A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game (62 page)

21 Money-Men And Merchants

1
Ogilby,
Entertainment
107; Weiser 121

2
‘The Royal Exchange’,
Old and New London
I (1878) 494–513

3
Fraser 218. See Roth 167–96

4
Minutes to 1665, BL Add. MS 25,115

5
PRO, CO 389–1, in Weiser 128

6
Weiser 137–8

7
Josiah Child,
Brief Observations
; in Bernstein 130

8
See R. D. Richards,
The Early History of Banking in England
(1929) 23–64, and for the goldsmiths’ dealings with the Treasury and Exchequer, 65–91

9
Dorothy K. Clark, ‘A Restoration Goldsmith-Banking House: the Vine on Lombard Street’,
Essays in Modern History in Honour of Wilbur Cortez Abbott
(1941) 7

10
RBS EB1/1/1663 ff. 84, 137

11
RBS CH/194/1–6

12
Holmes 58

13
See, for example, David Harris Sacks,
The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450–1700
(1991)

14
Dudley North,
Observations and Advices Oeconomical
(1669); Adrian Tinniswood,
The Verneys
(2007) 302

15
See ‘The Levant Trader’, Tinniswood,
Verneys

16
Bernstein 152

17
Weiser 147

18
William Dalrymple,
White Mughals
(2002) 22, and illustration. See the earlier study by S. A. Khan,
The East India Trade in the Seventeenth Century: its Political and Economic Aspects
(1923), and John Keay,
The Honourable Company: A History of the East India Company
(1991)

19
Weiser 152; B. E. Sainsbury,
Calendar of the Court Minutes etc. of the East India Company
(1929) 310

20
Magalotti,
Travels
326–7

21
Wilson 19 (Charles’s Council of Trade had already drawn on Mun’s ideas to recommend that he agree to the East India Company’s request to export bullion; Weiser 127)

22
See, for example, the reading of Samuel Tuke’s
Five Hours
(1663) in Richard W. Kroll,
Restoration Drama and the ‘Circle of Commerce’
, 58–63

23
Cal. Clar. SP
357, 358, 373, 377

24
See Sonia Anderson,
An English Consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna 1667–1678
(1989)

25
Kate Teltscher,
India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600–1800
(1995) 51

22 One Must Down

1
Thomas Killigrew m. Charlotte van Hesse-Piershil, daughter of an Orange courtier, in 1655. In 1659 the Earl of Ossory m. Aemilia, daughter of Lodewyck van Nassau, heer van Beverweerd, whose father was an illegitimate son of Maurice of Orange. Arlingtonm. her sister Isabella, 1666. Alexander Bruce, Earl of Kincardine, m. Veronica van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck, daughter of a powerful politician, in 1659.

2
See Pincus 200–4

3
Bernstein 144

4
Petty,
Political Arithmetic
, in C. A. Hull, ed.,
Economic Writings of Sir William Petty
I 258; Ogg I 222

5
K. G. Davies,
The Royal African Company
(1975) 42, 64. See Weiser 159

6
Tomalin 180; Pepys III 95, 30 May 1662

7
Picard 179; see F. O. Shyllon,
Black Slaves in Britain
(1974) and G. A. Clay,
Economic Expansion and Social Change 1500–74
(1982)

8
Pepys VI 43, 129. For Holmes see Richard Ollard,
Man of War: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
(1969)

9
Jardine,
Going Dutch
284; ‘Captain Robert Holmes his Journalls of Two Voyages into Guynea’, Pepys Library Sea MS No. 2,698

10
Pepys III 125, 28 June 1662

11
Simon Schama,
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
(1987; 1991 edn) 229

12
Hutton,
CII
215

13
Pepys V 35, 2 February 1664

14
For contrasting arguments about the prime causes of the Second Dutch War see: Sir Keith Feiling,
British Foreign Policy 1660–1672
(1930) 3–4, trade, and continuity of foreign policy from Commonwealth; Wilson 20, economic competition; J. R. Jones,
Britain and the World 1649–1815
(1980), anti-Clarendon factions at court; Hutton,
Restoration
215–16, economic aggression among courtiers; and Pincus, ideological differences and support of Orange faction, 195–8. See also Pincus 237–9

15
Pepys V 107, 1 April 1664

16
Weiser, 134

17
Pincus, 237;
Newes
5 May 1664

18
Wilson 126

19
Jusserand 87, Cominges to Louis XIV, 16 November 1663

20
Norrington 80, CII to Minette, 2 June 1664

21
Ibid. 84, CII to Minette, 27 June 1664

22
Ibid. 95, CII to Minette, 24 October 1664

23
Jusserand 92, Cominges to Louis XIV, 18 August 1664

24
For radical conspiracies see Greaves,
Deliver Us from Evil
, also his
Enemies under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664–1677
(1990). For spies and informers generally, see Marshall,
Intelligence
.

