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other that I know,” and “because your Majestie of all other persons within your owne dominions, are most dishonoured, prejudiced, and abused by these Healthes.” ↩

Lord Ashworth is probably a miswriting for Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury). ↩

John Berkinshaw (see note 1291). In the minutes of the Royal Society there is the following entry: “Nov. 12, 1662. Mr. Berckenshaw’s paper on music was presented by Dr. Charlton; and Lord Viscount Brouncker was desired to examine it” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. i, p. 125). ↩

The ambassador sent from the States General was Herr Van Goch (see Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, pp. 620, 670, 674). ↩

Henry Russell, a waterman. ↩

Sir John Coke (1563⁠–⁠1644) in 1618 was one of a special commission appointed for the examination of the state of the navy. He was rewarded for his work in the reform of the naval administration by a grant of £300 a year, charged on the funds of the navy, and expressly stated to be given “for his service in several marine causes, and for the office of ordnance, which he had long attended far remote from his family and to his great charge” (November, 1621). —⁠Dictionary of National Biography ↩

The Cherry Garden was a place of public entertainment at Rotherhithe. The site is marked by Cherry Garden Stairs, a landing-pier for Thames steamers and small boats. ↩

Dr. Thomas Hodges, vicar of Kensington and rector of St. Peter’s, Cornhill. He had been, in September, 1661, preferred to the deanery of Hereford, which he held with his two livings till his death, August 22nd, 1672. —⁠B. ↩

“Taille, the proportion, size, or stature of a man.”

Cotgrave’s French Dictionary

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The house, afterwards known as Nottingham House and Kensington Palace, was at this time the seat of Sir Heneage Finch, created Earl of Nottingham, 1681. It was sold by his son to King William, who greatly improved it. ↩

Laver denotes a pond, cistern, trough, or conduit. “Laver, to washe at, lavoyr” (Palsgrave). ↩

Among the State Papers is a petition of Captain Edward Witham (1663?) for half-pay or employment, his troop of horse at Tangiers being disbanded and he in poverty, and the other officers being on half-pay (Calendar, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 422). ↩

Bear’s Quay was a market for corn near Billingsgate. ↩

Lord Sandwich’s daughters. ↩

We have here a curious picture of the dreadful state of the streets in London in 1664. No improvement of what they were a century before, when they were described as “very foul, full of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noxious” (Knight’s London, vol. i, p. 26), appears to have taken place. The alarm of Lady Paulina and Pepys at night was not surprising. —⁠B. ↩

Kensington. ↩

Reports of De Ruyter’s death were frequently abroad. He did not die till 1676. ↩

Lady Gold married Thomas Neale. She had four brothers. ↩

Sidney Montagu, second son of the Earl of Sandwich, who afterwards assumed the name of Wortley, and was father of Edward Wortley Montagu (husband of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu). ↩

“There died this last weeke at Amsterdam 730, but they feare an increase this weeke; and the plague is scattered generally over the whole country, even to Little Dorps and Villages: and it is gott to Antwerp and Bruxells, so that they will not suffer any ships or vessels of Holland or Zeland to come to Antwerp; and 2 severall shipps are returned out of Spaine for that they would not suffer them to have any trade at all there.”

Sir George Downings letter to Lord Clarendon, July 29th, 1664. Lister’s Life of Clarendon, vol. iii, p. 331

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From the commencement of the reign of Henry VIII, or perhaps earlier, it was the custom of the City of London to provide against scarcity, by requiring each of the chartered Companies to keep in store a certain quantity of corn, which was to be renewed from time to time, and when required for that purpose, produced in the market for sale, at such times and prices, and in such quantities, as the Lord Mayor or Common Council should direct. See the report of a case in the Court of Chancery, “Attorney-General v. Haberdashers’ Company” (Mylne and Keens Reports, vol. i, p. 420). —⁠B. ↩

This seems to refer to knee timber, of which there was not a sufficient supply. A proposal was made to produce this bent wood artificially:

“June 22, 1664. Sir William Petty intimated that it seemed by the scarcity and greater rate of knee timber that nature did not furnish crooked wood enough for building: wherefore he thought it would be fit to raise by art, so much of it in proportion, as to reduce it to an equal rate with strait timber.”

Birch’s History of the Royal Society

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See September 3rd, 1661. ↩

Pliny tells us that cherries were introduced into Britain by the Romans, and Lydgate alludes to them as sold in the London streets. Richard Haines, fruiterer to Henry VIII, imported a number of cherry trees from Flanders, and planted them at Tenham, in Kent. Hence the fame of the Kentish cherries. ↩

Glossarium Archaiologicum, of which only the first part, to the letter L, was published by Spelman himself, 1626; the work was completed in 1664 by Sir William Dugdale from the author’s papers. Sir Henry Spelman died, October, 1641, at