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In Chancery Lane, see note 600. ↩

This was afterwards changed, as it became common to adjourn the two houses over the Derby day. In May, 1849, the adjournment of the House of Commons was carried after a division. In 1892 the proposal to adjourn was negatived. ↩

Fox Hall or Vauxhall, see note 1436. ↩

Dennis Gauden, victualler to the navy; knighted when Sheriff of London, October 23rd, 1666. He was buried at Clapham, July 1st, 1688. ↩

John Gauden, D.D., born 1605, was appointed Bishop of Exeter in 1660, and translated to Worcester in 1662. He died on September 20th of the latter year. ↩

Mr. (afterwards Sir Dennis) Gauden was living at Clapham in 1655. The house mentioned in the text had its principal front facing the common, and an avenue from Wits’ Lane led to another front. After Gauden’s death the house was bought by William Hewer, and here Pepys died. It was pulled down about 1762, and on its site was built The Elms, sometime the residence of the late Sir Charles Barry, R.A. ↩

Sir William Russell, of Strensham, in Worcestershire, Bart., Treasurer of the Navy, 1618⁠–⁠27, 1630⁠–⁠42. He advanced £600 to Sir William Davenant in 1660⁠–⁠61, and had a share in the Duke’s Theatre. —⁠B. ↩

Pepys refers to his visit to this place when he was a boy and his cousin John Pepys was living here (see August 2nd, 1662). ↩

Epsom medicinal wells were discovered about 1618, but they did not become fashionable until the Restoration. John Toland, in his Description of Epsom, says that he often counted seventy coaches in the Ring (the present racecourse on the Downs) on a Sunday evening; but by the end of the eighteenth century Epsom had entirely lost its vogue. ↩

Yowell for Ewell. ↩

Nonsuch Palace was commenced by Henry VIII, and finished by the Earl of Arundel. From Lord Arundel Nonsuch passed to Lord Lumley, who subsequently sold it to Queen Elizabeth. James I settled the palace and park on Anne of Denmark, as did Charles I on Henrietta Maria. At the Restoration the palace was restored to the Queen Dowager. During the plague year of 1665 the house was fitted up for the offices of the Exchequer, and in 1670 it was granted by Charles II to the Duchess of Cleveland, who pulled down the palace, and converted the park into farms. ↩

Sir Edward Turner, M.P. for Hertford, was Speaker of this parliament. ↩

Husband to Martha Batten. ↩

A comedy by Alexander Green, published in 1663, but never acted. ↩

A mistake in the name, as Elizabeth died unmarried. This was Caroline, daughter of Sir George Carteret, who married Thomas Scott (only son and heir of Edward Scott, D.C.L.), of Scot’s Hall, co. Kent, knighted in 1663. He died about 1688, and his widow married Buncombe Abercromby. She died at Oxford, and was buried at Brabourne, December 2nd, 1722. Her portrait, after John Riley, is engraved in J. R. Scott’s Memorials of the Family of Scott of Scot’s Hall, 1876, p. 238. ↩

The marriage licence of Thomas Scott, of Scot’s Hall, co. Kent, bachelor, about twenty, and Dame Carolina de Carterett, about fifteen, is dated July 16th, 1663 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 1197). ↩

Lady Catherine Scott, third daughter of George Goring, Earl of Norwich, and wife of Edward Scott, D.C.L., of Scot’s Hall, co. Kent. She lived twelve years apart from her husband, and it was during this period that she was supposed to have been too intimate with Prince Rupert. Proceedings instituted by her husband in the Ecclesiastical Courts for a divorce were afterwards withdrawn, and before his death and in his will he acknowledged his son Thomas and left him heir to his estate. He died at Scot’s Hall, and was buried at Smeeth, May 22nd, 1663. Lady Catherine Scott died in 1686. ↩

Anne, Sir George’s eldest daughter, married Sir Nicholas Slaning, K.B. ↩

There is a considerable amount of information concerning Petty’s double-keeled boat in Birch’s History of the Royal Society (vol. i). On November 12th, 1662, “Sir William Petty’s letter to Lord Viscount Brouncker concerning his double-bottomed cylindrical vessel was read and ordered to be registered, and he was desired to prosecute this invention and to give farther notice of the success thereof upon trial of the vessel at sea” (p. 124). On November 26th, “Sir William Petty’s second letter to the Lord Viscount Brouncker was read, giving a farther account of his new ship; as also an extract of another letter of his to Mr. Graunt, who was desired to let Sir William know that the Society was well pleased with the invention” (p. 131). The matter was again brought up at the meeting of December 10th, when several letters from Sir William Petty wereread (p. 141). On January 28th, 1662⁠–⁠63, the report of the Committee appointed November 26th, 1662, to examine and give in an account of the matter of fact concerning the structure and sailing of Sir William Petty’s new ship was read, followed by a report of its sailing on Twelfth Day (p. 183). Lord Braybrooke noted that amongst the Sloane MSS. in the British Museum there is an English satirical poem on this vessel, the title of which is, In laudem Navis Geminæ e portu Dublinii ad Regem Carolum IIdum missæ. It contains three hundred lines, and is too long and