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Second Reading

About Thursday 30 April 1668

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"So we are all poor, and in pieces — God help us! while the peace is like to go on between Spain and France; and then the French may be apprehended able to attack us. So God help us!"
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Below today's last line L&M have printed: Here end the entries in the fifth volume of the MS. Five ruled and four unruled pages follow.

About Thursday 30 April 1668

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I wrote (above): L&M note the Commissioners' terms were to run three years from the end of the current session, which would end were Parliament prorogued, but not if it were merely adjourned."

I wonder if I got it backwards: L&M say "If Parliament were now to be adjourned instead of prorogued, their term would be so much the longer. In fact, the session did end now, on 9 May, and the Commissioners reported in October 1669."

About Tuesday 28 April 1668

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"to the King’s house, and there did see “Love in a Maze,” wherein very good mirth of Lacy, the clown, and Wintersell, the country- knight, his master."

L&M: The play was a comedy by Shirley. John Lacy, a popular comedian, played Johnny Thump; and William Wintersell Sir Gervais Simple.

About Tuesday 28 April 1668

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"at, it being moved that Papists’ meetings might be included, the House was divided upon it, and it was carried in the negative;"

L&M: By 84 votes to 69: see above, CJ, ix. 90. Some members argued against the bill on the ground that it would be milder than the existing laws against the Papists: Milward, p. 283.

About Wednesday 19 April 1665

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"I passed my time in contemplating (before I was called in) the picture of my Lord’s son’s lady, a most beautiful woman,"

L&M: Sarah (née Bodvile), wife of Lord Robartes's son, Robert Robartes. Pepys's opinion of her beauty was confirmed when he met her on 27 April 1668. The portrait has not been traced.

About Laetitia Isabella Robartes

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Laetitia Isabella (Smythe) Cheyne (1630 - 1714)

Laetitia Isabella Smythe, the daughter of John Smythe and Isabella Rich, married firstly John Robartes (1st Earl of Radnor) in either 1646 or 1647[1].

She was mentioned in the Diary of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: "A week or two after the Diary begins, the household at Lees was invaded by sickness. A number of the servants fell ill at once, and Mistress Grace, maid to Isabella Robartes, died. Lucy Robartes, Charles Rich's sister, was dead, and her husband, Lord Robartes, had married Isabella Smyth, who through her mother, Isabella Rich, was a first cousin of both Lucy and Charles."
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smy…

About Monday 27 April 1668

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"saw Sir W. Pen go into the House of Lords, where his impeachment was read to him, and he used mighty civilly, the Duke of York being there; and two days hence, at his desire, he is to bring in his answer, and a day then to be appointed for his being heard with Counsel."

L&M: LJ, xii. 235.

About Friday 24 April 1668

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"Thence to Ducke Lane, and there did overlook a great many of Monsieur Fouquet’s library, that a bookseller hath bought, and I did buy one Spanish [work], “Los Illustres Varones.” "

L&M : Juan Sedeño, Summa de varones illustres (Toledo, 1590; PL 2149). It bears Fouquet's arms on the back. After Fouquet's disgrace and imprisonment in 1661 -- he had been minister of finance -- most of his superb library of 30,000 volumes was confiscated by the King (and is now in the Bibliotheque Nationale); other items were sold.

About Coronation Day (Charles II)

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A Circumstantial account of the preparations for the coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second and a minute detail of that splendid ceremony, with all the particulars connected with it; including the enstallation of knights, creation of peers, etc., to which is prefixed, an account of the landing,reception, and journey of His Majesty from Dover to London. From an original manuscript/ by Sir Edward Walker, Knight.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/…

About Chatelin's (Covent Garden)

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A cleaner link for:
Chatelain's, a famous ordinary in Covent Garden, established in the reign of Charles II., and much frequented by the wits and men of fashion in the latter part of the 17th century.
https://books.google.com/books?id…'s%2C%20a%20famous%20ordinary%20in%20Covent%20Garden%2C%20established%20in%20the%20reign%20of%20Charles%20II.%2C%20and%20much%20frequented%20by%20the%20wits%20and%20men%20of%20fashion%20in%20the%20latter%20part%20of%20the%2017th%20century&f=false

About Chatelin's (Covent Garden)

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Inns and Taverns of Old London

Although to-day celebrated chiefly for being the central clearing-house for the flower, fruit and vegetable supply of London, Covent Garden as a whole can vie with any other district of the British capital in wealth of interesting association. The Market itself dates from the middle of the seventeenth century, but the area was constituted a parish a few years earlier. By that time, however, it could boast many town residences of the nobility and several inns. One of these has its name preserved only in the records of the House of Lords, in a letter from a John Dutton t Amsterdam, who wrote to his brother "with Mr. Wm. Wayte, at the sign of the Horseshoe, Covent Garden." But the taverns of greater note, such as Chatelaine's, the Fleece, the Rose, the Hummums, and Macklin's ill-fated ordinary, belong to more recent times.
Which of these houses was first established it would be hard to say. There can be no question, however, that Chatelaine's ordinary was in great repute during the reign of Charles II, and that it continued in high favour throughout the latter years of the seventeenth century. Pepys alludes to it in 1667. and again in his entries of the following year. On the second occasion his visit interfered with toothsome purchases he was making for a dinner at his own house. "To the fishmonger's, and bought a couple of lobsters, abd over to the 'asparagus garden, thinking to have met Mr. Pierce, and his wife, and Knipp; but met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there met with music and good company, Manuel and his wife, and one Swaddle, a clerk of Lord Arlington's, who dances and speaks French well, but got drunk, and was then troublesome, and here mighty merry till ten at night. This night the Duke of Monmouth and a great many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them there, with a hackney-coach attending him." This was a different experience than fell to the lot of Pepys on the previous occasion... https://books.google.com/books?id…'s%20historical%20london%20taverns&f=false

About Friday 10 April 1668

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"So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed bookseller’s wife,"

L&M: The Bookseller was William Shrewsbury: Cf. https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/… and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…
The Legenda Aurea (compiled by Jacque de Voragine, a 13th-century Dominican was the most popular collection of lives of the saints in the late Middle Ages. It is likely (from the number of self-marks on the flyleaf) that PL 2040 (an English version published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1527) was the copy Pepys now bought.

About Monday 13 July 1668

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"I ‘light and walked to Ducke Lane, and there to the bookseller’s; at the Bible, whose moher je have a mind to, "

L&M: The bookseller was William Shrewsbury: Pepys had kissed his wife ('moher') on 10 April.