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This bank at Amsterdam is referred to in a tract entitled An Appeal to Caesar, 1660, p. 22. In 1640 Charles I seized the money in the mint in the Tower entrusted to the safe keeping of the Crown. It was the practice of the London goldsmiths at this time to allow interest at the rate of six or eight percent on money deposited with them (J. Biddulph Martin, The Grasshopper in Lombard Street, 1892, p. 152). ↩

Sir Francis Cottington, a younger son of Philip Cottington, of Godmanston, Somerset, was created by Charles I Lord Cottington of Hanworth. He became successively one of the clerks of the council. Chancellor of the Exchequer, ambassador into Spain, and Lord Treasurer of England under the two elder Stuarts. He died at Valladolid in 1653, s. p., and his body was brought to England and interred under a stately monument in Westminster Abbey, erected by Charles Cottington, his nephew and heir. See December 6th, 1667, for an account of his disinheriting a nephew for a foolish speech. —⁠B. ↩

The town burned (see August 15th, ante) was Brandaris, a place of 1,000 houses, on the isle of Schelling; the ships lay between that island and the Fly (i.e. Vlieland), the adjoining island. This attack probably provoked that by the Dutch on Chatham. See note 2938, and Pepys’s remarks, June 30th, 1667, post. —⁠B. ↩

These presses still exist, and, according to Pepys’s wish, they are placed in the second court of Magdalene College in a room which they exactly fit, and the books are arranged in the presses just as they were when presented to the college. —⁠M. B. ↩

The Lord Keeper. Died January 14th, 1639⁠–⁠40. ↩

The patent for printing Bibles, etc., in London was held by Bonham Norton in the early part of the seventeenth century. The printer referred to by Pepys appears to have been Roger Norton, who was Master of the Stationers’ Company in 1678, 1682, 1683, 1684, and 1687. Amongst the State Papers is a “Petition of Roger Norton, printer, to the King, to be resettled in the place of King’s Printer, on his claim to which a suit is depending in Chancery. The place is now held by gentlemen who do not understand printing, and the work is done by those who were printers under Cromwell, and who, as permitted by him, still print Bibles and service books” (Calendar, 1661⁠–⁠62, p. 76). ↩

Thomas Lewis, clerk in the Victualling Office. ↩

Philpot Lane, between Fenchurch Street and Eastcheap, where the Commissioners of the Navy had an office in 1623. ↩

The letter from Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle to the king (dated August 27th, from the Royal Charles, Sole Bay) is among the State Papers. The generals complain of the want of supplies, in spite of repeated importunities. The demands are answered by accounts from Mr. Pepys of what has been sent to the fleet, which will not satisfy the ships, unless the provisions could be found “… Have not a month’s provision of beer, yet Sir Wm. Coventry assures the ministers that they are supplied till Oct. 3; unless this is quickened they will have to return home too soon.⁠ ⁠… Want provisions according to their own computation, not Sir Wm. Coventry’s, to last to the end of October” (Calendar, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 71). ↩

See July 6th, 1665. ↩

King Henry IV, Part I, act v, sc. 4. ↩

François de Vendôme, Due de Beaufort, well known in the annals of France, was born in 1616, and in 1664 and 1665 commanded a naval expedition against the African corsairs (see October 11th, 1664). The following year he had the charge of a fleet intended to act in concert with the Dutch against England, but which was merely sent out as a political demonstration. He was killed at the siege of Candia in 1669. —⁠B. ↩

James Hayes, secretary to Prince Rupert. ↩

Pudding Lane, leading from Eastcheap to Lower Thames Street. The name of the baker was Farryner. ↩

St. Lawrence Poultney. See note 2928. ↩

Sir Thomas Bludworth. See June 30th, 1666. ↩

Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington on the evening of this day, “The Duke of York fears the want of workmen and tools tomorrow morning, and wishes the deputy lieutenants and justices of peace to summon the workmen with tools to be there by break of day. In some churches and chapels are great hooks for pulling down houses, which should be brought ready upon the place tonight against the morning” (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 95). ↩

James Carcasse. See note 2628. ↩

The virginal differed from the spinet in being square instead of triangular in form. The word pair was used in the obsolete sense of a set, as we read also of a pair of organs. The instrument is supposed to have obtained its name from young women, playing upon it. ↩

Irongate Stairs, at the bottom of Little Tower Hill. ↩

A copy of this letter, preserved among the Pepys MSS. in the author’s own handwriting, is subjoined:

“Sir, The fire is now very near us as well on Tower Street as Fenchurch Street side, and we little hope of our escape but by this remedy, to the want whereof we do certainly owe the loss of the City namely, the pulling down of houses, in the