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About Wednesday 31 December 1662

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INGENUITY, INGENUOUSNESS, Freedom, Frankness, Sincerity.
INGENUOUS, frank, free, open, sincere, plain.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

Ingenu, ingenuous, free, open-hearted
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Lamb's wool

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"Apples and ale" are mentioned on 5 January 1662/63: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE correspondent tells us, that, when he was a school boy, the practice on Christmas-eve was to roast apples on a string till they dropt into a large bowl of spiced ale, which is the whole Composition of "Lamb's Wool."
---The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 55. 1784.

LAMBS-WOOL. Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Monday 5 January 1662/63

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@Lex:

A NOTTINGHAMSHIRE correspondent tells us, that, when he was a school boy, the practice on Christmas-eve was to roast apples on a string till they dropt into a large bowl of spiced ale, which is the whole Composition of "Lamb's Wool."
---The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 55. 1784.

LAMBS-WOOL. Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Monday 5 January 1662/63

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When I was younger, I once house-sat for a friend whose abode was much grander than my own. I even entertained other friends there. Nice work if you can get it.

About Edmund Calamy

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CALAMY, EDMUND, the elder (1600-1666), puritan; B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1619; known as a Calvinist; B.D., 1632; vicar of St. Mary's, Swaffham, Cambridge; lecturer at Bury St. Edmunds, 1627?-36, retiring when the bishop insisted on observance of church ceremonies; lecturer at Rochford, Essex; incumbent of St. Mary's, Aldermanbury, 1639-62; one of the authors of 'Smectymnuus,' written against Bishop Joseph Hall's claim of divine right for episcopacy; member of Westminster Assembly, 1643; presbyterian and intolerant of Congregationalism; opposed Charles I's trial and execution; advocated the Restoration; compelled by his wife to refuse the see of Lichfield and Coventry; member of Savoy conference, 1661; ejected, 1662; imprisoned for unlicensed preaching, 1663; published sermons.

His son:
CALAMY, EDMUND, the younger (1635?-1685), puritan; eldest son of Edmund Calamy the elder; educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1652-6, and at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1656; M.A., 1658; ordained presbyterian minister, 1653; intruded rector of Moreton, Essex, 1659-62; withdrew to London; preached in private houses; opened meeting-house, 1672.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Saturday 27 December 1662

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CITIZEN, an Inhabitant of a City, a Freeman.
FREEMAN, of a City, Corporation or Company.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Wednesday 31 December 1662

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@Tonyel, SP's use of the words ingenious/ingenuous has been discussed in annotations in the past and will be in once and future annotations. They seem to have distinct meanings for him. Or maybe not.

About Wednesday 31 December 1662

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“The Duke of Monmouth is in so great splendour at Court, and so dandled by the King”

To DANDLE, to fondle or make much of.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby
2 Henry VI. W. Shakespeare.

About Thursday 1 January 1662/63

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“I was willing to make an end of my gaddings”

GADDING, rambling or roving about.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1731.

About Friday 26 December 1662

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"We shall endeavour to joyne the lion’s skin to the fox’s tail."

Coudre une peau de Renard a celle du Lion, to patch a Foxes tail to a Lions skin (that is to attempt that by sleight which could not done by might.)
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Plum porridge

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To make Plum Porridge for Christmas.
TAKE a leg and shin of beef, put them into eight gallons of water, and boil them till they are very tender, and when the broth is strong strain it out: wipe the pot and put in the broth again; then slice six penny loaves thin, cut off the top and bottom, put some of the liquor to it, cover it up and let it stand a quarter of an hour, boil it and strain it, and then put it into your pot. Let it boil a quarter of an hour, then put in five pounds of currants, clean washed and picked; let them boil a little, and put in five pounds of raisins of the sun, stoned, and two pounds of prunes, and let them boil till they swell; then put in three quarters of an ounce of mace, half an ounce of cloves, two nutmegs, all of them beat fine, and mix it with a little liquor cold, and put them in a very little while, and take off the pot; then put in three pounds of sugar, a little salt, a quart of sack, a quart of claret, and the juice of two or three lemons. You may thicken with sage instead of bread, if you please; pour them into earthen pans, and keep them for use.
---The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. H. Glasse, 1784.

