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About Thomas Smith

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That information about Thomas Smith is from Wheatley, 1893. Sorry.

About Thomas Smith

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Thomas Smith, … Secretary of the Admiralty in 1638, about which time Sir George Carteret (then Captain Carteret) held the office of Comptroller of the Navy.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Hypocras

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The wines of this period being more or less harsh and acid, it became customary to mix spices, sugar, and honey with them, which, under the name of 'piments,' were drunk as liqueurs now are. A banquet without piment would have wanted its greatest essential; indeed, it was considered such a luxury that the clergy were forbidden to taste it except on high holidays. The two favourite piments were hypocras and clarry. The first was made of red or white wine, mixed with ginger, cinnamon, grains, sugar, and turesoll, if intended for the nobility and gentry; common people being contented with ginger, long pepper, and clarified honey. It derived its name from being strained through a particular shaped bag called 'Hippocrates's sleeve.' Hypocras was drunk between the courses, or at the termination of the banquet, besides being often served with biscuits, only as a light morning-refection.
---Chambers's Journal, v.33. 1860.

About Hypocras

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This beverage was taken in France as a morning draught.—Southey's Common-Place Book.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Monday 26 October 1663

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“did say that he was a sot”

SOT, one who is void of Wit or Sense, a blockish dull Fellow; also a Drunkard.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About James Touchet (3rd Earl of Castlehaven)

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TOUCHET, JAMES, Baron Audley of Hely or Heleigh, third Earl of Castlehaven (1617?-1684), eldest son of second earl; instrumental in bringing his father to justice for unnatural offences, 1631; created Baron Audley of Hely, 1633, forfeited by his father for felony; travelled to Rome; joined Charles I at Berwick, 1639; offered his services to government on outbreak of Irish rebellion, 1641, but his offer declined, he being a Roman catholic; hesitated to join Ormonde at battle of Kilrush, 1642, and was imprisoned on charge of high treason; escaped and joined army of confederate catholics, and performed brilliant and useful services; promoted cessation in Ireland; present at siege and rendition of Duncannon, 1645, but failed to take Youghal; joined Ormonde on refusal of O'Neill and nuncio to accept peace made with the confederates, 1646, and advised making terms with parliament rather than the council; fought under Prince Rupert at Landrecies; attended Charles I's queen and the prince of Wales at St. Germain; returned with Ormonde to Ireland, 1648; appointed general of the horse to reduce fortresses holding out for O'Neill, 1649; shared Ormonde's defeat at Rathmines, 1649; threw fifteen hundred men into Wexford and forced Ireton to raise siege of Duncannon; appointed commander of Leinster forces; captured Athy, 1650, but failed to relieve Tecroghan; on departure of Ormonde became commander-in-chief of Munster and Clare, but failed to prevent progress of Cromwell's forces or capitulation of Limerick, 1651; left for France; served under Conde at tight in Faubourg St.-Antoine; taken prisoner by Turenne at Comercy; commanded an Irish regiment in Spanish service and took part in various sieges, and (1658) in battle of the Dunes; returned to England at Restoration; served in several naval actions against the Dutch, 1665-7, and landed two thousand four hundred recruits at Ostend; present at battle of Senef, 1674; commanded Spanish foot, 1676; served at Maastricht and Charleroi, and was present at battle before Mons, 1678; published 'Memoirs,' 1680.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir Francis Prujean

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Vertue (according to Horace Walpole) had seen a portrait of Dr. Prujean, painted by Streater, and a print of "Opinion sitting on a tree," thus inscribed - Viro clariss. Dno. Francisco Prujeano Medico, omnium bonarum artium et elegantiarum Fautori at admiratori summo; D.D. D.H. Peacham."

Vertue saw a picture, which he commends, of a Dr. Prujean, in his gown and long hair, one hand on a death's head, and the other on some books, with this inscription, Amicitiae ergo pinxit Rob. Streater.
---Anecdotes of Painting in England. Horace Walpole, 1762.

Prujean collection: Sir Francis Prujean was an eminent London doctor who was president of the College of Physicians from 1650 to 1654. The RCP has a small group of objects associated with Prujean: a portrait by Robert Streater from 1662, a silver fluted dish engraved with the coats of arms of Sir Francis Prujean and his second wife, and Prujean’s chest of surgical instruments.
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/…

Robert Streeter: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Sir Francis Prujean

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PRUJEAN, Sir FRANCIS (1593-1666), physician; M.D. Caius College, Cambridge, 1625; practised in London from 1638; president R.C.P., 1650-4; knighted, 1661.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Tuesday 20 October 1663

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"And that the King do seem to take it much to heart, for that he hath wept before her"

He that was never known to mourn,
So many kingdoms from him torn,
His tears reserved for you, more dear,
More prized, than all those kingdoms were!
For when no healing art prevailed,
When cordials and elixirs failed,
On your pale cheek he dropped the shower,
Revived you like a dying flower.
---TO THE QUEEN, UPON HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, AFTER HER HAPPY RECOVERY FROM A DANGEROUS SICKNESS. Edmund Waller, 1663

About Monday 19 October 1663

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“It seems she was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to have the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about it that the doctors were angry.”

