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About Dr John Owen

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OWEN, JOHN (1616-1683), theologian; of Queen's College, Oxford; M.A., 1635; created D.D., 1653; left the university on account of Laud's statutes; private chaplain to Sir Robert Dormer and Lord Lovelace; published tracts against Arminianism and in favour of presbyterianism, and obtained rectory of Fordham, Essex, 1643; ejected by patron, but presented by House of Lords to Coggeshall, 1646; adopted independent views and expanded them in 'Eshcol,' 1648; preached before parliament, 1649, and accompanied Cromwell to Ireland and Scotland, 1650, as chaplain; dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1651-60; vice-chancellor, 1652-8; chairman of committee for composing differences in Scottish church, 1654; carried on controversies with John Goodwin, Henry Hammond, and William Sherlock (1641?-1707); wrote 'Vindicae Evangelicae' against John Biddle, 1655: charged Grotius with Socinianism; published treatise 'On Schism,' 1657, with attack on quaker theory of inspiration; ejected from Christ Church, Oxford, 1660; wrote anonymous answer to the 'Fiat Lux' of Vincent Canes, 1662; indicted for holding religious assemblies at Oxford, 1665; removed to London and published anonymous tracts in defence of religious liberty, and, with his name, other writings, including one book of the 'Exercitations on Epistle to the Hebrews,' 1668; attacked occasional conformity; discussed nonconformity with the Duke of York, 1674; received audience from Charles II and money for nonconformists; allowed to preach to independent congregation in Leadenhall Street, London, 1673; wrote against Romanism and rationalism, 1674-80; defended dissenters against Stillingfleet and contended for historical position of Congregationalism, 1680-1; his 'Meditations and Discourse on the Glory of Christ,' and other treatises, published posthumously; collective editions of his works issued, 1721 (imperfect), 1826 and 1850.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About William Brouncker (2nd Viscount Brouncker)

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BROUNCKER or BROUNKER, WILLIAM, second Viscount Brouncker of Castle Lyons in Irish peerage (1620?-1684), first president of the Royal Society; M.D. Oxford, 1647; first to introduce continued fractions and to give a series for quadrature of a portion of the equilateral hyperbola; original member of Royal Society, 1662, and first president, 1662-77; president of Gresham College, 1664-7; chancellor of Queen Catherine, 1662; commissioner for executing office of lord high admiral, 1664; master of St. Catherine's Hospital, 1681.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thomas Wriothesley (4th Earl of Southampton, Lord Treasurer 1660-7)

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WRIOTHESLEY, THOMAS, fourth Earl Of Southampton (1607-1667), son of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; succeeded to title, 1624; of Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; supported resolution of House of Commons that redress of grievances should precede supply, but subsequently joined Charles I; privy councillor, 1642; became one of Charles I's closest advisers, making repeated efforts for peace; after Charles I's execution lived in retirement in country; privy councillor to Charles II and K.G.; lord high treasurer of England, 1660-7; opposed in council and parliament bill for liberty of conscience, 1663.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thomas Blagrave

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BLAGRAVE, THOMAS (d. 1688), musician; gentleman of the chapel, 1661; clerk of the cheque, 1662; member of Charles II's private band; author of some songs published in contemporary collections.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Miles Corbet

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CORBET, MILES (d. 1662), regicide; of a Norfolk family; barrister, Lincoln's Inn; M.P., Great Yarmouth, 1628, and in the Long parliament; active against Laud; chairman of the committee of examinations; clerk of the court of wards, 1644; registrar of the court of chancery, 1648; attended one meeting of the commission and signed Charles I's death-warrant, 1649; a commissioner for settling Irish affairs, 1650; chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, 1655; arrested in Dublin, 1659; M.P., Yarmouth, 1660, but his election annulled; went abroad; arrested in Holland, 1662; brought to London and executed.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Okey

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OKEY, JOHN (d. 1662), regicide; colonel of dragoons at Naseby, 1645; led storming party at Bath, but was captured at Bristol, 1645 ; present at battle of St. Fagan's, 1648; signed Charles I's death-warrant, 1649; created master of arts at Oxford, 1649; took part in and described storming of Dundee, 1651; sat in parliament, 1654: opposed the protectorate and was cashiered for circulating a petition against it; arrested for renewed opposition to Cromwell, 1658; represented Bedfordshire in Richard Cromwell's parliament, which restored him to command; again cashiered for resistance to Lambert, 1659, but regained his regiment the same year; being deprived by Monck, joined Lambert at Daventry, 1660; fled to Germany; arrested at Delft; executed in England.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Barkstead

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BARKSTEAD, JOHN (d. 1662), regicide; goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645; commanded regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; governor of Yarmouth, 1649, and of the Tower, 1652; M.P. for Colchester, 1654, and Middlesex, 1656; knighted, 1656; escaped to continent, 1660; arrested, 1661; brought to England and executed.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About James Lambert

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[appears to be really Lambert]

LAMB, James - was appointed commander of the Ann yacht in 1661; in 1664 of the Happy Return; and in the following year of the Ann, a third rate of fifty-six guns He was slain soon afterwards, according to a note in the margin of the navy list, "in a fight with some Dutch Ships." But, as after the best investigation, no satisfactory account can be obtained of the circumstances attending it, it is not improbable it happened in the unfortunate attack on the Dutch ships, in Berghen.
---Biographia navalis. J. Charnock, 1794.

