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

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The dangers of shooting the bridge were so great that a popular proverb has it⁠—“London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under.” ↩

The Courts of Chancery and King’s Bench were long held at the upper end of the hall. It is related that Sir Thomas More every day, before presiding in his own Court of Chancery, knelt for the blessing of his aged father, who was a judge of the King’s Bench. ↩

York House belonged to the See of York, but appears to have been let to the Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, and Chancellors Egerton and Bacon resided there. It was obtained by James I in 1624, after which it was granted to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The second duke obtained the house again by his marriage to the daughter of Lord Fairfax. He sold it in 1672, when it was pulled down, and streets built on the site which still bear his names. ↩

The Baron de Batteville, or Vatteville, who is said to have concealed much observant quickness and an intriguing spirit under a plain, rough, solderlike frankness of demeanour. He was very active in opposition to the proposed marriage of Charles II with the Infanta of Portugal. ↩

The Crown in King Street, Westminster. ↩

Captain Ferrers recovered. ↩

Christopher Gibbons, Mus. Doct. Oxon. (1664), second son of the more celebrated Dr. Orlando Gibbons (who died in 1625). Born 1615. He was appointed organist to Westminster Abbey, 1660, and composed several anthems. He died October 20th, 1676, and is buried in the cloisters of the Abbey. ↩

The Victualling Office was spoken of as on Tower Hill, but it was really at the end of East Smith field, and occupied the site of East Minster the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary Graces. The Cooperage, a portion of the Victualling Office, was burnt May 18th, 1688. ↩

See note 185. ↩

See note 828. ↩

Dr. William Bates, one of the most eminent of the Puritan divines, and who took part in the Savoy Conference. His collected writings were published in 1700, and fill a large folio volume. The Dissenters called him silver-tongued Bates. Calamy affirmed that if Bates would have conformed to the Established Church he might have been raised to any bishopric in the kingdom. He died in 1699, aged seventy-four. ↩

Pepys here refers to the perambulation of parishes on Holy Thursday, still observed. This ceremony was sometimes enlivened by whipping the boys, for the better impressing on their minds the remembrance of the day, and the boundaries of the parish, instead of beating houses or stones. But this would not have harmonized well with the excellent Hooker’s practice on this day, when he “always dropped some loving and facetious observations, to be remembered against the next year, especially by the boys and young people.” Amongst Dorsetshire customs, it seems that, in perambulating a manor or parish, a boy is tossed into a stream, if that be the boundary; if a hedge, a sapling from it is applied for the purpose of flagellation. —⁠B. ↩

Ben Jonson’s Epicene. ↩

Massinger’s play was published in 1624. ↩

Alexander Burnett, M.D., who resided in Fenchurch Street, was Pepys’s regular medical attendant. He died of the plague, see post August 25th, 1665. ↩

The Leg tavern in King Street, Westminster. See note 278. ↩

It was an act for subscribing the Engagement. On the same day there had been burned by the hangman, in Westminster Hall, the act for “erecting an High Court of Justice for trying and judging Charles Stuart.” Two more acts were similarly burned the next day. —⁠B. ↩

John Holcraft of Balderton married Mary Pepys (born 1597), sister of Samuel’s father. This John Holcraft was probably their son. ↩

Jonathan Radcliff, A.M., Vicar of Walthamstow from November, 1660, to December, 1662. ↩

This text is from 2 Samuel xix 30, and the true reading is⁠—“And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.” ↩

The wife of Captain, afterwards Sir Joseph Jordan. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Shipman bought the great tithes of Walthamstow from the Argall family in 1663; and left them by will to his wife Dorothy, from whom they passed in 1667 to Robert Mascall, merchant. —⁠Lysons’ Environs of London ↩

Arundel House, in the Strand, was the repository of the fine collection of works of art gathered by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Arundel Street, which stands on the site, was built in 1678. ↩

A Bill for the Repeal of “An Act of Parliament intituled an Act for disenabling all persons in holy orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority,” was read a first time in the Commons on June 1st, and a third time on 13th. In the Lords it was read a first time on the 14th, and finally passed on the 18th. ↩

It will be seen from an entry further on (August 31st) that the Benevolence brought in very little. ↩

Walter Montagu, second son to the first Earl of Manchester, embracing the Romish faith while on his travels, was made Abbot of Pontoise, through the influence of Mary de Medici. He afterwards became almoner to the Queen-Dowager of England, and died 1670. —⁠B. ↩

The earldom of Kent was erected for