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Second Reading

About Wednesday 26 May 1669

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"the bailiffs were apprehended, committed to the porter’s lodge, and there, by the King’s command, the last night severely whipped; from which the justice himself very hardly escaped, to such an unusual degree was the King moved therein."

"Why is the king wroth?" L&M: Frazier, as a royal physician, could be arrested only by authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Godfrey claimed that he was forced to take action by the number of irrecoverable debts owing to him by the poor. See Bulstrode Papers, i. 101, 103; etc.

About Wednesday 26 May 1669

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"The Queen, as being supposed with child, fell ill, so as to call for Madam Nun, Mr. Chevins’s sister, and one of her women, from dinner from us; this being the last day of their doubtfulness touching her being with child; and they were therein well confirmed by her Majesty’s being well again before night."

L&M: The King described these symptoms in detail in a letter to his sister Henrietta of 24 May: C.H. Hartmann, The King my brother, pp. 257-8. She miscarried, however, in June.

About Wednesday 19 May 1669

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Buckingham "is of conspiracy with them, being of known conspiracy with her, which the Duke of York did seem to be pleased with, and said it might, perhaps, cost him his life in the House of Lords;"

L&M: Buckingham was not prosecuted.

About Wednesday 19 May 1669

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"With my coach to St. James’s; and there finding the Duke of York gone to muster his men, in Hyde Park,"

L&M: A muster of seven companies of the Foot Guards, with two troops of Horse Guards, was hekd in the morning: London Gazette, 20 May.

About Friday 14 May 1669

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" it was a mockery, by one Cornet Bolton, a very gentleman-like man, that behind a chair did pray and preach like a Presbyter Scot that ever I heard in my life, with all the possible imitation in grimaces and voice --"

L&M: Mimicry of preachers was a popular parlour-trick: cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The mimic on this occasion was one Cornet Bolton, commissioned ensign, 1666.

About Friday 14 May 1669

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"at noon with Mr. Wren to Lambeth, to dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury; the first time I was ever there and I have long longed for it; where a noble house, and well furnished with good pictures and furniture, and noble attendance in good order, and great deal of company, though an ordinary day;"

L&M: Sc. not a church festival. For the building and its hall, see https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…

About Wednesday 12 May 1669

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"the first news that my [sister Jackson] is with child, and fat gone, "

L&M: She had a son soon afterwards, who was christened Samuel in honor of the diarist. He lived to become the principal benefactor under Pepys's will of 1701., but in that of 1703 was cut off with an annuity of £40 because he had made a match Pepys disapproved of.

About Monday 10 May 1669

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The King "did give order to give warrant to the Duke of York to direct Sir Jeremy Smith to be a Commissioner of the Navy in the room of Pen;"

L&M: The Duke's warrant was issued on this day; the patent on 17 June."

About Monday 10 May 1669

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"Thence: to St. James’s, and there met the Duke of York, who told me, with great content, that he did now think he should master our adversaries, "

L&M : Buckingham's faction.

About Sunday 15 December 1667

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Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae. The name also refers to the rigid, naturally biologically inert, resilient, electrically nonconductive, thermoplastic latex produced from the sap of the tree, particularly from Palaquium gutta; it is a polymer of isoprene which forms a rubber-like elastomer.

Dentistry
The same bioinertness that made it suitable for marine cables also means it does not readily react within the human body. It is used in a variety of surgical devices and during root canal therapy. It is the predominant material used to obturate, or fill, the empty space inside the root of a tooth after it has undergone endodontic therapy. Its physical and chemical properties, including but not limited to its inertness and biocompatibility, melting point,[9] ductility, and malleability, make it important in endodontics,[5] e.g., as gutta-percha points. Zinc oxide is added to reduce brittleness and improve plasticity. Barium sulfate is added to provide radiopacity so that its presence and location can be verified in dental X-ray images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut…

About Monday 26 April 1669

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"The King and Court went out of town to Newmarket this morning betimes, for a week."

L&M: They returned on 1 May: London Gazette, 3 May.