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

inscription: “John Game at the Coach and Horses in Aldgate” (Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 520). ↩

John Dawes, son of Sir Thomas Dawes of Putney. The marriage licence of John Dawes of St. Olave, Hart Street, bachelor, aged thirty, and Christian Hawkins, spinster, aged sixteen, is dated April 21st, 1663. It is stated that the bride’s parents were dead, but that she was living with her aunt, the wife of Rickard of St. Olave, merchant, who gave her consent (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 386). ↩

Sir Andrew Rickard, an East India merchant, chairman of the East India and Turkey Companies, alderman and sheriff of London; knighted July 10th, 1662. He died very wealthy on September 5th, 1672, aged sixty-eight years, leaving one only daughter, married to John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton. The funeral took place at St. Olave’s, Hart Street, September 17th, where a monument was erected to his memory (Smith’s Obituary, p. 96). ↩

Pembleton. See May 8th, 1663. ↩

Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral for the Parliament, 1643⁠–⁠45, 1648⁠–⁠49. He died April 18th, 1658. ↩

This was the first Drury Lane Theatre. It is generally stated, on the authority of Downes’s Roscius Anglicanus, that Killigrew’s company opened this theatre on April 8th, but this passage proves that opening did not occur until a month later. The theatre was burned in 1672, and at once rebuilt. It was reopened March 26th, 1674. ↩

Somerset House was greatly improved at this time for the use of Queen Henrietta Maria. Cowley and Waller both wrote verses on “the Queen’s repairing Somerset House,” and Cowley makes the building say

“And now I dare
Ev’n with the proudest palaces compare.”

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Archbishop Ussher’s Body of Divinity, or Summe and Substance of the Christian Religion Catechistically Propounded, was first published in 1645, and several editions have since been issued. ↩

Drury Lane. See note 1770. ↩

Respecting this passage Dr. Hueffer wrote, in his article “Mr. Pepys the Musician” (Italian and Other Studies, 1883, p. 266), “Here at a very primitive period of dramatic music in England we find foreshadowed the idea carried out at the Wagner Theatre at Bayreuth, the idea of the invisible orchestra.⁠ ⁠… Mr. Pepys’s censure, it should be remembered, applies to a time when ‘musique,’ both orchestral and choral, was executed on a small scale; had he known the gigantic bands of modern days, perhaps he would have judged differently.” ↩

Walter Clun, famous in the character of Iago, acted the part of the Lieutenant at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, that is, if Downes is to be relied upon, but as he makes the mistake of fixing that occasion on April 8th, he may not be right as to this. ↩

The value of the piece of eight was fixed at 4s. 9d. ↩

As long as the game of Pall Mall was played in St. James’s Park the enclosed Mall was kept with great care:

“Here a well-polish’d Mall gives us the joy
To see our Prince his matchless force employ.”

Waller, a Poem On St. James’s Park as lately improved by His Majesty, 1661

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Robert, Lord Bruce, succeeded as second Earl of Elgin, December 21st, 1663, and was created Baron Bruce of Skelton, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, and Earl of Ailesbury, March 18th, 1665. He was a Privy Councillor and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II. He died October 20th, 1685, soon after his appointment as Lord Chamberlain to James II. ↩

Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton, succeeded his father, who had been created a baron by James I in 1645, and died, January 10th, 1683, leaving a son, the Hon. Ralph Montagu, afterwards Duke of Montagu. ↩

William Montagu was Attorney-General to the Queen, having been appointed to that office in June, 1662. He was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1676, but discharged from the office by James II in 1686 as not sufficiently subservient. He died, 1707, aged eighty-nine years. ↩

Montagu Bertie, who succeeded as second Earl of Lindsey in 1642. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Montagu, first Lord Montagu of Boughton. ↩

Charles and Thomas Porter. The latter was engaged in a fatal duel with Sir H. Bellasis; see July 29th, August 8th and 12th, 1667. ↩

An allusion to Aretin’s infamous letters and sonnets accompanying the as infamous Postures engraved by Marc Antonio from the designs of Julio Romano (Steinman’s Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, privately printed, 1871). ↩

The Earl of Southampton. ↩

Thomas Ross, Monmouth’s tutor, put the idea into his head that Charles II had married his mother. The report was sedulously spread abroad, and obtained some kind of credence, until, in June, 1678, the king set the matter at rest by publishing a declaration, which was entered in the Council book and registered in Chancery. The words of the declaration are: “That to avoid any dispute which might happen in time to come concerning the succession of the Crown, he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth’s mother, nor to any other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine, then living.” ↩

The conspiracy of Sir Charles Berkeley, Lord Arran, Jermyn, Talbot, and Killigrew to traduce Anne Hyde was peculiarly disgraceful, and the conduct of all the actors in the affair of the marriage, from Lord Clarendon downwards,