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  2. Terry Foreman on 29 Sep 2011 • Link. The City Match (1639), a domestic farce acted at Whitehall by the command of King Charles I. "Jasper Mayne, the author, was a beneficed clergyman, and the translator of Lucian's Dialogues; the former of which circumstances may perhaps account for the absence, in his plays, of the indelicacy and obscenity which overspread the dramatic productions of the ...
  3. Thursday 21 January 1663/64 Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wight's to get a place to see Turner hanged, I to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon going to the 'Change; and seeing people flock in the City, I enquired, and found that Turner was not yet hanged.And so I went among them to Leadenhall Street, at the end of Lyme Street, near where the robbery was done ...
  4. 15 December 2018. A couple of months ago Everyman's Library published a new abridged edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys.It was compiled by Kate Loveman, who wrote Samuel Pepys and His Books, which Sue Nicholson reviewed for us in 2016.. It's hard to tell from descriptions of the book online what is different about this edition compared to all previous abridged versions of the diary.
  5. Bill on 23 Mar 2014 • Link. The Victualling Office at the end of East Smithfield, according to Stow, occupied the site of the Abbey of St. Mary of the Graces, which had been founded by Edward III. to commemorate his escape from shipwreck; and was granted at the dissolution to Sir Arthur Darcy, who pulled it down.
  6. Monday 12 December 1664 Up, and with Sir W. Batten by coach to White Hall, where all of us with the Duke; Mr. Coventry privately did tell me the reason of his advice against our pretences to the Prize Office (in his letter from Portsmouth), because he knew that the King and the Duke had resolved to put in some Parliament men that have deserved well, and that would needs be obliged, by putting ...
  7. TerryF on 29 Mar 2006 • Link. Osborne's 'Advice to a Son' was an example of "a literature devoted to 'the doctrine of Courtesy,' of which Castiglione's *Il Cortegiano* (1528) 13 may be regarded as the original, and Henry Peacham's Compleat Gentleman (1622 and frequently reprinted with additions) the most popular English exemplar."
  8. In January 1662, he was appointed hydrographer to the King, despite his Puritan background. His shop at this time was on Ludgate Hill; afterwards, in 1683, it was "on the west side of Fleet Ditch", but always "at the sign of Atlas". [3]Moxon theorized that the Arctic was ice free, and warmed by twenty-four hours of sunlight in the summer. He also speculated that Arctic ice was created near ...
  9. 7 days agoSir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 - 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.

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