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in the first year after Charles II’s restoration. In William Stow’s Remarks on London, 1722, it is said that Clarges the farrier set it up in honour of his daughter having arrived at the dignitv of Duchess of Albemarle, but the statement does not appear to have any authority. The maypole was of great height, but it was gradually reduced by storms of wind, and in 1717, when it was removed to Wanstead, there were only twenty feet of the pole remaining.

“Amid that area wide they took their stand,
Where the tall maypole once o’erlooked the Strand,
And now (so Anne and piety ordain)
A church collects the saints of Drury Lane.”

Pope’s Dunciad, book ii

St. Mary’s was the first finished of the fifty new churches to be built by Queen Anne’s act of parliament.

“What’s not destroyed by Time’s devouring Hand?
Where’s Troy, and where’s the Maypole in the Strand?”

Bramston’s Art of Politicks, 1731

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The theatre which the King’s Company under Killigrew had left for the new Drury Lane Theatre was in Vere Street, Clare Market, and had previously been occupied as Gibbons’s Tennis Court. ↩

This was known as “Blood’s Plot,” and was named after Colonel Thomas Blood, afterwards notorious for his desperate attack upon the Duke of Ormond in St. James’s Street (1670) and for his robbery of the crown jewels in the Tower (1671). He died August 24th, 1680. ↩

M.P. for Weobly, and one of the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak for Herefordshire. —⁠B. ↩

Mr. Beauchamp, the goldsmith of Cheapside, is mentioned on November 14th and 19th, 1660. ↩

See note 326. ↩

William Juxon, born at Chichester, 1582; educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and at St. John’s College, Oxford; Bishop-elect of Hereford, 1633, and promoted to London in the same year; Lord High Treasurer, 1635; attended Charles I on the scaffold, and at the Restoration was made Archbishop of Canterbury. Died June 4th, 1663. ↩

Archbishop Juxon was succeeded by Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London. ↩

Of Childerly, near Cambridge. —⁠B. ↩

Lady Jemima Montagu, daughter to the Earl of Sandwich. This match did not come off; she married Philip Carteret. ↩

It is not easy to say what Concordance this was. It may have been the one by Robert Wickens, published at Oxford in 1655. ↩

This may be the History of the Commons War of England from 1640 to 1662, published London, 1662. ↩

Robert Bretton, D.D., vicar of St. Nicholas, Deptford. He was also rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, and prebendary of Cadington Minor in the diocese of London. He died February 18th, 1671⁠–⁠2. John Evelyn highly esteemed him, and grieved at his death. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of John Walpole of Broomsthorpe, Norfolk, married Edward Pepys of Broomsthorpe, who died December 22nd, 1663. Samuel says she was the only handsome woman “of our name.” ↩

Sir John Hebden had been knighted by Charles II at Whitehall on May 30th of this same year. He had made a fortune in Russia by trade. ↩

Hebden had been Resident to the States General of the United Provinces in 1660. ↩

See ante, May 29th. ↩

Martha Batten, aged twenty-six, was married to William Castell, of Redereth Wall, co. Surrey, shipwright, widower, aged thirty-four. The marriage licence is dated July 2nd, 1663 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 254). ↩

Newman’s “Cambridge Concordance” was frequently reprinted, and held its own until it and all other concordances of the Bible were superseded by Cruden’s work. ↩

See note 828. Moore’s Arithmetic was first published in 1650. ↩

John Lacy in the part of Thumpe in Shirley’s The Changes, or Love in a Maze (see note 1425). ↩

It is necessary to note that this was according to the old style. ↩

A comedy by Sir Robert Howard, written in ridicule of the Puritans. ↩

Thomas Bellasyse, Viscount Fauconberg, married, 1st, Mildred Sanderson, daughter of Nicholas, Viscount Castleton, and, 2nd, Mary Cromwell, third daughter of the Protector. He was appointed one of the Council of State, 1657, and Envoy to France, 1658. Created Earl of Fauconberg, 1689, and died December 31st, 1700. Lady Fauconberg died in 1712. ↩

Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women attending the theatre, they became general. They soon, however, became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by women of repute. On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields called “The Misses’ Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masques at the Theatre.” Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several references to the use of vizard masks at the theatre in his interesting biography, Thomas Betterton. ↩

A dramatic pastoral by John Fletcher, first acted in 1610. ↩

Pepys continued through life an admirer of Chaucer, and we have the authority of Dryden himself for saying that we owe his character of the Good Parson to Pepys’s recommendation. ↩

In Water Lane, Great Tower Street. ↩

“In 1664, there being a general report all over the kingdom of Mr. Monpesson his house being haunted, which hee himself affirming to the King and Queen to be true, the King sent the Lord Falmouth, and the Queen sent mee, to examine the truth of; but wee could neither see nor heare anything that was extraordinary; and about a