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About Denzil Holles (Baron Holles)

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HOLLES, DENZIL, first Baron Holles of Ifield (1599-1680), statesman; second son of John Holles, first earl of Clare; M.P., St. Michael, 1624, Dorchester, 1628, and in Long parliament; opposed Buckingham's foreign policy; held the speaker in his chair, 2 March, 1629; imprisoned and fined; escaped abroad; compensated by Long parliament, 1641; tried to save his brother-in-law, Strafford; carried up impeachment of Laud; supported Grand Remonstrance and impeachment of Digby and Bristol, 1641; impeached among the five members, 3 Jan. 1642; advocated Militia Bill and impeachment of royalist peers; member of committee of safety 4 July, 1642; led regiment at Edgehill and Brentford; advocated peace, 1643; parliamentary representative at negotiations of 1644, 1645 (Uxbridge), and 1648 (Newport); headed presbyterians against independents and (1644) projected impeachment of Cromwell; charged with intrigues with Charles I, 1645 and 1647; impeached by the army among the eleven members, 1647; disabled from sitting, but restored, 1648; escaped to France under threat of another impeachment; readmitted by Monck and appointed to council of state, 1660; commissioner to Charles II at the Hague; privy councillor and created peer, 1661; ambassador at Paris, 1663-6; a negotiator of treaty of Breda, 1667; protested against the Test Act, 1675; supported impeachment of Danby, 1678, and disbandment of army, 1678; opposed Exclusion Bill; one of the new privy councillors, 1679; his 'Memoirs, 1641-8,' printed, 1699.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Friday 11 December 1663

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“they agree upon a place where the toyle is to be set”

TOILES, Snares or Nets for the catching of wild Beasts.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Friday 11 December 1663

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“Then I went and sat by Mr. Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the country about Quinsborough”

Quinsborough is Königsberg. It is most probable that Mr. Harrington had been reading The Travels of Master George Barkley, Merchant of London, as given by Purchas, ii., 625, 627. Königsberg is there spelled Kinninsburge, easily corrupted by Pepys into Quinsborough. The swallow story is found at p. 626.—" One here in his net drew up a company or heape of swallows, as big as a bushell, fastened by the leg and bills in one, which being carried to their stoves, quickened, and flew, and coming again suddenly in the cold air, dyed." It appears to have been generally believed. In the Advice to a Painter (1667), attributed to Sir John Denham, we find the following lines:—
"So swallows, buried in the sea at Spring,
Return to land with Summer in their [on the?] wing."
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 7 November 1663

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MULCT, a Penalty or Fine of Money, an Amerciament.

AMERCEMENT, AMERCIAMENT, a Pecuniary Punishment imposed upon Offenders at the Mercy of the Court; it differs from a Fine, which is a Punishment certain and determined, by some Statute.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Marmalet

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MARMALADE of Quinces, White.
Boil Your Quinces in fair Water, till they be tender, take their weight in good Loaf Sugar, wet your Sugar with fair Water, boil it almost to Sugar again, then put your Quinces into the Candy, and boil it up quick.
---The Family Dictionary. W. Salmon, 1710.

About Sunday 1 November 1663

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"at noon dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled"

To bake a Calves head to be eaten cold.
You must half boyl a fair Calves head, then take out all the bones on both sides, and season it with the aforesaid seasoning, and Lard it with Bacon, and a little Lemon peel; then having a coffin large enough, not very high, nor very thick, but make it four square, lay on some sheets of Lard on the top and butter, when it is bak'd and cold, fill it with clarified butter.
The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery. 1685.

About Merchant Strangers' Company

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Merchants, Merchandise.
I. Magna Charta, Stat.5R.2.Stat.2.1. Merchant-Strangers shall have safe Conduct of coming into, going out, and remaining in England, to buy and sell, without being exacted upon by excessive Tolls, except in time of War, if they be of our Enemies Countrey : and albeit they be so, yet so long as our Merchants be used well there, they shall have the like usage here.
II. Stat.9E.3.1. Merchant-Strangers may freely buy and sell within the Realm without Disturbance, except they be Alien Enemies.
etc., etc. etc.
---An Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force and Use from the Beginning of Magna Charta. 1704.

