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

by the Corsican armed police, a force whose ignoble duty it was to assist the Sbirri; and the pope, Alexander VII, at first refused reparation for the affront offered to the French. Louis, as in the case of D’Estrades, took prompt measures. He ordered the papal nuncio forthwith to quit France; he seized upon Avignon, and his army prepared to enter Italy. Alexander found it necessary to submit. In fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in 1664, Cardinal Chigi, the pope’s nephew, came to Paris, to tender the pope’s apology to Louis. The guilty individuals were punished; the Corsicans banished forever from the Roman States; and in front of the guardhouse which they had occupied a pyramid was erected, bearing an inscription which embodied the pope’s apology. This pyramid Louis permitted Clement IX to destroy on his accession. —⁠B. ↩

Lorenzo Imperiali, of Genoa. He had been appointed Governor of Rome by Innocent X, and he had acted in that capacity at the time of the tumult. —⁠B. ↩

Colonel Henry Honywood, of Little Archer’s Court River, Kent, who had taken up arms against Charles I. He was the son of Arthur Honywood, of Lincoln’s Inn and Maidstone, and had sepulture at Christ Church, Canterbury (Hasted’s Kent, vol. iv, p. 40). —⁠B. ↩

Françoise Louise de la Baume le Blanc, Duchesse de La Vallière, the beautiful mistress of Louis XIV, did not die till 1710. ↩

Cardinal Mazarin died March 9th, 1661. ↩

Ferrandin, which was sometimes spelt farendon, was a stuff made of silk mixed with some other material, like what is now called poplin. Both mohair and farendon are generally cheap materials; for in the case of Manby v. Scott, decided in the Exchequer Chamber in 1663, and reported in the first volume of Modern Reports, the question being as to the liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied against his consent to his wife, who had separated from him, Mr. Justice Hyde (whose judgment is most amusing) observes, in putting various supposed cases, that “The wife will have a velvet gown and a satin petticoat, and the husband thinks a mohair or farendon for a gown, and watered tabby for a petticoat, is as fashionable, and fitter for her quality.” —⁠B. ↩

1 Samuel, chap. xxiv v. 5, “And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.” ↩

The revels were held in the Inner Temple Hall. The last revel in any of the Inns of Court was held in the Inner Temple in 1733. ↩

William Owtram, D.D., a native of Derbyshire, rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, and minister of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 1664; Archdeacon of Leicester, 1669; and Prebendary of Westminster, 1670. He was eminent for his piety and charity, and was an excellent preacher. He died August 23rd, 1679, in his fifty-fifth year, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Dean Colet wrote the English rudiments for William Lilly’s famous grammar, which for so long a period was the standard school book at English grammar schools. ↩

The theatre built on the site of the present Drury Lane Theatre for the King’s Company under Thomas Killigrew was opened on May 7th (not, as usually stated, April 8th), 1663, when the company removed from the Theatre in Vere Street, Clare Market. ↩

Joseph Williamson, son of the Rev. Joseph Williamson, vicar of Bridekirk, co. Cumberland, Keeper of the State Paper Office at Whitehall, and in 1663 made Undersecretary of State. In 1664 he became Secretary of State, which appointment he filled for four years. Knighted January 24th, 1671⁠–⁠72. He represented Thetford and Rochester in different parliaments, and in 1678 he succeeded Lord Brouncker as President of the Royal Society. He married the widow of Lord O’Brien (Lady Catherine Stuart, sister and heir to Charles Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox). He died October 3rd, 1701, and left £6,000 to Queen’s College, Oxford, where he was educated, and at Rochester he founded a mathematical school, of which John Colson was first master. Buried in the Duke of Richmond’s vault, in Henry VII’s chapel. Evelyn gives, in his Diary (July 22nd, 1674), a rather unflattering portrait of Williamson, and calls him “absolutely Lord Arlington’s creature and ungrateful enough.” ↩

Mary Pepys, only daughter of Thomas Pepys of London, elder brother of John Pepys, Samuel’s father. The name of her husband is not known, and she is referred to in the Diary as Mary Pepys. Samuel seems to have been satisfied with the husband, who returned eighteen pence which had been paid him too much when the legacy was settled (see December 11th, 1664). She died December, 1667. ↩

James Duport, D.D., Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Dean of Peterborough, 1664, and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1668. Died in July, 1679, aged seventy-three, and was buried in Peterborough Cathedral. Evelyn, in his Diary (September 15th, 1672), describes him as “no great preacher, but a very worthy and learned man.” ↩

For Josiah we should read Joshua (see Joshua 24:15). ↩

Sir Thomas Willis, Bart., mentioned April 20th, 1660, possessed some property at Ditton, in Cambridgeshire, where he was buried, having died in 1705, in his ninety-first year. In 1679 he had been put out of the Commission of the Peace for that county for concurring with the Fanatic party in opposing the Court.

Cole’s MSS.

—⁠B. ↩

Winifred Wells, maid of honour to the Queen, who figures in the Grammont Memoirs. The king is supposed to have been father of the child. A similar adventure is told of Mary