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fautori et admiratori summo; D. D. D. H. Peacham.” There is a portrait of Prujean by Robert Streater in the College, which was purchased in 1873 of Miss Prujean, the doctor’s last surviving descendant. (See Dr. Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 1878, vol. i, p. 185.) ↩

This refers to a rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which took place on October 12th, and was known as the Farneley Wood Plot. The rising was easily put down, and several prisoners were taken. A special commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to York to try the prisoners in January, 1663⁠–⁠64, when twenty-one were convicted and executed. (See Whitaker’s Loidis and Elmete, 1816.) ↩

The eldest son of the infamous Earl of Castlehaven had a new creation to his father’s forfeited titles, in 1634, and died s.p. 1684. Hehadserved with distinction under the Duke of Ormond, and afterwards joined Charles II at Paris. —⁠B. ↩

Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640. He became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in which year he received the imperial crown. The Princes of the German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in the diet at Ratisbon. ↩

Edward Progers, younger son of Colonel Philip Progers, equerry to James I, was page to Charles I, and afterwards groom of the bedchamber to his son the Prince of Wales. He was banished from Charles II’s presence in 1650 by an act of the estates of Scotland, “as an evil instrument and bad counsellor of the king.” He died poor on January 1st, 1713⁠–⁠14, aged ninety-six. He is mentioned in the Grammont Memoirs as the confidant of the king’s intrigues. ↩

Second son of Richard Bateman of Hartington, co. Derby, who had been Chamberlain and M.P. for London. Sir A. Bateman was Sheriff, 1658, and Lord Mayor, 1663. He married Elizabeth Russell. His elder brother was Sir William Bateman, and his younger, Thomas, was created a baronet in 1664. ↩

The band succeeded the ruff as the ordinary civil costume. The lawyers, who now retain bands, and the clergy, who have only lately left them off, formerly wore ruffs. ↩

As the practice of eating with forks gradually was introduced from Italy into England, napkins were not so generally used, but considered more as an ornament than a necessary.

“The laudable use of forks,
Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy,
To the sparing of napkins.”

Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, act v, sc. 3

The guests probably brought their own knife and fork with them in a case. —⁠M. B. ↩

A drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes of white, with the addition of sugar and spices. Sir Walter Scott (Quarterly Review, vol. xxxiii) says, after quoting this passage of Pepys, “Assuredly his pieces of bacchanalian casuistry can only be matched by that of Fielding’s chaplain of Newgate, who preferred punch to wine, because the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in Scripture.” ↩

The City plate was probably melted during the Civil War. —⁠M. B. ↩

See in the Appendix the ambassador’s (the Comte de Comminges) account of the affront which he received, and the reparation afterwards made to him, recorded in a letter to Louis XIV, dated November 9th, 1663. ↩

The Lord Mayor’s “Show” was then after dinner. ↩

Little or nothing is known as to the particulars of the life of Ralph Greatorex, the famous mathematical instrument maker. Nothing is said in the few lines devoted to his life in the Dictionary of National Biography about his scheme for draining the fens. ↩

Shag was a stuff similar to plush. In 1703 a youth who was missing is described in an advertisement as wearing “red shag breeches, striped with black stripes.” (Planché’s Cyclopædia of Costume). ↩

Defend is used in the sense of forbid. It is a Gallicism from the French défendre. ↩

Thomas Allen was matriculated a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in December, 1648, but migrated to Caius College, of which he became a Fellow. He proceeded Bachelor of Medicine, 1654; Doctor of Medicine, 1659. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians, September 30th, 1659, and a Fellow, 1671. Dr. Allen was physician to Bethlehem Hospital, and died of dropsy in 1684 (Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians). ↩

Captain John Shales. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Edward Ford, son of Sir William Ford of Harting, born at Up Park in 1605.

“After the Restoration he invented a mode of coining farthings. Each piece was to differ minutely from another to prevent forgery. He failed in procuring a patent for these in England, but obtained one for Ireland. He died in Ireland before he could carry his design into execution, on September 3rd, 1670.”

Dictionary of National Biography

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Mary, daughter of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, married to the Duke of Buckingham in 1657. She died November, 1705, aged sixty-six, and was buried in Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ↩

Mrs. Walter Stewart. ↩

Silas Taylor, described by A. Wood as alias Domville, was a native of Shropshire, and educated at Oxford, and became a captain in the Parliament forces. Subsequently to the Restoration he was appointed Commissary of Ammunition at Dunkirk,