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Second Reading

About William Godolphin

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Sir William Godolphin, Baronet, had 1200l. per annum out of the fee-farm rents, and governor of Scilly Island.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Sir Charles Harbord (sen.)

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Sir Charles Harbord, surveyor general, has got 100000l. of the king and kingdom; he was formerly a solicitor of Staples Inn, till his lewdness and poverty brought him to court.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Sir Jonathan Trelawny (Comptroller to the Duke of York, 1668-74)

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Sir Jonathan Trelawney, Baronet, one that is known to have sworn himself into 4000l. at least in his account of the prize-office, controller to the Duke, and has got in gratuities to the value of 10000l. besides what he is promised for being an informer.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Thomas Chicheley

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Sir Thomas Chichley, master of the ordnance, and has had 2000l. given him, and the reversion of his place to his son.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Sir Thomas Hatton (2nd Baronet)

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Sir Thomas Hatton, a man of no estate but his pension.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Robert Sawyer

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Sir Robert Sawyer, a lawyer of as ill reputation as his father, has had for his attendance this session 1000l. and is promised (as he insinuates) to be attorney general, and speaker of the House of Commons.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, [1677] 1776.

About Richard Aldworth (Auditor of the Revenue in the Exchequer)

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Richard Aldsworth, Esquire, auditor in the Exchequer, which is worth 400l. per annum; he is also the Archbishops secretary, and has got by boones, at several times, 3000l.
---A Seasonable Argument ... for a New Parliament. Andrew Marvell, 1776.

About Sunday 19 April 1663

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"Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit" redux

Slight spoiler alert. On June 12, this year, Sam will write:
"This morning I tried on my riding cloth suit with close knees, the first that ever I had; and I think they will be very convenient, if not too hot to wear any other open knees after them."

The phrase "open knees" makes me think the suit stopped at the knee (close to the knee?) and then stockings all the way down. Here is a website about Pepys and his clothes with a few pictures. Maddeningly it mentions his suit with "closed knees" with no further comment!

http://www.fashion-era.com/englis…

About Sunday 19 April 1663

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"and new gilt-handled sword"

"and in Fleet Street bought me a little sword, with gilt handle, cost 23s." Friday 20 March 1662/63.

About Wednesday 15 April 1663

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BILL, [of Lading] is a Deed signed by the Master of a Ship, by which he acknowledges the Receipt of the Merchants Goods, and obliges himself to deliver the same, at the Place to which they are consigned.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Wednesday 15 April 1663

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“and there seeing him I went with him and pitched upon a couple”

To PITCH, to light upon; also to set a Burden upon.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About John Selden

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John Selden, sometimes styled "The great dictator of learning of the English nation," and pronounced by Grotius, his antagonist, to be the glory of it, was a man of as extensive and profound knowledge as any of his age. He was thoroughly skilled in every thing that related to his own profession; but the general bent of his studies was to sacred and profane antiquity. The greater part of his works are on uncommon subjects. Like a man of genius, he was not content with walking in the beaten track of learning, but was for striking out new paths, and enlarging the territories of science. His "History of Tithes" gained him more enemies than any of his works, and his "Mare clausum usum" did him the most honour. Towards the close of his life, he saw the emptiness of all human learning; and owned, that out of the numberless volumes he had read and digested, nothing stuck so close to his heart, or gave him such solid satisfaction, as a single passage out of St. Paul's Epistles. [Titus 2:11-14] Ob. 30 Nov. 1654, and was buried on the south side of the round walk in the Temple church. His works were published in three volumes, folio, by Dr. David Wilkins, 1725.
---A Biographical History of England. J. Granger, 1824.

