A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game (61 page)

12
Milton,
Paradise Lost
, XII 587

13
Carte MSS 45, f. 151

14
Act to Prevent and Suppress Seditious Conventicles
(16 Car II c. 4)

15
CSPD
1664, 487

16
Act for Restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations
(17 Car II c. 2) For legislation and context see Keeble,
Restoration
; Harris, Seaward and Goldie; and Spurr,
Restoration Church
and
Post-Reformation

16 The Spring Of The Air

1
Aubrey 231

2
Leviathan and the Air-pump
97–8

3
Boyle, ‘Prenomial Essay’,
Leviathan and the Air-pump
68

4
Gordon Cragg,
From Puritanism to the Age of Reason
(1950) 100; Worden, ‘The question of secularization’, Houston and Pincus 22

5
Robert Hooke,
Micrographia
(1665) Preface

6
Declaration, Kenyon 357

7
Evelyn III 260–1, 1 November 1660

8
See Jardine,
Going Dutch
, 267–90

9
Aubrey 232

10
Jardine,
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
(1999)

11
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, ed.
Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their Friends, 1642–1684
(1930). For the women more generally, see L. Hunter, ‘Sisters of the Royal Society; the circle of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh’, and Frances Harris, ‘Living in the neighbourhood of science: Mary Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish and the Greshamites’, in L. Hunter and S. Hutton, eds,
Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700
(1997)

12
Ibid. 27; Boyle to John Dury, 3 May 1647, Boyle I xxxix. The intellectual ferment is described in C. Webster,
The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform 1626–60
(1975)

13
Jardine,
Wren
118–19

14
Jardine,
Wren
64–8; Tinniswood,
Wren
28; W. Pope,
Seth, Bishop of Salisbury
(1697) 29

15
Evelyn III 110–11, 13 July 1654

17 Royal Society

1
Samuel Sorbière,
A Journey to England…Also Observations on the Same Voyage by Dr Sprat
(1709) 35

2
Jardine,
Wren
166

3
Ibid. 142

4
Evelyn, library catalogues, BL Add. MS 78632

5
Sprat 53

6
Hunter,
New Science
35; Birch I 3. See also Hunter’s other books:
Science and Society in Restoration England
(1981) and
The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660–1700: The Morphology of an early Scientific Institution
(1999), and Lisa Jardine,
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
(1999)

7
Tinniswood,
Wren
68–9; see also Wood,
Life and Times
I, 201, 472–3

8
Birch I 8

9
Pepys II 21–2, 23 January 1661

10
Evelyn III 268, 16 January 1661

11
Pepys III 9, 12 January 1662

12
Jardine,
Going Dutch
200–3

13
Evelyn III 272, 6 March 1661; Birch I 37–41

14
Robert Boyle,
The Sceptical Chemist
, in Boyle,
Works
II 208, 211

15
Stephen Wren,
Parentalia
(1750, repr. 1965), 210–11; cit. Jardine,
Wren
, 176

16
Birch I 10,17

17
Evelyn III 288, 14 May 1661

18
Ibid. 330, 13 August 1662

19
Birch I 271

20
Ibid. 272

21
Ibid. 289

22
Sorbière,
Voyage
39–40

23
Ibid. 36–8. Louis XIV judged that Sorbière had been indiscreet in making libellous remarks about British ministers and banished him to Brittany, and Charles asked that he should be pardoned. Charles also stopped the society from framing an answer which would spark more Anglo-French animosity.

24
See Keeble,
Restoration
202–3

25
Hunter,
New Science
85. See Peck, Ch. 8, 311–45, on the Royal Society and luxury goods, and on Henry Howard and North Africa 143–51

26
Oldenburg Corr.
III 525

27
Quoted in Shapiro 74

28
Sprat 111–13

29
Ian Roy,
ODNB

30
Birch I 281

31
Ibid., quoted in D. C. Martin, ‘Sir Robert Moray’ in Sir Harold Hartley, ed.,
The Royal Society: Its Origins and Founders
(1960) 246–7

32
Pepys V 32–3, 1 February 1664; Hunter,
Science and Society
(2002 edn) 131

33
Birch II 463, 1671. See Middleton, ‘What did Charles II call the Fellows of the Royal Society?’,
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
32 (1977) 13

