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

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Thomas Harper. ↩

“Her Majesty, attended by several ladies of the Court, left Whitehall for Audley End on the 6th October, where His Majesty was expected, after having divertised himself at Newmarket. The Court remained at Audley End till the 14th.”

The London Gazette, No. 302

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Penn’s first work, entitled, Truth exalted, in a short but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy; and for that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the life and doctrine of the despised Quakers⁠ ⁠… by W. Penn, whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt’s glory, not fearing the King’s wrath, having beheld the Majesty of Him who is invisible. London, 1668. —⁠B. ↩

It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety. See November 26th, 1668. ↩

See the description of this mansion in Evelyn’s Diary, September 25th, 1672. A small view of it, taken from an old map, is given in the notes to his Memoir of Mrs. Godolphin. The house was destroyed by fire, October 16th, 1733, and rebuilt by William Kent for the third Duke of Devonshire. This is the existing Devonshire House. ↩

See May 15th, 1668. ↩

A tragicomedy by William Habington. Upon its revival the prologue and epilogue were written by Butler, the author of Hudibras. —⁠B. ↩

In Cow Lane. ↩

There is a picture of Leicester House at Penshurst. —⁠B. ↩

It occupied the north side of the present Leicester Square. Lisle Street and Sidney’s Alley preserve some of the names. —⁠B. ↩

The Royal Society, which met after an interval of ten weeks (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, p. 313). ↩

In Fleet Street. ↩

There is reason to believe that the gallows at Tyburn stood on the site of Connaught Place, and near its southwest corner, though No. 49, Connaught Square, is said by some to be on the spot. ↩

Mrs. Creed’s brother. ↩

An expression probably taking its rise from the custom of fastening people by their feet in the stocks. —⁠B. ↩

Little Saxham, near Bury St. Edmund’s. The manor house then belonged to William, Baron Crofts; it was taken down in 1771.

“My last told your Grace I was going into the country to pass my Christmas at my Lord Crofts; and when I tell you that the Duke of Bucks and George Porter were there, you will not doubt but we passed it merrily.”

Lord Arlington to the Duke of Ormond, Oxford, January 9th, 1666⁠—Miscellanea Aulica, p. 371

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See October 20th, ante. ↩

See November 29th, post. ↩

He continued to hold the office of Comptroller of the Navy until his death in 1671. ↩

This useful instrument, used for copying maps, plans, drawings, etc. either of the same size, or larger or smaller than the originals, is now named a pantograph. ↩

See, in Memoirs Relating to the Navy, 8vo., 1729, two warrants of October 18th, 1668, and October 20th, 1668, addressed by the Duke of York to Sir Heneage Finch, the Solicitor-General. The former directs him to prepare a warrant for his suspension, and the second to prepare a bill for the royal signature, constituting and appointing Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Lyttelton to the office of Treasurer of the Navy, hitherto filled by Lord Anglesey. —⁠B. ↩

“They also prevail’d to put in Sir Thomas Osburn and Sir Thomas Littleton to be Treasurers of the Navy, without so much as speaking or making the least application to the Duke about it, tho such places never use to be disposed of without the concurrence and approbation of the Lord Admiral; and tho the Duke represented to the King the hardship done him, yet his Majesty order’d him to sign the warrant for their admission; which having done he afterwards lived very well with these two gentlemen, they being men of parts and executing well their office.”

Clarke’s Life of James II, 1816, vol. i, p. 436

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From Newmarket. ↩

Colonel Atkins. See June 24th, 1668. ↩

Mr. Povy lived in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Pepys no doubt went to Long Acre, then, as now, celebrated for its coachmakers. —⁠B. ↩

See note 2052. ↩

Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Lyttelton. ↩

See January 17th, 1667⁠–⁠68, ante. ↩

In the margin here is the following: “Observe over the leaf for my mistake.” See November 6th. ↩

As Clerk of the Council. ↩

Sir Orlando Bridgman. ↩

Sir J. B. Leyenburg. ↩

Thomas Clayton, M.D., Professor of Physic, and Anatomy Lecturer at Oxford, for which university he was returned to serve in parliament in 1660, and afterwards knighted, and made Warden of Merton College. —⁠B. ↩

In the margin here is the following: “Look back one leaf for my mistake.” ↩

The book alluded to by Pepys is that of the Father Francisco de los Santos, first printed at Madrid in 1657, and entitled, Descripcion breve del Monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial unica maravilla del mundo. It is in