25
Bod. Clar. MSS 108, ff. 79–80

26
CSP Col:
W. Indies and America
(1664), 215

27
For the ships, see Fox
passim

28
Clar.
Life
II 303

29
Hutton,
CII
220; Keeble,
Restoration
100–1; Margoliouth I 143–6; Lister II 386–8

30
Clar.
Life
II 310

31
Sandwich,
Journal
, 26 January 1665

32
Evelyn III 387, 2 February 1665

33
Norrington 110, CII to Minette, 9 February 1663

34
Ibid. 107, CII to Minette, 5 January 1665

35
Pepys VI 42, 23 February 1665

36
Autograph draft, 22 February 1665, endorsed by Clarendon. PM, R of E Box 08, CII, Part 1, 019

23 The Itch Of Honour

1
Norrington 115, CII to Minette, 8 April 1665

2
Jusserand 140, The ambassadors to Louis XIV, 20 April 1665

3
Evelyn III 412, 22 June 1665

4
Rochester,
Letters
247

5
Marshall,
Intelligence
136–7, 151–2. Her instructions are printed in W. J. Cameron,
New Light on Aphra Behn
(1961) 34–5

6
Janet Todd,
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
(1996);
The Works of Aphra Behn
, ed. Janet Todd, 7 vols (1992–6). See also Sara Helen Mendelson,
The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies
(1988)

7
Evelyn III 407, 21 April 1665

8
Ibid. 44–5, 5 April 1665, note added
c
. 1683

24 Lord Have Mercy Upon Us

1
Clar.
Life
II 352

2
Ibid. 253

3
Evelyn III 416, 7 August 1665

4
Richard S. Westfall,
Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
(1980) 143

5
Pepys VI 130–1, 17 June 1665

6
Vincent 32

7
Evelyn III 418, 7 September 1665

25 Fortunes Of War

1
Harris,
Sandwich
I 293, in
POAS
25 n.

2
Clar.
Life
II 386

3
Fox 29–30

4
Harris,
Sandwich
I 304–5

5
Norrington 120, CII to Minette, 8 June 1665

6
Clar.
Life
II 394

7
Pepys VI 123–4, 9 June 1665

8
The Second Advice to a Painter
, 1666, attrib. to Marvell,
POAS
44 (Smith 336)

9
Norrington 124, CII to Minette, 13 July 1665

10
Jusserand 143, The ambassadors to Louis XIV, 24 May 1665

11
Dispatches, 9 July 1665, in Hartmann 82; also
Painted Ladies
97

12
Jusserand 142, Courtin to Lionne, 24 May 1665

13
Clar.
Life
II 417; see also Harris,
Sandwich
and C. H. Hartmann,
Clifford of the Cabal
(1937) 75–80

14
Rodger,
Command of the Ocean
, 70. See also Arthur Tedder,
The Restoration Navy from the death of Cromwell to the Treaty of Breda
(1916, 1970 edn)

15
Rochester,
Letters
46–9

16
Burnet,
Some Passages
180–1

17
Sandwich,
Journal
281

18
Pepys VI 300, 16 November 1665

19
Milward 266–70, 20–21 April 1667

20
Pincus 335

21
Pepys VI 305, 22 November 1665

22
Norrington 130, CII to Minette, 29 January 1666

23
Sir John Holland to Sir William Gawdy, 30 January 1666; HMC
10th Report
, 200

26 The Long Hot Summer

1
Pepys VII 365, 10 November 1666

2
Roth 175

3
Hutton,
CII
232

4
Evelyn III 429, 29 January 1666

5
Josselin 525, 4 March 1666

6
Pincus 334

7
Sir John Mennes to the Navy Board, 18 August 1666; Rogers 50

8
Gazette
26 April 1666

9
Norrington, CII to Minette, 2 May 1666

10
Lieut. Jeremy Roch, of the
Antelope
, quoted in Rodger 72

11
Pepys VI 141, 2 June 1666

12
See
A True Narrative of the Engagement between His Majesties Fleet, and that of Holland
(1666) 5; also the contemporary accounts in J. R. Powell and E. K. Timmings,
The Rupert and Monck Letter Book 1666
(1969)

13
Powell and Timmings,
Rupert and Monck
, 254; Rodger 74

14
Evelyn III 441, 16/17 June 1666

15
Josselin 528, 3 June 1666

16
R. Parsons,
A Sermon preached at the funeral of…John Earl of Rochester
(1680), 20; Burnet,
Some Passages
177–8; Frank Ellis,
ODNB

17
Burnet I 421

18
Pepys VII 159, 10 June 1666

19
Pepys VII 199–200, 10 July 1666

20
Cal. Clar. SP
V 546