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Second Reading

About Thursday 22 November 1660

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"I light at the Maypole in the Strand"

There is a token of "Robert Chamberlaine at the Maypole in the Strand," so that it may have been at this house that Pepys alighted (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 755).
---Wheatley, 1896.

About Thomas Cade

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Mr. Cade was a stationer in Cornhill.
---Wheatley, 1896.

About John Singleton

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... He was one of the King's twenty-four fiddlers in 1674; see North's "Memoirs of Musick," ed. Rimbault, 1846, p. 99 (note). He died 1686, and was buried (April 7th), in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent Garden.
---Wheatley, 1896.

About Saturday 17 November 1660

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"His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but he will not hear of it."

Betty is Elizabeth Pickering, John's sister. http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… She married John Creed in 1668. We read other speculation on a marriage for John Pickering on August 13, 1660

About Sir Arnold Braems

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Sir Arnold Breames, Brahams, or Brames, of Bridge Court, Kent, was son of Charles Breames, of Dover, and was knighted at Canterbury, May 27th, 1660. He married, first Joanna, daughter of Walter Henflete (or Septvans), secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Digges, Master of the Rolls, and thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, of Wingham, Bart.
---Wheatley, 1896.

About Wednesday 24 October 1660

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"there being a club to-night among his friends."

We've run across "club" before. It means they're going to split the bill.

About Wednesday 24 October 1660

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"who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done by nativities"

NATIVITY [among Astrologers] is the true Time of a Person's Birth, or a Figure of the Heavens cast for that Time.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Thursday 25 October 1660

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As we read on Oct 22, The King met with some Episcopalians and (pesky) Presbyterians. Today he issued a declaration that said among other things:

"... That no Bishops should ordain, or Exercise any Part of Jurisdiction, which appertains to the Censures of the Church, without the Advice and Assistance of the Presbyters, and neither do, nor impose any Thing, but what was according to the known Laws of the Land; that Chancellors, Commissaries, and Officials should be excluded from Acts of Jurisdiction, the Power of the Pastors in their several Congregations restor'd and a Liberty granted to all the Ministers to assemble Monthly, for the Exercise of the Pastoral Perswasive Power to the promoting of Knowledge and Godliness in their Flocks. That the Ministers should be freed from the Subscription requir'd by the Canon, and the Oath of Canonical Obedience, and receive Ordination, Institution and Induction, and exercise their Function and enjoy the Profits of their Livings, without being oblig'd to it. And that the Use of the Ceremonies should be dispensed with, where they were scrupled. ..."

The Presbyterians get a reprieve. For a while.

About Tuesday 23 October 1660

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MarkS is right about illiterate

ILLITERATE, which has little or no Knowledge of Letters, unlearned.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Maj.-Gen. Ald. Sir Richard Browne

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Richard Brown, a major-general of the Parliament forces, citizen of London and a woodmonger; Sheriff of London, 1647. He was imprisoned for five years, but in Richard Cromwell's Parliament he was one of the members for London. He was one of the deputation from the City of London to Charles II. at Breda, and he and his eldest son were knighted. Lord Mayor, 1660; he was created a baronet for his prompt action during Venner's insurrection, and the City rewarded him with a pension of £500. He died September 24th, 1669.
---Wheatley (1894).

"and the members of the City that are in prison to be set at liberty" says Pepys on Feb 21, 1559/1660. Wheatley says that Browne was among this group.