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one from Northampton. These broadsides are in the Library of the British Museum. ↩

Thomas Crew, afterwards knighted, eldest son of John, afterwards Lord Crew, whom he succeeded in that title as second Lord. He died 1697. ↩

William Jessop was Clerk of the Council under the Commonwealth, and Secretary to the Commissioners of Parliament for Accounts. ↩

Fenner lived in Old Bailey. Pepys’s aunt Fenner died August 19th 1661, after twenty-eight years of married life, and his uncle married again in January, 1661⁠–⁠62; see January 19th. Uncle Fenner himself died May 24th, 1664. Their daughter Kate married Anthony Joyce. ↩

Robert Pepys of Brampton, whose will was proved August 23rd, 1661, uncle of Samuel. ↩

Ellenor Pepys (baptized 1598) married George Becke of Lolworth, co. Cambridge. This cousin was probably one of their children. ↩

The Crown was in Palace Yard. ↩

George Montagu, fifth son of Henry, first Earl of Manchester, afterwards M.P. for Dover, and father of the first Earl of Halifax. He was youngest brother of Lord Manchester. ↩

Mr. Sherwin was afterwards Clerk to the Tangier Committee, see January 17th, 1664⁠–⁠65. ↩

A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It is called in Hudibras, “False Heaven, at the end of the Hall.” There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell and Purgatory.

“Nor break his fast
In Heaven and Hell.”

Ben Jonson’s Alchemist, act v Sc. 2

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This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose’s verses on the execution of Charles I, which Pepys had set to music:

“Great, good, and just, could I but rate
My grief and thy too rigid fate,
I’d weep the world to such a strain
That it should deluge once again.
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
More from Briareus’ hands, than Argus’ eyes,
I’ll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds,
And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds.”

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This may be the Hope Tavern, or more probably the reach of the Thames. ↩

Gio. Torriano, M.A., a teacher of Italian in London, who edited a new edition of Florio’s Italian Dictionary. His Piazza Universale di Proverbi Italiani, published in 1666, is exceedingly rare, as the greater part of the impression was burnt in the Fire of London. ↩

Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland. ↩

Probably Edward Waterhouse, an heraldic and miscellaneous writer, styled by Lloyd “as the learned, industrious, and ingenious E. W. of Sion College.” His portrait was engraved by Loggan, and inserted in a book of his, entitled Fortescue Illustratus, folio, 1663; he died in 1670. ↩

Polexandre, by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published in 1632. The History of Polexander was “done into English by W. Browne,” and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop’s History of Fiction for the plot of the romance. ↩

Sir Harry Wright, M.P. for Harwich created a baronet by Cromwell, 1658, and by Charles II, 1660. He married Anne, daughter of the first Lord Crew, and sister to Sir E. Montagu’s wife, and resided at Dagenham, Essex. ↩

Probably Judith Pepys, wife of J. Scott; see January 6th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

Thomas Fitch, colonel of a regiment of foot in 1658, M.P. for Inverness; also Lieutenant of the Tower. ↩

Waterman White went to sea in May, 1661, and Pepys tried to get his place for Waterman Payne. ↩

Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the Middle Temple, M.P. for Cambridge, 1661⁠–⁠78, and Recorder of that town, 1660⁠–⁠88. He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter and heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co. Suffolk, and this was the wedding for which the posy ring was required. ↩

There were several Rhenish wine-houses in different parts of London. There was one in Cannon Row, and another on the east side of King Street, Westminster. This latter was about the middle of the street. There is a token of “John Garrew at ye old Renishe Wine house, King Street, Westminster,” 1668 (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 648). ↩

It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the posy was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was placed inside. A small volume was published in 1674, entitled Love’s Garland: Or Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves, and Such Pretty Tokens That Lovers Send Their Loves. ↩

Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. Ed. ↩

The Mercers Company as the patrons of St. Paul’s School. ↩

Richard Cumberland, of St. Paul’s School, in his seventeenth year, was admitted a pensioner of Magdalene College in 1649, and in 1653 he was elected a Fellow of the College. In 1658 he got possession of the rectory of Brampton, but he was not legally instituted till 1661. He was presented to the rectory of All Saints, Stamford, in 1668. See Diary, March 18th, 1667, where Pepys writes: “The truth is, if he would accept of my sister’s fortune, I should give £100 more with him than to a man able to settle her four times as much as, I fear,