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

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Mr. Morris had contracts for tar with the Navy office. ↩

Queenhithe is usually written “Queenhive” by our old dramatists. ↩

Louisa Marguerite Carteret, afterwards married to Sir Robert Atkins. ↩

Richard Butler, Earl of Arran (see note, vol. iv, p. 348). He married, firstly, Lady Mary Stuart, daughter of James, first Duke of Richmond and fourth of Lenox, who died in 1667 without issue (apparently the lady referred to in the text), and, secondly, Dorothy, daughter of John Ferrers, of Tamworth Castle, co. Warwick. ↩

The name is not given in the manuscript. ↩

Sir G. Carteret’s daughter. See note 1891. ↩

For note on Captain John Graunt and his work on the Bills of Mortality, see vol. ii, pp. 209, 210. ↩

Sir William Clarke. See note 2520. ↩

Balthasar St. Michel. ↩

Pepys wrote to Lord Hinchingbroke from the Navy Office on July 25th, 1665, to inform him that a ship of 36 guns would be at Calais on August 1st to take him to Dover. ↩

Sir William Killigrew, elder brother of Tom Killigrew. He was made a baronet about 1661. He wrote some verses and plays, and became Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen. He died about 1694. ↩

The new London being built to replace the old London by Captain John Taylor, Navy Commissioner at Harwich (see April 21st, 1666). ↩

Mary Batelier, the beauty, who kept a linendraper’s shop in the Royal Exchange. She and her brother William are frequently mentioned in the Diary. ↩

Mr. Gauden’s house at Clapham (see note 1882). ↩

“1665, Aug. 1. Mr. Wm. Proctor, vintner, at ye Mitre, in Wood Street, with his young son, died at Islington (insolvent). Ex peste.”

—⁠Smith’s Obituary, p. 64

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The marriage licence of Philip Carteret, of St. Peter-le-Poor, bachelor, aged 24, and Dame Jemima Montagu, spinster, aged 17, is dated July 29th, 1665 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 249). Pepys wrote to Lord Sandwich on August 7th, and in his letter he says, “After a fortnight’s acquaintance between the young people their marriage was completed on Monday, July 31st; present Sir G. Carteret, my Lady, and my Lady Slaning on their side, with my Lord Crew, Lady Sandwich, Lady Wright and all her family on your Lordship’s, and is the only occurrence of all my life I ever met with, begun, proceeded on, and finished with the same uninterrupted excess of satisfaction to all parties.” The letter is printed in Smith’s Life, Journals, and Correspondence of S. Pepys, vol. i, pp. 95⁠–⁠100. ↩

This curious experiment is referred to in most books of games and tricks, and a full account will be found in Brewster’s Natural Magic, p. 256. Lord Braybrooke added a note on the authority of Dr. S. R. Maitland respecting an experiment once tried in Gloucestershire on a very stout gentleman, the information respecting which he obtained from the late Mr. W. J. Thoms, founder of Notes and Queries. ↩

Lady Jemimah.

“This evening I accompanied Mr. Treasurer and Vice-Chamberlain Carteret to his lately married son-in-law’s, Sir Thomas Scott, to Scott’s Hall. We took barge as far as Gravesend, thence by post to Rochester, whence in coach and six horses to Scott’s Hall, a right noble seat, uniformly built, with a handsome gallery. It stands in a park well stor’d, the land fat and good.”

—⁠Evelyn’s Diary, August 2nd, 1663

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See note 2582. ↩

Haquenée = an ambling nag fitted for ladies’ riding. ↩

Brentwood, Essex, is still locally called Burntwood. ↩

He commanded a troop of horse in the Train-bands, 1662. —⁠B. ↩

Tilbury fort. ↩

Sir G. Carteret’s eldest daughter, Anne, married in 1663 to Sir Nicholas Slaning, K.B. —⁠B. ↩

This was probably Phil. Barrow, who was storekeeper at Chatham. ↩

The rescue of Colonel Danvers in Cheapside is mentioned in a letter from Sir William Coventry to Lord Arlington, dated August 7th, 1665 (Calendar of State Papers, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 506). ↩

The Duke of Buckingham did not die till 1687. ↩

Alderman J. Bence was secretary to the Royal African Society. ↩

Nonsuch Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was kept during the time of the plague. See note 1887. ↩

Christopher Pett wrote to the Navy Commissioners from Woolwich on August 15th, and in his letter he says, “It has pleased God to send the infection of the plague into the town, and two houses are already visited; fear it will be very mortal, will take every care to prevent it spreading to the yard” (Calendar of State Papers, 1664⁠–⁠65, p. 519). ↩

The court went in the following month from Salisbury to Oxford. This Milton may be intended for Milton Lilbourne, a parish in Wiltshire. ↩

The Sovereign of the Seas was built at Woolwich in 1637 of timber which had been stripped of its bark while growing in the spring, and not felled till the second autumn afterwards; and it is observed by Dr. Plot (Phil. Trans. for 1691), in his discourse on the most seasonable time for felling timber, written by the advice of Pepys, that after forty-seven years, “all the ancient timber then remaining in her, it was no easy matter to drive a nail into it” (Quarterly Review, vol. viii, p. 35).