About Canon

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CANNIONS, Boot hose; an old fashioned Garment for the Legs.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Hole Haven

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Holehaven or Holy Haven, a creek on the south coast of Essex. Lobsters from Norway and Scotland are deposited here for conveyance up the Thames.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Thursday 26 November 1663

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“there met with Mr. Cutler the merchant, who would needs have me home to his house by the Dutch Church”
The Dutch church in Austin Friars. Pepys on September 29th, 1664, stated that Mr. Cutler had "bought all the Augustine Fryers."
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Austin Friars

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The street of Austin Friars, off Old Broad Street, takes its name from the Augustinian Priory that once stood nearby. The priory was originally built by Humphrey de Bohun, Constable of England, in around 1253, the priory church incorporating the existing parish church of St Peter-le-Poer as a private chapel; and it was extended in 1354. The priory was attacked during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, when 13 Flemings were dragged from its sanctuary and beheaded. Many of the barons killed at the Battle of Barnet in the Wars of the Roses in 1471 were buried here. Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Dutch priest, theologian and philosopher, the so-called “Prince of the Humanists”, lodged here in 1513, complained about the quality of the wine on offer, and left without settling his bill! Miles Coverdale worked on his translation of the Bible here in 1529. And Thomas Cromwell, the lawyer, banker and soldier, and sometime statesman, Vicar-General and Vice-Regent in Spirituals to Henry VIII, lived here from the 1520s until his execution for treason and heresy in 1540.
https://lostcityoflondon.co.uk/20…

About Pelham Humfrey

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HUMFREY, PELHAM (1647-1674), lutenist and composer; with Blow and Turner composed the 'Club Anthem,' 1664; studied music in France and Italy, 1665-6; introduced Lully's methods into England; gentleman of Chapel Royal, 1667; master of the children, 1672-4; composer in ordinary for violins, 1673; composed anthems, services, and songs, contained in the Tudway collection and Boyce's 'Cathedral Music,' and other works.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

I Will Always Give Thanks (The 'Club' Anthem) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1…

About Sunday 22 November 1663

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“The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke’s boys, a pretty boy. And they say there are four or five of them that can do as much.”

The "pretty boy " was Pelham Humfrey, and his anthem is printed in Boyce's "Cathedral Music." The other boys of Captain Cooke's who could "do as much" were Michael Wise, John Blow, Thomas Tudway, William Turner, and Henry Purcell. (See Rockstro's "History of Music," 1886, p. 173.)
---Wheatley, 1893.

Pelham Humfrey http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… (Humphrey turned 16 in 1663 and died at the age of 27)

Have mercy upon me, O God (Pelham Humfrey) (Psalm 51:1-9)
http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.p…

Listen at: Have mercy upon me, O God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u…

About Milford

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The "Milford" was a fifth-rate of twenty-two guns, built in 1654 at Wivenhoe by Mr. Page. Its original name was "Faggons" ("Archaeologia," vol. xlviii., p. 174).
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Tuesday 10 November 1663

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“I fear has at this time got too great a hank —[hold]— over me by the neglect of my lawyers”

"For if you side for love or money,
With crowns that have so oft undone ye,
The dev'l will get a hank upon ye."
Hudibras Redivivus, part vi., 1706 (quoted in Nares's "Glossary").
---Wheatley, 1893.

A HANK. a habit, custom, or propensity of Mind.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Monday 9 November 1663

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“Pen was then turned Quaker. This he is most certain of.”

There does not appear to be the slightest ground for connecting Sir William Penn with Quakerism, and all this random talk of Mr. Blackburn should be received with some incredulity.
---Wheatley, 1893.