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About Standish

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STANDISH, a standing Ink-horn for a Table.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Monday 14 July 1662

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"did instruct myself in the nature and prices of tarr, but could not get Stockholm for the use of the office"

STOCKHOLM TAR. A bituminous liquid obtained from the wood of Pinna sylvestris (Linn.) and other species of Pinna by destructive distillation. The tar exported from Stockholm in earlier times, and to which the term Stockholm tar was applied, was brought from the northern part of Sweden and from Finland, where the tar was produced by peasants from dry wood stumps burned in tjardalar, or specially made tar-burning ground.
---Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, 1913, v.5, p.195.

About The French Church (Savoy)

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“The French church in the Savoy” was established by Charles II. It was removed to Bloombury Street, and the present building, designed by Ambrose Poynter, architect, 1845-46. The Common Prayer Book in French is still used there.
---Wheatley, 1899.

The Bloomsbury church was demolished in 1925. French Protestant Church: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-p…

About Monday 14 July 1662

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"10l. 15s. per last, which is a great price"

LAST, a Burden or a certain Weight or Measure, as a Last of Pitch, Tar or Ashes is 12 Barrels, &c. of Codfish is 12 Barrels; of Corn 10 Quarters; of Hides 12 Dozen.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

About Old Success (was Bradford)

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There were two vessels named the "Success" -- the "Old Success," a fifth rate of thirty four guns, and the "Success" (previously the "Bradford"), a fifth rate of twenty four guns (see List of the Royal Navy in 1660, "Archseologia," vol. xlviii., p. 167.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Tuesday 23 September 1662

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"and have also, as in Holland, their poor’s box; in both which places at the making all contracts and bargains they give so much, which they call God’s penny."

Has Sam forgotten that he observed this practice himself 2 years ago?

"Observing that in every house of entertainment there hangs in every room a poor-man’s box, and desiring to know the reason thereof, it was told me that it is their custom to confirm all bargains by putting something into the poor people’s box, and that binds as fast as any thing."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

About Ald. Francis Maynell

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Alderman Francis Meynell was a goldsmith and banker in London, and then one of the Sheriffs. He was the third son of Godfrey Meynell, of Wellington, in Derbyshire, and died in 1666; his father was buried at Langley, in that county, where their descendants still possess property. Hugo Charles Ingram Meynell, of Hoare Cross, Staffordshire, and Temple Newsome near Leeds, is the present representative of the family. Sir W. Dugdale, in his Diary, mentions his having defaced the achievements which had been hung up at Bradley, in Derbyshire, where the Alderman was interred; not, as it would seem, from any doubt as to that gentleman being entitled to bear arms, but because a London painter had been employed to blazon the shield, who had not obtained the sanction of the Heralds' Office, and thereby excited their jealousy, at a moment when their occupation was on the decline.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About James Scott ("Mr Crofts", 1st Duke of Monmouth)

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[T]he son of Charles II. by Lucy Waters, daughter of Richard Waters, of Haverfordwest, who bore the name of Crofts till he was created Duke of Monmouth in 1662, previously to his marriage with Lady Anne Scott, daughter to Francis, Earl of Buccleuch; from which match the present Duke of Buccleuch descends.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Francis Wilford (Dean of Ely)

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Francis Wilford, D.D., Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, made Dean of Ely, 20th May, 1662. He died in July, 1667, being then Vice-Chancellor, and was buried in the chapel of his college.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir Martin Noell

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The Council of State sitting at Whitehall, says Lilly (Life, p. 124), had no knowledge of what was passing out of doors, until Sir Martin Noel, a discreet citizen, came about nine at night, and informed them thereof. From this notice, Noel has been considered as the original of the messenger who brings the news of the burning of the Rumps, so admirably related in Hudibras, part iii, canto 11, l.1497. We know nothing further about Sir Martin, except that be was a scrivener, and that Pepys records his death of the plague, in 1665. His son, of the same name, was knighted in November, 1665.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Shaw

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Sir John Shaw, a Farmer of the Customs, was created Baronet, in 1665, for his services in lending the King large sums of money during his exile. Ob. 1679-80.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Jacob

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Sir John Jacob, of Bromley, Middlesex; created Baronet, 1664, for his loyalty and zeal for the Royal Family. His third wife was daughter of Sir John Ashburnham. Ob. 1665-6.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Wolstenholme (Commissioner of the Customs)

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Sir John Wolstenholme; created Baronet, 1664. An intimate friend of Lord Clarendon's and Collector outward for the Port of London. Ob. 1679.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 8 July 1662

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To BOOT, Aid, Help, Succour. It is now used for Advantage, or Overplus.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1724.

[OVERPLUS, an exceeding, or something over and above.]

About Tuesday 8 July 1662

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"and tells me to boot, that ..."

Boot, bote.
Or thus. As, what will you give me to boot? que me donnerez vous de retour? You shall have this to boot, vous aurez ceci davantage, ou par dessus. Tis to no boot, il ne fert de rien.
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Mathematics

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William Leybourn (1626-1716) was an English "mathematican and land surveyor" who wrote extensively on elementary and practical mathematics. He wrote the kind of books that Sam might have been interested in, though Leybourn is never mentioned in the diary. He is mentioned by a number of annotators though. Many of his works are available as reprints.

Here are a few of his works that are available through Google Books:

Arithmetick, vulgar, decimal, instrumental, algebraical.
Pleasure with profit:: consisting of recreations of divers kinds
The Compleat Surveyor
An Introduction to Astronomy, Geography, Navigation and Other Mathematical Sciences

About Anthony Deane

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DEANE, Sir ANTHONY (1638?-1721), shipbuilder; friend of Pepys; master shipwright at Harwich, 1664; mayor of Harwich, 1676 and 1682; commissioner of navy, 1675; knighted; built yachts for Louis XIV, 1675; M.P., New Shoreham, 1678, Harwich, 1679 and 1685; inventor of 'Punchinello' cannon; F.R.S.; 1681.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Anthony Deane

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Anthony Deane, eldest son of Anthony Deane, mariner of Harwich, Essex, was born about 1638, celebrated as a shipbuilder. He was appointed to Woolwich dockyard at the Restoration, and was subsequently master shipwright at Harwich in 1664, and at Portsmouth in 1668. In 1672 he was Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, and in 1675 Comptroller of the Victualling, and was knighted about that time. He was M.P. for Shoreham in 1678, and for Harwich in 1679 and 1685 (with Pepys), and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681. He was committed to the Tower with Pepys in 1679, and discharged in the following year. He died in Charterhouse Square in 1721 (see Duckett's "Naval Commissioners," 1889, p.71).
---Wheatley, 1899.