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master of the select band of violins, in place of John Bannister, £600 for himself and the band, with arrears to commence from Ladyday, 1667, with note that the whole establishment is to be made over again.”Calendar of State Papers, 1667⁠–⁠68, pp. 112

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Resumption, in a law sense, signifies the taking again into the king’s hands such lands or tenements as before, upon false suggestions, or other error, he had delivered to the heir, or granted by letters patent to any man. The Bill for effecting these objects was brought into the House of Commons, but never passed. —⁠B. ↩

Part III of Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes of the Laws of England deals with “High treason and other pleas of the Crown and criminal causes.” ↩

Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford, 1662⁠–⁠91. ↩

The term Cabinet Council, as stated by Clarendon, originated thus, in 1640: “The bulk and burden of the state affairs lay principally upon the shoulders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Strafford, and the Lord Cottington; some others being joined to them, as the Earl of Northumberland for ornament, the Bishop of London for his place, the two Secretaries, Sir H. Vane and Sir Francis Windebank, for service and communication of intelligence: only the Marquis of Hamilton, indeed, by his skill and interest, bore as great a part as he had a mind to do, and had the skill to meddle no further than he had a mind. These persons made up the committee of state, which was reproachfully after called the junto, and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council” (History of the Rebellion, vol. i, p. 211, edit. 1849). Dr. Murray (New English Dictionary) says that the expression “he is of the cabinet” is used of Vane by Roe, 1630. See ante, November 9th, 1664, and August 26th, 1666, where Pepys refers to the “Cabinet.” ↩

John Vaughan, Lord Vaughan, eldest surviving son to Richard, Earl of Carberry, whom he succeeded. He was well versed in literature, and succeeded Pepys as President of the Royal Society, an office which he held from 1686 to 1689, and had been Governor of Jamaica. He was amongst Dryden’s earliest patrons. Died January 16th, 1712⁠–⁠13. Lord Clarendon in his Life draws an unflattering picture of Lord Vaughan. He writes:

“A person of as ill a face as fame, his looks and his manner both extreme bad, asked for the paper that had been presented from the Committee, and with his own hand entered these words, ‘That being a Privy Counsellor he [Clarendon] had betrayed the king’s secrets to the enemy.’ ”

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Pelham Humfrey. ↩

The daughter of Fairfax. ↩

In 1652 General Monk was married, at the Church of St. George, Southwark, to Anne, daughter of his regimental farrier, John Clarges, and in the following year had by her a son, Christopher, the “Earl of Torrington” here mentioned. The child was suckled by Honour Mills, a vendor of apples and oysters, and succeeded his father as Duke of Albemarle in 1670; but dying in 1688, s. p., all the honours and titles of the family became extinct. It came out, on a trial of trespass between William Sherwen, plaintiff, and Sir Walter Clarges, Bart., and others, defendants, at the bar of the King’s Bench, November 15th, 1702, that Anne Clarges had married for her first husband Thomas Ratford, in 1632, and was separated from him in 1649; but no certificate of his death had ever appeared. This fact would invalidate the legitimacy of the Earl of Torrington, and the suspicion is strengthened by the low origin and vulgar habits of the duchess, and the threats which she resorted to, to prevent the story being made public. One Pride, who, as the son of a daughter of an elder brother of George, Duke of Albemarle, claimed to be heir to Duke George, brought an ejectment against the Earl of Bath (who claimed under a deed from Duke Christopher) in the King’s Bench, in Hilary Term, 6 William III, attempting to bastardize Duke Christopher, on the ground mentioned in the note. After a long trial, the jury, not being satisfied with the evidence, found for the Earl of Bath. This case, which is a different one from that given above, is reported in 1 Salkeld, 120, 3 Leving, 410, and Holt, 286. Leving was one of the counsel for the Earl of Bath. —⁠B. ↩

In 1667 “King Charles gave the ground and buildings of James’s College at Chelsea” to the Royal Society, who sold them again to Sir Stephen Fox, for the Crown, in 1682, for £1,300. ↩

Laurence Hyde, second son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1614⁠–⁠1711). He held many important offices, and was First Lord of the Treasury, 1679⁠–⁠84; created Earl of Rochester in 1681, and K.G. 1685. ↩

On October 26th, during the proceedings relative to the impeachment of Lord Clarendon, Mr. Lawrence Hyde said:

“I am sensible, the house may think me partial, but I shall endeavour to show myself not so much a son of the Earl of Clarendon as a member of this house, and I assure you that if he shall be found guilty, no man shall appear more against him than I; if not, I hope every one will be for him as much as I, let every man upon his conscience think what of this charge is true, for I believe that if one article be proved, he will own himself guilty of all.”

Parliamentary History of England, vol. iv, col. 374

Waller’s speech is not reported in the Debates, although he was a frequent speaker. Burnet writes:

“Waller was the delight of the house, and even at eighty he said the