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About Humphrey Henchman (Bishop of London, 1663-75)

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HENCHMAN, HUMPHREY (1592-1675), bishop of London; M.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1616; D.D., 1628; fellow of Clare Hall, 1616-23; canon and precentor of Salisbury, 1623, and rector of Isle of Portland; deprived during rebellion; assisted Charles II to escape after Worcester, 1651; bishop of Salisbury, 1660-3; took influential part in Savoy conference, 1661; bishop of London, 1663-75; restored cathedral and palace at Salisbury, and contributed to rebuilding of St. Paul's, Aldersgate palace, and Clare Hall.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 22 February 1663/64

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“The Duke of Monmouth’s mother’s brother hath a place at Court”

Mr. Justice Waters, said to be “of the Temple,” by Thurloe.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Randal MacDonnell (1st Marquess of Antrim)

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MACDONNELL, RANDAL, second Viscount Dunluce, second Earl and first Marquis of Antrim (1609-1683), son of Sir Randal MacDonnell, first viscount Dunluce and first earl of Antrim; introduced at court, 1634; married the Duke of Buckingham's widow, 1635; sent by the king to raise forces in Scotland, 1639; took his seat in the Irish House of Lords, 1640; frequently imprisoned as a suspect, 1642-5; ordered to lay down his arms, 1646; retired to Ireland; allowed to return to England, 1650; pardoned, 1663.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Colet

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COLET, JOHN (1467?-1519), dean of St. Paul's and founder of St. Paul's School; eldest and only surviving child of Sir Henry Colet; studied at Oxford, c. 1483; M.A., c. 1490: read mathematics and, in Latin versions, Platonic and Neo-platonic philosophy; nonresident rector of Dennington, Suffolk, 1485-1519; vicar of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, 1485-1605; rector of Thurning, Huntingdonshire, 1490-3; prebendary of York, 1494, and of St. Martin-le-Grand, 1494-1504; chaplain of Hilberworth, Norfolk; travelled in Italy, studying the fathers, canon and civil law, and the rudiments of Greek, 1493-6; resided in Oxford, and lectured on the New Testament, 1496-1504; priest, 1498; met Erasmus, 1498; prebendary of Salisbury, 1502; D.D., 1504; dean of St. Paul's, 1504-19; inherited his father's vast fortune, 1505; founded St. Paul's School, writing for it in English a Latin accidence, 1509; endowed the school, 1511-14; preached before convocation against ecclesiastical corruptions, 1512; preached against war with France, 1512-13; accused of heresy by FitzJames, bishop of London, 1513-14; made the Canterbury pilgrimage, 1514; paid an annuity to Erasmus; preached at Wolsey's installation as cardinal, 1515; drew up statutes for St. Paul's School, 1518; some of his devotional works published, 1534; his complete works first issued, 1867-76.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Anne Marshall

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Anne Marshall, a celebrated actress at the King's House, and her youngest sister Becke, so frequently mentioned in the Diary, seemed to have been the daughters of a Presbyterian minister (Oct. 26,1667); but very little is known about their history. One of them is erroneously stated, in the notes to the Memoires de Grammont, and Davies's Dramatic Miscellanies, to have become Lord Oxford's mistress.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Shoreditch

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Shoreditch, a manor and populous parish, at the north-east end of London, between Norton Folgate, Hoxton, and Hackney. The old way of spelling the name is Soersditch, but the derivation is uncertain. That it was so called after Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV., is a vulgar error.
The popular notion had early taken material form in the Jane Shore Inn, of which there are 17th-century tokens extant. The inn still exists—No. 103 Shoreditch High Street
Soersditch, so called more than four hundred years since, as I can prove by record.—Stow, p. 158.
The Manour of Soersditch with the Polehowse and Bowes (so expressed in the Record), lately belonging to John de Northampton of London, Draper, was granted 15 Richard II. to Edmund Duke of York, and Earl of Cambridge, and Edward Earl of Roteland [Rutland], son of the same Edmund and Isabel.—Strype, B. iv. p.50.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Galley

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GALLEY, a Sea-Vessel with Oars.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Thursday 17 December 1663

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“to consult about getting an achievement prepared”

ATCHIEVEMENT, [in Heraldry] signifies the Coat of Arms of any Gentlemen, set out fully with all that belongs to it.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Pratique

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PRATIQUE, PRATTICK [among Merchants] a Licence to Traffick or Trade, granted to the Masters of Ships in the Ports of Italy.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

PRATTIQUE, A licence for the master of a ship to traffick in the ports of Italy upon a certificate that the place, from whence he came, is not annoyed with any infectious disease.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About John Middleton (1st Earl of Middleton)

