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Second Reading

About Wednesday 15 January 1661/62

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"telling me that it is a fast day ordered by the Parliament, to pray for more seasonable weather"

On the 8th, a Proclamation was issued for a general fast to be observed in London and Westminster on the 15th, and in the rest of England on the 22d, with prayers on occasion of "the present unseasonableness of the weather." William Lucy, Bishop of St. David's, preached before the House of Lords. Dr. Samuel Bolton and Dr. Bruno Ryves preached at St. Margaret's, before the House of Commons.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Monday 13 January 1661/62

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"she teaching of us how to play at gleeke, which is a pretty game"

A game at cards played by three persons, each hand having twelve cards, and the rest being left tor the stock.—Halliwells Dictionary. "Whatever games were stirring at places were he retired, as gammon, gleek, piquet, or even the merry main, he made one."—Life of Lord Keeper Guildford, vol. i., p. 17. See Feb. 17, 1661-62, post.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Prince Rupert

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They [PR's drops] are formed by dropping melted glass into water. These drops are still called after Prince Rupert, who brought them out of Germany, where they were named "Lacrymae Batavicae." They consist of glass drops with long and slender tails, which burst to pieces on the breaking off those tails in any part. The invention is thus alluded to in Hudibras:—

"Honour is like that glassy bubble
That finds philosophers such trouble,
Whose least part cracked, the whole does fly,
And wits are cracked to find out why."
Port II., canto ii., line 385.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Monday 13 January 1661/62

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"comes, by appointment, Mr. Peter and the Dean, and Collonel Honiwood, brothers"

These three brothers were the sons of Robert Honywood, of Charing, Kent, who had purchased the estate of Mark's Hall, in Essex ; and whose mother, Mary Attwaters, after forty-four years of widowhood, died at ninety-three, having lived to see three hundred and sixty-seven of her own lawful descendants. Colonel Honywood and Peter seem, from subsequent notices in the Diary, to have been both knighted: but we find no particulars of their history. Michael Honywood, D.D., was rector of Kegworth, co. Leicester, and seeking refuge at Utrecht during the Rebellion, was, on his return, made Dean of Lincoln, and died in 1681, aged 85, having been generally considered a learned and holy man. The widow of Dean Honywood left his library to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. Many early printed books of great rarity contained in this collection were dispersed under the auspices of Dean Gordon in 1817, and replaced by the purchase of modern works comparatively of no value. See Botfield's Account of our Cathedral Libraries. In the Topographer and Genealogist, No. V., there is a printed account of "Mary Honywood and her posterity," taken from a MS. of Peter Le Neve's, in the Lansdowne Collection, in the British Museum.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Monday 6 January 1661/62

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"his wedding day, and we had ... eighteen mince pies in a dish"

The same custom is noticed, Feb. 3, 1661-62.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 20 November 1661

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"my Lady Wright being there too, whom I find to be a witty but very conceited woman and proud"

CONCEITED, opinionated, affected, proud, puffed up.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Tuesday 19 November 1661

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"and there received a subpoena for T. Trice"

SUBPOENA, a Writ to call a Man, under the Degree of Peerage, in Chancery only, where the Common Law fails, and has made no Provision; a Writ for the summoning of Witnesses, to testify in other Courts.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Sunday 17 November 1661

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Sermons about hats were a way of trying to reinforce worship conformity. As we saw a while back with the sign of the cross at baptism it didn't always work.

"The male members of the sect of Quakers were notorious for refusing to take off their hats in church or before any human"
---The Anthropological Turn in Literary Studies. J. Schlaeger, 1996.

About Stephanus' 'Thesaurus Graecae linguae'

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Most books [in the St. Paul's School Library] were destroyed in the 1666 Fire, but some earlier books, including two Pepys donations survive. The library was re-established in 1670, and moved with the school to Hammersmith in 1884.
---A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. 1997

About Stephanus' 'Thesaurus Graecae linguae'

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Stephanus ( Henricus Secundus) Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. Cum Glossario et Indice. Presented to the Library of St Paul's School, by Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Navy Board, 1662. Folio. 5 vol. Parisiis et Genevae, 1572.
---Supplementary Catalogue of the St. Paul's School Library. 1859.