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Second Reading

About Wednesday 22 June 1664

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“The plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land.”

"There dyed this last weeke at Amsterdam 730, but they feare an increase this weeke; and the plague is scattered generally over the whole country, even to Little Dorps and Villages; and it is gott to Antwerp and Bruxells, so that they will not suffer any ships or vessells of Holland or Zeland to come to Antwerp; and 2 severall shipps are returned out of Spaine for that they would not suffer them to have any trade at all there" (Sir George Downing's letter to Lord Clarendon, July 29th, 1664). — Lister's Life of Clarendon, vol. iii., p. 331.
---Wheatley, 1904.

About Friday 6 May 1664

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“ Sympson my joyner came to work upon altering my closet”

CARPENTRY, The Art of working in Wood, commonly applied to Building, whether it be of Houses or Ships.
JOINERY, The Art of performing the curious Part of Wood-Work, such as the Wainscoting of Rooms, Pewing Churches, making Pulpits, &c.
---A new general English dictionary. T. Dyche, 1735.

About Mulberry Garden (Hyde Park)

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Mulberry Garden (The), a place of public entertainment, temp. Charles I. and Charles II. The subject of a comedy by Sir Charles Sedley, and constantly referred to by the Charles II. dramatists. It occupied the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens, and derived its name from a garden of mulberry trees planted by King James I. in 1609, in which year £935 was expended by the King for "embanking a piece of ground and for planting of mulberry trees, near the palace of Westminster." James was anxious to introduce the mulberry into general cultivation for the sake of encouraging the manufacture of English silks. It was at this time that Shakespeare planted his mulberry tree at Stratford-on-Avon. Charles I., by letters patent, dated July 17, in the fourth year of his reign, granted to Walter, Lord Aston, on surrender of Jasper Hallenge, "the custody and keeping of the Mulberry Garden near St. James's, in the county of Middlesex, and of the mulberries and silkworms there, and of all the houses and buildings to the same garden belonging, for his own and his son's life, or the life of the longest liver." The name occurs for the first time in 1627 in the rate-books of the parish of St . Martin's-in-the-Fields. Before 1632 Lord Goring purchased the post from Lord Aston for £800, and gave his own name to the residence. The house was then occupied for a time by Speaker Lenthal, while the garden sank into a place of public entertainment . At the Restoration Goring returned to it; and, dying within two years, it was sold by his son and successor to Bennet, the newly created Baron Arlington, who was living here in March 1665, when Evelyn went there and described it as "ill-built, but capable of being made a very pretty villa." In 1671 the second and last Lord Goring died, and the grounds were demised by Charles II. (September 28, 1673) to Bennet, Earl of Arlington, at a rent of £1 per annum. Goring House, with all its valuable contents, was destroyed by fire September 20, 1674, whilst the family were at Bath. The Mulberry Garden, as a place of entertainment, was closed about the same time.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Sir John Coke

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Sir John Coke (1563-1644) in 1618 was one of a special commission appointed for the examination of the state of the navy. He was rewarded for his work in the reform of the naval administration by a grant of £300 a year, charged on the funds of the navy, and expressly stated to be given "for his service in several marine causes, and for the office of ordnance, which he had long attended far remote from his family and to his great charge" (November, 1621). — Dictionary of National Biography.
---Wheatley, 1904.

About Saturday 4 June 1664

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"Opinastrement"

Maybe SP was having trouble with his French?

opiniâtrement, obstinately, stubbornly, wilfully.
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

About Thomas Neale

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NEALE, THOMAS (d.1699?), master of the royal mint and groom-porter; master and worker of the royal mint, 1678-99; groom-porter to Charles II, c. 1684; as master of the transfer office conducted public lotteries; engaged in banking and building and mining schemes, and in East India trade.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Cherry Garden, Greenwich

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Cherry Garden, Rotherhithe, a place of entertainment in the reign of Charles II., long since built over. The site is marked by Cherry Garden Stairs, where is a landing pier for Thames steamers as well as small boats.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Thomas Hodges (Dean of Hereford)

