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

about 24, and at own disposal, at St. Olave aforesaid, 19 March, 1668⁠–⁠69” (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, col. 443). Tom Edwards’s death is referred to in a letter from Pepys to Sir Richard Haddock, dated August 20th, 1681 (Rawlinson, A. 194, fol. 256, Bodleian Library). In the following year Pepys got his orphan son into Christ’s Hospital, as appears by a letter dated April 7th, 1682: “This will be brought by the widow Jane Edwards, mother of the boy Samuel Edwards, for whom Sir John Frederick has been pleased by your hand to send me a paper for his admission into the hospital. His father was his Majesty’s servant in the Navy for near twenty years past, and lately died an officer therein, leaving this poor woman with two small children (whereof this, being between nine and ten years old, is the eldest), and without aught more towards her and their support (through his and her long and chargeable sickness) than what she can earn in service” (Pepys’s Life, Journals, and Correspondence, 1841, vol. i, p. 284). ↩

Unlucky (infelix). ↩

Walter Porter published Mottets of two Voices for Treble or Tenor and Basse, etc., to be performed to an Organ, Harpsichord, Lute or Base-Viol. London 1657. ↩

Mrs. Ferrabosco was probably the daughter of Alphonso Ferrabosco, himself the son of Ben Jonson’s friend. ↩

The Henrietta (previously the Langport) was a third-rate of fifty guns, built at Horselydown in 1654 by Mr. Bright (Archæologia, vol. xlviii, p. 170). ↩

Pepys referred to this same play on September 24th, 1662. ↩

Herr Van Goch, ambassador from the States-General. ↩

At a meeting of the Royal Society on September 14th, 1664, it was resolved that “Prince Rupert be desired by Sir Robert Moray to try in his expedition to Guinea the sounding of depths without a line and the fetching up of water from the bottom of the sea” (Birch’s History of the Royal Society, vol. i, p. 467). ↩

Mr. Margets, a rope merchant near the Custom House, is mentioned in the examination of Eliz. Oldroyd, July 12th, 1664 (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 639). ↩

Pepys would have been more proud of his cousin had he anticipated her husband’s becoming a knight, for she was probably the same person whose burial is recorded in the register of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, September 4th, 1704: “Dame Sarah Gyles, widow, relict of Sir John Gyles.” —⁠B. ↩

A comedy by Sir William Davenant, first published in 1668. It is an alteration of The Two Noble Kinsmen. Harris played Theocles Betterton, Philander. Gosnell is not mentioned in the cast by Downes. The character of Celania was afterwards acted by Mrs. Davis, who captivated Charles II in this part. ↩

Pepys’s sister Paulina. ↩

Afterwards Queen Mary II. ↩

Among the State Papers is a “Statement of Articles in the Covenant proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant. Desmarces & Co. in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto” (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663⁠–⁠64, p. 576.) ↩

Baulmes, at Hoxton, belonged to Sir George Whitmore, of Barnes, in Surrey, who was Lord Mayor in 1631, and a great sufferer for the royal cause. His daughter Anne, mentioned by Pepys, Febniary 28th, 1663⁠–⁠64, married Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower. Baulmes is described as an old square mansion, with two storeys in the roof; it was afterwards converted into a madhouse, and demolished in the year 1852. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Alexander Fraizer (see note 851). ↩

Magd: Coll: Register Book
Septr 19º 1649.

Mem: eū in ordinem com̃ensaliū cooptatū fuisse Apr: 17° 1651 Tutore hoc tempore Dno Morland.

Joannes Skeffington filius Ricardi Skeffington, equitis, de coventriâ, annum agens decimum septimum, admissus est Pensionarius, Tutore Mro Merryweather.

—⁠M. B.

Sir John Skeffington married Mary, only daughter and heir of Sir John Clotworthy, who was in 1660 created Viscount Massareene of Ireland, with remainder to his son-in-law, Sir John Skeffington, who succeeded as second Viscount in 1665, and died in 1695. —⁠B. ↩

In Lord Clarendon’s Essay, “On the Decay of Respect Paid to Age,” he says that in his younger days he never kept his hat on before those older than himself, except at dinner. —⁠B. ↩

At the Commencement (Comitia Majora) in July, the Prævaricator, or Varier, held a similar position to the Tripos at the Comitia Minora. He was so named from varying the question which he proposed, either by a play upon the words or by the transposition of the terms in which it was expressed. Under the pretence of maintaining some philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the office. In Thoresby’s Diary we read, “Tuesday, July 6th. The Prævaricator’s speech was smart and ingenious, attended with vollies of hurras” (see Wordsworth’s University Life in the Eighteenth Century). —⁠M. B.

In Dean Peacock’s work on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge, Appendix A, p. xxvi, there is an interesting account of the Varier or Prævaricator. —⁠B. ↩

Apparently Lawrence Dupuy, who was associated with other projectors in the promotion of lotteries. ↩

Both these plays were by Beaumont and Fletcher, or probably by Fletcher alone. ↩

Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, created Earl of Orrery, 1660. Died October 16th, 1679. A tragicomedy