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About John Hacket (Bishop of Lichfield 1661-70)

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HACKET, JOHN (1592-1670), bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge; chaplain to Lord-keeper Williams; incumbent of St. Andrew's, Holborn, 1624-45, and Cheam, Surrey, 1624; chaplain to James I, 1623; prebendary of Lincoln, 1623; archdeacon of Bedford, 1631; attempted to moderate Laud's zeal; as member of committee of religion made able speech before Commons in defence of deans and chapters, 1641; after the Restoration resumed preaching at St. Paul's as canon residentiary; bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1661-70; restored Lichfield Cathedral, partly at his own expense; bequeathed money to Trinity College, Cambridge, and his books to the university; chief work, 'Scrinia Reserata' (first published, 1693), a life of Archbishop Williams.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Dr Nathaniel Crew

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Nathaniel Crew, born 1633, fifth son of John, first Lord Crew; he became third Lord Crew in 1697. Sub-Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1659. Took orders in 1664, and was Rector of Lincoln College in 1668; Dean of Chichester, 1669; Bishop of Oxford, 1671; Bishop of Durham, 1674; sworn of the Privy Council in 1676. He was very subservient to James II., and at the Revolution was excepted from the general pardon of May, 1690, but he was allowed to keep possession of the bishopric of Durham.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Friday 9 May 1662

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"Thence to see an Italian puppet play"

This appears to have been a predecessor of Powell's more famous puppet-show. An Italian puppet-show was exhibited at Charing Cross in 1666 and 1667.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Thursday 8 May 1662

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"for Sir W. Pen is going thither with my Lord Lieutenant"

Penn accompanied the Duke of Ormonde to Ireland in July, 1662, and he took the opportunity of visiting his estates in Cork and his government of Kinsale.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Thursday 1 May 1662

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"To bed all alone, and my Will in the truckle bed."

To TRUCKLE, to submit, yield, or buckle to.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

About Theobald Taaffe (1st Earl of Carlingford)

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TAAFFE, THEOBALD, second Viscount Taaffe and first Earl Of Carlingford (d. 1677), grandson of Sir William Taaffe; commanded the forces of the catholic confederation in Connaught, 1644, and Munster, 1647; defeated by Lord Inchiquin, 1647; employed in negotiations between Queen Henrietta Maria and the Duke of Lorraine; created Earl of Carlingford at the Restoration.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Abraham Cowley

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Cowley took his doctor's degree in medicine at Oxford, 1657, and as it was under the republican government, some have doubted the sincerity of his attachment to the royal cause, but his object was not of a political nature. He wished to study medicine as a science, and for that purpose a degree was necessary. His books of plants were published in 1662, and as he had employed himself not only in anatomical dissection, but to the laborious consideration of simples, and the deep researches of botany, his works on those subjects are the thoughts of a master. Besides the works already mentioned, he published a new edition of his poems, miscellanies, the Mistress - Pindaric odes - Davideis - the Cutler of Coleman street, a comedy, &c. Besides poems, he wrote in prose, a proposition for the advancement of experimental philosophy - and a discourse on the government of Cromwell. Cowley is very respectable as a poet, and his verse though sometimes uncouth anil inelegant, does not want fire and majesty. He abounded, as Addison observed, above all others in genuine wit. Dr Johnson places him at the head of metaphysical poets.
---Universal biography. J. Lempriere, 1810.

