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changed sides, was employed by Cromwell as a commissioner for reforming the criminal code, and was engaged in trying the brother of the Portuguese ambassador for murder. On the death of his brother in 1654, Sir Henry succeeded to another estate at Tittenhanger, and became High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1661. On the return of Charles II. he found no difficulty in making his peace, and entertained his subsequent leisure with the composition of comedies and other fugitive productions.

Page 334. "My Lord Viscount Montague."

Francis Brown, third Viscount, a zealous royalist. He died November 2, 1682.

Page 339. "Dr. Bramhall."

John Bramhall, born in 1593, at Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Studying for the Church, he obtained his Doctor's degree in 1638, and became chaplain to Archbishop Matthews; then prebendary of York; and subsequently of Ripon. He went to Ireland on the invitation of Lord Wentworth, and was made Bishop of Derry; but in 1641 his conduct laid him open to charges of high treason, and he found it necessary to quit the country, till the return of Charles II., when he was created Archbishop of Armagh. He died in 1677, in which year there was a publication of his works, in one volume, folio. Evelyn subsequently refers (see the Diary, Vol. ii., p. 252) to a curious letter of his on the Irish Catholics, which caused the suppression of the book in which it appeared.

Page 340. "Sir Philip Warwick, now Secretary to the Lord Treasurer."

He was born at Westminster, went to school at Eton, and afterwards proceeded to Geneva. On his return to England, he attached himself to the Court, and obtained a seat in Parliament, where he opposed Strafford's impeachment, and subsequently went to Oxford with the King, who employed him in 1646 as one of his commissioners to treat with the Parliament, and afterwards retained him as his secretary at the Isle of Wight. He was returned for Middlesex at the Restoration, and obtained the office of Secretary to the Lord Treasurer, which brought him into frequent communication with Evelyn. His death occurred in 1682. He had found time to write "A Discourse on Government," and " Memoirs of King Charles," the last containing some curious anecdotes, and the most graphic existing account of Cromwell's first speech in the House of Commons.

Page 343. "Countess of Guildford."

Elizabeth, daughter of William, first Earl of Denbigh, married to Lewis, Viscount Boyle, who fell at the Battle of Liscarroll, in 1642. She was advanced to the Peerage for life, on the 14th July, 1660, as Countess of Guildford, and died in 1673.

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Son of the celebrated Royalist general, Sir Bevill Grenville, by whose side he fought in several battles with great gallantry, though a mere youth. He was afterwards Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II., whom he attended in his exile, and for whom he negotiated with Monk. In consideration of his services he was raised to the peerage by the titles of Baron and Viscount Grenville and Earl of Bath. He died in 1701.

Page 347. "Howard, Earl of Carlisle."

Charles, created Baron Dacre, Viscount and Earl of Carlisle, held several important offices. He was Ambassador to the Czar of Muscovy, and was afterwards sent with the Order of the Garter to Charles XII., King of Sweden. He was also Governor of Jamaica. He died February 24th, 1684.

Page 347. "Denzill Holles."

He was second son of John, first Earl of Clare, and at the commencement of his career vigorously opposed in Parliament the arbitrary measures of Charles I.; but during the Commonwealth he sought to restore the monarchy, for which he was created Baron Holles, and was employed as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of France, and Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Breda. Nevertheless, he afterwards went round to his old opinions, and was considered a patriot for the rest of his life, which terminated on the 17th February, 1679-80.

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Sir Frederick Cornwallis, Bart., for his faithful services to Charles I. and Charles II., created Baron Cornwallis, of Eye. He died in 1662.

Page 351. "Lord Brouncker."

Sir William, the second Viscount Brounker, was the first President of the Royal Society; and several mathematical papers written by him are to be found in their transactions. He died April 5th, 1684. He was also Chancellor to Queen Catherine of Braganza, a Commissioner of the Admiralty, and Master of St. Katherine's Hospital.

Page 352. "Dr. Wallis."

John Wallis, born in 1616, at Ashford, in Kent, of which place his father was minister. Adopting the same profession, he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity, became chaplain to a Yorkshire baronet in 1641, and obtained the living of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch-street, London, in 1643. As we learn from Evelyn, he was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society, to the transactions of which he contributed many valuable papers, and wrote several mathematical and theological works. He was appointed chaplain to Charles II., and had been employed in decyphering intercepted correspondence, in which he was considered remarkably clever. He died October, 1703, at Oxford, where his works had previously been published in three volumes folio.

Page 352. "Dr. Duport."

James Duport, son of the Master of Jesus' College, Cambridge, where he was born in the year 1606. He finished his education at Trinity, and was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in 1632, but was deprived in 1656 for refusing the engagement. He was Prebendary of Lincoln and Archdeacon of Stow in 1641, and in 1660 chaplain to Charles II., when he was restored to his Greek Professorship, created Doctor of Divinity, made Dean of Peterborough, and, in 1668, elected Master of Magdalen College. He was a good classical scholar.

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John Fell, born June 23rd, 1625, at Longworth, in Berkshire, was son of the Dean of Christchurch. He was removed from the grammar-school at Thame, when only eleven years of age, to become a student at Christchurch, Oxford, his father being at the time Vice-Chancellor of the University. Of this appointment the elder Fell was deprived by the Parliament, and his son

expelled from his College, for having been in arms for the King. The father died upon hearing of the execution of Charles, but the son was not overlooked at the Restoration, receiving a stall at Chichester, and afterwards a more valuable one at Christchurch. He served the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1666, and, in 1676, was made Bishop of Oxford. Bishop Fell was a voluminous author. He died in 1686.

Page 353.

"The New Spring-Garden at Lambeth-a pretty contrived plantation."

Since so well known under the name of Vauxhall Gardens.

Henrietta Maria.

