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

the king was a prisoner at Carisbrooke Castle. He was M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds in the parliaments of 1660 and 1661, and was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in 1667. In 1672 he became, on the resignation of Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Burnet describes him as “a judicious man, but very haughty, and apt to raise enemies. He was an able Parliament man, but could not go into all the designs of the Court: for he had a sense of religion and a zeal for the liberty of his country” (Own Time, vol. i, p. 437, ed. 1833). ↩

Sir William Penn, writing to Coventry, November 16th, 1664, says that one hundred and six men were put on board the Henry. ↩

See ante, November 7th. ↩

The Duke of Monmouth took the name of Scott in 1663 on his marriage to Lady Anne Scott, daughter and sole heir of Francis, Earl of Buccleuch. ↩

The publication of the romance of Cleopatra, by Gautier de Costes, Seigneur de la Calprenede, was commenced in 1646. Dunlop says of it: “The basis is historical, but few of the incidents are consistent with historical truth.” ↩

Arthur Annesley (1614⁠–⁠86) succeeded his father as second Viscount Valentia in November, 1660, and was created Baron Annesley and Earl of Anglesey in April, 1661. ↩

Pepys had “To be or not to be” set to music, and it will be found in his collection of Songs and Other Compositions (No. 2591), in the volume devoted to “Compositions, Grave.” ↩

The Elias frigate foundered one hundred and forty leagues from shore on the coast of New England. One hundred and twenty men were lost, and only twenty-one saved by the Martin. ↩

The Calendars of State Papers are full of references to applications for Commissionerships of the Prize Office. In December, 1664, the Navy Committee appointed themselves the Commissioners for Prize Goods, Sir Henry Bennet being appointed comptroller, and Lord Ashley treasurer. ↩

Thomas Foley, the ironmonger. ↩

Sir George Lane was secretary to the Duke of Ormonde, and his name frequently appears in the Carte Papers. He was created Viscount Lanesborough in the peerage of Ireland in 1676. ↩

William, second Viscount Brouncker of Castlelyons in the peerage of Ireland, was appointed an extra Commissioner of the Navy on December 7th, 1664. ↩

See ante, note 2327, for Coventry’s opinion of the objection to Taylor. ↩

Captain Sir Thomas Teddiman (or Tyddiman) had been appointed Rear-Admiral of Lord Sandwich’s squadron of the English fleet. In a letter from Sir William Coventry to Secretary Bennet, dated November 13th, 1664, we read, “Rear Admiral Teddeman with four or five ships has gone to course in the Channel, and if he meet any refractory Dutchmen will teach them their duty” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 66). ↩

See ante, note 2339. ↩

If they made the attempt to put to sea. —⁠B. ↩

Captain George Cocke was officially styled Receiver for Sick and Wounded and Prisoners. Evelyn refers to him as “our Treasurer.” ↩

Chocolate (see note 1043). ↩

This was probably at Vauxhall, where Morland lived for several years. ↩

John Vaughan, M.P. (see ante, note 2116). ↩

Psalms and Hymns, with the music in iv Parts by Tho. Ravenscroft, was published at London in 1621. ↩

Thomas Hill, a merchant, whom Pepys describes, in his Collection of Signs Manual, as “my friend, who died at Lisbon in 1675.” —⁠B. ↩

See ante, September 10th, 1664. ↩

According to Clarendon the officer here alluded to was a major in Cromwell’s own regiment of horse, and employed by him to treat with Charles I whilst at Hampton Court; but being convinced of the insincerity of the proceeding, communicated his suspicions to that monarch, and immediately gave up his commission. We hear no more of Huntington till the Restoration, when his name occurs with those of many other officers, who tendered their services to the king. His reasons for laying down his commission are printed in Thurloe’s State Papers and Maseres’s Tracts. —⁠B. ↩

Lord Annesly is an incorrect description of Arthur Annesley, first Earl of Anglesey, although in addition to his earldom he bore the title of Baron Annesley of Newport Paganel. ↩

On May 27th, 1666, Pepys refers to Mr. and Mrs. Norbury as his uncle and aunt. ↩

The word aunt may either refer to Mrs. Wight or to Mrs. Norbury. ↩

The William is frequently mentioned in the Calendar of State Papers, 1664⁠–⁠65. In November, 1664, Captain George Erwin was appointed commander of the ship. ↩

The French Protestant Church in Threadneedle Street (originally St. Anthony’s Hospital), burnt in the Great Fire. ↩

See ante, November 27th. Dr. Hueffer wrote (Italian and Other Studies), “Ravenscroft belonged to an earlier generation of musicians, and Mr. Pepys might well find his style a trifle monotonous compared with the Italian and French songs he was wont to listen to. But apart from this, and looking upon Ravenscroft in connection with the writers of his own time, the modest censure of the diarist will not be found without some show of reason. Thomas Ravenscroft was a theorist and a pedant of the deepest dye, as the very title of his absurd attempt at reviving obsolete practices of bygone days is sufficient to show. Here