.Lister’s Life of Clarendon, ii, 123

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It has been supposed that this was Sir William Boreman, clerk to the Board of Green Cloth, but this is unlikely, as there evidently was another Boreman frequently mentioned in the Diary. ↩

Peter Lely, the celebrated painter, afterwards knighted. He moved to the Piazza, Covent Garden, in this year, and remained there till his death in 1680. The portrait of the Duchess of York is now at Hampton Court. ↩

Michael Wright, a native of Scotland, and portrait-painter of some note, settled in London at an early age. He died about 1700 at his house in James Street, Covent Garden. ↩

Duarte de Silva is mentioned in the Earl of Sandwich’s letter to Lord Chancellor Clarendon (dated May 15th, 1662) as “the man that is to make all good.” Clarendon called him “Diego Silvas, a Jew of great wealth and full credit at Amsterdam” (see Lister’s Life of Clarendon, iii 193). ↩

Secretary and chancellor to the Queen Dowager. —⁠B. ↩

Lee Bayly is a hamlet in the parish of Newland, Gloucestershire. ↩

In 1662 was passed “An Act for providing of carriage by land and by water for the use of His Majesty’s Navy and Ordinance” (13⁠–⁠14 Gar. II, cap. 20), which gave power for impressing seamen, etc. ↩

Thomas Nicholson, A.M., 1672. —⁠B. ↩

The Duke of York’s name appears in the articles of peace, but not Lord Sandwich’s, see Somers Tracts, vol. vii, p. 555. ↩

Penn was Governor of Kinsale. —⁠B. ↩

Mentioned elsewhere as “My cousin in Ireland.” He was son of Lord Chief Justice Richard Pepys. ↩

Anne, daughter of Sir John Harrison, of Balls, Herts, born in Hart Street, St. Olave’s, March 25th, 1625; married Richard Fanshawe, May 18th, 1644. Her memoirs of her husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, were first printed in 1829. She died January 30th, 1679⁠–⁠80. ↩

The Royal James (previously The Richard) was a second-rate of seventy guns, built at Woolwich, by Christopher Pett, in 1658. There was another second-rate of sixty guns named The James, which was built at Deptford, by Peter Pett, in 1633 (see List of the Royal Navy in 1660, Archæologia, vol. xlviii, p. 167). ↩

Daniell O’Neille (as he himself signed his name), son of Con. O’Niel and nephew of the celebrated Irish leader General Owen O’Niel, was a wealthy man of good family, who was active during the Civil War in support of Charles I. He was concerned in 1641 with Digby, Wilmot, Goring, and Ashburnham, in the “Army Plot,” the object of which was to support the king, uphold the church, and overawe the parliament. He was placed in the Tower, but managed to escape in woman’s clothes, and a few months later he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Horse under Rupert. At Marston he led Prince Rupert’s regiment of foot, and in 1658 he accompanied the Marquis of Ormonde in disguise to London, and remained there some time, holding meetings with the Royalists, and sounding them as to the prospect of a successful rising against Cromwell (see The Pythouse Papers, ed. W. A. Day, 1879, pp. lv-lvii, 25). A full description is given in O’Neille’s monumental inscription, in Boughton-Malherbe Church, Kent:

“Here lies the Body of Mr. Daniel O’Neale, who descended from that great, honourable and antient family of the O’Neales, in Ireland, to whom he added new lustre by his own merit, being rewarded for his courage and loyalty in the civil wars, under King Charles the First and Charles the Second, wth the offices of Postmaster General of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Master of the Powder, and Groome of His Majtyes Bedchamber. He was married to the right honourable Katherine Countesse of Chesterfield, who erected him this monument, as one of the last markes of her kindnesse, to show her affection longer than her weak breath would serve to express it. He died A.D. 1663, aged 60.”

This date must be incorrect, as Pepys records O’Neille’s death on October 24th, 1664, and is corroborated in his statement by a letter from Ed. Savage to Dr. Sancroft (Harl. MS. 3785, fol. 19). The monument is not now in the church, and it is therefore impossible to verify the inscription (see vol. iv, p. 273). ↩

Pepys mentions, on March 4th, 1663⁠–⁠4, “a new-fashion gun to shoot often, one after another,” but he does not mention Sir William Compton’s name in connection with it. ↩

Pepys gives some particulars about the Chest on November 13th, 1662.

“The Chest at Chatham was originally planned by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins in 1588, after the defeat of the Armada; the seamen voluntarily agreed to have ‘defalked’ out of their wages certain sums to form a fund for relief. The property became considerable, as well as the abuses, and in 1802 the Chest was removed to Greenwich. In 1817, the stock amounted to £300,000 Consols.”

Hist. of Rochester, p. 346

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The umbles are the liver, kidneys, and other portions of the inside of the deer. They were usually made into pies, and old cookery books contain directions for the making of “umble pies.”