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

following order dukes of Great Britain, of Ireland, and of the United Kingdom. Each degree in the peerage follows the same order. ↩

The Spanish Gipsie, a comedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, first printed in 1653. ↩

The famous Joseph Haines or Haynes, who was so popular that two biographies of him were printed in 1701, after his death. One of them, entitled, The Life of the Famous Comedian, Jo. Haynes, containing his Comical Exploits and Adventures, both at Home and Abroad, 8vo., states that he had acted under Captain Bedford, “whilst the playhouse in Hatton Garden lasted.” This would therefore seem to be the “Nursery” alluded to by Pepys. Haines was a low comedian and a capital dancer. He was educated at the school of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, and was sent to Queen’s College, Oxford, by some friends who bore the expense. Williamson on being appointed Secretary of State made Haines his Latin secretary. Haines kept this appointment a very short time, and took to the stage. One dramatic piece is attributed to him, A Fatal Mistake, or the Plot Spoiled, 4to., 1692, 1696. ↩

He entered the theatre upon credit. See ante, December 30th, 1667. ↩

Edward Boscawen, M.P. for Truro, ancestor of the present Viscount Falmouth. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Thomas Halford, of Wistowe, Leicestershire, the second baronet of his race: he was born in 1638, and died in 1679, having succeeded to his grandfather’s titles and estates in 1658, and had twenty-two children by his first wife, Selina, daughter of William Welby, Esq., of Denton, Lincolnshire. No other notice of the duel has been traced. —⁠B. ↩

A Commissioner of Customs. He was a younger son of the first Lord Newport, of High Ercall, Salop. —⁠B. ↩

At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 12th, 1668, “Mr. Smethwick’s glasses were tried again; and his telescope being compared with another longer telescope, and the object-glasses exchanged, was still found to exceed the other in goodness; and his burning concave being compared with a spherical burning-glass of almost twice the diameter, and held to the fire, it burnt gloves, whereas the other spherical ones would not burn at all.”⁠—“Sir Robert Southwell being lately returned from Portugal, where he had been ambassador from the king, and being desired to acquaint the society with what he had done with respect to the instructions, which he had received from them before his departure from England, related, that he had lodged the astronomical quadrant, which the society had sent to Portugal to make observations with there, with a body of men at Lisbon, who had applied themselves among other kinds of literature to mathematics” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, p. 256). ↩

“Briske. A fellow that never wore a noble and polite garniture, or a white perriwig, one that has not a bit of interest at Chatolin’s, or ever ate a good fricacy, sup, or ragoust in his life.”

Shadwell’s Humourists, act v

↩

A pewter cistern was formerly part of the furniture of a well-appointed dining-room; the plates were rinsed in it, when necessary, during the meal. A magnificent silver cistern is still preserved in the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter. It is said to be the largest piece of plate in England, and was once the subject of a curious wager. —⁠B. ↩

The same as Morland’s so-called calculating machine. Sir Samuel published in 1673 The Description and Use of Two Arithmetic Instruments, Together with a Short Treatise of Arithmetic, as Likewise a Perpetual Almanac and Severall Useful Tables. ↩

See August 27th, 1660. ↩

Of the Household. ↩

“Panteon, a term given by the Spaniards to a Christian burial vault.⁠ ⁠… Philip III began the present gorgeous chamber under the high altar, which Philip IV completed in 1654, moving in the royal bodies on the 17th of March. The entrance, with its gilt ornaments and variegated marbles, has nothing in common with the sepulchral sentiment.”

Ford’s Handbook for Spain

↩

The sermon here referred to was preached by a monk of the order of St. Jerome in 1654; part of it was translated by the Rev. Edward Clarke, who calls it the most extraordinary funeral sermon he ever met with (Clarke’s Letters Concerning the Spanish Nation, 1763, p. 141). ↩

John Ball, Treasurer of Excise. In a petition to the king, praying for a pension (dated September 2nd, 1668), he writes:

“I served your majesty and your father in England and Ireland for 30 years, and lived in exile with your majesty until your restoration, finding the funds out of my private estate for 23 years, and receiving no pay nor gratuity. After the restoration, when the excise was settled on your majesty by Act of Parliament, I was constituted Treasurer of Excise, which office I held seven years, but the Treasury Commissioners upon the alteration of the management of that revenued is missed me from my employment.”

On the 14th of the same month Ball was granted £200 in consideration of his loss of a salary of £400 a year (Calendar of State Papers, 1667⁠–⁠68 pp. 566, 585). ↩

This must have been Florio’s translation, as Cotton’s was not published until 1685. ↩

The Life of the Thrice Noble, High, and Puissant Prince, William Cavendish, Duke⁠ ⁠… of Newcastle, by his duchess, of which the first edition, in folio, was published in 1667. ↩

William Acworth, storekeeper at Woolwich, was accused of converting stores to his own use (see Calendar of State Papers, 1667⁠–⁠68, p. 279).