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

the house of his son-in-law. Sir Ralph Whitfield, in the Barbican, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Dr. Burnett’s advice to mee.

The Originall is fyled among my letters.

Take of ye Rootes of Marshmallows foure ounces, of Cumfry, of Liquorish, of each two ounces, of ye Mowers of St. John’s Wort two Handsfull, of ye Leaves of Plantan, of Alehoofe, of each three handfulls, of Selfeheale, of Red Roses, of each one Handfull, of Cynament, of Nutmegg, of each halfe an ounce. Beate them well, then powre upon them one Quart of old Rhenish wine, and about Six houres after strayne it and clarify it with ye white of an Egge, and with a sufficient quantity of sugar, boyle it to ye consistence of a Syrrup and reserve it for use.

Dissolve one spoonefull of this Syrrup in every draught of Ale or beere you drink.

Morning and evening swallow ye quantity of an hazle-nutt of Cyprus Terebintine.

If you are bound or have a fit of ye Stone eate an ounce of Cassia new drawn, from ye poynt of a knife.

Old Canary or Malaga wine you may drinke to three or 4 glasses, but noe new wine, and what wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales.

From a slip of paper inserted in the Diary at this place

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“Their Majesties were treated at Tilbury Hope by the Earl of Sandwich, returning the same day, abundantly satisfied both with the dutiful respects of that honourable person and with the excellent condition of all matters committed to his charge.”

The News, July 7th, 1664

—⁠B. ↩

Main = hand. ↩

This was Speght’s edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian Library. The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. It is not lettered. ↩

This fine portrait is still at Hinchingbroke, and in very good preservation. —⁠B. ↩

The mineral springs at Barnet Common, nearly a mile to the west of High Barnet. The discovery of the wells was announced in the Perfect Diurnall of June 5th, 1652, and Fuller, writing in 1662, says that there are hopes that the waters may “save as many lives as were lost in the fatal battle at Barnet” (Worthies, Herts). A pamphlet on The Barnet Well Water was published by the Rev. W. M. Trinder, M.D., as late as the year 1800, but in 1840 the old well-house was pulled down. ↩

For “owneth.” This sense is very common in Shakespeare. In the original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: “So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that oweth this girdle” (Acts 21:11) Nares’s Glossary. ↩

Near Salisbury, granted by Edward VI to Sir W. Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, for two lives, which lease determined in 1601, when it reverted to the Crown, and was conferred on the Duke of Albemarle, whose family got the estate after Lord Clarendon’s fall; for, according to Britton, Clarendon Park was alienated by Christopher, second Duke of Albemarle, to the Earl of Bath, from whom it passed, by purchase, to the ancestor of Sir Frederic Hervey Bathurst, Bart., the present possessor. In Lister’s Life of Lord Clarendon (vol. iii, p. 340) there is a letter of Sir Robert Hyde to Clarendon on the complaint respecting the trees, and in a note the author examines the complaint of the Chancellor. He writes: “There was, however (as appears from this letter), more reason for complaint than is admitted by Pepys; for at the very time the Commissioners sent down a person to mark standing timber for felling, there was a good deal of timber, the property of the Crown, lying on the estate unappropriated, which had been ‘felled diverse years’ before, and till this was used, the felling of other timber there was evidently unnecessary.” ↩

To provoke or affront a man to his face (Bailey’s Dictionary). ↩

A cipher. ↩

Their sixth son, James Montagu, who died unmarried. ↩

There were several Brewer’s Yards in London. This was probably the one by King Street, Westminster. ↩

Evelyn attended this lottery, which he seems to have held was a complete imposition. He wrote: “To London to see the event of the lottery which his Majesty had permitted Sir Arthur Slingsby to set up for one day in the Banqueting House at Whitehall. I gained only a trifle, as well as did the King, Queen Consort and Queen Mother for neere 30 lotts; which was thought to be contriv’d very unhandsomely by the master of it, who was, in truth, a meer shark” (July 19th, 1664). ↩

A comedy adapted from the Spanish by George Digby, Earl of Bristol, which was not printed. ↩

This was not so, as the Adventures of Five Hours was by Sir Samuel Tuke, although Downes (Roscius Anglicanus) says that the Earl of Bristol had a hand in this play. ↩

Among the State Papers is a receipt by Thomas Harper, of Gottenburg deals, etc., from Sir William Warren, dated “Deptford, July 27, 1664” (Calendar, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 653). Complaints, promoted by Sir William Batten, were subsequently made respecting this contract with Sir William Warren; and Pepys alludes to them in his “Defence” (dated November 27th, 1669), which is contained in one of the Pepysian manuscripts (No. 2554). ↩

Jonas Shish, master-shipwright at Deptford. There are several papers of his among the State Papers.

“I was at the funeral of old Mr. Shish, Master Shipwright of His Majesty’s Yard here, an honest and remarkable man, and his death a public loss, for his excellent success in building ships (though altogether illiterate) and for bringing up so