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Second Reading

About St James's Fair

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It was afterwards known as May Fair and not finally abolished till the reign of George III.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir William Morice (Secretary of State)

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Sir William Morris, Secretary of State from 1660 to 1668. Ob. 1676. He was kinsman to General Monk.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Worcester House

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The Earls of Worcester had a large house in the Strand on the water-side, on what is now Beaufort Buildings, which Lord Clarendon rented while his own was building.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Baynard's Castle

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Baynard's Castle was destroyed in the Great Fire. "Only a round tower, part of Baynard's Castle, yet stands, and, with other additional buildings, is converted into a dwelling-house." A memory of its existence is preserved in the name it has given to the ward of Castle Baynard, and in the sign of Castle Baynard given to a new tavern, noticeable for its elaborate terra-cotta decoration, at the corner of St. Andrew's Hill, in Queen Victoria Street.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Trinity House, Deptford

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... The old hall at Deptford in which the Company met was pulled down in 1787, and was replaced by another building which is still standing. Their first London house appears to have been at Ratcliffe. In 1618 a petition to James I. from the "Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle for leave to freight in strangers' bottoms" was sent to the Master, Wardens, etc, for report; and their reply to the Council is dated "Trinity House, Ratcliffe, June 3d." ... Fifty years later their house was in Water Lane, Lower Thames Street, the site and name of which are still preserved. Hatton describes it as "a stately building of brick and stone (adorned with ten bustos), built anno 1671." In the court-room of the present house are busts of Nelson, St. Vincent, Howe, and Duncan; portraits of James I., James II., Sir Francis Drake, William Pitt, the Earl of Sandwich, etc., and a large painting by Gainsborough Dupont, representing the Members of the Board in 1794. There is also a museum of maritime relics and curiosities. To ensure the greatest possible efficiency in the lighting of the lighthouses round the coast, as also of the fog-signals and other appliances, the Trinity House has generally an adviser of the highest scientific eminence. Prof. Faraday held this post, and used to say that there was no part of his life that gave him more delight.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Gray's Inn

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Gray's Inn Walks, or Gardens; a large open plot of ground, laid out in lawns and gravel walks, and planted with trees, extending northwards from South Square, Gray's Inn, to the King's (now Theobald's) Road. It was laid out as a garden and planted with trees when Bacon was Treasurer of Gray's Inn, and he has always been credited with having devised and directed the operations. The older trees are said to have been planted by him, but none of them are as old as his time.
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In Charles II.'s time Gray's Inn Walks were a fashionable promenade on a summer's afternoon or evening, and, like the Zoological Gardens in our own time, most fashionable on the Sunday. In a curious debate in Parliament on a "Bill for the Lord's day," one speaker said, "there may be profaneness by sitting under some eminent tree in a village, or an arbour, or Gray's Inn Walks."
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Gray's Inn Walks became the constant resort not only of fine ladies but of ladies of questionable character, and a favourite place for assignations. The obscene pages of Ned Ward, Tom Brown, The Holborn Drollery, and like publications, and a well-known epigram on the Four Inns of Court, afford ample evidence, though not always of a quotable kind. At this time, the principal entrance from Holborn was by Fulwood's Rents. The gardens remained open and retained their popularity to the days of The Tatler and The Spectator.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Rhenish winehouse (King St)

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Rhenish Wine-house, Cannon Row, Westminster, at the end of a passage leading from King Street. In Strype's Map of 1720 Rhenish Wine Yard opens south out of King Street, nearly opposite Charles Street. There was an entrance to it from the Privy Gardens, only open during the sittings of Parliament and the Law Courts ... On June 19, 1663, (Pepys) is there with Mr. Moore, who showed him "the French manner, when a health is drunk . . . which is now the fashion." ... There were other Rhenish wine-houses in London, one was in Crooked Lane and another in the Steelyard.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About The Devil

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Devil Tavern, Temple Bar, stood between Temple Bar and the Middle Temple Gate. The church of St. Dunstan's was nearly opposite, and gave its name to the St. Dunstan Tavern. But the painted sign represented St. Dunstan pulling the Devil by the nose, and it naturally came to be called by the name of the more popular of the two personages. It was sometimes called "The Old Devil Tavern," to distinguish it from "The Young [or Little] Devil Tavern," ...

Alas! what is it to this scene to know
How many coaches in Hyde Park did show,
Last spring, what fare to-day at Medley's was,
If Dunstan's or the Phoenix best wine has?

Ben Jonson, Prologue to the Staple of News.

Bloodhound. As you come by Temple Bar, make a step to th' Devil.
Tim. To the Devil, father?
Sim. My master means the sign of the Devil; and he cannot hurt you, fool; there's a saint holds him by the nose.

—A Match at Midnight, by William Rowley, 4to, 1633.

All in that very house where Saint
Holds Devil by the nose;
Three Drunkards met to roar and rant,
But quarrell'd in the close.

Sir Charles Sedley, Works, vol. i. p. 74.

