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Pet.2.21 incomparably describing the incomparable sorrows of our Saviours ... Note, that this was the first time Duke appeared no more in the Chappell, to the infinite griefe and threatnd ruine of this poore Nation: I went to SaysCourt. ***  X 4u April ă 4 I went to Lond: Visited my L: Marshall, Lord Shaftsbery where I found the Earle of Burlington: I had now notice that Mrs. Godolphin was returning from Paris & landing the 3d at Dover; so I dind with my L: Sunderland expecting her: 6 Came my dearest Friend to my greate joy; whom after I had welcomd, I gave accompt to of her buisinesse, & returnd home. *** 26 Dind with p, discovered her Marriage by her sister: 27 My Wife entertaind her Majestie at Deptford, for which the Queene gave thanks in the Withdrawing roome at Whitehall.  XH&428 The University of Oxford presented me with the Marmora Oxon: Arundell: the Bish: of Oxford writing to me, that I would introduce Mr. Prideaux the Editor (a most learned"'0*((a@x+" young man in Antiquities) to the Duke of Norfolck, to present another, dedicated to his Grace, which I did, & we both dind with the Duke at Arundel house: & supped at the Bish: of Rochesters with Isa: Vossius. ***  X4*x May ă 1 The meeting for the Trustees of the poore, we dind together. 2: To Lond: 3 Visited Mrs. Godolphin expostulated with her about the concealement, & was satisfied, it was not her intention: *** 11. I dind with Mr. Charleton; went to see Mr. Montagues new Palace neere Bloomesbery, built by Mr. Hooke of our Society, after the French manner: Spake with my Lord Treasurer about Mony &c. 12 Dind with my L: Arlington. 13 returned home, & found my sonn returned out of France, praised be God; for my deare friend Mrs. Godolphin coming thence I had no desire he should stay there any longer for many reason: *** 22 Trinity Monday preached a Chaplaine of my L: Ossories, after which we tooke barge to Trinity house in Lond, where was a greate feast, Mr. Pepys (Secretary of the Admiralty) chosen Master, & succeeding my Lord. ***  X4v June ă 2 I went with my L: Chamberlaine to see a Garden at Enfield towne; Thence to Mr. Secretary Coventries Lodge in the Chace, which is a very prety place, the house commodious, the Gardens handsome, & our entertainement very free; there being none but my Lord & my selfe: That which I most admird at, was, that in the compasse of 25 Miles (yet within 14 of Lond) there is never an house, barne, Church, or building, besides three Lodges: To this Lodge there are 3 greate ponds, & some few inclosures, the rest a solitarie desert, yet stored with no lesse than 3000 deare &c: These are pretty retreates for Gent: especialy that were studious & a lover of privacy: We returnd in the Evening by Hamsted, where we diverted to see my Lord Wottons house & Garden; built with vast expense by Mr. Oneale an Irish Gent: who married his Mother, the Lady Stanhop: The furniture is very particular for Indian Cabinets, Porcelane, & other solid & noble moveables, The Gallery very fine: The Gardens very large, but ill kept; yet Woody & chargeable; the mould a cold weeping clay, not answering the expense: *** 12 I went to Sir Tho: Bonds new & fine house by Pecham, the place is on a flat, yet has a fine Garden, & prospect thro the meadows towards Lond: 13 To Lond: about Mrs. Godolphins Lease at Queenes Council: *** "'0*((a@!,"Ԍ27 My Marriage Anniversarie, I dind with Mrs. Godolphin at Berkeleyhouse, being the first day of her housekeeping since her Marriage & returne into England. ***  X45x July ă 3 dind with my Lo: Chamberlaine, & sealed the Deedes of Mortgage for security of 1000 pounds lent by my friend Mrs. Godolphin to my Lord Sunderland. *** 19 dind at L: Chamb: Went to Sir William Sandersons funerall (husband to the Mother of the Maides, & author of two large, but meane Histories of KK. James & Charles the first): he was buried at Westminster: ***  XH 4m August ă 25 Dind with Sir Jo: Bankss at his house in Lincolns Inn fields: upon recommending Mr. Upman to be Tutor to his sonn going into France: This Sir Jo: Bankes was a Merchant, of small beginnings, but by usurie &c: amassd an Estate of 100000 pounds &c. 26 I dind at the Admiralty, with Sec: Pepys: Suppd at L: Chamberlaines, here was Cap: Baker, who had ben lately on the attempt of the Norwest passage: he reported prodigious depth of yce, blew as a Saphire & as transparant: That the thick mists was their chiefe impediment, & cause of returne: [I went home.] ***  X4` September ă 2 I paied 1700 pounds, to the Marquis de Sissac, which he had lent to my L: Berkeley &c: which I heard the Marqus lost at play a night or two: *** 6 Suppd at L: Chamberlains, where also supped the famous beauty & errant Lady, the Dutchesse of Mazarine (all the world knows her storie) the Duke of Monmouth, Countesse of Sussex, both natural Children of the Kings, by that infamous Adulteresse the Dut: of Cleaveland: & the Countesse of Derby a vertuous Lady, daughter to my best friend, the Earle of Ossorie; I returned next day: *** 12 To Lond: to take order about the building of an house, or rather an appartment, which had all the conveniences of an house; for my deare friend Mr. Godolphin & Lady: which I undertooke to Contrive, & Survey, & employ workmen in, til it shold be quite finished: It being just over against his Majesties Woodyard, by the Thames side, leading to Scotland yard: I dind with p pr: [returned.] 17: Viccar on 3.Joh:16: There dined with me Mr. Flamested the learned Astrologer & Mathematitian, whom now his Majestie had established in the new Observatorie in"H&0*((a@t*" Greenewich Park, and furnishd with the choicest Instruments: an honest, sincere man &c: Pomerid: Curate, as before: 18 To Lond, to survey my Workemen, dined with p pr: and [19] then with Mrs. Godolphin to Lambeth, to that rare magazine of Marble, to take order for chimnypieces &c: The Owner of the workes, had built him a pretty dwelling: This Dutchman, had contracted with the Genoezes for all their Marble &c: We also saw the Duke of Bouckingams Glasse worke, where they made huge Vasas of mettal as cleare & pondrous & thick as Chrystal, also Lookingglasses far larger & better than any that come from Venice: I dind with Mr. Godolphin & his Wife: ***  X4i October ă 9 I went with Mrs. Godolphin & my Wife to Blackwall to see some Indian Curiosities, & as I was walking thro a streete, the way, being sipperie & misty, I fell against a piece of Timber, with such violence, as quite beate the breath out of my body, so as being taken up, I could not speake, nor fetch any breath, for some space, & then with greate difficulty, coming to my sense, after some applications, being carried into an house, & let bloud: I was carried to the water side, & so home, where after a daies rest, I recovered, though my bruse was not quite healed: This being one of the greatest deliverances that ever I had, The Lord Jesus make me ever mindfull, & thankfull: 11 I went to Lond: with Mrs. G: 13: supped with p: *** 30 To Lond: about the building; Mrs. Ann Howard Mayd of honor to the Queene, whom I went to Visite, related to me the strang Vision she saw: which was thus: One of her maides being lately dead & one whom I well knew, had in her life time told her Mistris, that when she died she would certainly appeare to her: This Wench, being deepely in love with a young man, dying, a little while after appeared to her Mistris, as she lay in , drawing the Curtaine, siting downe by her, & beckning to her; her Mistris being broad awake, & sitting up at the affright, called alowd for her maid to come to her, but no body came; The Vision, now going from her, she still continued to call her Maid, who lying in another chamber next to her, rose & came at last to her Mistris: begging her pardon that she did not come at her first call; for said shee, I have ben in a most deadly fright, & durst not stirr for Mistress Maundy (for so was her name) who has appeard to me, and looked so wistly on me, at the foote of my bed, that I had not the power to rise or answer: These two, Mistris Howard & her Woman Davis, affirming it so positively, & happning to see it, neere the same time, & in severall chambers, is a most remarkable thing: & I know not well how to discredit it, Mrs. Howard being so extraordinary a virtuous & religious Lady. 31 Being my Birthday, & 56 yeare, I spent the morning in Devotion, surveying my accompts & imploring Gods protection, with solemn thanksgiving for all his signal mercys to me, especialy for that escape which concernd me this Moneth at Blackwall: I dind with Mrs. Godolphin & returnd home this Evening, thro a prodigious & dangerous Mist &c: ***  X$40a November ă 16 My sonn & I dining at my Lo: Chamberlaines, he shewed us, amongst others, that incomparable piece of Raphaels, being a Minister of state dictating to Guicciardine, the earnestness of the Secretary looking up in expectation of what he was next to write, is so to"'0*((a@!," the life, & so naturall, as I esteeme it for one of the choices pieces of that admirable Artist: There was an other womans head of Leonardo da Vinci; a Madona of old Palma, & two of VanDykes, of which one was his owne picture at length when young, in a leaning posture, the other an Eunuch singing; but rare pieces indeede: *** 30: Was our Anniversarie Elections at the R: Society, where I was againe chosen of the Council: having in the morning before ben to visite & Com: with a poore sick person: ***  X4;b December ă 6: I visited my L:Vic: Mordaunt at P: Greene with my Wife, returned to SaysCourt next day: 10 Fell so deepe a Snow, as hindred us from Church &c: 12: To Lond: in so greate a snow, as I remember not to have ever seene the like: supped with Mrs. Godolphin: *** 16 Went againe to my La: Mordaunt about buisinesse: dind with Lo: Clarendon, Lady Henrietta Hyde, Mr. Andr: Newport, & with much a doe got home through the snow: 17 More Snow falling, I was not able to get to church &c: 19: To Lond: about buisinesse: dind at Mrs. Godolphins; fell ill of a feavorish distemper &c: which confind me to bed two daies: 23 I returned home: 24. The extreame cold kept me within: ***  bp4w,0$z1677`!(#=x,0  =$z1677t 1677 ă  X4k January ă 1 I implord Gods protection & blessing for the yeare following: had divers Neighbours dined with me: ***  Xx4Wf February ă 8 Went to Rohampton with my Lady Dutchesse of Ormond: The Garden & perspective is pretty, the Prospect most agreable, I went home that Evening: ***  X(#4p March ă 31 Mrs. Godolphin removd to the Buildings I had finished in W:hall from Berkeley house:  X'4u April ă"'0*((a@+"Ԍ1 ... dind at Mrs. G: at her new lodging: ***  XX4v June ă 12 I went to Lond: to give the L: Ambassador Berkeley (now returnd from the Treaty at Nimegen) an accompt of the greate Trust reposd in me during his absence, I having received & transmitted to him no lesse than 20000 pounds: to my no small trouble, & losse of time, that during his absence, & when the Lord Tressurer was no greate friend, I yet procurd him greate Summs, very often soliciting his Majestie in his behalfe, looking after the rest of the Estate & concernes intirely; without so much as accepting any kind of acknowledgement, purely upon the request of my deare friend Mrs. Godolphin. 13 I dind with Mrs. Godolphin & returnd, with aboundance of thanks & professions [16] from my Lord Berkeley & Lady &c: *** 24 My Lord Berkeleys troublesome buisinesses being now at an end & I delivered from that intollerable servitude & Correspondence; I had leasure to be somewhat more at home, & to myselfe:... ***  X045x July ă 16 I went to Wotton to see my deare Brother. 22: Mr. Evans Curate at Abinger, preachd an excellent sermon on 5.Matt:12. In the Afternoone Mr. Higham at Wotton Cathechizd: 23. I went to see Albury, a sweete Villa of the Duke of Norfolcks, the plot of which Garden & Crypta through the mountaine, I had first designd &c: 26 I dind at Dr. Duncombs at Sheere whose house stands invirond with very sweete & quick streames: 29 Mr. Bohune my sonns late Tutor at Abinger on 4: Phil: 8 very elegantly, & practicaly: ***  X 4m August ă 21. To Lond, to meete with one about a proposal of a Match for my Sonn: *** 27 To Lon: designing to Visite my Lord Chamberlaine in Suffolck: 28 whither I came on Tuesday, his Lordship sending his Coach & 6 horses, to meete  X`"4me at, & bringing me from St. Edmondsbury1 to Euston: 29, We went a hunting in the Park, & killed a very fat Buck: 31 I went a Hauking:  X%4` September ă 2: ... There dind this day at my Lords, one Sir Jo: Gaudy a very handsome person, but quite dumb: yet very intelligent by signes, & a very fine Painter: so civil, & well bred he"'0*((a@;," was, as it was not possible to discerne any imperfection by him; his Lady & children were also there, & he was at church in the morning with us: 4: I went to visite my Lord Crofts, now dying at St. Edmonsbery, and tooke this opportunity to see this antient Towne, & the remaines of that famous Monasterie & Abby; There is little standing intire save the Gatehouse, which shews it to have ben a vast & magnificent Gotique structure, & of greate extent: The Gates are Wood, but quite plated over with jron: There are also two stately Churches, one especialy. 5. I went to Thetford the Borrogh Towne, where stands likewise the ruines of another religious house; & there is a round mountaine artificialy raised, either for some Castle or Monument, which makes a pretty Landscape: As we went & returnd a Tumbler shewd his extraordinary addresse in the Warren: I also saw the Decoy, much pleased with the stratagem &c: 9: A stranger preached at Euston Church on 1. Thess: 5. 21. Prove all things, that is  X( 4examine your faith, your life, your actions, & that of others, to imitate the best2; & then fell into an handsome Panegyric on my Lords new building the Church, which indeede for its Elegance and cherefullnesse is absolutely the prettiest Country Church in England: My Lord told me that his heart smote him, after he had bestowd so much on his magnificent Palace there he should see Godshouse in the ruine it lay; he has also rebuilt the Parsonage house all of stone, very neately & ample: 10 My Lord: to divert me, would needes carry me to see Ipswich, where we dined at one Mr. Manns by the way, Recorder of the Towne: There was in our Company my Lord Huntingtore, sonn to the Dutchesse of Lauderdail, Sir Ed: Bacon, a learned Gent, of the family of the greate Chancellor Verulame, & Sir Jo: Felton with some other knights & Gent: After dinner came the Baylifs, & Magistrates in their formalitie & Maces, to Complement my Lord, & invite him to the Townehouse, where they presented us a noble Collation of dried Sweetemeates & Wine, Bells ringing &c: Then we went to see the Towne, & first the L: Vicount Herefords house which stands in a Parke neere the Towne, like that at Bruxelles in Flanders: The house not greate, yet pretty, especialy the Hall: & the stewes of fish succeeding one anothr & feeding one the other, all paved at bottome: There is a good picture of the B: Virgin in one of the parlours, seeming to be of Holbein, or some good Masters.  X41 Bury St. Edmunds. `(#2 This passage is the source of Es motto, see p.17.  