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Thomas Hodges, vicar of Kensington, and rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill. He had been, in September, 1661, preferred to the Deanery of Hereford, which he held with his two livings till his death, in 1672.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir Robert Southwell

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SOUTHWELL, Sir ROBERT (1635-1702), diplomatist; son of Robert Southwell (1607-1677); B.A. Queen's College, Oxford, 1655; entered Lincoln's Inn, 1654; knighted, 1665; succeeded to his father's office in Munster, 1677; hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 1677; English envoy in Portugal, 1665-8, and after other diplomatic work became principal secretary of state for Ireland, 1690 ; P.R.S., 1690-5.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Spencer

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SPENCER, JOHN (1630-1693), master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; became fellow there, c.1655; master of the college, 1667-93; M.A., 1652; D.D., 1665; was an erudite hebraist, and in his 'Dissertatio de Urim et Thummim,' 1669, and 'De Legibus Hebraeorum,' laid the foundations of the science of comparative religion, tracing the connection between the rites of the Hebrew religion and those practised by kindred Semitic races.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Rood (unit)

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ROOD, a quantity of land equal to forty perches, or the fourth part of an acre.
---A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764.

About Harry Spelman

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SPELMAN, SIR HENRY (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1583), and Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Castle Rising, 1597; commissioner on unsettled Irish lands, 1617; settled in London for study, 1612, and (1613) printed his 'De non temerandis Ecclesiis,' material for his much more elaborate work, the 'History of Sacrilege' (published, 1698); his 'Glossary' of obsolete Latin and old English terms published, 2 vols., 1626, 1664; subsequently published compilations on 'Councils of the Church,' the 'Tenures, by Knight Service'; founded a short-lived Anglo-Saxon readership at Cambridge, 1635.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Curds

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To make Cream Curds.
Take a gallon of water, put to it a quart of new milk, a little salt, a pint of sweet cream and eight eggs, leaving out half the whites and strains, beat them very well, put to them a pint of sour cream, mix them very well together, and when your pan is just at boiling (but it must not boil) put in the sour cream and your eggs, stir it about and keep it from settling to the bottom; let it stand whilst it begins to rise up, then have a little fair water, and as they rise keep putting it in whilst they be well risen, then take them off the fire, and let them stand a little to sadden; have ready a sieve with a clean cloth over it, and take up the curds with a laddle or eggslicer, whether you have; you must always make them the night before you use them; this quantity will make a large dish if your cream be good; if you think your curds be too thick, mix to them two or three spoonfuls of good cream, lie them upon a china dish in lumps; so serve them up.
---English housewifry. E. Moxon, 1764.

SADDEN. ... 4. To make heavy, to make cohesive.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Sunday 24 April 1664

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Pornography indeed. Aretino/Aretin was discussed extensively in the Diary annotations of Friday 15 May 1663 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…

"... my Lady Castlemaine rules him, who, he says, hath all the tricks of Aretin that are to be practised to give pleasure."

About Thursday 21 April 1664

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But why was she even in Sam's house? I imagine facilities for women outside of homes were few and far between. If necessity arose while traveling in town, one could stop a friendly home, even if the occupants weren't present. And, of course, despite the nature of the visit, Sam had to be informed...

About John Lindsay (17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay)

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LINDSAY, JOHN, tenth Baron Lindsay of the Byres, first Earl of Lindsay, and afterwards known as John Crawford-Lindsay, seventeenth Earl Of Crawford (1596-1678), created Earl of Lindsay, 1633; leader of the covenanters; lord of session and commissioner of the treasury, 1641; distinguished himself at Marston Moor, and title and dignities of Earl of Crawford ratified on him, 1644; president of the parliament, 1645; took part in attempt to rescue Charles from Carisbrook, 1646; joined the coalition for Charles II’s restoration, 1650; taken prisoner, 1652; released, 1660; lord high treasurer, 1661; refusing to abjure the covenant resigned his offices and retired from public life, 1663.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Pinner

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PINNER.
1 The lappet of a head which flies loose.

[LAPPET. The parts of a head dress that hang loose.]
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.