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About Friday 22 May 1663

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A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the honour of riches, being the measure of honours / done by a person of quality. (1663) Paperback – January 2, 2011
by Person of quality (Author)

Of course, these days everything is available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/vindication…

About Wednesday 20 May 1663

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Pembleton has been around twice today?! The man is even starting to get on my nerves.

About Friday 15 May 1663

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Gerald, good question about "my". But it was widely used as these few examples from Shakespeare attest.

my lord
my lords
my lord fool
my good lord
my sweet lord
my gracious lord
my good sweet honey lord
my noble lord
my lady
my liege
my sovereign liege
my sweet creature of bombast
my learn'd lord cardinal
my good lord cardinal

About Bowling alley (Whitehall Palace)

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Bowling Alley, now Bowling Street, leading from Dean's Yard to Tufton Street, Westminster. Colonel Blood, who stole the Crown from the Tower in the reign of Charles II., died (August 24, 1680) in a house at the south-west corner of this alley, and was buried in the adjoining churchyard of the New Chapel, Tothill Fields. But so numerous had been his tricks that after the funeral many people began to suspect that the real Colonel Blood had never died at all. The coffin was taken up, and opened before the coroner and jury, and the corpse was identified by the extraordinary size of one of the thumbs. The house, of course, is no longer the same; but drawings of it exist. In the Overseer's Books of St. Margaret's parish for 1565 the "Myll next to Bowling Alley" is rated.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Wednesday 16 May 1660

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Quite right John, this was early days here for me, I mostly do better now. But links into the encyclopedia, which shouldn't be avoided, will give similar spoilers.

About Saturday 16 May 1663

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And I should add:

To REQUITE. To repay; to retaliate good or ill; to recompense.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Saturday 16 May 1663

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“For which I deserve to be beaten if not really served as I am fearful of being”

(This may be the meaning Sam intends)
To SERVE. ...
15 To requite: as, he served me ungratefully.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About John Belasyse

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BELASYSE, JOHN, Baron Belasyse (1614-1689), royalist; created baron, 1645; fought for Charles I in many engagements; after Restoration, appointed lord-lieutenant of East Riding, governor of Hull, and, subsequently governor of Tangier; first lord commissioner of treasury, 1687.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Friday 15 May 1663

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“No care is observed to be taken of the main chance”

To look to the main chance, prendre garde à ses affaires. [to heed his business]
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Thursday 14 May 1663

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“which hath a great deal of labour in it for country innocent work”

INNOCENT, Guiltless, inoffensive, harmless; Also silly, simple.
An INNOCENT, an half-witted Person, an ideot.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 12 May 1663

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“so after supper I staid him all night”

To STAY … 3. To keep from departure .
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Plate/Plat

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PLATTS, [among Navigators] Brass Compasses made use of in Maps or Charts.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Pieces of eight

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A Table of Coins, Gold, Silver and Brass ...
Royals of Eight. 4(s).5(d)
---A Large Dictionary. T. Holyoke, 1677.

(This was a silver coin, BTW)

About Monday 11 May 1663

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"the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at 4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d." (Sam and Creed seem to have gotten this valuation right.)

A Table of Coins, Gold, Silver and Brass ...
Royals of Eight. 4(s).5(d)
---A Large Dictionary. T. Holyoke, 1677.

About Monday 11 May 1663

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“to see in what a maze I was”

MAZE, Astonishment, Perplexity.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 12 May 1663

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“the folly of our two doting knights”

A DOTARD, a doting Fellow.
To DOTE, to grow dull, senseless or stupid.
To DOTE UPON, to be very fond of.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Nonsuch House, Surrey

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Nonsuch Palace was commenced by Henry VIII., and finished by the Earl of Arundel. From Lord Arundel Nonsuch passed to Lord Lumley, who subsequently sold it to Queen Elizabeth. James I. settled the palace and park on Anne of Denmark, as did Charles I. on Henrietta Maria. At the Restoration the palace was restored to the Queen Dowager. During the plague year of 1665 the house was fitted up for the offices of the Exchequer, and in 1670 it was granted by Charles II. to the Duchess of Cleveland, who pulled down the palace, and converted the park into farms.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Saturday 25 July 1663

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“When I came to Mr. Gauden’s one first thing was to show me his house, which is almost built”
(Expanding on Michael Robinson’s annotation above.)

Mr. (afterwards Sir Dennis) Gauden was living at Clapham in 1655. The house mentioned in the text had its principal front facing the common, and an avenue from Wits' Lane led to another front. After Gauden's death the house was bought by William Hewer, and here Pepys died. It was pulled down about 1762, and on its site was built The Elms, sometime the residence of the late Sir Charles Barry, R.A.
---Wheatley, 1893.