Volume I Part 136 (2/2)

p. 369 _Ormond._ James Butler, Duke of Ormond, was lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1643-47.

p. 370 _Exercise._ A common term amongst the Puritans for wors.h.i.+p; a sermon or extemporary prayer. As early as 1574. Archbishop Whitgift speaks of the exercises of 'praying, singing of psalms, interpreting and prophesying', cf. Davenant, _The Wits_ (4to 1636):--

I am a new man, Luce; thou shalt find me In a Geneva band....

And squire thy untooth'd aunt to an exercise,

and also:--

[she] divides The day in exercise.

--Mayne's _City Match_ (1639), iv, v.

p. 372 _Duke of Glocester._ Henry of Oatlands, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Charles I. Born 8 July, 1639, he died of smallpox at Whitehall 13 September, 1660. The Parliament sent him to the continent on 11 February, 1653.

p. 373 _he should have been bound Prentice._ A proposition was actually made in Parliament that the young Duke of Gloucester should be bound to a trade, in order, as it was impudently expressed, 'that he might earn his bread honestly.' Fortunately, saner counsels prevailed, in which his fate was happier than that of the Dauphin committed to the cruelties of Citizen Simon, cordwainer.

p. 373 _Old Thurlo._ John Thurloe (1616-68), Secretary of State to Cromwell; M.P. for Ely, 1654 and 1656. He died 21 February, 1668.

+Act III: Scene i+

p. 378 _Highness's Funeral._ A large portion of the debt incurred for Oliver Cromwell's magnificently extravagant funeral ceremonies fell on Richard, who was obliged to retire for a while to the continent to avoid arrest and await some settlement. These obsequies cost in all the huge sum of 60,000, which there was a great difficulty in paying. The chief undertaker's name was Rolt. See note on _The Widow Ranter_ --'Trusting for Old Oliver's funeral,' Act i.

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p. 378 _Walter Frost._ Walter Frost, secretary to the Republican Council of State, was quondam manciple of Emmanuel, Cambridge, and acted as spy-master and manager of the 'committee hackneys,' which hunted down and betrayed Royalists. This infamous fellow, who dubbed himself Esquire and Latinized his name to Gualter, was authorized to publish (i.e. write) 'intelligence every week upon Thursday according to an Act of Parliament for that purpose.' He licensed _A Briefe Relation_ (No 1, 2 October, 1649) from its second number until 22 October, 1650. This is certainly one of the most evil and lying of the Republican diurnals.

p. 378 _Hutchinson._ Richard Hutchinson, deputy treasurer to Sir Henry Vane. He succeeded as Treasurer to the Navy in 1651 and continued to hold office after the Restoration. He is several times mentioned by Pepys.

p. 379 _Jacobus._ A gold coin value 25s., first current in the reign of James I.

p. 379 _Mr. Ice._ Perhaps Stephen Isles who was appointed a Commissioner for the London Militia, 7 July, 1659. The name 'Mr.

Ice' occurs in Tatham's _Rump_ in the same context.

p. 379 _Loether._ Sir Gerard Lowther, who, once a loyalist, became a republican, and in 1654 was one of the Three Commissioners of the Great Seal in Ireland. He acquired large estates and died very wealthy on the eve of the Restoration.

p. 381 _Duke of Buckingham's Estate ... with Chelsey House._ Bulstrode Whitelocke actually had obtained the Duke's sequestered estate, and stood for Bucks in Parliament. During the Commonwealth Chelsea House was bestowed upon him as an official residence, and he lived there till the Restoration, when it reverted to the Duke, to whose father it had been granted in 1627 by Charles I. He sold it in 1664 to the trustees of George Digby, Earl of Bristol. In 1682 it became the property of Henry, Marquis of Worcester, afterwards Duke of Beaufort, and was renamed Beaufort House. Sir Hans Sloane purchased it in 1738, and it was demolished two years later.

p. 381 _Hugh Peters._ This divine, who had been chaplain to Sir Thomas Fairfax, was notorious for his fanatical and ranting sermons.

Having openly advocated and preached the death of Charles I, he was, at the Restoration, excluded from the general amnesty, tried for high treason, and executed 16 October, 1660.

p. 382 _Scobel._ Henry Scobell, clerk to the Long Parliament. His name appeared as the licenser of various newsbooks, and he superintended the publication of _Severall Proceedings in Parliament_, No. 1, 25 Sept.-9 Oct., 1649. Scobell died in 1660, his will being proved 29 Sept. of that year.

+Act IV: Scene ii+

p. 394 _Vails._ Avails; profits. Money given to servants: 'tips'.

+Act IV: Scene iii+

p. 398 _Cus.h.i.+on-Dance._ A merry old English round action dance common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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