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

“Next these a sort of Sots there are,
Who crave more wine than they can bear,
Yet hate, when drunk, to pay or spend
Their equal Club or Dividend,
But wrangle, when the Bill is brought,
And think they’re cheated when they’re not.”

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The game of bob-cherry. ↩

According to the Bills of Mortality there was no reduction in the number of deaths. The total number of burials in the week ending June 20th was 611, of which number 168 died from the plague. ↩

Rear-Admiral Bancquert. ↩

Coventry’s letter to the Duke of Albemarle (dated June 4th, 1665), which was transcribed by Pepys, is printed in the Rev. John Smith’s Life, Journals and Correspondence of S. Pepys, vol. i, p. 85. ↩

Philip Carteret, afterwards knighted. He perished on board Lord Sandwich’s (his father-in-law) flagship at the battle of Solebay. —⁠B. ↩

Daniel Finch. ↩

In the Calendar of State Papers, 1664⁠–⁠65 (p. 239), it is stated that Coventry was knighted on March 3rd, 1665. ↩

In his will dated April 19th, 1665, Sir John Lawson requested that the pension of £500 settled upon him for life, which was promised to his daughters if he died in the service, might be divided equally between his two daughters, Elizabeth and Anna Lawson. On August 4th, 1665, a warrant was issued for grants to these two of a pension of £250 a year each (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, pp. 489, 502). ↩

Prince Rupert. ↩

King’s Head, corner of Chancery Lane. There is a token of “the King’s Head tavern at Chancery Lane end,” with a bust of Henry VIII. (Boyne’s Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, p. 554). ↩

Balthasar St. Michel (see note 199). His wife’s name was Esther. ↩

According to the Bills of Mortality, the total number of deaths in London for the week ending June 27th was 684, of which number 267 were deaths from the plague. The number of deaths rose week by week until September 19th, when the total was 8,297, and the deaths from the plague 7,165. On September 26th the total had fallen to 6,460, and deaths from the plague to 5,533. The number fell gradually, week by week, till October 31st, when the total was 1,388, and deaths from the plague 1,031. On November 7th there was a rise to 1,787 and 1,414 respectively. On November 14th the numbers had gone down to 1,359 and 1,050 respectively. On December 12th the total had fallen to 442, and deaths from the plague to 243. On December 19th there was a rise to 525 and 281 respectively. The total of burials in 1665 was 97,506, of which number the plague claimed 68,596 victims. ↩

The Queen-Mother never came to England again. She retired to her château at Colombes, near Paris, where she died in August, 1669, after a long illness; the immediate cause of her death being an opiate ordered by her physicians. She was buried, September 12th, in the church of St. Denis. Her funeral sermon was preached by Bossuet. Sir John Reresby speaks of Queen Henrietta Maria in high terms. He says that in the winter, 1659⁠–⁠60, although the Court of France was very splendid, there was a greater resort to the Palais Royal, “the good humour and wit of our Queen Mother, and the beauty of the Princess [Henrietta] her daughter, giving greater invitation than the more particular humour of the French Queen, being a Spaniard.” In another place he says: “Her majesty had a great affection for England, notwithstanding the severe usage she and hers had received from it. Her discourse was much with the great men and ladies of France in praise of the people and of the country; of their courage, generosity, good nature; and would excuse all their miscarriages in relation to unfortunate effects of the late war, as if it were a convulsion of some desperate and infatuated persons, rather than from the genius and temper of the kingdom” (Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. Cartwright, pp. 43, 45). ↩

Shooting London Bridge. See note 1490. ↩

There are several letters among the State Papers from Commissioner Thomas Middleton relating to the want of workmen at Portsmouth Dockyard. On June 29th Middleton wrote to Pepys, “The ropemakers have discharged themselves for want of money, and gone into the country to make hay.” The blockmakers, the joiners, and the sawyers all refused to work longer without money (Calendar, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 453). ↩

The arrangements for the marriage of Lady Jemimah Montagu to Philip Carteret were soon settled, for the wedding took place on July 31st. ↩

In the register of the Old Church at Greenwich is the following entry: “Sir John Lawson carried away, June 27th, 1665.” —⁠B. ↩

A Mr. Osbaldstone, grocer, clerk of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, died of the plague on September 22nd, 1665 (Smith’s Obituary, p. 67). ↩

There are several letters of John Buckworth among the State Papers, and one of these to Secretary Williamson is dated from Crutched Friars, November 2nd, 1664. He appears to have been engaged with Sir Richard Ford in some business connected with tin. ↩

The Dutch Admiral Bancquert or Banckart. ↩

Sic orig. The period alluded to is 1650, when the States-General disbanded part of the forces which the Prince of Orange (William) wished to retain. The prince attempted, but unsuccessfully, to possess himself of Amsterdam. In the same year he died, at the early age