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About Wednesday 25 July 1660

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"a very pedagogue"

I agree with upper_left_hand_corner above about the usage of "very" and I think Sam is paying a compliment with no negative connotation for the word "pedagogue". He's a good scholar but a true instructor.

VERY, true; real; the same or identical. Adverbially, in a great degree.
---A Complete and Universal English Dictionary. J. Barclay, 1799.

About Tuesday 24 July 1660

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REVERSION, the state of being to be enjoyed after the death of the present possessor. Succession, or right of succession.
REVERSIONARY, consisting in reversion; to be enjoyed after the death of another.
---The Royal English dictionary. D. Fenning, 1764

About Catch

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Catch ... In music, a short song, containing some merry tune.
---The Royal English dictionary. D. Fenning, 1763.

Catch. A short, merry, humorous song.
---A new complete English dictionary. J. Marchant, 1760

About Thursday 19 July 1660

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Thanks Sasha. The Independents, Levellers and so on seem to have disappeared into the woodwork, except for a few who seem destined to lose their heads. But the Presbyterians are struggling along. I look forward to seeing this unfold through Sam's eyes.

About Olives

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Olives, the desired Salad of divine Plato, are an usual Dish at most Mens Tables, tho' none of them grow in England. Wild Olives are better, than those which are set in City Orchards; which the very Birds do know in Italy, more coveting the wilder sort. We have three sorts of them brought into our Country, Spanish Olives, Italian Olives, and Olives of Provence. The first sort is the biggest, but yet the worst, being too yellow, too soft, and too full of Oil: The Italian Olive is almost as big, but more firm of Flesh, and pleasanter through retaining his natural Greenishness. The Provence Olives are less than either, something bitterer also and more leather skin'd, yet better for the Stomach than the Spanish, tho' nothing near the Italian or Bononian Olive in Flesh, Taste or Goodness.
---Health's improvement. T. Moffet, 1746.

About Rump Parliament

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On the death of Oiiver Cromwell, which happened September 3, 1658, the mayor received letters from the privy council, notifying that event, and the election of his son Richard Cromwell to the dignity of protector; and commanding him to proclaim the said Richard protector of the three kingdoms; which was accordingly done on the seventh of the same month. The protector's honours were but of short continuance; for in the month of April 1659, the army obliged him to dissolve the parliament which he had convoked; and soon after deposed him from the protectorship. The members of the parliament, dissolved by Oliver Cromwell, April 20, 1653, were now invited to return to the exercise of their authority; and forty two members accordingly assembled; who, from the smalness of their number, were called in derision the rump parliament. The army, being dissatisfied with their behaviour, excluded them from their house in October following, but on the 26th of December they were restored to their seats, by the committee of safety. Feb. 21. general Monk readmitted the members who had been excluded in 1648, agreeably to an address from the citizens of London on that head. The sixteenth of March the rump parliament dissolved itself, after having issued out writs for a free parliament to meet on the twenty fifth day of April 1660; on which day the two houses assembled, the one of lords, and the other of commons, consonantly to the antient constitution.
---The History Of The City and County Of Norwich. 1768.

About The Dog

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Dog Tavern (The), was a favourite haunt of Ben Jonson's. Herrick speaks of the "Lyric feasts made at the Sun, the Dog, the Triple Tun;" and Lord Falkland (writing to Ben Jonson) says, "If there be any thing tolerable in my poem it is somewhat you dropt negligently one day at the Dog, and I took up." Pepys frequently "dined at the Dog Tavern," and from the connection in which he mentions it, it must have been in the immediate neighbourhood of Whitehall and Westminster Hall. There was a "Dog" in Holywell Street, and another on Ludgate Hill, but it is clear that neither could have been Pepys's "Dog," nor is it likely that either was Jonson's.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Thursday 19 July 1660

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I am still confused about Presbyterians (and please don't tell me doctrines). Surely Martha above is not right that Presbyterians were more "conservative", whatever that means in this context. They were not Royalists in the civil war, and now want the power of Charles II to be limited. Politically, they want the freedom to practice their religion without parliament dictating "common" practices. They will lose this battle, but only for a while.

About Thursday 19 July 1660

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A Range, (or grate in a Kitchen) Une Grille
---The Royal Dictionary, French and English. A. Boyer, 1729.

About Tuesday 17 July 1660

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"...an old consumptive man, and fair conditioned..."

Il fait le doux Dien dessous une pesle. He behaves himself gently, bears himself mildly, he is a fair conditioned man
---A French and English dictionary. R. Cotgrave, 1673.

About Sunday 15 July 1660

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My Lord is Master of the Wardrobe (with over 25 employees) and Sam doesn't want to solicit a position for his father there. Is he really that worried about his own position or is something else going on?

