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

met annually at this place, which occasioned a scene similar to that of a country wake or fair. —⁠Lewis’s Hist. of Islington, p. 281. —⁠B. ↩

Browne, the instrument-maker in the Minories. ↩

See May 31st. ↩

See May 28th, 1667. ↩

On one of the public days. ↩

Sir Jeremiah Smith was appointed Comptroller of the Victualling in succession to Sir William Penn, who held that office from 1667 to 1669. The date of Smith’s patent is June 17th, 1669. ↩

The Roman Virgin, or Unjust Judge, a tragedy, altered by Thomas Betterton from Webster’s Appius and Virginia. Published in 1679. ↩

In Huntingdonshire, the residence of Pepys’s brother-in-law, Mr. Jackson. —⁠B. ↩

Psalm 137:2. ↩

The person here alluded to is probably Alexander Montgomery, the sixth Earl of Eglintoun, called Greysteel, who was a rank Presbyterian and a ruling Elder of the General Assembly when the solemn League and Covenant were drawn up. He fought against Charles at Marston Moor, whilst his son and successor was in the king’s army; but he afterwards became a Royalist, and died in 1661, aged seventy-three. The son was a consistent supporter of monarchy, and there seems no reason why he should have been made an object of satire. His death occurred only two months before the unseemly scene at Lambeth. —⁠B. ↩

For what Addison calls “Thames ribaldry,” see Spectator, No. 383. —⁠B. ↩

See June 2nd, 1668, and May 28th. ↩

See May 3rd, 1669. ↩

The Spanish Curate, a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, was seen by Pepys at the Whitefriars Theatre on March 16th, 1660⁠–⁠61. ↩

This island, the second in size and in population of the West India Islands, was discovered by Columbus on December 6th, 1492. He called it Española, or little Spain, whence the latinized name of Hispaniola. It was afterwards also called Santo Domingo, after its chief town. The island remained entirely a Spanish possession till the seventeenth century. By the treaty of Ryswick in 1697 the western portion of the island was definitely ceded to France. The island is now divided into two negro republics; the western, in which French is the official language, is known as the republic of Haiti, and the eastern, in which Spanish is the official language, is known as Santo Domingo. ↩

Henry Killigrew, son of Thomas Killigrew, talked loudly of his old intimacy with the Countess of Shrewsbury, and this outrage was done at the instigation of that worthless woman. Killigrew appears to have been continually in trouble, for he was beaten by the Duke of Buckingham in 1667, and soon after was in disgrace at Court. Pepys, on May 30th, 1668, mentions that he had newly come back from France, but in October of the same year he was in Paris again, for Charles II wrote to his sister, the Duchess of Orleans, on October 17th, respecting him:

“For Harry Killigrew, you may see him as you please, and though I cannot commende my Lady Shrewsbury’s conduct in many things, yett Mr. Killigrew’s carriage towards her has been worse than I will repeate, and for his demelé with my Lord of Buckingham he ought not to brag of, for it was in all sorts most abominable. I am glad the poor wrech has gott a meanes of subsistence, but have one caution of him, that you beleeve not one word he sayes of us heere, for he is a most notorious lyar and does not want witt to sett forth his storyes plesantly enough.”

Julia Cartwright’s Madame, 1894, pp. 273, 274

↩

“A lady’s headdress, with long flaps hanging down the sides of the cheek” (Randle Holmes). The word pinner was also used to signify an apron with a bib to it. ↩

The history of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is too well known to require any comment, though his tragical end has never been satisfactorily explained. In the Gentleman’s Magazine for November, 1848, there are some interesting details about the knight’s family, and a description of a silver tankard with inscription and engraved representations of the burials during the Plague and of the Fire of London, now in the possession of the Corporation of Sudbury, Suffolk. —⁠B. See note 3391. Several copies of this tankard have been described, and it has been supposed that copies from a possible original given by the king were presented by Godfrey himself to his friends. ↩

Fraizer was one of the king’s physicians, and had served him for many years in a political as well as a professional capacity. His character was not very high, and he was mixed up in several discreditable actions. See ante, September 19th, 1664 (Munk’s Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, 1878, vol. i, pp. 232⁠–⁠234). ↩

Godfrey was released after six days’ imprisonment. ↩

A curious and uncommon book, entitled, A Compendious Drawing-Book, composed by Alexander Browne, limner, collected from the drawings of the most celebrated painters in Europe, engraven by Arnold de Jode. A second edition, with letterpress and additions, was published in 1675 under the title of Ars Pictoria, or an Academy treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching. ↩

Richard Aldworth, of Stanlake, Berks, then one of the Auditors of the Exchequer, represented Reading in the first parliament after the Restoration, and died in 1680. He was the paternal ancestor of the second and third Lords Braybrooke. In 1762 the auditor’s grandson, Richard Neville Aldworth, succeeded to the estates