[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 worship; 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.