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Second Reading

About Valentine Walton

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WALTON, Valentine (d. 1661?), regicide; of Great Straughton; married Oliver Cromwell's sister, 1619; M.P., Huntingtonshire, in the Long Parliament, 1640; raised a troop of horse for the service of parliament, 1642; taken prisoner at Edgehill, 1642; parliamentary colonel of foot, 1643; governor of Lynn, 1643; sat as a judge at Charles I's trial and signed the warrant, 1649; member of the parliamentary council of state; resumed his seat in parliament, 1659; commissioner of the navy; commissioner for the government of the army, October, 1659-February, 1660; secured Portsmouth for the parliament; commanded a regiment; excepted from the act of pardon, 1660; fled to Germany.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir Arthur Haselrigge

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Sir Arthur Haselrigge, Bart, of Nosely, co. Leicester, and M.P. for that county. He brought forward the Bill in the House of Commons for the attainder of the Earl of Strafford, and he was one of the five members charged with high treason by Charles I. in 1642. Colonel of a regiment in the Parliament army, and much esteemed by Cromwell. In March, 1659-60, he was committed to the Tower by Monk, where he died, January, 1660-61. Although one of the King's judges, he did not sign the death-warrant.
---Wheatley, 1896.

About Smithfield

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Smithfield, or, Smoothfield, the "campus planus re et nomine" of Fitzstephen, an open area in the form of an irregular polygon containing 51 acres, for centuries, and until 1855, used as a market for sheep, horses, cattle and hay. It is sometimes called West Smithfield, to distinguish it from a place of smaller consequence of the same name in the east of London.
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Falslaff. Where's Bardolph?
Page. He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Red Bull Theatre

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The actors who had performed at the Red Bull, acted under the direction of Mr. Killigrew during the years 1660, 1661, 1662, and part of the year 1663, in Gibbon's tennis-court in Vere-street, near Clare-market; during which time a new theatre was built for them in Drury Lane, to which they removed in April 1663. The following list of their stock-plays, in which it is observable there are but three of Shakspeare, was found among the papers of Sir Henry Herbert, and was probably furnished by them soon after the Restoration.

Names of the plays acted by the Red Bull actors.

The Humorous Lieutenant. Elder Brother.
Beggars Bushe. The Silent Woman.
Tamer Tamed. The Weddinge.
The Traytor. Henry the Fourthe.
Loves Cruelty. Merry Wives of Windsor.
Wit without Money. Kinge and no Kinge.
Maydes Tragedy. Othello.
Philaster. Dumboys.
Rollo Duke of Normandy. The Unfortunate Lovers.
Claricilla. The Widow.

---The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. v.2, 1793.

About Thursday 30 May 1661

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"the Parliament have ordered a bill to be brought in for the restoring the Bishops to the House of Lords"

A Bill for the Repeal of "An Act of Parliament intituled an Act for disenabling all persons in holy orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority," was read a first time in the Commons on June 1st, and a third time on 13th. In the Lords it was read a first time on the 14th, and finally passed on the 18th.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Dr Christopher Gibbons

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Christopher Gibbons, Mus. Doct. Oxon. (1664), second son of the more celebrated Dr. Orlando Gibbons (who died in 1625). Born 1615. He was appointed organist to Westminster Abbey, 1660, and composed several anthems. He died October 20th, 1676, and is buried in the cloisters of the Abbey.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sunday 19 May 1661

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"it being the Spanish ambassodors"

The Baron de Batteville, or Vatteville, who is said to have concealed much observant quickness and an intriguing spirit under a plain, rough, soldierlike frankness of demeanour. He was very active in opposition to the proposed marriage of Charles II. with the Infanta of Portugal.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Richard Hutchinson

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Richard Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy from 1651. He was succeeded by Sir George Carteret in 1660.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Swan (King St)

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"Whatever the Swans may have done in the City,
The Swan here in King Street has sung her last Ditty,"
from "The Search after Claret, or a Visitation of the Vintners," a poem in two cantos, printed for E. Hawkins, London, February 24th, 1691.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Red Lion (Guildford)

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A Red Lion still exists in High Street, at the corner of Market Street, but it is no longer the best inn in the town.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Mountagu

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The "Montagu" (formerly the "Lime") was a third-rate of fifty-two guns, built at Portsmouth in 1654 by Mr. Tippetts.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Godalming

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It has been supposed that Godliman Street in London obtained its name from the sale of leather prepared at Godalming.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Victualling Office (East Smithfield)

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The Victualling Office at the end of East Smithfield, according to Stow, occupied the site of the Abbey of St. Mary of the Graces, which had been founded by Edward III. to commemorate his escape from shipwreck; and was granted at the dissolution to Sir Arthur Darcy, who pulled it down.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sunday 19 May 1661

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"it being the Spanish ambassodors"

The Baron de Batteville.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About York House

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York House belonged to the See of York till James I.'s time, when Toby Matthews exchanged it with the Crown. Chancellors Egerton and Bacon resided there, after which it was granted to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Subsequently to the Restoration, his son occupied the house some years, and disposing of the premises, they were converted into the streets still bearing his names, and the general appellation of York Buildings.—See Handbook of London, ubi plura.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 18 May 1661

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"with the judges on the benches at the further end of it"

The Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas were at the upper end of the hall so lately as 1810.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sunday 12 May 1661

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"much wondering to see how things are altered with Mr. Creed"

He had been a zealous Puritan.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sunday 12 May 1661

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"heard Dr. Fuller preach upon David’s words"

The text meant is Job xiv. 14, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come."
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Thursday 2 May 1661

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"the Duke of Buckingham was killed by Felton"

The house wherein the murder was committed in August, 1628, is situated at the upper end of the High Street, at Portsmouth, and its remains are now known as No. 10 in that street. It was occupied recently as a ladies' school. A representation of the front of the house is given in Brayley's Graphic Illustrator, p. 240.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.