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only daughter, Anne Charlotte, married John, Lord Frescheville. He died November 20th, 1671, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Charles Gerard, son of Sir Charles Gerard, created Baron Gerard of Brandon by Charles I, November 8th, 1645, raised a regiment of foot and a troop of horse, and distinguished himself in the king’s service during the Civil Wars. He was a gentleman of the King’s Bedchamber to Charles II, and captain of the Life Guards. Created Earl of Macclesfield, July 23rd, 1679. His wife, mentioned subsequently, was Jane de Civell, daughter of Pierre de Civell (equerry to Queen Henrietta Maria). He died January 7th, 1694. Not long after this Charles II affronted Lady Gerard, probably at the instigation of Lady Castlemaine (see March 7th, 1662⁠–⁠63). ↩

See ante, November 3rd, 1662. ↩

Davenant’s Company, called from being under the patronage of the Duke of York, the Duke’s Company, began to play at Salisbury Court Theatre on November 15th, 1660. The company removed to Portugal Row, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in June, 1661. Davenant’s Theatre is usually called the Opera, to distinguish it from the Theatre of the King’s Company. ↩

Mrs. Davenport, see note 1337. ↩

Thomas Allen (or Allin) of Blundeston, born 1612. He commanded a ship in the fleet that seceded to the Prince of Wales (Charles II) in 1648. He was appointed to command the Dover in 1660, and successively commanded the Plymouth, the Foresight, the Lion, and the Rainbow. He succeeded Lawson in command of the Mediterranean squadron in 1664. Elder Brother of the Trinity House, 1666; Comptroller of the Navy, 1671. Created a baronet in 1673 in consideration of his gallant services; Commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, 1678. Died 1685. ↩

Pepys saw Tom Killigrew’s play, Claracilla, for the first time on July 4th, 1661. ↩

Scar-fire or scarefire. An alarm of fire. One of the little pieces in Herrick’s Hesperides is entitled The Scar-Fire, but the word sometimes was used, as in the text, for the fire itself. Fuller, in his Worthies, speaks of quenching scare-fires. ↩

Pepys saw Twelfth Night for the first time on September 11th, 1661, when he supposed it was a new play, and “took no pleasure at all in it.” ↩

Sir Samuel Tuke, of Temple Cressy, colonel of horse in the king’s service during the Civil War, and afterwards engaged in the rising in Essex under Capel, Lucas, and Lisle. He became a proselyte to the Church of Rome about 1658; and on March 31st, 1664, he was created a baronet. He was one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society. He married Mary Sheldon, one of Queen Catherine’s dressers, and died at Somerset House, January 26th, 1673. His play, The Adventures of Five Hours, was founded on a play by Calderon, and undertaken on the suggestion of the king, who recommended him to adapt a Spanish play to the English stage. It was first published in 1663, and is reprinted in Dodsley’s Old Plays (Hazlitt’s edition, 1876, vol. xv). Evelyn refers to the play in his Diary (December 23rd, 1662), but by a slip of the pen attributes it to Sir George Tuke. ↩

See ante, December 16th, 1662 for account of the conversation with Sarah. ↩

The usual word at this time for a lover. We have continued the correlative term “mistress,” but rejected that of “servant.” ↩

The construction of this Mole or breakwater turned out a very costly undertaking. In April, 1663, it was found that the charge for one year’s work was £13,000. In March, 1665, £36,000 had been spent upon it. The wind and sea exerted a very destructive influence over this structure, although it was very strongly built, and Colonel Norwood reported in 1668 that a breach had been made in the Mole, which cost a considerable sum to repair. ↩

Epictetus, Encheiridion, i 1. See ante, September 9th, 1662 (note 1534). ↩

Francis Maynell or Meynell. See ante, September 18th, 1662 (note 1538). ↩

Apparently J. Scott and his wife Judith (née) Pepys). ↩

See ante, November 3rd, 1662 (note 1583). ↩

The seat of the Earl of Chesterfield was Bretby Hall. There is a good view of it by Knyff and Kip. It is no longer standing. —⁠B. ↩

Charles Pepys was second son of Thomas Pepys, elder brother of Samuel’s father. Samuel paid part of the legacy to Charles and his elder brother Thomas on May 25th, 1664. ↩

Mr. Ackworth held some office in Deptford Yard. —⁠B. ↩

The Elias was a fourth-rate of thirty-six guns. It was a Dutch prize. ↩

Citizen and grocer of London; most severely handled by Pope. Two statues were erected to his memory⁠—one in the College of Physicians, and the other in the Grocers’ Hall. They were erected and one removed (that in the College of Physicians) before Pope stigmatized “sage Cutler.” Pope says that Sir John Cutler had an only daughter; in fact, he had two: one married to Lord Radnor; the other, mentioned afterwards by Pepys, the wife of Sir William Portman. —⁠B. ↩

See ante, November 23rd, 1662. ↩

In earlier days Pepys noted for us each few pounds or shillings of graft which he annexed at each transaction in his office. ↩

On the 20th of August, the Duc de Créqui, then French ambassador at Rome, was insulted