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MIDDLETON, JOHN, first Earl of Middleton (1619-1674), pikeman in Hepburn's regiment in France; major in covenant army, 1639; lieutenant-general in parliamentary army; second in command at Philiphaugh, 1645; negotiated Montrose's submission, 1646, suppressed royalist rising, 1647; as lieutenant-general of the Scottish cavalry distinguished himself at Preston, 1648; wounded and taken prisoner at Worcester, 1651; escaped from the Tower to France; captain-general of a highland force, dispersed by Monck, 1654; joined the king at Cologne; created an earl by Charles II, 1656 (the creation confirmed at the Restoration); commander-in-chief, governor of Edinburgh Castle, and lord high commissioner to the Scottish parliament, 1660; urged restoration of episcopacy in Scotland, 1661; accused of withholding letters from the king, consenting to measures without authority, and taking bribes, 1663; deprived of his offices; subsequently became governor of Tangier, where he died.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About The Indian Queen (Sir Robert Howard and John Dryden)

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The Indian Queen (Z. 630), is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in 1695. The libretto is a revised version of the play "The Indian Queen" (1664) by John Dryden and his brother-in-law Sir Robert Howard.
It was Purcell's last semi-opera. The performance history of the piece is uncertain. The exact date of premiere is unknown but Peter Holman surmises it may have been performed in June, without the Masque in Act 5, which had to be completed after Purcell's death in November by his brother Daniel.
---Wikipedia

H. Purcell: «The Indian Queen» Z. 630 [Academy of Ancient Music] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-…

About Edward Walsingham

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WALSINGHAM, EDWARD (fl. 1643-1654), royalist and author; private secretary to George Digby, second earl of Bristol, 1643; hon. M.A. Oxford, 1643; resided in Oxford, 1643-5; published elegies on cavaliers, 1644-5; went to Henrietta Maria's court in Paris, 1646; embraced Romanism; envoy to Ormonde in Ireland, 1648; resided in Paris, 1649-54; attempted the conversion of Henry, duke of Gloucester, 1654; published, 1652, 'Arcana Aulica, or Walsingham's Manual,' a piracy from the French of Eustache du Refuge; perhaps entered a convent abroad.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thursday 10 December 1663

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StanB, Robert G is publicly available on Twitter and Facebook. And, as I posted a while back, still writes Pepys' alt-diary!

About Francis Osborne

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OSBORNE (Francis), an English writer of uncommon abilities, was born about 1588. He was descended from an ancient family, who had been long seated at Chicksand, near Shefford in Bedfordshire, where his grandfather, and father, Sir John Osborne, did both enjoy a quiet, happy, and plentiful fortune; but, these being puritanically inclined, Francis, who was a younger son, was bred carefully in those principles at home, without the advantage of either school or university. As soon as he became of years to make his fortune, he frequented the court; and, being taken into the service of the Pembroke family, became master of the horse to William earl of Pembroke. Upon the breaking out of the civil wars, he sided with the parliament, and had public employments conferred upon him by them, as also by Cromwell afterwards; and having married a sister of one of Oliver's colonels, he procured his son John a fellowship in All-Souls college, Oxford, by the favour of the parliamentary visitors of that university, in 1648. After this he resided there himself, purposely to have an eye over his son; and also to print some books of his own composition. Accordingly, among others, he published there his "Advice to a son," the first part in 1656; which going through five editions within two years, he added a second, 1658, in 8vo. Though this was not liked so well as the first, yet both were eagerly bought and admired at Oxford, especially by the young students; which being observed by the godly ministers, as Wood calls them, they presented a public complaint against the said books, as instilling atheistical principles into the minds of the youth, and proposed to have them publicly burnt. This did not take effect; yet an order passed the 27th of July, 1658, forbidding all booksellers, or any other persons, to sell them: which however, as is commonly the case, made them sell the better. But our author did not long survive this order, being arrested by death Feb. the 11th following, aged about 70.
---A New and general biographical dictionary. 1784.

About Anthony Hamilton

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HAMILTON, ANTHONY (1646?-1720), author of 'Memoires du Comte de Grammont'; third son of Sir George Hamilton; as governor of Limerick, 1685, openly went to mass; privy councillor, 1686: commanded Jacobite dragoons at Enniskillen and Newtown Butler, 1689: present at the Boyne, 1690; spent the rest of his life at St. Germain-en-Laye, being intimate with Berwick; addressed letters and verses to the Duchess of Berwick and Laura Bulkeley, and wrote for Henrietta Bulkeley four satirical ‘Contes' in French. His 'Epistle to the Comte de Grammont' (his brother-in-law) announcing intention of writing his memoirs was approved by Boileau, 1705. The 'Memoires' appeared anonymously, 1713, and were edited by Horace Walpole, 1772, Sir Walter Scott, 1811, and M. de Lescure, 1876; 'OEuvres Completes' were issued, 1749-76.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.