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and in 1665 made Keeper of the King’s Stores at Harwich. He died November 4th, 1668. He was an able antiquary, and left materials for a history of Herefordshire and of Harwich. There is a MS. by Silas Taylor in the British Museum (Addit. MSS., 4910). It formerly belonged to Sir John Hawkins, who describes Taylor as well skilled in music, and a composer of two anthems, which pleased the king. (See Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, vol. iv, p. 330, and Wood’s Athenæ.) Taylor published a treatise on Gavelkind in 1663. —⁠B. Aubrey gave an account of Taylor in his Lives of Eminent Men. ↩

“ ‘Demurrage’ is the compensation due to a shipowner from a freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time specified in the charter-party or bill of lading. It is in fact an extended freight. A ship, unjustly detained as a prize is entitled to ‘demurrage.’ ”

Smyth’s Sailor’s Word-Book, 1867

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John Barclay (1582⁠–⁠1621), author of the admirable and once popular romance Argenis. It is not to the credit of the readers of the present day that the book is now almost forgotten. ↩

William Berkeley (1639⁠–⁠1666), third son of Sir Charles Berkeley of Bruton, second Viscount Fitzharding in the Irish peerage, and younger brother of Charles, Earl of Falmouth. He shared with his brother the favour of the Duke of York. He was Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, 1662; Captain of the Bonaventure in the same year; Captain of the Bristol, 1663; Captain of the Resolution, 1664. Knighted October 12th, 1664, and in the following year appointed Rear-Admiral of the Red Squadron, of which Lawson was Vice-Admiral; Lieutenant-Governor of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth. He was killed in the engagement with the Dutch, June 3rd, 1666. The entry in the Burial Register of Westminster Abbey, August, 1666, runs as follows:

“Sir William Partly, who died honorably in his Majesty’s service at sea, and was imbalmed by the Hollanders (who had taken his body with the ship wherein he was slain) and sent over by them into England at the request and charges of his relations, was buried in the North aisle of the monuments near the door opening thereto.”

Chester’s Westminster Abbey Registers, p. 164

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There does not appear to be the slightest ground for connecting Sir William Penn with Quakerism, and all this random talk of Mr. Blackburn should be received with some incredulity. ↩

John Rushworth, born about 1607, clerk assistant to the House of Commons, 1640, and author of the Historical Collections. He died in the King’s Bench Prison, May 12th, 1690. ↩

Captain Thomas Oates of Morley, an old officer in the Parliamentary army. He and his son Ralph Oates head the list of the leaders of the Farneley Wood Plot (see ante, October 24th), It is strange that Pepys should call Captain Oates “a great discoverer,” a description specially appropriate to Titus Oates, but at this date the latter was only twelve years of age. Lord Braybrooke wrote, “The ‘great Discoverer who did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot,’ was probably Major Greathead, a Commonwealth officer, whom Oliver Heywood, in his Diaries, calls ‘that perfidious wretch, guilty of so much blood in the plot business’⁠—a severity of expression in which he did not often allow himself to indulge.” ↩

A hold:

“For if you side for love or money,
With crowns that have so oft undone ye,
The dev’l will get a hank upon ye.”

Hudibras Redivivus, part vi, 1706 (quoted in Nares’s Glossary)

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For note on Cornelius van Drebbel, see note 1357. ↩

The Milford was a fifth-rate of twenty-two guns, built in 1654 at Wivenhoe by Mr. Page. Its original name was Faggons (Archæologia, vol. xlviii, p. 174). ↩

A small volume by Abraham Cowley, entitled, Verses Lately Written Upon Several Occasions, was published at London in 1663. ↩

Pepys tells us on the 17th inst. that he had read the letter over to Mr. Moore. ↩

Jane Gentleman must not be confused with Jane Wayneman, who had previously been in the service of the Pepyses. ↩

The Earl of Southampton. ↩

See ante, October 24th, for note on the Farneley Wood Plot (note 1960). ↩

See ante, 17th inst., where we are told that Mr. Moore had the whole letter read to him (note 1990). ↩

Henry, fifth and youngest son of Sir Robert Killigrew, born 1612, M.A., Oxford, 1638, D.D., 1642, prebendary of Westminster, 1660, and Master of the Savoy, 1667. He was author of some plays and sermons. He died March 14th, 1699. His daughter Anne was the celebrated poetess. ↩

The “pretty boy” was Pelham Humfrey, and his anthem is printed in Boyce’s Cathedral Music. The other boys of Captain Cooke’s who could “do as much” were Michael Wise, John Blow, Thomas Tudway, William Turner, and Henry Purcell. (See Rockstro’s History of Music, 1886, p. 173.) ↩

The first part of John Rushworth’s Historical Collections was published in 1659, and an edition appeared in 1662. Henry Scobell’s Collection of Acts and Ordinances Made in the Parliament 1640⁠–⁠56 was published in 1658. ↩

“Bummary” is a synonym of “bottomry.” ↩

The Dutch church in Austin Friars. Pepys on September 29th, 1664, stated that Mr. Cutler had “bought all the Augustine Fryers.” ↩

Holehaven or Holy Haven, a creek on the south coast of Essex. Lobsters from Norway and Scotland are deposited here for conveyance up the Thames. ↩

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