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the ketch met a French sloop with a packet from St. Christopher to their fleet at Martinico, and took her, whereupon Sir John Harman sailed there and fell upon their fleet of 27 sail, 25 of which he sank, and burnt the others, save two which escaped; also that he left three of his fleet there, and went with the rest to Nevis, to make another attempt on St. Christopher.Calendar of State Payers, 1667, p. 447

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A comedy by James Shirley, apparently acted at the Cockpit in 1625, but not published till 1667. ↩

The peace was signed at Breda on the 31st July. There were three separate acts, or instruments⁠—the first, between France and England, by which D’Estrades and Courtin agreed that all conquests made during the war should be mutually restored; the second, between England and Denmark; the third, between England and Holland. In this last it is to be observed that England retained the right of the flag. —⁠B. ↩

“Aug. 1, 1667. Hope. Sir Edward Spragg to Williamson. It was his misfortune to go to London the Monday before the action in the Hope, on the King’s affairs. Left directions with his lieutenant to carry his flag if he found opportunity of doing service, but if not, and if he retired, to strike it, which he very well observed; the gentleman that writes the Gazette has made a greater lie than the first, perhaps by the malice of some that durst not nor would do what the writer did. Was two hours aboard before he came to anchor, and then did so within gunshot of the enemy. Is sure he did the King and country service, and had he been one of the King’s rebels, it would not have been forgotten. Gave many broadsides, and pressed them so much that he obliged them to quit and fire one of their fireships. Has come with his great squadron into the Hope, and brought a Swedish ship laden with deals, which the enemy quitted when pursued, taking their men out.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 351

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To Herringman’s, at the Blue Anchor, in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. He published Mrs. Phillips’s Poems, Cowley’s Poems, Davenant’s Works, and was the great predecessor of Jacob Tonson. He died rich, and is buried under a handsome monument at Chislehurst, in Kent —⁠B. ↩

The manuscript of Sprat’s History of the Royal Society was seen by Oldenburgh in 1664, but the book was not presented to the society till the meeting of October 10th, 1667, when Dr. Wilkins submitted it (see August 16th, 1667). The Rev. Thomas Sprat, D.D., became Dean of Westminster in 1683 and Bishop of Rochester in 1684. He held both preferments till his death, May 20th, 1713 (when he was aged seventy-six). He was buried in the abbey. ↩

Catherine Fowler, wife of James Phillips, of Cardigan, and once celebrated as a distinguished poetess; best known as “the matchless Orinda.” She died at the early age of thirty-three in 1664; but the praise of her contemporaries has not been sufficient to preserve her works from oblivion. —⁠B. ↩

The collected edition of Denham’s poems is dated 1668. The verses referred to are inscribed “To Sir John Mennis being invited from Calice to Bologne to eat a pig,” and two of the lines run:

“Little Admiral John
To Bologne is gone.”

This occurrence took place before the Restoration. ↩

We have here a striking instance of the slow communication of intelligence. Cowley died on the 28th of July, at Chertsey; and Pepys, though in London, and at all times a great newsmonger, did not learn till the 10th of August that so distinguished a person was dead. Evelyn says that he attended Cowley’s funeral on the 3rd of August, and the Registers of Westminster Abbey corroborate his statement (Chester’s Westminster Abbey Registers, p. 166). Cowley’s corpse lay in state at Wallingford House, then the residence of the Duke of Buckingham. —⁠B. ↩

William, sixth Baron Sandys of the Vine. ↩

Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury. ↩

Flagellum: or the History of the Life and Death, Birth and Burial of Oliver Cromwell, the late Usurper, by J[ames] H[eath], Gent. London, 1663, 4to., and frequently reprinted. ↩

The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot, Esq. London, 1584, 4to.; second edition, 1651; third edition, 1665. ↩

Dr. George Morley. ↩

See May 23rd, 1661. ↩

A bleacher of linen. “The whitsters of Datchet Mead” are referred to by Mrs. Ford (Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii, sc. 3). ↩

Died August 6th, 1674. There is a monument to Sir Philip Frowde in Bath Abbey Church. See June 6th, 1666. ↩

See October 27th, 1661. ↩

Downes says that the duke gave this comedy to Dryden, who adapted it to the stage; but it is entered on the books of the Stationers Company as the production of his grace. —⁠B. ↩

See 10th of this month. ↩

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Pepys here, as elsewhere, took the second title of the piece, as, perhaps, it appeared in the bills of the day. He alludes to the revival of a play by Thomas Heywood, originally printed in 1605, under the title of If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, which especially relates to the defeat of the Armada in 1588. It was so popular that it went through eight or nine early editions. In 1667 it was