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About Codlin

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CODLIN, an Apple proper to be coddled or stewed
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Waytes

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WAITS, a sort of wind music.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Sunday 26 July 1663

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“and then went out of the wood, and holloed Mr. Creed, and made him hunt me from place to place”

HALLOO, A word of encouragement when dogs are let loose on their game.
To HALLOO, To cry as after the dogs.
To HALLOO,
1 To encourage with shouts.
2 To chase with shouts.
3 To call or shout.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

Halloo me like a hare.
---Coriolanus. W. Shakespeare

The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.
---Wikipedia

About Saturday 25 July 1663

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Goodman, bon homme. (C’est ainsi qu’on appele ordinairement les Fermiers & autres Paisans qui ont famille.) (It is what one commonly calls the farmers & other peasants who have a family.)
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Saturday 25 July 1663

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“there by direction of one goodman Arthur”

GOODMAN, a Country Appellation for a Master of a Family,
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Joseph Hill

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HILL, JOSEPH (1625-1707), nonconformist divine and lexicographer: fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A., 1649; his name removed for nonconformity, 1662; pastor of Scottish church at Middelburg, Holland, 1667-73, where he published pamphlet advocating English alliance; English presbyterian minister on Haringvliet, Rotterdam, 1678-1707; edited and enlarged Schrevelius's Greek-Latin lexicon, 1663.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Custards

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... Then make a good custard, and pour it over your pie. Make your custard thus. Boil a pint of cream with a stick of cinnamon, and sugar enough to make it a little sweet. As soon as it is cold, put in the yolks of four eggs well beaten, set it on the fire, and keep stirring it till it grows thick; but take care not to let it boil, as that will curdle it. Pour this into your pie, pair thin a little lemon, cut the peel like straws, and lay it on the top of your pies.
---The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook. T. Williams, 1797.

About Cheesecake

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To make common Cheesecakes.
Beat eight eggs well, while a quart of milk is on the fire, and when it boils, put in the eggs, and stir them till they come to a curd. Then pour it out, and when it is cold, put in a little salt, two spoonfuls of rose-water, and three quarters of a pound of currants, well washed. Put it into puff-paste, and bake it. If you use tin patties to bake in, butter them, or you will not be able to take them out; but if you bake them in glass or china, only an upper crust will be necessary, as you will not want to take them out when you send them to table.
---The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook. T. Williams, 1797.

About Mullet

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Mullets.
You may broil them, roast them, boil them, or souse them; when you broil them, put in Butter, Anchovy and Capers; when boil'd, Butter, Lemon and Anchovy; when roasted, Butter, Anchovy, Claret and Juice of Lemon; and when cold, Oil and Vinegar.
---The Compleat City and Country Cook. C. Carter, 1732.

About Monday 20 July 1663

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“to look after some blocks that I saw a load carried off by a cart“

BLOCKS, [in a Ship] are wooden Pullies on which the Running Ropes go.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Saturday 18 July 1663

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“she would say that she had been with all the artists in town”

ARTIST, a Master of any Art, an ingenious Workman.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 14 July 1663

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It appears one does not fox oneself, but is foxed by someone else.

To fox, Enyvrer, faire tant boire quelqu'un qu'il soit soul. [to intoxicate, to make someone drink so he becomes drunk.]
---The Royal Dictionary Abridged … French and English. English and French, 1755.

About Tuesday 14 July 1663

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“I made him almost foxed, the poor man having but a bad head”
[I’m not sure if the proverb helps, perhaps implying that drunks are easy to cheat.]

To FOX ONE, to make him Drunk.
He sets the Fox to keep his Geese.
This Proverb reflects upon the ill Conduct of Men in the Management of their Affairs by entrusting either Sharpers with their Money; Blabs with their Secrets; or Enemies or Informers with their Lives; For no Obligation can bind against Nature; a Fox will love a Goose still, though his Skin be stript over his Ears for it; and a Common Cheat will always follow his old Trade of tricking his Friend, in spite of all Promises and Principles of Honour, Honesty and good Faith.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Churching of women

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The Thanksgiving of Women after CHILD-BIRTH, Commonly called, The Churching of Women.
The Woman at the usual time after her Delivery, shall come into the Church decently apparrelled, and there shall kneel down in some convenient place, as hath been accustomed, or as the Ordinary shall direct: And then the Priest shall say unto her,
Inasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance and hath preserved you in the great danger of Childbirth you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and say, ... [etc, etc.]
---The Book of Common Prayer, 1687

About Blackfriars

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Blackfriars, a church, precinct, and sanctuary with four gates, lying between Ludgate Hill and the Thames and extending westward from Castle Baynard (St. Andrew's Hill) to the Fleet river. It was so called from the house of Black, Preaching, or Dominican Friars, founded by Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, A.D. 1221. Their first London settlement was in Holborn near Lincoln's Inn, where they remained for a period of 55 years. In 1276 they removed to the particular locality near Ludgate which still bears their name, when Gregory Rokesley, Mayor, set apart a piece of ground in the ward of Castle Baynard for their use. Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury, contributed largely to the building of their church, and Edward I. by a Charter granted to the Friars in 1311 confirmed to them the gift of the Archbishop of "two lanes adjoining to his place of Castle Baynard and the Tower of Mountfichet . . . that so they shall not in future be disturbed or molested on the ground of purpresture made as to the lanes aforesaid." He and Queen Eleanor also contributed liberally to the endowment of the house. Edward I. allowed the Friars to pull down the City wall and take in all the land to the west as far as the Fleet river. Moreover the King intimated to the Mayor and citizens his desire that the new wall should be built at the expense of the City...
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Tuesday 7 July 1663

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@SDS, it's wisdom for the ages. Maybe Lyndon Johnson? Or you-know-who. I'm sure our British friends might contribute a few examples. Public virtue often trumps (no pun intended) private vice.

About Tuesday 7 July 1663

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"it is hard for a Prince to spare an experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt"

Wisdom for the ages. I would paraphrase as: it is hard for a Country to spare an experienced old officer, be she never so corrupt.

About Tally

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TALLY, in law, a piece of wood cut in two parts, whereon accounts were antiently kept, by means of notches; one part of the tally being kept by the debtor, and the other by the creditor.

As to the tallies of loans, one part thereof is kept in the exchequer, and the other part given to particular persons in lieu of an obligation for the monies they have lent to the government on acts of parliament. This last part is called the stock, and the former the counter stock, or counter tail.

Tallies of debt, are a kind of acquittance for debt paid to the king, upon the payment of which every debtor receives one of these tallies; and on carrying the same to the clerk of the pipe-office, has an acquittance there given him, on parchment, for his full discharge. Tallies of reward, were an allowance made to sheriffs for such sums as they have cast upon them in their accounts, but cannot levy.
--- A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764