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how to dispose of them.” On September 6th, proclamation ordered “that as the markets are burned down, markets be held in Bishopsgate Street, Tower Hill, Smithfield, and Leadenhall Street” (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, pp. 100, 104). ↩

Nathaniel Hardy, installed Dean of Rochester December 10th, 1660. He died at Croydon, June 1st, 1670. ↩

Richard Gibson, victualling agent in the navy, etc. ↩

Sir G. Carteret. ↩

Captain Napthali Ball was made commander of the Bramble fireship in 1665, and removed to the Success at the end of the same year. ↩

Eldest son of Hugh Clifford, Esq., of Ugbrooke, M.P. for Totnes, 1661, and knighted for his conduct in the sea-fight, 1665. After filling several high offices, he was, in 1672, created Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and constituted High Treasurer, which place he resigned the following year, a few months before his death. —⁠B. ↩

He had been Clerk of the Spicery to Charles I, and after the Restoration was Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth. Evelyn mentions his marriage (Diary, November 17th, 1651), “I went to congratulate ye marriage of Mrs. Gardner, maid of honor lately married to that odd person Sir Hen. Wood, but riches do many things.” ↩

Dr. Stephen Goffe, Clerk of the Queen’s Closet, and her assistant confessor. He had been chaplain to Colonel Goring, but became, in 1641, a Roman Catholic. —⁠B. ↩

“They swallow their own contradictions as easily as a hector can drink a frog in a glass of wine.”

Bentivoglio and Urania, book v, p. 92, 3rd edit

—⁠B. ↩

Apparently Wagenaer’s Speculum Nauticum, published at Leyden in 1585, and translated into English by Anthony Ashley about the year 1588. —⁠B. ↩

Admiral Michael Adrian de Ruyter did not die until April 11th, 1676. ↩

The king made a speech in which he alluded to the Great Fire, and pointed out the immense expense of the war, asking for fresh supplies. ↩

St. John’s, Clerkenwell, which is not far from Holborn Conduit, where Anthony Joyce kept the Three Stags. St. John’s is written S. Jones in Norden’s map of London. ↩

M.P. for the borough of Huntingdon. Elected April 12th, 1661. ↩

John Dugdale, born June 16th, 1628, chief gentleman of the chamber to Lord Chancellor Clarendon; Windsor Herald, 1684; Norroy King, 1686, when he was knighted. He died at Coventry, August 31st, 1700. ↩

Samuel Cromleholme, or Crumlum, headmaster of St. Paul’s School (see note 159). ↩

William Dugdale, born September 12th, 1605. He early devoted himself to antiquarian and topographical pursuits, and was appointed Pursuivant Extraordinary, with the title of Blanch Lyon, in 1638. In the following year he became Rouge Croix Pursuivant, and in 1644 Chester Herald. At the Restoration he was appointed Norroy King-at-Arms, and Garter in 1677, when he was knighted. He died February 10th, 1686. His Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, etc., was published in 1666, but with the exception of a few presentation copies the whole impression was destroyed in the Fire. A second edition was published in 1671, and a third in 1680. ↩

This word was apparently of Evelyn’s own making. ↩

Thomas Thynne, born 1640, Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Thynne, Bart., of Kempsford, by Mary, daughter of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, and on the murder of his cousin, Thomas Thynne, of Longleate, succeeded to all his possessions. He succeeded his father as second baronet in 1680, and in 1682 was created Baron Thynne of Warminster and Viscount Weymouth. He died July 18th, 1714. —⁠B. ↩

The Court of Wards and Liveries was held at the end of Westminster Hall, opposite St. Stephen’s Chapel. The court was abolished 12 Car. II (see note 205). ↩

William Garway, elected M.P. for Chichester, March 26th, 1661, and in 1674 he was appointed by the House to confer with Lord Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly affected. See note to the Life, vol. i, p. xxxii, and for his character, October 6th, 1666. ↩

In the Journals of the House of Commons. —⁠B. ↩

Bishop Walton’s great work, published in 1657, entitled, Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, in six large folio volumes. Nine languages are used in it, though no one book of the Bible is printed in so many. It was printed by subscription, under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell; but the Protector dying before it was finished, the bishop cancelled two leaves of the preface commendatory of his patron, and others were printed complimentary to Charles II. Hence the distinction of republican and loyal copies. The former are the most valued. —⁠B. ↩

As Sir John Minnes performed the duties inefficiently, it was considered necessary to take the office from him. See January 21st. ↩

Sir William Coventry’s letter of instructions to Sir William Penn, directing him to visit the fleet at the Nore, dated October 2nd, is printed in Penn’s Memorials of Sir W. Penn, vol. ii, p. 422. ↩

For note on Colonel Middleton, see note 2328. ↩

The Canary Company of Merchants was incorporated by charter, bearing date March 17th, 1664, to trade with the seven islands formerly called the Fortunate Islands, and afterwards the Canary Islands. The House of Commons considered the company’s patent