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About George Stradling

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STRADLING, GEORGE (1621-1688), royalist; eighth son of Sir John Stradling; M.A. Jesus College, Oxford, 1647; D.D., 1661; served on royalist side during civil war; dean of Chichester, 1672-88.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 20 April 1663

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“I observed his coat at the tail of his coach he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon some other fields, but what it is that speaks his being a bastard I know not.”

The arms granted to the Duke of Monmouth, 8th April, 1665, were, Quarterly, i. and iv.; Ermine, on a pile gu. three lions passant gardant or; ii. and iii., or, an inescutcheon of France, within a double tressure flory counter flory, gu. On the 22nd of April, 1667, another grant was made to the Duke of the arms of Charles II., with a baton sinister arg.; over all, an inescutcheon of Scott. The present Duke of Buccleuch bears these arms quarterly. It is quite clear that Pepys knew nothing of heraldry.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Alexander Brome

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BROME, ALEXANDER (1620-1666), poet ; attorney; royalist in civil war; published dramatic and poetical works, and edited plays by Richard Brome, and variorum translation of Horace, 1666.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Alexander Brome

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Alexander Brome, an attorney in the Lord Mayor's Court, author of Loyal Songs and Madrigals, much sung by the Cavaliers, and of a translation of portions of Horace. His death is recorded in the Diary on the 3rd July, 1666. He was regretted as an agreeable companion.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Edward Rainbowe (Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge)

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RAINBOWE, EDWARD (1608-1684), bishop of Carlisle; of Westminster School, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A. Cambridge, 1630; D.D., 1646; elected fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1633; master, 1642; expelled from his mastership by parliament, 1650, but restored, 1660; dean of Peterborough, 1661-4; bishop of Carlisle, 1664-1684; famous as a preacher.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Benjamin Laney (Bishop of Peterborough 1660-3)

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LANEY, BENJAMIN (1591-1675), bishop successively of Peterborough, Lincoln, and Ely; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; B.A., 1611; entered Pembroke Hall; M.A., 1615; M.A. of Oxford, 1617; B.D., 1622; D.D. and master of Pembroke Hall, 1630; vice-chancellor, 1632-3; chaplain to Charles I.; deprived of his preferments as a royalist and high churchman; ejected from Cambridge, 1643-4; at Restoration recovered his mastership and other preferments; bishop of Peterborough, 1660, of Lincoln, 1663, of Ely, 1667-75. His sermons were published in 1668-9, and 'Observations' upon a letter of Hobbes of Malmesbury (anonymous, 1677).
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Benjamin Laney (Bishop of Peterborough 1660-3)

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Benjamin Lany. S.T.P., Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I., made Bishop of Peterborough, 1660, translated to Lincoln, 1662-3, and to Ely, 1667. Ob. 1674.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Skellum

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A SKELLUM, a Rogue.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 24 March 1662/63

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“... though a good artist”

ARTIST, a Master of any Art, an ingenious Workman.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 24 March 1662/63

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“I find Cooper a fuddling, troublesome fellow”

To FUDDLE, to bib or drink till one is tipsey or drunken.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Venice treacle

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(This recipe is a pharmacopoeia unto itself. Note that the main distinguishing ingredient is vipers!)
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Theriaca Andromachi, The Treacle of Andromachus (commonly called Venice-Treacle.)

Take of the Troches of Squills 48 drams, of the Troches of Vipers, Long-pepper, Opium, and Troches Hedychroi, of each 24 drams; of exungulated dry red Roses, of fragrant Sclavonian Orrice of Juice of Liquorise, of sweet Navew-seeds, of Tops of Scordium, of Opobalsamum, Cinnamon, and the Troches of Agaric, of each 12 drams; of Myrrh, sweet Costus, or Zedoary, Saffron, true Cassia-bark, Spikenard, Schoenanth, white and black Pepper, Male Frankincense, Cretan Dittany, Rhapontic, Arabian Stoechas, Horehound, Macedonian Parsley seeds, Calamint, Cyprus-Turpentine, Roots of Cinquefoil and Ginger, of each 6 drams; of the Tops of Cretic Poly-mountain, of Ground pine, Celtic Spikenard roots, Amomum Storax, Meum-root, Tops of Germander, Pontic-Phu-root, Lemnian Earth, Indian leaf, calcin'd Roman Vitriol, Gentian-root, Gum Arabic, juice of Hypocistis, Carpobalsam, or in its defect, Nutmegs or Cubebs; of the Seeds of Anise, Cardamoms, Fennel, and Hartwort, of Acacia, or in its stead, the inspissated Juice of rough Sloes, of the Seeds of Treacle-Mustard, Tops of St John's wort, Seeds of Bishop's weed, and Sagapenum, of each 4 drams; of the best Castor, long Birthwort-root, Bitumen Indicum, or Amber, Cretic Daucus-seed, Opopanax, the lesser Centory, and fat Galbanum, of each 2 drams; of old Canary a sufficient quantity to dissolve the moist and dissolvable Ingredients; and of clarified Honey triple the weight of all the dry Species; make all into an Electuary, S.A. This may likewise be made with Syrupus de Meconio, instead of Honey.
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That the Vipers ... may not be lost in this, let a dozen Vipers be put alive into half as much Wine as is here required; and after some Weeks standing very closely stopt, let all be drawn over by a Retort to Driness, and what comes into the Receiver be put into the Medicine...
---Pharmacopœia officinalis & extemporanea. J. Quincy,1742.

