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of twenty-four; some say of the smallpox; others, with Sir Richard Ford, say of poison. —⁠B. ↩

The son of a shoemaker, bred to the sea-service; he rose to the rank of an admiral, and was killed in the fight with the Dutch, June, 1666. —⁠B. See post, June 10th, 1666. ↩

Pepys refers to this place as Wood’s on July 26th, 1660. ↩

See note 2554. ↩

Alderman Edward Backwell kept on his business until 1672, when he was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer (see note 552). ↩

Norton died in August, 1666 (see post, August 29th, 1665). He appears to have left his widow a jointure of £800 a year. ↩

The Rev. John Meriton was instituted into the rectory of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, in 1663. ↩

Brentford. Mr. Povy’s country-house was The Priory, Hounslow. ↩

Mortlake. ↩

Captain Joseph Dobbins. ↩

Among the State Papers is a letter from the king to the Lord General (dated August 8th, 1665):

“Alderman Backwell being in great straits for the second payment he has to make for the service in Flanders, as much tin is to be transmitted to him as will raise the sum. Has authorized him and Sir George Carteret to treat with the tin farmers for 500 tons of tin to be speedily transported under good convoy; but if, on consulting with Alderman Backwell, this plan of the tin seems insufficient, then without further difficulty he is to dispose for that purpose of the £10,000 assigned for pay of the Guards, not doubting that before that comes due, other ways will be found for supplying it; the payment in Flanders is of such importance that some means must be found of providing for it.”

Calendar, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, pp. 508, 509

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“A form of Common Prayer; together with an order for fasting for the averting of God’s heavy visitation upon many places of this realm. The fast to be observed within the cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent, on Wednesday the twelfth of this instant July, and both there and in all parts of this realm on the first Wednesday in every month during the visitation.”

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 466

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Arrêt. The rupture between Alexander VII and Louis XIV was healed in 1664, by the treaty signed at Pisa, on February 12th. On August 9th, the pope’s nephew, Cardinal Chigi, made his entry into Paris, as legate, to give the king satisfaction for the insult offered at Rome by the Corsican guard to the Duc de Créqui, the French ambassador; (see January 25th, 1662⁠–⁠63). Cardinal Imperiali, Governor of Rome, asked pardon of the king in person, and all the hard conditions of the treaty were fulfilled. But no arrêt against the pope was set forth in 1665. On the contrary, Alexander, now wishing to please the king, issued a constitution on February 2nd, 1665, ordering all the clergy of France, without any exception, to sign a formulary condemning the famous five propositions extracted from the works of Jansenius; and on April 29th, the king in person ordered the parliament to register the bull. The Jansenist party, of course, demurred to this proceeding; the Bishops of Alais, Angers, Beauvais, and Pamiers, issuing mandates calling upon their clergy to refuse. It was against these mandates, as being contrary to the king’s declaration and the pope’s intentions, that the arrêt was directed. —⁠B. ↩

At the Treasurer’s house at Deptford, Sir G. Carteret’s official residence. ↩

Dagnams, about four miles from Romford, the seat of Lady Wright, widow of Sir Henry Wright, and sister of Lady Sandwich. In 1454 Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, died seised of the manors of Dagnams and Cockerells. In 1637 it belonged to Lawrence Wright, M.D., whose son Henry was created baronet by Cromwell in 1658, and by Charles II in 1660. The estate was devised by Anne (daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Wright), widow, first, of Sir Robert Pye, and afterwards of William Rider, to her cousin Edward Carteret, Postmaster-General, third son of Sir Philip and Lady Jemimah Carteret. The manor was sold in 1749 to Henry Muilman, and again in 1772 to Sir Richard Neave, who pulled down the old house (built by Sir Henry Wright), and built the present mansion on a new site. The present proprietor is Sir Thomas Neave, Bart. ↩

Salute = kiss. ↩

The erection of New Chapel, Broadway, Westminster, is ascribed to Dr. Darrell, prebendary of St. Peter’s, who in 1631 left £400 for the purpose; Sir Robert Pye, who added £500 to complete and furnish it and Archbishop Laud, who contributed £1,000 and some painted glass. It was not completed till 1636. Whitelocke mentions the burying ground under the year 1649. Christ Church (dedicated December 14th, 1843) has now taken the place of the New Chapel. ↩

The royal lodge of that name in Windsor Forest, occupied by Sir George Carteret as Vice-Chamberlain to the King. —⁠B. ↩

Probably Mrs. Burrows, of Westminster, whose husband, Lieutenant Burrows, died in the following December (see December 21st, 1665). ↩

Apparently Robert Stockdale, a contractor for naval stores. ↩

The hall here spoken of was converted into the archiepiscopal library by Archbishop Howley. ↩

James Marriott, “Keeper of the standing Wardrobe and privy lodgings at Hampton Court,” who succeeded to this post in December, 1664, on the death of Richard Marriott. Richard Marriott is referred to on May 12th, 1662 (see note 1412). ↩