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

composed by Purcell. ↩

There is a token of this house extant: “Will Hinton at ye Golden fleece on Corne Hill 1666” (Boyne’s Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, p. 573). ↩

John Middleton, Earl of Middleton, general of the forces in Scotland. —⁠B. ↩

The king was greatly interested in the work of the Royal Society, but he liked to have his joke. An examination of Birch’s History of the Royal Society will show how much was done, and how many important investigations were opened up in the early years of the society’s history. ↩

Francis Menhil (Meynell or Maynell), goldsmith, was sheriff in 1661. (See note 1538.) ↩

Anne Marshall, a celebrated actress, and her younger sister Beck, are frequently mentioned by Pepys, who erroneously states that they were the daughters of a Presbyterian minister; Colonel Chester proved conclusively that this was not the case. Stephen Marshall, the eminent preacher, died November 19th, 1655, and at the date of his will five of his daughters were already married, three of them at least to clergymen; his remaining daughter, who proved the will and was unmarried, was named Susan (Westminster Abbey Registers, 1876, p. 149). See note 1337 on Mrs. Davenport. ↩

Mrs. Betterton, see note 1374. ↩

Apparently from the following licence they were already married:

“Edward Pickering (Pykering), of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, bachelor, about 35, and Mrs. Dorothy Weld, of St. Giles in the Fields, spinster, about 30, and at own dispose⁠—at St. Giles in the Fields, 28 Sept. 1663”

Chester’s London Marriage Licences, 1521⁠–⁠1869, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 1057

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Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621⁠–⁠1683) had been created Baron Ashley of Wimbome St. Giles in 1661, and therefore it was not correct to designate him Cooper at this date. ↩

This was the Rose, afterwards known as Will’s Coffeehouse, after William Urwin, the landlord, where Dryden had a chair reserved for him near the fireplace in winter, which was carried into the balcony for him in summer. It was on the west side of Bow Street, and at the corner of Russell Street. In earlier passages of the Diary Pepys speaks of going to Will’s, but as he here says that he went to this coffeehouse for the first time, that must have been some other place. ↩

Probably Alderman Clutterbuck, one of the proposed knights of the Royal Oak for Middlesex. There was a Sir Thomas Clutterbuck of London, circiter 1670. —⁠B. ↩

John Colet, dean of St. Paul’s and founder of the school; born 1466, died 1519. ↩

John Wilkins, born 1614, joined the Solemn League and Covenant, 1648. He married Robinia Cromwell, sister of the Protector, in 1659. Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, 1648⁠–⁠59; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1659; consecrated Bishop of Chester, 1668; died November 19th, 1672. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society. ↩

See note 1872. ↩

These two speeches are in the Entertainment at Rutland House, with which Sir William Davenant tried in 1656 to revive dramatic performances. We read, “The curtains are suddenly opened, and in the Rostras appear sitting a Parisian and a Londoner in the livery robes of both cities, who declaim concerning the preeminence of Paris and London.” After the Parisian has declaimed, and “after a concert of Music, imitating the Waits of London, the Londoner rises and answers.” ↩

Charles II followed his brother in the use of the periwig in the following April. ↩

Eldest son of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Chief Justice of Chester. He was created a baronet in 1642. ↩

Sir George Oxenden (died 1669) was then the chief factor of the East India Company. The chief seat of government was removed from Surat to Bombay in 1686. ↩

John Creed was elected and admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, December 16th, 1663. ↩

An opulent East India merchant, residing in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Evelyn dined with him there August 25th, 1676 (see his Diary). He says Sir John “was a merchant of small beginning, but had amassed £100,000.” ↩

The Earl of Sandwich had just moved to a house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Elizabeth Pickering, who afterwards married John Creed, was niece to Lord Sandwich. ↩

Mary, daughter of Henry Giffard, M.D., wife to George Nevill, ninth Earl of Abergavenny. ↩

The tables at which the king dined in public. —⁠B. ↩

See ante, February 1st, 1663⁠–⁠64. ↩

Randall Macdonnel, second Earl and first Marquis of Antrim. Died 1673 —⁠B. ↩

The Earl of St. Alban’s. ↩

It was reported that the “Handsome” Sidney was the father of the Duke of Monmouth, an opinion which was confirmed by the fact that each had a mole on the upper lip. ↩

Lord Braybrooke notes that this was Mr. Justice Waters, said to be “of the Temple” by Thurloe, but Mr. Steinman in his account of Lucy Waters (Althorp Memoirs) says that no brother of Lucy was alive in February, 1663⁠–⁠64. In the Prerogative Court entry, dated December, 1658, Anna Busfield, wife of John Busfield and aunt of Lucy Waters, is given as her next-of-kin. William Walter, who in 1663 was in the list of Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, is not known to have been any connection, and he certainly was not brother to Lucy Waters. ↩

George, Lord Digby, second Earl of Bristol, who had been Secretary of State 1643⁠–⁠49; but by changing his religion while abroad, at the instigation of Don John