Then we saw the Haven, 7 miles from Harwich: There is no River, but it dies at the Towne running out every day with the tide; but the bedding being soft mudd, it is safe for ships, & a station: The Trade of Ipswich is for most part, NewCastle Coales which they supply London with; but was formerly Cloathing: There is not any beggar dos aske any Almes in the whole Towne; a thing very extraordinary; so ordered by the prudence of the Magistrates: It has in it 14 or 15 very beautifull Churches, in a word tis for building, cleanesse & good order, one of the sweetest Townes in England: Cardinal Wolsey was a butchers sonne of this Towne, but there is little of that magnificent Pr%lates foundation here besides a Schole, &, I think a Library: which I did not see; but his intentions were to build some greate thing &c: Thus we returnd late to Euston, having travelled above 50 miles this day:  X`"4Since first I was at this place1, seated in a bottome betweene two gracefull swellings, I found things exceedingly improved: The maine building being now made in the figure of a Greeke  with 4 pavilions two at each corner & a breake in the front, raild & balustred at the top, where I caused huge jarrs of Earth to be placd full of Earth to keep them steady their , betweene the statues, which make as good a shew, as if they were of stone; and though the buildng be of brick & but two stories, besides Cellars & Garrets, covered with blew Slate, yet there is roome enough for a full Court, the Offices & outhouses"'0*((a@D+"  X4being so ample & well disposed: The Kings appartment is both painted a fresca, & magnificently furnishd: There are many excellent Pictures in the roomes of the greate Masters: The Gallery is a pleasant noble roome, & in the breake or middle, a Billiard Table; but the Wainscot being of firr, & painted dos not please me so well as Spanish Oake without painting: The Chapell is pretty, & Porch descending to the Gardens: The Orange-Garden is very fine, & leads into the Greenhouse, at the end whereoff is a sall to eate in, & the Conservatory very long (some hundred feete) adornd with Mapps, as the other side is with the heads of C%sars ill cut in alabaster: over head are severall appartments for my Lord, Lady, & Dutchesse, with Kitchins & other offices below in a lesser volume, with lodgings for servants, all distinct, for them to retire to when they please, & that he would be in private & have no communication with the Palace, which he tells me he will  X4wholly resigne to his Sonn in Law, & Daughter, that Wise, & charming young Creature:2 The Canale running under my Ladys dressing chamber window, is full of Carps, & fowle, which come & are fed there with greate diversion: The Cascade at end of the Canale turnes a Cornemill which finds the family, & raises with water for the fountaines & offices: To passe this Chanal into the opposite Meadows, Sir Sam: Moreland has invented a Skrew Bridge, which being turned with a Key land you 50 foote distant, at entrance of an ascending Walke of trees for a mile in length: as tis also on the front into the Park, of 4 rows of Ashes & reaches to the Parke Pale which is 9 miles in Compas, & the best for riding & meeting the game that ever I saw, There were now of red & fallow deere almost a thousand, with good Covert, but the soile barren & flying sand in which nothing will grow kindly: The Tufts of Firr & much of the other wood were planted by my direction some yeares before:  X41 In October 1671, see p. 210. 2 Henry Fitzroy (166390), 1st Duke of Grafton, Charles IIs son by the Duchess of Cleveland and Isabella Bennet (c.16671723). E attended their marriage in 1672, above p. 220, and their remarriage in 1679, below p. 262, when the bride was 12 years old. In a word, this seate is admirably placed for field sports, hauking, hunting, racing: The mutton small, but sweete: The stables are capable of 30 horses & 4 Coaches: The out offices make two large quadrangles, so as never servants livd with more ease & convenience, never Master more Civil; strangers are attended & accomodated as at their home in pretty apartments furnishd with all manner of Conveniences & privacy: There are bathing roomes, Elaboratorie, Dispensatorie, what not: Decoy & places to keepe & fat foule &c: He had now in his new Church (neere the Garden) built a Dormitory or Vault with severall repositories to burie in his family: In the expense of this pious structure, I meane the church, exceedingly laudable, most of the houses of God in this Country resembling rather stables & thatched Cottages than Temples to serve God in: He has also built a Lodge in the Park to house for the Keeper, which is a neate & sweete dwelling, & might become any gentleman of quality, the same he has don for the Parson, little deserving it, for his murmuring that my Lord put him for some time out of his wretched hovell, whilst it was building: he has also built a faire Inn at some distance from his Palace, a bridge of stone over a River neere it, and repaired all the Tennants houses, so as there is nothing but neatenesse, and accomodations about his estate, which yet I think is not above 1500 pounds a yeare: I believe he had now in his family 100 domestic servants. His Lady (being one of the Bredrodes daughters; grandchild to a natural sonn of Henry Fred: Prince of Orange) is a good natured, & obliging woman. They love fine things, & to live easily, pompously, but very hospitable; but with so vast expense plunges my Lord into debt exceedingly; My Lord himselfe is given to no expensive vise but building & to have all things rich, polite, & Princely: he never plays, but reades much, having both the Latine, French & Spanish tongues in perfection: has traveled much, & is absolutely the best bred & Courtly person his Majestie has about him; so as the publique Ministers more frequent him than any of the rest of the nobility:"'0*((a@!,"ԌWhilst he was secretary of state & prime Minister he had gotten vastly, but spent it as hastily, even before he had established a funds to maintaine his greatenesse, & now beginning to decline in favour (the Duke being no greate friend of his) he knows not how to retrench: He was the sonn of a Doctor of Laws whom I have seene, & being sent from Westminster Schole to Oxon: with intention to be a divine, and parson of Arlington a Village neere Brainford, when Master of Arts, the Rebellion falling out, he followd the Kings Army, & receiving an honorable wound in the face, grew into favour & was advancd from a meane fortune at his Majesties restauration, to an Earle, & knight of the Garter: L: Chamb: of the Household, first favorite for a long time, during which the King married his Natural Sonn the Duke of Grafton, to his onely Daughter & heiresse: worthy for her beauty & vertue of the greatest Prince in Christendom: My Lord is besids all this a prudent & understanding person, in buisinesse, speakes very well: Unfortunate yet in those he has advancd, proving ungratefull most of them: The many obligations & civilities I have to this noble gent: exacts from me this Character, and I am sorry he is in no better Circumstances. Having now passd neere three weekes at Euston, to my greate Satisfaction, with much difficulty he sufferd me to looke homewards; being very earnest with me to stay longer, & to  X 4engage me, would himselfe have carried & accompanied me to Lynn regis1, a Towne of important Trafique about  X4 20 1ĠKings Lynn .  X4miles beyond, which I had never seene, as also the Travelling Sands, about 10 miles wide of Euston, that have so damaged the Country, rouling from place to place, like the Sands in the desarts of Lybia, quite overwhelmed some gentlemens whole Estates, as the relation extant in print, and brought to our Society describes at large: The 13 of September my Lords-Coach conveyed me to Berry: & thence baiting at New Market, stepping in at Audly end, to see that house againe, I lay at Bishops Stratford, & the next day home, accompanied in my Jorney with one Major Fairfax of a Younger house of the Lord Fairfax, a Souldier, a Traveller, an excellent Musitian, good natured, well bred gent: ***  X84i October ă 12 With Sir Robert Clayton to Marden, an estate he had lately bought of my kindsman Sir John Evelyn of Godstone in Surry: which from a despicable farme house Sir Robert had erected into a Seate with extraordinary expense: Tis seated in such a solitude among hills, as being not above 16 miles from Lond, seemes almost incredible, the ways also to it so winding & intricate: The Gardens are large & walled nobly, & the husbandry part made so convenient, & perfectly understood, as the like I had not seene: The barnes, the stacks of Corne, the Stalls for Cattell, Pidgeon house, &c of most laudable example: Innumerable are his plantations of Trees, espeialy Wallnuts, the Orangerie & Gardens very curious; large & noble roomes in the house. He & his Lady (very curious in Distilling &c) entertaind me 3 or 4 dayes very freely: I earnestly suggested to him, the repairing of an old desolate delapidated Church, standing on the hill above the house, which I left him in good disposition to do, & endow it better, there not being above 4 or 5 inhabitants in the Parish besids this prodigious rich Scrivenor: This place is exceeding sharp in Winter, by reason of the serpenting of hills, & wants running water, but the solitude exceedingly pleased me: all the ground is so full of wild Time, Majoram & other sweete plants, as is not to be overStockd with Bees, so as I think he had neere 40 hives of that industrious Insect: 14. I went to Church at Godstone, where on 30 Psal.4 the Minister made a good sermon: After sermon I went to see old Sir Jo: Evelyns Dormitory, joyning to the Church,"' 0*((a@Q+" pavd with Marble, where he & his Lady lie on a very stately Monument at length, in Armor &c: white Marble: The Inscription (being onely an account of his particular branch of our  X4family) is on black Marble.1 *** 23 To Lond: dind with p. I saw againe the Prince of Orange: his Marriage with the Lady Mary (eldest Daughter to the Duke by Mrs. Hyde the late Dutchesse) was now  X@4declared2. 24 dind with p. *** 31 Being my Birth day & 57th yeare, I blessed God for his protection &c: ***  X 41 Sir John Evelyn (15911644), Es cousin by his grandfathers first marriage. 2ĠWilliam and Mary of Orange, subsequently William III (16881702) and Mary II (168894) of England.  X40a November ă 11 ... I was all this Weeke in composing matters betweene old Mrs. Howard, and Sir Gabriel Sylvius, upon his long & earnest addresse to Mrs. Ann, her second daughter Mayd of Honor: my friend Mrs. Godolphin (who exceedingly loved the young Lady) was most industrious in it, out of pitty to the languishing Knight; so as (though there were greate differences in Yeares) it was at last effected, & they married on the 13. in Hen: 7th Chapell, by the Bish: of Rochester, there being besides my wife & Mrs. Graham her sister by Mrs. Godolphin very few more: We dind at the old Ladys, & suppd at Mr. Grahames at St. Jamess: I likewise dined there the next day, & suppd at Sir Jos: Williamsons among severall of our Society. 15 The Queenes birth-day, & of my Baptisme; a greate Ball at Court, where the Prince of Orange & his new Princes dauncd: I dind with p. 17 I dind with Mr. Godolphin & his Wife, at which time he sealed the Deedes of settlement on his Lady, in which I was a Trustee: &c: *** 19 The Prince & Princesse of Orange went away, and I saw embarqued my Lady Sylvius who now went also into Holland with her Husband, made Hoffmaester to the Prince a considerable Charge: We parted with greate sorrow, for the greate respect and honour I bore to the Lady, a most pious and virtuous creature &c: I dind with my Lord Berkely at his house. 20 At Mrs. Godolphins, then visited Mr. Rob: Boyle, where I met Dr. Burnet & severall Scots Gent: Mr. Boyle now shewing us his new Laboratorie: *** 30: To the R: Society, it being our Anniversary Election day, where we chose Sir Joseph Williamson (now prin: Secretary of state) President for the next yeare, after my Lord Vicount Brounchar had possessed the Chaire now 16 yeares successively: & therefore now thought fit to change &c: that prescription might not prejudice &c: we had a greate Entertainment this night. "' 0*((a@.,"Ԍ***  X4;b December ă 20 To Lond: dind at Lo: Chamb: Carried my Lord Treasurer an account of the Earle of Bristols Librarie at Wimbleton, which my Lord thought of purchasing, til I acquainted him, it was a very broken Collection, consisting much in books of Judicial Astrologie, Romances & trifles &c: Thence to our Society, where were experiments of the incumbency & gravitation of the Aire on Mercury for the Barometer. Peper wormes were first shewed us in the Microscope &c:  X423 ... I gave my Sonn an Office1, with Instructions how to govern his Youth, I pray God give him the Grace to make a right use of it &c: ***  X 4cI1 A devotionary book.  b 40w,1s0$z1678`!(#=0@x,2s0  =$z1678@13s0   1t 1678 ă  XH 4k January ă 1. Imploring the blessing of Almighty God for the yeare following: divers Neighbours dind with me. 4 My Lord Ossory going now Into Holland, sent his Barge to bring me to his Yacht, now under saile; I went with him a good part of the way towards Gravesend, & after dinner returned with my Lord, it beginning to be stormie &c: *** 21. To Lond: about severall affaires: Dind 22 with Mrs. Godolphin, and next day with the Duke of Norfolck; being the first time I had seene him since the Death of his elder Bro: who died at Padoa in Italy where as being lunatic, he had ben kept above 30 yeares: The Duke had now newly declard his Marriage to that infamous Woman his Concubine, whom he promised me he would never marry: I went with him to see the Duke of Buckingam, thence to my Lord Sunderlands now Secretary of State, to shew him that rare piece of Vostermans (sonn of old Vostermans) which was a View or Landscip of my Lords Palace &c: at Althorp in Northamptonshire. ***  X4Wf February ă 18 My Lord Treasurer sent to me that I would accompanie him to Wimbledon which he had lately purchased of the Earle of Bristoll, so breaking fast with him privately in his Chamber (at what time he was very like to be choaked in drinking too hastily) I accompanied him, with two of his daughters, my L: Conway, & Sir Bernard Gasogne & having surveied his Gardens & alterations, returned late at night: ***  X#4p March ă 22 I went to Graves-end about a Pay & Accompt, for the quartes of men, during the late Warr, where to my extraordinary affliction, I found my Agent there had missbehaved himselfe: I returned home next day:"' 0*((a@+"Ԍ***  X4u April ă 18 I went to see New Bedlam Hospital, magnificently built, & most sweetely placed in Morefields, since the dreadfull fire of Lond: dined with p: ***  Xx4*x May ă 16 Being the Wedding Anniversarie of my excellent friend Mrs. Godolphin, she, with my Lady Sylvius & her sister Grahame came to visite, & dine with me; returning in the Evening, & was the last time, that blessed Creature ever came to my house, now being also greate with Child, & seldome stirring abroad: ***  X 4v June ă 28 I went to Windsor with my Lord Chamberlain (the Castle now new repairing with exceeding Cost &c) to see the rare Worke of Virrio, & incomparable Carving of Gibbons: 29 returned with my Lord &c: by Hownslow heath where we saw the new raised Army encampd, designed against France, in pretence at least, but gave umbrage to the Parliament: his Majestie & a world of Company in the field, & the whole Army in Batallia, a very glorious sight: now were brought into service a new sort of souldier called Granadiers, who were dextrous to fling hand granados, every one having a pouch full, & had furrd Capps  X4with coped crownes like Janizaries1, which made them looke very fierce, & some had long hoods hanging down behind as we picture fooles: their clothing being likewise py bald yellow & red: so we returned to Lond: ***  X45x July ă 20 I went to the Tower to try a Mettal at the Say-Masters, which onely proved Sulphur: then saw Monsieur Rotiere that incomparable Graver belonging to the Mint, who emulates even the Antients in both mettal & stone; he was now moulding of an Horse for the Kings statue to be cast in silver of a Yard high: I dined with Mr. Slingsby Master of the Mint. Visite L: Brouncker: *** 23 Returnd, having ben to see Mr. Elias Ashmoles Library & Curiosities at Lambeth, he has