Phil Gyford

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Phil Gyford has posted 773 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.

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About John Powell (a)

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L&M say "steward to the plenipotentiaries sent in 1659 to arrange the peace between Sweden and Denmark."

About Sunday 24 June 1660

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Edward Mountagus.

Yes, I was rather confused by who this was. The Latham Index lists both Edwards: 1st Baron Mountagu of Boughton (d. 1644) and 2nd Lord Mountagu of Boughton (d. 1684). But it doesn't refer to this mention in the diary under the latter's entry. For now, I'll assume this was the 2nd Lord, rather than anyone else, and create a page for them.

About The Bell (King St)

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[Copied from Nix's annotation for 23 June 1660: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1… ]

"Then there was that other house in King Street, the Bell, upon which the diarist bestowed some of his patronage. On his first visit he was caught in a neat little trap. 'Met with Purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to invite me, and to let me pay my club.' Which was too bad of the Purser, when Pepys' head and heart were full of infinite business.' The next call, however, was more satisfactory and less expensive. He merely dropped in to see 'the seven Flanders mares that my Lord has bought lately.' But the Bell had a history both before and after Pepys' time. It is referred to so far back as the middle of the fifteenth century, and it was in high favour as the headquarters of the October Club in the reign of Queen Anne."

H. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London (1908)

About George Vines

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Deputy-Chamberlain of the Receipt of the Exchequer, according to the Latham Index volume.