[260] Compter in Wood Street.
[261] Preston was the Porter or Under Beadle.
[262] Frederick V, Elector Palatine—son-in-law of James I.
[263] ob. = obolus, a halfpenny.
[264] See head piece to Chapter on “[Charities].”
[265] The New River water.
[266] Charles II at the Restoration.
[267] Samuel Pepys, the Diarist.
[268] Pepys also kept this day. He says,—“Thankes-giving day for victory over the Dutch. To the Dolphin Taverne, where all we officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance by agreement, and dined: where good musique at my direction. Our club came to 34s. a man, nine of us. By water to Fox-hall, and there walked an hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that were there this holiday, pulling off cherries, and God knows what.”
[269] This was no doubt wanted for an “Anatomy.”