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About Humphrey Madge

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Probably Henry Madge, who was one of the King's twenty-four fiddlers in 1674.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir John Robartes (2nd Baron Robartes, Lord Privy Seal)

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John, second Lord Robartes, created Viscount Bodmin and Earl of Radnor in July, 1679. At the Restoration William Viscount Say and Sele was appointed Lord Privy Seal, but he was succeeded in May, 1661, by Lord Robartes, who held the office until April, 1673. Lord Radnor died July 17th, 1685.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Tuesday 6 August 1661

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"got to Baldwick"

Baldock, Herts, in the district of Hitchin. It belonged at one time to the Knights Templars, who built a church there.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Hammond Claxton

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Paulina Pepys, sister of Roger Pepys and Talbot Pepys, M.D., married Hamond Claxton of Booton, co. Norfolk.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Friday 30 August 1661

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"Here my wife met with a son of my Lord Somersett, whom she knew in France"

Lord John Somerset, second son of the first Marquis of Worcester, had himself three sons, Henry, Thomas, and Charles, but it is uncertain which is here meant. There was no other Lord Somerset to whom the passage could apply. It was probably Thomas, as the other brothers were married.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Matthew Nicholas

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Matthew Nicholas, D.D., installed Dean of St. Paul's, July, 1660. Ob. Aug. 14, 1661. He was brother to Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About John Peachell

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PEACHELL, JOHN (1630-1690), master of Magdalene College, Cambridge; M.A. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1653; D.D., 1680; foundation fellow, 1656; a staunch toper and unswerving loyalist; elected master 1679; suspended from his mastership, 1687, for refusal as vice-chancellor of the university to admit the Benedictine Alban Francis to the master's degree until he had taken the oaths; terrified by Jeffreys on his appearance before the council, when he showed great ignorance and timidity; restored by James II, 1688, and (1690) rebuked by Bancroft for drunkenness and ill-conduct; his death said to have been caused by a self-imposed penance of four days' abstinence.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About John Peachell

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John Peachell, S.T.P., Vicar of Stanwick, and Prebendary of Carlisle, made Master of Magdalen College, 1679; from which office, as well as that of Vice-Chancellor, he was suspended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, May 7, 1687, for disobeying the Royal Mandate. He was, however, restored by King James II.'s Letter to the Headship, October 24, 1688, and died 1690. Lord Dartmouth, in a note to Burnet's Reign of James II., p. 167, edit. 1852, mentions that Dr. Peachell starved himself to death: Archbishop Sancroft having rebuked him for setting an ill example in the University by drunkenness and other loose conduct, he did penance by four days abstinence; after which he would have eaten, but could not. Pepys afterwards (3d May, 1667) remarks upon the rubicundity of Peachell's nose, on which account he was ashamed to walk with him.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Friday 14 June 1661

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"I broke wind and so came to some ease."

To BELCH, to break Wind upwards.
To ERUCT, to belch, to break Wind upwards.
To FART, to break Wind backwards.
To FIZZLE, to break Wind backwards without Noise. [Who knew?!]
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Wednesday 5 June 1661

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"drinking great drafts of claret"

CLARET [Clairet, F. of Clarus, L. clear] a general Name for the red Wines of France.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Tuesday 30 July 1661

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July 30 [1661].
The Parliament adjourn'd till November the 20th next. Passed
An Act declaring the Militia, his Majesty's.
An Act for the safety of his Majesty's Person, &c.
---A Chronological History of England. J. Pointer, 1714.

About Bridewell (precinct)

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Bridewell. A well so called, between Fleet-street and the Thames, dedicated to St. Bride, and lending its name to a palace, a parish, a parish-church, and a House of Correction.
---Handbook of London: past and present. P. Cunningham, 1849.

About Thursday 6 June 1661

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"a plain dowdy"

A DOWDY, a swarthy gross Woman.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

DOWDY. An aukward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;
Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey
eye or so
---Romeo and Juliet. W. Shakespeare.

About Wednesday 5 June 1661

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Partying on the roof until midnight with music, food and alcohol! I can relate.

About Bowls

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...in Bowling, the chusing of the Bowl is the greatest Cunning. Flat Bowls are best for close alleys; round byassed Bowls for open Grounds of Advantage, and Bowls round as a Ball for Green Swarths that are plain and level.
---The Compleat Gamester. C. Cotton, 1725.

About Monday 3 June 1661

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An aristocrat like Sandwich needs smart, capable "technocrats" to handle his affairs and protect his interests. As proud as SP is and as much as he benefits, I think Sandwich knows that he is getting the better half of this relationship. And giving SP's father a position will help cement that relationship. Win/win.

About Assizes

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General ASSIZES, are when Judges go their Circuits.
Special ASSIZES, are such when a Judge or Judges receive a Commission for the Trial of more particular Causes.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

About Thursday 25 July 1661

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"great store of tattle there was"

to TATTLE, to chat, or prate.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.

TATTLE, Prate; idle chat; trifling talk.
---A Dictionary Of The English Language. Samuel Johnson, 1756.

About Monday 27 May 1661

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MASTER [of a ship] is a chief Officer whose Business is to have the chief Management of a Ship at Sea, to take her Way, and to give the necessary Orders to the Sailors.

CAPTAIN, a Head-Officer of a Troop of Horse, or a Company of Foot, or of a Ship of War.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.