It was eleven years, as the operation was performed on March 26th, 1658. ↩
Dr. Ball was preacher at St. Mary Woolchurch towards the latter end of the Commonwealth, and, according to Newcourt, was much followed by the loyal party. He was made Master of the Temple in 1665. ↩
Afterwards Sir Josiah Child. ↩
The Princess Mary, afterwards Queen of England. ↩
An olio is a mixed dish of meat and vegetables, and, secondarily, mixture or medley. ↩
Brentford. ↩
Cosmo de’ Medici, who succeeded his father Ferdinand in the grand-dukedom of Tuscany in 1670. Whilst he was in England in 1669 the prince caused a number of views of places and of scenery to be executed for him. Thirty-nine of these have been engraved on a reduced scale for Mawman’s quarto volume of Cosmo’s Travels, published in 1821, but those prints being very unsatisfactory, the facsimile copies of the original drawings now at Florence were purchased by the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, and form part of the splendid library which he bequeathed in 1846 to the British Museum. Readers will remember the use which Lord Macaulay has made of them, that “scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain.” Sir John Reresby writes:
“April, 1669. The Prince of Tuscany came to London with a retinue and equipage suitable to his quality. The king entertained him magnificently; after some time he kept house at his own charge, where he had all the portable varieties for food and drink Italy could afford. I dined twice with him; he was very kind to me, as he was to all those that had travelled in Italy and knew the language.”
Memoirs, 1634–89, ed. Cartwright, 1875, p. 79
Betty Smith. See January 11th, 1668–69. ↩
See March 3rd, 1668–69. ↩
Robert Eden, of West Auckland, Durham, which county he represented in padiament for many years, married the lady here alluded to, Margaret, daughter and heir of John Lambton. He is the direct ancestor of the Lords Auckland. He was created a baronet November 13th, 1672, and died in 1720, his wife surviving till 1730. —B. ↩
Now Hoxton. ↩
Captain Richard Trevanion, of the Dartmouth. ↩
John Loten, a landscape painter, long established in London, where he died about 1680. ↩
Simon Verelst, a Dutch flower-painter, who practised his art with much success in England. His success turned his head, and he called himself the god of flowers. He died at a great age in Suffolk Street about 1710. ↩
See July 31st, 1668. ↩
Mr. John Biddulph Martin, in his interesting work on “The Grasshopper in Lombard Street,” 1892, refers to Alderman Backwell’s building operations. He writes (p. 185): “Shortly previous to the Great Fire, Backwell, whose shop was at the Unicorn in Lombard Street, next door to the Grasshopper, conceived the idea of developing the considerable block of property over which he had acquired an interest by opening passages through it from Lombard Street to Cornhill.” Again (p. 186): “Backwell possibly took advantage of the catastrophe of the fire to enlarge his views,” and then Mr. Martin quotes the passage in the text. Mr. Martin writes: “Alderman Backwell figures largely in the City history of his time, and was certainly eminent among the goldsmiths of the Restoration; but it seems that the ‘little town’ whose erection he contemplated was built on land in which he had a leasehold interest only. The Great Fire of London destroyed not only the City itself, but also most of its records. It has opposed an almost insuperable obstacle in the way of research into local history previous to its occurrence.” ↩
See April 2nd, 1662. ↩
Clothworkers’ Hall is situated near the northeast end of Mincing Lane, next to Fenchurch Street. Sir John Robinson, when Lord Mayor in 1663, entertained the king and queen, the queen dowager, and the Duke and Duchess of York in the hall. The original hall was destroyed in the Great Fire, but rebuilt shortly afterwards. Sir Owen Roberts, M.A., D.C.L., clerk of the company, informs the editor that the Court, on April 7th, 1669, at the request of Mr. Sheriff Forth, granted the use of the hall and offices thereunto belonging for the entertainment, on April 13th, of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen. The restored hall was taken down in 1856–57, and the present capacious edifice erected from the designs of Mr. Samuel Angell, architect. ↩
Edward Wingate, who represented St. Albans in the Long Parliament. —B. ↩
Downes says that the play took very well (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 28). Genest could not fix the date of presentation nearer than between 1667 and 1672. This comedy was not printed till 1693. ↩
Who had been murdered. See August 4th, 1664. ↩
Subtle, the alchymist. ↩
A copy of the paper here alluded to is in Rawlinson, A. 195, fol. 124. It was an extract from an old book formerly in the library at Petworth, and written by Sir William Monson, the well-known English admiral, who died in 1643. He was the author of several naval tracts, all of which
