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

by George Chapman, first published in 1607. The plot is taken from French history of the reign of Henry III. ↩

The Turkey or Levant Company was established in 1581. ↩

Mrs. Gosnell. ↩

This was the Cockpit adjoining Whitehall Palace. The Scornful Lady was a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, first published in 1616. ↩

This entry would appear to have been altered at a later date, as James Crofts or Fitzroy was not raised to the peerage and created Duke of Monmouth until February 14th, 1662⁠–⁠63. ↩

Edward Thurland, born at Reigate in 1606, and called to the bar by the Inner Temple on October 2nd, 1634; M.P. for Reigate, May, 1640, also in 1660 and 1661. Recorder of Reigate and Guildford, and appointed Solicitor to the Duke of York, when he was knighted. Baron of the Exchequer, 1673. Died December 10th, 1682. ↩

Mistake for Sir Matthew Hale, who, on Sir Orlando Bridgeman’s promotion to the Lord Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, was made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer on November 7th, 1662. ↩

There is a copy of Bering’s Latin songs in the British Museum, entitled, Cantica Sacra ad duas et tres voces composita. London 1662, folio. —⁠B. ↩

Hugh Audley died November 15th, 1662. Smyth, in his Obituary (p. 56), says he was sometime of the Court of Wards. There is an old tract called The Way to Be Rich, According to the Practice of the Great Audley, Who Began with £200 in 1605, and Died Worth £400,000, November, 1662. London, printed for E. Davies, 1662. ↩

1652, December 24th,

“Died John Daves, Old Jewry, broaker, a prisoner buried in St. Olave’s, Old Jewry: his son, Tho. Daves, a bookseller, was afterwards an alderman and Lord Mayor of London, enriched by the legacy of Hugh Audley.”

Smith’s Obituary, p. 33

—⁠B. ↩

Gracechurch Street. ↩

A jacobus was a gold coin of the value of twenty-five shillings, called after James I, in whose reign it was first coined. ↩

Alderman Backwell brought over the money. ↩

Henry Slingsby, Master of the Mint. —⁠B. ↩

Peter Blondeau was employed by the Commonwealth to coin their money. After the Restoration, November 3rd, 1662, he received letters of denization, and a grant for being engineer of the Mint in the Tower of London, and for using his new invention for coining gold and silver with the mill and press, with the fee of £100 per annum (Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting). ↩

French carrefour, a place where four roads meet. In two ordinances of the reign of Edward III, printed in Riley’s Memorials of London (pp. 300, 389), this is called the “Carfukes,” which nearly approaches the name of the “Carfax,” at Oxford, where four ways also met. ↩

Ironmongers’ Hall, on the north side of Fenchurch Street, was much used in the seventeenth century for grand funerals and funeral banquets. The present hall was built in 1748. ↩

Sir Richard Stayner’s body was buried at Greenwich on the 28th November. ↩

A small sea-vessel used in the Dutch herring-fishery. ↩

Third son of Sir Conyers Darcy, created by patent, August 10th 1641 Baron Darcy. ↩

The French Protestant Church was founded by Edward VI in the church of St. Anthony’s Hospital in Threadneedle Street. This was destroyed in the Great Fire, and rebuilt, but demolished for the approaches of the new Royal Exchange. The church was then removed to St. Martin’s-le-Grand, but this was also removed in 1888 to make room for the new Post Office buildings. ↩

The fashion of men wearing muffs appears to have been introduced from France in this reign. ↩

The ancient name for Algiers. ↩

Iron skates appear to have been introduced by the Dutch, as the name certainly was; but we learn from Fitzstephen that bone skates (although not so called) were used in London in the twelfth century. ↩

Pepys’s appointment as member of the Tangier Committee (see ante August 19th). ↩

Translated from the Cid of Corneille. ↩

Ianthe was Mrs. Betterton. ↩

Elizabeth Davenport having left the stage, her place was probably taken by Mrs. Norton (see ante, February 18th, 1661⁠–⁠62). ↩

Mrs. Pepys fell out with Sarah on the 22nd November (see ante). ↩

Jane Wayneman. ↩

Buttered ale must have been a horrible concoction, as it is described as ale boiled with lump sugar and spice. ↩

Reference is made to a young lady whom Balty St. Michel wished to marry on 11th September, 1661. ↩

Fine for the imprisonment of Field (see February 4th, 1661⁠–⁠62, and October 21st, 1662). ↩

William Lawes, the composer of psalms, was the elder brother of the more celebrated Henry Lawes. ↩

Andrew Rutherford, son of William Rutherford of Quarry-holes, went young into the French service, and became a lieutenant-general of that kingdom. At the Restoration he brought over an honourable testimony from the King of France, and was created a baron of Scotland, and in 1663 advanced to the earldom of Teviot for his management of the sale of Dunkirk, of which he was governor. He was afterwards appointed Governor of Tangier, and was killed by the Moors in 1664: dying without issue, his earldom became extinct; but the barony of Rutherford descended, according to the patent,