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About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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"a throne (that is a chair)"

The Coronation chair in Westminster Abbey is an object of the greatest interest. Beneath the seat is the "Stone of Destiny," carried off from Scone by Edward I. in 1296.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Mum

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MUM a strong Liquor from Brunswick in Germany.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

About Capt. John Wadlow

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The Simon Wadlow alluded to by Ben Jonson died March 30th, 1627. The Ashmolean Museum Catalogue mentions "Eight verses upon Simon Wadloe, Vintner, dwelling att ye sign of ye Devill and St. Dunstan," commencing "Apollo et cohors musarum." The Wadlow of Pepys was John, apparently the son of Simon. (See "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 766.)
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Monday 22 April 1661

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"Remarquable were the two men that represent the two Dukes of Normandy and Aquitane."

John Carie and Sir Francis Lawley, two gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, represented the Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Saturday 20 April 1661

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"So back to the Cockpitt"

The Cockpit at Whitehall, the residence of the Duke of Albermarle.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Friday 19 April 1661

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A large number of Knights of the Bath were made at the Coronation. A list is given in Haydn's "Book of Dignities," by Ockerby, 1890, p. 763.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Matthew Wren (a)

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WREN, MATTHEW (1686-1667), bishop of Ely ; B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, 1606: fellow, 1606; M.A., 1608; incorporated at Oxford, 1608; chaplain to Prince Charles, 1622: D.D. Cambridge, 1623, Oxford, 1636; prebendary of Winchester, 1623; master of Peterhouse, 1636; dean of Windsor and registrar of the Garter, 1628; clerk of the closet, 1633; governor of Charterhouse, Loudon, 1634; bishop of Hereford, 1634; prebendary of Westminster, 1636 : bishop of Norwich, 1636; dean of Chapel Royal, London, 1636-41: bishop of Ely, 1638; acted under supervision of Laud, after whose impeachment he was imprisoned in Tower of London, 1642-60. His son, also Matthew, was one of original council of Royal Society, 1662.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

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About Matthew Wren (a)

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Matthew Wren, Bishop of Hereford, 1634-35; Bishop of Norwich, 1635-38; Bishop of Ely, 1638-67. He died April 24th, 1667, aged eighty-one.
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Sir John Mennes (Comptroller of the Navy)

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John Minnes (Mennes or Mennis), son of Andrew Minnes of Sandwich, born in that town March 1st, 1598, and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, became afterwards a great traveller and noted seaman. He was knighted by Charles I. at Dover in 1641, and in 1642 he was captain of the "Rainbow." When the Earl of Warwick was nominated by the Parliament Lord High Admiral he refused to act under him. After the Restoration he was appointed Governor of Dover Castle, and his warrant from the Duke of York to act as Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief in the Narrow Seas was dated May 18th, 1661. He was Comptroller of the Navy from 1661 till his death in 1671. He is buried in the Church of St. Olave, Hart Street, where, in the south aisle, part of a monument to his memory is still to be seen. Wood describes him as an honest and stout man, generous and religious, well skilled in physic and chemistry. He was part-author of "Musarum Deliciae."
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Monday 8 April 1661

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"Then to the Hillhouse at Chatham"

A plan, with front and side elevations, of the Hill-house as it was in 1698, is in King's MS. 43. The ground on which it stood is now included in the Marine Barracks. In the "Memoirs of English Affairs, chiefly Naval, from the year 1660 to 1673, written by James, Duke of York," there is a letter from James to the principal officers of the Navy (dated May 10th, 1661), in which he recommends that the lease of the Hill-house should be bought by them if it can be obtained at a reasonable rate, as the said house "is very convenient for the service of his Majesty's Navy."
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Love's Quarrel (?)

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The play is not known otherwise than by this notice. [in Pepys' Diary]
---Wheatley, 1899.

About Wednesday 24 April 1661

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"I hear the noise of the chambers"

Chamber, a species of great gun.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Maynard

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John Maynard, the eminent lawyer; 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. In March, 1689, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal; and, soon resigning from infirmity, died 9th October, 1690, aged 88.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir John Glynne

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John Glynne had been Recorder of London; and during the Protectorate, Chief Justice of the Upper Bench; nevertheless, he did Charles II. great service, and was in consequence knighted and appointed King's Serjeant, and his son created a Baronet. Ob. 1666.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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"then it fell a-raining and thundering and lightening "

Baxter, in his life, mentions this storm. "On April 23, was His Majesty's coronation-day, the day being very serene and fair, till suddenly in the afternoon, as they were returning from Westminster Hall, there was very terrible thunders when none expected it, which made me remember his father's coronation, on which, being a boy at school, and having leave to play for the solemnity, an earthquake, about two o'clock in the afternoon, did affright the boys, and all the neighbourhood. I intend no commentary on these, but only to relate the matter of fact."
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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"these three Lords, Northumberland, and Suffolk, and the Duke of Ormond"

Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland, acting as Lord High Constable of England on this occasion.
James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk, acting as Earl Marshal of England.
James Butler, first Duke of Ormond, Lord High Steward of England pro hac vice.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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Sir Frederick Cornwallis, Baronet, had been created a Baron three days before the coronation. He was Treasurer of His Majesty's Household, and a Privy Councillor. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of John Ashburnham. His wife, therefore, and her brother, John Ashburnham, were first cousins to Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Rugge states in July, 1660, that "the King supped with Sir Frederick Cornwallis at Durham Yard, in the Strand." He died in January, 1661-2, and was buried with his ancestors at Brome, on the 18th. The medals which he received as his fee (nearly 100 in number) were carefully preserved in the family, and have been recently arranged, so as to form the setting of a large silver cup, at Audley End.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.