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152

Hippocras, a drink composed of red or white wine, with the addition of sugar and spices.

153

“Diary,” Jan. 31, 1665–66.

154

Sept. 8, 1666.

155

Dec. 14, 1666.

156

Ward’s “Diary,” p. 94.

157

“Diary,” Feb. 3, 1666–67.

158

Nov. 5, 1666.

159

The title of this very rare pamphlet is—“A true and faithful account of the several Informations exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament to inquire into the late dreadful burning of the City of London. Printed in the year 1667.” 4to. pp. 35.

160

“Diary,” March 29, 1667.

161

“Diary,” Feb. 24, 1666–67.

162

June 6, 1663.

163

“Diary,” April 26, 1664.

164

Oct. 10, 1664.

165

“Diary,” Aug. 14, 1664.

166

May 31, 1662.

167

Dec. 6, 1666.

168

Jan. 21, 1667–68.

169

“Diary,” Feb. 18, 1667–68.

170

May 11, 1668.

171

Sept. 15, 1661.

172

Oct. 2, 1661.

173

Nov. 7, 1661.

174

“Diary,” April 17, 1664.

175

May 29, 1667.

176

“Diary,” Aug. 19, 1660.

177

June 3, 1667.

178

Smith’s “Life, Journals, &c., of Samuel Pepys,” vol. i. p. 270.

179

“Diary,” Jan. 27, 1663–64.

180

Smith’s “Life, &c., of Pepys,” vol. ii. p. 352.

181

A Portuguese coin worth from 2s. 3d. to 4s.:—

“Believe me, I had rather lost my purseFull of cruzados.”—Othello, iii. 4.

182

Smith’s “Life, &c. of Pepys,” vol. ii. p. 291.

183

Ibid., vol. ii. p. 238.

184

Smith’s “Life, &c. of Pepys,” vol. i. p. 117.

185

“Diary,” Jan. 18, 1668–69.

186

Jan. 28, 1668–69.

187

Smith’s “Life, &c. of Pepys,” vol. i. p. 303.

188

Vol. iii. There is a MS. copy of these “Tracts” in the Pepysian Library.

189

Thus Amir-al-moumenim is the Arabic for Commander of the Faithful.

190

It is to Colonel Pasley’s kindness that I owe the greater portion of the information contained in this chapter. That officer, who is Director of Works at the Admiralty, has made large collections relating to the early history of the administration of the navy, and to him I am also indebted for the valuable lists in the Appendix, which he has compiled for me with great labour from original sources. No such lists were previously in existence. Colonel Pasley has further kindly supplied me with the notes that follow which are signed in each instance “C. P.”

191

Harl. MS. 249.

192

Letters and Papers, Henry VIII. vol. iv. pt. 1, p. 309.

193

Add. MS. 5752, fol. 6b (Brit. Mus.).

194

State Papers, Dom. Eliz. vol. xv. No. 4. There is a copy of these regulations in the British Museum, Add. MS. 9295, fol. 17.

195

The number of principal officers was afterwards fixed at four, viz.:—1. Treasurer; 2. Comptroller; 3. Surveyor; 4. Clerk of the Acts.

196

“Diary,” July 7, 1660.

197

The emoluments of the Treasurer arose chiefly from “poundage” on all sums passing through his hands. In time of war his profits were often very large.—C. P.

198

“Diary,” Nov. 9, 1663.

199

In the “Succession of the Lords High Admiral,” &c., in Pepys’s “Naval Collections,” it is stated that on the Restoration the existing Commissioners of the Admiralty and of the Navy respectively were temporarily continued in office by order in council of the 31st May, 1660. By a subsequent order (7th July following) a Board of Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy on the ancient model was appointed, and the Duke of York was directed to revoke the authority he had granted “unto the former Treasurer, Officers, and Commissioners of the Navy.” It would appear, therefore, that the Admiralty Commissioners had been suppressed, and the Duke appointed Admiral at some intermediate date between the 31st May and the 7th July, 1660; although, according to Pepys’s list, quoted above, his patent under the Great Seal bore date the 29th January, 1660–61.—C. P.

