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he was again appointed Captain of the Band of Pensioners, an office he had held before the Civil Wars. He died March 25th, 1667, s.p.m., when the barony devolved upon his daughter, Henrietta, Baroness Wentworth, afterwards mistress of the Duke of Monmouth. ↩

Sir Paul Rycaut’s Present State of the Ottoman Empire is in the Pepysian Library. See note 3014. ↩

The sister of Mrs. Clerke. ↩

A comedy by Sir Robert Howard, published in 1665. ↩

Probably in Moorfields. See August 22nd, 1666. It was also exhibited at Bartholomew Fair and at Charing Cross. ↩

Jasper Trice, gent., died 27th October, 1675.

Momanental Inscription in Brampton Church, Hunts.

—⁠B. ↩

This play was entitled Sawney the Scot, or the Taming of a Shrew, and consisted of an alteration of Shakespeare’s play by John Lacy. Although it had long been popular it was not printed until 1698. In the old Taming of a Shrew (1594), reprinted by Thomas Amyot for the Shakespeare Society in 1844, the hero’s servant is named Sander, and this seems to have given the hint to Lacy, when altering Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, to foist a Scotsman into the action. Sawney was one of Lacy’s favourite characters, and occupies a prominent position in Michael Wright’s picture at Hampton Court. Evelyn, on October 3rd, 1662, “visited Mr. Wright, a Scotsman, who had liv’d long at Rome, and was esteem’d a good painter,” and he singles out as his best picture, “Lacy, the famous Roscius, or comedian, whom he has painted in three dresses, as a gallant, a Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch Highlander in his plaid.” Langbaine and Aubrey both make the mistake of ascribing the third figure to Teague in The Committee; and in spite of Evelyn’s clear statement, his editor in a note follows them in their blunder. Planché has reproduced the picture in his History of Costume (vol. ii, p. 243). ↩

See June 23rd, 1660. ↩

Secretary Morice writes, “Whitehall, April 16”⁠—“The King wishes the £200 a week allowed to the Ambassadors extraordinary appointed to treat at Breda to begin from April 16” (Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 37). ↩

Sir George Mackenzie (1636⁠–⁠91), King’s Advocate for Scotland, published at Edinburgh, anonymously, in 1663, Religio Stoici; the Virtuoso or Stoick, with a friendly Address to the Fanatics of all Sects and Sorts. ↩

A light-armed vessel of the seventeenth century, used by the Dutch for privateering.

Smith’s Sailor’s Word Book

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The word is Sweden in the original. ↩

Jamaica House and Tea Gardens, Bermondsey, are marked in Horwood’s map as situated at the end of Cherry Garden Street. The name survives in Jamaica Road. There is an illustration of the house in Rendle and Norman’s Inns of Old Southwark, 1888, p. 400. ↩

This play was entered on the Register of the Stationers’ Company, but never printed. ↩

Edward Howard, fifth son of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Berkshire, and brother of Sir Robert Howard, baptized at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, November 2nd, 1624. His play, the United Kingdoms, was satirized in The Rehearsal. Lacy’s opinion of his abilities was shared by many of his contemporaries. ↩

The edition of 1666, containing eight books instead of five, edited by Dr. J. Gauden, Bishop of Exeter, and printed by Andrew Crooker, with the Life by Izaak Walton added for the first time. ↩

Sir William Dugdale’s Origines Juridiciales was published in 1666, and a second edition appeared in 1671. ↩

In The Change of Crownes. ↩

See note 802, which requires revision. Michael Mohun (1620?⁠–⁠84) acted before the Civil War under Beeston at the Cockpit, in Drury Lane. He fought on the royalist side, and attained the rank of captain. Subsequently he went to Flanders, and there became a major. He lived in 1665 on the south side of Russell Street, Covent Garden, and from 1671 to 1676 in a house on the east side of Bow Street. He died in Brownlow Street (now Betterton Street), Drury Lane, in October, 1684, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields (see life by Mr. Joseph Knight in the Dictionary of National Biography). He is described as Major in the Dramatis Personæ of Dryden’s Assignation as late as 1673. ↩

Afterwards called Bloomsbury Market. The following advertisement was inserted in The Intelligencer of May 23rd, 1664:

“These are to give notice to all persons, that the King’s most excellent Majesty hath granted to the Right Hon. the Earl of Southampton, one market to be held by the said Earl, his heirs, and assignes for ever, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, in every week, at Bloomsbury, in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlesex.

—⁠B. ↩

John Desborough, Desborow, or Disbrowe (1608⁠–⁠80), major-general, second son of James Desborough of Ettisley, Cambridgeshire. On June 23rd, 1636, he married Jane, sixth daughter of Robert Cromwell of Huntingdon, and sister of Oliver. After the Restoration he was imprisoned, and passed through several adventures; but after a judicial examination in 1667 he was set at liberty, and appears to have been allowed to reside quietly in England for the rest of his life. He died at Hackney in 1680. ↩

Rollo, Duke of Normandy, a tragedy by John Fletcher, published in 1640. It was previously published in 1639 under the title of The Bloody Brother. Hart, Kynaston, Mohun, and Burt all acted in this play. ↩

See August 15th, 1661. ↩

See November 5th, 1664.