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to Sir Thomas Rutherford of Hunthill. —⁠B. ↩

Sir John Berkenhead, LL.D., F.R.S., political writer on the Royalist side, born at Northwich, Cheshire; servitor at Oriel College, Oxford, and afterwards Fellow of All Souls; M.P. for Wilton, 1661, and knighted the following year; Master of the Faculty Office, and of the Court of Requests. Died at Whitehall, December, 1679, and buried in the churchyard of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. ↩

See note 808. ↩

A tragicomedy, licensed May 27th, 1624, printed in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Works, 1647. Pepys does not appear to have seen it acted. ↩

Christopher Gibbons, son of the more famous Orlando Gibbons (who died June 5th, 1625). At the Restoration he was appointed organist to the King, and also to Westminster Abbey. He received the degree of Mus. D. in 1664 on the recommendation of Charles II, conveyed in an autograph letter to the University of Oxford. He died in 1676. ↩

William Brydges, succeeded his brother as seventh Baron Chandos of Sudeley, February, 1655. He died February, 1676⁠–⁠77. ↩

See ante, December 27th, 1661. ↩

James Crofts, son of Charles II by Lucy Walter, created Duke of Monmouth in 1663, Duke of Buccleuch in 1673, when he took the name of Scott. ↩

Edward, Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain. ↩

Lord Sandwich’s second son, who married afterwards Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley, by whom he was father of Edward Wortley Montagu, the husband of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Their daughter married John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, whose second son took the name and estates of Wortley, and was father of the first Lord Wharncliffe. —⁠B. ↩

The Bills of Mortality for London were first compiled by order of Thomas Cromwell about 1538, and the keeping of them was commenced by the Company of Parish Clerks in the great plague year of 1593. The bills were issued weekly from 1603. The charter of the Parish Clerks’ Company (1611) directs that “each parish clerk shall bring to the Clerks’ Hall weekly a note of all christenings and burials.” Charles I in 1636 granted permission to the Parish Clerks to have a printing press and employ a printer in their hall for the purpose of printing their weekly bills. ↩

Boulogne. These pictures were given by George III to the Society of Antiquaries, who in return presented to the king a set of Thomas Hearne’s works, on large paper. The pictures were reclaimed by George IV, and are now at Hampton Court. They were exhibited in the Tudor Exhibition, 1890. They have been engraved in the “Vetusta Monumenta,” published by the Society of Antiquaries. The set of Hearne’s works is now in the King’s Library, in the British Museum. ↩

George Morley, D.D., Bishop of Winchester, to which see he was translated from Worcester in 1662. He died October 29th, 1684, aged eighty-seven years. ↩

The national Christmas dish of plum pudding is a modern evolution from plum porridge, which was probably similar to the dish still produced at Windsor Castle. ↩

The first edition of Butler’s Hudibras is dated 1663, and it probably had only been published a few days when Pepys bought it and sold it at a loss. He subsequently endeavoured to appreciate the work, but was not successful. The edition in the Pepysian Library is dated 1689. ↩

See October 20th, 1662. ↩

Pepys saw the second part of Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes on July 2nd, 1661. ↩

The seven inmates all perished (Rugge’s Diurnal). Sir Thomas Alleyne was Lord Mayor in 1660. ↩

Thomas, Earl of Southampton. ↩

“On Monday last, betwixt two and three in the afternoon. His Majesty gave audience to the great Lord Ambassador, the great Duke and governor of Toulsky, Peeter, the son of Simon, surnamed Prozorofskee, to the Lord Governor of Coarmeski, John, the son of Offonassey, surnamed Zelebousky, and Juan Stephano, Chancellor, etc. Ambassadors from the Emperor of Russia. They passed along from York House to Whitehall through his Majesties guards who stood on both sides of the street, and made a lane for their more orderly procession.”

Mercurius Publicus, January 1st, 1662⁠–⁠63

—⁠B. ↩

Lady Anne Scott, daughter and heiress of Francis, second Earl of Buccleuch, married to the Duke of Monmouth, April 20th, 1663. ↩

By moyre is meant mohair. —⁠B. ↩

“Branle. Espèce de danse de plusieurs personnes, qui se tiennent par la main, et qui se menent tour-à-tour.

Dictionnaire de l’Académie

A country dance mentioned by Shakespeare and other dramatists under the form of brawl, which word continued to be used in the eighteenth century.

“My grave Lord Keeper led the brawls;
The seals and maces danced before him.”

Gray, A Long Story

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Coranto, from Italian corranta. A swift and lively dance.

“And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos.”

Shakespeare, Henry V, act iii, sc. 5

“A kinde of French-dance.”

Florio

Sir John Davies describes this dance in his poem on Dancing. ↩

The tune of “Cuckolds all a row” is given in Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. i, p. 341. ↩

Sir Henry de Vic of Guernsey, a connection of the Carteret family. He was for twenty years Resident at Brussels, and was created a baronet September 3rd, 1649. He was Chanceller of the Order of the Garter. He married his cousin, Margaret, third daughter of Sir Philip Carteret of St. Ouen, Jersey, and his