About Col. Richard Talbot

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TALBOT, RICHARD, Earl and titular Duke of Tyrconnel (1630-1691), youngest son of Sir William Talbot; taken prisoner at the rout of Preston's army, 1647; was wounded at the siege of Drogheda, but escaped abroad; returning to England, was arrested by Cromwell on suspicion of plotting his murder, 1655, but also accused by Clarendon of being in the Protector's pay; gentleman of the Duke of York's bedchamber at the Restoration; imprisoned for challenging Ormonde, 1661; fought in the naval action at Lowestoft, 1665; engaged in various love affairs; as spokesman of the Irish Roman catholics opposed Ormonde in Ireland, and was again imprisoned, 1670; arrested for supposed complicity in the 'popish plot,' 1678; given command of the army in Ireland, Ormonde being recalled, and on accession of James II made Earl of Tyrconnel, with chief power in Ireland, and with the object of repealing Act of Settlement, bringing back Roman catholic domination, and making James II independent in England by means of an Irish army; protestant forces disbanded and oath of supremacy dispensed with; made viceroy, 1687; despatched three thousand men to King James's assistance in England; met James II at Kinsale; instigator of all James II's violent proceedings, including the attainder of 2,455 protestant landowners; made duke; commanded at the battle of the Boyne, 1690; advised James's retreat to France, and was left with full powers in Ireland; accused of treachery by the Irish party; left for France after the raising of the siege of Limerick, where he gained the full confidence of James and Louis XIV; returned with money and arms as lord-lieutenant, 1691, and commander-in-chief; died of apoplexy shortly after the battle of Aughrim.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About George Jolliffe

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JOYLIFFE, GEORGE (1621-1658), physician; M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1643; M.D. Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1652; F.R.C.P., 1658; his discovery of the lymph ducts published by Francis Glisson, 1654.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Monday 28 April 1662

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To be quite off the hooks, tre mal a son aise
---A short dictionary English and French. G. Miège, 1684.

be ill at his ease (Google translate)

About William Brouncker (2nd Viscount Brouncker)

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William [Brouncker], second Lord Viscount Brouncker of Castle Lyons, born about 1620, was the first president of the Royal Society, and a respectable mathematician. Extra Commissioner of the Navy, 1664-66; Comptroller of the Treasurer's Accounts, 1660-79; Master of St. Katherine's Hospital in 1681. Died April 5th, 1684.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About John Tippets

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John Tippets, appointed master-shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard, and afterwards knighted; Commissioner of the Navy (1667-72), and Surveyor of the Navy (1672-85, 1688-92).
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Mary Betterton ('Ianthe')

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Mary Saunderson, who married Thomas Betterton, December, 1662, one of Sir William Davenant's company, who acted Ianthe in the "Siege of Rhodes," at Lincoln's Inn Fields. She retired from the stage about 1675, died April, 1712, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey on the 13th.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Spital Square

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The Spital sermons were originally preached in Spital Square, but they are now given at Christ Church, Newgate Street, on Easter Monday and Tuesday.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Dr John Owen

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John Owen, D.D., a learned Nonconformist divine, and a voluminous theological writer, made Dean of Christ Church in 1653, by the Parliament, and ejected in 1659-60. He died at Ealing, in 1683.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Mary Stuart (Duchess of Richmond)

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Mary, daughter to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, wife of James fourth Duke of Lennox, and third Duke of Richmond, who left her a widow secondly in 1655. She had previously married Charles Lord Herbert; and she took for her third husband, Thomas Howard, brother of the Earl of Carlisle, who fought the duel with Jermyn.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Robert South

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This was the learned Robert South, then public orator at Oxford, and afterwards D.D., and prebendary of Westminster, and canon of Christchurch. The story, as copied from a contemporary tract, called Annus Mirabilis Secundum, is given with full details in Wood's Athenae, and Kennett's Register. It is by no means devoid of interest; but, having been so often printed, need not be here repeated. We may observe, however, that South had experienced a similar qualm whilst preaching at Oxford a few months before; but these seizures produced no bad consequences, as he lived to be eighty-three.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About New Exchange

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In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly with milliners, sempstresses, and the like."
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.