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

painted by him, the painting mentioned in the text was probably copied by Stone’s brother John. ↩

A proverbial expression when a person was either awed by threats, or overreached by subtlety, to give money upon a trifling or fictitious consideration.

Leon Mine honest friend, will you take eggs for money? Mam No, my Lord, I’ll fight. —⁠Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale, act i, sc. 2

(Nares’s Glossary.) ↩

As his conduct during the Great Fire fully proved, when he is said to have boasted that he would extinguish the flames by the same means to which Swift tells us Gulliver had recourse at Lilliput. —⁠B. ↩

The practice of impressment was sanctioned by custom, and several acts of parliament were passed from the reign of Philip and Mary to that of George III, to regulate it. These laws have not been repealed, although they have fallen into abeyance. ↩

The first Roxolana was Mrs. Davenport (see note 1337 and note 1420). Mrs. Norton is not mentioned in Genest’s English Stage. ↩

Mother or mauther, a wench. ↩

Francis Finch was one of the “Commissioners for discharging, settling and recovering the arrears of excise due to the King.” ↩

John Vaughan (born 1603, died 1674) was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1668, when he was knighted. See March 28th, 1664. ↩

Brome died June 30th, 1666, and was buried, by his own desire, under Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, by the side of Prynne. —⁠B. ↩

Mrs. Knipp. See January 5th, 1665⁠–⁠66. ↩

There is a blank space here in the MS. ↩

Charles Stuart, born on the 4th; created Duke of Kendal; died May 22nd, 1667. ↩

Goring House was afterwards named Arlington House, and stood on the site of the present Buckingham Palace. ↩

To Isabella, daughter of Louis de Nassau, Lord of Beverwaert and Count of Nassau, natural son of Prince Maurice. She was sister of the Countess of Ossory; her daughter by Lord Arlington was afterwards first Duchess of Grafton. —⁠B. ↩

Nan Hartlib. See July 10th, 1660. ↩

See Evelyn’s Diary, June 18th, 1670:

“Lord Stafford rose from table, in some disorder, because there were roses stuck about the fruit when the discert was set on the table; such an antipathy, it seems, he had to them as once Lady Selenger also had, and to that degree that, as Sir Kenelm Digby tells us, laying but a rose upon her cheek, when she was asleep, it raised a blister; but Sir Kenelm was a teller of strange things.”

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Of Albemarle. ↩

The manor of Lisson Green (originally Lilestone) was described at the end of the last century as “a pleasant village near Paddington.” The name Lisson Grove still remains. ↩

“Help, help, O help, Divinity of Love,” by Henry Lawes (see note 513). ↩

For which Pepys was to receive £500. —⁠B. ↩

Enrico Caterino Davila (1576⁠–⁠1631) was one of the chief historical writers of Italy, and his Storia delle guerre civili di Francia covers a period of forty years, from the death of Henri II to the Peace of Vervins in 1598. ↩

This portrait is now at Greenwich Hospital, and an engraving from it is given here. ↩

Twickenham, where Dr. William Fuller kept a school. He was translated to Lincoln in 1667 (see note 128). ↩

Afterwards made Treasurer of the Navy, in conjunction with Sir Thomas Osborne. He was the eldest son of Sir Adam Littleton, of Stoke Milburgh, Salop, who had been created a baronet in 1642. He married Anne, daughter and heir of Edward, Lord Littleton, the Lord Keeper, and died in 1681, aged fifty-seven. Sir Thomas Littleton, the only son of this match, became Speaker of the House of Commons, and deceased, s. p., in 1709. —⁠B. ↩

Sir William Penn’s instructions from the Duke of York directing him to embark on his Majesty’s yacht Henrietta, and to see to the manning of such ships has had been left behind by the fleet, dated on this day, 20th July, is printed in Penn’s Memorials of Sir W. Penn, vol. ii, p. 406. ↩

This picture occasioned Pepys trouble long afterwards, having been brought as evidence that he was a Papist (see Life, vol. i, p. xxxiii). ↩

He died June 16th, 1666 (see note 573). ↩

He had reason afterwards to alter his opinion of his “good master, the King,” by whom he was ruined (see note 552). —⁠M. B. ↩

Pepys seems to have foreseen the fate of De Witt. —⁠B. ↩

Thomas Howard, second son of Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, created Knight of the Garter in 1625, and Earl of Berkshire in February, 1625⁠–⁠26. Died July 16th, 1669, aged nearly ninety. ↩

Sir Robert Moray, one of the founders of the Royal Society, who acted frequently as president before the charter of 1662, and as vice-president afterwards. ↩

Captain Willoughby Hannam, or Hanham, greatly distinguished himself in this action. He, his officers, and crew were saved, and he lived on till 1672, when he was killed in the action off Solebay. ↩

Eldest son of the Duc de Grammont. ↩

Captain Du Tell, see note 2860. ↩

Walter Charleton,