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

of State, November 25th, 1651, and again, May 14th, 1659. At the Restoration he published A True and Humble Representation Touching the Death of the Late King as Far as He May Be Concerned Therein. Arrested at Hampstead, June 18th, 1660; condemned, but reprieved, and kept prisoner in Newgate. He was in the Tower in November, 1666. ↩

Three Cranes, in Upper Thames Street. ↩

“I remember your honour very well, when you newly came out of France, and wore pantaloon breeches; at which time your late honoured father [Sir W. Penn] dwelt in the Navy Office, in that apartment the Lord Viscount Brouncker dwelt in afterwards, which was on the north part of the Navy Office garden.”

P. Gibson of Penn ye Quaker, Life of Penn, vol. ii, p. 616

—⁠B. ↩

He had been gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I, and resident in France for that monarch. He was created a baronet September 1st, 1649, and died February 10th, 1683. Much is said of him in the Diary of John Evelyn, who married his only child and heir; and thus became possessor of Sayes Court. Part of Deptford Dockyard is still held under the Evelyn family. The plans, on a large scale, of Sayes Court and Deptford Dockyard, executed by Joel Gascoyne in 1692, probably for Evelyn himself, are in the British Museum, together with plans of the dockyard as it existed in 1688, 1698, and 1774, respectively; and also other plans of the docks made for the Evelyns. —⁠B. ↩

Sir N. Crisp was magnificent in all his projects. See ante, February 11th, 1659⁠–⁠60. —⁠B. ↩

A kind of weir with floodgate, or a navigable sluice. This project is mentioned by Evelyn, January 16th, 1661⁠–⁠62, and Lysons’ Environs vol. iv, p. 392. —⁠B. ↩

John Dekins. See ante, October 6th, 1661. ↩

William, second son of Sir Thomas Monson, Bart.; created, by Charles I, Viscount Monson of Castlemaine, in the kingdom of Ireland. Notwithstanding this act of favour, he was instrumental in the king’s death; and in 1661, being degraded of his honours, was sentenced, with Sir Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallop, to undergo the punishment here described. None of their names were subscribed to the king’s sentence. An account of this ceremony was printed at the time, entitled, “The Traytors’s Pilgrimage from the Tower to Tyburn, being a true relation of the drawing of William Lord Mounson, Sir Henry Mildmay and ’Squire Wallop⁠ ⁠… with the manner of the proceedings at Tyburn, in order to the degrading and divesting of them of their former titles of honour, and their declaratory speeches to both the right worshipful Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.” Lord Monson and Lord Sondes are descended from the eldest son of Sir Thomas Monson. Viscount Monson left one son by his second wife, Alston Monson, who died s.p. in 1674. —⁠Collins’s Peerage. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Henry Mildmay, third son of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, had enjoyed the confidence of Charles I, who made him Master of the Jewel Office; but he sat as one of the king’s judges, although he did not sign the death warrant. He died at Antwerp. His estate of Wansted was confiscated, and was given to Sir Robert Brookes; and by him, or his heirs, or creditors, alienated in 1667 to Sir Josiah Childe, ancestor of the Earl Tylney. See May 14th, 1665. It is now Lord Mornington’s, in right of his first wife. Sir Henry Mildmay’s other estates were saved by being settled on his marriage. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Wallop, the direct ancestor of the Earl of Portsmouth. He died in the Tower, November 16th, 1667. —⁠B. ↩

“Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:9

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Hezekiah Burton, S.T.B. 1661; died 1681. See ante, February 25th, 1659⁠–⁠60. ↩

Algiers. ↩

Ecclesiastes 11:1. ↩

As if they were a newly-married couple. See January 26th, 1660⁠–⁠61, and 8th February, 1662⁠–⁠63. ↩

Probably Benjamin Templer, rector of Ashby, in Northamptonshire. —⁠B. ↩

Who afterwards caused Pepys much trouble and inconvenience. ↩

The Duke of York’s letter “to the Principal Officers and Commanders of His Majesty’s Navy,” dated “Whitehall, January 28th, 1661⁠–⁠62,” is printed in Penn’s Memorials of Sir W. Penn, ii 265. The Instructions were a revisal and confirmation of the “Orders and Instructions” issued in 1640 by Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, then Lord High Admiral. Sir W. Penn had a hand in this revisal. ↩

Captain William Hill. ↩

Mrs. Porter, the turner’s wife (see August 10th, 1665). ↩

Fuller’s History of the Worthies of England, folio, 1662, is in the Pepysian Library. ↩

Sturtlow is near Brampton. Samuel frequently quarrelled with his brother Tom over the Sturtlow lands. ↩

The poetry of the song, “Gaze not on Swans,” is by H. Noel, and set to music by H. Lawes, in his “Ayres and Dialogues,” 1653. —⁠B. ↩

The “poor john” is a hake salted and dried. It is frequently referred to in old authors as poor fare. ↩

Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, aunt of Charles II. See ante, May 14th, 1660. She died at Leicester House, on the north side of the present Leicester Square, to which she had removed only five days previously from Drury House, in Drury Lane, the residence of Lord Craven, to whom it