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About Thomas Fanshawe (2nd Viscount Fanshawe)

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FANSHAWE, THOMAS, second Viscount Fanshawe, in the peerage of Ireland (1639-1674), son of Sir Thomas Fanshawe, first viscount; M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; K.B., 1661; remembrancer, 1665; M.P., Hertford, 1661-74.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

The father (the 1st Viscount Fanshawe) of Thomas and Henry was the brother of:

Sir Richard Fanshawe http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

About Sir Richard Fanshawe

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FANSHAWE, Sir RICHARD (1608-1666), diplomatist and author; son of Sir Henry Fanshawe; fellow-commoner, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1623; entered the Inner Temple, 1626; given 'credentials for Spain' by Charles I, 1647; ordered to Spain to procure money for the king's cause, 1650; created baronet, 1650; taken prisoner at battle of Worcester, 1651: master of requests and Latin secretary to Prince Charles at the Hague, 1600; M.P., Cambridge University, 1661; privy councillor of Ireland, 1662; ambassador to Portugal, 1662-3; privy councillor, 1663; ambassador to Spain, 1664-6; recalled (1666) for compromising the home government; died at Madrid; left unpublished poems. His published works include translations of Guarini's 'Pastor Fido,' 1647, and of Camoens's 'Lusiad,' 1655.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Downes (b, regicide)

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John Downes, member of the Long Parliament. He joined the Parliamentary army, and was made a colonel of militia. One of the king's judges who signed the death warrant. Elected to the Council of State, November 25th, 1651, and again, May 14th, 1659. At the Restoration he published "A True and Humble Representation touching the Death of the late King as far as he maybe concerned therein." Arrested at Hampstead, June 18th, 1660; condemned, but reprieved, and kept prisoner in Newgate. He was in the Tower in November, 1666.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Lt-Gen. Charles Fleetwood

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Charles, third son of Sir Miles Fleetwood, Knt.; General and Commander-in-Chief to the Protector Richard, whose sister, Bridget, widow of Ireton, he had married as his second wife. After the king's return he lived in obscurity, and died October 4th, 1692.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Ralph Mountagu

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Ralph, second son of Edward, second Lord Montagu of Boughton. He was ambassador to France in 1666, 1669, 1676, 1677-78, and was created Earl in 1689, and Duke of Montagu in 1705; he died March 7th, 1709.
---Wheatley, 1899.

brother: Edward Mountagu (Ned) http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
sister: Lady Harvey http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
brother-in-law: Sir Daniel Harvey http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
father: Edward Mountagu (2nd Lord Mountagu of Boughton) http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
uncle: Sir William Mountagu http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

Ralph's father and Sir Edward Mountagu ("my Lord," Earl of Sandwich) were first cousins.

About George Mountagu

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Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester, had numerous issue by his first wife, Catherine Spencer; but George was the eldest son of Margaret Crouch, widow of John Hare, the earl's third wife.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About John Birchensha

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John Berchinshaw, an Irishman, translated the "Elementale Musicum," 8vo, 1664, and issued, in 1672, a prospectus of a complete system of music, but it is doubtful if the book ever appeared. In the Pepsyian Library is a thin folio volume entitled, "Mr. Berchinshaw's Two Parts to be sung (severally) with ye ordinary Church Tunes of the Singing Psalms." Evelyn mentions him in his Diary (August 3rd, 1664) in high terms, and describes him as "that rare artist who invented a mathematical way of composure very extraordinary, true as to the exact rules of art, but without much harmonie." He lived at Southwark, see post, February 24th, 1661-62. A John Birchenshaw was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, May 14th, 1681, but it is not certain that this was the teacher of music.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Friday 3 January 1661/62

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"he being gone to Lincoln’s Inn this afternoon to see the Revells there"

Evelyn also mentions this visit of the king to Lincoln's Inn, but enters into more detail. He writes, "I went to London, invited to the solemn foolery of the Prince de la Grange at Lincoln's Inn, where came the King, Duke, &c. It began with a grand masque, and a formal pleading before the mock Princes, Grandees, Nobles, and Knights of the Sun. He had his Lord Chancellor, Chamberlain, Treasurer, and other Royal officers, gloriously clad and attended. It ended in a magnificent banquet. One Mr. Lort was the young spark who maintain'd the pageantry." — Evelyn's Diary, January 1st, 1661-62.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir Henry Mildmay

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Sir Henry Mildmay, third son of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, had enjoyed the confidence of Charles I., who made him Master of the Jewels; but he sat a few days as one of the King's judges. He died at Antwerp. His estate of Wansted was confiscated, and was given to Sir Robert Brookes; and by him, or his heirs, or creditors, alienated in 1667 to Sir Josiah Childe, ancestor of the Earl Tylney. See May 14, 1665. It is now Lord Mornington's, in right of his first wife. Sir Henry Mildmay's other estates were saved by being settled on his marriage.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About William Monson (1st Viscount Monson)

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William, second son of Sir Thomas Monson, Bart.; created, by Charles I., Viscount Monson of Castlemaine, in the kingdom of Ireland. Notwithstanding this act of favour, he was instrumental in the King's death; and in 1661, being degraded of his honours, was sentenced, with Sir Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallop, to undergo the punishment here described [27 January 1661/62]. None of their names were subscribed to the King's sentence. An account of this ceremony was printed at the time, entitled "The Traytor's Pilgrimage from the Tower to Tyburn, being a true relation of the drawing of William Lord Mounson, Sir Henry Mildmay, and 'Squire Wallop with the manner of the proceedings at Tyburn, in order to the degrading and divesting of them of their former titles of honour, and their declaratory speeches to both the right worshipful Sheriffs of London and Middlesex." The late Lord Monson and the present Lord Sondes, are descended from the eldest son of Sir Thomas Monson. Viscount Monson left one son by his second wife, Alston Monson, who died s. p. in 1674.—Collins's Peerage.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 25 January 1661/62

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"Walking in the garden to give the gardener directions"

" I remember your honour very well, when you newly came out of France, and wore pantaloon breeches; at which time your late honoured father [Sir W. Penn] dwelt in the Navy Office, in that apartment the Lord Viscount Brouncker dwelt in afterwards, which was on the north part of the Navy Office garden."— P. Gibson of Penn ye Quaker, Life of Penn, ii., 616.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Robert Mountagu (Viscount Mandeville)

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Robert Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II. He became third Earl of Manchester on his father's death, and died at Paris in 1682.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Frederick Cornwallis

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Sir Frederick Cornwallis, Baronet, had been created a Baron three days before the coronation. He was Treasurer of His Majesty's Household, and a Privy Councillor. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of John Ashburnham. His wife, therefore, and her brother, John Ashburnham, were first cousins to Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Rugge states in July, 1660, that "the King supped with Sir Frederick Cornwallis at Durham Yard, in the Strand." He died in January, 1661-2, and was buried with his ancestors at Brome, on the 18th. The medals which he received as his fee (nearly 100 in number) were carefully preserved in the family, and have been recently arranged, so as to form the setting of a large silver cup, at Audley End.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 15 January 1661/62

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"it having hitherto been summer weather"

The old proverb says truly, that "a green yule maketh a fat kirk-yard." Apples were growing at this time.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 15 January 1661/62

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"but conned my musique"

To CON, to ken, to know or learn, to understand.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.