divers MSS, but most of them Astrological, to which study he is addicted, though I believe not learned; but very Industrious, as his History of the Gartir shews, he shewed me a Toade included in Amber: The prospect from a Turret is very fine, it being so neere Lond: & yet not discovering any house about the Country. The famous John Tradescant, bequeathd his Repositary to this Gent: who has given them to the University of Oxford, & erected a Lecture on them &c: over the Laboratorie, in imitation of the R: Society: My deare friend Mrs. Godolphin & my Wife were with us: I think it was the last of her going abroad:"# 0*(H&a@'"Ԍ25 I went to Lond: to the wedding of my Bro: in Law Glandvills Niepce, married to Cap: Fowler &c: Thence to R: Society: suppd with Mrs. Godolphin whose husband was now made Master of the Robes to the King. There was now sent me 70 pounds from some whom I knew not to be by me distributed among poore people at my discretion; I came afterwards to find it was from that heavenly creature my deare friend: who had frequently given me large Summs to bestow on Charities &c: ***  X4m August ă 23 Upon Sir Rob: Readings importunity, I went to Visite the Duke of Norfolck at his new Palace by Way bridge; where he laied out in building neere 10000 pounds, on a Copyhold, & in a miserable barren sandy place by the streete side, never in my daies had I seene such expense to so  X 4 small 1ĠTurkish soldiers. purpose: The roomes are Wainscoted, & some of them richly parquetted with Cedar, Yew, Cypresse &c. There are some good Pictures, especialy, that painting of Holbens where The Duke of Norfolck, Charles Brandon, & Hen: the 8: are dauncing with the three Ladys, such amorous countenances, & spritefull motion did I never see expressed: Tis a thousand pitties (as I told my Lord of Arundel his sonn) that jewell should be given away to the present broode, & not to be fixed to the incontaminate issue: 24 I went to see my L: house at Byfleete, an old large building; and thence to the Paper-mills, where I found them making a Course white paper: First they cull the raggs (which are linnen for White paper, Wollen for browne) then they stampe them in troughs to a papp, with pestles or hammers like the powder mills: Then put it in a Vessel of Water, in which they dip a frame closely wyred, with wyer as small as an haire, & as cloose as a Weavers reede: upon this take up the papp, the superfluous water draining from it thro the wyres: This they dextrously turning shake out like a thin pancake on a smoth board, betweene two pieces of flannell; Then presse it, betweene a greate presse, the sucking out the moisture, then taking it out ply & dry it on strings, as they dry linnen in the Laundry, then dip it in allume water, lastly polish, & make it up in quires: &c: note that the put some gumm in the water, in which they macerate the raggs into a pap: note that the marks we find in the sheetes is formed in the wyres. 25 ... After Evening prayer Visited Mr. Sheldon (Nephew to the late Archbish: of Cant: where I found the Bish: of Rochester) and his pretty melancholy Garden, I tooke notice  X4of the largest Arbor Thuy% I had ever seene: The place is finely waterd, & there are many curiosities of India which we were shewd in the house: There was at Way-bridge the Dutchesse of Norfolck, My Lord Thomas Howard (a worthy & virtuous gent, with whom my sonn, was sometime bred up in Arundel house) who was newly come from Rome where he had ben some time; also one of the Dukes Daughters by his first Lady: My Lord leading me  X 4about the house, made no scrupule of shewing me all the Latebr% & hiding places for the popish Priests, & where they said Masse, for he was no bigoted Papist: He told me he never trusted them with any seacret; & used Protestants onely in all buisinesses of importance: I went with my L. Duke this evening to Windsore, where was a magnificent Court, it being the first time of his Majesties removing thither, since it was repaired: 26: I dind with Mr. Secretary Coventrie, & then returned with the Duke of Norfolck. 27: I tooke leave of him, & dined at Mr. Hen: Brounchers at the Abby of Sheene formerly a Monastery of Carthusians, there yet remaining one of their solitary Cells with a Crosse: within this ample inclosure are severall pretty Villas, and fine Gardens of the most"' 0*(H&a@Q+" excellent fruites, Especialy Sir William Temples, lately Ambassador into Holland, & the Lord Liles sonn to the Earle of Licester, who has divers rare Pictures, above that of Sir Brian Tukes of Holbein: After dinner I walked to Ham, to see the House & Garden of the Duke of Laderdaile, which is indeede inferiour to few of the best Villas in Italy itselfe, The House furnishd like a great Princes; The Parterrs, flo: Gardens, Orangeries, Groves, Avenues, Courts, Statues, Perspectives, fountaines, Aviaries, and all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the World, must needes be surprizing &c: Thence I went my worthy friends Sir Hen: Capels (bro: to the Earle of Essex) it is an old timber house, but his Garden has certainely the Choicest fruite of any plantation in England, as he is the most industrious, & understanding in it: from hence To Lond: & [28] next day to SaysCourt; after a most pleasant & divertisant Excursion, the weather bright & temperate: 29 I was cald againe to London to waite againe on the Duke of Norfolck who having at my request onely, bestowd the Arudelian Library on the Royal Society, sent me to take charge of the Bookes & remove them; onely that I would suffer the Heraulds Chiefe Officer Sir W: Dugdale to have such of them as concernd Herauldry & Martials Office As bokes of Armorie & Geneologies; the Duke being Earle Marishal of England: I procured for our Society besides Printed bookes, neere 700 MSS: some in Greeke of greate concernement; The Printed books being of the oldest Impressions, are not the lesse valuable; I esteeme them almost equal with MSS: Most of the Fathers printed at Basil &c: before the Jesuites, abused them with their Expurgatorie Indexes: There is a noble MSS: of Vitruvius: Many of these Bookes had ben presented by Popes, Cardinals & greate Persons to the Earles of Arundell & Dukes of Norfolck; & the late magnificent Tho: E: of Arundel bought a noble Library in Germanie, which is in this Collection; nor should I for the honour I beare the family, have perswaded the Duke to part with these, had I not seene how negligent he was of them, in suffering the Priests, & every body to carry away & dispose of what they pleased: so as aboundance of rare things are gon, & irrecoverable: Having taken Order here, I went to the R: Society, to give them an account of what I had procured, that they might call a Council, & appoint a day to waite on the Duke to thank him for this munificent gift: There were this afternoone also severall Experiments shewn, and divers learned & curious discourses: as first, Concerning a Woman that in Lions had ben 24 yeares with Child, which had ben dead 7 yeares before the Mother, who lived to 60: Also that this Child was found out of the Womb: Also of another Conceivd out of the Womb, lying in the hollow of the body, during which the Mother conceivd & brought forth another Child: the first coming forth by piecemeale, bones, & putrid flesh, through severall ulcers in severall parts below: This was in England: An other (abroad) who went divers yeares with an Embrio in her body, at last brought forth, a Child whose head and limbs were halfe petrified: Divers learned Physitians now present held, that these extraUtrine Conceptions happnd through the Eggs  Xx4passing out of the Ovarium or Fallopian Tubes, by some occult meatus, besides that into the womb: There being a discourse of Iseland; It was affirmd, that the bodys of men when dead, are piled up for severall moneths without corruption, frozen as hard as marble; till the Thaws come, & then buried: the ground being til then too hard to dig: The same is sayd of Muscovy, & that they commonly remaine so exposd til about mid-May: Dr. Croone affirmed that Freezing is not by any conjelation of the Water, but an instantaneous action or operation, so as listning attentively, one may heare a kind of obscure sharp frizling noise when it shoots the Icy skin or first Epidermis which is swift as thought: This he tried by a glasse of Water. Also all water shoots into the shape of branches infinitely multiplied"%0*(H&a@p)" at right angles, & resembling the veines in the Leafe of a Vegetable: That Snow by accression did grow by falling, & shot like a tree, at right angles also, besides the Stellifying of every  b4individual atome of it *. It was by some there also assured us, that the Greeneland Whale when struck hastens to the shore, a Vast fish in Thicknesse with a huge head & jawes: That the Bermudas is longer & more slender, with a sharp snout, & he being smitten contrarie to the other, hastens out to sea, for they find them at a certaine season, among the rocks neerer the Iland; & being gotten out no rope is long enough to fasten to their harping Irons; so as it was so difficult to kill them, that the trade (which is very Considerable) had certainly failed there, had not an halfe drunken fellow, after he had flung his speare & wounded a Whale, desperately ho

ped out of his boate upon the fishes back, where he so hacked him, as killed him before he could get to sea; & this is now familiarly practised by those of the Bermudas ever since. This story was affirmed me for a certaine truth by Sir Rob: Clayton who has one of the most considerable Plantations in that fertil Iland: I returned home this evening: ***  X 4` September ă 3 I went to Lond: to dine at Mrs. Godolphins according to my custome every Tuesday, and found her in Labour; & stayed til they brought me word the infant was borne, a lovely boy, the Mother exceedingly well laied to all appearance, Mr. G: (the Father) being at Windsore with the Court: 5 It was christned, The Susceptors being Sir Will: Godolphin (head of the family) Mr. Jo: Hervey Tresurer to the Queene, & Mrs. Boscawen (sister to Sir William & the Father); and named after the Gradfathers name Francis: It was baptizd in the Chamber where it was borne, in the mothers presence, at White-hall, by the Chaplaine who used to officiate in her pretty family; so I returned this evening home with my Wife, who was also come up to see her & congratulate. 8: our Curate (in absence of the Viccar) preaching on his former Text, whilst I was at Church this morning came a Letter from Mr. Godolphin (who had ben sent for from Winsore the night before) to give me notice that my deare friend, his Lady, was exceedingly ill, & desiring my Prayers & assistance, his affliction being so extreme: so my Wife and I tooke boate immediately, & went to White-hall, where to mine unexpressable sorrow I found she had ben atacqud with the new feavor then reigning, this excessive hot Autumne, which being of a most malignant nature, & prevailing on her now weakned & tender body, eluded all the skill & help of the most eminent Physitians; and her head, so as she fell into deliriums, & that so vilontly & frequent, that unlesse some (almost miraulous) remedy were applied, it was impossible she should hold out; nor did Doctors dare prescribe such remedies as might have ben proper in other cases, by reason of her condition, then so lately brought to bed; so as the paroxysmes increasing to greater height, it was now despaird that she should last many houres, nor did she continue many minutes, without repeated fitts, with much paine & agonie, which carried her off [9] the next day, being moneday, betweene the houres of one & two in the afternoone, in the 26t yeare of her Age: to the unexpressable affliction of her deare Husband, & all her Relations; but of none in this world, more than my selfe, who lost the most excellent, & most estimable Friend, that ever livd: I cannot but say, my very Soule was united to hers, & that this stroake did pierce me to the utmost depth: for never was there a more virtuous, & inviolable friendship, never a more religious, discreete, & admirable creature; beloved of all, admird of all, for all the possible perfections of her sex: But she is gon, to receave the reward of her signal Charity, & all other her Christian graces, too blessed a Creature to converse with mortals, fitted (as she was) by a most holy Life, to be receivd into the mansions above:"'0*(H&a@^+"ԌBut it is not here, that I pretend to give her Character, who have designd, to consecrate her worthy life to posterity: I must yet say, she was for witt, beauty, good-nature, fidelitie, discretion and all accomplishments, the most choice & agreable person, that ever I was acquainted with: & a losse to be more sensibly deplored by me, as she had more particularly honord me with a friendship of the most religious bands, & such, as she has often protested she would even die for with cherefullnesse: The small services I was able to do her in some of her secular concernes, was immensly recompencd with her acceptance onely; but how! ah how! shall I ever repay my obligations to her for the infinite good offices she did my soule, by so oft ingaging me to make religion the termes & tie of the friendship which was betweene us: She was certainely the best Wife, the best Mother, the best Mistris, the best friend that ever Husband, Child, Servant, friend [or] that ever any creature had, nor am I able to enumerate her vertues: Her husband fell downe flat like a dead man, struck with unspeakeable affliction, all her Relations partooke of the losse; The King himselfe & all the Court expressd their sorrow, & to the poore and most miserable it was irreparable; for there was no degree, but had some obligation to her memorie: So virtuous & sweete a life she lead, that in all her fitts, (even those which tooke away her discernement); she never was heard to utter any syllable unbecoming a Christian, or uninnocent, which is extraordinary in delirious persons: So carefull, & provident she was to prepare for all possible accidents, that (as if she fore-saw her end), she received the heavenly  X4Viaticum but the Sunday before, after a most solemn recollection; & putting all her domestic Concerns in the exactest order, left a Letter directed to her Husband (to be opened in case she died in Childbed) in which, with the most pathetic and indearing expressions of a most loyal & virtuous wife, she begs his kindness to her Memorie, might be continud; by his care and esteeme of those she left behind, even to her very domestic servants, to the meanest of which she left considerable Legaces, desiring she might be buried in the Dormitorie of his family neere 300 miles from all her other friends; And as she made use of me to convey innumerable & greate Charities all her lifetime, so I paied 100 pounds to her chiefe woman, 100 to a kindswoman in declining circumstances: To her sister the value of 1000 pounds: In diamond rings to other of her friends, 500 pounds: & to severall poore people, widows, fatherlesse, Prisoners & indigents, pensions to continue: = the passionate, humble, mealting disposition of this blessed Friend; how am I afflicted for thee! my heavenly friend: It was now seaven yeares since she was maid of Honor to the Queene that she reguarded me as a Father, a Brother, & (what is more) a Friend: we often prayed, visited the sick & miserable, received, read, discoursed & communicated together in all holy Offices together without reproch: She was most deare to my Wife, affectionate to my Children, intrested in my Concernes, in a word, we were but one Soule, as aboundance of her professions & letters in my hands testifie: But she is gon, & the absence so afflicting to me, as I shall carry the sense of it to the last: This onely is my Comfort, that she is happy, & I