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—⁠B. ↩

See note 1075. ↩

Here ends the fifth volume of the original MS. ↩

The dispute here alluded to had its origin in a petition against the East India Company, presented to the Peers by Thomas Skinner, a merchant, which led to the memorable quarrel between the two Houses of Parliament upon a question of privilege. The particulars of the case are detailed in Lingard’s History of England, vol. xii, p. 234, fourth edition. The session was prorogued without the matter being settled, and the dispute was only adjusted in 1670 by the Peers consenting to the expedient proposed by the Commons, that a general razure should be made of all the transactions relating to the disputed point. Anchitel Grey, in his Debates, vol. i, p. 150, speaking of the quarrel between the two Houses, states, that in order to reconcile them, the king recommended the entries relating thereto should be erased from their journals. Grey, however, has preserved an account of this memorable case. —⁠B. ↩

A comedy by Thomas Shadwell, published in 1668. ↩

It is given at length in the parliamentary histories. —⁠B. ↩

The Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant 1643⁠–⁠47, 1648⁠–⁠50, 1662⁠–⁠69, 1677⁠–⁠85. ↩

A parish in Huntingdonshire, seven miles N.W. of Huntingdon. ↩

“Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park,
Contriving projects with a brewer’s clerk.”

Andrew Marvell’s Instructions to a Painter, part iii, to which is subjoined the following note: “Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William Bucknell, the brewer.” —⁠Works, ed. by Capt. E. Thompson, vol. iii, p. 405. —⁠B. ↩

Lord Braybrooke supposes this to be Margaret Hughes, but it seems scarcely possible that this actress, described as “newly come,” could be the mistress of Prince Rupert, who was one of the original actresses of the King’s Company, and was the first woman to act Desdemona. ↩

The song in Sir C. Sedley’s play, The Mulberry Garden, is “Ah, Cloris, that I now could sit;” the author of which, until within these few years, was supposed to be a Scotchman, from the circumstance of its having been sung to a Scotch air, called “Gilderoy.” Banister’s music to it has not been discovered. —⁠B. ↩

Marylebone Gardens, situated in the fields at the back of the manor house, on ground now occupied by Beaumont Street and part of Devonshire Street. The carriage entrance was in High Street, Marylebone. ↩

The Duchess of Richmond, who had recently been ill of the smallpox. —⁠B. ↩

Subsequently named after the title of Cleveland conferred on Lady Castlemaine, and now preserved in the names of Cleveland Row and Cleveland Square. It stood on the site of the present Bridgewater House. ↩

“The Prince’s Chamber stood on the north side of Palace Yard, and the Sovereigns passed through it in their way to the old House of Lords.”

Smith’s Antiquities of Westminter

—⁠B. ↩

The Impertinents. ↩

She never recovered from this lameness. See May 15th, post. —⁠B. ↩

The usual form at this day. —⁠B. ↩

Sir Samuel Barnadiston (1620⁠–⁠1707), of Brightwell Hall, Suffolk, created a baronet May 11th, 1663, and described in the patent as of “irreproachable loyalty.” ↩

Of which he was Deputy-Governor. ↩

This “odd case” was that of Thomas Skinner and the East India Company. According to Ralph, the Commons had ordered Skinner, the plaintiff, into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and the Lords did the same by Sir Samuel Barnadiston, deputy-governor of the company, as likewise Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Rowland Gwynn, and Mr. Christopher Boone. —⁠B. ↩

Lady Sandwich. ↩

So called from the palace of the bishops of Durham from the thirteenth century. Bishop Hatfield rebuilt the house in 1345. It stood on the site of the buildings now called the Adelphi, and the name is preserved in Durham Street. ↩

See July 7th, post. ↩

See April 22nd, 1668. ↩

Chiffinch. ↩

The Duke of Newcastle’s play. See October 26th, 1661. ↩

The Loriners, or Lorimers (bit-makers), of London are by reputation an ancient mistery, but they were first incorporated by letters patent of 10 Queen Anne (December 3rd, 1711). Their small hall was at the corner of Basinghall Street in London Wall. The company has no hall now. ↩

See May 9th. ↩

Lord Fairfax. ↩

A comedy by Fletcher, first acted in 1622 (Beaumont and Fletcher’s Comedies and Tragedies, 1647). Genest does not mention the revival of the play at this date. ↩

Trinity Monday. ↩

Probably in Bloomsbury Square, the north side of which was then occupied by Southampton House, the town residence of the late Lord Treasurer Southampton. Lord Bellasis began to build in St. James’s Square in 1670, and occupied the house at the corner of Charles Street (now Derby House) in 1688⁠–⁠89 (Dasent’s St. James’s Square, 1895). ↩

See note 3833. ↩

Who resided at the mansion afterwards called Kensington Palace. In 1661 Sir Heneage Finch, son of the Recorder of London, purchased this property from his younger brother, Sir John Finch, M.D., and which, after his advancement to the peerage, obtained the name of Nottingham House. In 1691 it was purchased by King William. Dryden has finely drawn the character of Sir