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Killigrew and another to procure a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to the last groat.” The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date. ↩

For the account of this discreditable adventure, see February 22nd, 1661⁠–⁠62. ↩

This report of Don John’s death was not true. ↩

See note 1089. ↩

He was summoned to the House of Peers in 1641 (during his father’s lifetime) as Baron Digby of Sherborne. ↩

Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th, 1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published. ↩

Cardinal Mazarin. ↩

Anne of Austria. ↩

Amongst others Armand Frederick de Schomberg obtained this dignity. He was general of the English forces in Portugal, and created Duke of Schomberg in 1689. ↩

St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark. ↩

Mr. J. Biddulph Martin’s valuable work, The Grasshopper in Lombard Street, 1892, contains much information about Edward Backwell. “Backwell carried on business at the Unicorn in Lombard Street, adjoining the Grasshopper; but there is some obscurity on this point. Backwell seems to have occupied both these premises, and the Grasshopper is stated to have been formerly in the tenure or occupation of Edward Backwell, Esq., afterwards of Charles Duncombe, Esq.” (p. 31). Mr. Martin supposes that by “the other two” are meant “Pope’s Head Alley to the west, and the alley opposite Abchurch Lane to the east” (p. 185). The London Gazette of June 1st, 1682, contains the following notice: “The creditors of Edward Backwell, Esq., are desired to take notice that the said Edward Backwell hath published his proposals, and that they will be delivered to them or any they shall please send for them by Mr. Richard Snagg, or by some other person, at Mr. Valentine Duncombe’s shop, where the said Edward Backwell formerly dwelt in Lombard Street” (p. 191). See ante, note 552, and post, April 12th, 1669. ↩

Sir Allen Apsley (1616⁠–⁠83), eldest son of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower. He was a zealous Royalist, and commanded the garrison at Barnstaple in 1645. After the Restoration he was made falconer to the king and almoner to the Duke of York, in whose regiment he bore a commission. He was M.P. for Thetford, 1661⁠–⁠78. He died at his house on the west side of St. James’s Square, October 15th, 1683, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Evora, a city of Portugal, capital of the province of Alemtejo. According to the census of 1878 it had at that date a population of 13,046. ↩

See ante, June 7th, 1663. ↩

Mrs. Lemon was a daughter of Sir William Batten. ↩

Brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and almoner to the king. —⁠B. ↩

Kenrick Edisbury, Surveyor of the Navy, who died in 1638 (see ante, April 8th, 1661). ↩

Rebecca Allen, daughter of John Allen of Chatham, spinster, aged about eighteen, was married to Henry Jowles of Chatham (aged about twenty-four) in August, 1662 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 779). ↩

James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge, second son of James, Duke of York, born July 12th, 1663; created duke, August 23rd, 1664; K.G., December 3rd, 1666. Died June 20th, 1667. ↩

There were several well-known musicians of this name. ↩

Love à la Mode was published in 1663. The preface is signed T. S., which initials are supposed to represent T. Southland. ↩

Pepys may here refer either to Essay XLI (of Fortune) or to a chapter in the Advancement of Learning. The sentence, “Faber quisque fortunæ propria,” said to be by Appius Claudian, is quoted more than once in the De Augmentis Scientiarum, lib. viii, cap. 2. ↩

Barbara, second wife of James Howard, Earl of Suffolk, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, sister of William, Viscount Grandison, and widow of the Hon. Charles Wenman. She died December, 1681, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Sir Thomas Felton, Bart. There is a portrait of her at Audley Court. ↩

Wallingford House stood on the site of the present Admiralty: it was so called after Sir William Knollys, Treasurer of the Household to Queen Elizabeth and King James, Viscount Wallingford and Earl of Banbury. The first Duke of Buckingham of the Villiers family purchased the house from Lord Wallingford in 1621⁠–⁠22. When he was Lord High Admiral he established here the office of the Admiralty. During the Protectorate the office for granting passes to persons going abroad was kept here. ↩

There has been some doubt as to the Christian name of this actor, but Mr. R. W. Lowe proves conclusively that it was Henry, and not Joseph (Thomas Betterton, p. 72). “Henry Harris, of the city of London, painter,” was one of the contracting parties in the agreement for Davenant’s Company of November 5th, 1660. He left the company, and expected to be eagerly sought after by Killigrew, but the king prevented his attaching, himself to the other house, and he had in the end to rejoin Davenant’s, company. He acted Romeo when Betterton took Mercutio. This, as Mr. Lowe remarks, seems strange, considering that Pepys says Harris was “a more ayery man” than Betterton. One would expect the “airy” man to take the character of Mercutio. Mr. Lowe supposes that Harris died or retired about 16S2. ↩

Ben Jonson’s