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Daniel Whistler, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, took the degree of M.D. at Leyden, 1645; and after practising in London, went as physician to the embassy, with Bulstrode Whitlock, into Sweden. On his return he became Fellow, and at length President, of the College of Physicians. He was Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, 1648⁠–⁠57, and died May 11th, 1684. ↩

Jonathan Goddard, M.D., F.R.S., born at Greenwich about 1617. He had been physician to Cromwell, who appointed him one of the Council of State. Professor of Physic at Gresham College, 1655. Member of the first Council of the Royal Society. Died March 24th, 1674⁠–⁠75. ↩

Dr. Robert Hooke, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, and Curator of the Experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was one of the earliest and most distinguished members. He died March 3rd, 1702⁠–⁠3. ↩

Sir Thomas Harvey was appointed Extra Commissioner of the Navy in January, 1664⁠–⁠65, and succeeded Lord Berkeley. ↩

Apparently the wife of Christopher Battars, gunner of the Santa Maria. ↩

Battles or actions. ↩

“Oct. 8, 1667. The Lord Chancellor’s House, called ‘Clarendon House,’ is now almost finished. The chapel is quite completed, and was consecrated, when His Honour gave a rich Bible, the cover of which was of silver, and the Book of Common Prayer with the same covering, together with bowls and other vessels for the Sacrament, to the value of £1,000. A Sermon was preached that day by a Bishop.”

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Clarendon House was situated where Albemarle Street now stands on the west side was Berkeley House, where Devonshire House now is. The house on the east side, said to have been built by Sir J. Denham, was Burlington House. These three houses were the first buildings in this part of Piccadilly. ↩

Or hammock-battens: cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a vessel’s beams, from which to suspend the seamen’s hammocks. ↩

Paymaster John Fenn, with whom Pepys was afterwards so familiar as to call him Jack. ↩

Frances Jenyns, eldest daughter of Richard Jenyns, of Holywell House, St. Alban’s, born in 1648, maid of honour to Anne, Duchess of York, married 1st, George Hamilton, second son of Sir George Hamilton and brother of Count Hamilton (author of the Memoirs of Grammont) he was killed in battle, June, 1676; and 2ndly, Colonel Richard Talbot created Earl of Tyrconnel in 1685. In 1689 the unacknowledged dukedom of Tyrconnel was conferred on him. He died August 14th, 1691. She died at Dublin, March 6th, 1730⁠–⁠31. ↩

This adventure is related in the Grammont Memoirs, chap. x. ↩

Philip Carteret was elected a Fellow at this meeting. Hooke and Boyle exhibited several experiments. ↩

Similar reports of the cruelty of the English to the Dutch in Guinea were credited in Holland, and were related by Downing in a letter to Clarendon from the Hague, dated April 14th, 1665 (Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. iii, p. 374). ↩

See note 1015. ↩

Hooke’s lecture was probably delivered by him as Professor at Gresham College. Mr. J. R. Hind, F.R.S., writes (Nature, February 7th, 1884, p. 345): “We do not remember to have met with other reference to this opinion of Hooke’s, though probably such must exist, and it is not easy to explain upon what grounds he founded the idea.⁠ ⁠… The comet referred to was the third of 1618. It was observed by Harriot at Sion House, Isleworth.” At the meeting of the Royal Society, a letter from Huyghens was read, in which that philosopher referred to “his agreement with Dr. Wren about the place of the comet.” In reference to this it was resolved, “That Mr. Hooke should extract out of his lecture a discourse upon the late comet, and fit it for the press” (Birch’s History, vol. ii, p. 19). ↩

Philip Carteret and Sir Nicholas Slaning, K.B., who married a daughter of Sir George Carteret. ↩

At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 1st, “Mr. Evelyn’s paper, intitled Panificium; or the several manners of making bread in France, etc., where by general consent the best bread is eaten, was read, and ordered to be registered” (Birch’s History, vol. ii, p. 19). ↩

In a letter to Secretary Bennet, dated March 9th, reference is made of “a rumour in the City that the aldermen and several companies will build the king a ship to be called the London” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 247). ↩

Dr. Henry King. See note 591. ↩

William Howe obtained the Muster-mastership. ↩

Of the harbour of Portsmouth. See February 18th, 1664⁠–⁠65. ↩

Holmes’s imprisonment in the Tower is mentioned by Pepys on January 9th, 1664⁠–⁠65, and see note 2286. ↩

“The experiment of trying to poison a dog with some of the Macassar powder in which a needle had been dipped was made, but without success.” Pepys himself made a communication at this meeting of the information he had received from the master of the Jersey ship, who had been in company of Major Holmes in the Guinea voyage, concerning the pendulum watches (Birch’s History, vol. ii, p. 23). ↩

John Harris, who supplied sails to the Navy Office. His contracts are referred to in the Calendars of State Papers. ↩

For Tangier. ↩

Henry Brouncker, younger brother of William, Viscount Brouncker, President of the Royal Society. He was Groom