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

play was to strike the coin on the edge of the table with the hand so that it rested between these lines. Shakespeare uses the expression “shove-groat shilling,” as does Ben Jonson. These shillings were usually smooth and worn for the convenience of playing. Strutt says (Sports and Pastimes), “I have seen a shovelboard table at a low public house in Benjamin Street, near Clerkenwell Green, which is about three feet in breadth and thirty-nine feet two inches in length, and said to be the longest at this time in London.” ↩

A village near Epsom. ↩

The Foresight was a fourth-rate of forty guns; it was built at Deptford, by Shish, in 1650. ↩

Barrow was store keeper at Chatham. ↩

The Sovereign was a first-rate of one hundred guns, built at Woolwich, by Captain Phineas Pett, sen., in 1637. ↩

Upnor Castle, Kent, was erected by Queen Elizabeth to defend the passage of the Medway. In 1677 the Dutch were prevented from going up the river by this fort. ↩

William Barker, who married Martha, daughter of William Turner, and widow of Daniel Williams. His son William was created a baronet in 1676. ↩

Hugh Cholmeley, afterwards the third baronet of that name; he was the second son of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, of Whitby (governor of Scarborough for Charles I), whose autobiography has been printed. This Hugh succeeded his nephew of the same name, who died a minor in June, 1665, after which date Pepys speaks of him by his title. In February, 1666, he married Lady Anne Compton, eldest daughter of Spencer, Earl of Northampton. He was afterwards, for some years, governor of Tangier, of which he published an account. He died January 9th, 1688. He was descended from a younger branch of that great family of Egertons and Cholmondeleys. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Daniel Harvey, M.P. for Surrey 1661, ambassador to Turkey 1668, who married Elizabeth Montagu. ↩

John Bland published in 1660 a quarto pamphlet of fifty-seven pages, entitled, Trade Revived, or a Way Proposed to Restore the Trade of This Our English Nation in Its Manufactories, Coin, Shiping, and Revenue. London, 1660, a copy of which is in the British Museum Library. ↩

Sir John Millicent, Bart., of Barham, in Cambridgeshire. ↩

When the first editions of this Diary were printed no note was required here. Before the erection of the present London Bridge the fall of water at the ebb tide was great, and to pass at that time was called “Shooting the bridge.” It was very hazardous for small boats. The ancient mode, even in Henry VIII’s time, of going to the Tower and Greenwich, was to land at the Three Cranes, in Upper Thames Street, suffer the barges to shoot the bridge, and to enter them again at Billingsgate. See Cavendish’s Wolsey, p. 40, ed. 1852. ↩

The Savoy Palace in the Strand, a considerable part of which existed so lately as 1816. —⁠B. ↩

William Bates, D.D. (born 1625, died 1699), called the “silver-tongued” divine. He was appointed to the living of St. Dunstan’s in the West, which he retained till the Act of Uniformity was passed. His farewell sermon was preached on the 17th of this same month, see post. He took part in the negotiations for the restoration of Charles II. ↩

The Common Prayer Book of 1662, now in use. ↩

Thomas Gouge (1609⁠–⁠1681), an eminent Presbyterian minister, son of William Gouge, D.D. (lecturer at and afterwards Rector of St. Anne’s, Blackfriars). He was vicar of the parish of St. Sepulchre from 1638 until the Act of Uniformity, in 1662, forced him to resign his living. ↩

Sir William Turner, Merchant Taylor, Lord Mayor of London, 1668⁠–⁠69. ↩

A mistake for Bludworth. He had been Colonel of the Orange Regiment of the Trained Bands. Lord Mayor, 1665⁠–⁠66. ↩

Where he was Dean of St. Patrick’s. He became Bishop of Limerick in 1663. ↩

Anthony Deane, eldest son of Anthony Deane, mariner of Harwich, Essex, was born about 1638, celebrated as a shipbuilder. He was appointed to Woolwich dockyard at the Restoration, and was subsequently master shipwright at Harwich in 1664, and at Portsmouth in 1668. In 1672 he was Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, and in 1675 Comptroller of the Victualling, and was knighted about that time. He was M.P. for Shoreham in 1678, and for Harwich in 1679 and 1685 (with Pepys), and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681. He was committed to the Tower with Pepys in 1679, and discharged in the following year. He died in Charterhouse Square in 1721 (see Duckett’s Naval Commissioners, 1889, p. 71). ↩

William Brouncker, second Viscount Brouncker of Castlelyons in the Irish peerage; created M.D., at Oxford, in 1647; Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Katharine, a Commissioner of the Admiralty, and Master of St. Catherine’s Hospital. He was a man of considerable talents, and the first President of the Royal Society. He died April 5th, 1684, aged sixty-four. There is a fine portrait of him, by Lely, at Hagiey (Lord Lyttelton’s), and another by the same painter in the rooms of the Royal Society. See post, March 24th, 1667. ↩

On St. Bartholomew’s day, August 24th, 1662, the Act of Uniformity took effect, and about two hundred Presbyterian and Independent ministers lost their preferments. ↩

The Forest of Essex was known from the beginning of the fourteenth century as Waltham Forest, and in later times as Epping Forest. It was described by Sir Robert