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so close under His Majesty’s own eye, it was, by the timely help His Majesty and His Royal Highness caused to be applied, immediately stopped, and by ten o’clock wholly mastered, with the loss only of that part of the building it had at first seized.”The London Gazette, No. 103

—⁠B. ↩

A beverage consisting of ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp of roasted apples. “A cupp of lamb’s-wool they dranke unto him then.” The King and the Miller of Mansfield (Percy’s Reliques, Series III, book ii, No. 20). ↩

The wife of John Temple, Sir Robert Viner’s chief clerk. ↩

See December 13th, 1666. ↩

The Rev. John Meriton (1636⁠–⁠1704), rector of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, from 1663 till his death, who is referred to on July 9th, 1665, was appointed Sunday lecturer of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields shortly before the Restoration. Miss Porter, the writer of the life of Meriton in the Dictionary of National Biography, considers him to be the same person as he who Pepys styles “an old dunce;” but the statement in the text that the latter was brother to the known Meriton seems to throw a doubt on this statement. ↩

See January 7th and 8th, 1666⁠–⁠67. ↩

The old Chapter House of St. Paul’s was also styled the Convocation House. See Sparrow Simpson’s Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul’s, 1881, p. 274. ↩

William Smith, originally a barrister-at-law of the Society of Gray’s Inn. He was a good actor, and highly esteemed by his fellows. He died 1696. ↩

St. Helen’s. ↩

William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred’s in the Poultry. He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first Registrar. In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of the King’s Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on local motion. The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the Royal Society. ↩

At the meeting on November 14th, “the experiment of transfusing the blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr. King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own, as to make him capable of receiving that of the other.” On November 21st the spaniel “was produced and found very well” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, pp. 123, 125). The experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within the last few years. ↩

For notes on the dances the brawls and coranto, see note 1652 and note 1653. ↩

James, second Marquis of Douglas, nephew to the Duke of Hamilton. ↩

Colonel Russell, brother of William, fifth Earl of Bedford (created Duke of Bedford in 1694), and uncle of the celebrated Lord William Russell. ↩

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, born April 10th, 1648, succeeded his father in 1659. He was at this time a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the king. He died July 26th, 1680. ↩

Only daughter of James Howard, third Earl of Suftblk, by his first wife, Susannah, daughter of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland; afterwards married, March 4th, 1666⁠–⁠67, at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, to Edward Griffin, Lord Griffin of Braybrooke. There is a very fine portrait of her at Audley End, by Lely. —⁠B. ↩

Anne, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Temple, of Frankton, in Warwickshire, by Rebecca, daughter of Sir Nicholas Carew, of Beddington, in Surrey, became the second wife of Sir Charles Lyttelton, who had been Governor of Jamaica, and lived to be eighty-seven. His widow survived him four years, dying in 1718, and had issue by him eight daughters and five sons. From this alliance the Lords Lyttelton descend. —⁠B. ↩

“The Lord George Flemming, the Lord Peter Julius Coyet, ambassadors-extraordinary from the crown of Sweden, made their public entry through the City of London, on the 27th June, 1666.”

Pointer’s Chronological History of England, vol. i, p. 213

The lady was the wife of one of these. —⁠B. ↩

See July 12th. ↩

George, Lord Berkeley, had six daughters. The one mentioned here was probably the eldest, Lady Elizabeth. —⁠B. ↩

William Chiffinch, pimp to Charles II and receiver of the secret pensions paid by the French Court. He succeeded his brother, Thomas Chiffinch (who died in April, 1666), as Keeper of the King’s Private Closet (see note, vol. v, p. 265). He is introduced by Scott into his Peveril of the Peak. ↩

Belonging to the Earl of Berkshire; afterwards purchased by Charles II, and presented to the Duchess of Cleveland, whose name is preserved in “Cleveland Row.” It was then of great extent, and stood on or near the site of Bridgewater House. —⁠B. ↩

Pepys’s “old and most ingenious acquaintance,” Mr. Chetwind, died at the end of 1662 (see December 5th). ↩

According to the Bills of Mortality seven persons died in London of the plague during the week November 20th to 27th; and for