About George Morley (Bishop of Winchester, 1662-84)

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MORLEY, GEORGE (1597-1684), bishop of Winchester; of Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford; M.A., 1621; D.D., 1642; met at Oxford Robert Sanderson, Gilbert Sheldon, Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon, and subsequently Edmund Waller and John Hampden; canon of Christ Church, 1641; rector of Mildenhall, 1641; preached before the House of Commons, 1642; ejected, 1648; went abroad and performed service for the English royalists wherever he stayed; sent to England to win over the presbyterians to the Restoration; regained his canonry, became dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and in October bishop of Worcester, 1660; preacher of the coronation sermon, 1661; translated to Winchester, 1662; frequently entertained the Duke of York at Farnham Castle; signified to Clarendon the king's wish that he should leave the country, 1667; of Calvinistic leanings; benefactor of Winchester diocese, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Christ Church and Pembroke College, Oxford; published controversial works.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Wednesday 24 December 1662

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It's been a year since SP bespoke Stephens’s Thesaurus Graecae Linguae from "my bookseller" for St. Paul's school. Now he pays 10s. more than he offered then for it from another bookseller. Was it so hard to get a copy?

About Philip Stanhope (2nd Earl of Chesterfield)

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PHILIP STANHOPE, Earl of Chesterfield.
Philip, the second earl of Chesterfield, who in the early part of his life, resided with his mother, in Holland, received his education with William III. when prince of Orange. He promoted the restoration of Charles II. who deservedly esteemed him, and in 1662, appointed him lord chamberlain to the queen. In 1680, he was sworn of the privy council. His other civil and military employments, his marriages, and issue,are enumerated in Collins's "Peerage." He lived temperately, and died calmly, at upwards of eighty years of age, on the 28th of January, 1713. He was grandfather to Philip Dormer, earl of Chesterfield, lately deceased. The character of this great man, which reflects a lustre upon his family, naturally interests the reader in the personal history of every one that has any relation to it.
---A Biographical History of England. J. Granger, 1779.

About Philip Stanhope (2nd Earl of Chesterfield)

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PHILIP STANHOPE, Earl of Chesterfield.
Philip, the second earl of Chesterfield, who in the early part of his life, resided with his mother, in Holland, received his education with William III. when prince of Orange. He promoted the restoration of Charles II. who deservedly esteemed him, and in 1662, appointed him lord chamberlain to the queen. In 1680, he was sworn of the privy council. His other civil and military employments, his marriages, and issue, are enumerated in Collins's "Peerage." He lived temperately, and died calmly, at upwards of eighty years of age, on the 28th of January, 1713. He was grandfather to Philip Dormer, earl of Chesterfield, lately deceased. The character of this great man, which reflects a lustre upon his family, naturally interests the reader in the personal history of every one that has any relation to it.
---A Biographical History of England. J. Granger, 1779.

About Philip Stanhope (2nd Earl of Chesterfield)

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STANHOPE, PHILIP, second Earl or Chesterfield (1633-1713), grandson of Philip Stanhope, first earl of Chesterfield; said to have declined Cromwell's offer of military command and his daughter's hand; sent to the Tower of London for duelling, 1658, and again on suspicion of plotting with royalists, 1659; killed a man in a duel, but was pardoned by Charles II, 1660; chamberlain to Catherine of Braganza, 1662-5; colonel of foot regiment, 1667-8, of Holland regiment. 1682-4; privy councillor, 1681; refused to act as regent for James II after the revolution, but declined office from William III; refused to abjure the Pretender at coronation of Anne; friend of Charles Cotton and patron of Dryden; his letters and autobiographical fragment printed, 1835.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Arthur Golding, 1567.

"This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed—often by love—into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing."
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