34
Leviathan and the Air-pump
33

18 Card Houses

1
Pepys III 191, 7 September 1662

2
Evelyn III 347, 1 December 1662

3
Pepys III 297, 29 December 1662; Evelyn III 349;
Mercurius Publicus
5 Jan 1663, 13–16

4
Ibid. 293, 25 December 1662

5
Ibid. 301, 31 December 1662;
Grammont
171; Evelyn III 346

6
Jusserand 91

7
Grammont
126

8
Thurley,
Lost Palace
42–4

9
Pepys IV 1, 1 January 1663

10
Grammont
116

11
Pepys IV 37–8, 8 February 1663

12
Grammont
190

13
Ibid. 344

14
C. H. Hartmann,
La Belle Stuart
(1924) 55

15
Grammont
339

16
Jusserand 89;
Grammont
297

17
Savile Corr.
6, Henry Savile to Lady Dorothy Savile, May 1665

18
Pepys IV 136–7, 15 May 1663

19
Ibid. 216, 4 July 1663

20
Ibid. 230, 13 July 1663

21
Newes
14 July,
Intelligencer
18 July

22
Pepys V 209, 15 July 1664

23
Hartmann,
La Belle Stuart
150

24
Letters
145

25
Earl of Anglesey to Ormond, HMC
Ormonde
NS III 78, 174–5; Carte MSS 221, f. 77, Bennet to Ormond, 22 August 1663, 143, 175–6. For the economies, see
CSPD
1663–4, 264. See Andrew Barclay, ‘Charles II’s Failed Restoration: Administrative Reform Below Stairs, 1660–64’,
Stuart Courts
164–5

26
Moneys received and paid for the Secret Service of Charles II and James II
, CS, 1851, vi–viii

27
Cash book, 1663–4, RA 84770–94

28
HMC
Hastings
, 142–3. For the tour, see Hutton,
CII
, 210;
CSPD
1663, 264, 271; Carte MSS 33 ff. 69,118;
Intelligencer
31 August, 7, 28 September, 5 October;
The Newes
10 September, 1 October. For Avebury, John Aubrey,
Topographical Collections
, ed. Jackson (1862), 316; For the Herberts, see McClain 68: Wilts RO 1300/503 Duchess of Devonshire

29
Schellinks,
Journal
105

30
Oldenburg to Evelyn, 16 April 1663, quoted in Jardine,
Wren
215

31
This version from Brown’s
Miscellanea Aulica
(1702) 306:
Grammont
, n. 153

32
Jusserand 88

33
Fraser 213; Strickland 560; Pepys IV 339, 19 October 1663

19 Beauties

1
Jusserand, Lionne to Cominges, 5 August 1663; for language, see 52

2
Grammont
106

3
Ibid. 115

4
Norrington 80, CII to Minette, 2 June 1664

5
Sonya Wynne, ‘The Brightest Glories of the British Sphere’, in
Painted Ladies
37–8

6
Norrington 53–4, Minette to CII, 4 January 1662

7
Keay 132

8
Ibid.

9
Diana Dethloff, ‘Portaiture and Concepts of Beauty in Restoration Painting’, in
Painted Ladies
, 25

10
Horace Walpole,
Anecdotes of Painting
(1762) II 27

11
Grammont
117

12
Norrington 72, CII to Minette, 10 December 1663

13
Jusserand 85, 90

14
Pepys IV 4, 5 January 1663

15
Grammont
214

16
King’s Works
15

20 Performance

1
Wood II 476

2
Pepys IV 209, 17 July 1663

3
Pepys III 34, 22 February 1662; 36, 25 February 1662

4
Harold Love,
ODNB
; Matthew Prior,
Poems on Several Occasions
(1718)

5
Burnet I 485

6
Magalotti 77. Sermon from the Canticles, Pepys IX 264, 18 July 1668

7
Dryden,
Works
(
Essay of Dramatic Poesie
), XVII 39

8
Summers 82–3

9
Etherege,
She wou’d if she cou’d
(1668); Summers 45

10
Proclamation 1663; Summers 50–1

11
See Nancy Klein Maguire,
Regicide and Restoration: English tragicomedy 1660–1671
(1992)

12
Dryden,
Works
XVII 35

13
Orrery to Ormond, 23 January 1662, Winn 146

14
Dryden,
Works
XVII 56

15
John Barnard,
ODNB

16
28 March 1663, Summers 16

17
Grammont
86–90

18
Jeremy Collier,
Short View of the Profaneness of the English Stage
(1698) 13; Howe 93

19
John Barnard, ed., Etherege,
The Man of Mode
III i

20
Cibber,
Apology
(1925 edn) I 79

21
Pepys VII 76–7, 19 March 1666

22
Halifax,
Works
II 495

23
Remarques on the Humours and Conversations of the Town
(1673)