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21
Savile Corr.
, Henry Savile to Sir George Savile, 2 August 1666

22
CSPV
1666, 49

23
See Marshall,
Intelligence
133

24
Clar.
Life
III 80

25
Wood,
Life and Times
II 82

27 Conflagration

1
James Malcolm,
London Redivivum
IV (1807) 73; Tinniswood,
Wren
147

2
Bell 29; for the Fire see also Adrian Tinniswood,
By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London
(2003)

3
Pepys VII 269, 2 September 1666

4
Bell 160

5
Gideon Harvey,
The City Remembrancer
, quoted in Neil Hanson,
The Dreadful Judgement
(2001) 118

6
Pepys VII 271, 2 September 1666. See
Gazette
3–10 September 1666. For poems, see R. A. Aubin,
London in Flames, London in Glory
(1943)

7
See
CSPD
1966–7, 94–5

8
Le Fleming MSS 42; Bell 313–14 and Appendix I

9
Vincent 45

10
Evelyn III 453, 3 September 1666

11
Vincent 50

12
John Rushworth, ‘A Letter Giving Account of that Stupendious Fire which consumed the City of London, 1666’,
Notes & Queries
V (15 April 1876)

13
Evelyn III 457, 6 September 1666

14
Hanson 208

15
Lisa Jardine,
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
(2000) 302

16
Baxter,
Reliquiae Baxterianae
III 16

17
Autobiography of William Taswell, DD, Camden Miscellany
II (1853) 10–11, 14

18
BL Add. MS 11,043 ff. 117–18; Windham Sandys to Viscount Scudamore, Bell Appendix

28 Blame

1
CSPD
1666–7, 99–100, 104

2
Vincent 58; see also Evelyn III 458, 7 September, and W. Sandys to Viscount Scudamore, Bell 317

3
Leo Hollis,
The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
(2008) 118;
Autobiography of William Taswell, DD, Camden Miscellany
II (1853), 18

4
Clar.
Life
III 85

5
Ibid. 87

6
Hutton,
Restoration
249

7
Clar.
Life
III 88–92, 92–6. See Hastings MSS II 370–2, HMC Eliot Hodgkin (
15th Report
) 306;
CSPD
1666–7, 99, 127–8; Burnet I 403

8
Bell 318

9
Clar.
Life
III 92

10
Locke, in Robert Boyle,
The General History of the Air
(1692) 106; see also Wood,
Life and Times
II 85

11
CSPD
1666–7, 140

12
Newsletter, Bod. Carte MS 72, f. 105v; Pincus 382

13
For the rebuilding see Jardine,
Wren
and
Hooke
; Cynthia Wall,
The Literary and Cultural Spaces of London
(1998); Hollis,
The Phoenix

14
Fraser 247

15
Burnet I 421

16
Margoliouth II 42–3

17
Ibid. 53

18
CSPD
1666, 188, 107, 100

19
Evelyn III 464, 10 October 1666

20
Pepys VII 324, 15 October 1666; Evelyn 465, 18 October 1666. See Ribeiro 230–8

21
Ribeiro 230

22
Evelyn III 476, 18 February 1667

23
Pepys VII 379, 22 November 1666

29 The Trick Track Men

1
Last Instructions
, Margoliouth I 150 (Smith 371); see Pepys VII 356, 5 November 1666

2
Buckingham Commonplace Book, Hester Chapman,
Great Villiers
(1949) 129; C. Phipps, ed.,
Buckingham, Public and Private Man: the prose, poems and commonplace book of George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham, 1628–1687
(1985)

3
Clar.
Life
III 133

4
Carte III 326

5
Burnet II 250; for context see Harris,
Politics

6
Pepys VII 343, 27 October 1666;
LJ
XII 18–22

7
Carte III 336

8
Pepys VII 399, 8 December 1666

9
Ollard,
Clarendon
273

10
Clar.
Life
III 153–4

11
Pepys VII 426, 31 December 1666

12
Letters
198;
LJ
XII 81

13
CSPD
1666–7, 490, 541

30 Breathing Spaces

1
Evelyn III 474, 24 January 1667

2
Ibid. 476, 18 February 1667

3
Gazette
17 September 1666; Hollis 136

4
Clar.
Life
III 101

5
Jardine,
Hooke
151–9,
Wren
259–315. For the rebuilding see also Michael Cooper,
A More Beautiful City: Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire
(2003) and Wall,
Literary and Cultural Spaces of London

