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of York obtained for Edward Montagu the appointment of Master of the Horse to the Queen (see Grammont Memoirs). ↩

Colonel Bullen Reymes, M.P. for Weymouth, is referred to in a communication of Rich. Yardley, Mayor of Weymouth, January 2nd, 1664 (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 427). He died in 1673. ↩

Tilt (A.S. teld) represents a tent or awning. It was used for a cloth covering for a cart or wagon, or for a canopy or awning over a portion of a boat. ↩

Sons of Thomas Pepys, elder brother of Samuel’s father. Charles Pepys was subsequently master joiner at Chatham Dockyard. ↩

The parish church of St. Sepulchre’s was known as St. Sepulchre’s in the Bailey. The Quest House was rebuilt by Dr. William Bell, vicar from 1662 to 1683. Strype writes of this: “A new house, free to Dr. Bell’s successors, with a yard thereto. The use of a parlour, kitchen, and washhouse under the Quest-house that belonged to the parish for the said Bell’s time, he being at the trouble to build it, and brought £200 towards it; the use thereof reserved to the parish on public occasions of quest or burials.” ↩

One of the Banda Islands, which had acknowledged James I as its sovereign, but was afterwards forcibly seized by the Dutch. A series of letters from Sir George Downing to Lord Chancellor Clarendon (written at this time) is printed in Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. iii. These letters contain references to the Leopard, and on May 13th we read the plea of the United Provinces: “We have taken nothing from the king nor his subjects, nor hath he taken anything from us, nor do demand anything of us, and why then should we ingage ourselves, and spend our monies, to maintain the insolvencies of the East India Company?” (p. 322). ↩

Evelyn refers to Mr. Povy’s house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and particularly mentions the perspective painted by Streeter, as well as the ranging of the wine bottles in the cellar (July 1st, 1664). ↩

Grace, youngest daughter of Sir John Corbet of Stoke, Salop, who married Sir William Poulteney or Pulteney, of Mesterton, co. Leicester, who was knighted at Whitehall, June 4th, 1660. He was grandfather to William, first Earl of Bath. ↩

This was the gatehouse designed by Holbein, which had formerly been occupied as the residence of General Lambert. It was now appropriated to Lady Castlemaine. ↩

John Spencer, D.D., who died in 1695, was also the author of a celebrated work, De Legibus Hebræorum. His Discourse Concerning Prodigies first appeared in 1663; the second edition, of 1665, contains likewise a Discourse Concerning Vulgar Prophecies. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Southwell (born at Kinsale, Ireland, in 1635) was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, and afterwards entered at Lincoln’s Inn. On September 27th, 1664, he was sworn one of the clerks of the Privy Council, and was knighted November 20th, 1665. He was employed on several diplomatic missions, and retired from public business in 1681. William III appointed him principal Secretary of State for Ireland; and on December 1st, 1690, he was elected President of the Royal Society, an office which he held for five years. He died at his seat, King’s Weston, Gloucestershire, in 1702. There is a portrait of Southwell by Kneller at the Royal Society. ↩

Particulars of the loss at Tangiers is given in The Intelligencer, June 6th, 1664. ↩

The stage was covered in by a tiled roof, but the pit was open to the sky.

“The pit lay open to the weather for sake of light, but was subsequently covered in with a glazed cupola, which, however, only imperfectly protected the audience, so that in stormy weather the house was thrown into disorder, and the people in the pit were fain to rise.”

Cunningham’s Story of Nell Gwyn, ed. 1893, p. 33

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Major Fiennes, whose regiment formed part of the garrison of Tangiers. ↩

Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral for the Parliament, 1643⁠–⁠45, 1648⁠–⁠49. See June 29th, 1667, where this incident is again alluded to. ↩

Colonel Robert Blake took Taunton by surprise in 1644, and held it against two sieges by the Royalists until July, 1645, when it was relieved by Fairfax. Lyme Regis declared for the Parliament, and withstood a siege of seven weeks by Prince Maurice until relieved by the Earl of Essex. ↩

In a letter of Sir George Downing to the Earl of Clarendon, dated May 20th, 1664, he says “that he does not find Peter de Groot opiniatrative” (Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. ii, p. 331). ↩

For mention of the previous agreement that Pepys should have the refusal of Mr. Young’s place at the Wardrobe for his father, see June 3rd, 1661. ↩

Robert Bretton, D.D., vicar of St. Nicholas, Deptford (see note 1817). ↩

Mark Harrison was captain of the Elias in the fleet at Schevening attending Charles II on his return to England. ↩

William Prynne had published in 1628 a small book against the drinking of healths, entitled, Healthes, Sicknesse; or a compendious and briefe Discourse, prouing, the Drinking and Pledging of Healthes to be sinfull and utterly unlawful unto Christians⁠ ⁠… wherein all those ordinary objections, excuses or pretences, which are made to justifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of Healthes are likewise cleared and answered. The pamphlet was dedicated to Charles I as “more interessed in the theame and subject of this compendious discourse then any