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John Hilton’s Catch That Catch Can, or a Choice Collection of Catches, Rounds and Canons for 3 or 4 Voices, was first published by Playford in 1651 or 1652. The book was republished “with large additions by John Playford” in 1658. The edition referred to in the text was published in 1667 with a second title of “The Musical Companion.” The book was republished in 1672⁠–⁠73. ↩

Sir Thomas Spert, Comptroller of the Navy in the reign of Henry VIII, and founder of the Trinity House, was buried in the parish church of Stepney. ↩

See note 3076 respecting the commencement of the troubles at Dumfries. On November 22nd Ro. Meine wrote from Edinburgh to Wilhamson:

“A proclamation is issued ordering all to submit within twenty-four hours, on promise of pardon, or then to be declared rebels, with all their abettors. An oath is to be tendered to all the county pledging them to aid in quelling this or any other insurrection; 800 are said to be near Glasgow, but they call every 20, 120.⁠ ⁠… They profess to fight for King and Covenant; their leader is James Wallace of Athens, whom they call the good man. Most of their captains are deposed ministers.”

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The Rev. Joseph Glanvill (1636⁠–⁠1680) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the 14th December, 1664. He published in 1666 Philosophical Considerations Touching Witches and Witchcraft, and most part of the impression was destroyed in the Great Fire. The book was reissued in 1667, and a fourth edition appeared in 1668 under the title of A Blow at Modern Sadducism. It was reprinted in 1681 as Sadducismus Triumphatus. One of the appendixes is an “Account of the famed disturbance by the drummer at the house of Mr. Mompesson.” ↩

This is the first line of “The Fairy Queen,” a song first printed in a book entitled A Description of the King and Queen of the Fayries, 1635. It is included in Percy’s Reliques, Series III, book ii, No. 25, and with the air is printed in the Musical Miscellany, London, 1729, vol. ii, p. 22. ↩

Apparently a translation of the French contre le gré, and presumably an expression in common use. “Against the grain” is generally supposed to have its origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood. ↩

Hugh May. ↩

The first brick laid after the fire was in Fleet Street, at the house of a plumber, to cast his lead in, only one room (Rugge’s Diurnal). —⁠B. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of John Malet of Enmore, co. Somerset, and her lovers. She died July, 1681, a year after her husband, Lord Rochester. ↩

William, Lord Herbert, succeeded his father as sixth Earl of Pembroke, 1669. Died, unmarried, 1674. —⁠B. ↩

They had quarrelled (see August 26th). She, perhaps, was piqued at Lord Hinchingbroke’s refusal “to compass the thing without consent of friends” (see February 25th), whence her expression, “indifferent” to have her. It is worthy of remark that their children intermarried; Lord Hinchingbroke’s son married Lady Rochester’s daughter. —⁠B. ↩

Seventh son of the Duke of Ormond, created in 1676 Baron of Aghrim, Viscount of Clonmore, and Earl of Gowran. Died 1677, s. p. (see February 4th, post). —⁠B. ↩

Of the lady thus sought after, whom Pepys calls “a beauty” as well as a fortune, and who shortly afterwards, about the 4th February, 1667, became the wife of the Earl of Rochester, then not twenty years old, no authentic portrait is known to exist. When Mr. Miller, of Albemarle Street, in 1811, proposed to publish an edition of the Mémoires de Grammont, he sent an artist to Windsor to copy there the portraits which he could find of those who figure in that work. In the list given to him for this purpose was the name of Lady Rochester. Not finding amongst the “Beauties,” or elsewhere, any genuine portrait of her, but seeing that by Hamilton she is absurdly styled une triste héritière, the artist made a drawing from some unknown portrait at Windsor of a lady of a sorrowful countenance, and palmed it off upon the bookseller. In the edition of Grammont it is not actually called Lady Rochester, but La Triste Héritière. A similar falsification had been practised in Edwards’s edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied. It is needless, almost, to remark how ill applied is Hamilton’s epithet. —⁠B. ↩

Probably Sir Francis Popham, K.B. —⁠B. ↩

John Mordaunt, younger son to the first, and brother to the second Earl of Peterborough, having incurred considerable personal risk in endeavouring to promote the king’s restoration, was, in 1659, created Baron Mordaunt of Reigate, and Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon. He was brought to trial and acquitted but by one voice just before Cromwell’s death (Quarterly Review, vol. xix, p. 31). He was soon afterwards made K.B., Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, and Constable of Windsor Castle; which offices he held till his death in 1675. In January, 1666⁠–⁠67, Lord Mordaunt was impeached by the House of Commons for forcibly ejecting William Tayleur and his family from the apartments which they occupied in Windsor Castle, where Tayleur held some appointment, and imprisoning him, for having presumed to offer himself as a candidate for the borough of Windsor. Lord M. was also accused of improper conduct towards Tayleur’s