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About Sunday 9 August 1663

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Since today is particularly heavy in Robert Gertz, I thought I would alert his fans (and I'm certainly one of them) that he did not fade away after the first iteration of the diary! He continues giving us valuable background information in "The Secret Diaries of Samuel Pepys." The last installment was 5 months ago. Who knew?

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About Sir Edward Ford

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FORD, Sir EDWARD (1605-1670), royalist soldier and inventor; educated at Trinity College, Oxford; knighted, 1643; surrendered Arundel Castle after seventeen days' siege, 1644; imprisoned and incapacitated; escaped to the continent; returned to negotiate with the army, 1647; again imprisoned; devised an engine for raising the Thames water into the higher streets of London, 1656; with Thomas Toogood constructed other water-engines; died in Ireland, where he had a patent for coining farthings by a new process.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir Edward Ford

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Sir Edward Ford, of Harting, Sussex, Sheriff for that county, and Governor of Arundel Castle in 1642. Ob. 1670. His only daughter married Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Werke. He was the author of a tract, entitled, "Experimental Proposals how the King may have money to pay and maintain his Fleets, with ease to his people: London may be rebuilt, and all proprietors satisfied: money to be but at six per cent, on pawns, and the Fishing Trade set up, which alone is able, and sure to enrich us all. And all this without altering, straining, or thwarting, any of our Laws, or Customs, now in use." 4to. 1666.—Repr. Harl. Miscell., iv., 195. Ford was High Sheriff of Sussex, adhered to Charles I., and was knighted in 1643. In 1658, he laid down pipes to supply parts of London with water from the Thames. The second and third Lords Braybrooke descend, in the female line, from his daughter, Catherine Ford, who married Ralph, Lord Grey of Werke, their maternal ancestor.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About John Thurloe

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THURLOE, JOHN (1616-1668), secretary of state; studied law at Lincoln's Inn and entered the service of Oliver St. John (1598?-1673); filled several posts, and was made secretary to the council of state, 1652; took important part in raising Cromwell to the Protectorate; M.P., Ely, 1654 and 1656, Cambridge University, 1659; given charge of intelligence and postal departments, and made member of the council; acted with great vigilance and success; spokesman of the government in parliament; one of those with whom Cromwell was wont to 'lay aside his greatness,' but had little influence on his policy; desired Cromwell to accept the crown; was opposed to the military faction; governor of the Charterhouse, 1657; chancellor of Glasgow University, 1658; supported government of Richard Cromwell; accused of arbitrary government by the republican and royal opposition; relieved of his functions on restoration of Long parliament, 1659, but reappointed secretary of state on readmission of secluded members, 1660; accused of high treason at the Restoration, but liberated. His vast correspondence is the chief authority for the history of the Protectorate; seven volumes were published in 1742.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Friday 18 September 1663

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" a fine church and library, where sundry very old abbey manuscripts; and a fine house, built on the church ground by Secretary Thurlow, and a fine gallery built for him in the church”

Watson, in his History of Wisbeach, p. 239, names some of the printed books in the library there, but does not mention any of the MSS. Secretary Thurloe's gallery had been erected at the expense of the Corporation, out of gratitude to him for many services rendered to the town. It is now used for the general accommodation of the inhabitants.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Friday 4 September 1663

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"a Proclamation for calling in and commanding every body to apprehend my Lord Bristoll."

Dated 25th August, 1663. A copy of it is in the British Museum.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Roger L'Estrange

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L'ESTRANGE, SIR ROGER (1616-1704), tory journalist and pamphleteer; probably studied at Cambridge; formed a plan to recapture Lynn; seized by the parliament and imprisoned, 1644-8; projected a royalist rising in Kent; had to flee to Holland; employed while abroad by Hyde in service of Charles II; returned to England, 1653; published broadsides attacking Lambert and the leaders of the army, 1659; wrote pamphlets in favour of monarchy, 1660, and to show that the presbyterians were responsible for the wars and the king's death, 1661-2; advocated a more stringent censorship of the press, 1663; appointed surveyor of printing presses and a licenser of the press, 1663; issued the 'Intelligencer' and ‘The News,' 1663-6; encouraged, perhaps projected, 'The City Mercury, or Advertisements concerning trade,' 1675; published pamphlets to meet Shaftesbury's attack on Charles II and his government, 1679; adversely criticised the evidence for a supposed popish plot, 1680; J.P. for Middlesex, 1680; had to flee the country owing to the hostility of the promoters of the alleged popish plot; returned to England, 1681; attacked dissenters and whigs in his periodical 'The Observator,' 1681-7; M.P., Winchester, 1685; knighted, 1685; deprived of his office of surveyor and licenser of the press at the revolution and imprisoned in 1688,1691, and 1695-6. Besides his pamphlets and periodicals, he issued, among other things, ‘The Fables of AEsop and other eminent Mythologists, with Moral Reflections,' 1692 (the most extensive collection of fables in existence), and 'The Works of Flavius Josephus compared with the Original Greek,' 1702, also translating 'Quevedo's Visions,' 1667.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Roger L'Estrange

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Roger L'Estrange, author of numerous pamphlets and periodical papers. He was ... Licenser of the Press to Charles II. and his successor, and M.P. for Winchester in James II.'s Parliament. Ob. 1704, aged 88.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 2 September 1663

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“the building of St. James’s by my Lord St. Albans”

St. Albans Street and Market, on the north side of Pall Mall, removed for the Regent Street improvements. Jermyn Street, St. James's, also takes its name from him.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Thursday 6 August 1663

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"a daughter of Mr. Brumfield’s, black, but well-shaped and modest"

A black woman, Une noiraude, (for rather) une femme qui a les cheveux noirs, une brune. [A swarthy woman, (or rather) a woman with black hair, A brown haired woman.]
---The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... French and English. 1755.

About Touse

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Take him hence.
To the rack with him. - We'll touze you joint by joint,
But we will know this purpose.
Measure for Measure. W. Shakespeare.

About Wednesday 5 August 1663

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Buxom, As, a buxom Wife, femme douce, de bonne humeur.
Buxomness, bonne humeur.
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Wednesday 5 August 1663

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“as wanton and bucksome as she is”

BUXOM, flexible; Also amorous, wanton, merry, jolly.
BUXOMNESS, Lowliness, Submission.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,
And of buxom valour…
Henry V. W. Shakespeare.

About Tuesday 4 August 1663

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“the woman that speaks in the belly”

VENTRILOQUIST, a Person who speaks inwardly, or as it were from the Belly; as those who are possessed with an evil Spirit.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

There was one Honeyman, a blacksmith, who was famous for speaking, as if his voice proceeded from some distant part of the house; a ventriloquist, or speaker from his belly, as these persons are called.
---A New and General Biographical Dictionary. 1784.

About Monday 3 August 1663

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“we conjured him to look after the yard”

CONJURATION, a Plot or Conspiracy; Also a Personal dealing with the Devil or Evil Spirits.
To CONJURE, to adjure, to charge upon Oath; to conspire or plot together; to practise Conjuration, to raise or lay Spirits.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Friday 31 July 1663

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“we reading of a merry book against the Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty”

To WIT, to know.
WIT, one of the Faculties of the rational Soul; Genius, Fancy, aptness for any Thing, Cunningness.
WITTY, full of Wit.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Wednesday 29 July 1663

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“I believe the most that is fit for us to condescend to, will not content her friends”

To CONDESCEND, to comply, submit, or yield to.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.