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About Monday 9 September 1661

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Actually, the above definition of "ingenuous," which is what I think SP meant, is close to the current definition. As is this one:

DISINGENUOUS, insincere, false hearted, unfair.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

(What SP didn't mean was "ingenious" by our current definition.)

About Monday 9 September 1661

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"it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and most ingenious lady"

INGENUOUS, frank, free, open, sincere, plain.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

(Note the non-current spelling and the non-current definition.)

About Puritanism

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From English Political Thought, 1603-1660, v.1, John William Allen, 1938:

"Throughout the century [the 1600s] the word Puritan continued to used as a term of condemnation or contempt. It seems, indeed, to have been rarely used otherwise. ...

"Such references and citations as have so far been given might easily be multiplied, but to little or no purpose. They serve chiefly only to illustrate the fact, of which evidence abounds, that in the seventeenth century no generally recognized meaning was attached to the word Puritan. Quite early in the century, indeed, the word still had a fairly well-recognized meaning, but by 1640, at least, that meaning had been almost lost. Far more often than not the word was used as a mere term of abuse. That fact might possibly be taken to mean that, whatever a Puritan was, he was not a popular person. But the word was bandied about too freely and too loosely even to indicate that much. The fact that while people spoke of Puritans, they did not speak of Puritanism seems indeed to be of some significance. It suggests an unthinking superficiality in the use of the word. Puritanism seems to be a discovery of later thought and research."

About Sir Theophilus Jones

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JONES, Sir THEOPHILUS (d. 1685), scoutmaster-general in Ireland; son of Lewis Jones; saved Lisburn from the Scots under Robert Monro, 1644; governor of Dublin, 1619-59; elected to British parliament, 1656; after his dismissal (1659) took part against the commonwealth; privy councillor, 1661 ; scoutmaster-general in Ireland, 1661-85.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About The Merry Devil of Edmonton (?)

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The comedy of the Merry Devil of Edmonton is, as far as we know, mentioned for the first time in the Blacke Booke by T. M., 1604: 'Giue him leaue to see the Merry Devil of Edmunton, or A Woman kill'd with kindness.' The play was not entered into the Stationers' Registers till on the 22d October 1607; the earliest edition extant (1608) seems in fact to be the Editio princeps of the play.
---The merry devil of Edmonton. K. Warnke, 1884

About Privy Seal Office

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Privy Seal Office, Whitehall. An office under the government of the Lord Privy Seal, a great officer, next in dignity to the Lord President of the Council, who keeps the King's privy seal, which is set to such grants as pass the great seal of England. The Lord Privy Seal has a salary of 3000l. per annum. Under him are three Deputies, a Secretary, and three Clerks; but these Clerks have no salaries; they have however considerable fees, and 30l. a year board wages.
---London and Its Environs Described. R. Dodsley, 1761.

About Great/Whitehall Gate (Whitehall Palace)

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Whitehall gate. The gate here represented and the house adjoining have since the engraving this print been pulled down, to render the street, more spacious and convenient. It belonged to the old palace of Whitehall, and was built by Henry VIII. from a design of Hans Holbein the celebrated painter. Here were on each side four bustos in front with ornamented mouldings round them of baked clay in proper colours, and glazed in the manner of delf ware, which has preserved them intire to this time, whereas the festoons of stone in the banquetting house, which was built much later, are so corroded as to be scarce intelligible.
---London and Its Environs Described. R. Dodsley, 1761.

An illustration of Holbein's Whitehall Gate: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki…'s_Gate_and_Banqueting_Hall_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

About Tuesday 3 September 1661

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The Presbyterians were insistent that their children not be baptized with the sign of the cross and, actually, that the sign of the cross not ever be used. Sam was worried that "the Parson of the parish" was Presbyterian (!).

