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About Plate/Plat

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PLATTS [in a ship] Rope made of Rope Yarn to keep a Cable from galling.
PLATTS [among navigators] Brass Compasse made use of in Map or Charts.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary (20th ed.), 1763

PLAT. A name formerly given to what seamen now call foxes.
FOX. A seizing made by twisting together two or more short lengths of rope yarn with the hand. 'A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way.' (Dana's Seaman's Manual)
---A. Young. Nautical Dictionary, 1863

About Sunday 23 October 1664

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Perhaps SP was using "Mr. Cooper ... one I judge come from sea" to learn more about nautical cable and its uses?

PLATTS [in a ship] Rope made of Rope Yarn to keep a Cable from galling.
PLATTS [among navigators] Brass Compasse made use of in Map or Charts.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary (20th ed.), 1763

PLAT. A name formerly given to what seamen now call foxes.
FOX. A seizing made by twisting together two or more short lengths of rope yarn with the hand. 'A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way.' (Dana's Seaman's Manual)
---A. Young. Nautical Dictionary, 1863

About Thursday 27 October 1664

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"there met with a rub at first"

to RUB
4. to obstruct by collision.
RUB
1. Collision; hindrance; obstruction.
4. Difficulty; cause of uneasiness.
--Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary Of The English Language, 1756.

More Shakespeare:

'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
And that my fortune rubs against the bias.
---Richard II

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
---Henry VIII

We doubt not now
But every rub is smoothed on our way.
---Henry V

About Pollard

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POLLARD, POLLENGER, an old Tree which has been often lop'd.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary, 1734.

About Saturday 29 October 1664

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"it being my Lord Mayor’s show, my boy and three mayds went out"

The King and Queen were present at the banquet. The Intelligencer, 31st Oct., 1664.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Robert Foley

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Thomas Foley, afterwards of Witley Court. He was the grandfather of the first Lord Foley, and died on the 1st October, 1677, aged 59. His portrait is engraved in Nash's History of Worchestershire.
Thomas Foley, afterwards of Witley Court. He was the grandfather of the first Lord Foley, and died on the 1st October, 1677, aged 59. His portrait is engraved in Nash's History of Worchestershire.

---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854

An update to the URL above for the Foley family: https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/…
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Katherine Boynton

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Daughter of Matthew, second son to Sir Matthew Boynton, Bart., of Barnston, Yorkshire. She became the first wife of Richard Talbot, afterwards Duke of Tyrconnel.

---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Duncombe (MP Bury St Edmunds)

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Sir John Duncombe was the son of Sir Edward Duncombe of Battlesden. He was knighted by Charles I. while the king was a prisoner at Carisbrooke Castle. He was M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds in the parliaments of 166o and 1661, and was appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in 1667. In 1672 he became, on the resignation of Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Burnet describes him as "a judicious man, but very haughty, and apt to raise enemies. He was an able Parliament man, but could not go into all the designs of the Court; for he had a sense of religion and a zeal for the liberty of his country" ("Own Time," vol. i., p. 437, ed. 1833).
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.

About Saturday 5 November 1664

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"so with my wife to the Duke’s house to a play, “Macbeth,” a pretty good play"

This was Sir William Davenant's alteration of Shakespeare's play, which was described by Downes "as being in the nature of an opera." Malone says that it was first acted in 1663. It was not printed until 1673
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.

About Philip Herbert (5th Earl of Pembroke)

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HERBERT, PHILIP, fifth Earl Of Pembroke (1619-1669), eldest surviving son of Philip Herbert, fourth earl of Pembroke; M.P., Glamorgan, in Long parliament; succeeded to his father's seat for Berkshire, 1650; president of council of state (June, July), 1652; councillor for trade and navigation, 1660; sold Wilton collections.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Thomas Fuller (a)

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FULLER or FULWAR, THOMAS (1593-1667), archbishop of Cashel, related to Thomas Fuller (1608-1661); disinherited 'for a prodigal'; went to Ireland; bishop of Ardfert, 1641; D.D. Oxford, 1645; archbishop of Cashel, 1661-7.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Edward Cocker

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COCKER, EDWARD (1631-1675), arithmetician; taught writing and arithmetic in London from before 1657 to 1665; a book-collector; published twenty-three manuals of penmanship, 1657-75; published his arithmetic, 1664, which afterwards went through more than a hundred editions; published verses, 1670,1675.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Wednesday 26 October 1664

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"Here I staid above with them while the ship was launched"

On this day there was a meeting of the Royal Society, but the "greatest part of the members were absent, being gone to Woolwich, together with the King and Council and most of the Court, to see the great ship St. Catharine launched" (Birch's "History of the Royal Society," vol. i., p. 477, note).
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.