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the age of twenty-one, according to Evelyn, six feet ten inches high; yet Pepys, February 8th, 1668⁠–⁠69, makes her height six feet five inches. —⁠B. ↩

The marriage licence of Roger Pepys, of Impington, widower, aged about forty-eight, and Easter Dickinson, of St. Paul, Covent Garden, widow, aged about forty, is dated February 2nd, 1668⁠–⁠69 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 1044). ↩

Jane, the wife of Serjeant John Turner. ↩

Anne Pepys, who married Terry Walpole of South Creake. ↩

Elizabeth, married to Thomas Dyke. ↩

It was Twelfth Night. ↩

A tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher; published in 1647, and reprinted in 1669, “as it is acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty’s servants. With the alterations and new additional scenes.” —⁠B. ↩

“Dec. 18, 1668. Sir George Downing to the Navy Commissioners. The Treasury Commissioners have appointed the first Friday after New Year’s Day to consider the accounts of the Leopard, Convertine, etc., depending between his Majesty and the East India Company, and desire them to come prepared on his Majesty’s behalf.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1668⁠–⁠89, p. 106

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The Jovial Crew; or, the Merry Beggars, a comedy by Richard Brome. See July 25th, 1661. In 1731 it was turned into an opera. ↩

Pepys’s pretty sempstress. ↩

Or Bainbridge? ↩

Arabella Churchill, sister to John, Duke of Marlborough, and one of the maids of honour to the Duchess of York. James, Duke of Berwick, and three other children, were the fruits of this intrigue. From the Duke of Berwick descend the Dukes of Fitzjames in France. She married subsequently Colonel Godfrey, Comptroller of the Household, and died 1730, aged eighty-two. —⁠B. ↩

The following cast of parts in The Alchymist, as acted by the King’s Company, and given by Downes in his Roscius Anglicanus, furnishes a clue to the actress described here and in a former passage, December 27th, 1666, as “Doll Common”:

Subtle Mr. Clun Face Major Mohun Sir E. Mammon Mr. Cartwright Surly Mr. Burt Ananias Mr. Lacy Wholesome Mr. Bateman Doll Common Mrs. Corey Dame Plyant Mrs. Rutter

The identity, however, is placed beyond doubt by a reference to Cataline’s Conspiracy, where we find Mrs. Corey acting the part of Sempronia, in which “Doll Common,” as Pepys styles her, gave offence by imitating Lady Harvey, and consequently was sent to prison. We may add that Mrs. Corey’s name stands first in the list of female performers in the King’s Company under Killigrew. See Roscius Anglicanus, 1708. —⁠B. ↩

Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester. Lady Harvey was daughter of Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton. She married Sir Daniel Harvey. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cutler (by his second wife), married to Sir William Portman, K.B., who was the third and last baronet of his family. Pepys could have known neither of his former wives. —⁠B. ↩

See January 4th, 1668⁠–⁠69. ↩

Clarendon, whom Pepys mentions by his former office. ↩

Henry, second son of Arthur, first Baron Capel of Hadham, and himself elevated to the peerage in 1692 by the title of Lord Capel of Tewkesbury, for which town he had served in parliament. He had been created K.B. at the coronation of Charles II, and was a leading member of the House of Commons; and in 1679 appointed First Commissioner of the Admiralty. At the time of his death, at Dublin Castle, May 30th, 1696, he was Lord Deputy of Ireland. He left no issue. —⁠B. ↩

Which title had been revived for the Capel family in 1661, Arthur, second Baron Capel, being created Earl of Essex. ↩

The Privy Garden. ↩

See note 2701. ↩

The Horace of P. Corneille, translated by Catherine Phillips, the fifth act being added by Sir John Denham. It was presented at Court by persons of quality, the prologue being spoken by the Duke of Monmouth. See Evelyn’s Diary, under February 5th, 1668⁠–⁠69. Another translation by Charles Cotton was published in 1671. ↩

An account of the Merchants Strangers, from their settlement in the reign of Richard III to that of Charles II, is given in Seymour’s Survey of London, vol. ii, pp. 473⁠–⁠82. —⁠B. ↩

Edward Gold, a native of Devonshire, living at Highgate, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Gower, also of that place. Their names occur amongst those of the governors of Sir Roger Cholmley’s Grammar School in Highgate. —⁠B. ↩

Henry Bankers, born at the Hague, an engraver and painter, employed by Charles II to paint views of his seaports and palaces. He followed his profession for some years in London; but, being a Roman Catholic, he left England in the time of the Popish Plot, and died soon afterwards at Amsterdam. ↩

Sidney Montagu. ↩

Essex House, where Robert Devereux, third earl of that name, died in 1646, when Pepys was fourteen years old, stood on the site of Essex Street and Devereux Court, formerly the Outer Temple. It had belonged, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the Earl of Leicester, who left it to the second Earl of Essex, father of the Parliamentary-General here mentioned. ↩

Robert Nanteuil, the celebrated French engraver, a native of Rheims, who was patronized by Evelyn when he was in Paris. He died at Paris in 1678 at the age of forty-eight. ↩