The Diary by Samuel Pepys (children's ebooks online TXT) 📕

daughter. He, however, denied all these charges in his place in the House of Lords, and put in an answer to the articles of impeachment, for hearing which a day was absolutely fixed; but the parliament being shortly afterwards prorogued, the inquiry seems to have been entirely abandoned, notwithstanding the vehemence with which the House of Commons had taken the matter up. Perhaps the king interfered in Lord Mordaunt’s behalf; because Andrew Marvell, in his Instructions to a Painter, after saying,

“Now Mordaunt may within his castle tower
Imprison parents and the child deflower,”

observes,

“Each does the other blame, and all distrust,
But Mordaunt, new obliged, would sure be just.”

—⁠B. ↩

Afterwards Sir Robert Sawyer, Attorney-General from 1681 to 1687. Died 1692. He had been admitted a Pensioner at Magdalene College, Cambridge, June, 1648. He was turned out of office by James II on account of his refusal to confirm Obadiah Walker in his headship of University College, Oxford, after he had turned Roman Catholic (see Reresby’s Memoirs). ↩

Sir William Turner, Lord Mayor, 1668⁠–⁠69, was father of Serjeant John Turner, Mrs. Turner’s husband. ↩

See note 3062. ↩

Henry Howard of Norfolk (1628⁠–⁠1684), second son of Henry, Earl of Arundel, was a considerable benefactor to the Royal Society, largely through the influence of John Evelyn. At the meeting of the society on November 27th, “It was ordered that Mr. Oldenburg attend Mr. Henry Howard of Norfolk at Arundel House, and acquaint him with the sense, which the Royal Society had of his great civilities and respects to them, which they intended also to acknowledge publicly when he should honour them with a visit at a meeting of the society.” On the following day, November 28th, “Mr. Henry Howard of Norfolk was elected and admitted, who also received the public thanks of the society for his respects to them” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, p. 128). He was created Baron Howard of Castle Rising in 1669, and advanced to the earldom of Norwich in 1672. He succeeded his brother Thomas as sixth Duke of Norfolk in 1677. ↩

Sir Hugh Pollard, Bart., M.P. for Devonshire, died November 27th, 1666. The “order for a warrant to the Duke of Ormond, Lord Steward, or in his absence to Lord Fitzharding and the clerks of the Greencloth, to swear in Sir Thomas Clifford as Comptroller of the Household in the room of Sir H. Pollard,” is dated November 28th (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 298). ↩

Francis Willoughby, fourth Lord Willoughby of Parham, who was drowned. A letter from D. Grosse to Williamson, dated from Plymouth, November 27th, contains the following information:

“A Barbados ship reports that Lord Willoughby embarked thence last July with 5,000 men and 11 ships to retake St. Christopher’s, but ten ships were cast away in a violent storm; 400 or 500 men got ashore at Santa Tour, and are detained prisoners by the French.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 292

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Of Hartshill, Hants; and of Henley, Somersetshire. He was created a baronet in June, 1660, and died about 1675. —⁠B. ↩

The fire continued burning in some cellars of the ruins of the city for four months, though it rained in the month of October ten days without ceasing (Rugge’s Diurnal). —⁠B. ↩

See November 7th. A fine impression of this now very rare print was purchased for the Duke of Buckingham, at Bindley’s sale, in 1819, for £79; and resold at the Stowe sale, in 1849, for £33. —⁠B. ↩

The Catholique Apology was written by Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine. In 1667 Dr. William Lloyd (afterwards successively Dean of Bangor, Bishop of St. Asaph, Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester) published an answer, entitled, The Late Apology in Behalf of the Papists Reprinted and Answered in Behalf of the Royalists; a fourth edition of which appeared in 1675. Lord Castlemaine and Robert Pugh, a secular priest, wrote A Reply to the Answer of the Catholique Apology, which was published in 1668. A third edition of the Catholique Apology with a Reply to the Answer was published in 1674. Lord Castlemaine’s pamphlets were seized by order of the House of Commons. ↩

Lady Bath was Rachel, daughter of Francis, Earl of Westmoreland, widow of Henry Bourchier, Earl of Bath. She afterwards married Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex. —⁠B. ↩

Mrs. Noble, the godmother. ↩

Cow Lane, West Smithfield (now named King Street), was famous for its coachmakers. ↩

John Goodgroome, musical composer, was one of the king’s twenty-four fiddlers in 1674 (see list in North’s Memoires of Music, ed. Rimbault, 1846, p. 99, note). He was probably a relation of Theodore Goodgroome, the singing-master referred to at an earlier date (see June 25th, 1661). ↩

I.e. without his canonicals. —⁠B. ↩

James, Earl and Duke of Cambridge, second son of the Duke of York, and one of the five boys who all died infants. He was given the title which his elder brother Charles had previously held. At the time when he was created K.G. he was only three years and five months old. He died seven months afterwards (June 20th, 1667). ↩

Sixth son of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Berkshire, educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, born January, 1625⁠–⁠26. During the Civil Wars he adhered to Charles I, and suffered with his family. Knighted at the Restoration, and chosen M.P. for Stockbridge, and afterwards for Castle Rising. He was Auditor of the Exchequer, and considered to be a creature of Charles II, who employed him in cajoling