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

Les Résolutions Politiques, ou Maximes d’Etat, par Jean de Marnix, Baron de Potes: Bruxelles, 1612, 4to. There were two later editions of this work printed at Rouen. ↩

See December 14th, 1668. ↩

Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Weld, of Arnolds, in Edmonton, Middlesex. She died December, 1707. —⁠B. ↩

Angliæ Notitia, or the Present State of England; together with Reflections upon the Antient State thereof, 1668, etc., by Edward Chamberlayne, LL.D. ↩

A. Wood, Fasti, vol. iv, p. 163 (Bliss), mentions that John Waterhouse, of Trinity College, Cambridge, was created M.D., by virtue of letters from Oliver Cromwell, in 1650, and that he went over to Ireland as physician to the army, where he discharged his duties with ability and diligence. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Streater, appointed Serjeant-Painter at the Restoration. The son of a painter, he was born in Covent Garden in 1624, and he lived for a time in Long Acre. Died 1680, soon after being operated upon for the stone. Charles II had so much kindness for his painter that he sent to Paris for a surgeon to perform the operation. ↩

Afterwards Sir Christopher Wren. ↩

Robert Whitehall wrote a poem called Urania, or a description of the painting at the top of the theatre at Oxford, which concluded with these lines:

“That future ages must confess they owe
To Streater more than Michaelangelo.”

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The Heiress does not appear in the list of the Duke of Newcastle’s works, nor has any play of that name and date been traced. At the same time, it is to be observed that “Heir” was formerly used for “Heiress;” and such is the case in May’s play of The Heir, in vol. viii of the last edition of Dodsley’s Old Plays. —⁠B. ↩

The story about the caning of Kynaston has been preserved by Oldys, and copied by Malone, who tells us that Kynaston was vain of his personal resemblance to Sir C. Sedley, and dressed exactly like him. Sedley, to revenge this insult, hired a bravo to chastise him in St. James’s Park, under the pretext that he mistook him for the baronet. According to Pepys, it would seem that the imitation was made in the play of The Heiress, which is very likely; and perhaps for this he got another beating, or it might be the same, and that in which the story, the scene of which is laid in the park, originated. It is worth remarking, on the authority of Mr. Genest, the compiler of Some Account of the English Stage from 1660 to 1830, that Sir C. Sedley expressly introduced the incident of the beating of one man for another, owing to similarity of dress and appearance, into his comedy of The Mulberry Garden, which seems to have been first acted May 18th, 1668, some time before the date Pepys assigns to the caning of Kynaston, February 1st, 1668⁠–⁠69. —⁠B. ↩

See note 4277 on the parallelogram or pantograph. The protractor is a surveying instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular. ↩

Probably Boynton. Sir Matthew Boynton, of Barmston, in Yorkshire, was created a baronet in 1618. He had seven sons, one of whom, Colonel Boynton, having embraced, like his father, the cause of the Parliament, took Sir John Hotham prisoner at York. Sir Matthew died in 1646. His eldest son became Sir Francis Boynton; the second, Matthew, was slain at Wigan, before the advance of Charles II to Worcester: he left two daughters, one of whom, Katharine, the maid of honour, who figures in Grammont, married Richard Talbot, afterwards Duke of Tyrconnel; the other married Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon. The remaining five sons, Marmaduke, John, Gustavus, Cornelius, Charles, all died unmarried. One of the sons must have been the Colonel Boynton who took Sir John Hotham prisoner, and in all probability he is the same who is here mentioned in connection with Doll Stacey. Pepys only supposes he had married her. —⁠B. ↩

Captain John Cox was appointed Commissioner at Chatham on the 29th March, 1669, and he held the office until 1672, when he was killed on board the Prince at the battle of Southwold Bay. He was Sir John Cox at the time of his death. He had previously held the office of Master Attendant at Deptford. ↩

John Tippets (afterwards Sir John) was appointed Extra Commissioner of the Navy in 1667, and appointed to Portsmouth in 1668. He was Surveyor of the Navy from 1672 to 1685, and from 1688 to 1692. ↩

The Conde de Dona. ↩

See February 17th. ↩

See January 22nd, 1668⁠–⁠69. ↩

The word “resent” was formerly used to express the taking of a thing well or ill. Barrow wrote, “How much more should we resent such a testimony of God’s favour (than that of an earthly prince).” ↩

Barbara Pepys, daughter of Roger Pepys, by his second wife (Barbara Bacon), born at Impington, 1649. She married Thomas Gall, D.D., Dean of York, and died in 1689. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of the same parents, born at Impington, 1651; married Charles Longe, B.D., rector of Risby, co. Suffolk, and died 1716. ↩

Entitled, “The Sandy Foundation Shaken; or those⁠ ⁠… doctrines of one God subsisting in three distinct and separate persons; the impossibility of God’s