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About Friday 25 November 1664

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"Mrs. Lane and her husband live a sad life"

SAD, sorrowful, melancholy, dull.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary, 1734

About Thomas Chicheley

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CHICHELEY, Sir THOMAS (1618-1694), master-general of the ordnance; of Wimple, Cambridgeshire; high sheriff, 1637; M.P. for Cambridgeshire, 1640; ejected by the roundheads, 1642; M.P. for Cambridgeshire, 1661; knighted, 1670; master-general of the ordnance, 1670-4; M.P. for Cambridge town, 1678-9, 1685, 1689; lived extravagantly, and was obliged to sell Wimple, 1686.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Sunday 20 November 1664

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"talking of our ropeyarde stores at Woolwich, which are mighty low, even to admiration."

To ADMIRE, to look upon with wonder, to be surpriz'd at.
WONDERFUL, very strange and surprizing.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary, 1734

About Tuesday 29 November 1664

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"for he looked very frowardly"

FROWARD, peevish, fretful, surly.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary, 1734

About Chocolate

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Chocolate Cream.
Take a Pint of Cream, with a spoonful of scrap'd Chocolate, and boil them well together, mix with it the Yolks of two Eggs, and thicken and mill it on the Fire; then pour it into your Chocolate-Cups.
---Court Cookery. R. Smith, 1725.

About William Craven (1st Earl of Craven)

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CRAVEN, WILLIAM, Earl of Craven (1606-1697), eldest son of Sir William Craven; entered the service of Maurice, prince of Orange, 1623; knighted on returning to England, 1627; commanded English troops fighting for Gustavus Adolphus, 1631; contributed 30,000l. to the cause of the palatine house, 1637; fought beside Prince Rupert at Limgea; taken prisoner by the imperialists, 1637; purchased his liberty, 1639; aided Charles I with money; drafted a protest for the then exiled Elizabeth of Bohemia against the parliament's stoppage of her pension; deprived of his estates for loyalty to Charles I, 1651; recovered his lands at the Restoration; privy councillor, 1666 and 1681; created Viscount Craven of Uffington and Earl of Craven, 1664; offered his London mansion, Drury House, to Elizabeth of Bohemia, 1661; said, without much probability, to have been privately married to her; lieutenant-general of the forces, 1685; bidden by James II to hand over the duty of guarding Whitehall to the Dutch troops under Solms, 1688. He was early a fellow of the Royal Society.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Wednesday 16 November 1664

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"how to get ourselves into the prize office"

The Calendars of State Papers are full of references to applications for Commissionerships of the Prize Office. In December, 1664, the Navy Committee appointed themselves the Commissioners for Prize Goods, Sir Henry Bennet being appointed comptroller, and Lord Ashley treasurer.
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.

About Tuesday 15 November 1664

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"to a blind alehouse"

[Feb. 9, 1655] Major general Worsley to secretary Thurloe,
... We have put down a considerable number of alehouses, after takeing notice of these several quallifications following; viz.
1. Such as have been in armes against the parliament ...
2. Such as have good trades and need not thereunto.
3. Such as stand in by and dark corners, and go under the name of blind alehouses.
---A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, September, 1655 to May, 1656.

About Sunday 13 November 1664

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Pepys had "To be or not to be" set to music, and it will be found in his collection of "Songs and other Compositions" (No. 2591), in the volume devoted to "Compositions, Grave."
--- Wheatley. Diary, 1904.

About Arthur Annesley (1st Earl of Anglesey, Treasurer of the Navy 1667-8)

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ANNESLEY, ARTHUR, first Earl of Anglesey (1614-1686), son of Sir Francis Annesley; graduated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1634; entered Lincoln's Inn; made the grand tour; sent to Ireland by parliament to defeat Ormond's negotiations with the Scots in Ulster, 1645 and 1647; member for Dublin in Richard Cromwell's parliament, 1658; commissioned by Charles II to treat with parliament; made Earl of Anglesey 1661; president of council of state, February 1660; M.P. for Carmarthen in Convention parliament, and after the Restoration, privy councillor; vice-treasurer and receiver, general for Ireland, 1660-7; treasurer of navy, 1667; lord privy seal, 1672; dismissed for adverse criticism of the king's government, 1682; wrote historical and other works.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome, 1903

About Monday 7 November 1664

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I appreciate the 10-year-old reference to Alice's Restaurant as Thanksgiving approaches in the US of A.

About Plate/Plat

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PLATTS [in a ship] Rope made of Rope Yarn to keep a Cable from galling.
PLATTS [among navigators] Brass Compasse made use of in Map or Charts.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary (20th ed.), 1763

PLAT. A name formerly given to what seamen now call foxes.
FOX. A seizing made by twisting together two or more short lengths of rope yarn with the hand. 'A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way.' (Dana's Seaman's Manual)
---A. Young. Nautical Dictionary, 1863

About Sunday 23 October 1664

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Perhaps SP was using "Mr. Cooper ... one I judge come from sea" to learn more about nautical cable and its uses?

PLATTS [in a ship] Rope made of Rope Yarn to keep a Cable from galling.
PLATTS [among navigators] Brass Compasse made use of in Map or Charts.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary (20th ed.), 1763

PLAT. A name formerly given to what seamen now call foxes.
FOX. A seizing made by twisting together two or more short lengths of rope yarn with the hand. 'A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way.' (Dana's Seaman's Manual)
---A. Young. Nautical Dictionary, 1863

About Thursday 27 October 1664

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"there met with a rub at first"

to RUB
4. to obstruct by collision.
RUB
1. Collision; hindrance; obstruction.
4. Difficulty; cause of uneasiness.
--Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary Of The English Language, 1756.

More Shakespeare:

'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
And that my fortune rubs against the bias.
---Richard II

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
Like water from ye, never found again
---Henry VIII

We doubt not now
But every rub is smoothed on our way.
---Henry V

About Pollard

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POLLARD, POLLENGER, an old Tree which has been often lop'd.
---N. Bailey. An universal etymological English dictionary, 1734.