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Second Reading

About Duke's House ("The Opera", Lincoln's Inn Fields)

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Davenant's Company, called from being under the patronage of the Duke of York, the Duke's Company, began to play at Salisbury Court Theatre on November 15th, 1660. The company removed to Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in June, 1661. Davenant's Theatre is usually called the Opera, to distinguish it from the Theatre of the King's Company.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Thursday 1 January 1662/63

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"only they say my Lord Chesterfield, groom of the stole to the Queen, is either gone or put away from the Court upon the score of his lady’s having smitten the Duke of York"

From the diary of last November 3rd: He tells me also how the Duke of York is smitten in love with my Lady Chesterfield (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of Ormond); and so much, that the duchess of York hath complained to the King and her father about it, and my Lady Chesterfield is gone into the country for it.

About Sir Charles Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Brandon)

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Charles Gerard, son of Sir Charles Gerard, created Baron Gerard of Brandon by Charles I., November 8th, 1645, raised a regiment of foot and a troop of horse, and distinguished himself in the king's service during the Civil Wars. He was a gentleman of the King's Bedchamber to Charles II., and captain of the Life Guards. Created Earl of Macclesfield, July 23rd, 1679. His wife, mentioned subsequently, was Jane de Civell, daughter of Pierre de Civell (equerry to Queen Henrietta Maria). He died January 7th, 1694.
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Thursday 1 January 1662/63

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“She tells me, that about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my Lord Gerard’s at dinner, and cried out that she was undone”

Not long after this Charles II. affronted Lady Gerard, probably at the instigation of Lady Castlemaine (see March 7th, 1662-63).
---Wheatley, 1893.

About Tuesday 18 November 1662

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"laying out above 12l. in linen, and a copper, and a pot"

COPPER, A boiler larger than a movable pot.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Tuesday 18 November 1662

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Pull a Crow. A common Saying; and signifies, that the two contending Persons, must have a tryal of Skill, which is the best Man, or which will overcome.
---Hudibras [notes]. S. Butler, 1744.

To pluck [or pull] a Crow is to be industrious or contentious about that which is of no value.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

If a crow help us in, we will pluck a crow together.
--Comedy of Errors. William Shakespeare.

To pluck a crow with any one is to quarrel him. It is a vulgar expression still in use.
---Comments on the Last Edition of Shakespeare's Plays. J. Mason, 1785.

About Sir John Cutler

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CUTLER, Sir JOHN (1608?-1693), London merchant; promoted the subscriptions raised by the city of London for Charles II, 1660; created baronet, 1660; treasurer of St. Paul's, 1663; founded lectureship on mechanics at Gresham College, London, 1664; honorary F.H.S., 1064; four times master warden of the Grocers' Company; benefactor of the College of Physicians, 1679; benefactor of the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, 1682; personally parsimonious, and the occasion of Wycherley's 'Praise of Avarice.'
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 19 January 1662/63

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“but my Lord did presently pack his lady into the country in Derbyshire, near the Peake”

Bretby Hall, the country-seat of the Earls of Chesterfield, is no longer standing. There is a good view of it by Knyff and Kip.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir Samuel Tuke

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TUKE, SIR SAMUEL, first baronet (d. 1674), royalist and playwright; admitted, Gray's Inn, 1635; entered royal army, commanded at Lincoln, and fought at Marston Moor, 1644; served under Goring in the west, 1645; defended Colchester, 1648; resided abroad during Protectorate, and attended Duke of Gloucester; turned Roman catholic; at Restoration was sent on missions to French court; created baronet, 1664 ; original F.R.S.; his tragi-comedy, 'The Adventures of Five Hours,' 1663, much lauded by Pepys.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir Charles Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Brandon)

