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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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About Saturday 4 July 1663
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“upon the standards written these four letters — S.P.Q.R.”
S.P.Q.R. Senatus Populusque Romanus. L. The Senate and People of Rome.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.
About Wednesday 24 June 1663
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“and will be contented to cog, and lie, and flatter”
To COG, to sooth up or flatter, to cheat at Dice play
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.
About Touse
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TOUZE or TOUZLE, To rumple, tumble, pull about, throw down, to be rude, or over familiar with a Woman.
---A new general English dictionary. T. Dyche, 1735.
About Tabby
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TABBYING, the passing a silk or stuff under a calender, the rolls of which are made of iron or copper, variously engraven, which bearing unequally on the stuff renders the surface thereof unequal, so as to reflect the rays of light differently, making the representation of waves thereon.
---A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764.
About Tuesday 23 June 1663
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'so I beat him, and then went up to fetch my rope’s end"
Wayneman was beat by Sam with a rope's end a month ago (24 April). No wonder he fled. Another term for "rope's end" is salt eel: http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
About Monday 24 August 1663
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Here is another series of prints by Dirk Stoop, 1662. The first is titled: "The Entrance of the Lord Ambassador Mountague into the Citty of Lisbone." http://www.britishmuseum.org/rese…
About Monday 24 August 1663
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"There come to him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of Lisbon, which he measured with his own hand, and printed by command of the King."
As annotated by Michael Robinson, this was a print by "Dirk Stoop (commemorating the Catherine – Charles marriage)"
Here is a Dirk Stoop print of Lisbon dedicated to Catherine of Braganza, dated 1662, and includes a guide to more prints in the series: http://www.britishmuseum.org/rese…
About Cucumbers
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?'
---Meditations. Marcus Aurelius.
About Popinjay Alley
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On TerryF's map above, Popping's Alley is the second thoroughfare on the north side of Fleet Street from the Fleet Bridge.
About Popinjay Alley
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Now Poppin's Court, the first thoroughfare (under an archway) on the north side of Fleet Street from Ludgate Circus. Hatton (1708) calls it Poppin's Alley, and on Strype's map (1720) it appears as Popinjay Court.
---Wheatley, 1893.
Dodsley, 1761, mentions a Cockpit Alley leading out of it, and the turning next to it is still called Racket Court. It appears to have been a neighbourhood devoted to manly sports; but recently a restaurant called "The Popinjay" has been built at the corner of the court, and a legend inscribed on the front which asserts that on the site stood the inn of a religious fraternity whose crest was the popinjay. The north end of Poppin's Court was cut off in 1870 in forming the new street from Holborn Circus to Ludgate Circus.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.
About Lion Quay
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Lion Key, Lower Thames Street.
Next to this [Billingsgate] is Sommer's Key, which took that name of one Sommer dwelling there, as did Lion Key of one Lion, owner thereof, and since of the sign of a Lion.
--Stow, p. 78.
When the Duchess of Suffolk escaped from Bishop Gardiner's persecution she, after much difficulty, took boat from Lion Key—
The Duchess of Suffolk seeing this,
Whose life likewise the tyrant sought
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For fear of death was fain to fly,
And leave her house most secretly.
--Duchess of Suffolk's Calamity.
Okey, the regicide, was a chandler at this quay. When James, Duke of York (James II.), on the night of April 20, 1648, made his escape from St. James's Palace, he put on women's clothes in the house of one Loe, a surgeon, near London Bridge; and, attended by Bamfield and his footman, went "to Lyon Key, where there waited a barge of four oars, into which they entered, and so went down the river, the tide serving for the purpose."
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.
About Tuesday 11 August 1663
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“This day I am told that my Lord Bristoll hath warrants issued out against him, to have carried him to the Tower”
George Digby, second Earl of Bristol, was very vindictive against Clarendon, and when he failed in his attack on that minister Charles II. was very angry, and Bristol had to retire from Court and remain in concealment for a time. The Proclamation was dated August 25th, 1663. A copy of it is in the British Museum.
---Wheatley, 1893.
About Monday 10 August 1663
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"my Lord Bristoll is either fled or concealed himself; having been sent for to the King, it is believed to be sent to the Tower, but he is gone out of the way"
The following annotation gives David Hume's interpretation of this affair:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
About George Gifford
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The Rev. George Gifford was rector of St. Dunstan's in the East from 1661 till his death in 1686.
---Wheatley, 1893.
About Wednesday 26 August 1663
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“I thank God I hear every where, that my name is up for a good husband for the King”
HUSBAND ...
3. An oeconomist; a man that knows and practises the methods of frugality and profit.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.
About Sunday 23 August 1663
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“but gadding abroad as she has been all this afternoon”
To GAD, to ramble, rove, range, or straggle about.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.
About Thursday 13 August 1663
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Moreland's letter to Tenison that Terry mentions ("The autobiography of Samuel Morland, in a letter addressed to Archbishop Tenison) can be found in "A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England" on page 116. https://books.google.com/books?id…
About Sir Arthur Slingsby
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A younger son of Sir Guildford Slingsby, Comptroller of the Navy, knighted by Charles II., and afterwards created a Baronet at Brussells, 1657, which title has long been extinct.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
About Suzanne Morland (Lady Morland)
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Susanne de Milleville, daughter of Daniel de Milleville, Baron of Boessen, in France, naturalized 1662. Sir Samuel Morland survived a second and a third wife, both buried in Westminster Abbey.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
About Monday 10 August 1663
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“Sir J. Lenthall, in Southwarke, did apprehend about one hundred Quakers”
Sir John Lenthall was the elder brother of Speaker Lenthall, and uncle of the person of the same name, mentioned in the Diary, May, 21, 1660. He had been knighted as early as 1616, and was Marshal of the Marshalsea; and, in 1655, was placed in the Commission of the Peace for Surrey, by a special vote of the House of Commons, which explains his crusade against the Quakers. He died in 1668.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.