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Lady Sandwich. ↩

The officers had been allowed to raise their houses. —⁠B. ↩

See note 1071. ↩

Lady Castlemaine repaired to Richmond Palace, the residence of her uncle, Colonel Edward Villiers (see Steinman’s Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 1871, p. 34). ↩

This was a MS. of ninety folio pages, entitled, A Brief Discourse of the Navy, and appears afterwards to have been in the possession of Sir William Penn. At the end is written, “Composed by Mr. John Holland 29º 7bris 1638.” Attached to the MS. is a note in the handwriting of William Penn the Quaker, of the date 1675⁠–⁠6, giving direction to a transcriber to make a copy of it for himself, but adding this prohibition, “I will part with no copy.” The transcript is now in the British Museum (Sloane MSS., No. 3232), and forms part of “Sir William Penn’s Naval Tracts,” but the author’s name at the end is omitted. —⁠Penn’s Memorials of Sir William Penn ii 530 ↩

The boy was born in June at Lady Castlemaine’s house in King Street. By the direction of Lord Castlemaine, who had become a Roman Catholic, the child was baptized by a priest, and this led to a final separation between husband and wife. Some days afterwards the child was again baptized by the rector of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, in presence of the godparents, the King, Aubrey De Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Barbara, Countess of Suffolk, first Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen and Lady Castlemaine’s aunt. The entry in the register of St. Margaret’s is as follows: “1662 June 18 Charles Palmer Ld Limbricke, s. to ye right honorble Roger Earl of Castlemaine by Barbara” (Steinman’s Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 1871, p. 33). The child was afterwards called Charles Fitzroy, and was created Duke of Southampton in 1674. He succeeded his mother in the dukedom of Cleveland in 1709, and died 1730. ↩

There was no Duchess of Suffolk at this time. The lady referred to was Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, widow of Richard Wenman, eldest son of Philip, third Viscount Wenman, an Irish peer, and second wife of James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. ↩

“By the King’s command Lord Clarendon, much against his inclination, had twice visited his royal mistress with a view of inducing her, by persuasions which he could not justify, to give way to the King’s determination to have Lady Castlemaine of her household.⁠ ⁠… Lord Clarendon has given a full account of all that transpired between himself, the King and the Queen, on this very unpleasant business (Continuation of Life of Clarendon, 1759, ff. 168⁠–⁠178).”

Steinman’s Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland, p. 35

“The day at length arrived when Lady Castlemaine was to be formally admitted a Lady of the Bedchamber. The royal warrant, addressed to the Lord Chamberlain, bears date June 1, 1663, and includes with that of her ladyship, the names of the Duchess of Buckingham, the Countesses of Chesterfield and Bath, and the Countess Mareshall. A separate warrant of the same day directs his lordship to admit the Countess of Suffolk as Groom of the Stole and first Lady of the Bedchamber, to which undividable offices she had, with the additional ones of Mistress of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse, been nominated by a warrant dated April 2, 1662, wherein the reception of her oath is expressly deferred until the Queen’s household shall be established. We here are furnished with the evidence that Charles would not sign the warrants for the five until Catherine had withdrawn her objection to his favourite one.”

Addenda to Steinman’s Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland (privately printed), 1874, p. 1

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The old Tennis Court at Whitehall, built by Henry VIII, was converted by Charles II into lodgings for the Duke of Monmouth, and this garden was turned into the new Tennis Court, which was finished about the end of 1663. Captain Cooke, as Master of the Tennis Court, had apartments close by. (See Julian Marshall’s Annals of Tennis, 1878, pp. 86⁠–⁠88.) ↩

Mrs. Pepys’s father was Alexander Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, a scion of a good family in Anjou. Having turned Huguenot at the age of twenty-one, his father disinherited him, and he was left penniless. He came over in the retinue of Henrietta Maria, on her marriage with Charles I, as one of her Majesty’s gentlemen carvers, but the Queen dismissed him on finding out he was a Protestant and did not go to mass. He described himself as being captain and major of English troops in Italy and Flanders.

Wheatley’s Pepys and the World He Lived In, pp. 6, 250

He was full of schemes; see September 22nd, 1663, for account of his patent for curing smoky chimneys. ↩

There is a token of Angus Brian at the George, Holborn Bridge. Boyne’s Tokens ed. Williamson, vol. i, p. 630. ↩

Buckden, a village in Huntingdonshire, four miles southwest of Huntingdon. ↩

William Crofts, created Baron Crofts, of Saxham, in Suffolk, 1658, and died s. p. 1677. Governor to the King’s son (afterwards the Duke of Monmouth), who bore his name before he took that of Scott from his wife. ↩

Giles Rawlings occurs in an old household book of James, Duke of York at Audley End, as Gentleman of the Privy Purse to his Royal Highness, with a salary of £400 per annum. See August 19th, post. —⁠B. ↩

The game of shovelboard was played by two players (each provided with five coins) on a smooth heavy table. On the table were marked with chalk a series of lines, and the