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Kirke (afterwards married to Sir Thomas Vernon), who figures in the Grammont Memoirs as Miss Warmestre. ↩

Frances Theresa, eldest daughter of Dr. Walter Stuart (third son of Walter, Lord Blantyre), known as “la Belle Stuart,” the greatest beauty at Charles’s court. She married Charles Stuart, sixth Duke of Lennox and third Duke of Richmond, as his third wife. She died October 15th, 1702, without issue, having survived her husband thirty years. The story in the text was not true. ↩

Pepys must have had a bad attack of nettle-rash. ↩

Thomas Windsor-Hickman, created Lord Windsor of Bradenham, 1660; Captain-General and Governor of Jamaica, July, 1661, to February, 1663; Earl of Plymouth, 1682. Died November 3rd, 1687. ↩

For a note respecting the Elenchus Motuum of George Bate, M.D., see note 261. ↩

Sir William Wheler, of Westminster, was created a baronet, August 11th, 1660, with remainder to his cousin, Charles Wheler, who succeeded to the honour upon his death. He was then M.P. for Queenborough. —⁠B. ↩

See note, December 26th, 1661 (note 1279). ↩

Balthasar St. Michel’s wife. ↩

Edward Spragge, knighted for his gallant conduct as a captain in the first sea-fight with the Dutch in 1665, son of Lichfield Spragge, captain of horse and Governor of Roscommon, and Mary, second daughter of Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. After rendering many important naval services to his country, he was unfortunately drowned, on August 11th, 1673, whilst passing in a boat to the Royal Charles, from his own ship, which had been disabled in the action with Van Tromp. He was buried in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey, September 23rd, 1673. He left the bulk of his property to Dorothy Dennis and his three children by her who bore his name. (See Chester’s Westminster Abbey Registers, p. 182.) ↩

See ante, February 13th, 1662⁠–⁠63. ↩

A comedy by Sir Robert Stapylton, acted by the Duke’s Company in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Betterton and his wife both acted in this play. ↩

Dryden’s first play. Evelyn saw it at court, February 5th, 1662⁠–⁠63, the night (as appears from the original prologue) on which it was first acted. Dryden has a copy of verses to the Countess of Castlemaine on her encouraging his first play. —⁠B. ↩

Mrs. Stuart. ↩

The Court theatre was so far public that persons could get in by payment. ↩

Barber-Surgeons’ Hall is in Monkwell Street. ↩

Christopher Terne, M.D., born in Cambridgeshire; M.D. Leyden; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1655; Lecturer on Anatomy at Barber-Surgeons’ Hall, Assistant-Physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society. He lived in Lime Street, and died there December 1st, 1673. ↩

This famous picture, which is still in the possession of the Company, was exhibited at the Tudor Exhibition, 1889. It is supposed to have been planned by Holbein, but finished by another painter. There is no trace of Holbein’s hand in the heads on the left of the king. The picture appears to have been injured at the time of the Great Fire, and Pepys had some thoughts of buying it (see Diary, August 29th, 1668). ↩

The Royal Society. For notes on the Dutch and English yachts, see note 648 and note 784. ↩

This matter appears to have fallen through, as there is no evidence that Sir William Penn was joined with Sir J. Minnes in the office of Comptroller. ↩

Cooper, who taught Pepys arithmetic, and previously had been mate of the Royal Charles, was appointed master of the Reserve, August 7th, 1662, but he does not appear to have got on well with the captain, and in March, 1663, he was turned out of his place (see Diary, March 24th). The captain (Robert Holmes), although a very distinguished officer, was an unpopular man. Andrew Marvell called him the “cursed beginner of the Dutch Wars,” describing him as “first an Irish livery boy, then a highwayman, now Bashaw of the Isle of Wight,” who had “got in bonds and by rapine, £100,000” (Seasonable Argument, 1677). Holmes (born 1622) was knighted March, 1666. He died 1692, and was buried at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. ↩

Jane, wife of Lord Gerard (see ante, January 1st, 1662⁠–⁠63). The king had previously put a slight upon Lady Gerard, probably at the instigation of Lady Castlemaine, as the two ladies were not friends. On the 4th of January of this same year Lady Gerard had given a supper to the king and queen, when the king withdrew from the party and proceeded to the house of Lady Castlemaine, and remained there throughout the evening (see Steinman’s Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 1871, p. 47). ↩

Algernon Sidney, one of the Commissioners sent to Sweden and Denmark by Richard Cromwell in 1659. Pepys went to the Sound in the Naseby with Sir Edward Montagu. ↩

These letters are printed in Thurloe’s State Papers, vol. vii. One was from Charles II, and the other from Sir Edward Hyde. —⁠B. ↩

Henry Slingsby, see note 942. ↩

Peter Blondeau, see note 943. ↩

Thomas Simon. ↩

There were three brothers of the name of Rotier, all medallists, who were rivals of the famous Simon⁠—John, Joseph, and Philip. The last-named represented Frances Stuart (subsequently Duchess of Richmond), under the form of Britannia, on the