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

This word is blotted, and the whole sentence is confused. ↩

Thomas Hill married in the following year, and on July 14th, 1666, Pepys refers to the “young wife, and a blithe young woman she is.” ↩

Captain Robert Mohun, who eminently distinguished himself in the Dutch war, 1666. ↩

This statement of a total prohibition of all trade, and for so long a period as eighteen months, by a government so essentially commercial as that of the United Provinces, seems extraordinary. The fact was, that when in the beginning of the year 1665 the States General saw that the war with England was become inevitable, they took several vigorous measures, and determined to equip a formidable fleet, and with a view to obtain a sufficient number of men to man it, prohibited all navigation, especially in the great and small fisheries as they were then called, and in the whale fishery. This measure appears to have resembled the embargoes so commonly resorted to in this country on similar occasions, rather than a total prohibition of trade. —⁠B. ↩

Flags. ↩

Kept in commemoration of the martyrdom of Charles I. ↩

James Houblon, an eminent London merchant, remarkable for his piety and plainness. Two of his sons rose to great wealth, and became knights and aldermen. Sir James Houblon served in parliament for his native city. Sir John was Lord Mayor in 1695, and at the same time a Lord of the Admiralty and Governor of the Bank. The best account of the father is to be found in the subjoined epitaph, said to be written by Pepys.

Jacobus Houblon,
Londinas Petri filius,
Ob fidem Flandriâ exulantis:
Ex C. Nepotibus habuit LXX superstites:
Filios V. videns mercatores florentissimos:
Ipse Londinensis Bursæ Pater
Piissimè obiit Nonagenarius,
AD MDCLXXXIL

—⁠B. ↩

On his appointment as Reader in Law. See March 3rd, 1664⁠–⁠65. ↩

The masquerade at Court took place on the 2nd, and is referred to by Evelyn, who was present, in his Diary. Some amusing incidents connected with the entertainment are related in the Grammont Memoirs (chapter vii). ↩

Richard Butler, second surviving son of James, Duke of Ormond, born July 15th, 1639. He was created Earl of Arran in Ireland in 1662, when his father was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Baron Butler of Weston in the peerage of England in 1673. He died January 25th, 1685⁠–⁠86, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Louis de Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort in France, born 1638, naturalized in England, October, 1665, in which year he was a volunteer with the English fleet. Created Baron Duras of Holdenby, January, 1672⁠–⁠73; and succeeded his father-in-law, George Sondes, as Earl of Feversham, in 1677; K.G., July 30th, 1685; Master of St. Catherine’s Hospital, 1698; and died April 19th, 1709. ↩

Sir Richard Willis, the betrayer of the Royalists, was one of the “Sealed Knot.” When the Restoration had become a certainty, he wrote to Clarendon imploring him to intercede for him with the king (see Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. iii, p. 87). ↩

On May 10th, 1665, Symond Emison wrote to the Navy Commissioners, sending a list of twelve men on board the Kingfisher at Harwich (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 359). ↩

Thomas Barlow, Pepys’s predecessor as Clerk of the Acts, to whom he paid part of the salary. Barlow held the office jointly with Dennis Fleming. ↩

The Court and Character of King James, Written and Taken by Sir Anthony Weldon, Being an Eye and Ear Witnesse, was published in 1650, and reprinted in 1651 under the title of Truth Brought to Light. Weldon’s book was answered in a work entitled Aulicus Coquinariæ. Both the original book and the answer were reprinted in The Secret History of the Court of King James, Edinburgh, 1811, two vols. (edited by Sir Walter Scott). ↩

The Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts; or a Short History of the Rise, Reign and Ruin Thereof. By Sir Edward Peyton. London, 1652. Reprinted in The Secret History of the Court of King James, 1811. ↩

St. Lawrence Jewry. Dr. John Wilkins was vicar from 1662 to 1668, when he was appointed Bishop of Chester. He died November 19th, 1672, in Chancery Lane, and was buried, December 12th, in the church of St. Lawrence, under the north wall of the chancel. At this time the great Tillotson was lecturer at this church. Bishop Wilkins died at the house of Tillotson, who married his stepdaughter. ↩

Stoveing, in sail-making, is the heating of the bolt-ropes, so as to make them pliable. —⁠B. ↩

Richard Penn, second son to Sir William Penn, who died in April, 1673, and was buried at Walthamstow. ↩

For relation of the loss of the Royal Oak, see Rawlinson MSS., A. 195, fol. 180 (Bodleian Library). —⁠B. ↩

According to the minutes of the Royal Society for February 15th, 1664⁠–⁠65, “Mr. Pepys was unanimously elected and admitted.” Notes of the experiments shown by Hooke and Boyle are given in Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, p. 15. ↩

Sir Paul Neile, of White Waltham, Berks, eldest son to Richard Neile, Archbishop of York (see note 959). ↩

Sir Robert Moray, one of the founders of the Royal Society, and President before the charter was obtained. He was made a Privy Councillor for Scotland after the Restoration.