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About Sir John Denham

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John Denham, created at the Restoration K.B., and Surveyor-General of the Works; better known as the author of Cooper's Hill. Ob. 1668.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Fleece (Covent Garden)

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"The Fleece Tavern, in York Street, Covent Garden," observes John Aubrey, in his Miscellanies, p. 81, "was very unfortunate for homicides; there have been several killed; three in my time. It is now (1692) a private house." In Rugge's Journal is the following entry:— "Nov. 1660, One Sir John Gooscall was unfortunately killed in the Fleece Tavern, Covent Garden, by one Balendin, a Scotchman, who was taken, and committed to the Gatehouse in this month."
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Hell

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Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, three places within or adjoining Westminster Hall, mentioned together in a grant of wardenship by Henry VII., 1485, to Antony Kene. Heaven was a tavern, Hell, formerly a prison for king's debtors, was also a tavern, but of meaner grade, though much frequented by lawyers. Purgatory was anciently a temporary prison, or "lock-up," and here was kept the Westminster ducking-stool for scolds.

Subtle. Her grace would have you eat no more Woolsack pies, Nor Dagger frumety.
Dol Common. Nor break his fast In Heaven and Hell.
—Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

When Pride "purged" the Parliament on December 6, 1648, the forty-one he excepted were shut up for the night in a tavern called Hell, kept by a Mr. Duke.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Monday 26 November 1660

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"a son that is neat in his house"

NEAT clean, trim, cleanly and tightly dressed, clever.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Thursday 22 November 1660

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A WHISK ... a Sort of Neck-dress formerly worn by Women.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Wednesday 7 March 1659/60

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CAT-CALL, a very disagreable sort of pipe or whistle of late years but too well known at the play-houses.
---Dictionarium Britannicum. N. Bailey, 1736.

About Moyre

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MOHAIR, a kind of stuff, ordinarily of silk, both woof and warp; having its grain wove very close.
There are two kinds of mohairs, the one smooth and plain; the other watered like tabbys: the difference between the two only consists in this, that the latter is calendered, the other not - There are also mohairs both plain, and watered, whose woof is woollen, cotton, or thread.
---Cyclopaedia: Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. E. Chambers, 1743.

About King's House (Theatre Royal, Vere St)

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Here [Vere Street, Clare Market] stood Gibbons's Tennis Court, converted into a theatre by Thomas Killigrew; and in this temporary building his company performed from 1660 till April 1663, when the new theatre in Drury Lane was ready to receive them. They furnished a list of twenty pieces, which they termed their stock plays. Of these three only were Shakespeare's, but one of them, Henry IV., was acted on the opening night, November 8, 1660. Dryden's first play, the Wild Gallant, was brought out here in February 1663.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Bottomry

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BOTTOMRY, BOTTOMAGE is when a Master of a Ship borrows Money upon the Bottom or Hull of the Ship, i.e. to be paid with Interest at the Ship's safe Return, otherwise the Money is all lost if the Ship be lost.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Monday 12 November 1660

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DIAPER [of Diaper, F. to interweave with Flowers] Linen-Cloth wrought with Flowers and Figures.
DIAPER'D [in Heraldry] signifies a Bordure fretted all over with such Things as Bordures used to be charged, appearing between the Frets.
DIAPERING [in a Picture] Is when a Piece, after it is quite finished, is over-run with Branches or other Works
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Jack

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JACK [from Scullion Boys, commonly called Jack, used to be Turnspits] an Engine, to roast Meat
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Lime Street

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Lime Street runs from Leadenhall Street into Fenchurch Street, and was so called, as is supposed, "of making or selling of lime there." No. 15, on the west side, is Pewterers' Hall. In this street, in the reign of Charles II., in the house of one Dockwra (the originator), the Penny Post Office was first established. Lime Street escaped the Great Fire. A large house, No. 46 on the east side, had a pair of wooden folding gates, dated 1631. The chimneypieces were fine specimens of the work of that period. The house, which belonged to the Fishmongers' and Carpenters' Companies, was pulled down in April 1875. A large portion of the east side has been pulled down. On the west side, by Fenchurch Street, stood the church of St. Dionis Backchurch.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Sunday 11 November 1660

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"it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us"

I appreciate the comments about snobbery, status, culture, etc. but note that the servants didn't feel as uncomfortable sitting in the pew behind him as he felt sitting in the pew in front of them. It won't happen again though.

About Neats' Tongue

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Neat [neat, Sax.] beeves, as oxen, heifers, cows, steers.
---Dictionarium Britannicum. N. Bailey, 1736.