... since the putting the Laws in Execution against Protestant Recusants, those of them who were called Presbyterians have, on recollection of thought, and after Conference had with our Divines forborn their former Schismatical Separation from our Churches, and that particularly in our Metropolis they have in all things been ameinable to the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church, except as to the submitting to have their Children baptized with the use of the Sign of the Cross ...
---The happy future state of England. Peter Pett, 1688.

Peter Pett (lawyer): http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

The Surplice, the Sign of the Cross, the bowing at the Name of Jesus, and the kneeling at the Communion are to them so many Sins. They [Presbyterians] deal plainly with God, at least in outward appearance; and are resolved, as far as I see, to serve him without Ceremony.
---The New State Of England Under Their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary. G. Miège, 1691

About Peter Pett (lawyer)

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PETT, Sir PETER (1630-1699), lawyer and author; great-grandson of Peter Pett (d. 1589); of St. Paul's School, London, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; B.A.; migrated to Pembroke College, Oxford; fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1648; B.C.L., 1650; student of Gray's Inn; M.P., Askeaton (Irish parliament), 1661-6; barrister, Middle Temple, 1664; original F.R.S., 1663-75; knighted and appointed advocate-general for Ireland; published several treatises, generally polemic in character.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Tuesday 3 September 1661

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"Lady Montagu, my Lord's mother-in-law"

NOVERCA, a Mother-in-Law, a Step-Mother.
NOVERCAL, of or belonging to a Step-Mother.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Monday 2 September 1661

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"how the pox is so common there"

POX, Pustules, exanthematous Eruptions; also the Venereal Disease.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Monday 2 September 1661

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"the master of the house is laying out some money in making a cellar with an arch in his yard"

CELLAR, the lowest Part of a Building under Ground.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Rhenish winehouse (Prior's, Cannon Row)

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Rhenish Wine-house, Cannon Row, Westminster, at the end of a passage leading from King Street. In Strype's Map of 1720 Rhenish Wine Yard opens south out of King Street, nearly opposite Charles Street. There was an entrance to it from the Privy Gardens, only open during the sittings of Parliament and the Law Courts. Pepys was "at the Rhenish Wine-house drinking," July 30, 1660, with the sword-bearer of London; and again a few days later "with Judge-Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, Mr. Shepley, and Captain Howard . . . and very merry." On November 24 of the same year he is again there with Creed and Shepley, and "did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine." On June 19, 1663, he is there with Mr. Moore, who showed him "the French manner, when a health is drunk . . . which is now the fashion." The last visit he records is on June 1, 1668, but he adds, "Where I have not been in a morning, I think, these seven years, or more." There were other Rhenish wine-houses in London, one was in Crooked Lane and another in the Steelyard.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Thursday 8 August 1661

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MAD, deprived of Reason, furious.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Wednesday 7 August 1661

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to BAIT, to take some Refreshment on a Journey.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Sunday 1 September 1661

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" being a cunning fellow, and one (by his own confession to me) that can put on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends."

The annotators here are right to "warn" SP about Holmes! Here is part of a blurb for a biography of Holmes: "For 30 years he intrigued, maneuvered, and quarreled with Pepys over naval matters, until the pair finally managed a mutual respect for their combined contributions to English naval superiority."

About Sunday 1 September 1661

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"what an age is this, and what a world is this!"

Surely SP had in mind this famous quote from Cicero:

"O tempora o mores" - Oh what times! Oh what customs!

(I'm surprised vicente missed this one!)

About Sir John Mennes (Comptroller of the Navy)

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MENNES, Sir JOHN (1599-1671), admiral; recommended by Sir Alexander Brett for command 1626; served in the Narrow Seas; raised troop of carabineers, 1640; knighted, 1642; governor of North Wales for Charles I, 1644; commander of the king's navy, 1645; comptroller of the navy, 1661, 'though not fit for business,' according to Pepys; commander-in-chief in the Downs and admiral, 1662; published, with Dr. James Smith, 'Wits Recreations,' 1640, and 'Musarum Deliciae,' 1665.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.