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the residence he made there; and the English assure⁠ ⁠… it was not without success, since it was the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany.” —⁠Sir William Lower’s Relation of the Voyage and Residence which Charles II hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before the Restoration. ↩

John Frederic de Friesendorff, ambassador from Sweden to Charles II, who created him a baronet, 1661. ↩

An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray’s New English Dictionary, and this passage from the Diary is given as a quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips’s English Dictionary (1678), and is used in Browning’s Sordello, as a “plaything of page or girl.” ↩

Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II in 1672. The crown then owed him £295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which the King gave him an annuity of £17,759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in 1679. See Hilton Price’s Handbook of London Bankers, 1876. ↩

Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, and on June 30th he offered Pepys £150 to be made joint Clerk of the Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary £1,500; Thomas Tourner, General Clerk, for himself and clerk, £100. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle of Lancashire, married to Mr., afterwards Sir Stephen Fox. See note 493. ↩

Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I and II He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven. ↩

Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King’s mistress. ↩

There is a token of “Thomas Darling at the Three Tuns neare Charing Cross.” See Boyne’s Trade Tokens, vol. i p. 557. ↩

Puddlewharf was at the foot of St. Andrew’s Hill, Upper Thames Street, Blackfriars. ↩

The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II, recite and revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I, whereby the office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of £33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in travelling, and £6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This salary was only the ancient “fee out of the Exchequer,” which had been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys’s salary had been previously fixed at £350 a year. ↩

A token of William Burges, at the Swan at Dowgate Conduit, 1668, is described in Boyne’s Trade Tokens, by Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 583. ↩

Sir Thomas Ingram was appointed Commissioner for Tangier. ↩

Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April 24th, 1667. ↩

“A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Public Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom,” dated June 5th, 1660. ↩

Clothworkers’ Hall, in Mincing Lane. The original Hall was burned in the Great Fire. It will be seen from this entry that ladies were admitted to the dinners. ↩

Mr., afterwards Sir Francis Chaplin, from Bury St. Edmund’s, Alderman of Vintry Ward and Clothworker. He was Sheriff in 1668, and Lord Mayor in 1677. ↩

This must either have been in Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes, acted at Rutland House in 1656, or in the same author’s Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, acted at the Cockpit in 1658. It is unfortunate that the Diarist does not tell us who it was that sang behind the scenes. ↩

Dennis Gauden, Victualler to the Navy, subsequently knighted while sheriff of London: the large house at Clapham, in which Pepys died, was built by him, and intended as a palace for the Bishops of Winchester; his brother, Dr. John Gauden, then expecting to be translated from Exeter to that See, but he was promoted to Worcester. Sir Dennis was ultimately ruined, and his villa purchased by William Hewer. ↩

Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a farthing token of his extant, “At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, D. M. R.” The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol i, 1889, p. 595) In Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. ii p. 39) is the following extract from Thomas Rawlinson’s Note Book R.: “Of Daniel Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king’s murder he hung his signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the church