hope in Christ, I shall shortly behold her againe in the boosome of our deare Saviour, where she is in blisse, & whence we shall never part: The excessive affliction of this losse did so exceedingly afflict her husband, and other neere Relations, that knowing in what profession of a most signal Friendship, she ever ownd me; The Fees to the Physitians, The intire Care of her funeral, was wholy comitted to me; so as having closed the Eyes, & dropd a teare upon the Cheeke of my blessed Saint, Lovely in death, & like an Angel; I caused the Corps to be embaulmed, & wrapd in Lead, with a plate of Brasse sothered on it, with an Inscription & other Circumstancs due to her worth, with as much dilligence & care as my grieved heart would permitt me; being so full of sorrow, & tird with it, that retiring home for two daies, I spent it in solitude, & sad reflections:"%0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ*** 16 I went to Lond: in order to the funeral of my deare Friend: so as on the 17th in an herse with 6 horses, & two other Coaches of as many, & with about 30 people of her relations & servants, we as privately, & without the least pomp (as expressly required by her) proceeded towards the place, where she would be buried: There accompanied her hearse her husbands Bro: Sir Will. & two more of his Bro: & 3 Sisters: Mr. G: her husband, so surchargd with griefe, that he was wholy unfitt to Travell so long a journey til he should be more composed, & for this reason, after I had waited on the companie as far as Hounslow heath, with a sad heart, I was obligd to returne, upon some indispensable affaires: The Corps was ordred to be taken out of the hearse & decently placed in the house, with tapers about it, & her servants attending, every night during all the way to the foote of Cornewell, neere 300 miles, & then as honorably interred in the Parish Church of Godolphin. This funerall, private as it was, costing her deare husband not much lesse than 1000 pounds; and = that ten thousand more might have redeemed her life! Returning back, I caled in to visite & Condole with my Lady Berkeley, my Lord, being also newly dead, which repeated sorrowes: 18 I spent most of the afternoone with disconsolate Mr. Godolphin, in looking over & sorting his Ladys Papers, most of which consisted of Prayers, meditations, Sermon-notes, Discourses & Collections on severall religious subjects, & many of her owne happy Composing, & so pertinently digested, as if she had ben all her life a student in Divinity: There we found a Diarie of her solemn resolutions, all of them tending to Institution of life, & practical virtue; with some letters from select friends &c all of them put into exact method; so as it even astonish us to consider what she had read, & written, her youth considered, few Divines having taken halfe that paines, or to better purpose; for what she read, or writt, she livd, full of Charity, and Good works which she did. 19 I returnd home to my house: 22: Our Viccar & Curate, on their former Texts: My Family being also this crazy season, much discomposed with sicknesse. ***  X4i October ă 1 I went with my Wife to Lond: The Parliament being now alarmd with the whole Nation, about a conspiracy of some Eminent Papists, for the destruction of the King, & introducing Popery; discovered by one Oates and Dr. Tongue, which last, I knew, being the Translator of the Jesuites Morals: I went to see & converse with him, now being at White-hall, with Mr. Oates, one that was lately an Apostate to the Church of Rome, & now returnd againe with this discovery: he seemd to be a bold man, & in my thoughts furiously indiscreete; but everybody believed what he said: & it quite changd the genius & motions of the Parliament, growing now corrupt & intrested with long sitting, & Court practises; but with all this Poperie would not go downe: This discovery turnd them all as one man against it, & nothing was don but in order to finding out the depth of this &c: Oates was encouragd, & every thing he affirmd for Gospel: The truth is, The Roman Chath: were Exceeding bold, & busy every where, since the D: forbore to go any longer to the Chapell &c: 2: I went to Parsons Greene to visite my Lady Mordaunt, & condole with her for my Deare Mrs.G: *** 17: I went to Lond: to make up Accompts with Mr. Godolphin, as on the 16, I was constantly wont to do with his Lady, when she lived: He then requested me to continue the"'0*(H&a@7+"  X4trust she reposed in me, in behalfe of his little sonne1, & would by no meanes alter anything; conjuring me to transferr the kindnesse & friendship I had for his deare wife, on him & his:  X420 Dr. Ball preached (Coram Rege) on Seacret things belong to God, things  XX4revealed to us & our Children: I dind with Sir Gab: Sylvius & his Lady at St. Jamess. 21 The barbarous murder of Sir Edmund BeryGodfry, found strangled about this time, as was manifest by the Papists, (he being a Justice of the Peace, and one who knew much of their practises, as conversant with Coleman, a Servant of the ... now accusd) put the whole nation in a new fermentation against them:- I dind with my Lady Tuke. *** 31. Being the 58th of my age, requird my humble addresses to Almighty God, & that he would take off his heavy hand still on my family, and restore comforts to us, after the losse of my Excellent friend: I also now reviewd & new made my Will: ***  X 40a November ă 5. Dr. Tillotson before the house of Commons at St. Margarits: Tis since Printed: Twas now he sayed, the Papists were arivd to that impudence, so as to deny there was ever any such thing as the Gun-powder Conspiresy: To this he affirmd, he had himselfe severall letters written by Sir Everard Digby (one of the Traytors) in which he glories that he was to suffer for it; & that it was so contrivd, that of the Papists, not above 2 or 3 should have ben blown up, & they such, as were not worth the saving: 10 I went to St. Jamess in the morning Synax: Cor: Rege at W:hall Dr. Butler on 5. Gal:1, shewing by way of Paralell, the Case of the Protestants, wavering betweene us & the Papists: he spake very home to his Majestie, exhorting to stedfastnesse in the Faith, & Liberty, in which Christ had made us free in this Land especialy, reckning up the heavy Yoake of Popish bondage &c. 13 Was an Universal Fast; That God would avert his Judgements, & bring to naught the Conspirators against the K: & Government: In the morning preachd to The Lords, the A:Bishop of Cant: in the Abby on 57:Psal:1. shewing how safe the Church & People of God were in the midst of the most iminent dangers, under the wings of the Almighty: This was also Printed.  XX41 Francis Godolphin (16781766), second Earl of Godolphin from 1712. In 1698 he married Henrietta, later Duchess of Marlborough (16811733), daughter and heiress of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. See p. 413. 15 The Queenes birthday &c: I never saw the Court more brave, nor the nation in more apprehension, & Consternation &c: It was also my Baptismal Anniversary: *** 24: ... Now had Coleman ben tryd, & one Staly, both Condemnd & Executed: Oates on this grew so presumptuous as to accuse the Queene for intending to Poyson the King; which certainly that pious & vertuous Lady abhorred the thought off, & Oates his Circumstances, made it utterly unlikely in my opinion: Tis likely he thought to gratifie some, who would have ben glad his Majestie should have married a more fruitfull Lady: but the"%0*(H&a@)" King was too kind an husband to let any of these make impression on him. However, Divers of the Popish Peres sent to the Toure, as accused by Oates, all the Ro: Cath: Lords were by a new Act, for ever Excluded the Parliament: which was a mighty blow: The Kings, Queenes & Dukes servants banished, & a Test to be taken by every body, who pretended to enjoy any Office of publique Trust, or not be suspected of Popery: This was so Worded That severall good Protestants scrupuled; & I went with Sir W: Godolphin (a Member of the Commons house) to Bish: of Ely (Dr. Pet: Gunning) to be resolved, whether Masse were Idolatry, as the Test expressed it: for Sir William (though a most learned Gent: & excellent Divine himselfe) made some doubt of it: but the Bishops opinion was he might take it, & that the Papists could not excuse themselves from Idolatry; though he wished it had ben otherwise worded in the Test: ***  X( 4;b December ă 8 I tooke Physick being indisposed, & stirrd not out all this weeke: 15 Preachd Mr. Saunders on 5. Eccles: Shewing the reverence due to the house of God: a seasonable discourse there being some in our Congregation not so reverent at prayers, as they should be. 16 To Lond: the nation exceedingly disturbd at the publique commotions: for now was also the Lo: Treasurer Danby impeachd &c: *** 29 Being very ill of Gripings I was faine to keepe my bed: Divers of my Neighbours invited &c: according to Costome: 31 I gave God thanks for his goodnesse to me the yeare past, & beggd that I might make a sanctified use of those Afflictions I had passd thro for the losse of a deare friend.  b401s$z1679`!(#=0@2s  =$z1679@t 1679 ă  X84k January ă *** 12: ...When so strange a Clowd of darknesse came over, & especialy, the Citty of London, that they were faine to give-over the publique service for some time, being about 11 in the forenoone, which affrited many, who considerd not the cause, (it being a greate Snow, & very sharp weather,) which was an huge cloud of Snow, supposed to be frozen together, & descending lower than ordinary, the Eastern wind, driving it forwards: 13 I went to Lond: on foote: 14 Dind with Mr. Godolphin now newly returnd from the funeral of his deare Wife, which he followd after some daies of its setting forth from London, he being then not able to accompanied on the way, for very griefe: *** 25 Was the Long Parliament (which now had sate ever-since his Majesties restauration) disolvd by perswasion of the L: Tressurer: though divers of them were believed to be his Pensioners; at which all the polititians were at a stand: they being very eager in pursuite of the late plot of the Papists:"'0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ***  X4Wf February ă *** <25?> ... My Bro: Evelyn of Wotton was now chosen knight for the County of Surrey, carying it against my Lord Longford and Sir Adam Browne of Bechworth Castle; The Country coming-in to give their suffrages for my bro: were so many, that I believe they eate & dranke him out neere 2000 pounds by a most abominable costome: ***  X4u April ă 16 Whitehall, Dr. Sprat 7: Matt 21: That all Religion consisted in practical obedience, not in verbal profession, eloquently & excellently: after which the Bish: of Lond: Confirmd many Children & others, & amongst them my Daughter Mary, now about 14 yeares old: *** 27 ... His Royal highnesse the Duke, Voted against by the Commons for his Recusancy, went over into Flanders, which made much discourse among the Politicians: &c: ***  X04v June ă 4. To Lond: Dind with Mr. Pepys at the Tower, whither he was committed by the house of Commons, for misdemeanors in the Admiralty, where he was Secretary; but I believe unjustly: Here I saluted my Lord Stafford & Peters who were also committed for the Popish Plot: 7: I saw the magnificent Cavalcade and Entery of the Portugal Ambassador: dind at L: Chamberlaines: *** 17 I was Godfather to a Sonn of Sir Chr: Wren Surveyor of his Majesties building, that most learned & excellent person; with Sir William Fermor & my Lady Vicountesse Newport wife of the Treasurer of the household: Thence to Chelsey with Sir Steph: Fox and my Lady, in order to his purchas of the Co: of Bristols house ther, which she desired me to procure a Chapman for: *** 22: ... There were now divers Jesuites executed about the Plot; & a Rebellion in Scotland of the Phanatics there; so as there was a sad prospect of publique affaires: ***  X#45x July ă "$0*(H&a@("Ԍ3. Sending a piece of Venison to Mr. Pepys Sec: of the Admiralty, still a Prisoner, I went & dined with him; Thence to the R: Society, where was both a discourse, & experiment of innumerable wormes or Insects in the Sperme of an horse by the Microscope: And also of a Liquor, in which flesh, or fish being boiled, the bones were rendred as soft as marrow, yet neither over boiled, or ill relished, all by the Contrivance of a Digestorie, with very inconsiderable expense as to fire: This by Dr.Papin of our Society: I went home in the Evening: *** 6: ... Now were there Papers, Speeches, Libels, publiquely cried in the streetes against the Duke of York, & Lauderdail &c obnoxious to the Parliament, with too much, & indeede too shamefull a liberty; but the People & Parliament had gotten head, by reason of the vices of the greate ones: There was now brought up to Lond. a Child (sonn of one Mr. Wotton formerly  X 4Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bish: of Winton) who both read & pefectly understood Heb: Gr: Latine, Arab: Syriac, & most of the Modern Languages; disputed in Divinity, Law, all the Sciences, was skillfull in Historie both Ecclesiastical & Prophane, in Politic &c, in a word so universaly & solidly learned at 11 yeares of age, as he was looked on as a Miracle: Dr. Lloyd (one of the most deepe learned Divines of the nation, in all sorts of literature) with Dr. Burnet who had severely Examind him, came away astonishd and told me, they did not believe there had the like appeared in the world since Adame to this time: He had onely ben instructed by his Father, who being himselfe a learned person, confessed that he knew all he knew to a tittle: but what was more admirable was not so much his vast memorie, but his judgement & invention, he being tried with divers hard questions which required maturity of thought & experience: he was also dextrous in Chronologie, Antiquities, in the Mathematics  XP4&c: in summ a Intellectus Universalis beyond all that we reade of Picus Mirandula &  X4other precoce witts: &c: with all this a very humble Child:1 ***  Xp41 He grew up to be William Wotton, the scholar (16661727). 