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

February 3rd, 1661⁠–⁠62. ↩

William Hewer. ↩

Sir Paul Neile, of White Waltham, Berks (see note 959). ↩

The first Duke or Doge of Genoa was Simon Boccanegra, elected in 1339. Hallam gives an account of the origin of the ducal government in his Europe During the Middle Ages, chapter iii. ↩

John Berchinshaw, an Irishman, translated the Elementale Musicum, 8vo., 1664, and issued, in 1672, a prospectus of a complete system of music, but it is doubtful if the book ever appeared. In the Pepysian Library is a thin folio volume entitled, Mr. Berchinshaw’s Two Parts to be sung (severally) with ye ordinary Church Tunes of the Singing Psalms. Evelyn mentions him in his Diary (August 3rd, 1664) in high terms, and describes him as “that rare artist who invented a mathematical way of composure very extraordinary, true as to the exact rules of art, but without much harmonie.” He lived at Southwark, see post, February 24th, 1661⁠–⁠62. A John Birchenshaw was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, May 14th, 1681, but it is not certain that this was the teacher of music. ↩

These three brothers were the sons of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent, who had purchased the estate of Mark’s Hall, in Essex; and whose mother, Mary Attwaters, after forty-four years of widowhood, died at ninety-three, having lived to see three hundred and sixty-seven of her own lawful descendants. Colonel Honywood and Peter seem, from subsequent notices in the Diary, to have been both knighted: but we find no particulars of their history. Michael Honywood, D.D., was rector of Kegworth, co. Leicester, and seeking refuge at Utrecht during the Rebellion, was, on his return, made Dean of Lincoln, and died in 1681, aged eighty-five, having been generally considered a learned and holy man. The widow of Dean Honywood left his library to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. Many early printed books of great rarity contained in this collection were dispersed under the auspices of Dean Gordon in 1817, and replaced by the purchase of modern works comparatively of no value. See Botfield’s Account of Our Cathedral Libraries. In the Topographer and Genealogist, No. V, there is a printed account of “Mary Honywood and her Posterity,” taken from a MS. of Peter Le Neve’s, in the Lansdowne Collection in the British Museum. —⁠B. ↩

They are formed by dropping melted glass into water. These drops are still called after Prince Rupert, who brought them out of Germany, where they were named “Lacrymæ Batavicæ.” They consist of glass drops with long and slender tails, which burst to pieces on the breaking off those tails in any part. The invention is thus alluded to in Hudibras:⁠—

“Honour is like that glassy bubble
That finds philosophers such trouble,
Whose least part cracked, the whole does fly,
And wits are cracked to find out why.”

Part II, canto ii, line 385

—⁠B. ↩

A game of cards played by three persons with forty-four cards, each hand having twelve cards, and eight being left for the stock. —⁠Nares’s Glossary. Ben Jonson mentions it with Primero as a fashionable game in The Alchemist, v. 4. The laws of the game are given in the Wit’s Interpreter, 1662, p. 365. “Whatever games were stirring at places where he retired, as gammon, gleek, piquet, or even the merry main, he made one.” —⁠North’s Life of Lord Keeper Guildford, vol. i, p. 17 ↩

On the 8th a proclamation was issued for a general fast to be observed in London and Westminster on the 15th, and in the rest of England on the 22nd, with prayers on occasion of “the present unseasonableness of the weather.” William Lucy, Bishop of St. Davids, preached before the House of Lords. Dr. Samuel Bolton and Dr. Bruno Ryves preached at St. Margaret’s before the House of Commons. —⁠B. ↩

The old proverb says truly, that “a green yule maketh a fat kirk yard.” Apples were growing at this time. —⁠B. ↩

Frederick, created first Lord Cornwallis, April 20th, 1661, who died January 31st, 1662, was Treasurer of the Household. ↩

Gambia, on the western coast of Africa, then recently possessed by the English. Its unhealthy character is still, alas! well proved by our cruisers against the slave trade. —⁠B. ↩

The report proved to be false. ↩

Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester, had numerous issue by his first wife, Catherine Spencer; but George, here mentioned, was the eldest son of Margaret Crouch, widow of John Hare, the earl’s third wife. ↩

Edward Montagu, eldest son of Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton. He died unmarried. ↩

Ralph, second son of Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton. He was ambassador to France in 1666, 1669, 1676, 1677⁠–⁠78, and was created Earl in 1689, and Duke of Montagu in 1705; he died March 7th, 1709. ↩

Edward, second Earl of Manchester. ↩

Robert Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, was a gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles II, 1666⁠–⁠1681. He became third Earl of Manchester on his father’s death in 1671, and died at Paris, March 14, 1683. ↩

Charles, third son of Sir Miles Fleetwood, Knt.; General and Commander-in-Chief to the Protector Richard, whose sister, Bridget, widow of Ireton, he had married as his second wife. After the king’s return he lived in obscurity, and died October 4th, 1692. ↩

John Downes, member of the Long Parliament. He joined the Parliamentary army, and was made a colonel of militia. One of the king’s judges who signed the death warrant. Elected to the Council