About Abraham Cowley

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COWLEY, Abraham, an English poet, born in London 1618. He was educated at Westminster school, and the accidental perusal of Spenser's works, so much roused his poetical genius, that he published his "poetical blossoms," before he was removed to the university. He entered at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he wrote some poems, and planned the design of those masculine pieces, which have immortalized his name, The loyalty of his sentiments, and the noble independence of his conduct, however, proved displeasing to the republicans of his college, and he was with some others ejected from the university, and came to St. John's college, Oxford, where he published his satire of the Puritan and Papist. His attachment to the royal cause, as well as his literary merits recommended him to the notice of the great; he was intimate with lord Falkland, and confidently engaged in the king's service. During the civil wars, he was settled in the duke of St Alban's family, and was absent from England about 10 to 12 years, and during that time, performed some very dangerous journeys to Jersey, Scotland, Flanders, Holland, and other places, while he managed the correspondence between the king and his consort, and the various bodies of loyalists dispersed through the kingdom. In 1656 he ventured to come into England with great secrecy, but he was arrested, though by mistake, and was restored to liberty only by giving bail for 1000l. After Cromwell's death be returned to France, and at the restoration be determined to retire to solitude and learned ease. His intentions were favored by the liberality of the duke of Buckingham and lord St. Alban's, who gave him an estate, and the last eight years of his life were spent in that comfortable retirement, which he so much admired. He lived some time at Barn-Elms, but as the situation was not healthy, he removed to Chertsey where in consequence of exposing himself too long to the cold air, he was attacked by a violent defluxion and stoppage in his breast and throat, which by being at first disregarded, in a fortnight proved fatal. He died 28th July 1667, aged 49, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Chaucer, and Spenser, and a monument was erected to his honor, by George duke of Buckingham, 1675.

About Camlott/Camelott/Camlet

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CAMBLET, or CHAMLET, a stuff sometimes of wool, sometimes silk, and sometimes hair, especially that of goats with wool or silk: in others the warp is silk and wool twisted together, and the woof hair. ... England, France, Holland, and Flanders are the chief places of this manufacture; Bruxels exceeds them all in the beauty and quality of its camblets: those of England are reputed the second.
---Cyclopaedia, Or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. E. Chambers, 1743.

About William Sanderson

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SANDERSON, Sir WILLIAM (1586?-1676), historian; secretary to Henry Rich, earl of Holland, when chancellor of Cambridge University; took side of royalists; gentleman of privy chamber to Charles II; knighted; his works include a history of Mary Queen of Scots and her son James, 1656, and a history of Charles I, 1658, which involved him in a controversy with Peter Heylyn.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Friday 23 May 1662

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"After dinner I showed him my letter from Teddiman about the news from Argier, which pleases him exceedingly"

"I came to the Wardrobe in London to my family, where I met a letter from Captain Teddiman to Mr. Samuel Pepys, showing the news of Sir John Lawson's having made peace with Algiers, they agreeing not to search our ships." —Lord Sandwich's Journal, 23d May.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Thursday 22 May 1662

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" a peace made upon good terms, by Sir J. Lawson, with the Argier men"

The articles of peace between Charles II. and Algiers, concluded 30th Aug. 1664, by Admiral Thomas Allen, according to instructions from the Duke of York, being the same articles concluded by Sir John Lawson, 23rd April, 1662, and confirmed 10th November following. They are reprinted in Somers's Tracts, vol. vii., p. 554, Sir W. Scott's edition.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Lady Elizabeth Carteret

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Elizabeth, who married her cousin, Sir George Carteret, was the daughter of Sir Philip Carteret.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sunday 4 May 1662

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On 7 December 1661 we had this footnote: " Swords were usually worn by footmen. See May 4th, 1662, host. — B." [i.e. post, not host]

About Tuesday 25 February 1661/62

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"fear" might work as a meaning for "doubt," though I think that SP merely suspects (has the suspicion, "as people say,") that the aristocrats will get away with their crime. Which would not be an unusual happening in his time and place. He is certainly using the word in a way immediately recognizable in the 21st century.

DOUBT, to be uncertain, not to know on which Side to determine in any Matter.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

To DOUBT.
1. To question, to be in uncertainty.
2. To question any event, fearing the worst.
3. To fear, to be apprehensive.
4. To suspect; to have suspicion.
5. To hesitate; to be in suspense.
To DOUBT.
1. To hold questionable; to think uncertain.
2. To fear; to suspect.
3. To distrust.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.