18 I went early to the old-Baily Sessions-house to the famous Trial of Sir Geo: Wakeman (one of the Queenes Physitians) & 3 Benedictine Monkes; The first (whom I was well acquainted with, & take to be a worthy gent: abhorring such a fact) for intending to poyson the King: The other as complices to carry on the Plott, to subvert the Government, & introduce Poperie: The Bench was crowded with Judges, Lo: Major, Justices, & innumerable spectators: The chiefe Accusers Dr. Oates (as he called himselfe) one Bedlow, a man of inferior note; but their testimony were not so pregnant, & I feare much of it from heare-say, but sworne positively to some particulars, which drew suspicion upon their truth; nor did Circumstances so agree, as to give either the bench or Jurie so intire satisfaction as was expected: After therefore a long & tedious tryal of 9 houres, the Jury brought them in not guilty to the extraordinary triumph of the Papists, & not without sufficient disadvantage & reflections on the Witnesses, especialy Oates & Bedlow: And this was an happy day for the Lords in the Tower, who expecting their Triall (had this gon against the Prisoners at the barr) would all of them ben in uttmost hazard: For my part, I do looke on Oates as a vaine, insolent man, puffd up, with the favour of the Commons, for having discovered something realy true; as more especialy detecting the dangerous intrigue of Coleman, proved out of his owne letters: & of a generall designe, which the Jesuited party of the Papists, ever had, & still have to ruine the Church of England; but that he was trusted with those great seacrets he"'0*(H&a@D+" pretended, or had any solid ground for what he accused divers noble men of, I have many reasons to induce my contrary beliefe; That amongst so many Commissions as he affirmd he delivered to them from P: Oliva & the Pope, he who made no scrupule of opening all other Paper, letters & seacrets, should not onely, not open any of those pretended Commissions, but not so much as take any Copy, or Witnesse, of any one of them, is miraculous: But the Commons (some leading persons I meane of them) had so exalted him, that they tooke for Gospell all he said, & without more ado, ruind all whom he namd to be Conspirators, nor did he spare whomsoever came in his way; But indeed the Murder of Sir Ed: Godferie (suspected to have ben compassed by the Jesuite party, for his intimacy with Coleman (a buisy person whom I also knew) & the feare they had he was able to have discovered some thing to their prejudice) did so exasperate, not onely the Commons, but all the nation; That much of these sharpnesses against even the more honest Ro: Catholicks who lived peaceably, is to be imputed to that horrid fact: The Sessions ended I dined, or rather indeede supped, (so late it was) with the Judges, in the large annexed to the Place, & so returned to my house: And tho it was not my or delight, to be often present at any Capital Trials, we having them commonly, so exactly published, by those who take them in short hand; Yet I was inclined to be at this signal one, that by the occular view of the carriages, & other Circumstances of the Manegers & parties concerned I might informe my selfe, and regulate my opinion of a Cause that had so alarmd the whole Nation, & filled it with such expectations: *** 23. To Court, after dinner I visited that excellent Painter Verrio whose work in Fresca, the Kings Palace at Winsor, will celebrate as long as those walls last: Signor Verrio shewed us his pretty Garden, choice flowers & curiosities, he himselfe being a skillfull Gardner; after an herty Collation with him, I went to Clifden that stupendious natural Rock, Wood, & Prospect of the Duke of Buckinghams, & building of extraordinary Expense: The Grotts in the Chalky rock are pretty, tis a romantic object, & the place alltogether answers the most poetical description that can be made of a solitude, precipice, prospects & whatever can contribute to a thing so very like their imaginations: The stands somewhat like Frascati as to its front, & on the platforme is a circular View to the uttmost verge of the Horison, which with the serpenting of the Thames is admirably surprising: The Staire Case, is for its materials, singular: The Cloisters, Descents, Gardens, & avenue through the wood august & stately: but the land all about wretchedly barren, producing nothing but ferne: & indeede, as I told his Majestie that evening, (asking me how I liked Clifden?) without flattery: that it did not please yet me so well as Windsore, for the Prospect & the Park, which is without compare; There being but one onely opening, & that but narrow, which let one to any Variety, where as That of Winsore is every where greate & unconfind: Returning I called in at my Co: Evelyns, who has a very pretty seate in the Forest, 2 miles behether Cliffden, on a flat, with sweete Gardens, exquisitly kept though large, the house a stanch good olde building; & what was singular some of the roomes floord Dovetailed wise without a naile; so exactly cloose, as I was exceedingly pleasd with the manner of it, one of the Closets being parquetted with plaine deale set in Diamond thus exceeding stanch & pretty: but my Kindsman & Lady being from home, I went back to Winsor, & next morning followed the King to Hampton Court, where was a Council, at which I had affaires: thence dining at Kingstone I returned that night to Says-Court: not at all displeased at the journey: *** "%0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ X4m August ă 1. I went on board his Majesties Yacht, his Majestie saling towards Portsmouth, Mr. Henry Thynn & Mr. Brisbane, the one Secretary to Mr. Coventry Sec: of state, & the other, to the Admiralty, dining with me: afterward to Lond: to see my deare friend, Mr. Godolphins little sonn, who was sick, & with my Wife came back at night. *** 8 I went this morning to see my L: Chamberlaine, his Lady, & the Dutchesse of Grafton, the incomparable work of Mr. Gibbons the Carver whom I first recommended to his Majestie, his house being furnishd like a Cabinet, not onely with his owne work, but divers excellent Paintings of the best hands: Thence to Sir St: Foxes where I dined with my Lord, & all our Company, & so home: *** 24 ... Dr. Needham came to see my Sonn, now indisposd, & next day was sent for to Windsore the King being sick, & he one of his Physitians in Ordinarie: ***  X4` September ă 25 Came to visite & dine with me Mr. Slingsby Master of the Mint & Signor Verrio the famous Painter, to whom I gave China oranges of my owne trees, as good as were ever eaten I think, to Signor Verrios no small admiration: ***  X40a November ă 4 ... in the Evening went to the funerall of my pious, deare & antient learned friend Dr. Jasper Needham; he was buried at St. Brides Church; he was a true & holy Christian, & one who loved me with greate affection: ... I lost in this person one of my dearest remaining sincere friends. 5 I was invited to dine at my Lord Tividales (a Scotch Earle of my acquaintance, a learned & knowing noble man) we afterwards went to see Mr. Montagues new Palace neere Blomesbery, built by our Curator Mr. Hook, somewhat after the French; it was most nobly furnished, & a fine, but too much exposed Garden: 6 Dind at the Co: of Sunderlands, & was this evening at the remarriage of the Dutchesse of Grafton to the Duke (his Majesties natural son) she being now 12 yeares old: The Ceremonie was performd in my Lord Chamberlaines (her fathers Lodgings) at Whitehall below, by the Bish: of Rochester, his Majestie Present: a suddaine, & unexpected thing (when every body believed the first marriage, would have come to nothing:) But the thing being Determined, I was privately invited by my Lady her mother, to be present: but I confesse I could give her little joy, & so I plainely told her; but she told me, the King would have it so, & there was no going back: & this sweetest, hopfullest, most beautifull child, & most vertuous too, was Sacrificd to a boy, that had ben rudely bred, without any thing to encourage them, but his Majesties pleasure: I pray God the sweete Child find it to her advantage; who if my augurie deceave me not, will in few yeares be such a paragon, as were fit to make the Wife of the greatest Prince in Europe: I staied Supper, where his Majestie sate betweene the Dutchesse of Cleaveland (the incontinent mother of the Duke of Grafton) & the sweete Dutchesse the Bride, with severall greate Persons & Ladies, without Pomp; my Love"'0*(H&a@Q+" to my Lord Arlingtons family, & the sweete Child made me behold all this with regret: Though as the Duke of Grafton affects the Sea, to which I find his father intends to use him; he may emerge a plaine, usefull, robust officer; & were he polishd, a tollerable person, for he is exceedingly handsome, by far surpassing any of the Kings other naturall Issue: *** 18 I dined at my Lo: Majors, being desired by the Countesse of Sunderland to carry her thither on a Solemn Day, that she might see the Pomp & Ceremonie of this Prince of Citizens, there never having ben any, who for the statlinesse of his Palace, prodigious feasting & magnificence exceeded him: This Lord Majors acquaintance had ben from the time of his being Apprentice to Mr. Abbot (his Unkle) who being a Scrivenor, & an honnest worthy man, (one who was condemnd to die [(but escaped)] at the beginning of the Troubles 40 yeares past, as concerned in the Commission of Aray, for K. Char: 1:) I often used his assistance in mony matters: Rob: Clayton (now Major) his Nephew, then a boy, became after his Unkle Abbotts death, so prodigiously rich & opulent, that he was reckoned on of the welthiest Citizens: he married a freehearted Woman, who also became his hospitable disposition, & having no Children, with the accession of his Partner & fellow Apprentice, who also left him his Estate; he grew Excessively rich, was a discreete Magistrate, & though, envied, I thinke without much cause: some believd him gilty of hard-dealing, especialy with the Duke of Buckingham, much of whose estate he had swallowd: but I never saw any ill by him, considering the trade he was off: The reputation, & known integrity of his Unkle Abbot, brought all the Royal party to him, by which he got not onely greate credite, but vast riches; so as he passed this Office with infinite magnificence & honor: 20 I dined at the Master of the Mints with my Wife, invited to heare Musique which was most exquisitely performed by 4 the most renouned Masters, Du Prue a French-man on the Lute: Signor Batholomeo Ital: on the Harpsichord: & Nicolao on the Violin; but above all for its swetenesse & novelty the Viol dAmore of 5 wyre-strings, plaied on with a bow, being but an ordinary Violin, playd on Lyra way by a German, than which I never heard a sweeter Instrument or more surprizing: There was also a Flute douce now in much request for accompanying the Voice: Mr. Slingsby Master of the house (whose Sonn & Daughter played skillfully) being exceedingly delighted with this diversion, had these meetings frequently in his house: *** 28: Came over the Duke of Munmoth from Holland unexpectedly to his Majestie whilst the D: of Yorke was on his Journey to Scotland, whither the King sent him to preside, & governe &c: The Bells & Bone-fires of the Citty at this arival of D: M: publishing their joy to the no small regret of some at Court; This Duke (whom for distinction they cald the Protestant Duke, though the sonn of an abandoned woman) the people made their Idol of: I returned home: ***  X`"4;b December ă 4 I dined (together with my L: Ossorie & E: of Chesterfild) at the Portugal Ambassadors now newly come, at Cleaveland house: a noble Palace, too good for that infamous MMMMM: The Staire Case is sumptuous & Gallerie: with the Garden: but above all the"%0*(H&a@})" costly furniture belonging to the Ambassador, especialy the rich Cabinets of which I think there were a dosen; & a Billiard table with as many more hazards as ours commonly have: the game being onely to prosecute the ball til hazarded, without passing the port or touching the pin: If one misse hitting the balle every time, the game is lost, or if hazarded: & tis more difficult to hazard a ball though so many, than in our Tables, by reason the board is made so exactly Even, & the Edges not stuffd: The balls also bigger, & they for the most part use the sharp & small end of the billiard-stick, which is shod with brasse or silver: The Entertainement was exceeding Civile, but besids a good olio, the dishes were trifling, hashd & Condited after their way, not at all fit for an English stomac, which is for solid meate: There was yet good fowle, but roasted to Coale; nor were the sweetemeates good: I had much discourse with the Secretary, who seemd an understanding person. *** 30 I went to Lond, to meete Sir John Stonehouse, and give him a particular of the settlement on my Sonn, who now made his addresses to the Young Lady his Daughter in Law; & so returned home: 31 Recollecting the passages of the Yeare, I gave thanks to Almighty God &c:  b40q)$z1680`!(#=0@r)  =$z1680@13ss)   1t 1680 ă  Xh4k January ă *** 11 I tooke Physick my face & eye swelled by a Cold: *** 25 ... Coram Rege Dr. Pellin, 49 Isa:23. a Prerogative discourse, but very honestly shewing what obedience is due from Subjects to their Princes; it being in a Conjuncture when there was a very ill understanding twixt the Court & Countrie upon his Majesties unwillingnesse to let the Parliament sit. 26 I went to Counsel for the settling my Estate on my Sonn, now in treaty about a marriage, with my Lady Stonehouses Daughter: ***  X4Wf February ă 19 Were the Writings for the Settling Joynture, & other Contracts of Marriage of my Sonn finishd and sealed &c: at White-hall Mr. Thursby & Melldecot being our Counsel, Sir John Stonehouse & Nephew Glanvill being Trustees: The Lady was to bring 5000 pounds in consideration of a settlement of 500 pounds a yeare present maintenance, - Which was likewise to be her joynture, & 500 pounds, after myne & my Wifes decease: though with Gods blessing it will be at least 1000 pounds a yeare more in few yeares; I pray God make him worthy of it, and a Comfort to his excellent Mother, who deserves much from him: *** 24 It being Shrove tuesday was my Sonne married to Mrs. Martha Spencer Daughter to my Lady Stonehouse by a former Gent: at St. Andrews in Holborn by our Viccar,"'0*(H&a@k+" (borrowing the Church of Dr. Stillingfleete Deane of St. Paules who was the present incumbent) & afterward dined an House in Holborn; & after the solemnity & Dauncing was don, They were beded at Sir Jo: Stonehouses Lodging in Bow streete Covent Garden: I would very faine have had the marriage deferrd til after the Lent; but severall accidents requiring it now, it was left to the disposall of her friends, & their convenience: ***  Xx4p March ă 4 I went home, to receive my new Daughter in Law & her husband my sonn, with his Wifes Relations, who all dined with us, & returning to Lond: in the Evening, left my Daughter in Law with us for altogether. *** 16 To Lond: to receive 3000 pounds of my Daughter in Laws Portion, which was paied in Gold: *** 18 At the Ro: Society was a letter from Surenam of a certaine small Eele that being taken with hooke & line at 100 foote length, did so benumb, & stupifie the limbs of the Fisher, that had not the line suddainly beene cutt, by one of the Iland (who was acquainted with its effects) the poore man had immediately died: There is a certaine wood growing in the  X4Country, which put into a Waire or Eele-pot, dos as much intoxicate the fish as Nux Vomica dos other fish, by which this mortiferous Torpedo is not onely caught, but becomes both harmelesse, & excellent meate: I this day introducd Mr. Bridgeman (Secretary to the E: of Sunderland now Pr: Sec: of state) to be a member of the R: Society, he being a very ingenious Person: *** 26 To Lond: the D: of Sarum on a Text he entred on 5. Feb: viz: 45 Jer: 5. Not to seeke greate things to our selves, Gods counsel to Baruc, in time of distresse: In which he assembled so many Instances out of heathen histories, and greate persons, who had quitted the Splendor and opulence of their births, fortunes, and grandures, that he seemed for an houre and halfe to do nothing else but reade Commonplaces, without any thing of Scripture almost in his whole sermon, which was not well: I went home next day: ***  X4u April ă 17 I went to Lond. and the next day, upon the earnest invitation of the Earle of Essex went with him to his house of Cassioberie in Hartford-shire: It was on Sunday, but going early from his Lordships house in the Square of St. Jamess we arivd by ten a clock; but my Lord, thinking it too late to go to Church, we had prayers in his Chapell: The House is new, a plaine fabric, built by my friend Mr. Hugh-May; there are in it divers faire & good roomes, excellent Carving of Gibbonss, especialy the chimny of his Library: There is likewise a painting in the porch or Enterance of Signor Virrios, Apollo & the Illiberal Arts: One roome parquetted with yew which I liked well: The Chimny mantles are some of them of a certaine Irish Marble (which his Lordship brought with him when he was Lieutennant of Ireland not"%0*(H&a@)"  X4long before) not much inferior to Italian: The Tympanum or Gabel at the front is a Bass X4relievo of Diana hunting cut in Portland stone handsomely enough: The middle Dores being round I did not approve of: but when the Hall is finishd as his Lordship designs it, being an Oval Cupold, together with the