The Diary Samuel Pepys (love books to read .TXT) 📖

as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume entitled Music’s Recreation on the Lyra Viol, was printed by John Playford in 1650. ↩

“Elizabeth Woodcock, evidently his second wife, as his daughter Martha is often mentioned, married February 3rd, 1658⁠–⁠59, to Sir W. Batten; and, secondly, in 1671, to a foreigner called, in the register of Battersea parish, Lord Leyonberg. Lady Leighenberg was buried at Walthamstow, September 16th, 1681.

Lysons’ Environs

Sir James Barkman Leyenberg, the envoy from Sweden, was resident in England till 1682, or later. See January 21st, 1666⁠–⁠67. His name occurs in The Intelligencer, March 12th, 1663⁠–⁠64, as delayed at Stockholm by a fever, though his despatches were ready. A hostile message appears to have passed between him and Pepys, in November, 1670, but the duel was prevented. Perhaps they quarrelled about the money due from Sir W. Batten to Pepys, for which the widow was liable. —⁠B. ↩

Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat.

“Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops
All in the sexton’s face.”

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii sc. 2

—⁠M. B. ↩

There is a token of the Leg in New Palace Yard, which was a famous tavern at this time (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 684). ↩

The Globe is given as one of the taverns in Comhill in the list of taverns in London and Westminster, 1698 (Harl. MS. 4716). ↩

This was Killigrew’s, or the King’s House, opened for the first time November 8th, 1660. ↩

The Beggar’s Bush, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, published in the 1647 edition of their plays. ↩

Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a major’s commission in the King’s army. The period of his death is uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates

“vented suddenly this saying: ‘Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of mettle, if I should write a 100, I’d write a part for thy mouth.’ ”

Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17

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The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane were acted in the afternoon. ↩

John Singleton, appointed, 1660, one of the musicians of the sackbuts in place of William Lanier. From the sackbut he advanced to the violin, and lastly to the flute. He is mentioned by Dryden in MacFlecknoe, and by Shadwell in Bury Fair. He was one of the King’s twenty-four fiddlers in 1674; see North’s Memoirs of Music, ed. Rimbault, 1846, p. 99 (note). He died 1686, and was buried (April 7th), in the churchyard of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden. ↩

A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from Guaiacum officinale, from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, etc., are turned. ↩

Mr. Cade was a stationer in Cornhill. ↩

Pope’s Head Alley, a footway from Cornhill to Lombard Street, named after the Pope’s Head Tavern, was at this time famous for its cutlers. ↩

A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time.

“A woman’s neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders.”

Randle Holme (quoted by Planché)

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There is a token of “Robert Chamberlaine at the Maypole in the Strand,” so that it may have been at this house that Pepys alighted (see Boyne’s Trade Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, 1889, p. 755). ↩

The King’s House, near Lincoln’s Inn Fields, see ante, November 20th. ↩

The Traitor, a tragedy by James Shirley, licensed May 4th, 1631, and first printed in 1635. ↩

Michael Mohun, see note 802. ↩

Laud Crisp. ↩

Henry Jermyn, second son of Sir Thomas Jermyn, born about 1604, created Baron Jermyn of St. Edmondsbury about 1643; advanced to the earldom of St. Albans, 1660, K.G. 1672. Died January 2nd, 1683⁠–⁠4. He was supposed to be married to the Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria. ↩

Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of liqueurs, as wormwood wine and crême d’absinthe. ↩

Both these songs by Henry Lawes have been mentioned before. “Help, Help, O Help, Divinity of Love” (see June 5th, 1660). “O King of Heaven and Hell” (not “O God”) is the same as “Orpheus’ Hymn” (see March 4th, 1659⁠–⁠60). Henry Lawes was the friend of Milton and composed the music for Comus, performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634. He set the anthem, “Zadok the Priest,” for the coronation of Charles II. He died October 21st, 1662, and was buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey. ↩

John Wilkins, D.D., born 1614, took the Parliament side, and was made Warden of Wadham College, Oxford. In 1656 he married Robina, the widow of Dr. French and sister of Oliver Cromwell. He was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1659, but was ejected in 1660. Consecrated Bishop of Chester, November 15th, 1668. He died November 19th, 1672. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society, and jokes were often made respecting the publication of his work, The Discovery of a New World. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, first printed in 1616. After the Restoration it was one of the plays acted by Killigrew’s company. ↩