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GERARD, CHARLES, first Baron Gerard Of Brandon and Earl, Of Macclesfield (d.1694), great-grandson of Sir Gilbert Gerard; educated abroad; commanded infantry brigade at Edgehill, 1642; wounded there and at Lichfield, 1643; arranged capitulation of Bristol, 1643; distinguished at first battle of Newbury, 1643; again wounded at relief of Newark, 1644; conducted successful operations in South Wales, 1645; removed for rigorous treatment of Welsh, but created a peer, 1645; commander of Charles I's bodyguard, escorting him from Wales to Oxford, thence to Hereford, and afterwards to Chester, 1645; desperately wounded at Rowton Heath, 1645 ; retired with the king to Newark, but was dismissed his service for a disorderly protest against the supersession of Sir Richard Willis, 1645; rejoined Charles at Oxford, 1646, and raised a troop of horse; went abroad after the capitulation; vice-admiral of the fleet at Helvoetsluys, 1648; gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles II, 1649; served under Turenne at Arras, 1654; intrigued at Paris on behalf of Henrietta Maria, and encouraged designs of his cousin, John Gerard (1632-1654) ; returned with Charles II from Breda, 1660, at the head of the life guards; regained his estates and received a pension; envoy extraordinary to Paris, 1662; supervised defences of Isle of Wight and Portsmouth against Dutch, 1666-7; created Earl of Macclesfield, 1679; dismissed from the bed-chamber as an adherent of Monmouth, 1681; presented by Cheshire grand jury as disaffected, 1684; fled to the continent, 1685; commanded William III's bodyguard, 1688; privy councillor and president of council of Welsh marches, 1689; member of commission to inquire into conduct of fleet, 1690.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir Charles Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Brandon)

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Charles Gerard, created Baron Gerard of Brandon, November 8, 1645, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II., and Captain of his Guards; advanced to the Earldom of Macclesfield 1679, and died about 1693. His wife was a French lady, whose name has not been preserved; but she bore him two sons, with the youngest of whom, Fytton, the third Earl, the honours expired, in 1702. Macclesfield House, then Lord Gerard's residence, was in Soho. The names are preserved in Macclesfield Street and Gerard Street.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 11 November 1662

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"telling me very fine things in merchandize"

MERCHANDIZE, Commodities or Goods to Trade with; Also Trade, Traffick
To MERCHANDIZE, to deal as a Merchant, to Traffick or Trade.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Monday 10 November 1662

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@John York, the encyclopedia annotates "Bishopp Bridgeman" as John Bridgeman who was indeed "lately", i.e. formerly, Bishop of Chester. His son was the Henry you mention.

About Episcopalianism

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Can any thing therefore be plainer than that the Church of England holds Episcopacy or the Order of Bishops to be of Divine Institution, and one of those diverse orders which God by his Holy Spirit has appointed? It appears also from the Forms of Ordination, that without a Bishop no Person can be ordained either Deacon, Priest or Bishop, consequently that Bishops only are the Men who have publick Authority given unto them in the Congregation or Church of God, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's Vineyard. And therefore according to the Doctrine of the Church of England declared by her Ordinal and Articles as they expound each other, it is not lawful for any Man to take upon him the Office of publick Preaching, or ministring the Sacraments in the Congregation or Church of Christ, before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same by some Bifhep, that is, before he is Episcopally ordained, and this is the Law of God, who by his Holy Spirit has appointed the Order of Bishops, and directed that only those who are of that Order should ordain others, consequently is a Law not only obligatory in the Church of England, but throughout the whole Catholick Church.
---The Divine Right of Episcopacy. T. Brett, 1718.

About Sir Orlando Bridgeman (Lord Keeper, 1667-1672)

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BRIDGEMAN, Sir ORLANDO (1606?-1674), lord keeper; son of John Bridgeman; B.A. Queens' College, Cambridge, and fellow of Magdalene College, 1624; called to bar at Inner Temple, 1632; bencher, c. 1660; chief-justice of Chester, 1638; attorney of court of wards, and solicitor-general to Prince of Wales, 1640; M.P. for Wigan in Long parliament and knighted, 1640; sat in Oxford parliament, 1644; serjeant-at-arms, chief-baron of exchequer, and baronet, 1660; presided at trial of regicides; lord chief-justice of common pleas, 1660-8; lord keeper of great seal, 1667-72.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Bridgeman (Bishop of Chester 1619-1652)

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BRIDGEMAN, JOHN (1577-1652), bishop of Chester; B.D. Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1596; foundation fellow of Magdalene College, 1599; M.A., and incorporated M.A. Oxford, 1600; D.D., 1612; canon residentiary of Exeter; prebendary of Peterborough; chaplain to James I; bishop of Chester, 1619; opposed nonconformity; lived in retirement after temporary overthrow of episcopacy.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.