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Titles of Honour. In these books his creation in 1679 as Baron Butler of More Park, co. Hertford, only is mentioned. He died in 1680, and was succeeded by his son James, who himself succeeded his grandfather as second Duke of Ormonde in 1688. ↩

The proceedings on the 27th are not clearly stated. According to Clarendon, this bill was urgently pressed forward in the House of Lords by the Duke of Buckingham. The debate became most disorderly, especially on the part of its promoters. On the duke making the remark above quoted, Lord Ossory, not trusting himself with a reply in the house, challenged Buckingham privately. This the duke endeavoured to avoid, and was found in a place not fixed for the meeting. On the following morning he informed the house of the affair. Clarendon regards the whole as a “gross shift” on the part of the duke. Both parties were sent to the Tower. The bill was subsequently passed. See Lord Arlington’s account of the quarrel in Brown’s Miscellanea Aulica, p. 423, etc. —⁠B. ↩

Jessemin (Jasminum), the flowers of which are of a delicate sweet smell, and often used to perfume gloves. Edmund Howes, Stows continuator, informs us that sweet or perfumed gloves were first brought into England by the Earl of Oxford on his return from Italy, in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, during whose reign, and long afterwards, they were very fashionable. They are frequently mentioned by Shakespeare. Autolycus, in the Winter’s Tale, has among his wares⁠—“Gloves as sweet as damask roses.” —⁠B. ↩

On October 24th Sir William Penn wrote to the Navy Commissioners from Sheerness, with “particulars of the accident befallen the Diamond, Greenwich, and Foresight”⁠—“they are now afloat and their damages repaired” (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 216). ↩

Sir William Bolton, Merchant Tailor; Sheriff, 1660. ↩

The “Warrant appointing Henry Glover keeper of the Royal Theatre at Whitehall, with the scenes, engines, etc., fee £30 a year from the money allowed for plays, etc.,” is dated November 21st, 1666 (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 278). ↩

The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, a comedy by Sir George Etherege, licensed for printing in 1664, and published in 1669. ↩

See note 1374. ↩

October 31st, 1666. “Humble petition of George, Duke of Bucks, showing, ‘That the displeasure of this Honourable House has been a greater trouble to him than anything could have befallen him in this business which has been the occasion of it.’ Likewise the petition of Thomas, Lord Butler, was read, showing, ‘That he being heartily sorry for the occasion he hath given their Lordships to be displeased at him, in the late quarrel he had with the Duke of Buckingham⁠ ⁠… humbly beseecheth their Lordships to restore him to his Liberty and their favour.’ Hereupon it is ordered, That the Duke of Bucks and the Lord Butler be released and discharged from their present and respective restraints.”

Journals of the House of Lords, vol. xii, p. 22

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“M. de la Roche has been taken in the Ruby, a ship of 54 guns and 500 men, which was separated from Beaufort, and fell into the midst of the White Squadron, the colour of the flag deceiving him that it was French.”

Letter from Jo. Hayes to Williamson, dated September 19th, Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 139

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Massinger’s Bondman, acted before the court in 1623, and published in the following year. Webster’s Duchess of Malfy was first published in 1623. ↩

The Serjeant trumpeter was Gervase Price. The year’s salary (which was not very regularly paid) for the serjeant trumpeter, sixteen trumpeters, and kettle-drummer, was £1,120 (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 446). ↩

See notes on the new costume introduced by the king, note 3001, note 3013 and note 3081. ↩

An Interpretation of the Number 666, Oxford, 1642, 4to. The work was afterwards translated into French, Dutch, and Latin. It was written by Francis Potter, an English divine, born in Wiltshire, 1594, who died about 1678, at Kilmington, in Somersetshire, of which he was rector (Wood’s Athenæ). See February 18th, 1665⁠–⁠66 (vol. v, p. 226). —⁠B. ↩

See August 10th, 1663. ↩

John, Lord Crew (see note 62); Sir Thomas Crew, his eldest son, second Lord Crew, 1679 (see note 165); John Crew, younger son of first Lord Crew; Nathaniel Crew, fifth son of the first Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, 1674, succeeded as third Lord Crew in 1697 (see note 1415). ↩

See note 3128. ↩

See December 1st, 1666, on which day Pepys bought three copies of the engraving. ↩

Mrs. Stokes, of Paternoster Row (see January 10th, 1665⁠–⁠66), wife of Humphry Stokes. ↩

Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Matthew Mennes, K.B., and wife of Sir John Prettyman, Bart., M.P. for Leicester. —⁠B. ↩

There was an actress of this name. She played Clevly, at the King’s House, in the Hon. Edward Howard’s Man of Newmarket, 1678. —⁠B. ↩

“Nov. 9th. Between seven and eight at night, there happened a fire in the Horse Guard House, in the Tilt Yard, over against Whitehall, which at first arising, it is supposed, from some snuff of a candle falling amongst the straw, broke out with so sudden a flame, that at once it seized the northwest part of that building; but being