other wing, it will be a very noble Palace: The Library is large, & very nobly furnishd, & all the books richly bound & gilded: No Manuscripts, except of the Parliament Rolls, and Journals, which his Lordship assured me cost him 500 pounds transcribing & binding: No man has ben more industrious than this noble Lord in Planting about his seate, adornd with Walkes, Ponds, & other rural Elegancies; but the soile is stonie, churlish & uneven, nor is the Water neere enough to the house, though a very swift & cleare streame run within a flight-shot from it in the vally, which may fitly be cald cold-brook, it being indeede excessive Cold, yet producing faire Troutes: In a word, tis pitty the house was not situated to more advantage; but it seemes it was built just where the old one was, & which I believe he  X( 4onely meant to repaire at first, which leads men into irremediable errors1, & saves but little:  X 4`(#(#ă  X 41 E here indirectly refers to problems he had had at Sayes Court which he subsequently recorded in an MS now at Christ Church:  I repaired the ruined house ... to my great cost, and better had I done to have pulled all down at first ... (quoted in some Bray editions of the Diary, e.g. John Forsters for Routledge, 1906, 711). The Land about it is exceedingly addicted to Wood, but the coldnesse of the place hinder their growth: onely Black-Cherry trees prosper even to Considerable Timber, some being 80 foote long: The make also very handsome avenues: There is a pretty Oval at the end of a faire Walke, set about with treble rows of Spanish firr-trees: The Gardens are likewise very rare, & cannot be otherwise, having so skillfull an Artist to governe them as Mr. Cooke, who is as to the Mechanic part not ignorant in Mathematics, & pretends to Astrologie: Here is an incomparable Collection of the choicest fruits: As for my Lord, he is a sober, wise, judicious & pondering person, not illiterate beyong the rate of most noble-men in this age, very well Versed in our English Histories & Affaires, Industrious, frugal, Methodical, & every way accomplished: His Lady (being sister to the late Earle of Northumberland) is a wise [yet somewhat] melancholy woman, setting her heart too much upon the little Lady her daughter, of whom she is over fond: They have a hopefull sonn, at the Academie: My Lord was now not long since come over from his Lieutenancy of Ireland, where he shewd his abillities in Administration & government there; as well as prudence in considerably augmenting his Estate, without reproch: He had also ben Ambassador Extraord: in Denmark; & in a word, such a person as becomes the sonn of that worthy Hero his Father, the late Lord Capel, who lost his life for K: Charles the first: We spent our time in the mornings in Walking or riding about the Grounds & Contriving; The Afternoones in the Library among the Books; so as I passed my time for 3 or 4 daies with much satisfaction: He was pleased also during this Conversation, to impart to me divers particulars of state relating to the present times; but being no friend to the D - was now laied aside; his integritie & abillities being not so sutable in this Conjuncture: 21 I came back in my Lords Coach with him to Lond: 22 I dind at my L: Arlingtons, & thence to the R: Society, where was read a letter out of Germanie, with some haire inclosd, that had ben taken from a Corps long buried, that was totaly covered with it, of an Inch in length, exceeding thick, and somewhat harsh & reddish: It seemd to grow on the skinn like Mosse upon a Tree, the rest of the Cadaver being totaly consumd. Then a Physitian present, shewd us a Tooth, or rather a trebble Grinder, with its roote, which he affirmed to have ben found in the Testicle of a Woman whom he Discected: ***  X'4*x May ă"'0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ 13: I was at the funerall of old Mr. Shish Master Shipwrite of the Kings Yard here in this Parish, an honest and remarkable man, & his death a publique losse, for his excellent successe in building Ships, (though illiterate altogether) & for the breeding up so many of his Children to be able Artists: I held up the Pall, with three knights who did him that honour, & he was worthy of it: ... It was the Costome of this good man, to rise in the night, and to pray kneeling in his owne Cofin; which many yeares he had lying by him: he was borne that famous yeare of the Gunpowder Plot 1605: *** 29 His Majesties Birth & returne; but there was so thin a Congregation, that our Viccar who came prepard to Preach, omitted it: so soone do we slight & forget Gods benefits: ***  X 4v June ă 14 Came to Dine with us the Countesse of Clarendon, Dr. Lloyd Deane of Bangor  XH 4[since Bish: of St. Asaph.] and Dr. Burnet author of the Hist: of Reformation, & my old friend Mr. Henshaw. After dinner we all went to see the Observatory & Mr. Flamsted; where he shewed us divers rare Instruments, especialy, the greate Quadrant: *** 26 I dind with Mr. Pepyss at my La: Mordaunts, where was Sir W: Portman &c: then home. ***  X45x July ă 11 A stranger on 9: Mar: 43. 44. The advantage of parting with the greatest pleasure to secure Eternal life: He spake of the Death they put Malefactors to in Egypt, the cutting them asunder, and the upper halfe of the body on a hot plate: the suffering mans paine expressed in weeping teares, and gnashing of teeth, which he applied to the paine of Hellfire. Pomerid: Mr. Jackson Minister of Lee on 1: Sam: 3. 18. The Text our Viccar preached on the Weeke before. The excessive heate made me extreame sleepy: *** 24 Sir Will: Godolphin lending me his six-horses, I went with my Wife & Daughter to Winsore, to see that stately Court, now neere finished: there was now erected in the Court, the King on Horse-back lately cast in Coper, & set upon a rich Piedestal, of white Marble, the worke of Mr. Gibbons &c: at the expense of Toby Rustat, a Page of the Back stayres, who by his wonderfull frugality had arived to a greate Estate in Mony, & did many works of Charity; as well as this of gratitude to his Master; which cost him 1000 pounds; he is a very simple, ignorant, but honest & loyal creature: We all dined at the Countesse of Sutherlands, afterwards to see Signor Virios garden; thence to Eaton Coll to salute the Provost, & heard a  X#4Latine Speech of one of the Alumni (it being at the Election) were invited to supper, but tooke our leaves, and got to Lond: that night in good time: ..."$0*(H&a@("Ԍ26 my most noble & illustrious friend, the Earle of Ossorie espying me this morning after sermon, in the Privy Gallerie, calling to me, told me he was now going his journey; (meaning to Tangier, whither he was designed Governor, & Generall of the Forces, to regaine the losses we had lately sufferd from the Moores, when Inchequeene was Governor): I asked his Lordship if he would not call at my house (as he allways did when ever he went out of England on any exploit) I feare I shall not said his Lordship, for I foresee I must embarque at Portsmouth; wherefore I pray, I let you & I dine together to day, I am quite alone, and have something to impart to you: I am not well, & have taken a little Physick this morning; & so shall be private, & I desire your Company: Being retird to his Lodgings & sat down on the Couch, he sent to his secretary for a Copy of a Letter, which he had written to my Lo: Sunderland (secretary of state) wishing me to reade it; and it was to take notice, how ill he resented it, That he should tell the King before my L:Ossories face, That Tangier was not to be kept, but would certainly be lost; & yet added, that twas fit, my L: Ossorie should be sent, that they might give some account of it to the world, meaning (as supposed,) the next Parliament, when all such miscarriages would probably be examind, This my L: O: tooke very ill of my L: S. & not kindly of his Majestie, who resolving to send him with an incompetent force, seemd (as his Lordship tooke it) to be willing to cast him away upon not onely an hazardous Adventure, but, in most mens opinions Impossible; seing there was not to be above 3 or 400 horse & 4000 foote, for the Garison & all, both to defend the Towne, forme a Campe, repulse the Enemie, & fortifie what ground they should get in: This touchd my Lord deeply, that he should be so little considerd, as to put him on a buisinesse, in which he should probably, not onely loose his reputation, but be chargd with all the miscarriages & ill successe; where as at the first they promisd him 6000 foote & 600 horse effective: My Lord, being an exceeding brave & valiant person, & that had so approvd himselfe in divers signal batailes, both at Sea, & Land; so beloved, so esteemd by the people, as one they depended on upon all occasions worthy such a Captaine; looked on this as too greate an indifference in his Majestie after all his services (& the merits of his father the Duke of Ormond) & a designe of some who envied his Virtue; And it certainly, tooke so deepe roote in his mind, that he who was the most void of feare in the world (and assurd me he would go to Tangier with ten men, if his Majestie Commanded him) could not beare up against this unkindnesse: Having disburdned himselfe of this to me after dinner, he went with his Majestie to The Sherifs, at a greate supper in Fishmongres Hall; but my Lord, finding himselfe ill, tooke his leave immediately of his Majestie & came back to his Lodging, without staying at all at the Sherifs: Not resting well this night, he was perswaded to remove to Arlington house for better accommodation where being no longer able to sustaine his indisposition, it manifestly turnd to a Malignant feavor; which increasing to violence, after all that six of the most able Physitians could do to save him, beginning now and then to be somewhat delirious, at other times with intervalls of better sense: Dr. Lloyd (now Bish: of St. Asaph) administring then to him the holy Sacrament, (of which I also participated) he died the friday after, about 7 in the Evening, being the 30th of July, to the universal griefe of all that either knew, or ever heard of his greate worth: nor had any greater losse than my selfe, he being so much my friend; Oft would he say I was the oldest acquaintance he had in England (when, his Father was in Ireland) it being now of 30 yeares, contracted abroad, when he rid at the Academie in Paris, & that we were seldom asunder: Surely his Majestie never lost a worthier Subject; nor Father, a better, & more dutifull sonn, a loving, goodnatured, generous and perfectly obliging friend, & one who had don innumerable kindnesses to severall persons, before they so much as knw it: nor advancd he any but such as were worthy; None more brave, more modest, none more humble, sober, & every way virtuous: < unhapy England! in this illustrious persons losse: Universal was the Mourning for him, the Elogies on him, nor can I sufficiently"H&0*(H&a@M*" deplore him: I staied night & day by his bedside to his last gasp to close his deare Eyes: = sad Father, Mother, Wife & Children! What shall I add? he deserved all that a sincere friend, a brave Souldier, a Virtuous Courtier, a Loyal Subject, an honest man, a bountifull Master, a good Christian could merit of his Prince & Country: One thing more let me note, That he often expressed to me, the abhorrance he had, of that base & unworthy action, which he was put upon, of Engaging the Smyrna fleete in time of Peace, which, though he behaved himselfe like a greate Captaine; yet he told me was the onely blot of his life, & troubled him Exceedingly: for though he was commanded, & niver examind it farther, when he was so: yet allways spake of it with regret, & detestation: 30 I went home very sad: & then write his Countesse a letter giving her an Account of what passd in his sicknesse, she being then at her Daughters the Countesse of Derby, at his seate almost 200 miles off: ***  X 4m August ă  X 430: Lond: I went to visite a French Stranger, one Monsieur Jardine1 [since Knighted by his Majestie & made Denison of England] who having ben thrice at the East Indias, Persia & other remote Countries, came hither in our returne ships from those parts; and it being reported he was a very curious man, & knowing, I was desird by the Ro: Society in their name, to salute him, & to let him know how glad they should be to receive him, if he pleased to do them that honour: &c: There were appointed to accompanie me Sir Jo: Hoskins & Sir Chr: Wren &c. We found him at his lodging, in his Eastern habite, a very handsom person, extreamely affable, not inclind to talke Wonders, but exceedingly modest, & a well bred man: It seemes he traveld in search of Jewels, & was become extreamely rich: He spake Latine, understood the Greeke, Arabic & Persian by 11 yeares Conversation in those Parts, yet seemd he not to be above 36 yeares of age: After the usual Civilities, we told him, we much desired an account of the extraordinary things he must have seene; having (as we understood) travld over land, those places, where few, if any northern Europeans used to go, as about the Black & Caspian Sea, Mingrelia, Bagdat, Ninive, &c: He told us the things most worthy of our sight, would be, the draughts he had caused to be made of some noble ruines &c: for that (besides his little talent that way) he had carried two very good Painters along with him, to draw Landskips, Measure, and designe the remainders of the Palace which Alexander burnt in his frolique at Persepolis, with divers Temples, Columns, Relievos, & statues, yet extant, which he affirmd were Sculptures far exceeding, any thing he had observd either at Rome, [Greece] or any other part of the World, where Magnificence was in estimation: That there was there an Inscription, of Letters not intelligible, though exceedingly intire; but was extreamely sorry he could not gratifie the Curiosity of the Society, at present, his things, not being yet out of the ship; but would take the first opportunity to waite on us with them, at his returne from Paris, whither he was hastning the very next morning, but with intention, to be suddenly back againe, & stay longer in our Country, the persecution in France not suffering Protestants, & such he was, to be quiet: so we failed of seeing his Papers; but it was told us by others, that he durst indeede not open or shew them, til he had first shewd them to the French King; though of this he himselfe said notthing: On farther discourse, he told us that Nineveh was a vast Citty, all now buried in her ruines, and the Inhabitants building on the subterranean Vaults, which were (as appeared) the first stories of the old Cittie; That were frequently , huge Vasas of fine Earth, Columns, & other Antiquities &c: That the straw which the Egyptian Pharoah so tyrannicaly requird of the Israelites, was not to burne, or Cover their rowes of brick, as we use; but"%0*(H&a@})" being choppd small, to mingle with the Clay, which drying in the Sunn (for they bake not in the furnaces) would else cleave asunder: That in Persia are yet a race of Igniculi, that still Worship the Sunn, & the fire as Gods: That the Women of Georgia & Mingrelia were Universaly, & without any compare,  X 4 the 1ĠSir John Chardin (16431712). most beautifull Creatures for shape, features, & figure in the whole world, & that therefore The Grand Signor, & Bashaws &c had thence most of their Wives & Concubines: That there had within these 100 yeares ben Amazons amongst them (that is) a sort or race of Valiant Women, given to Warr: That Persia was infinitely fertile. He spake also of Japon, & China, & of the many greate errours of our late Geographers &c: as we suggested occasion to discourse; & so we tooke our leaves, & made report to our Society: & I returned home:  X( 4` September ă September 2: I went to Lond: because of an Opportunity