200

Life of Clarendon, 1827, vol. ii. p. 331.

201

The Regulations were printed in 1717, under the title of “The Œconomy of His Majesty’s Navy Office.... By an Officer of the Navy.”

202

See “Diary,” Aug. 16, 21, 23, 25, 30, 1668.

203

Aug. 29, Sept. 8th, 1668.

204

Sept. 12, 18, 1668.

205

“The Duke’s Reflections on the severall Members of the Navy Boards Duty,” dated “St. James, 28 Aug., 1668.” “The Duke’s Answer to their severall Excuses,” dated “Whitehall, 25 Nov., 1668” (both in Harleian MS. 6003).

206

See “Diary,” Nov. 25, 1668.

207

“Diary,” Nov. 5, 1668.

208

Williamson Letters (Camden Society), vol. i. pp. 47, 51, 56.

209

“Diary,” March 17, 1664–65.

210

“Diary,” Nov. 2, 1663.

211

P. Gibson in “Life of Penn,” ii. 616.

212

Sloane MS. 2751.

213

The letter, signed “S. Pepyes,” and dated “Greenwich, 1st January, 1665,” is in the British Museum (Add. MS. 6287). There is also a copy in Harl. MS. 6003.

214

The “Englishmen on board the Dutch ships” were heard to say, “We did heretofore fight for tickets; now we fight for dollars!”—“Diary,” June 14, 1667.

215

“Diary,” Oct. 20, 1666.

216

Gibson was a contemporary of Pepys, and a clerk in the Navy Office. He was somewhat of a laudator temporis acti, and fonder of drawing his illustrations from events of Queen Elizabeth’s time than from those of more recent days. See his paper in praise of “Seamen Captains,” printed in the preface to Charnock’s “History of Marine Architecture,” pp. lxxiv.-xcv.—C. P.

217

“Diary,” Oct. 20, 1666.

218

Jan. 10, 1665–66.

219

Campbell’s “Naval History,” 1818, vol. ii. p. 165.

220

Ibid. p. 177.

221

“Diary,” April 10, 1661. This house (of which there is a plan in King’s MS. 43) was pulled down in 1703, and the house now occupied by the Admiral Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard was built in its place.—C. P.

222

A plan, with front and side elevations of the Hill-house as it was in 1698, is in King’s MS. 43. The ground on which it stood is now included in the Marine Barracks.—C. P.

223

“Diary,” April 8, 1661.

224

1729, p. 23.

225

“Diary,” July 3, 1662.

226

Nov. 13, 1662.

227

June 18, 1667.

228

Dummer was Assistant to the Surveyor of the Navy when he designed these works. The improvement of Portsmouth and the foundation of a dockyard at Plymouth were called for by the political changes arising out of the Revolution. Previously our great naval wars had been waged against the Dutch, and the Thames and Medway were then the most convenient localities for fitting and repairing ships of war. After the Revolution, the Dutch became our allies, and the French our most formidable enemies. The naval ports on the Channel then became more important than those on the east coast.—C. P.

229

King’s MS. 43 (Brit. Mus.) contains plans of all the dockyards in 1688 and 1698, and detailed drawings of the principal buildings as they were in the latter year, as well as of the Navy Office in Seething Lane, and the Hill-house at Chatham.—C. P.

230

“Diary,” Nov. 29, 1661.

231

Campbell’s “Naval History,” 1818, vol. ii. p. 217.

232

“Evelyn’s Diary,” ed. 1879, vol. iii. p. 414. (Letter dated Sept. 19, 1682.)

233

“Diary,” July 4, 1663.

234

“Diary,” Dec. 7, 1661.

235

Nov. 4, 1664.

236

June 13, 1663.

237

May 5, 1664.

238

Nov. 4, 1664.

239

Nov. 9, 1663.

240

Lister’s “Life of Clarendon,” vol. iii. p. 107.

