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

epub:type="z3998:roman">I having resolved to have these fields laid out in walks like Moorfields, “by a patent of November 16th, 1618,” appointed a commission “to reduce Lincoln’s Inn Fields into walks.” The commissioners called Inigo Jones to their aid. He built some of the houses (on the western side), and it has been asserted that he gave to the ground plot of the square the dimensions of the base of one of the pyramids of Egypt, but this is incorrect. Improvements had also been made in the square in 1657. ↩

Harry Goldingham represented “Arion on a dolphin’s back” in the pageantry exhibited at Kenilworth in honour of Queen Elizabeth (see Thoms’s Anecdotes and Traditions, 1839, p. 28). ↩

George Digby, second Earl of Bristol, was very vindictive against Clarendon, and when he failed in his attack on that minister Charles II was very angry, and Bristol had to retire from Court and remain in concealment for a time. The Proclamation was dated August 25th, 1663. A copy of it is in the British Museum. ↩

Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669. The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat to Bombay in 1685⁠–⁠87. ↩

The Prerogative Will Office was situated in Paternoster Row (or rather in Ivy Lane) before it was transferred to Doctors’ Commons. ↩

See note 917. ↩

Only daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., and niece of Lord Sandwich, married to John Creed in 1668. ↩

Parson’s Drove is a village in Leverington parish, Cambridge, about five miles from Wisbeach. ↩

Explained in Murray’s New English Dictionary, as “one born and bred in a place, a native,” but no other quotation is given for the word besides this passage in the Diary. ↩

Watson, in his History of Wisbeach, p. 239, names some of the printed books in the library there, but does not mention any of the MSS. Secretary Thurloe’s gallery had been erected at the expense of the Corporation, out of gratitude to him for many services rendered to the town. It is now used for the general accommodation of the inhabitants. —⁠B. ↩

Biggleswade. ↩

Baldock. ↩

Sir John Colladon, M.D., was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians in December, 1664. He was naturalized 14 Car. II, and was one of the Physicians to the Queen (Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, vol. i, p. 321). ↩

Sir Edward Ford, of Harting, Sussex, Sheriff for that county, and Governor of Arundel Castle in 1642. Ob. 1670. His only daughter married Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Werke. He was the author of a tract, entitled, Experimental Proposals how the King may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets, with ease to his people: London may be rebuilt, and all proprietors satisfied: money to be but at six percent, on pawns, and the Fishing Trade set up, which alone is able, and sure to enrich us all. And all this without altering, straining, or thwarting, any of our Laws, or Customs, now in use. 4to. 1666. Repr. “Harl. Miscell.,” iv, 195. Ford was High Sheriff of Sussex, adhered to Charles I, and was knighted in 1643. In 1658, he laid down pipes to supply parts of London with water from the Thames. The second and third Lords Braybrooke descend, in the female line, from his daughter, Catherine Ford, who married Ralph, Lord Grey of Werke, their maternal ancestor. —⁠B. ↩

The Patent numbered 138 is printed in the appendix to Wheatley’s Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In (p. 241). It is drawn in favour of John Colladon, Doctor in Physicke, and of Alexander Marchant, of St. Michall, and describes “a way to prevent and cure the smoakeing of Chimneys, either by stopping the tunnell towards the top, and altering the former course of the smoake, or by setting tunnells with checke within the chimneyes.” Sir Edward Ford’s name does not appear in the patent. ↩

According to Collins, Henry Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine’s second son by Charles II, was born on September 20th, 1663. He was the first Duke of Grafton. —⁠B. ↩

He lived in Hart Street, and the Navy Board had been in treaty for his house. —⁠B. ↩

Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella):

The name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise, De Magnete (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles pointing to its poles, as mariners’ compasses do to the poles of the earth. The term was adopted by other writers who followed Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe’s Magneticall Advertisements (Lond. 1616) shows: “Wherefore the round Loadstone is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth” (op. cit., p. 55).

Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him to propound the true theory of the mariners’ compass. In his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed for Cosmo de’ Medici. A smaller one contrived by