I had of his Majesties being yet at Winsor, to see his private Library at Whitehall, which I now did at my full Ease; and went with expectation of finding some Curiosities: But tho there were about a thousand Volumes, there were few of any greate importance, or which I had not perused before; they consisting chiefely of such bookes as had from time to time ben dedicated, or presented him: Few Histories, some Traveles, & french bookes, Aboundance of Mapps & Sea : Entertainements, & Pomps; buildings, & Pieces relating to the Navy: some Mathematical Instruments &c: But what was most rare were 3 or 4 Romish Breviaries with a greate deale of Miniature & Monkish Painting & Gilding: one of which is most exquisitely don, both as to the figures, Grotescs & Compartiments, to the uttmost of that curious art: Theres another in which I find written by the hand of Henry the 7th, his giving it to his deare Daughter Margarite, afterwards Queene of Scots ([Greate] mother of our K. James, & greate greate Grandmother to the successive Kings, uniting the two Kingdomes) in which he desires her to pray for his soule, subscribing his Name at length: There is also the Process of the Philosophes greate Elixir, represented in divers pieces of incomparable miniature; but the Discourse is in highDuth & a MSS: Also another MS. in quarto of above 300 yeares old in French, being an Institution of Physic, & in the Botanical part, the Plants are curiously painted in Miniature: There is likewise a Folio Manuscript of a good thicknesse, being the severall exercises, as Theames, Orationes, Translations &c: of K. Edward the sixt, all written & subscribd by his owne hand, & with his name very legibly, & divers of the Greeke, interlind, & corrected, after the manner of Scholeboys exercises, & that exceedingly well & proper, with some Epistles to his Pr%ceptor &c, which shews that Young Prince to have ben extraordinarily advancd in learning, & as Cardan that greate Wit &c (who had ben in England) affirmed, stupendiously knowing for his age: There is likewise his Journal, no lesse testifing his early ripenesse & care about  X@4the affaires of state: [Dr. Burnet has transcribed many remarks out of this in his Hist of the  X 4Reformation.] There are besides many other pompous Volumes, some embossd with Gold, & Intaglios on Achats, Medailes &c: I spent 3 or 4 intire daies locked up, & alone among these bookes &c: There is in the rest of the Private Lodgings contiguous to this, divers of the best  X(#4pictures of the greate Masters, Raphael, Titian &c (& in my esteeme) anove all the Noli me  X#4tangere of our B: Saviour to M: Magdalen, after his Resurrection, of Hans Holbeins, than which, in my life, I never saw so much reverence & kind of Heavenly astonishment, expressed in Picture: There are also divers curious Clocks, Watches & Penduls of exquisite work, and other Curiosities: An antient Woman, who made these lodgings Cleane, & had all the Keyes, let me in at pleasure, for a small reward, by the meanes of a friend:"'0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ5 I found our late affected fantastical Curate Mr. Al preaching in the Chapel at W:hall on 119 Psal: 175 ver: that mens soules were certainely immortal, distinct from the animal life &c: It was not to heare him without astonishment at his Confidence & formalitie: He was a boy of our Parish, that from a poore grammar schole, turnd Preacher; & at last got the degree of Batchelor of Art, by a Mandamus, at Cambridge, where he had ben 2 or 3 daies, in his whole life: when he came back, that people might take notice of his degree, he ware his lambskin not onely 2 whole Sundays in the Church, but going all over the Towne, and Every streete, with a wonderfull traine of boys & girls running after him, (as they do when the Beares are led about) came to give me a visite in his formalities, at which I could not contain my Countenance: This yet I must say of Mr. A that he has together with a vast stack of Confidence, a prodigious Memorie, & strong lungs, & some are taken with his Preachment, that know not the man out of the Pulpet: In a word he is a most singular person, & exceedingly conceited of his abilities: The blessed Sacrament followd: Pomerid: Co: Garden the Lecturer, on 1. Joh: 2. 23. an heavenly discourse: 6 I dind with Sir St: Fox, now one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury: This Gent: came first a poore boy from the Quire of Salisbury, then was taken notice of by Bish: Duppa, & afterwards waited on my Lord Percy (bro: to Algernon E: of Northumberland) who procured for him an inferior place amongst the Clearks of the Kitchin & GreeneCloth side: Where he was found so humble, diligent, industrious, & prudently to behave himselfe, that his Majestie in Exile, & Mr. Fox waiting, both the King & Lords about him, frequently Employed him about their affaires, trusted him both with receiving and paying the little mony, they had: Returning with his Majestie into England after greate Wants, & greate sufferings: his Majestie ...  X4&<the Diary text is broken here> ... so honest & industrious, & withall so capable & ready; that being advanced, from Cl: of the Kitchin to that of the GreeneCloth &c: he procured to be payMaster to the whole Army, & by his dexterity, & punctual dealing such credit amongst the Banquers, that he was in short time, able to borrow vast summs of them, upon any exigence; The continud Turning thus of mony, & the souldiers moderate allowance to him, for his keeping touch with them, did so inrich him; that he is believed to be worth at the least 200000 pounds honestly , & unenvied, which is next to Miracle, & that with all this he still continues as humble, & ready to do a Courtesie, as ever he was; nay he is generous, & lives very honorably, of a sweete nature, well spoken, & well bred, & so very highly in his Majesties Esteeme, & usefull, that being longsince made a Knight, he is also advancd to to be one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury: & has the reversion of the Coferers place after Harry Brounckar: He has married his Eldest Daughter to my Lord Cornwallis, & gave her 12000 pounds & restored that intangled family besides; Matchd his Eldest Sonn to Mrs. Trallop who brings with her (besides a greate summ) neere, if not altogether 2000 pounds per annum: Sir Stephens Lady (an excellent Woman) is sister to Mr. Whittle one of the Kings Chirurgions: In a word, never was man more fortunate than Sir Stephen; & with all this he is an handsom person, Vertuous & very religious, & for whom I have an extraordinary esteeme: 7 I visited my L: Major & went home: 9 Solemnly remembred a deare deceased Friend, whose memory is never by me to be forgotten on this day: ***  X(#413 My Lord the Earle of Chesterfield now Justice in Iyre1; sent me a fat Buck out of NewPark, which I presented to my Bro: & we eate among severall good friends & gent: of the neighbourhood: "% 0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ*** 23 Came to my house some German strangers, & Signor Pietro a famous Musitian, who had ben long in Sweden in Queene Christinas Court: he sung admirably to a Guitarr & has a perfect good tenor & base &c: & had set to Italian composure, many of Abraham Cowleys Pieces which shewd extreamely well: He told me the heate [some part] in summer was as excessive as the Cold in in winter in Sweden; so cold he affirmd, that the streetes of all the townes are desolate, no creature stirring in them for many moneths, all the inhabitans retiring to their stoves: He spake high things of that romantic Queene, her Learning, skill in Languages, the Majestie of her behaviour, her Exceeding Wit, & that the Histories she had read of other Counteries, especialy of Italy & Rome made her despize her owne: That the real occasion of her resignation of the Crowne to her Cousin, was the Noblemens importuning her to Marie, and the Promise which the Pope had made her of procuring her to be Queene of Naples, which also caused her to change her Religion, but she was cheated by his crafty holinesse, working on her ambition: That the reason of her Killing her secretarie at Fontain Beleaw, was his revealing that Intrigue with the Pope: But after all this, I rather believe it was her mad prodigality & extreame Vanity, which had Consumd all those vast treasures, the greate Adolphus (her father) had brought out of Germany, during his enterance there, & wonderfull successes: & that if she had not voluntarily resignd (as forseeing the Event) the States of her Kingdome would have compelld her. ***  X4i October ă <30> I went to Lond: [to be private:] My Birthday being the next; & I now arived to the sixtieth yeare of Age; [31] upon which, I began a more solemn survey of my whole Life, in order to the making, and confirming my peace with God, by an accurate Scrutinie of all my actions past, as far as I was able to call them to mind: And oh, how difficult, & uncertaine, yet most necessarie worke; The Lord be mercifull to me & accept me. Who can tell how oft he offendeth? Teach me therefore so to Number my daies, that I may apply my heart to wisdome, making my calling & election secure: Amen Lord Jesus: I spent this whole day in Exercise &c:... ***  X40a November ă 1. I began, and spent this whole Weeke in examining my life, beging pardon for my faults, Assistance & blessing for the future, that I might in some sort be prepared for the time that now drew neere, & not have the greate worke  Xx4 to 1 Iyre = eyre: the court circuit; Chesterfield, one of Es oldest friends (see above p. 7778) held this office in royal forests south of the Trent from 167985. E now gave him a copy of  X 4the 1679 edition of Sylva. It survives, bearing the inscription For the Rigt: Honble The Earle  X!4of Chesterfield Lord Justice of Eire & of all his Maties Woods & Forests in ye Kingdome of England: from his most humble Servant JEvelyn. begin, when one can worke no longer: The Lord Jesus help & assist me: I therefore stirred little abroad til the 5t... *** "'!0*(H&a@+"Ԍ30 The Anniversary Elections at the R: Society brought me to Lond: where was chosen Pr%sident, that excellent person, & greate Philosopher Mr. Robert Boyle who indeed, ought to have ben the very first; but neither his infirmitie, nor modestie could now any longer excuse him: I desird I might for this yeare be left out of the Council, by reason my dwelling was in the Country; The Society, according to Costome, dind together: This signal day, began the Trial of my Lord Vicount Stafford for conspiring the Death of the King, and was likewise his Birthday.  Xx4;b December ă 2. I was curious to see & heare the famous Triale of my L: Stafford [second] sonn to my Lord Thomas Howard, Earle of Arundel & Surry, Earle Marishall of England, & Grandfather to the present Duke of Norfolck, whom I so well knew, & from which excellent person, I received so many favours: The Trial was in Westminster Hall, before the King, Lords & Commons, just in the same manner as just 40 yeares past, the greate & wise Earle of Strafford (there being but one letter differing their names) received his Tryal (for pretended ill government in Ireland) in that famous Parliament [and same place]: This Lord Staffords Father being HighSteward &c: Onely the Place of sitting was now exhalted some considerable height from the Paved flore of the Hall, with a stage of boards, His Majesties Throne or state, the Woolsacks for the Judges,  X4long formes for the Peeres, Chaire of the Lord Steward pro tempore, exactly ranged as in the House of Lords: All the sides on both hands Scaffolded to the very roofe, for the Members of the H: of Commons: At the upper end, & right side of the Kings state, was a box for his Majestie, others for the Greate Ladys on the left hand; and over head a gallerie for Ambassadors & Pub: Ministers: At the lowerend or Enterance was a Barr, & place for the Prisoner, The Lieutennant of the Toure of London, the Axebearer & Guards, My Lord Staffords two Daughters, the Marchionesse of Winchester being one. There was likewise a Box for my Lord to retire into: At the right hand in another box some what higher, stood the Witnesses, at the left, the Manegers, who were to produce & manege the Evidence & whole processe in the name of the Commons of England: viz: Serjeant Maynard, (the greate lawyer, the same who prosecuted the Cause against the Earle of Strafford 40 years before in the same place, being now neere 80 yeares of age) Sir William Jones, (late Attourney Gen:) Sir Fran: Winnington (a famous Pleader) & Mr. Treby (now Recorder of Lond:) not appearing in their gownes as Lawyers, but in their cloakes & swords, as representing the Commons of England. To these were joynd Mr. Hamden, Mr. Sechevarell, Mr. Poule, Coll: Titus, Sir Tho: Lee all Gentlemen of Qualitie & noted Parliament men: The first two dayes (in which was read, the Commission, & Impeacchment) was but a very tedious enterance into Matter of fact, the Charge, at which I was little present: But on Thursday being commodiously seated amongst the Commons, when the wittnesses were sworn, & deposed, of which the principle were Mr. Oates (who cald himselfe Doctor) Mr. Dugdale & Turberville: Oates tooke his Oath, that he delivered a Commission to V. Count Stafford from the Pope, to be PayMaster Generall, to an Army intended to be raised &c: Dugdale, that being at my Lord Astons, the dealt with him plainely to Murder his Majestie, & Turbervile, that at Paris also he proposed the same to him &c. 3 Friday was spent in Depositions of my Lords Wittnesses, to invalidate the Testimonie of the Kings Witnesses, which being very slight persons, though many, viz, 15 or 16: tooke up all that day: and in truth they rather did my Lord injurie than service, & made but little for him. 4: Saturday came other Witnesses of the Commons, to corroborate the Kings, of which some were Peeres, & some Commons, with other of good qualitie, who tooke off all the"$"0*(H&a@("  X4former days objections, & set the Kings Witnesses recti in Curia, & then adjournd til moneday: *** 6 Moneday, being the 6 of December I went againe to the Trial, where I heard the Evidences summd up by Sir William Jones, which was very large; and when he had don, & said all he could to exaggerate the charge succeeded all the rest of the Lawyers Manegers; Then began Mr Hen: Poule in a vehement Oration, as to the profes of the Jesuitical doctrine, of holding it not onely lawfull, but meritorious to Murder an Heretic King; which my Lord, had in his plea denyed: After this my Lord (as upon all occasions, & very often he did during the whole Trial) spake in his owne defence, denying the Charge altogether; that he never in his life saw either Turbervile or Oates at the time, and manner affirmed; & in truth their Testimonie did little weigh with me; Dugdales onely seemed to presse hardest; To which my Lord spake a greate while, but without any method, & confusdly: One thing my Lord said, which I confesse did exceedingly affect me, as to Titus Oates, That a Person, who, during his depositions, should so vauntingly as he did, brag that though he went over to the Church of Rome, yet he was never a Papist, nor of their Religion, all the time that he seemd to Apostasize from the Protestant; but onely as a spie; Though he confessd he tooke their Sacraments, Worshipd Images, went through all the Oathes & discipline of their Proselytes, swearing seacrecy, & to be faithfull, but with intention to come over againe & betray them: That such an Hypocrite, that had so deepely prevaricated, as to turne even Idolater, (for so we of the Church of England esteemd it) attesting God so solemnly, that he was intirely theirs, & devoted to their interests, & consequently (as he pretended) trusted; I say that the Witnesse of such a proflygate wretch should be