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About William Fairbrother

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William Fairbrother, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, was made D.D. of Cambridge, per Regias litteras, in 1661. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Naseby while fighting on the King's side, and sent to London.
---Wheatley, 1896. [Smith (really Lord Braybrooke) vindicated?]

About James Stuart (Duke of York, Lord High Admiral)

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[through 1670]
JAMES II (1633-1701), king of England; second son of Charles I; created Duke of York; handed over to parliament after the surrender of Oxford, 1646; escaped to Holland, 1648; went to Paris, 1649; left Paris for Holland 1650: after battle of Worcester (1651) entered French service as a volunteer, and distinguished himself under Turenne against the Fronde and its allies, 1652-5; took service with the Spanish in Flanders, 1657; in command of Nieuport at Cromwell's death, 1658; secretly contracted himself to Anne Hyde at Breda, 1659; created lord high admiral, 1660; received revenues of the post-office, 1663; dissuaded disbandment of the troops after Venner's rising, 1661; as head of the admiralty reconstituted the board, and issued 'Instructions,' 1662, which remained in force till beginning of nineteenth century, and memoirs of naval affairs, 1660-73; governor of the Royal Africa Company, c.1664; received patent of New York (New Amsterdam), 1664; commanded fleet in first Dutch war, winning battle of Solebay, 1665, but failed to complete the victory; defended Clarendon in House of Lords; estranged from Charles II, but early entered into his French policy; probably became Roman catholic soon after treaty of Dover (1670);
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Anne Hyde (Duchess of York)

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HYDE, ANNE, Duchess of York (1637-1671), eldest daughter of Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon; maid of honour to Princess of Orange, 1654, of whom she wrote a 'portrait'; became engaged to James, duke of York, at Breda, 1659; privately married him in London, 1660; of their children only two daughters— Mary (wife of William III) and (Queen) Anne—survived childhood. She was secretly received into the Roman church, 1670; many portraits of her were painted by her protégé, Lely.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Barbara Palmer (Countess of Castlemaine)

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VILLIERS (afterwards Palmer), BARBARA, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland (1641-1709), daughter of William Villiers, second viscount Grandison (d.1643); a London beauty, 1656; married Roger Palmer (d.1705), 1659; mistress of Charles II, 1660; Countess of Castlemaine by her husband's elevation to the Irish peerage, 1661; forced as lady of the bedchamber on Queen Catherine, 1662; assigned rooms in Whitehall; procured the dismissal of Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state, 1662; her miscellaneous amours notorious, 1662; embraced Romanism, 1663; accompanied the court to Oxford, 1665; instrumental in securing Clarendon's dismissal, 1667 ; trafficked in the sale of court places and offices; pensioned, 1669; created Duchess of Cleveland, 1670; supplanted in Charles IIs graces by Louise Renée de Keroualle, 1674; resided in Paris, 1677-84; obtained the dismissal of Ralph Montagu, ambassador at Paris, 1678; married Robert Feilding, 1705 (marriage annulled, 1707); resided latterly at Сhiswick. Of her children Charles II acknowledged the paternity of (1) Anne (afterwards Countess of Sussex), born 1661; 2) Charles (duke of Southampton) born 1662: (3) Henry (duke of Grafton), born 1663; (4) Charlotte (afterwards countess of Lichfield), born 1664; (5) George (duke of Northumberland), born 1665. Barbara, born 1672, was popularly assigned to John Churchill ; and a boy, born 1686, to Cardonnell Goodman, an actor.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thursday 14 February 1660/61

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Of course they do, everybody does in the 21st century. Benjamin Wheatley, in the 19th century, had a different opinion about how the name was pronounced in the 17th century. And he had some evidence.

About Varnish

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On 20 April 1661 SP mentions "indian varnish":

The Indian Varnish for Cabinets, Coaches, and suchlike.
Take the highest rectified spirit of Wine a quart, seed Lake or shell Lake five ounces, put them into a glass body; and dissolve the Lake in Balneo (but beware lest the water in the Balneum boil, for that will turn the Varnish white) this done strain the matter through a Flannel bag, and keep it in a glass bottle close stopt for use.

