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About Sunday 8 July 1660

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From the Diary on August 14: "I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for my degree of Master of Arts, which cost me about 9l. 16s."

About Saturday 7 July 1660

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François Ragot a gravé quarante pieces, qu'on appelle copies d'aprés Rubens dont les belles épreuves ont du mérite. Il donnoit bien dans le goût de Rubens : il a fait aussi quelques sujets d'aprés Vandicke.
---Cabinet des singularités d'architecture, peinture, sculpture, et gravure. F. Lecomte, 1700.

About Lieutenant David Lambert

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LAMBERT, David,—was appointed captain of the Norwich in 1661, and, for what reason we have not been able to learn, had no further command till after the restoration, when, on the 24th of June, 1689, he was appointed to the Newcastle. In a letter, written by the duke of York to the duke of Albemarle, dated April the 20th, 1665, mention is made of Captain Lambert's having been a passenger, in a ketch tender belonging to the Royal Charles, at the time one of her men was killed by a shot fired from Landguard fort. This transaction the duke of Albemarle is desired to investigate, and cause to be properly punished. No further mention of him occurs till, as has been already observed, the year 1689. On the first of October, 1692, he was appointed captain of the Russel of eighty guns. In this station he continued during the following summer, when this ship was one of the fleet under the command of the joint-admirals Killegrew, Delavall, and Shovell. On the first of July, 1695, he was put on the superannuated list as captain of a second rate. He died in 1703.
(This gentleman might probably be a relation of the celebrated general Lambert's, and, possibly, be treated coldly in the service on that ground. This is only given as a conjectural reason for his having continued for such a number of years unemployed.)
---Biographia navalis. J. Charnock, 1794.

About Sir Richard Fanshawe

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On Sir Richard Fanshaw, Knt. and Bart, in the Church of Ware in Hertfordshire.

Sacred to pious Memory. In a Vault near this Monument lies the Body of the very noble Sir Richard Fanshaw, Knt. and Bart, descended from the antient Family of the Fanshaws of Ware-Park in the County of Hertford, being the tenth Child of Sir Henry Fanshaw Knt.
He married Anne, the eldest Daughter of Sir John Harrison Knight, of Balles in the same County, and had by her six Sons and eight Daughters, of whom Richard, Catherine, Margaret, Anne, and Elizabeth, survived him.
A Man most excellent for the Gentleness of his Manners, the Brightness of his Learning, and his constant Loyalty. In Time past, a joyful Exile, he bravely embraced the Calamities of his most serene King Charles the second, and was made by him Secretary at War. Afterwards, (when the Monarchy was happily restored) he was constituted Master of the Requests, Latin Secretary, and a Privy-Councellor both for England and Ireland. He was Representative in Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and his Majesty's Ambassador to the Courts of Portugal and Spain; at which last, having very gallantly discharged his Commission, he changed a most splendid Life for a lamented Death.
This Monument, and the Vault, were built by his most sorrowful Wife, who also brought Home the Body of her Husband by Land from Madrid.
He died the 16th of June, in the Year of our Lord 1666, of his Age, 59.
---Memorials and characters. J. Wilford, 1741.

About Sunday 1 July 1660

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"no Common Prayer yet "

The Presbyterians did not want Common Prayer returned.

The King confirmed by Word of Mouth what he had promised by his Declaration [at Breda]. But when they [a Presbyterian delegation] insinuated to him that he ought to suppress the Use of the Common Prayer in his Chapel and the wearing of the Surplice he warmly answered That whilst he gave them Liberty he would not have his own taken from him.
---The History of England. Mr. De Rapin Thoyras, 1731.

About Sunday 1 July 1660

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"my fine Camlett cloak"

CAMICA, Camlet, or fine Stuff, made of Camels Hair and Silk.