"I have heard they put on the Queen's head, when shee was sick, a nightcap of some sort of precious relick to recover her, and gave her extreme unction; and that my Lord Aubignie told her she must impute her recoverie to these. Shee answered not, but rather to the prayers of her husband."—Ward's Diary, p. 98.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 17 October 1663

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"The condition of the Queen is much worse, and the physicians give us but little hopes of her recovery; by the next you will hear that she is either in a fair way to it, or dead. To-morrow is a very critical day with her—God's will be done. The King coming to see her the [this] morning, she told him she willingly left all the world but him, which hath very much afflicted his Majesty, and all the court with him."—Lord Arlington to the Duke of Buckingham, Whitehall, 17th Oct, 1663. (Brown's Miscellanea Aulica, p. 306.)
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 17 October 1663

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“ Here we had some discourse of the Queen’s being very sick, if not dead”

The Queen's illness was first noticed in The Intelligencer on the 13th October, but Pepys did not hear of it till the 17th. The bulletins of her Majesty's health continued till 15th November.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About George Lane (1st Viscount Lanesborough)

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One of the Clerks of the Privy Council, and Secretary to the Marquis of Ormond. He became Viscount Lanesborough.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Terrella

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...but more interesting to us is his [Christopher Wren's] arrangement of a huge terrella in an opening in a flat board "till it be like a globe with the poles in the horizon." This board he dusted over with steel filings "equally from a sieve" and then studied the curves of the filings as they delineated the magnetic spectrum. Sprat tells us that he found that "the lines of the directive virtue of the lodestone" are "oval" and that appears to have been another recognition of "lines" of directive virtue—a conception curiously similar to Faraday's lines of magnetic force.
---A History of Electricity. P. Benjamin, 1895.

About Terrella

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Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella):
The name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise, " De Magnete" (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles pointing to its poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of the earth.
The term was adopted by other writers who followed Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe's " Magneticall Aduertisements" (Lond. 1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an exceeding small model (as it were) the admiral properties magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" {op. cit., p. 55).
Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass. In his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella twenty-seven inches in diamater, of loadstone from Elba, constructed for Cosmo de' Medici. A smaller one contrived by Sir Christopher Wren was long preserved in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew's "Rarities belonging to the Royal Society," p. 364). Evelyn was shown "a pretty terrella described with all ye circles and shewing all ye magnetic deviations" (Diary, July 3rd, 1655).
---Wheatley, 1893.

Most portraits of Gilbert on the interwebz crop out the terrella. This one doesn’t: https://www.plasma-universe.com/F…

About Tuesday 8 September 1663

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"we had a good pie baked of a leg of mutton"

A Mutton Pye.
Season your Stakes with Nutmeg, Pepper, and Salt; fill the Pye; lay on Butter, and close it: When 'tis bak'd, toss up a Handful of chopp'd Capers, Cucumbers, and Oysters in Gravy, and an Anchovy, and drawn Butter, and pour in.
---Court Cookery. R. Smith, 1725

About Joseph Moxon

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MOXON, JOSEPH (1627-1700), hydrographer and mathematician; visited Holland; settled in London, 1657; sold mathematical and geographical instruments and maps; nominated hydrographer to the king, 1660; published 'Mechanick Exercises,' 1678, and works on astronomy, geography, architecture, mathematics, and typography.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Black Spread Eagle (Bride Lane)

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A miscellany on the phrase "black spread eagle" cobbled together from the interwebz.
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The coat of arms and the banner of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation shows a black spread eagle on a golden base which was deduced from the aquila of the roman legions. These military ensigns of the Roman military consisted of a vertical pole and a cross-bar on its top, on which a spread eagle was attached.

Since reunification in 1990, the federal eagle has once again been the emblem of the whole of Germany. The official government and naval version [of the German flag] has a gold shield in the centre with a black spread-eagle.

Number 56 Lombard Street was known as The Black Spread Eagle as early as 1672. By 1702 the premises were occupied by Messrs Freame & Gould; in 1728 Mr Freame was joined in partnership by James Barclay and the firm evolved into the Barclays Bank we know today. The Spread Eagle has remained the Barclays logo ever since, albeit with some small alterations including a change of colour to blue in the 1960s.

British Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Black Spread Eagle' (1665)
http://threedecks.org/index.php?d…
http://www.royal-navy.org/hms-bla…

There are two possible sources accounting for the sign of the Black Spread Eagle. ... In the first place it occurs in the arms of the Scriveners' Company (1616), and this circumstance will no doubt account for its association with Milton the poet. For when his grandfather, a zealous Roman Catholic, disinherited his son (Milton's father) for becoming a Protestant, the latter was obliged to quit his studies at Oxford, and settle in London as a scrivener. And at the Spredd Eagle in Bread Street, a sign probably adopted by Milton pere to signify his profession, John Milton was born. Black Spread Eagle Court seems to have got its name from this sign. Nos. 58 and 59 to No. 63, Bread Street are occupied by one firm, who possess on the top floor a bust of the poet, with an inscription stating that the house stands on the site of that which saw Milton's birth.
It was probably as a scrivener's sign that the Black Spread Eagle had its origin, which served to distinguish the shop of J. Hardesty, Duck Lane, in 1652.
In 1642 Alice Norton printed at the Black Spread Eagle for Humphry Tuckey or Tucker. In 1664 Tucker himself was here, and sold "Alexacarius or Spirits of Salts," prepared by Constantine Rodocares.
Black Spread Eagle Alley, in Blackman Street, Southwark, in Kent Street, in Turnmill Street, and Black Spread Eagle Court in Finch Lane, owed their names to this sign, which is also mentioned in the Calendar of State Papers.
There were other Black Spread Eagles: one, a goldsmith's (Francis Spilsbury), in Foster Lane, Cheapside; another, "within six Doors of Somerset-House in the Strand"; in the Old Bailey; and in Turnmill Street.
---The Antiquary, v.44, 1908.