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It is a pity that Pepys, instead of hazarding this absurd remark, did not tell us something more about the Duke of Albemarle’s wound, no other allusion to which has been found; but perhaps he was prejudiced by the hasty and ill-founded opinion of Lord Sandwich, who, as we have seen (Diary, 3rd May 1660), termed Monk a thick-skulled fool. In fact, that great man must have possessed no slight portion of worldly wisdom and common sense. Hallam, whilst differing from Hume as to Monk’s dissimulation, regards his conduct after the king’s return as displaying his accustomed prudence. This is not a feature in the character of a thick-skulled fool. Monsieur Guizot takes a similar view of Monk’s good sound sense. —⁠B. ↩

The Guinea House appears to be another name for the house of the Royal African or Guinea Company, which Pepys tells us on November 23rd, 1663, was situated in Broad Street. A later African House was in Leadenhall Street. ↩

Rebecca Alleyn, spinster (about eighteen), daughter of John Alleyn, was married to Henry Jowles, of Chatham, Kent, bachelor (about twenty-four), in August, 1662 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, col. 779}. In the note on p. 5 of vol. ii the husband’s name is, by mistake, printed as Jewkes. ↩

Sir Nicholas Gold, or Gould, created a baronet in 1660, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Garrard, Bart., of Lamers, Herts. She remarried Thomas Neal. See June 20th, 1664. —⁠B. ↩

A tragedy by the Hon. Edward Howard, now first acted, but not published until 1668. Oliver Cromwell was alluded to under the name of Damocles the Syracusan, and Hugh Peters is introduced as Hugo de Petra. ↩

When Egerton was Bishop of Durham, he often played at bowls with his guests on the public days. On an occasion of this sort, a visitor happening to cross the lawn, one of the chaplains exclaimed, “You must not shake the green, for the bishop is going to bowl.” —⁠B. ↩

Said to be written or translated by Francis Walsingham, the Jesuit. Arcana Aulica; or, Walsingham’s Manual of Prudential Maxims for the Statesman and the Courtier, London, 1652, 1655. ↩

He was buried in the church of Tattersett (St. Andrew), Norfolk. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Edward Turnour, born in Threadneedle Street in 1617; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1661⁠–⁠71; Solicitor-General, 1670; and Lord Chief Baron, 1671. Died March 4th, 1675⁠–⁠76. ↩

The real name of the knight was Elisha Leighton, whose brother Robert, Bishop of Dumblane, became, soon afterwards, the excellent Archbishop of Glasgow, and as such is more generally known. Their father, Alexander Leighton, was a rank Puritan, author of Zion’s Plea Against Prelacy, for writing which he had his ears cut off, and was exposed in the pillory in that state, with his nose also slit. Elisha was apparently euphonized into Ellis by the courtier son, who is described by Le Neve as one of the Duke of York’s servants. Pepys speaks of him as Secretary of the Prize Office, and adds, that he had been a mad, freaking fellow. See January 25th, 1664⁠–⁠65. —⁠B. Sir Ellis Leighton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, December 9th, 1663, and admitted on December 16th. ↩

Daniel Whistler, M.D., was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, May 20th, 1663. ↩

See ante, note 1892. ↩

Four lines in a different cipher. ↩

Blanch Apleton, in Aldgate Ward, is said by Stow to have been a manor belonging, in the reign of Richard II, to Sir Thomas Roos, of Hamelake, and that in 3 Edw. IV all basket-makers, wire-drawers, and other foreigners were permitted to have shops in this manor and not elsewhere within the city or suburbs. It is enumerated (9 Hen. V) in The Partition of the Inheritance of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, under the head of “London-Blaunch-Appulton.” Hall, in his Chronicle (ed. 1548), writes it Blanchechapelton. Stow says that in the 13th of Edward I a lane behind Blanch Apleton was granted by the king to be enclosed and shut up. The name was continued in a corrupted form as Blind Chapel Court. ↩

James Turner, a solicitor, commonly called Colonel Tumor, was hanged on January 21st, 1663⁠–⁠64, at Lime Street end, for robbing Mr. Fr. Fryon (sic), merchant (Smyth’s Obituary, p. 59). ↩

The three brothers, George Hamilton, James Hamilton, and the Count Antoine Hamilton, author of the Mémoires de Grammont. ↩

Sir Richard Ford was one of the sheriffs. Tumor’s speech at his execution has been printed. London, 8vo., 1663. ↩

Sir George Ayscue or Askew. After his return from his imprisonment he declined to go to sea again, although he was twice afterwards formally appointed. He sat on the court-martial on the loss of the Defiance in 1668. ↩

Francis Osborne, an English writer of considerable abilities and popularity, was the author of Advice to a Son, in two parts, Oxford, 1656⁠–⁠8, 8vo. He died in 1659. He is the same person mentioned as My Father Osborne, October 19th, 1661. —⁠B. ↩

Mrs. Mary Cherrett, called also Madame Cherrett, lived in the Piazza. (Rate Books of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden.) Mr. George Cherrett, milliner, and Susan, his wife, were living in the Piazza in 1689. —⁠B. ↩

The Indian Queen, a tragedy in heroic verse, by Sir Robert Howard and John Dryden. It was produced with great splendour, with music