CAMLET, A kind of stuff made with Wool and Silk
---An Universal Etymological Dictionary. 1675

CAMBLET, or Camlet, a plain stuff, composed of a warp and woof, which is manufactured on a loom, with two treddles, as linens are.
There are camblets of several sorts, some of goats hair, both in the warp and woof; others, in which the warp is of hair, and the woof half hair and half silk; others again, in which both the warp and the woof are of wool; and lastly, some, of which the warp is of wool and the woof of thread. Some are dyed in the thread, others are dyed in the piece, others are marked or mixed; some are striped, some waved or watered, and some figured.
Camblets are proper for several uses, according to their different kinds and qualities: some serve to make garments both for men and women; some for bed curtains; others for houshold furniture, &c.
---The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. T.H. Crocker, 1764.

About Wednesday 4 July 1660

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"cup in chased work "

ENCHASING, Inchasing, or Chasing, the art of enriching and beautifying gold, silver, and other metal-work, by some design, or figures represented thereon, in low relievo. Enchasing is practised only on hollow thin works, as watch-cases, cane-heads, tweezer cases, or the like. It is performed by punching or driving out the metal, to form the figure, from within side, so as to stand out prominent from the plane or surface of the metal.
---A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1763.

About Capt. Edmund Curle

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CURLE, Edmund,-- was appointed commander of the Little Mary in 1661; and is also unknown in any other respect.
---Biographia navalis. J. Charnock, 1794.

About Morning draught

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When I came to my Friend's House in a Morning, I used to be ask'd, if I had my Morning Draught yet? I am now ask'd, if I have yet had my Tea?
---An essay on ways and means for inclosing, fallowing, planting. W. Mackintosh, 1729.

Bard. Sir John, there's one master Brook below would fain speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.
---Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare.

About Handicap (cards)

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This seems to agree with Todd's version:

... I demanded what difference he would take between my Hat and his, his Cloak and mine; there being small matter of advantage in the exchange we agreed to go to handicap.
---The English Rogue. 1665.

About Arthur Annesley (1st Earl of Anglesey, Treasurer of the Navy 1667-8)

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I now return to Arthur Annesley, his eldest son and heir, who succeeded him in his honours, born July 10, 1614. Which Arthur was educated in Magdalen Coll. Oxford, and was after a student in Lincoln's-Inn: In the life-time of his father, he was the first of the three commissioners, who, in May 1645, were appointed by the parliament to manage the affairs of the kingdom of Ireland; and arriving there in October following, brought with them provisions and ammunition, and 20,000l. in money, to be employed against the Irish rebels in that realm. And a little before the restoration, anno 1660, being President of the Council, he was, as Lord Clarendon writes, very well contented that the King should receive particular information of his devotion, and of his resolution to do him service; which he manifested in many particulars of importance, and had the courage to receive a letter from his Majesty in his exile, and returned a dutiful answer to it. For which faithful services, at the restoration of the King, he was sworn of the Privy-council, and on April 20, 13 Car. II. 1661, created a Baron of England, by the title of Lord Annesley of Newport-Pagnel in com [?] Bucks; and also at the same time advanced to the degree of an English Earl, by the title of Earl of Anglesey, an island in Wales, and to the heirs male of his body: In consideration (as is expressed in the patent) of his signal services for the King's restoration, as also for the eminent service of Sir Francis Annesley, Bart. Baron of Mount-Norris, and Viscount Valentia deceased, father of the said Arthur, in the offices of Vice-Treasurer, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland. In 1667, he was made Treasurer of the Navy; and on the 4th of Feb. 1671-2, his Majesty, in Council, was pleased to appoint the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Anglesey, the Lord Holles, the Lord Ashley-Cooper, and Mr. Secretary Trevor, or any three of them, to be a committee to peruse and revise all the papers and writings, concerning the settlement of Ireland, from the first to the last, and to make an abstract of the state thereof in writing.
---Peerage of England. A. Collins, 1756.

About Thursday 5 July 1660

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JACKANAPES, a Coxcomb, an Impertinent.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

Jackanapes, a little insignificant Fellow
Dictionarium Britannicum. N. Bailey, 1736.