About Henry VII Chapel (Westminster Abbey)

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Chapel of the Blessed Virgin, generally known as Henry VII.'s Chapel, is entered by a flight of steps beneath the chantry of Henry V. The entrance gates are of oak, overlaid with brass, gilt, and wrought into various devices—the portcullis exhibiting the descent of the founder from the Beaufort family, and the crown and twisted roses the union that took place, on Henry's marriage, of the White Rose of York with the Red Rose of Lancaster. The chapel consists of a central aisle, with five small chapels at the east end, and two side aisles, north and south. The banners and stalls appertain to the Knights of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, an order of merit next in rank in this country to the Most Noble Order of the Garter: the knights were formerly installed in this chapel; and the Dean of Westminster is Dean of the Order. The statues in the architecture of this chapel are commended by Flaxman for "their natural simplicity and grandeur of character and drapery;" and speaking of the fanvaulting of the roof, Sir Gilbert Scott says it is here seen in "its most perfect beauty."
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Heaven

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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 Patches, Black

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Spoiler alert. SP himself (!) in Sept., 1664 will wear a Black Patch for cosmetic purposes. "...my mouth very scabby, my cold being going away, so that I was forced to wear a great black patch."

About Tuesday 28 August 1660

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"Colonel Scroope is this day excepted out of the Act of Indemnity"

Col. Adrian Scroop was accused for sitting as one of the judges in the high court of justice when the King was brought to answer as a prisoner at the bar, for signing one warrant for summoning that court together, and another for the execution of the King. He denied nothing of this; but pleaded the authority of the parliament in his justification: denying that he had been acted by any motive of malice, as the indictment had untruly suggested; and asserting, that in what he had done relating to the King, he had followed the light of his reason, and the dictates of his conscience. At this trial the principal witness was that Brown, who, having been Major-General in the service of the parliament, and mentioned already in this work to be of a mercenary spirit, was now brought to betray a private conversation; and to depose, That talking one day with Col. Adrian Scroop in the Speaker's chamber, and telling him, that the condition of the nation was sad since the murther of the King, the Colonel had answered, That men had different opinions touching that matter; and being desired by the said Brown to explain himself, he told him, he should not make him his confessor. Though this evidence be in appearance very insignificant; yet, having influenced the house of Commons, as I mentioned before, 'tis not to be admired if it took effect with a jury in an inferior court; who, taking every thing said against the person accused for substantial proof, made no scruple of bringing him in guilty of treason.
---Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow. E. Ludlow, 1751.

About Maj. Jeremiah Tolhurst

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Ordered, That the Sum of One hundred Pounds,which Major Jeremiah Tolhurst, Governor of Newcastle, is out of Purse, in keeping that Garrison, shall be paid unto the said Jeremiah Tolhurst, or his Assigns, out of the Excise ...

From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 5 September 1660', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 152-154.

In April 1660, Tolhurst was elected Member of Parliament for Carlisle in the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Northumberland from August 1660 to 1661, sub-commissioner of excise for Cumberland and Westmorland from 1661 to 1662 and customs official for Newcastle by 1664. In 1669 he was a major in Sayer's Company of Foot. Tolhurst emigrated to the West Indies before July 1671 and died intestate in Jamaica three months later.
---Wikipedia

About Maj. Jeremiah Tolhurst

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THIS Parliament ... began at Westminster, Sept. 3, 1654, and held to Jan. 22 following.

SCOTLAND
Boroughs of Dumfreize, Sanclan, Lochmaben, Annand, Wigton, Kirkudbright, Whitborne, and Galloway
Major Jeremiah Tollhurst Esq. Burgess of Dumfrieze.

THIS Parliament ... met Jan. 27, 1658-9, and continued till Oct. 13, at whichTime, being interrupted sitting, they assembled again Dec. 26, and sate till Mar. 16 following; when they passed a Vote, not only for dissolving themselves, but the last Parliament, called Nov. 3, 1640, by Royal Authority; and summoning a new Parliament to meet on April 25, 1660, which on their Session called back the King, and restored the Constitution in Church and State.

SCOTLAND
Boroughs of Dumfrieze, Sauclan, Lockmaben, Annand, Wigton, Kirkudbright, Whitborne, and Galloway
Jeremy Tolhurst Esq.
---Notitia Parliamentaria. B. Willis, 1750.

About Sunday 15 July 1660

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I think this is why the Presbyterians are still a bit nervous and worried.

About Monday 27 August 1660

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About 40 Years ago one --- Prince of this place drove a great Trade here in brewing a particular Sort of Ale, which from its being first brewed at a place called North-down in this Parish went by the name of North-down Ale, and afterwards was called Mergate Ale. But whether its owing to the Art of brewing this liquor the dying [?] with Inventor of it, or the humour of the Gentry and People altering to the liking the Pale North Country Ale better, the present brewers vend little or none of what they call by the name of Mergate-Ale, which is a great disadvantage to their Trade.
---The history and antiquities ecclesiastical and civil of the Isle of Tenet in Kent. J. Lewis, 1723.

About Monday 27 August 1660

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SMACKS, small Vessels with one Mast which attend Men of War in carrying the Men or Provisions on Board.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.