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Second Reading

About Monday 29 December 1662

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“to see the audience of the Russia Embassadors”

" On Monday last, betwixt two and three in the afternoon, His Majesty gave audience to the great Lord Ambassador, the great Duke and Governor of Toulsky, Peeter, the son of Simon, surnamed Prozorofskee, to the Lord Governor of Coarmeski, John, the son of Offonassey, surnamed Zelebousky, and Juan Stephano, Chancellor, &c., Ambassadors from the Emperor of Russia. They passed along from York House to White Hall through His Majesties guards who stood on both sides of the street, and made a lane for their more orderly procession." —Mercurius Publicus, Jan. 1, 1662-3.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sidney Mountagu (son of Sandwich)

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Lord Sandwich's second son, who married afterwards Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley, by whom he was father of Edward Wortley Montagu, the husband of the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Their daughter married John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, whose second son took the name and estates of Wortley, and was father of the first Lord Wharncliffe.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Monday 22 December 1662

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"and found myself more feared than hurt"

She hath been then more feared than hurt, my lord,
--- Henry V. Shakespeare.

About Sir John Berkenhead

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BIRKENHEAD or BERKENHEAD, Sir JOHN (1616-1679), author of 'Mercurius Aulicus'; M.A. Oriel College, Oxford, 1639: probationer-fellow, All Souls' College, 1640; devised and mostly wrote ' Mercurius Aulicus,' the weekly journal of royalists at Oxford, 1642-5; in exile with Prince Charles, 1648; probably knighted at St. Germains, 1649: D.C.L., 1661; M.P. for Wilton; member of Royal Society; one of masters of requests; published satirical poems.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir John Berkenhead

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Sir John Berkenhead, F.R.S., a political author, held in some esteem, M.P. for Wilton, 1661, and knighted the following year, Master of the Faculty Office, and Court of Requests. Ob. 1679.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Andrew Rutherford (Baron Rutherford, Earl of Teviot)

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RUTHERFORD, ANDREW, first Earl Of Teviot (d. 1664), educated at Edinburgh; entered French service and attained rank of lieutenant-general; created Baron Rutherford, 1661, and Earl of Teviot, 1663; governor, 1663, of Tangier, where he was killed in sally against Moors.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Andrew Rutherford (Baron Rutherford, Earl of Teviot)

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Andrew Rutherford, son of William Rutherford, of Quarry-holes, went young into the French service, and became a lieutenant-general of that kingdom. At the Restoration, he brought over an honourable testimony from the King of France, and was created a Baron of Scotland, and in 1663 advanced to the Earldom of Teviot, for his management of the sale of Dunkirk, of which he was Governor. He was afterwards appointed Governor of Tangier, and was killed by the Moors in 1664: dying without issue, his earldom became extinct; but the barony of Rutherford descended, according to the patent, to Sir Thomas Rutherford, of Hunthill.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Le Cid (Pierre Corneille)

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The English translation heard by Pepys is available on Google Books. It contains these lines, which SP mirrored in the diary:

I love not Rodrigo as a Gentleman,
Hee that I love now, is the Valiant CID,
The Maister of two Kings.

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The Cid, a Tragicomedy, Out of French Made English, Etc. [A Verse Translation of P. Corneille's “Le Cid,” with Alterations, by Joseph Rutter.]

Rodrigo DÍAZ DE BIVAR (called El Cid.), Joseph Rutter
John Haviland for Thomas Walkly, 1637

https://books.google.com/books?id…
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A reprint of this play is also available from Amazon.

About Monday 1 December 1662

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“And another fine wench that is come in the room of Roxalana”

Elizabeth Davenport appears to have left the stage, Pepys always afterwards speaking of the new Roxalana, whom he once [on 6 July 1666] calls Mrs. Norton. See Feb. 18, 1661-2.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir Edward Nicholas

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NICHOLAS, Sir EDWARD (1593-1669), secretary of state to Charles I and Charles II; matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, 1611; entered the Middle Temple, 1612; became secretary to Edward, baron Zouch, warden of the Cinque ports, 1618, and to his successor, George, duke of Buckingham, 1624; M.P., Winchelsea, 1620-4, Dover, 1627-8; secretary to the admiralty, 1625, and to the admiralty commissioners after Buckingham's death; clerk of the council in ordinary, 1935; knighted and appointed secretary of state, 1641; conducted the treaty of Uxbridge and the surrender of Oxford, 1646; retired to Caen in Normandy; remained in name Charles I's secretary of state till the king's execution, and subsequently made vigorous efforts to serve his son in a like capacity, but was disliked by Queen Henrietta Maria and practically excluded from Prince Charles's counsels; directed to attend the Duke of York, 1650, and from 1650 to 1654 resided at the Hague; joined Charles at Aix-la-Chapelle, 1654, and was formally reappointed secretary of state, but was set aside and pensioned with 10,000l. on account of age and sickness, 1662.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Wednesday 15 October 1662

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"After we had rode about 10 miles we got out of our way into Royston road"

The recent death of the American baseball player Yogi Berra reminds me of one of his aphorisms: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

About Tuesday 14 October 1662

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BRAVE, Courageous, Gallant, Excellent, Skilful
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Tuesday 14 October 1662

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“where the jury was called; and there being vacancies, they would have had my father, in respect to him, [to] have been one of the Homage, but he thought fit to refuse it, he not knowing enough the customs of the town.”

HOMAGE, is the Submission, Promise and Oath of Loyalty and Service, which a Tenant makes his Lord, when he is at first admitted to the Land, which he holds of the Lord in Fee; Also the Duty and Submission which is owing to a King or any Superior.
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Saturday 11 October 1662

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"my design is to supplant him by pretending bonds as well as a mortgage for the same money”

To PRETEND, to use a Pretence, to make as if; to affirm or maintain.
PRETENDED, counterfeit, suppos’d, reputed.
---An universal etymological English dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Friday 10 October 1662

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The citation for the "taxer" definition above is:
---An Universal English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Friday 10 October 1662

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"The like I did for one Biggs, for the other Taxor, and for other officers"

TAXERS, two Officers chosen Annually in the University of Cambridge, to look after the true Gage of all Weights and Measures.

(Wikipedia says that the post of taxor hasn't been filled since 1856.)