About Dr James Duport

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DUPORT, JOHN (d. 1617), biblical scholar; of Norman extraction; M.A. and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, before 1580; rector of Pulham, 1583; precentor of St. Paul's, 1585; D.D.; master of Jesus College, 1590; four times vice-chancellor of Cambridge, and (1609) prebendary of Ely; one of the translators of the bible (1611).
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Saturday 7 February 1662/63

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“about the endeavour to come to a composition with my uncle”

COMPOSITION, [among Tradesmen] is when a Debtor not being able to discharge his whole Debts, agrees with his Creditors to pay them a certain Sum of Money instead of all that is due.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About King's House (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)

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Drury Lane Theatre, Catherine Street (formerly Brydges Street) Covent Garden. The first theatre on the site of the present edifice was opened on April 8, 1663, by the King's company, under Thomas Killigrew, with Beaumont and Fletcher's play of The Humorous Lieutenant. It cost £1500. ...
The references to the first Drury Lane Theatre are pretty numerous:—
March 2, 1661.—A very large playhouse: the foundation of it laid this month on the back side of Brydges Street, in Covent Garden.—Rugge's Merc. Rediv.
May 8, 1663.—I took my wife and Ashwell to the Theatre Royal, being the second day of its being opened. The house is made with extraordinary good convenience, and yet hath some faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and out of the pit, and the distance from the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear; but for all other things is well; only, above all, the musique being below, and most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing of the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be mended.—Pepys.
June 1, 1664.—To the King's House, and saw The Silent Woman. . . . Before the play was done it fell such a storm of hail that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise; and all the house in a disorder.—Pepys.
May 1, 1668.—To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprisal, and a disorder in the pit by its raining in from the cupola at top.—Pepys.
This house (of which Pepys supplies so uncomfortable a notion) was burnt down in January 1672.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Friday 6 February 1662/63

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@SDS, there is a "New Exchange," built in 1608, so perhaps the "Royal Exchange," was the "old" one.

About St Mary-le-Bow

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I should have added this to the above from Stow:

The Court of the Arches is kept in this Church, and taketh name of the place, not the place of the Court, but of what antiquitie or continuation that Court hath there continued I cannot learne.

About St Mary-le-Bow

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At the vpper ende of Hosier Lane, towarde West Cheape, is the fayre Parish Church of Saint Marie Bow. This Church in the reigne of William Conquerour, being the first in this Cittie builded on Arches of stone, was therefore called newe Marie Church, of Saint Marie de Arcubus, or le Bow in West Cheaping: As Stratford Bridge being the first, builded (by Matilde the Queene, wife to Henrie the first) with Arches of stone, was called Stratford le Bow, which names to the said Church and Bridge remayneth till this day.
---A Survey of London. John Stow, 1603.

About John Wilkins

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WILKINS, JOHN (1614-1672), bishop of Chester; Bjl. Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1631; M.A., 1634; vicar of Fawsley, 1637 ; private chaplain to prince palatine, Charles Lewis, nephew of Charles I; adhered to parliamentary side in civil war and took covenant; B.D., 1648; warden of Wadham College, Oxford, 1648-59; D.D., 1649; centre of group of men who formed Royal Society, 1662, and first secretary; master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1659; incorporated D.D. Cambridge, 1659; deprived of mastership at Restoration; prebendary of York, 1660; vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 1662 ; dean of Ripon, 1663; prebendary and precentor of Exeter, 1667; prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1668; bishop of Chester, 1668; published 'The Discovery of a World in the Moone,' 1638, 'A Discourse tending to prove that 'tis probable our Earth is one of the Planets,' 1640, 'Mathematical Magick,' 1648, and 'An Essay towards a real Character and a Philosophical Language,' 1668 (suggested by the 'Ars Signorum' of George Dalgarno), and other works.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.