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

of shutting up the Exchequer, is composed by Thomas Turnor, as appears by the preliminary letter and by the postscript at the end. The “Declaration” alluded to, which was issued in 1667, is printed in pp. 135⁠–⁠137. —⁠Buckle’s Miscel. and Posth. Works, vol. ii, p. 215. —⁠M. B. ↩

Louis XIV was at this time in Flanders, with his queen, his mistresses, and all his Court. Turenne commanded under him. Whilst Charles was hunting moths at Lady Castlemaine’s, and the English fleet was burning, Louis was carrying on the campaign with vigour. Armentieres was taken on the 28th May; Charleroi on the 2nd June, St. Winox on the 6th, Fumes on the 12th, Ath on the 16th, Toumay on the 24th; the Escarpe on the 6th July, Courtray on the 18th, Audenarde on the 31st; and Lisle on the 27th August. —⁠B. ↩

See June 26th, post. ↩

See August 9th, post. ↩

The Commissioners for regulating the Duke of York’s affairs, in May, 1667, were John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Colonel Robert Werden, and Colonel Anthony Eyre. —⁠Household Book, at Audley-End. —⁠B. ↩

At Euston Hall, in Suffolk, on the borders of Norfolk, which afterwards came into the Grafton family by the marriage of the first duke with Lord Arlington’s only child. Among Pepys’s papers (Rawlinson, A. 195, fol. 58) is a document, entitled “Considerations touching the purchase of the Park and Woods near Euston, drawn and presented by Mr. Povy, as his advice to my Lord Arlington, at this time (Oct. 28, 1668) in treaty for the purchase of Euston.” —⁠B. ↩

Henry Oldenburgh, secretary to the Royal Society. The warrant for his arrest is dated June 20th, 1667. The warrant for his discharge is dated August 26th. ↩

A proclamation by the Privy Council “Concerning the Pay of the Navy and Army” was issued on June 25th, 1667, and a proclamation for “Reassembling of Parliament” on June 26th, 1667 (Bibliotheca Lindesiana, “Hand List of Proclamations,” vol. i, 1893). ↩

The Carterets appear to have mystified Pepys, who eagerly believed all that was told him. At this time Paris was notoriously unsafe, infested with robbers and beggars, and abominably unclean. Colbert had three daughters, of whom the eldest was just married when Pepys wrote, viz., Jean Marie Therese, to the Duc de Chevreuse, on the 3rd February, 1667. The second daughter, Henriette Louise, was not married to the Duc de St. Aignan till January 21st, 1671; and the third, Marie Anne, to the Duc de Mortemart, February 14th, 1679. Colbert himself was never made a duke. His highest title was Marquis de Seignelay. —⁠B. ↩

Richard Boyle, eldest son of the great Earl of Cork (1612⁠–⁠1698), succeeded his father as second Earl of Cork in 1643, created Baron Clifford of Lanesborough in 1644, and Earl of Burlington in 1664. ↩

See July 14th. ↩

See May 12th, 1665. ↩

Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral 1643⁠–⁠45, 1648⁠–⁠49. ↩

See May 25th, 1660. Clarendon’s assertion that Batten was an “obscure fellow,” there quoted, is disputed by Professor Laughton in the Dictionary of National Biography. ↩

James, second Marquis of Douglas, and nephew to the Duke of Hamilton. —⁠B. ↩

“The bottom of the Royal James is got afloat, and those of the Loyal London and Royal Oak soon will be so. Many men are at work to put Sheerness in a posture of defence, and a boom is being fitted over the river by Upnor Castle, which with the good fortifications will leave nothing to fear.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 285

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The island near the entrance of the Zuyder Zee, on which Sir Robe Holmes had landed. See August 15th, 1666. —⁠B. ↩

The Thames. ↩

Muscle Bank, in the Medway. ↩

John Conny, writing to Williamson from Chatham, June 17th, 1667, says:

“The Royal Charles is got away. The Dutch are all drawn down the river; there are not many within Sheerness, yet enough to secure their men, who are said to be fortifying the Ness. They have fired what they can of the ships sunk to prevent their approach, and cleared the river except weighing those vessels. The St. George is got afloat. Hopes this high water to recover the Monmouth, Rainbow, Triumph, Unicorn, and Henry.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 200

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See note 3130. ↩

Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of King James and King Charles.⁠ ⁠… London, 1654, 4to.; second edition, London, 1663, folio; third edition, London, 1691, folio. ↩

Captain William Upcher wrote to the Navy Commissioners on July 8th asking for the situation vacant by the death of John Tooker (Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 276). ↩

A son of James Montague, of Lackham, third son of the first Earl of Manchester, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir R. Baynard, of Lackham, Wilts. —⁠B. ↩

Richard Browne, writing to Williamson from Aldeburgh, on July 2nd, says:

“The Dutch fleet of 80 sail has anchored in the bay; they were expected to land, but they tacked about, and stood first northward and then southward, close by Orford lighthouse, and have now passed the Ness towards Harwich; they have fired no guns, but made false fires.”

Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 258

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The Duke of Albemarle.