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About Sir Edward Walker (Garter King of Arms)

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WALKER, Sir EDWARD (1613-1677), herald; servant of Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, 1633-9; pursuivant, 1636; Chester herald, 1638; In attendance on Charles I,1649-6; secretary at war, 1642; a secretary of the privy council, 1644; Norroy king-of-arms, 1644; Garter, 1646; knighted, 1645; in France, 1647-8; secretary to Charles I at Newport, 1648; clerk of the council to Charles II at the Hague, 1649, and at Cologne, 1656; accompanied Charles (II) to Scotland, 1660; returned to Holland, 1650; secretary at war to Charles II, 1666; a clerk of council, 1660; ejected Sir Edward Bysshe, the parliamentary Garter king-of-arms, 1660; quarrelled with his fellow heralds; collected narratives of the civil war, 1664; purchased Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon, 1676; wrote heraldic tracts.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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"And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold"

Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms.
The south, west, and north sides.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

Sir Edward Walker (Garter King of Arms)
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About Tuesday 23 April 1661

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"the King with a scepter"

It was St. Edward's staff.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

The Sceptre with the Cross.
Also known as the St Edward's Sceptre, the Sovereign's Sceptre or the Royal Sceptre, is a sceptre of the British Crown Jewels. It was originally made for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661. In 1905, it was redesigned after the discovery of the Cullinan Diamond.
--- http://www.1066.co.nz/text/dress/…

About John Earle (Bishop of Salisbury, 1663-65)

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EARLE, JOHN (1601?-1665), bishop of Salisbury; B.A. Merton College, Oxford, and fellow, 1619; M.A., 1624: rector of Bishopston, Wiltshire, 1639: tutor to Charles, prince of Wales, 1641; D.D. Oxford, 1640; unexpectedly appointed one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1643; chancellor of Salisbury, 1643; deprived, as a 'malignant'; chaplain and clerk of the closet to Charles II in France; dean of Westminster, 1660; bishop of Worcester, 1662-3; bishop of Salisbury, 1663-5; opposed both the Conventicle and the Five-mile acts; author of 'Microcosmographie,' 1628, and 'Hortus Mertonensis,' a Latin poem.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Capt. John Wadlow

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The Ashmolean Museum Catalogue mentions "Eight verses upon Simon Wadloe, Vintner, dwelling att ye sign of ye Devill and St. Dunstan."—Apollo et Cohors Museum, p. 54.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Saturday 20 April 1661

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[They] have broad brim'd Hats, made of Reeds, Straw, or Palmeto leaves. These Hats are as stiff as boards, and sit not plyant to their heads: for which reason they have Bandstrings or Necklaces fastened to their Hats ,- which coming under their chins are there tyed, to keep their Hats fast to their heads.
---A New Voyage Round the World. W. Dampier, 1699.

Gland (ouvrage de fil) de colet, Band-string
---Dictionnaire royal françois et anglois. A. Boyer, 1702

"Gland de colet": tassel of the throat; "ouvrage de fil": piece of thread, yarn

About Saturday 20 April 1661

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"in his night habitt, a very plain man"

"No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre," a saying of the Prince de Conde.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Thursday 18 April 1661

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"in our way met with two country fellows upon one horse"

A variant on a recent joke I heard: When happens when you meet with two Canadians upon one horse and ask them to get out of your way? They do.

About Thursday 18 April 1661

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"After dinner we all went to the Church stile"

In an old book of accounts belonging to Warrington Parish, the following minute occurs:—"Nov. 5, 1688. Payd for drink at the Church-Steele, 13s.;" and in 1732, "it is ordered that hereafter no money be spent on ye 5th of November, or any other state day, on the parish account, either at the Church-Stile, or at any other place."—Gent. Mag., Nov. 1852, p. 442; Thus the original reading is confirmed; for it had been suggested in the Gent. Mag. that this should be Church ale.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Sir William Warren

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Charles II., April 12. 1662, knighted a rich tradesman of Wapping, named William Warren. Le Neve says he was "a great builder of ships for King Charles II." And there is still in that parish a place called "Sir William Warren's Square," built on the site of the knight's residence.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 17 April 1661

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"His daughters are to come to town to-morrow"

Mr, Allen's daughters were mentioned on April 9 with links to the encyclopedia.

About Elizabeth Slingsby

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Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Radclyffe, of Dilston, Northumberland, and widow of Sir William Fenwick, Bart., of Meldon. Sir R. Slingsby's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert Brooke, of Newcells.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Wednesday 10 April 1661

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"1. Traditions similar to that at Rochester, here alluded to,"

This footnote, reprinted in many editions of Pepys' diary, first appeared in an 1848 edition of the diary with "notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke."

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

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William Fuller, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was a schoolmaster at Twickenham during the Rebellion; and at the Restoration became Dean of St. Patrick's, and, in 1663, Bishop of Limerick; from which See, in 1667, he was translated to Lincoln. Ob. 1675.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Tuesday 2 April 1661

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"betwitt and reproach one another"

To TWIT, to upbraid with; to twit or hit in the Teeth
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675

About Pell Mell

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"A Pele Mele was made at the further end of St. James's Park, which was made for His Majesty to play, being a very princely play."—Rugge. It is derived from paille maille, French; at which word Cotgrave thus describes the game:—" A game, wherein a round box bowle is, with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing, at either end of an alley, one), which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins." In France, it was the common appellation of those places where the game was practised. "As soon as the weather and my leisure permit, you shall have the account you desire of our Paille-Mailes, which are now only three,—viz., the Thuilleries, the Palais Royal, and the Arsenal."—Letter of Sir Richard Browne, Addit. MSS. No. 15,857, fol. 149, in British Museum.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.

About Ralph Widdrington

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WIDDRINGTON, RALPH (d.1688), regius professor of Greek at Cambridge; brother of Thomas Widdrington; B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1633; fellow; public orator, 1650; regius professor of Greek, 1654; D.D., 1661; Lady Margaret professor of divinity, 1673.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.

About Fritters

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A FRITTER. a small Pancake.
---An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675