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

was thrice fired upon with shot by Major-General Holke, who commanded the Castle of Cronenburg, which Essex had neglected or refused to salute. Essex was ordered to obtain the fullest reparation, and he did so promptly. On the 19th of the same month, Sir John Trevor, Secretary of State, acknowledged the good success which Lord Essex had had “about the flag. His Majesty received your letter with great satisfaction, which came seasonably to be declared here before the French Court. The satisfaction you have obtained is absolute, and a full renounce to all that pretence on their part.” ↩

Here, as in so many other instances, Pepys gives the second title only of the play. The correct title is, The Princesse, or Love at First Sight, a Tragicomedy: The Scene, Naples and Sicily. Written in Naples by Thomas Killigrew. It was published at London, 1663. ↩

Selden’s work is in the Pepysian Library, Joannis Seldeni Mare Clausum. Londini, 1635, folio. ↩

In a speech of Lord Lucas in the House of Lords, the 22nd February, 1670⁠–⁠1 (which speech was burnt by the common hangman), he thus adverted to that coin:

“It is evident that there is scarcity of money; for all the parliament’s money called breeches (a fit stamp for the coin of the Rump) is wholly vanished⁠—the king’s proclamation and the Dutch have swept it all away, and of his now majesty’s coin there appears but very little; so that in effect we have none left for common use, but a little old lean coined money of the late three former princes. And what supply is preparing for it, my lords? I hear of none, unless it be of copper farthings, and this is the metal that is to vindicate, according to the inscription on it, the dominion of the four seas.”

Quoted in Penn’s Memorials of Sir Wm. Penn, ii 264

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Sir John Ireton, Lord Mayor, 1658, knighted by Cromwell, died 1689. He was brother of General Ireton. ↩

Samuel Moyer, one of the Council of State, 1653. —⁠B. See note 3416. ↩

A tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, published in the edition of their plays, 1647. ↩

Charles II’s charter to the Company, confirming and extending the former charter, is dated April 3rd, 1661. Bombay, just acquired as part of Queen Katherine’s dowry, was made over to the Company by Letters Patent dated March 27th, 1669. ↩

See a similar outrage, committed by Captain Ferrers, September 12th, 1662. Swords were usually worn by footmen. See May 4th, 1662, post. —⁠B. ↩

Sir John Burroughs had already written a treatise on The Soveraignty of the British Seas proved by Records, History, and the Municipall Lawes of this Kingdome. Written in the year 1633 by that Learned Knight, Sir John Boroughs, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. London, 1651, copies of which, both in Latin and English, are common, and one of which is in the Pepysian Library. William Ryley, the herald, Deputy Keeper of the Records, had also written on the subject, and had made extracts from the records. Ryley’s collections appear to have belonged to James II, and were probably made for him at this time. The Duke of Newcastle afterwards possessed them, and they are now in the British Museum. ↩

The governess. See ante, note 1170. ↩

Cutter, an old word for a rough swaggerer: hence the title of Cowley’s play. It was originally called The Guardian, when acted before Prince Charles at Trinity College, Cambridge, on March 12th, 1641. ↩

Joseph Kirton (see note 221). ↩

Samuel Cromleholme or Crumlum, high master (see note 159). Nathaniel Bull was second or sur master. ↩

“The wenches with their wassall bowls
About the streets are singing.”

Wither’s Christmas Carol

The old custom of carrying the wassail bowl from door to door, with songs and merriment, in Christmas week, is still observed in some of our rural districts. —⁠B. ↩

Bussy d’Ambois, a tragedy by George Chapman, first published in 1607. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, acted at court in December, 1622. Pepys saw this play March 16th, 1660⁠–⁠61, at Whitefriars Theatre. ↩

Probably John Grant or Graunt, a highly respected tradesman of Birchin Lane, author of Observations on a Collection of the London Bills of Mortality. He died April 18th, 1674. ↩

Samuel Cooper, the most eminent of English miniature painters, born in London, 1609, and instructed in his art by his uncle, John Hoskins. He resided for some years in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and died May 5th, 1672. ↩

William Faithorne, the well-known engraver. See note 526. ↩

Evelyn also mentions this visit of the king to Lincoln’s Inn, but enters into more detail. He writes,

“I went to London, invited to the solemn foolery of the Prince de la Grange at Lincoln’s Inn, where came the King, Duke, etc. It began with a grand masque, and a formal pleading before the mock Princes, Grandees, Nobles, and Knights of the Sun. He had his Lord Chancellor, Chamberlain, Treasurer, and other Royal officers, gloriously clad and attended. It ended in a magnificent banquet. One Mr. Lort was the young spark who maintain’d the pageantry.”

Evelyn’s Diary, January 1st, 1661⁠–⁠62

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Sir William Penn married very early in life Margaret, daughter of John Jasper, of Rotterdam. She died in 1682, and was buried at Walthamstow, March 4th, 1681⁠–⁠82. —⁠Penn’s Memorials of Sir William Penn, ii 572 ↩

The same custom is noticed,