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epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the posture and progress of His Maties forces at sea under command of his Highness Royal. Together with the battel and victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3, 1665. London, 1666. In the following year appeared Directions to a Painter for Describing Our Navall Business in Imitation of Waller, The second Advice to a Painter for drawing the History of our Naval Business, an imitation of Mr. Waller, The second and third Advice to a Painter for drawing the History of our Naval Actions, in answer to Mr. Waller. These were attributed to Sir John Denham, but it is doubtful whether he had anything to do with them. In Poems on Affairs of State, vol. i (1703), where the Directions are printed, we find this note in the list of contents, “said to be written by Sir John Denham, but believed to be writ by Mr. Milton.” Andrew Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter is dated 1667, and his Further Instructions to a Painter, 1670. The constant issue of “Instructions” and “Advices” attracted special attention, and The Answer of Mr. Waller’s Painter to his many new Advisers was published in 1667. Marvell wrote an Advice to a Painter on the Popish Plot, and a Second Advice to a Painter was written in imitation of Manell. In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of Waller’s Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable form of advice to the painters:

“Each puny brother of the rhyming trade
At every turn implores the Painter’s aid,
And fondly enamoured of own foul brat
Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that.”

The series was continued, for we find Advice to a Painter Upon the Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the Late Duke of Monmouth (Poems on Affairs of State, vol. ii, p. 148); Advice to a Painter, Being a Satire on the French King, etc., 1692, and Advice to a Painter, 1697 (Poems on Affairs of State, vol. ii, p. 428). ↩

See March 7th, 1666. ↩

It was called “A Bill for raising part of the supply for his Majesty by an imposition on Sealed Paper and Parchment” —⁠B. ↩

Captain Willoughby Hannam or Hanham (see note 2914). ↩

John Wallis, born November 23rd, 1616, at Ashford, educated at Felsted School, Essex, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he removed to a fellowship in Queen’s College. In 1648 he was appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, where he took the degree of D.D., 1654. He was one of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Society, and his Arithmetic of Infinites is said to contain the germ of future discoveries. He died at Oxford, October 28th, 1703. ↩

See note 1785. ↩

Captain Christopher Batters, of the Joseph fire-ship, was drowned in the Thames, and his body found some time afterwards (see Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, pp. 505, 506). ↩

John Hingston, composer and organist, pupil of Orlando Gibbons. In the service successively of Charles I, Cromwell, and Charles II. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in 1663 keeper of the organs. He is said by Hawkins to have been Blow’s earliest master. He died in 1683, and was buried in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, December 17th. His portrait was in the Music School at Oxford. ↩

The “Warrant to the Treasurer of the Chamber to pay to Henry Brookwell, musician on the lute, in place of Lewis Evans, deceased, £16 2s. 6d. a year for life for his livery,” is dated December 20th, 1666 (Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 362). ↩

Henry Pierrepoint, second Earl of Kingston, created Marquis of Dorchester, 1645. Died December 1st, 1680. See an account of this quarrel in Lord Clarendon’s Life, vol. iii, p. 153, edit. 1827. —⁠B.

“The Commons being in the Painted Chamber ready for the Conference appointed concerning the Canary Company, the House was adjourned during Pleasure, and the Lords went to the Conference, which being ended the House was resumed.” The Lord Chamberlain acquainted the House, “That there was an ill accident fell out when the Lords were at the Conference this day in the Painted Chamber, by reason of a quarrel between the Duke of Bucks and the Marquis of Dorchester.”

Explanations were made by both lords, who were sent to the Tower (Journals of the House of Lords, vol. xii, pp. 52, 53). ↩

Sir John Robinson. ↩

Anne, daughter of Sir George Whitmore. ↩

Sir Alan Broderick died on the 28th November, 1680, and was interred at Wandsworth on the 3rd December, when his funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel Resbury, D.D., incumbent of the parish. The following extracts from the discourse, which, though printed, is very scarce, may throw some light on the knight’s character, and, from their quaintness, are interesting.

“In the first place, therefore, I might be very well allow’d to begin with that usual head of panegyrick, where the subject could well bear it, viz., the quality of his birth and extract, and so give you his lineage in a long series of worthy and honourable ancestry, who from time immemorial had liv’d in the Registry of Honour in the Northern parts, till his own father, by the occasion of a noble trust, viz., the Lieutenancy of the Tower of London, came to add warmth to our Southern clime, and bless’d this place not only with his own and his religious Lady’s presence and vertues (whose names and memories are still fragrant in those odours of goodness wherein they have been