6
Pepys VIII 81, 24 February 1667

7
Ibid. 148, 29 March 1667

8
Ibid. 595, 29 December 1667

9
Ibid. 562–3, 3 December 1667

10
Picard 30

11
Gazette
24 October 1667

12
Pepys IX 317, 25–26 September 1668 and n. 2. For the New Exchange see also Peck 59–60

13
Evelyn III 473, 8 January 1667

14
Ibid. 478, 27 March 1667

15
Pepys VIII 163, 11 April 1667

16
Margaret Cavendish,
The World’s Olio
(1655); Whitaker 294

17
Whitaker 304. For Margaret Cavendish see also Worsley,
Cavalier

18
Cavendish,
Life
312

19
Grammont
(1888 edn) 153–5

20
Kate Lilley, ed., Margaret Cavendish,
The Blazing World and Other Writings
, (1994) 124

21
Pepys VIII 362–3, 1 May 1667

22
Ibid. 183–4, 26 April 1667

23
Anthony Hamilton alleged that Castlemaine waited until they were together and, at a signal from Bab May, informed the king that Frances was not ill but with her lover.
Grammont
315–16

24
Burnet I 462; Pepys VIII, 18 March 1667. See
CSPD
1666–7, 91

25
Grammont
315–16; Le Fleming 46, Newsletter 12 April

26
Pepys VIII 167–8, 173, 15 and 21 April 1667

27
Ibid. 185, 26 April 1667

28
J. Milton French,
The Life Records of John Milton
(1949–58), IV 392; A. N. Wilson,
The Life of John Milton
(1982) 222

31 The Dutch In The Medway

1
Aphra Behn to Halsall, 14 Sept 1666, PRO 29/171.120

2
Figures from Hutton,
Restoration
259

3
This is the argument of Pincus, 379–93

4
LJ
XII 81; Speech at Prorogation of Parliament, 8 February 1667

5
Samuel Tucker to Arlington, 1 February 1667, State Papers 84, 184; Rogers 62

6
Pepys VIII 257, 10 June 1667

7
Rogers 64

8
Clar.
Life
III 249

9
Smith 385; see
Journal of the House of Lords
165, 16 June 1666

10
Pepys VIII 268, 14 June 1667

11
CSPD
1666–7, 186:
CSPD
1667, xxxv–viii

12
Clar.
Life
III 265

13
Le Fleming, newsletters 46–7

14
See Pincus 410–11

15
Pepys VIII 354–5, 27 July 1667

16
Ibid. 362–3, 29 July 1667

17
Annus Mirabilis
1057–64, Dryden,
Poems
I 192

18
See Martin Delzainis, ‘Andrew Marvell and the Restoration Literary Underground: Printing the Painter Poems’,
Seventeenth Century
XXII no. 2 (Autumn 2007) 395–410; also
CSPD
1667–8, 363, and 1670, 486

19
Savile Corr
., 18 June 1666

20
Barbour 109; Rodger 164

21
Pepys VIII 489–92, 20 October 1667;
CJ
IX 85–6, 21 April 1668

22
CJ
IX 10; Milward 92–3, 22 October 1667

23
Milward 128, 14 November 1667; see also 107, 31 October 1667

24
Marvell,
Last Instructions, POAS
92 (Smith 389)

32 The Blows Fall On Clarendon

1
Sometimes attributed to Marvell, the poem continues ‘The grand affronter of the nobles lies,/ Grov’ling in dust, as a just sacrifice/ T’ appease the injur’d King and abus’d nation./ Who could expect this sudden alteration?’
POAS
158

2
Marvell,
Last Instructions
,
POAS
137 (Smith 392)

3
Pepys VIII 427, 8 September 1667

4
Carte II 351

5
Col. Cope to Edward Weston, 28 May 1737, Weston Papers, HMC
10th Report
267

6
Burnet I 463; Hartmann,
La Belle Stuart
124–8

7
Bod. Carte MS 35 f. 461. Quoted in Ollard,
Clarendon
279

8
Carte II 349

9
Pepys VIII 342, 17 July 1667. See BL Add. MS 27,872: 13, ‘The Examination of Buckingham by Arlington’

10
Clar.
Life
III 272–3

11
Pepys VIII 331, 12 July 1667

12
Clar.
Life
III 282

13
Ibid. 283

14
‘The King’s Vows’,
POAS
160, often attrib. to Marvell, but possibly by Buckingham or Buckhurst

15
Clar.
Life
III 291

16
Pepys VIII 404, 27 August 1667

17
Savile Corr.
21, Henry to George Savile, 5 September 1667

18
Clar.
Life
III 324–6

19
Evelyn III 502, 9 December 1667

33 The Triple Alliance

1
Marvell,
Last Instructions
,
POAS
138 (Smith 394)