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

Whitehall; and afterwards (the Lord Mayor and his brethren assisting) at Temple Bar, and other the usual parts of the city (The London Gazette, February 8th⁠–⁠12th, 1665⁠–⁠6. —⁠B. ↩

John Hayls, or Hales, a portrait-painter “remarkable for copying Vandyke well, and for being a rival of Lely.” Pepys employed him to paint portraits of himself, his wife, and his father. ↩

It was the fashion at this time to be painted as St. Catherine, in compliment to the queen. ↩

This is supposed to be intended for the famous Will’s Coffee House in Covent Garden. ↩

Cadiz. ↩

The book purchased by Pepys is entitled, An Interpretation of the Number 666, wherein not only the manner how this Number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and demonstrated; but it is also showed that this number is an exquisite and perfect character, truly, exactly, and essentially describing that state of Government to which all other notes of Antichrist doe agree. With all knowne objections solidly and fully answered, that can be materially made against it. By Francis Potter, B.D., Oxford, 1642, 4to. A copy of this work in the British Museum contains the bookplate of “William Hewer, of Clapham, in the county of Surrey, Esq., 1699.” See November 4th and 10th, 1666, post. —⁠B. ↩

John Ogilby’s Entertainment of Charles II in his Passage through the City of London to his Coronation was published by the king’s command in 1662⁠—a splendid volume with plates by Hollar. His translation of Æsop was published in 1651 and 1658; but it was probably the illustrated edition issued in 1665 which Pepys bought. The lottery took place at the old theatre between Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Vere Street. ↩

Afterwards the famous Sir Christopher Wren. He was one of the mainstays of the Royal Society. ↩

The camera obscura. ↩

Cranbourne Lodge. Sir G. Carteret’s official residence, as Vice-Chamberlain. See July 20th, 1665. ↩

Sidney Montagu, Lord Sandwich’s second son. ↩

Sir Charles Harbord. ↩

Sir George Carteret’s daughter Caroline. ↩

William Child, Doctor of Music, born at Bristol in 1604, and educated in the choir of the cathedral under Elway Bevin. In 1636 he was appointed one of the organists of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor. After the Restoration he was appointed “Chanter of the King’s Chapel at Whitehall,” and one of the organists. He died on March 23rd, 1696⁠–⁠7, in the ninety-first year of his age, and was buried in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor (Rimbault’s Old Cheque Book of the Chapel Royal, p. 226). ↩

Sir Henry Halford wrote “An Account of what appeared on opening the Coffin of K. Charles I at Windsor,” 1813, which was reprinted in his Essays and Orations, 1831, 1842. ↩

Matthew Wren, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely, of both his names, M.P. for St. Michael’s, 1661, and made secretary to Lord Clarendon, after whose fall he filled a similar office under the Duke of York, till his death in 1672. According to Pepys’s “Signs Manual,” Wren was mortally wounded in the battle of Solebay. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer to Harrington’s Oceana. —⁠B. ↩

The king took possession of Audley End the following autumn, but the conveyance of the estate was not executed till May 8th, 1699; of the purchase-money, which was £50,000, £20,000 remained on mortgage of the Hearth Tax in Ireland; and, in 1701, Henry Howard, fifth Earl of Suffolk, was allowed by the Crown, upon the debt being cancelled, to reestablish himself in the seat of his ancestors. It seems very doubtful whether the interest of the mortgage was ever received by the Suffolk family. —⁠B. ↩

William Castell wrote to the Navy Commissioners on February 17th, 1665⁠–⁠66, to inform them that the Defiance had gone to Longreach, and again, on February 22nd, to say that Mr. Grey had no masts large enough for the new ship. Sir William Batten on March 29th asked for the consent of the Board to bring the Defiance into dock (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1665⁠–⁠66, pp. 252, 262, 324). ↩

Cadiz. ↩

Elbe. ↩

One of the City Members in the Oxford and Westminster Parliaments. See more of him in the Notes, by Scott, to Absalom and Achitophel; in which poem he is introduced under the designation of “railing Rabsheka.” —⁠B. ↩

There are several erasures in the original MS. ↩

John Lacy, the celebrated comedian (see note 1424 and note 1425). ↩

Robert and William Shotterel both belonged to the King’s Company at the opening of their new theatre in 1663. One of them, called by Downes a good actor, had been quartermaster to the troop of horse in which Hart was serving as lieutenant and Burt as cornet under Charles I’s standard; but nothing further is recorded of his merits or career. Pepys refers to Robert Shotterel, who, it appears, was living in Playhouse Yard, Drury Lane, 1681⁠–⁠84. —⁠B. ↩

John Troutbecke in 1661 was surgeon to the Life Guards, commanded by the Duke of Albemarle. ↩

Sir Robert Long (see note 1735 and note 2733). ↩

One of the Rotiers (see March 9th, 1662⁠–⁠63). ↩

James Hayes. ↩

Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal. She was daughter of the Duke