Where note, 1. That if the spirit is good, it will (if you put Gun-powder into it) burn all away and fire the Gun-powder. 2. That this Varnish done over leaf Silver, turns the Silver of a Gold colour. 3. That this is that varnish which Coach-makers and others use for that purpose. 4. That it preserves the Silver which it is laid upon from the injuries of the Air. 5. That being laid upon any colour it makes it look infinitely the more beautiful. 6. That if it lies rough you may polish it with the impalpable powder of Emery and water.
---Polygraphice: Or the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting &c.; W. Salmon, 1685

[Lake, a red colour used in painting, cinnabar.]
[Balneum, a double-boiler]

About Peter Pett (Commissioner of the Navy)

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PETT, PETER (1610-1670?), commissioner of the navy: son of Phineas Pett; commissioner at Chatham, 1648-67; was largely responsible for the efficiency of the ships during the Dutch wars; his supersession due to the disaster at Chatham, 1667.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sunday 14 April 1661

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Agreeing with Wim, above:

and made a gracy sermon, like a Presbyterian.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Matthew Griffith

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GRIFFITH, MATTHEW (1599?-1665), master of the Temple; B.A. Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 1618; rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, and (1640) St. Benet Sberebog; requestered, 1642; D.D. Oxford, 1643; royal ehaptain, 1643; helped to defend Basing House, 1645; his royalist sermon (1660) answered by Milton, 1660; master of the Temple and rector of Bladon, Oxfordshire, с.1661-5.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About William Fuller (Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, 1660-66)

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FULLER, WILLIAM (1608-1676), bishop of Lincoln; educated at Westminster and Magdalen Hall, Oxford: B.C.L. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, c. 1632; chaplain to Lord-keeper Lyttelton, 1645; dean of St. Patrick, 1660; D.C.L. Oxford, and D.D. Cambridge, 1660; bishop of Limerick, 1663; repaired St. Patrick's; restored monument of St. Hugh at Lincoln; bishop of Lincoln, 1667-1675; benefactor of Lincoln and Christ Church; intimate with Evelyn and Pepys.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Sir John Lawson

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LAWSON, Sir JOHN (d. 1665), admiral; in command of ships in the parliament's service, 1642-6, 1651-3, 1654-6; dismissed from the public service, apparently on political grounds, 1656; anabaptist and republican; implicated in the conspiracy of the Fifth monarchy men and arrested, 1657; commander-in-chief of the fleet, 1659; co-operated with Monck in the Restoration, 1660; knighted, 1660; vice-admiral of the red squadron in the war with the Dutch, 1665; died of a wound received in action.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Thursday 14 February 1660/61

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Hmm. The transcription to digital used for the 1893 Wheatley introduction did not capture the vowel markings. The original 1893 text actually says:

The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth century was either pronounced Pěps or Pāpes;

[there are no single quote marks in the original.]

http://books.google.com/books?id=…

About Thursday 14 February 1660/61

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Perhaps it's cleared up. Terry's quote above is from one Walter C. Pepys. The 1893 notes themselves say this:

The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth century was either pronounced ‘Pips’ or ‘Papes’;

About Monday 1 April 1661

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FROWARD peevish, fretful, surly
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

About Tuesday 30 April 1661

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"his wife, who through her mask"

MASK sometimes means only an instrument for the ladies to wear over their faces, in hot weather, &c.; and sometimes means an entertainment, or sort of ball ...
---A New General English Dictionary. T. Dyche, 1760.

As they were talking, they spy'd coming towards them two Monks of the Order of St. Benedict mounted on two Dromedaries, for the Mules on which they rode were so high and stately that they seem'd little less. They wore Riding-Masks, with Glasses at the Eyes, against the Dust, and Umbrella's to shelter them from the Sun.
Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1725.

About May Day

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It was an established custom for all classes to go a-maying in Hyde Park. The practice was for a time discontinued during the Commonwealth, but about 1654 it was revived, to the disgust of the Puritans.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir John Glynne

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The popular feeling respecting Glynne and Maynard was echoed by Butler, who wrote : —

"Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard
To make good subjects traitors strain hard?"

---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir John Maynard

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John Maynard, the eminent lawyer; M P. for Totnes, 1640; made Serjeant to Cromwell in 1653, and afterwards King's Serjeant by Charles II., who knighted him. In 1661 he was chosen burgess for Berealston, and sat in every Parliament till the Revolution, for that borough, or Plymouth. It was he who made one of the most famous of legal jokes. William III., in allusion to his age, having said that he must have outlived most of the judges and lawyers of his own standing, Maynard answered, "And I had like to have outlived the law itself if your Highness had not come over." In March, 1689, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal; and, soon resigning from infirmity, died October 9th, 1690, aged eighty-eight. The popular feeling respecting Glynne and Maynard was echoed by Butler, who wrote : —

"Did not the learned Glynne and Maynard
To make good subjects traitors strain hard?"

---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir Robert Pye

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Sir Robert Pye, Bart., of Faringdon House, Berks; married Anne, daughter of the celebrated John Hampden. They lived together sixty years, and died in 1701, within a few weeks of each other.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Mond

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Mond or orb of gold, with a cross set with precious stones, carried by the Duke of Buckingham. [at the coronation]
---Wheatley, 1899.