Page 356. "Madame out of France."

Page 356. "My Lord of Bristol."

George Digby, second Earl, had suffered much for Royalty, but was made Knight of the Garter, and might have held important employments, had he not, when abroad, become a Catholic. He died in 1676. Horace Walpole thus smartly sums up his character: "He wrote against Popery, and embraced it. He was a zealous opposer of the Court, and a sacrifice for it: was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends. With romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the Test Act, though a Roman Catholic; and addicted himself to astrology on the birth-day of true philosophy." (Royal and Noble Authors, Vol. II., p. 25.) Grammont mentions him, but in terms far from respectful; nor does "my lord of Bristol" appear to more advantage in the annals of Bussy, or in the continuation of his life by Clarendon.

Page 357. "Dr. Basire, that Great Traveller."

Isaac Basire, born in the Island of Jersey, in 1607; was educated for the Church; for some time officiated as Master of the Free School at Guernsey; and then as chaplain to Morton, Bishop of Durham, who presented him with a rectory and a vicarage. Preferments and honours promised to flow rapidly upon him, when the disturbed state of the country induced him to quit England, and he travelled in the Morea, to the Holy Land, and to Constantinople. On his return, Charles II. appointed Dr. Basire his Chaplain in Ordinary. He died in 1676. His sermons obtained a deserved celebrity. He wrote also a History of the English and Scottish Presbytery.

Page 358. "Dr. Creighton."

Afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells. His son, Dr. Robert Creighton, while attending Charles II. in his exile, studied music, in which he became such a proficient that his anthem, "I will arise and go to my Father," and a service in the key of E., still maintain a high reputation with the lovers of sacred music. He died at Wells in the year 1736.

Page 358. "Sir William Petty."

One of the celebrities of the seventeenth century, born at Ramsey, in Hampshire, in 1623. He was the son of a clothier, who sent him to the grammar school of his native town; but at the age of fifteen, he was removed to the University of Caen, in Normandy. On his return to England, he accepted an appointment in the navy; but with the object only of raising

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enough money to enable him to travel, and complete his education his own way. He proceeded to the University of Holland in 1643; thence to Paris, studying anatomy and medicine; and was again in England in 1646. In 1647, he took out a patent for a copying-machine, which attracted towards the inventor the notice of many men of science. Then he practised as a physician, and resided at Oxford, where he was appointed assistant professor, and afterwards Professor of Anatomy. He was a Fellow of Brasenose, created M.D. in 1649, and admitted into the College of Physicians in the following year. He was, at about the same period, Professor of Music in Gresham College; Physician to the Army in Ireland, and to the Lord Deputy Commissioner for the division of the lands forfeited by the Rebels; Secretary to the Lord Deputy; and Clerk of the Council. But having been elected for East Loo in the Parliament of 1658, he was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours in his Irish commission a few months afterwards, and this ended in a deprivation of all his employments. At the Restoration, however, he again appeared upon the scene as prominently as ever. He was Commissioner of the Court of Claims; physician, philosopher, author, and projector; opened lead mines, established pilchard fisheries, and assisted in the councils of the Royal Society; invented the double-bottomed ship to go against wind and tide, mentioned by Evelyn ; wrote a method for equalising taxation, and acted as president to a philosophical society established in Dublin. So numerous is the list of things he did, and the books he wrote, that it is impossible to notice half of them. But the best and most amusing character of him is to be found in the text. He died December 16th, 1687.

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There were two artists of this name, brothers, Alexander and Samue Cooper. The former painted landscapes and portraits, resided at Amsterdam, and entered into the service of Queen Christina of Sweden: the other was a fashionable portrait painter, well known by his characteristic likeness of Cromwell, and obtained in France and Holland, where he lived for several years, not less reputation than he had acquired in England. His head is engraved in Walpole's Anecdotes, where there is a notice of him. He was born in 1604, and died in 1672.

Page 362. "The young Marquis of Argyle."

Archibald, ninth Earl, who, notwithstanding his father's attainder, which forfeited the marquisate, was permitted to inherit the ancient Earldom of his family. Evelyn seems at once to have discovered him in this interview to be "a man of parts," and he greatly deplored his subsequent fate. This has been too strikingly and beautifully told by Mr. Macaulay in his recent history (vol. i., pp. 537-565) to require further allusion here. The reader may be also referred to Lord Lindsay's entertaining Lives of the Lindsays, vol. ii., pp. 146-155.

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Katherine of Braganza.

"Our New Queen."

Page 366. Sir R. Fanshawe.

Sir Richard Fanshawe, equally eminent at this period as a diplomatist and as a poet. In the former position he acted as ambassador to the courts of Spain and Portugal; in the latter translated the Pastor Fido of Guarini, and the Lusiad of Camoens. Born 1608; died 1666. His wife was Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Harrison, of Balls, Hertfordshire.

Page 369. "Dr. Meret."

Christopher Merret, a celebrated physician and naturalist, and fellow of the Royal Society.

Page 370. "Earl of Oxford."

Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last Earl. He had served as a military officer, both at home and abroad; and his services were rewarded at the Restoration by a seat at the Privy Council, the dignity of Knight of the Garter, and the appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Essex. He died in 1702, leaving an only daughter, married to the Duke of St. Alban's.

Page 378. "Mr. Hooke."

Robert Hooke, born in 1635. He pursued his studies in the abstract sciences with singular success, obtaining a great reputation among his most learned contemporaries. He was Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, wrote several treatises on different branches of philosophy, and entered into controversies with Hevelius, and on Newton's Theology of Light and Colours. Created M.D. in 1691, and died in March, 1702-3.

Page 381, line 12. "Mr. Berkenshaw."

The music master of Pepys, who states that he gave him five pounds for five weeks' instruction.

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