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

invasion of Scotland in 1708, he was committed to the Tower, and died there in confinement in November, 1710. He married Lady Essex Howard, eldest daughter, and one of the two co-heirs of James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. Their grandson, Edward, third Lord Griffin, dying s.p.m., in 1742, the barony became extinct. —⁠B. ↩

The Law of Charitable Uses: wherein the Statute of 43 Eliz. chap. 4, is set forth and explained.⁠ ⁠… London, 1660, by John Herhe. A second edition, “much enlarged,” was published in 1663. ↩

Mary Pepys’s husband is mentioned again on December 11th of this year, but his name is not given. She died in December, 1667. ↩

Daniel O’Neale, third husband of Lady Catherine Stanhope, created Countess of Chesterfield after her first husband’s death. “Mr. O’Neale, of the Bedchamber, died yesterday, very rich, and left his old lady all” (Ed. Savage to Dr. Sancroft, October 25th, 1664, Harl. MS. 3785, fol. 19). See note 1461, where the monumental inscription quoted must be incorrect as to date. It is impossible to verify this, as the Rev. Howard A. Watson, rector of Boughton Malherbe, informs the editor that the monument no longer exists in the church. It appears, from a description in Hasted’s Kent, that the monument was injudiciously placed within the altar rails, where it was found so inconvenient that it was removed in the last century to allow room for the service of the altar. The Countess of Chesterfield died in 1666 (see Letters of Philip, Second Earl of Chesterfield, p. 33). ↩

“The Royal Catharine, of eighty-two guns. It was observed, that just upon her launching there appeared a fair rainbow, once the sign of a covenant betwixt God and the world, that it should never perish by water and we hope it will prove as auspicious to this vessel.”

The News, October 27th, 1664

On this day there was a meeting of the Royal Society, but the “greatest part of the members were absent, being gone to Woolwich, together with the King and Council and most of the Court, to see the great ship St. Catharine launched” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. i, p. 477, note). ↩

Katharine Boynton, daughter of Matthew, second son to Sir Matthew Boynton, Bart., of Barnston, Yorkshire. She became the first wife of Richard Talbot, afterwards Duke of Tyrconnel. ↩

Mary, daughter of Thomas, third Lord Fairfax, born 1639; married to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, September 6th, 1657. She has been described as “a most virtuous and pious lady in a vicious age and court.” Died 1705. ↩

He had built the ship. ↩

Thomas Foley, afterwards of Witley Court. He was the grandfather of the first Lord Foley, and died October 1st, 1677, aged fifty-nine. His portrait is engraved in Nash’s History of Worcestershire. —⁠B. ↩

Sir John Laurence, afterwards distinguished for his great benevolence during the period of the great plague. The king and queen were present at the banquet (The Intelligencer, October 31st, 1664). ↩

Perhaps we should read Sir Thomas Bridges, who was made a K.B. at the Restoration (Kennett’s Chronicle). —⁠B. ↩

Reform, i.e. disband. See Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, September 2nd, 1651. “A great many younger brothers and reformed officers of the King’s army depended upon him for their meat and drink.” So reformado, a discharged or disbanded officer. —⁠M. B. ↩

Knees of timber (see note 1943). ↩

The Royal Charles was the Duke of York’s ship, and Sir William Penn, who hoisted his flag in the Royal James on November 8th, shifted to the Royal Charles on November 30th. The duke gave Penn the command of the fleet immediately under himself. On Penn’s monument he is styled “Great Captain Commander under His Royal Highness” (Penn’s Memorials of Sir William Penn, vol. ii, p. 296). ↩

Captain John Taylor was appointed Commissioner for Harwich, March 23rd, 1664⁠–⁠65, and he held the office until 1668. Sir William Coventry, writing to Secretary Bennet (November 14th, 1664), refers to the objections made to Taylor, and adds:

“Thinks the King will not easily consent to his rejection, as he is a man of great abilities and dispatch, and was formerly laid aside at Chatham on the Duchess of Albemarle’s earnest interposition for another. He is a fanatic, it is true, but all hands will be needed for the work cut out; there is less danger of them in harbour than at sea, and profit will convert most of them.”

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 68

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Thomas Middleton, whose title of Colonel appears to be due to his having held office in the Parliamentary army. He was appointed Commissioner for Portsmouth, January 3rd, 1664⁠–⁠65, which office he held until 1667, when he became Surveyor of the Navy. He retired in 1672. ↩

This was Sir William Davenant’s alteration of Shakespeare’s play, which was described by Downes “as being in the nature of an opera.” Malone says that it was first acted in 1663. It was not printed until 1673. ↩

This was a Committee of the Privy Council appointed to superintend navy affairs. ↩

The warrant for a commission appointing John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Sir John Buncombe, and Thomas Chicheley to execute the office of Master of Ordnance, void by death of Sir William Compton, is dated October 24th, 1664 (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 41). Sir John Duncombe was the son of Sir Edward Buncombe of Battlesden. He was knighted by Charles I while