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when his wife began to recite Le Grand Cyrus in the coach, “and trembled at the impending tale.” —⁠B. ↩

There appears to be some error in these figures. —⁠B. ↩

St. Margaret’s. ↩

Dick Shore or Duck Shore, Limehouse (see note 881). ↩

In the margin of the MS. is this note: “This of Mr. Homewood ought to come in upon the first of June.” ↩

Robert, Lord Bruce, succeeded his father as Earl of Elgin, December 21st, 1663; created Earl of Aylesbury, March 18th, 1665. Died October 20th, 1685. ↩

Of Ravensworth Castle, Durham, succeeded his grandfather, the first baronet, 1650. He had three daughters. Died 1697. —⁠B. ↩

Kensington. ↩

Evelyn was in his garden when he heard the guns, and be at once set off to Rochester and the coast, but he found that nothing had been heard at Deale (see his Diary, June 1st, 1666). ↩

Sir Joseph Jordan, in a letter to Sir William Penn, dated “Royal Oak, June 5th,” 1666, writes:

“It is believed, that if Prince Rupert had been with us the first day, the enemy could not have escaped. But we must submit to the all-seeing Providence, who knows what is best for us. It is my part to praise my God that hath delivered me and this ship wonderfully, after so many days’ battle; the greatest passes, I think, that ever was fought at sea.”

Penn’s Memorials of Sir William Penn, ii, 390

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Bishop Wilkins’s “Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language” was published in 1668. ↩

Captain Robert Clark. ↩

Captain Philemon Bacon. ↩

Captain William Jennings, knighted soon after this engagement. ↩

Captain Francis Sanders. ↩

Sir Thomas Bludworth. ↩

A loyal officer in the army of Charles I, afterwards secretary to Anne Hyde, Duchess of York. His grandson, of the same name, was author of some plays and poems, and died in 1738. —⁠B. ↩

Ranger of Richmond Park. He was brother-in-law to the Edward Montagu killed at Bergen. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Thomas Harvey. ↩

John Coppin. He commanded the St. George, a second-rate, in this bloody conflict. ↩

Brother of Sir Robert Holmes, and afterwards Sir John Hohnes. He married Margaret Lowther. ↩

Margaret Brook, married to Sir John Denham, May 25th, 1665. George Brook, third son of William Brook, Lord Cobham, was attainted and executed for his share in Raleigh’s plot. He left a son, William Brook, who, having been restored in blood, and made a Knight of the Bath, espoused Penelope, third daughter of Sir Moyses Hill, of Hillsborough Castle, in Ireland, the ancestor of the Marquises of Downshire, by whom he had issue three daughters: first, Hill, who became the wife of Sir William Boothby; the second, Frances, described, on the lettering of her engraved portrait, as “Lady Whitmore.” She was the wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore, of Bridgenorth, second son of Sir Thomas Whitmore, of Apley, Bart. Her daughter, Frances, married William, grandson of Sir George Whitmore, of Balmes, mentioned by Pepys. See Dryden’s epitaph on her in his Works (Scott’s edit., vol. xi, p. 150): the third was Lady Denham.

Their mother, Lady Brook, surviving her husband, remarried Edward Russell, youngest son of Francis, fifth Earl of Bedford, whose sister was Countess of Bristol. Hence the relationship, or rather the connection, between the two families; for Hamilton (Mém. de Grammont) mentioning that les Demoiselles Brook assisted at all Lord Bristol’s fêtes, calls them ses parents. —⁠B.

The marriage of Sir John Denham to Margaret Brook took place in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Henrietta Maria Price, daughter of Colonel Sir Herbert Price, Bart., Master of the Household to Queen Henrietta Maria, and afterwards to King Charles II, maid of honour to the queen, who figures far from creditably in the Grammont memoirs. ↩

Sir Ellis Layton or Elisha Leighton (see note 2031). ↩

Mother or mauther, a wench. ↩

Sir Hugh Cholmley (see note 1486). ↩

Charnock (Biographia Navalis, p. 163) mentions a Sir John Du Tiel, said to have been of French extraction and a knight of Malta. The Duke of York took Captain Du Tell into his service as Yeoman of the Cellar and Cupbearer. This most improper step of the Duke of York is alluded to in the Poems on State Affairs, vol. i, p. 36, ed. 1703:

“Cashier the memory of Dutell, raised up
To taste, instead of death, his Highness’ cup.”

See July 27th, 1666. ↩

Louis de Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort in France, who served with the English fleet as a volunteer; Earl of Feversham in 1677. See note 2414. ↩

Professor Laughton (in the Dict. Nat. Biog.) shows cause for doubting the correctness of this statement. ↩

A comedy, by Thomas Middleton, acted at the Blackfriars, and published in 1661. ↩

This treatment seems to have been that of the Dutch populace alone, and there does not appear to have been cause of complaint against the government. Respecting Sir W. Berkeley’s body the following notice was published in the London Gazette of July 15th, 1666 (No. 69) “Whitehall, July 15. This day arrived a trumpet from the States of Holland, who came over from Calais in the Dover packet-boat, with a letter to his Majesty, that the States have taken