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

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If we are to credit the following paragraph, extracted from the Morning Post of May 2nd, 1791, the virtues of May dew were then still held in some estimation; for it records that “on the day preceding, according to annual and superstitious custom, a number of persons went into the fields, and bathed their faces with the dew on the grass, under the idea that it would render them beautiful” (Hone’s Every Day Book, vol. ii, p. 611). Aubrey speaks of May dew as “a great dissolvent” (Miscellanies, p. 183). —⁠B. ↩

The rectory of Wanstead, in Essex, to which he was presented. ↩

May 30th.

“The duchess of Newcastle coming in, the experiments appointed for her entertainment were made: first that of weighing the air⁠ ⁠… ; next were made several experiments of mixing colours; then two cold liquors by mixture made hot; then the experiments of making water bubble up in the rarefying engine, by drawing out the air, and that of making an empty bladder swell in the same engine; then the experiment of making a body swim in the middle of the water; and that of two well-wrought marbles, which were not separated but by the weight of forty-seven pounds.”

Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, p. 178

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This may either have been the wife or daughter of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger or of John Ferrabosco. ↩

George, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley (created Earl of Berkeley in 1679), died October 10th, 1698. Charles Howard, first Earl of Carlisle, born 1629; died February 24th, 1685. William Seymour, third Duke of Somerset, born 1650; died December 12th, 1671. In the Paston MSS. he is described as “a youth of great beauty and hope.” ↩

Sir John Buncombe. See November 8th, 1664. Mr. J. Biddulph Martin says, “The assertion that Duncombe’s father had been a Long Parliament man is not confirmed by reference to the roll of the Long Parliament” (The Grasshopper in Lombard Street, 1892, p. 29). ↩

Pepys’s Private Accounts, made up to May 31st, 1667, are amongst the Rawlinson MSS., A. 174 (Bodleian). ↩

Robert Scawen, at one time Receiver-General for the office of Receiver-General for Hants, Wilts, and Gloucestershire. ↩

Sir William Penn was elected Master of the Trinity House, Monday, June 3rd, 1667. ↩

George Cavendish (1500⁠–⁠61?), elder son of Thomas Cavendish, Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer. He entered the service of Cardinal Wolsey in 1526 or 1527 as gentleman-usher, and remained with his master till the latter’s death, when he retired into private life, and lived quietly. He wrote the life of Wolsey in 1557, but it was not pubhshed, and remained long in MS. For some time there was uncertainty as to the authorship, and the book was attributed to William Cavendish. The question was settled in 1814, when the Rev. Joseph Hunter published his pamphlet entitled, Who Wrote Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey. Singer published the life in 1815, and a second edition appeared in 1827. It has since been frequently reprinted. ↩

The churchyard of St. Dunstan’s (Old Stepney Church) is referred to both in the Tatler and the Spectator. In the latter we read (No. 518), “I have made discovery of a churchyard in which I believe you might spend an afternoon with great pleasure to yourself and to the public.” ↩

Richard Watts, writing from Deale to Williamson, June 3rd, says:

“Governor Titus of Deale Castle is said to have received a packet from Whitehall at 3 a.m. that the Duke of Beaufort, with 60 sail, is at the Isle of Wight, and the Dutch, with 40 sail, at the Gunfleet. Preparations are made to receive the enemy if they attempt to land.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 146

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It was called the Monmouth cock, which, according to The Spectator, No. 129, was still worn in the west of England by country squires in 1711:

“During our progress through the most western parts of the kingdom, we fancied ourselves in King Charles the Second’s reign, the people having made little variations in their dress since that time. The smartest of the country squires appear still in the Monmouth cock.”

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Hydrostatical Paradoxes Made Out by New Experiments was published by the Hon. Robert Boyle in 1666 (Oxford). ↩

Captain Francis Courtenay wrote to the Navy Commissioners (Happy Return, Hope, June 3rd):

“Hopes they will not account him too great an offender in stopping the incessant requests of some necessitated persons for relief of their families. Has granted tickets to 13 men named, and commends them to favour. Is setting sail with the Portugal Ambassador, who came on board this morning.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 147

The Happy Return carried the Portuguese ambassador to Holland, and was back at Plymouth on the 14th June (Calendar, p. 187). ↩

This was Hollar’s map, published in 1644, and entitled, “The Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales, exactly described with every Sheere, and the small towns in every one of them, in six maps.” This is generally known as the Quartermasters’ map. ↩

The Visions of Quevedo, Made English by Roger l’Estrange, was published in 1668, and reprinted 1671, 1673, 1689, 1702, 1710, 1715, 1795. ↩

Grandson of Fretcheville Hollis, of Grimsby. His father, Gervase Hollis, the antiquary, most of whose collections came into the British Museum, was an officer in the king’s service. Sir Fretcheville Hollis, embracing the naval profession, lost an arm in the sea-fight of 1665, and afterwards served as Rear-Admiral under Sir Robert Holmes, when they attacked the Smyrna fleet. He fell in the battle of Southwold Bay, 1672,