... they tell him he's a Jackanapes, a Rogue, and a Rascal.
---Table-Talk. J. Selden, 1689.

About Thursday 5 July 1660

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The 5th of July the City of London invited the King and the two Princes his brothers, the great Officers of the Crown, and both Houses of Parliament to an Entertainment, which, in Magnificence, was answerable to the Riches of the City which gave it, and the Quality of the Persons who were invited to it.
---The History of England. Mr. de Rapin Thoyras, 1731.

About Saturday 9 June 1660

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This from Johnson's dictionary may be relevant:

GALLANTLY ... Gayly ; splendidly ...

About Thursday 7 June 1660

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Yesterday: "That Mr. Calamy had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be false)."

I guess Presbyterians don't like surplices either.

About Thursday 7 June 1660

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This may have been more to the point. This is history written by the winning side in 1670 about what the Presbyterians were saying in 1642. The Presbyterians may have eventually won this argument.

It was also Preached and Printed by the Presbyterians to the same effect, (as Buchanan and Knox, Calvin and some others of the Sect had before delivered) That all Power was originally in the people of a State or Nation; in Kings no otherwise than by Delegation, or by way of Trust which Trust might be recalled when the People pleased.
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That it was lawful for the Subjects to resist their Princes, even by force of Arms, and to raise Armies also, if need required, for the preservation of Religion, and the common Liberties. And finally, (for what else can follow such dangerous premises?) That Kings being only the sworn Officers of the Commonwealth, they might be called to an account, and punished in case of Male-Administration, even to Imprisonment, Deposition, and to Death it self, if lawfully convicted of it.
---Aerius Redivivus Or the History of the Presbyterians. P. Heylyn, 1670.

About Friday 8 June 1660

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"I troubled much with the King’s gittar"

The anthem, "They that go down to the sea in ships," was likewise owing to a singular accident. It was composed at the request of Mr. Gostling, subdean of St. Paul's, who, being at sea with the king and the duke of York, and in great danger of being cast away, providentially escaped. This Mr. Gostling often had the honour of singing with Charles II. the duke of York accompanying them on the guitar: not anthems, however, as may easily be supposed; for it no where appears, that Charles II. considered music in any other view than as an incentive to mirth.
---A new and general biographical dictionary. W. Owen, 1784.

About John Colepeper (1st Baron Colepeper)

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Sir John Colepeper was Kt. of the Shire for Kent, in the Parliament which met in the Year 1641. He was a Man of perfect Loyalty, and great Ability, as appears by all the Accounts of those times, and particularly by the History of the Earl of Claredon, his great Corrival; but above all, is the Testimony of the last mention'd King, in the Patent by which he was created a Peer, bearing Date the 21st of October, 1644. This Age too much Consisted of those, who before the Civil Dissensions had been concerns in Arbitrary Methods; and Others, who being not of that sort, were yet afterwards Rebels to their Sovereign. But as this extraordinary Man was constantly Zealous for the Liberty of his Country, he was every way of a Rare and Unblemisht Character: Qui in ipsis Perdullionis Incunabilis celatam Conjuratorum Perfidiam exosus, Nobis fideliter astitit. After Twenty Years Service to the Crown, and Twelve Years Excile with King Charles II. he return'd with his said Majesty into England, and dyed Master of the Rolls, in July, 1660.
---The peerage of England. A. Collins, 1709.

About Thursday 7 June 1660

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This following from 1662 doesn't sound like a debate over church hierarchy.

"...this I am confident of, That our Presbyterians, take little care of any oaths tending to the safety, and peace of King, and Country; and therefore take what liberty they please to protest, knowing his Majesties mercy is such, that he had rather give them time to repent, for their former wickedness, and perjury, then put a period to their beings by the mode of Trussing; as they had done formerly to many of his most faithful Subjects."
---The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints. H. Foulis, 1662.

About Thursday 7 June 1660

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"Politically". So Sasha, you're saying that the Presbyterians (still) want Parliament to enforce this church structure for the entire country. That's all they want?