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own vessel.”Pointer’s Chronological Hist. of Engl., vol. i, p. 216

—⁠B. ↩

February 7th, “Hugh Salesbury to Williamson. A fire-ship which left Harwich with the St. Patrick, reports that she met off North Foreland two Dutch privateers; the commander of the St. Patrick indiscreetly boarded one of them, the other boarded the St. Patrick, and both grappled him so that he yielded, and was carried to Holland. The fire-ship, instead of boarding one of them, only looked on.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 499

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As Constable of Windsor Castle. See note 3099. ↩

Ben Jonson’s well-known play. ↩

Charles Carter, who had a cure in Huntingdonshire. See February 8th, 1659⁠–⁠60, and December 23rd, 1660. ↩

Edward Rainbow, S.T.P., Bishop of Carlisle, 1664⁠–⁠84. He died March 26th, 1684, aged seventy-six years. ↩

Granger (Biog. Hist. of Engl., vol. iv, p. 190) describes an engraved portrait by Cooper, after Lely, of the Lady (Mrs.) Williams; but he describes her as the mistress of the Duke of York. ↩

John Troutbecke. See March 21st, 1665⁠–⁠66. ↩

Muger = wife in Spanish. ↩

Giovanni Baptista Draghi, an Italian musician in the service of Queen Catherine, and a composer of merit. He joined with Matthew Lock in composing the music to Shadwell’s opera of Psyche, produced in 1673. ↩

Like Hermit Poor in Pensive Place Obscure is found in The Phœnix Nest, 1593, and in Harl. MS. No. 6910, written soon after 1596. It was set to music by Alfonso Ferrabosco, and published in his Ayres, 1609. The song was a favourite with Izaak Walton, and is alluded to in Hudibras (Part I, canto ii, line 1169). See Rimbault’s Little Book of Songs and Ballads, 1851, p. 98. Both versions of the famous ballad of “Chevy Chase” are printed in Percy’s Reliques. ↩

The gondolas mentioned before, as sent by the Doge of Venice. See September 12th, 1661. ↩

“The name which is foremost in one’s mind, if one speaks of Italian music in the second half of the seventeenth century, is Carissimi, the last great representative of the Roman school, and himself the precursor and model of a number of great musicians in his own country, of Lulli in France, and through him of Humphreys and Purcell in England.”

F. Hueffer, Italian and Other Studies, 1883, p. 296

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There are several letters from John Lanyon to the Navy Commissioners among the State Papers, in some of which he asks for money (Calendar, 1666⁠–⁠67). ↩

Thomas Lloyd or Floyd. ↩

This must refer to Lord Orrery’s play of Henry V, acted at the Duke’s House on August 13th, 1664 (see vol. iv, p. 216). ↩

Henry, third son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, Lord Keeper; after the Restoration he was made a Groom of the Bedchamber, and elected M.P. for Droitwich in 1661. In 1664 he was sent Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden, where he remained two years, and was again employed on an embassy to the same court in 1671. He also succeeded (with Lord Holies) in negotiating the peace at Breda here alluded to, and in 1672 became Secretary of State, which office he resigned in 1679, on account of ill-health. He died unmarried, December 7th, 1686. —⁠B. ↩

Sir William Morris had several sons. ↩

The marriage licence of Anthony Lowther, of Marske, co. York, bachelor, 24, and Margaret Penn, spinster, 15, is dated February 12th, 1666⁠–⁠67 (Chester’s London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, 1887, col. 865). ↩

Perhaps the person called Vinnecotio, February 12th, 1666⁠–⁠67. There was a German organist and composer named Gasparus Vincentius, who lived about this time. ↩

See note 3222. ↩

See July 12th, 1666. ↩

Her Majesty’s apartments, at Whitehall Palace. ↩

See January 27th. ↩

See December 1st, 1666. ↩

Pepys records Mr. Weaver’s death on April 10th, 1667. ↩

Burnet wrote (History of His Own Time, book ii): “An act passed in this session for rebuilding the city of London, which gave Lord Chief Justice Hale a great reputation, for it was drawn with so true a judgment, and so great foresight, that the whole city was raised out of its ashes without any suits of law.” ↩

John Banister, who had been bred up, under his father, one of the waits in St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, was sent by Charles II to France for improvement; but soon after his return he was dismissed the king’s service for saying that the English violins were better than the French. He afterwards kept a music school in Whitefriars, and died in 1679 (Hawkins’s History of Music). There were many complaints against Banister. Among the State Papers is a “Remonstrance (dated March 29th, 1667) of the king’s band of violins under M. Grabu, master of his music, against the fraudulent conduct of John Banister, who receives £600 a year for extraordinary services of the violins, and keeps most of it himself, compelling them to submit by threats of having them turned out of their places; several have been turned out without orders from the king or Lord Chamberlain” (Calendar, 1666⁠–⁠67, p. 593). ↩

Louis Grabut or Grebus, Master of the King’s Music. The “Warrant to Edward, Earl of Manchester, to swear in ⸻ Grabu as Master of the English Chamber Music,” is dated November 12th, 1666 (Calendar of State