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About Capt. William Berkeley

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William Berkeley (1639-1666), third son of Sir Charles Berkeley of Bruton, second Viscount Fitzharding in the Irish peerage, and younger brother of Charles, Earl of Falmouth. He shared with his brother the favour of the Duke of York. He was Lieutenant of the "Swiftsure," 1662; Captain of the "Bonaventure" in the same year; Captain of the "Bristol," 1663; Captain of the "Resolution," 1664. Knighted October 12th, 1664, and in the following year appointed Rear-Admiral of the Red Squadron, of which Lawson was Vice-Admiral; Lieutenant-Governor of the Town and Garrison of Portsmouth. He was killed in the engagement with the Dutch, June 3rd, 1666. The entry in the Burial Register of Westminster Abbey, August, 1666, runs as follows: "Sir William Bartly, who died honorably in his Majesty's service at sea, and was imbalmed by the Hollanders (who had taken his body with the ship wherein he was slain) and sent over by them into England at the request and charges of his relations, was buried in the North isle of the monuments near the door opening thereto" (Chester's "Westminster Abbey Registers," p. 164).
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Barclay's 'Argenis'

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John Barclay (1582-1621), author of the admirable and once popular romance "Argenis." It is not to the credit of the readers of the present day that the book is now almost forgotten.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Friday 6 November 1663

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“and telling me how there are some projectors, by name Sir Edward Ford, who would have the making of farthings”

PROJECTOR, one who Projects or Contrives any Design.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

PROJECTOR.
1. One who forms schemes or designs.
2. One who forms wild impracticable schemes.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Sir Ellis Leighton

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LEIGHTON, Sir ELISHA (d. 1685), courtier; son of Alexander Leighton (1568-1649); colonel in the royalist army; joined royalist party abroad after Charles I's execution; appointed by Charles secretary for English affairs in Scotland, 1650; knighted, 1659; F.R.S., 1663-77; one of the secretaries of the prize office, 1664; LL.D. Cambridge, 1665; secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1670; recorder of Dublin, 1672.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Henry Killigrew (b)

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KILLIGREW, HENRY (1613-1700), divine; son of Sir Robert Killigrew; educated under Thomas Farnaby; of Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1638; chaplain to the king's army, 1642; D.D., 1642; chaplain and almoner to the Duke of York, 1660; master of the Savoy, 1663; published sermons and Latin verses, and 'The Conspiracy' (play), 1638.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Henry Killigrew (b)

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Henry, youngest son of Sir Robert Killigrew, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster, and Master of the Savoy, and author of some plays and sermons. His daughter Anne was the well known poetess.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About John Rushworth

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RUSHWORTH, JOHN (1612?-1690), historian ; M.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1649; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1647; clerk-assistant to House of Commons, 1640; secretary to general and council of war on organisation of new model army; accompanied Fairfax in campaigns of 1645, 1646, and 1648; secretary to Cromwell, 1650; member of committee for reformation of law, 1652; M.P., Berwick, 1657, 1659, 1660, 1679, and 1681; secretary to council of state, 1660; secretary to lord keeper, 1667; spent last six years of life in king's bench prison. He wrote 'Historical Collections' (to year 1648), which was issued between 1659 and 1701 (8 vols.)
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 9 November 1663

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“Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of”

The plot alluded to is known in Yorkshire by the name of "the Farnley Plot," of which there are many details in Whitaker's "Loidis and Elmet:" Captain Thomas Oates was a conspicuous person in it, but he was not a Discoverer, as he suffered death for his share in the conspiracy. His son was a Discoverer, and hence the mistake, Pepys writing from the vague rumours of the day. The "great Discoverer who did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot," was probably Major Greathead, a Commonwealth officer, whom Oliver Heywood, in his Diaries, calls "that perfidious wretch, guilty of so much blood in the plot business"—a severity of expression in which he did not often allow himself to indulge.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Capt. William Berkeley

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BERKELEY, Sir WILLIAM (1639-1666), vice-admiral; lieutenant, 1661; commander, 1662; rear-admiral of red squadron under Duke of York, 1664; in Channel, 1664-5; lieutenant-governor of Portsmouth, 1665; killed in battle with Dutch off North Foreland.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Capt. John Taylor

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"Peculiar: Warrington thinks..."

As usual, Warrington takes his notes from 1854 edition of Pepys diary.

About Saturday 10 October 1663

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"strong water made of juniper"

We used to keep a distilled spiritous water of juniper in the shops, but the vulgar getting an opinion of its being a pleasant dram, the making of it became the business not only of the apothecary, but of the distiller, who sold it under the name of geneva.
---A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1763

GENEVA. [genevre, French, a juniper berry] A distilled spirituous water, made with no better an ingredient than oil of turpentine ...
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Wednesday 7 October 1663

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" in a spoonfull of Syrrup of Colts foote"

Tussilago, the genus name, is a reference to the reputed ability of Colt's-foot to cure coughs. (The Latin verb Tussere means to cough.) The specific epithet farfara is the ancient Latin name for the wildflower Colt's-foot.
---Wikipedia

About Wednesday 30 September 1663

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[Scottish comedian] RONNIE Corbett, who has died aged 85 [31 March 2016], was one of Scotland’s biggest showbusiness stars, although not in the literal sense of course. He was five feet and one and a half inches, which he liked to point out was half an inch taller than Samuel Pepys and meant that he would have towered over Charlotte Bronte.
---heraldscotland

About Edward Proger

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Edward Progers, younger son of Colonel Philip Progers, equerry to James I., was page to Charles I., and afterwards groom of the bedchamber to his son the Prince of Wales. He was banished from Charles II.'s presence in 1650 by an act of the estates of Scotland, "as an evil instrument and bad counsellor of the king." He died poor on January 1st, 1713-14, aged ninety-six. He is mentioned in the Grammont Memoirs as the confidant of the king's intrigues.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Monday 26 October 1663

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“he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now”

Leopold I., the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640. He became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in which year he received the imperial crown. The Princes of the German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in the diet at Ratisbon.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Friday 23 October 1663

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“ the young couple that was married yesterday, and he one of the Br[ide’s] men, a kinswoman (Brumfield) of the Joyces married to an upholster.”

"Philip Harman, of St. Michael, Cornhill, gent., bachelor, about 27, and Mary Bromfeild, of St. Sepulchre, London, spinster, about 20, consent of parents — at Little St. Bartholomew, London, 21 Oct., 1663" (Chester's "London Marriage Licences," ed. Foster, 1887, col. 627).
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Tuesday 13 October 1663

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"So it was carried to Mrs. Sarah’s husband’s”

Lord Sandwich's housekeeper appears to have been married to a cook, but we do not know his name, as his wife is always described as "Mrs. Sarah."
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Tuesday 13 October 1663

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"she answered, “Zounds!"

And this puts me in mind of taking notice here of other contracted Forms of Swearing that are us'd among us, as if there was no manner of Hurt or Evil in them. And such are these, 'Od or Ad, that is in short, By God; 'Od's Bud or 's Bud, that is short, By God's Blood; 'Od's Wounds or 'Swounds, that is, By God's Wounds;
---A letter to a friend, concerning the great sin of taking God's name in vain. E. Wells, 1714.

About Tuesday 13 October 1663

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“I begin to become costive and bound”

COSTIVE, Bound in the Belly.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.