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

The weapons were “backsword, single rapier, sword and dagger, rapier and dagger, sword and buckler, half pike, sword and gauntlet, single faulchion.” ↩

Judith Pepys, daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and wife of J. Scott. ↩

Bishop Rainbow (see note 1747). ↩

Joseph Moxon, hydrographer to King Charles II, author of Mechanick Dyalling, Mechanick Exercises, etc. In 1668 his shop was on Ludgate Hill, at the sign of the Atlas. In 1693 he had removed to Warwick Lane. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on November 30th, 1678, and admitted the same day. ↩

Or The Fatal Embarrassment, taken from Corneille. —⁠B. ↩

The Tangiers Merchant was a ship freighted by the Navy Office. ↩

In this case, Robartes v. Wynne, the plaintiff’s bill was in the end dismissed with costs. The following is found among the State Papers:

“Jan. 21, 1664. Order in the case of Rob. and Sara Robartes and their second child Chas. Bodville Robartes v. Sir Rich. Wynne, Bart., and others, relative to the will of John Bodville, who settled a large estate in cos. Carnarvon, Anglesea, and Merioneth, on his daughter Sara Robartes, and her son Charles, whom he educated, on which the Lord Privy Seal [Lord Robartes] settled £3,000 a year on Mr. and Mrs. Robartes; but Bodville was induced by the defendants, when his mind was impaired, to make a will in their favour. The order condemns the conduct of the defendants, but postpones for a year the reparation to be given to the plaintiffs, the case not being ripe for a final decree.”

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 450

On March 6th, 1664, Robartes petitioned the House of Lords. The House took the case up, and ordered the Lord Chancellor to make a speedy decree in the High Court of Chancery. Some protests followed this action (see Thorold Rogers’s Protests of the Lords, vol. i, p. 30). For account of the case, see Reports in Chancery, Charles I to 20 Charles II, London, 1693, p. 236; also Lords’ Journals, vol. xi, pp. 606, 608, 609, 630, 631. ↩

It appears that it was not only Sir William Batten who was dissatisfied with Hempson. The following is among the State Papers:

“Jan. 21, 1664. Commissioner Peter Pett to Sam. Pepys. Has sent Capt. Taylors bills. The price of Nath. London’s timber is too great. Fears Mr. Hempson is lost to the service; it is not the king’s interest to give such busy officers so great a liberty [of absence]”

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 449

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James Norman was clerk to Sir William Batten. ↩

There were several mum houses in various parts of London. One of Andrew Yarranton’s wild schemes, at this time, was to bring the mum trade from Brunswick, and fix it at Stratford-on-Avon. See his England’s Improvement. ↩

The Duke of York’s yacht built by Christopher Pett was named the Anne. ↩

See ante, March 28th, 1664. ↩

“May 13, 1664. Mr. Prynne having taken the liberty to alter the draught of a Bill relating to Public-houses, having urged in his excuse ‘that he did not do it out of any ill intent, but to rectify some matters mistaken in it, and to make the Bill agree with the sense of the house;’ the house ordered him to withdraw, and after debate being again called in, the Speaker acquainted him, ‘That the house was very sensible of this great mistake in so ancient and knowing a member as he was, to break so material and essential an order of the house, as to alter, amend, or interline a bill after commitment, but the house had considered of his answer and submission, and were content at this time, in respect thereof, to remit the offence’ ”

Cobbett’s Parliamentary History, vol. iv, col. 293

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At the Restoration William Ryley had been deprived of all his posts, including the office of Clerk of the Tower Records, which was given to Prynne. Ryley was originally made Lancaster Herald by Charles I, but he sided with the Parliament, and devoted himself to Oliver Cromwell. He was fortunate in being afterwards restored to the post of Lancaster Herald, which he held till his death in 1667, though he failed in getting back Prynne’s appointment. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., of Chichley, Bucks, Ryley had a numerous issue. Perhaps the son here mentioned was William Ryley, described by Prynne as of the Inner Temple in 1662 (see note 1274). —⁠B. ↩

Pepys does not say whether this experiment was in any way connected with the work of the Royal Society. About this time the minutes contain the following reference: “May 4, 1664. It was ordered that Dr. Croune, Dr. Balle, and Mr. Hooke take care at the next meeting to cut off some skin of a dog; and that the operator provide a dog for that purpose.” Several experiments at subsequent meetings are reported (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. i, p. 422). ↩

Pepys tried hard to get a husband for his sister Paulina, but for a time without success. Eventually she married John Jackson of Brampton. ↩

Captain John Shales. ↩

See December 23rd, 1662. Boyer, in his Life of Queen Anne, says that he was dismissed for offending her majesty by squeezing her hand. He is mentioned in the State Poems:

“Montagu, by court disaster,
Dwindled into the wooden horse’s master.”

Advice to a Painter, part i

It is said that the Duke