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

not yet six years of age, and when his brother Philippe, then called Duke of Anjou, was not four years old. Shortly after his return home, Lord Goring was created, in September, 1644, Earl of Norwich, the title by which he is here mentioned. Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who was frightened by the English nobleman’s ugly faces, took the title of Duke of Orleans after the death of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston, in 1660. He married his cousin, Henrietta of England. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Philip Warwick, born 1608, secretary to Charles I when in the Isle of Wight, and Clerk of the Signet, to which place he was restored in 1660; knighted, and elected M.P. for Westminster. He was also Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Southampton till 1667. Died January 15th, 1682⁠–⁠3. He wrote A Discourse on Government and Memoirs of Charles I. His second wife, here mentioned, was Joan, daughter to Sir Henry Fanshawe, and widow of Sir William Botteler, Bart. ↩

Marmaduke Darcy. See note 474. ↩

Benjamin Batten. ↩

Daniel Whistler, M.D., Fellow of Merton College, whose inaugural dissertation on Rickets in 1645 contains the earliest printed account of that disease. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry, 1648⁠–⁠57, and held several offices at the College of Physicians, being elected President in 1683. He was one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society. Dr. Munk, in his Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, speaks very unfavourably of Whistler, and says that he defrauded the college. He died May 11th, 1684. ↩

Thomas Wriothesley, fourth and last Earl of Southampton, K.G., born 1607. He was one of the four who bore Charles I to his burial. Burnet says, “he disdained to sell places.” He died May 16th, 1667. ↩

John Cuttle, captain of the Hector. ↩

Peter Mootham, captain of the Foresight; afterwards slain in action. ↩

The Long Parliament imposed a tax on merchants’ goods (called Algier Duty) for the redemption of captives in the Mediterranean. ↩

John Dawes, created a baronet in 1663, father of Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York. ↩

Or prison. ↩

William Hewer. ↩

Salisbury Court Theatre, which was reopened in 1660 by Rhodes’s company. ↩

A tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, printed in the folio of 1647. ↩

“ ‘Telescope’ and ‘microscope’ are both as old as Milton, but for long while ‘perspective’ (glass being sometimes understood and sometimes expressed) did the work of these. It is sometimes written ‘prospective.’ Our present use of ‘perspective’ does not, I suppose, date farther back than Dryden.”

Trench’s Select Glossary

—⁠M. B. ↩

Adam Chard is mentioned previously in the Diary. See March 7th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

See ante, on the 9th of this month, where it is called Whitefriars. ↩

Beaumont and Fletcher’s comedy. See note 866. ↩

According to Downes’s Roscius Anglicanus the characters were taken as follows:⁠—Elder Lovelace: Burt; Young Lovelace: Kynaston; Welford: Hart; Sir Roger: Lacy; The Lady: Mrs. Marshall; Martha: Mrs. Rutter; Abigail: Mrs. Corey. ↩

The observation of St. Valentine’s day is very ancient in this country. Shakespeare makes Ophelia sing

“Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window
To be your Valentine.”

Hamlet, act iv sc. 5

—⁠M. B. ↩

Mrs. Martha Batten, Sir W. Batten’s daughter. ↩

Captain Arthur Browne. See note 884. ↩

“A Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of Flesh in Lent or on fish-dayes appointed by the law to be observed,” was dated 29th January, 1660⁠–⁠61. ↩

A tragedy by Massinger and Decker, printed in 1622. ↩

More properly called “lustring”; a fine glossy silk. ↩

The Prince de Ligne had no niece, and probably Pepys has made some mistake in the name. Charles at one time made an offer of marriage to Mazarin’s niece, Hortense Mancini. ↩

Henry Slingsby, Master of the Mint of Kilpax, near Leeds, member of the first Council of the Royal Society, named in Charles II’s charter, dated April 22nd, 1663, but expelled from the Society January 24th, 1675. ↩

Peter Blondeau, medallist, was invited to London from Paris in 1649, and appointed by the Council of State to coin their money; but the moneyers succeeded in driving him out of the country. Soon after the Restoration he returned, and was appointed engineer to the mint. ↩

A comedy by Abraham Cowley, published in 1638. The scene was laid at Dunkirk. ↩

The harpsichord is an instrument larger than a spinet, with two or three strings to a note. ↩

Samuel Hartlib, son of a Polish merchant, and author of several ingenious works on agriculture, for which he received a pension from Cromwell. Milton’s Tractate of Education is addressed to him. Evelyn describes him in his Diary, November 27th, 1655, as “honest and learned,” and calls him “a public-spirited and ingenious person who had propagated many useful things and arts.” He lived in Axe Yard about 1661, and had a son named Samuel and a daughter, Nan, who married John Roder or Roth, afterwards knighted. Evelyn says that Claudius, referred to before (see July 10th, 1660, of this Diary), was Hartlib’s son-in-law. If so, Hartlib must have had another daughter. He seems to have been in some poverty at the end of his life. ↩

The Steelyard was situated where