241

“Diary,” Jan. 29, 1666–67.

242

Aubrey’s “Lives,” 1813, vol. ii. p. 260.

243

Peter Cunningham has a note in his “Story of Nell Gwyn,” “on the Chronology of the English portion of De Grammont’s Memoirs.”

244

“Diary,” Feb. 21, 1664–65.

245

“Diary,” April 22, 1667.

246

April 26, 1667.

247

Sept. 2, 1667.

248

“Diary,” Jan. 2, 1667–68.

249

Dec. 2, 1668.

250

“Diary,” May 11, 1663.

251

Smith, vol. ii. p. 264.

252

Lister’s “Life of Clarendon,” vol. iii. p. 197.

253

“Diary,” July 3, 1663.

254

“Diary,” Oct. 26.

255

Mentioned by Pepys, July 29, Aug. 8, 12, 1667.

256

“Burnet’s Own Time,” i. 353. The lady afterwards married a gentleman of fortune named Fortrey, and died in 1713.

257

James’s letter is printed in “Smith’s Life, &c., of Pepys,” vol. ii. p. 322.

258

Quoted, Lister’s “Life of Clarendon,” ii. 72 (note).

259

“The Story of Nell Gwyn,” p. 197 (note).

260

“Diary,” Jan. 27, 1667–68.

261

July 30, 1667. Mrs. Otter thus addresses her husband in Act iii. Sc. 1: “Is this according to the instrument when I married you, that I would be princess and reign in my own house, and you would be my subject and obey me?”

262

“Diary,” July 23, 1661.

263

Aug. 23, 1662.

264

“Diary,” Feb. 8, 1662–63; May 18, 1663; April 15, 1666.

265

May 18, 1668.

266

Pope’s “Moral Essays,” Epistle iii.

267

Lord Orrery to the Duke of Ormond, Jan. 25, 1666–67. (Orrery, “State Papers,” fol. 1742, p. 219.)

268

“Diary,” Feb. 21, 1664–65.

269

“Diary,” Nov. 11, 1667.

270

Dec. 26, 1667.

271

“Diary,” May 31, 1668.

272

“Royal and Noble Authors.”

273

“Diary,” Oct. 21, 1666.

274

“The blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world, but stout and honest to his country.”—“Diary,” Oct. 23, 1667.

275

“Diary,” March 6, 1667.

276

April 4, 1667.

277

“Diary,” Nov. 4, 1666.

278

“Diary,” Nov. 6, 1665.

279

“Diary,” Jan. 15, 1664–65.

280

“Diary,” July 14, 1664.

281

Lister’s “Life of Clarendon,” vol. iii. p. 340.

282

“Diary,” June 28, 1660.

283

Feb. 27, 1666–67.

284

March 12, 1661–62.

285

May 27, 1667.

286

“Diary,” Jan. 28, 1665–66.

287

Dec. 3, 1664.

288

July 9, 1667.

289

June 19, 1660.

290

Sept. 16, 1668.

291

“Diary,” Oct. 29, 1668.

292

Feb. 14, 1668–69.

293

Sir John Williamson’s “Letters” (Camden Society), vol. i. p. 64.

294

See that monument of learning and research, Chester’s “Westminster Abbey Registers,” 1875, p. 194 (note).

295

“Diary,” April 11, 1667.

296

May 1, 1667.

297

March 30.

298

April 11, 1667.

299

“Diary,” March 18, 1668.

300

“Diary,” June 9, 1665.

301

August 30, 1668.

302

“Diary,” Jan. 12, 1662–63.

303

Nov. 9, 1663.

304

June 25, 1665.

305

Vol. i. p. 24.

306

“Diary,” Oct. 31, 1666.

307

“Seasonable Argument,” 1677.

308

“Diary,” May 10, 1669.

309

“Diary,” June 13, 1666.

310

“Diary,” March 26, 1662.

311

Nov. 1, 1663.

312

April 4, 1665.

313

Sept. 13, 1665.

314

Nov. 14, 1661.

