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

order for the embalming the body of Sir William Berkeley, which they have placed in the chapel of the great church at the Hague, a civility they profess to owe to his corpse, in respect to the quality of his person, the greatness of his command, and of the high courage and valour he showed in the late engagement; desiring his Majesty to signify his pleasure about the further disposal of it.” “Frederick Ruysch, the celebrated Dutch anatomist, undertook, by order of the States-General, to inject the body of the English Admiral Berkeley, killed in the sea-fight of 1666; and the body, already somewhat decomposed, was sent over to England as well prepared as if it had been the fresh corpse of a child. This produced to Ruysch, on the part of the States-General, a recompense worthy of their liberality, and the merit of the anatomist,” (James’s Medical Dictionary, quoted in the Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lvii, p. 214). Sir William Berkeley was buried the following August in Westminster Abbey. ↩

Mr. Ensum died at the end of the year (see December 12th, 1666). ↩

Jean Baptiste Lulli, son of a Tuscan peasant, born 1633, died 1687. He invented the dramatic overture.

“But during the first years of Charles II all music affected by the beau mond run in the french way; and the rather because at that time the master of the court music in France, whose name was Baptista (an Italian frenchifyed) had influenced the french style by infusing a great portion of the Italian harmony into it, whereby the ayre was exceedingly improved.”

North’s Memoires of Music, ed. Rimbault, 1846, p. 102

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John Bannister, composer of Choice Ayres and Songs and of the incidental music to several masques, tragedies, and plays, including Shakespeare’s Tempest. He was in 1663 appointed first violin to the king, which post he is said to have lost owing to his upholding within the hearing of his Majesty the superiority of English over French players. He started successful concerts in London “over against the George Tavern in Whitefriars” (Hueffer’s Italian and Other Studies, p. 247). In the London Gazette, January 2⅕, 1674, is the following entry: “Mr. John Bannister that lived in White Fryers is removed to Shandois Street, Covent Garden, and there intends to have the like entertainment as formerly on Tuesday next, and every evening for the future, Sunday excepted.” Bannister died in 1679 at the age of forty-nine. ↩

The island of St. Christopher’s or St. Kitt’s, one of the Leeward Islands, was discovered in November, 1493, by Columbus, who was so pleased with it that he gave it his own Christian name. It was never colonized by the Spaniards, but in 1625 was taken possession of by a band of buccaneers consisting of English and French. Many contentions took place before it became definitely a British possession. ↩

The Duke of Albemarle. ↩

Abate from an amount.

“And do not see how much they must defalke
Of their accounts, to make them gree with ours.”

—⁠Daniel, Philotas, 1605

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Faithorne’s shop was on the north side of the Strand just outside Temple Bar, on the site of part of the Law Courts. ↩

Captain John Aylett of the Portland. ↩

Captain Francis Steward. ↩

Corneille’s play (Pompée), one act of which was translated by Edmund Waller, and the rest by Lord Buckhurst, Sir Charles Sedley, and Sidney Godolphin. Published in 1664. ↩

Captain John Swanley, appointed to the York in 1664. ↩

See note 1959, October 24th, 1663. Prujean married at Westminster, February 13th, 1664⁠–⁠65, Lady Margaret, daughter of Edward, Lord Gorges, and relict of Sir Thomas Fleming. She subsequently remarried Sir John Maynard, serjeant-at-law. ↩

Mary, daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot, of Pipe Hall, co. Warwick, born 1645; maid of honour to the Duchess of York, 1660; married, December 1 8th, 1664, Charles Berkeley, Earl of Falmouth, who was killed June 3rd, 1665, in the battle of Southwold Bay. In June, 1674, she took for a second husband Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, K.G., and died in childbed September 12th, 1679. Her name is usually given as Elizabeth, but this is a mistake. ↩

This division of the fleet was the original cause of the disaster, and at a later period the enemies of Clarendon charged him with having advised this action, but Coventry’s communication to Pepys in the text completely exonerates Clarendon. ↩

John Amos Comenius, a learned grammarian, born in Moravia, in 1592. Amongst other works, he published the play here mentioned, entitled, Schola Ludus seu Encyclopædia Viva (hoc est) Januæ Linguarum Praxis Scenica. This curious book contains the details of eight dramatic pieces, represented at the author’s school, at Patak, in 1654. Comenius died at Amsterdam, in 1671. —⁠B. ↩

Robert Greville, Lord Brooke, died 1676. Evelyn mentions this garden as Lady Brooke’s, and describes it as “one of the neatest and most celebrated in England” (May 5th, 1654). Brooke House, at Clapton, was subsequently occupied as a private madhouse. ↩

There is some dispute as to the date of the introduction of the sweet orange into Europe. It appears that in 1492 it was cultivated in England, and in some parts of the country it has thrived in the open air even during the winter. ↩

Mr., afterwards Sir Thomas Chicheley, a Privy Counsellor and Commissioner of the Ordnance. —⁠B. ↩

Henry Stone, painter and statuary, son of Nicholas Stone, master mason, died August 24th, 1653. If the portrait of Lord Coventry (died January 14th, 1639⁠–⁠40) was