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Nicholas Lechmere, born September, 1613, called to the bar in 1641, and elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1655. He took the side of the Parliament, and was afterwards a staunch supporter of Richard Cromwell; but he made his peace with Charles II, and obtained a full pardon at Breda. At the age of seventy-six he was made a Baron of the Exchequer (May 4th, 1689), and knighted. He died April 30th, 1701. ↩

Mary Saunderson, famous for acting the character of Ianthe in Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes. The marriage licence of “Thomas Betterton, bachelor, of Westminster, aged about 30, and Mary Saunderson, of St. Giles, Cripplegate, spinster, about 25,” is dated December 24th, 1662. See Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 123. ↩

The burial of Elizabeth, daughter of John Dekins or Dickens, is recorded in the parish register of All Hallows, Barking, as having taken place on October 22nd. See ante, October 3rd. ↩

Lady Castlemaine. ↩

This passage, as well as one written on August 5th, 1662, for which he makes an excuse, is written quite plainly, and the manuscript is as neat as usual. ↩

There has been much confusion as to the name and parentage of Charles’s mistress. Lucy Walter was the daughter of William Walter of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke, and Mr. S. Steinman, in his Althorp Memoirs (privately printed, 1869), sets out her pedigree, which is a good one. Roch Castle was taken and burnt by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, and Lucy was in London in 1648, where she made the acquaintance of Colonel Algernon Sidney. She then fell into the possession of his brother, Colonel Robert Sidney. In September of this same year she was taken up by Charles, Prince of Wales. Charles terminated his connection with her on October 30th, 1651, and she died in 1658, as appears by a document (administration entry in the Register of the Prerogative Court) met with by the late Colonel Chester. William Erskine, who had served Charles as cupbearer in his wanderings, and was appointed Master of the Charterhouse in December, 1677, had the care of Lucy Walter, and buried her in Paris. He declared that the king never had any intention of marrying her, and she did not deserve it. Thomas Ross, the tutor of her son, put the idea of this claim into his head, and asked Dr. Cosin to certify to a marriage. In consequence of this he was removed from his office, and Lord Crofts took his place (Steinman’s Althorp Memoirs). Lucy Walter took the name of Barlow during her wanderings. ↩

Now Mincing Lane. Stow writes, “Mincheon Lane, so called of tenements there some time pertaining to the Minchuns or nuns of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate Street.” ↩

Intended for John Barkstead, Lieutenant of the Tower under Cromwell. Committed to the Tower (see March 17th, 1661⁠–⁠62). ↩

Cold Harbour, in Upper Thames Street. The City of London Brewery (formerly Calvert’s), No. 89, Upper Thames Street, occupies the site. The name has not been satisfactorily explained. One explanation is that it is a corruption of Koelner Herberge, or inn of the Cologne merchants. ↩

Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, first Duke of Ormond, second wife of Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield. She died July, 1665 (see Mémoires de Grammont, chap. viii). Peter Cunningham thinks that this banishment was only temporary, for, according to the Grammont Memoirs, she was in town when the Russian ambassador was in London, December, 1662, and January, 1662⁠–⁠63. “It appears from the books of the Lord Steward’s office⁠ ⁠… that Lord Chesterfield set out for the country on the 12th May, 1663, and, from his ‘Short Notes’ referred to in the Memoirs before his Correspondence, that he remained at Bretby, in Derbyshire, with his wife, throughout the summer of that year” (Story of Nell Gwyn, 1852, p. 189). ↩

Sir Richard Stayner’s funeral is mentioned on the 28th of this month. ↩

Thus in the MS., although the amount was first stated as £7,000 (see October 30th, 1662). ↩

Painstaking. ↩

Dr. Ball was at this time rector of the parish of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, and in 1665 he became Master of the Temple. ↩

Henry Rich, second son of Robert, first Earl of Warwick, born about 1589; M.P. for Leicester, 1614. Created Lord Kensington March 8th, 1623. Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, March 19th, 1624. He was advanced to the earldom of Holland, September 24th, 1624; K.G., 1625. Beheaded by the Parliament, March 9th, 1649. ↩

Louis XIII, in 1624. ↩

John Swinfen, M.P. for Tamworth. ↩

John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, ancestor of the present Earl of Bradford. He died in 1652 at Moreton in Shropshire, the seat of his son Orlando, who is styled in the text incorrectly his brother. In 1660 Orlando Bridgeman was created a baronet, and in the patent he was described as of Great Lever, in Lancashire, a property near Wigan. Ashton Hall, near Lancaster, was another seat of the family. (See ante, October 10th, 1660.) ↩

See ante, October 17th, 1662. ↩

The two Gosnells. The Christian names of these two sisters are not known. No reference to the one who turned actress can be found in the ordinary sources of theatrical history. ↩

See ante, July 3rd, 1662. ↩

Francis Clerke, knighted May 28th, 1660; M.P. for Rochester. ↩

A tragedy