315

Sept. 9, 1662; Dec. 28, 1667.

316

“Diary,” Feb. 26, 1660–61.

317

Dec. 25, 1666.

318

Dec. 25, 1662.

319

June 20, 1665.

320

March 14, 1667.

321

“Diary,” March 5, 1667–68.

322

Oct. 9, 1660. This is one of the additions in Mr. Mynors Bright’s edition.

323

Smith’s “Life, Journals, &c., of Pepys,” vol. ii. p. 202.

324

“Diary,” Dec. 3, 1661.

325

“Diary,” Oct 31, 1663.

326

“Diary,” Nov. 22, 1666.

327

July 27, 1665.

328

Jan. 21, 1660–61.

329

“Diary,” Jan. 17, 1664–65.

330

June 3, 1667.

331

“Spectator,” No. 129.

332

“Diary,” Sept. 15, 1667.

333

Oct. 30, 1663.

334

Nov. 3, 1663.

335

Nov. 13, 1663.

336

“Diary,” July 18, 1664.

337

Sept. 3, 1665.

338

Sept. 17, 1660.

339

March 27, 1667.

340

March 18, 1663–64.

341

“Diary,” Jan. 17, 1667–68.

342

Dec. 4, 1668.

343

Jan. 3, 1664–65.

344

April 12, 1665.

345

“Diary,” Sept. 23, 1667.

346

June 12, 1662; July 1, 1662.

347

Jan. 30, 1664–65.

348

March 12, 1659–60.

349

Jan. 16, 1659–60.

350

“Diary,” Feb. 27, 1666–67.

351

March 26, 1663.

352

Oct. 24, 1668.

353

June 27, 1661.

354

“When cherries were first introduced into England they cost as much as 20s. a pound.”—Buckle’s “Common-place Book,” vol. ii. p. 395.

355

“Diary,” May 23, 1661.

356

April 30, 1668.

357

Dec. 25, 1662.

358

May 30, 1663.

359

“Diary,” April 12, 1663.

360

Oct. 21, 1660.

361

These entries are of so much importance in dramatic history, as giving definite dates for the performance of the various plays, that I have thought it well to give a complete list in the Appendix.

362

Evelyn’s “Diary,” Nov. 26, 1661.

363

“Diary,” June 22, 1661.

364

Sept. 19, 1665.

365

“Diary,” Aug. 24, 1661.

366

Aug. 13, 1664.

367

Dec. 8, 1665.

368

Oct. 26, 1667.

369

Feb. 1, 1663–64.

370

“Diary,” Dec. 11, 1667.

371

Feb. 23, 1660–61.

372

April 29, 1668.

373

“Diary,” Feb. 2, 1668–69.

374

Aug. 2, 1664.

375

“Diary,” Feb. 12, 1666–67.

376

June 1, 1664.

377

May 1, 1668.

378

Dec. 28, 1666.

379

“Diary,” Jan. 19, 1660–61.

380

Feb. 6, 1667–68.

381

March 31, 1660–61.

382

“Diary,” Jan. 1, 1667–68.

383

Feb. 6, 1667–68.

384

May 8, 1663.

385

“Diary,” Feb. 18, 1666–67.

386

Jan. 28, 1660–61.

387

May 11, 1668.

388

“Diary,” March 24, 1662.

389

Dec. 21, 1663.

390

Aug. 14, 1666.

391

Sept. 9, 1667.

392

“Diary,” June 1, 1663.

393

Dec. 28, 1663; Jan. 4, 1663–64.

394

Sept. 2, 1667.

395

May 1, 1661.

396

April 28, 1660.

397

Feb. 14, 1667–68.

398

Dec. 25, 1662.

399

Cribbage, Jan. 2, 1659–60, May 15, 1660; handycap, Sept. 19, 1660; gleek, Jan. 13, Feb. 17, 1661–62.

400

“Diary,” Feb. 4, 1660–61.

401

Dec. 26, 1664.

402

May 19, 1660.

403

Nov. 15, 1666.

404

April 23, 1665.