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the commissioners. ↩

Dr. John Hacket, bishop 1661⁠–⁠71. ↩

Dr. Thomas Wood, consecrated bishop of this see in 1671. ↩

The Court of Arches. ↩

“Hacket was just the man for the time.⁠ ⁠… His clergy said the king must have the ‘old apostolic spirit of discerning,’ since he sent them a bishop so exactly to their minds.⁠ ⁠… Whilst Lichfield had thus the best of bishops, it had the worst of deans. In 1663 Thomas Wood (bishop 1671⁠–⁠92), son of a Court official, had paid £100 to Charles II, and got the deanery.⁠ ⁠… The whole chapter hated Wood, and sent a letter to the archbishop complaining that their stalls under such a dean were intolerable.”

Beresford’s Lichfield (Diocesan Histories, S.P.C.K., pp. 246, 250

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William Godolphin, descended from a younger branch of that family, which was afterwards ennobled in the person of Sidney, Earl Godolphin, Lord Treasurer. William Godolphin was of Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660⁠–⁠61. He was afterwards secretary to Sir H. Bennet (Lord Arlington), and M.P. for Camelford. He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on August 28th, 1668. In the spring of 1669 he returned to Spain as Envoy Extraordinary, and in 1671 he became Ambassador. On July 11th, 1696, he died at Madrid, having been for some years a Roman Catholic. ↩

See December 13th, 1667. ↩

The royal pardon was thus announced in the Gazette of February 24th, 1668: “This day his Majesty was pleased to declare at the Board, that whereas, in contemplation of the eminent services heretofore done to his Majesty by most of the persons who were engaged in the late duel, or rencontre, wherein William Jenkins was killed, he doth graciously pardon the said offence: nevertheless, He is resolved from henceforth that on no pretence whatsoever any pardon shall be hereafter granted to any person whatsoever for killing of any man, in any duel or rencontre, but that the course of law shall wholly take place in all such cases.” The warrant for a pardon to George, Duke of Buckingham, is dated January 27th, 1668; and on the following day was issued, “Warrant for a grant to Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, of pardon for killing William Jenkins, and for all duels, assaults, or batteries on George, Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Holmes, or any other, whether indicted or not for the same, with restitution of lands, goods, etc.” (Calendar of State Papers, 1667⁠–⁠68, pp. 192, 193). ↩

Lord Cornbury and Laurence Hyde. ↩

Dr. John Dolben, afterwards Archbishop of York. ↩

Dr. George Morley. ↩

Sir George Etherege, the celebrated wit and man of fashion. He was the author of three comedies, The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub (1664), She Would if She Could (1667), and The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter (1676). He is said to have bought his knighthood in order to persuade a rich widow to marry him. He was sent to the Hague by Charles II, and in 1685 by James II to Ratisbon. He died at Paris in 1691. ↩

Shadwell confirms this complaint of Etherege’s in the preface to his own Humourists. He writes: “The last (viz. imperfect action) had like to have destroyed She Would if She Could, which I think (and I have the authority of some of the best judges in England for’t) is the best comedy that has been written since the Restoration of the Stage.” Harris played Sir Joslin Jolly. Downes says that it was inferior to Love in a Tub, but took well. ↩

I.e., suitor. ↩

See note 3835. ↩

Mrs. Lowther, here mentioned by her maiden name. ↩

Born at Kinsale in 1636, educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, and afterwards entered at Lincoln’s Inn. He was sworn one of the clerks of the Privy Council in 1664, and knighted in 1665. He was employed on several diplomatic missions, and in 1672 he was sent as Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal. William III appointed him Principal Secretary of State for Ireland. He was President of the Royal Society, 1690⁠–⁠95. Died 1702, at King’s-Weston, in Gloucestershire. His son Edward became Secretary of State, and his great-grandson succeeded to the ancient barony of De Clifford. ↩

The king’s speech is printed in Journals of the House of Lords (vol. xii, p. 181). It commences thus: “My Lords and Gentlemen, I am glad to see you here again, to tell you what I have done in this interval, which I am confident you will be pleased with, since it is so much for the honour and security of this nation.” ↩

Francis Pemberton, afterwards knighted, and made Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1679. His career was a most singular one, he having been twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by the House of Commons. He twice returned to the bar, and after his second return he practised with great success as a serjeant for the next fourteen years till his death, June 10th, 1697. Evelyn says, “He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man” (Diary, October 4th, 1683). ↩

The play in which Smith acted Zanga was Lord Orrery’s Mustapha. The cast, as given by Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 26), was as follows:

Solyman the Magnificent Betterton Mustapha Harris Zanger Smith Rustan Sandford Pyrrhus Richards ⸻ Young Haly Cademan Roxalana Mrs. Davenport Queen of Hungaria Mrs. Davies

Downes adds, with reference to the part of Roxalana, that it was afterwards played