References
Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
1662
- Sep
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
3 Annotations
First Reading
Terry F • Link
"(d. 1658) Secretary to the Earl of Northumberland as admiral of the fleet 1626 and as acting Lord High Admiral 1638-42; appointed secretary to the Admiralty by parliament, 1642; Navy Commissioner 1646, reappointed 1649. His widow (supported by her kinsman Speaker Grimston) appealed to the government for payment of debts due to her late husband." L&M Companion, 399.
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Thomas Smith, … Secretary of the Admiralty in 1638, about which time Sir George Carteret (then Captain Carteret) held the office of Comptroller of the Navy.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
Bill • Link
That information about Thomas Smith is from Wheatley, 1893. Sorry.