---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891

About Simon Beale (b)

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23 [Jan. 1656/7] To Simon Beale and eleven other trumpets who attended upon the proclamation of the peace lately made between his highness and the French king 12[l.] 0 0

June 6 [1657] To Simon Beale for himself and eleven other trumpets who proclaimed the peace betwixt his highness and the king of Portugal 12[l.] 0 0

--- A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe ... : 1657 to 1658

About Will’s Coffee House (Covent Garden)

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And, indeed, the worst conversation I ever remember to have heard in my life, was that at Will's coffee-house, where the wits (as they were called) used formerly to assemble; that is to say, five or six men, who had writ plays, or at least prologues, or had share in a miscellany, came thither, and entertained one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air, as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them; and they were usually attended with an humble audience of young students from the inns of courts, or the universities, who, at due distance, listened to these oracles, and returned home with great contempt for their law and philosophy, their heads filled with trash, under the name of politeness, criticism, and belles lettres.
---The London Chronicle. Jonathan Swift, 1762

About Will Hewer

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William Hewer, of whose family nothing more is known except that his father died of the plague, 14th Sept. 1665. He became afterwards a Commissioner of the Navy, and Treasurer for Tangier; and was the constant companion of Pepys, who died in his house at Clapham, previously the residence of Sir Dennis Gauden. Mr. Hewer was buried in the old church at Clapham, where a large monument of marble, with his bust in alto-relievo, erected to his memory, was, on the rebuilding of the church placed outside, and in November, 1852, nearly destroyed.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Robert Mossom

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Robert Mossom, author of several sermons preached at London, and printed about the time of the Restoration, who was in 1666 made Bishop of Derry. In the title page of his Apology in behalf of the Sequestered Clergy, printed in 1660, he calls himself “Preacher of God’s word at St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, London.”
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Friday 22 June 1660

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Julep, a preparative (of syrups, &c.) to open the inward parts and prepare for a purgation, from Julap, P[ersian]. a kind of rose-water.
---An English Dictionary. E. Coles, 1717.

About Goring House

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Goring House was burnt in 1674, at which time Lord Arlington resided in it. The magnificence of Goring House is fully described by Evelyn, and its destruction by fire. The title of its owner is preserved in Arlington Street. "This was the town residence of George Lord Goring, Earl of Norwich, and of his son, the second peer, who died s. p. in 1670. The house occupied the site of the Mulberry Gardens, upon which Buckingham Palace now stands. It was let to Lord Arlington, by the second Earl of Norwich, and called after the tenant." —Cunningham's Hand-Book of London, p. 206, edit. 1850.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 23 June 1660

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This ceremony is of great antiquity in England; perhaps it may be traced to Edward the Confessor. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called the king's evil. Burns asserts, History of Parish Registers, p. 144, "that between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for the evil." Every one coming to the court for that purpose, brought a certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had not at any time been touched by His Majesty.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About John Creed

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John Creed of Oundle, Esq. From the way in which Pepys speaks of his friend, he was probably of humble origin, and nothing is known of his history previously to the Restoration, when he seems to have been a retainer in the service of Sir Edward Montagu. In 1662 he was made Secretary to the Commissioners for Tangier, and in 1668 he married Elizabeth Pickering, the niece of his original patron, by whom he had eleven children. Major Richard Creed, the eldest son, who was killed at the battle of Blenheim, lies buried in Tichmarsh Church in Northamptonshire, where there is also a monument erected to his father, describing him as "of Oundle," and as having served King Charles the Second in divers honourable employments at home and abroad, lived with honour, and died lamented, A.D. 1701. What these employments were cannot now be ascertained. There exists still a cenotaph to the memory of the major in Westminster Abbey. Mrs. Creed, wife of John Creed of Oundle, Esq.. was the only daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart, by Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, and sister of Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir George Carteret (Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70)

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Sir George Carteret had originally been bred to the sea service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his gallant defence of that Island against the Parliament forces. At the Restoration, be was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 was elected M.P. for Portsmouth. He continued in favour with his sovereign till his death, in 1679, aet. suae 80. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Carteret, of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and five daughters.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Richard Coling

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Richard Cooling, or Coling, A.M., of All-Souls' College, Secretary to the Earls of Manchester and Arlington, when they filled the office of Lord Chamberlain, and a Clerk of the Privy Council in ordinary. There is a mezzotinto print of him in the Pepysian Library.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About William Fairbrother

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William Fairbrother, in 1661 made D.D. at Cambridge per regias litteras. He was Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Senior Proctor of the University. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Naseby, whilst fighting on the King's side, and sent to London.—Cole's MSS., vol. xv. p. 122.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sunday 8 July 1660

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An early edition of Our Sam's Diary has this footnote regarding the Master of Arts degree:

The Grace which passed the University on this occasion is preserved in Kennett's Register, and commenced as follows :—Cum Sam. Pepys, Coll. Magd. Inceptor in Artibus in Regia Classe existat e Secretis, exindeq. apud mare adeo occupatissimus ut Comitiis proxime futuris interesse non possit; placet vobis ut dictus S. P. admissionem suam, necnon creationem recipiat ad gradum Magistri in Artibus sub persona Timothei Wellfit, Inceptoris, &c.—June 26, 1660.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854

which Google translates (approximately, and with my help) as:

With Sam. Pepys, Coll. Magda. Beginner in the arts in the Royal Navy exists as Secretary, thence so overwhelmed with work at sea so that the next election can not take part in the future, you agree to S. P. his admission, as well as the creation to receive the degree of Master of Arts in the role of Timothy Wellfit, Inceptoris