About Friday 1 May 1663

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“and there put up my own dull jade”

A JADE, a sorry Horse, which will not go without much spurring; also a sorry base Woman, a lewd Wench, a Strumpet.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Richard Baxter

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BAXTER, RICHARD (1615-1691), presbyterian divine; taught by Richard Wickstead, chaplain to council at Ludlow; after brief experience of court-life, studied for ministry at Wroxeter; was ordained and became head-master of a school at Dudley, 1638; assistant minister at Bridgnorth, Shropshire; lecturer at Kidderminster, 1641; sided with parliament and recommended the 'protestation,' 1642; retired to Gloucester and thence to Coventry, where he officiated as chaplain to garrison; chaplain to Colonel Whalley's regiment after 1645, and present at several sieges; returned to Kidderminster after living in retirement, where he wrote 'Aphorisms of Justification' (1649) and the 'Saint's Everlasting Rest' (1650): came to London, 1660; one of the king's chaplains; prepared the 'Reformed Liturgy' for Savoy conference; retired from church of England on passing of Act of Uniformity; suffered much ill-treatment under Charles II and James II; imprisoned, 1685-6, and fined by Judge Jeffreys on charge of libelling the church in his 'Paraphrase of New Testament' (1685); complied with Toleration Act. His numerous writings include 'Reliquiae Baxterianae,' an autobiography.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thomas Case (a)

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CASE, THOMAS (1598-1682), presbyterian divine; educated at Canterbury and Merchant Taylors' School; student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1616; M.A., 1623; curate at North Repps, Norfolk; incumbent of Erpingham, Norfolk; preacher at Manchester and Salford, 1635; prosecuted for contempt of church ceremonies in both dioceses (Norwich and Chester); married into an influential family, 1637; lecturer in several London churches, 1641-2; member of the Westminster assembly, 1643; intruded rector of Stockport, Cheshire, 1645-6; ejected by parliament from the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, 1649; imprisoned as privy to the presbyterian plot to recall Charles II, 1651; rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, 1652?; deputed by presbyterians to congratulate Charles II at the Hague, 1660; chaplain to Charles II; member of the Savoy conference, 1661; ejected for nonconformity, 1662; published sermons.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Stephen Marshall

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MARSHALL, STEPHEN (1594?-1655), presbyterian divine; son of a poor Huntingdonshire glover; M.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1622; B.D., 1629; vicar of Finchingfield, Essex; reported for 'want of conformity,' 1636; a great preacher; influenced elections for Short parliament, 1640, and delivered series of eloquent sermons before the Commons of great political influence; advocated liturgical and episcopal reform; supported ministers ‘petition' and 'remonstrance,' 1641, and wrote with other divines 'Smectymnuus,' 1641; supported bill for abolishing episcopacy, 1641; appointed preacher at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1642; chaplain to regiment of third Earl of Essex, 1642; summoned to Westminster Assembly, 1643; sent to Scotland and took part in discussions with Scottish delegates; waited on Laud before execution, 1645; attended Uxbridge conference, 1645; parliamentary commissioner at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1647; chaplain to the king at Holmby House and in the Isle of Wight; prepared with others the 'shorter catechism,' 1647; town preacher at Ipswich, 1651 ; commissioner to draw up 'fundamentals of religion,' 1653; a 'trier,' 1654; buried in Westminster Abbey, but exhumed at Restoration. His sermons, especially the funeral sermon for Pym, 1643, helped to guide the course of events, and his influence was esteemed by Clarendon greater than that of Laud's on the other side.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 20 April 1663

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“there being the prints ... and brave cutts“

CUT ...
9. A picture cut or carved upon a stamp of wood or copper, and impressed from it.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Sunday 19 April 1663

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"Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit"

Did everyone the first time around know what a close-kneed suit was? Not me though. Could he mean that his suit wasn't baggy-kneed? Or perhaps that the pants didn't end at the knee (where stockings might begin)? Well no, he has stockings. I'm sure someone will tell us.

About Sugar sopps

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It doesn't have to be soaked in milk (or be for people!)...

William Tail, of Dagnal in Bedfordshire, his Way of curing a Sheep taken with the Gripes. -- This Shepherd (says he) never found any Thing answer better, for curing a griped Sheep, than to make some Sugar-Sops directly; and when the Crumb of Bread and Ale is boiled, he then adds some Sugar, and a little Pepper, with a small Quantity of Gin, and gives it out of the Bowl of a Spoon at his Discretion.
---A compleat system of experienced improvements, made on sheep. W. Ellis, 1749.