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year, had been left to be decided by due course of law, his Majesty thought fit to suspend the declaration of his pleasure thereupon, until the said right and privilege should be determined at law.” Mr. Tyrrel, the City Remembrancer, has obligingly communicated the only two entries relating to the business existing in the Corporation Records: the first is an order, dated March 23rd, 1668, for the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, etc., to attend the council on the following day; and the other directs the Chamberlain to pay the Town Clerk £23 14s. 6d., by him disbursed for counsel about the business of the Temple, etc. It would appear the question remains unsettled to this day. —⁠B. ↩

While Buckingham was busy with his Rehearsal he threatened to bring Sir William Coventry into a play at the King’s House, but Coventry challenged the duke for the intended insult, and the intention was frustrated. ↩

At Westminster. ↩

Charles II wrote to his sister (Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans), on March 7th, 1669: “I am not sorry that Sir Will. Coventry has given me this good occasion by sending my Lord of Buckingham a challenge to turne him out of the Councill. I do intend to turn him allso out of the Treasury. The truth of it is, he has been a troublesome man in both places and I am well rid of him” (Julia Cartwright’s Madame, 1894, p. 283). ↩

The duel. See January 17th, 1667⁠–⁠68. ↩

The Brick Tower stands on the northern wall, a little to the west of Martin tower, with which it communicates by a secret passage. It was the residence of the Master of the Ordnance, and Raleigh was lodged here for a time. ↩

See it marked in the Plan of Deptford, in Evelyn’s Diary, vol. i, p. 328, 4to. edit., 1819. —⁠B. ↩

Lady Henrietta Boyle, fifth daughter to the Earl of Burlington, married Laurence Hyde (afterwards created Earl of Rochester) in 1665. ↩

Anne Ogle, daughter of Thomas Ogle, of Pinchbeck, in Lincolnshire. She was afterwards the first wife of Craven Howard (son of Mrs. Howard), brother of her fellow maid of honour (see Evelyn’s Diary, June 15th, 1675). Her only child, Anne, died unmarried. —⁠B. ↩

Margaret Blagge, or Blague, daughter of Colonel Blague, and afterwards wife of Sidney Godolphin. Her life, written by Evelyn, was first published by Bishop Wilberforce in 1847. ↩

Dorothy, the elder daughter of Mrs. Howard. She afterwards married Colonel James Graham, of Levens, Keeper of the Privy Purse of the Duke of York. Their daughter, Katharine Graham, married her cousin, Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, and eleventh Earl of Suffolk. —⁠B. ↩

The mother of the maids in the Court of Queen Katharine was Bridget, Lady Sanderson, daughter of Sir Edward Tyrrell, Knt., and wife of Sir William Sanderson, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. It is possible, however, that some one filled the like office in the household of the Duchess of York. —⁠B. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of Lowthiel, Lord Dundas, wife of William Howard, fourth son of the first Earl of Berkshire. Her son, Craven Howard, married, first, Anne Ogle, mentioned above; and, secondly, Mary, daughter of George Bower, of Elford, in Staffordshire, by whom he had Henry Bowes Howard, who married Katharine Graham. It was by means of Mrs. Howard, who, as housekeeper to the Duke of York, resided in the Treasurer’s house at Deptford, that Evelyn, who lived at Sayes Court, adjoining the Royal Yard, first became acquainted with Mrs. Godolphin, and it is to Lady Sylvius, the younger daughter of Mrs. Howard, that he addresses her Life. —⁠B. ↩

See February 3rd, 1665; June 13th, 1666; August 27th and September 1st, 1667. Louis de Duras, Marquis of Blanquefort, succeeded in 1677 to the titles and estates of his father-in-law, Sir George Sondes, who, in April, 1676, was created Earl of Feversham and Viscount Sondes. As Earl of Feversham Blanquefort became of great importance during the short reign of James II. He died April 19th, 1709, s.p. ↩

Sir Richard Powle, of Shottesbrooke, Berks, Master of the Horse to the Duchess of York. —⁠B. ↩

Edward Villiers, Master of the Robes and Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York. He was afterwards knighted, and was the direct ancestor of the Earls of Jersey. —⁠B. ↩

The second baronet of his family, and father of the Bishop of Winchester, of the same names. —⁠B. ↩

A writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine, February, 1738, says “At the Restoration succeeded Love games, as I love my Love with an A; a Flower and a Lady, and I am a lusty wooer” (Brand’s Popular Antiquities, ed. Hazlitt, 1870, vol. ii, p. 288). ↩

A zealous supporter of Charles I during the Civil War. Made a Justice of the King’s Bench, 1665. He was a terror to highwaymen, and sentenced Claude Duval, preventing him from receiving a pardon. He died 1672. ↩

Sir John Morton, of Milborn St. Andrew, Dorset, the second baronet of his family, then serving as burgess for Poole, and afterwards for Melcombe Regis. He died in 1698, aged seventy-one. —⁠B. ↩

See Diary, July 4th, 1668, where Sir W. Coventry’s round table is described. ↩

It is painful to find a person of Sir William Coventry’s rank and station entertaining so cowardly a mode of revenging himself; and it is very remarkable that, in