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

Tour or Ring is kept for the Ladies to take the air in their coaches, and in fine weather I have seen above three hundred at a time.”Macky’s Journey Through England, 1724, vol. i, p. 75

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Benjamin Laney, S.T.P., chaplain in ordinary to Charles I; made Bishop of Peterborough, 1660; translated to Lincoln, 1662⁠–⁠63; and to Ely, 1667. Died January 24th, 1674⁠–⁠75. ↩

Edward Rainbow, S.T.P., chaplain to the king, Master of Magdalene College, 1642 to 1650, when he was ejected. Restored 1660, remained till 1664, Dean of Peterborough, Jan. 1660⁠–⁠61 to 1664, when he became Bishop of Carlisle. Died March 26th, 1684. ↩

There is a token of William Smith at the Royal Oak “in Lumber Street,” 1666. —⁠Boyne’s Tokens, ed. Williamson, vol. i, p. 660 ↩

Alexander Brome, an attorney in the Lord Mayor’s Court, born 1620, author of many songs and epigrams in ridicule of the Rump. He was also author of a comedy entitled The Cunning Lovers, and of a translation of portions of Horace. His Songs and Poems were collected, 1661 (second edition, 1664; third edition, 1668). He died June 30th, 1666, and his death is recorded in the Diary on July 3rd. He edited Richard Brome’s plays, but he was apparently no relation of that dramatist. Edward Phillips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, styles him “the English Anacreon.” ↩

Haut Brion, a claret; one of the first growths of the red wines of Médoc. ↩

Afterwards Sir William Walker and Sir Robert Wiseman. —⁠B. ↩

Jonas Shish (born 1605) succeeded Christopher Pett as master shipwright at Deptford in 1668, and died May, 1680. Evelyn held Shish in high esteem, and was one of the pallbearers at his funeral. Evelyn described him as “one who can give very little account of his art by discourse, and is hardly capable of reading, yet of great abilitie in his calling. The family have been ship carpenters in this yard above 100 yeares.” (March 3rd, 1667⁠–⁠68). ↩

Selden’s work was highly esteemed, and Charles I made an order in council that a copy should be kept in the Council chest, another in the Court of Exchequer, and a third in the Court of Admiralty. The book Pepys refers to is Nedham’s translation, which was entitled, Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea. Two Books⁠ ⁠… , written at first in Latin and entituled Mare Clausum, by John Selden. Translated into English by Marchamont Nedham. London, 1652. This has the Commonwealth arms on the title-page and a dedication “To the Supreme Autoritie of the Nation⁠—The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England.” The dedication to Charles I in Selden’s original work was left out. Apparently a new title-page and dedication was prepared in 1663, but the copy in the British Museum, which formerly belonged to Charles Killigrew, does not contain these additions. ↩

The Duke of Monmouth’s “lodgings near Charing Cross” were probably in Hedge Lane, now Dorset Street. “Monmouth Court” preserves the memory of his residence. The king gave his son apartments in Whitehall, and Mr. Marshall, in his work on Tennis (pp. 87, 88), quotes from Harl. MS. 1618, fol. 224, a reference to “Charges in doing diverse workes in making lodgings in the old Tennis Court at Whitehall for ye Duke of Monmouth,” June, 1664. ↩

The arms granted to the Duke of Monmouth, April 8th, 1665, were Quarterly, i and iv; Ermine, on a pile gu. three lions passant gardant or; ii and iii, or, an inescutcheon of France, within a double tressure flory counter flory, gu. On the 22nd of April, 1667, another grant was made to the duke of the arms of Charles II, with a baton sinister arg.; over all, an inescutcheon of Scott. The present Duke of Buccleuch bears these arms quarterly. —⁠B. ↩

A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. ↩

A salt eel is a rope’s end cut from the piece to be used on the back of a culprit. “Yeow shall have salt eel for supper” is an emphatic threat. ↩

Pembleton, the dancing-master, made Pepys very jealous, and there are many allusions to him in the following pages. His lessons ceased on May 27th. ↩

George Stradling, eighth son of Sir John Stradling, Bart., prebendary of St. Paul’s, 1660; rector of Fulham, January 11th, 1660⁠–⁠61; D.D., 1661; rector of Hanwell and Brentford, February 25th, 1661⁠–⁠62; prebendary of Westminster, 1663; vicar of St. Bride’s, London, April 23rd, 1672; dean of Chichester, December 21st, 1672. He died April 18th, 1688, and was buried in Westminster Abbey (see Chester’s Westminster Abbey Registers, pp. 220⁠–⁠221). ↩

“Evangelium Armatum. A Specimen, or Short Collection of several Doctrines and Positions destructive to our Government, both Civil and Ecclesiastical, preached and vented by the known leaders and abettors of the pretended Reformation, such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall and others.” London: Printed for William Garret, 1663, 4to. —⁠B. ↩

Arthur Browne, captain of the Rosebush. ↩

Colonel Fitzgerald, Deputy-Governor of Tangier. Pepys speaks of him in disparaging terms on October 20th, 1664, although in 1668 (August 7th) he was pleased both with the colonel and with his discourse. ↩

William Stankes, bailiff of Robert Pepys’s land, who died September, 1668. ↩

The Tower menagerie, with its famous lions, which was one of the chief sights of London, and gave rise to a new English word, was not abolished until the early part of the present century. ↩

There is a halfpenny token of Mr. Game with this