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company, who acted Ianthe in the Siege of Rhodes, at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, She retired from the stage about 1675, died April, 1712, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey on the 13th. The Roxalana here alluded to was Mrs. Davenport. ↩

2 Timothy 3:5. ↩

On the 5th of June following, Louis, notwithstanding the scarcity, gave that splendid carousal in the court before the Tuileries, from which the place has ever since taken its name. —⁠B. ↩

Richard Talbot, who figures conspicuously in the Grammont Memoirs, son of Sir William Talbot. He married, first, Catherine Boynton, “the languishing Boynton” of Grammont, and secondly, Frances Jennings, eldest sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Talbot was created Earl of Tyrconnel in 1685, and made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and elevated to the dukedom of Tyrconnel in 1689 by James II after his abdication. He died at Limerick, August 5th, 1691. ↩

Thomas Windsor, Baron Windsor, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, 1660; advanced to the earldom of Plymouth, 1682. Died November 3rd, 1689. ↩

This was the learned Robert South, then public orator at Oxford, and afterwards D.D. and prebendary of Westminster, and canon of Christchurch. The story, as copied from a contemporary tract, called Annus Mirabilis Secundus, is given with full details in Wood’s Athenæ and Kennett’s Register. It is by no means devoid of interest; but, having been so often printed, need not be here repeated. We may observe, however, that South had experienced a similar qualm whilst preaching at Oxford a few months before; but these seizures produced no bad consequences, as he lived to be eighty-three. —⁠B. ↩

Mary, daughter of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, wife of James, fourth Duke of Lennox and third Duke of Richmond, who left her a widow secondly in 1655. She had previously married Charles, Lord Herbert; and she took for her third husband, Thomas Howard, brother of the Earl of Carlisle, who fought the duel with Jermyn, referred to on August 19th, 1662. She died November, 1685. ↩

Guildford. ↩

Joking on Dr. Clerke’s surname and Pepys’s office of Clerk of the Acts. ↩

James, Duke of Ormonde, as Lord High Steward. ↩

Edward, Earl of Manchester, as Lord Chamberlain. ↩

John Tippets, appointed master-shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard, and afterwards knighted; Commissioner of the Navy (1667⁠–⁠72), and Surveyor of the Navy (1672⁠–⁠85, 1688⁠–⁠92). ↩

Sir George Carteret was elected Member of Parliament for Portsmouth, April 23rd, 1661. ↩

Titchfield House, erected by Sir Thomas Wriothesley on the site of a Premonstratensian abbey granted to him with the estates, 29th Henry VIII. Upon the death of his descendant, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, and Lord Treasurer, without issue male, the house and manor were allotted to his eldest daughter Elizabeth, wife of Edmund, first Earl of Gainsborough; and their only son dying s.p.m., the property devolved to his sister Elizabeth, married to Henry, Duke of Portland, whose grandson, the third duke, alienated it to Mr. Delme. The duke’s second title is taken from this place. —⁠B. ↩

Gough says,

“It is the custom at this day all over Wales to strew the graves, both within and without the church, with green herbs, branches of box, flowers, rushes, and flags, for one year, after which such as can afford it lay down a stone.”

Brand’s Popular Antiquities, edited W. C. Hazlitt, vol. ii, p. 218

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A preparation of the roe of sturgeons and other fish salted. It forms a lucrative branch of commerce in Italy and Russia. ↩

Sir Bevis of Hampton. ↩

James, Duke of Ormonde. ↩

The Earl of Manchester. ↩

Principal officers of the navy, of which body Pepys was one as Clerk of the Acts. ↩

A saltcellar answering this description is preserved at the Tower. ↩

The Royal Society. ↩

William, second Lord Viscount Brouncker of Castlelyons, born about 1620, was the first president of the Royal Society, and a respectable mathematician. Extra Commissioner of the Navy, 1664⁠–⁠66; Comptroller of the Treasurers Accounts, 1660⁠–⁠79; Master of St. Katharine’s Hospital in 1681. Died April 5th, 1684, ↩

John Owen, D.D., a learned Nonconformist divine, and a voluminous theological writer, born 1616, made Dean of Christ Church in 1653 by the Parliament, and ejected in 1659⁠–⁠60. He died at Ealing in 1683. ↩

William Penn, the celebrated Quaker. ↩

Theobald, second Viscount Taafe, created Earl of Carlingford, co. Louth, 1661⁠–⁠62. ↩

Mary, afterwards Queen of England. ↩

According to the original Statutes of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxon, a Scholar slept in a truckle bed below each Fellow. Called also “a trindle bed.” Compare Hall’s description of an obsequious tutor:

“He lieth in a truckle bed
While his young master lieth o’er his head.”

Satires, ii 6, 5

The bed was drawn in the daytime under the high bed of the tutor. See Wordsworth’s University Life in the Eighteenth Century. —⁠M. B. ↩

Watkins was a clerk of the Privy Seal, see post, May 9th. ↩

The Tower Menagerie was not abolished until the reign of William IV. ↩

Miniature by Savill, which cost £3, see post, June 11th. ↩

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Carteret, of St. Ouen, Jersey, married to her cousin, Sir George Carteret, Bart. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which was written in 1611, and first published in