admitted, against the life of a Pere; This my Lord, looked upon as a monstrous thing, & such as must needes redownd to the dishonor both of our Religion & Nation: And verily, I am of his Lordships opinion; Such a mans Testimonie should not be taken against the life of a Dog: Tis true, many Protestants had defected, & returnd againe; but we know of none, (nor if any, can approve them) who when they turned Papists, did not heartily believe they were in the right, til they were convincd to the Contrary: But this is not Oates his case, he went thro all the mysteries of their Religion, thro all their Oates, Execrations on himselfe, Sacraments &c, whilst by his owne Confession, he disembld all; This he affirmed & I know not on what occasion it escaped from him, no lesse impiously: than foolishly: From this moment foreward, I had quite lost my opinion of Mr. Oates. But the merite & service of something material which he discovered against Coleman at first, put him in such esteeme with the Parliament &c: that now I fancy, he stooke at nothing, & thought that every body was to take what he said for Gospel afterwards: The Consideration of this, and some other Circumstances began to stagger me; particularly how twas possible, that one who went among the Papists with such a designe, & pretended to be intrusted with so many letters, & Commissions from the Pope & party, nay & delivered them to so many greate Persons, should not reserve one of them to shew, or produce, nor so much as one Copie of any Commission; which he who had such dexterity in opening letters &c, might certainely have don, to the undenyable Conviction of those whom he accusd: But, as I said, he gained Credit upon Coleman, but as to others whom he so madly flew upon, I am little inclined to believe his testimonie; he being so slight a person, so passionate, illbred, & [of] impudent behaviour: nor is it at all likely, such piercing politicians as the Jesuites should trust him with so high, & so dangerous seacrets."H&#0*(H&a@M*"Ԍ[7] On Tuesday I was againe at the Trial, when Judgement was demanded, and after my Lord had spoken what he could in denying of the fact &c: The Manegers answering the objections &c: The Peeres adjourned to their House, & within two houres, returnd againe: There was in the meane time this farther question put, whither there being but one witnesse to any single Crime or act, it could amount to convict a man; upon this, the Judges being cald on to give their opinion, unanimously declard, that in case of Treason, they all were overt acts; for though no man should be condemnd by one witnesse for any one act, yet for severall acts to the same intent, it was valid, which was my Lord Staffords Case, for one sware he practised him to Kill his Majestie at Paris, another at my L: Astons, a Third that he delivered him a Commission from Rome, but to neither of there were above one Witnesse, so it was overruled: This being past, and The Peres in their seats againe, my Lord [Chancelor] Finch (who was this day High Steward) removing to the Woolsack next his Majesties state, after summoning the Lieutennant of the Tower to bring forth his Prisoner, and Proclamation made for silence; demanded of every Peere (who were in all 86) whither William Lord Vicount Stafford were Guilty of the Treason Laied to his Charge, or not Guilty: Then the Peere (spoken to) standing up, & laying his right hand upon his breast, sayed Guilty, or Not Guilty Upon his honour; & then sat downe: & so another til all were asked: the L: Steward noting their severall Suffrages as they answered upon a paper: When all had don, the number of not Guilties being but 31, the Guiltys 55, after Proclamation for silence againe; The Steward directing his speech to the Prisoner (against whom the Axe was turnd edge ways towards him, & not before) in aggravation of his Crime, he being enobled by his Majesties Father, & since received many favours & graces from his present Majestie: That came of such a stock, & noble family, had appeared in his defence in time of the late rebellion &c: & all that could signifie to the charge of his ingratitude & disloyalty: Then inlarged on the honor & justice of their Proceedings against him with a Christian exhortation to Repentance, & Confession, deploring first his owne unhapinisse, that he who never Condemned any man before, should now be necessitated to begin with him, &c: & then Pronounced Sentence of Death, by Hanging, Drawing & Quartering (according to forme) with greate solemnity, and dreadfull gravity; last of all, after a short pause; Told the Prisoner, That he believed the Lords would interceede with his Majestie that some Circumstances of his sentence, might be omitted, beheading onely excepted & then breaking his Whitestaff, the Court disolved. My Lord Stafford during all this later part spake very little, & onely Gave their Lordships thanks, after the sentence was pronouncd; & indeede behavd himselfe modestly, and as became him: Twas observd, that all his owne Relations, & of his Name & family Condemnd him, excepting onely his Nephew the Earle of Arundel; sonn to the D: of Norfolck: and it must be acknowledgd that the whole Trial was carried on from first to last, with exceeding gravity, & so stately and august appearance I had never seene; for besides innumerable spectators of Gent: & forraine Ministers &c: who saw & heard all the proceedings, the Prisoner had the Consciences of all the Commons of England for his Accusers, and all the Peeres to be his Judges & Jury: He had likewise the assistance of what Counsel he would to direct him in his plea, that stood by him: And yet I can hardly think, a person of his age & experience, should engage men, whom he never saw before, (& one of  X`"4them that came to visite him as a stranger, at Paris), point blanque to Murder the King: God onely, who searches hearts, can discover the Truth, & to him it must be left: My Lord Stafford, was not a man belovd, Especialy of his owne family, & had ben suspected, & in danger to by it, of a Vice in Germanie, which neede not be namd, and I doubt not but he had seriously repented."%$0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ11 I returned home: 12 Our Viccar & Curate proceeded on their former Texts: This Evening looking out of my Chamber Window towards the West, I first saw a Meteor, (or what ever Ph%nomenon it was) of an obscure bright Colour (if so I may call it without a solecisme) resembling the brightnesse of the Moone when under a thin Clowd, very much in shape like the blade of a sword, whose point to the starre in appearance, bending Northwards towards London, not seeming at the Horizon to be above a yard in bredth, & so pyramidal, the rest of the skie, very serene & cleere; The Moone new, but not appearing, the Weather exceeding sharp, hard frost with some snow falling 2 daies before: What this may Portend (for it was very extraordinarie) God onely knows; but another such Ph%nomen I remember I saw, which went from North to South, & was much brighter, & larger, but not so Ensiforme in the yeare 1640, about the Triall of the greate Earle of Strafford, pr%ceeding our bloudy Rebellion: I pray God avert his Judgements; we have had of late severall Comets, which though I believe appeare from natural Causes, & of themselves operate not, yet I cannot despise them; They may be warnings from God, as they commonly are forrunners of his Annimadversions: After  X 4some daies this plainly appeared to be headed with a small hazystarr distant from Venus 23oĪ X 458 & the bright st: of Aquila 28155oĩ90 Latitude 9oĩ44 South, the taile or point extending to the middle of Sagitta above a degree broad, & was 35 deg: long. 17 This day being friday, at exactly halfe an after one at noone, was my Daughter in Law brought to bed of a Sonn, a very fine babe; for which I gave God Thanks: *** [19] being the last Sonday of Advent; was Christned my little Grandsonn, by the name of Richard: his Grandfather Sir Rich: Browne & my Bro: Geo: Evelyn being Susceptors with my Lady Stonehouse mother of my Daughter in Law: 22 Was the solemn Publique Fast thro out England, that God would prevent all popish plotts, avert his Judgements, & give a blessing to the proceedings of the Parliament now assembled, & which struck at the Succession of the Duke of York &c:... *** 29, was the unhappy ViCount Stafford beheaded on Tower Hill. 31 After recollection &c: I humbly gave thanks to God, for his mercies to me this past Yeare:  XX4 ,q)!`!(#=,@r)"  =$z1681@  b 4t 1681 ă  X4k January ă *** 2 ... After many daies & nights of Snow, Clowdy & dark weather, the Comet was gotten as far as the head of Andromeda & not above 23 deg: long, much wasted: ***  X#4Wf February ă 10 I was at the Wedding & Marriage of my Nephew Jo: Evelyn of Wotton, married by my L: Bish: of Rochester at Westminster (in Hen: 7th Chapell) to the daughter & heyre of Mr. Erskin of Sussex, her portion 8000 pounds: I wish it may happy to him, & the"'%0*(H&a@+" familie, having first proposed it to my Bro: & that she is like to be a proper beautifull young Lady, & of an honourable familie: The solemnity was kept with a few select friends only, at my Lady Beckfords mother of the Lady: ***  X4p March ă 27 ... The Parliament now convend at Oxford: Greate expectation of his Royal Highnesses Case, as to Succession, against which the house was set: An extraordinary sharp, cold Spring, not yet a leafe on the trees, frost & snow lying: whilst the whole nation was in a greate ferment. ***  X( 4u April ă 12 I dind at Mr. Brisbans Secretary to the Admiralty, a learned & industrious person: whither came Dr. Burnet to thank me for some Papers I had contributed towards his excellent  XH 4Historie of the Reformation: Thence to the R: Society, next day home: *** 26 I dined at Dom Piedro Ronquillos the Spanish Ambassador at Wild house, used me with extraordinarie Civility: After dinner (which was plentifull, halfe after the Spanish, & halfe after the English way) he led me into his Bed-chamber, where we both fell into a long discourse about Religion; in which, though he was a learned man in Politiques, & an Advocate; I found him very ignorant, & unable to defend any point of Controversy, blindly recurring at every foote, to the Churches Infallibility, & Tradition - he was however far from being fierce; onely at parting earnestly wishing that I would humbly apply my selfe to the Blessed Virgin to direct me, & that he had know divers that had ben averse from the Roman Catholique religion, be wonderfully inlightned & convinced by her Intercession. This was a pretty Postulatum; he would have one be a papist, that he might be a Papist: They have not a weaker tenet in all their Religion, than this error of Invocation of Saints & Adoration: so I tooke leave of the Ambassador, who importund me to come & visite him often: *** 29 I gave in my grand Accompt to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, & so home, but one showre of raine all this Moneth, the whole yeare dry &c: ***  X@4*x May ă 5 Came to visite & dine with me Sir William Fermor, of N:hamptonshire, & Sir Chr: Wren, his Majesties Architect & Surveyor, now building the Cathedrall of St. Paules, & the Columne in memorie of the Citties Conflagration, & was in hand with the building of 50 Parish Churches: a genius had this incomparable Person: *** "%&0*(H&a@)"Ԍ16 Came my Lady the Countesse of Sunderland, to desire me, that I would propose a Match to Sir Stephen Fox, for her sonn, my Lord Spencer, to Marry Mrs. Jane Sir Stephens daughter: I excused it all I was able; for the truth is, I was afraid he would prove an extravagant man; for though a youth of extraordinary parts, & that had all the Education imaginable to render him a worthy man; yet his early inclinations to vice made me apprehensive I should not serve Sir St: Fox in it, like a friend: This being now his onely Daughter, so well bred, & who was like to receive a large share of her fathers kindnesse, as far as opulence & mony could expresse it: For Sir Stephen is my Friend, & for whom I have much esteeme; & I considerd that My Lord Sunderland, being much sunke in his Estate, by Gaming & other prodigalities, it could not at this time answer Sir Stephens expectations; for my Lord, was now no longer secretary of state, but was falln in displeasure with the King, for his siding with the Commons &c: about the Succession; but which, I am very well assured he did not do, out of his owne inclination, or for the preservation of the Protestant religion; but by mistaking a party, which he believed would have carried it, & perhaps had good reason to think so: For otherwise Sir Stephen did not stand so much upon a rich fortune for his Favorite daughter, but was willing to marry her to a noble familie, both to fortifie his interests, & better his allyance: However so earnest & importunate was the Countesse that I would use my interest, & breake it to him; that I was over come, and did accordingly promise it: so next day, I tooke an opportunitie to introduce the proposal: Sir Stephen (who knew nothing of the young gallants inclinations, but that he was as to appearance, one of the loveliest & spiritous Youths in England) professed to me, that no man in Englands recomendations should be sooner receivd than mine; but told me That it was too greate an honour to him, that his Daughter was very Young, as well as my Lord, & he was fully resolvd never to marry her, without the parties mutual liking, which she could not judge of til more advancd in age, with other difficulties and objections that I neither could, nor would contradict: I told him how I was ingagd, & that I would serve them both, if he thought good to proceede, and take what measures he should give me in this matter; I onely told him that I was my Lady Sunderlands friend, one that she trusted with many her concernes, & did Confesse their condition as to Estate was impaird; but that I verily believd, that if it were set-free, they would husband things better for the future, & that he would do an act of greate Generositie, & as already he had, (by marrying his Eldest Daughter with a vast Portion,) redeemd my Lord Cornwalliss intangled estate, (& who proved a very worthy gent:) so it would be his glory to set up the Earle of Sunderlands family againe; with how greate an obligation it would be to those who sought his Alyance: This did a little worke upon Sir Stephens good nature, who I am sure might have had his choice in any of the best families in England: However he desired me to write to the Countesse, & to expresse the greate sence he had of the honour don him; that his Daughter & her sonn were too Young, that he would do nothing without her liking, which he did not think her capable of expressing judiciously, til she should arive to the age of 16 or 17: of which she now wanted 4 yeares; & in short, that I would put it off as civily as I could for the present; which indeede I did: But my Lady, (now that I had broken the ice,) continues to conjure my assistance, & that I would not leave it in this posture: *** 20 ... There had scarce fallen yet any raine since Christmas: ***  XH&4v June ă "''0*(H&a@7+"Ԍ12 ... My exceeding drowsinesse hindred my attention, which I feare proceeded from Eating too much, or the drinesse of the season & heate, it still continuing so greate a drowth, as was never knowne in Eng: & was said to be universal: *** 19 ... The dry weather had now withered every thing, & threatned some universal dirth &c: ***  X45x July ă 21 My Wife & Daughter Mary &c: went to Tunbridge to drinke the Waters: &c: ***  X 4m August ă 4. To Lond: about severall affaires: Went to R: Society where was produced by Dr. Slaer (one of the Members) an extraordinary Experiment: He prepared a matter, which without exposure to the Sunn, or light, (as other Phosphoruss were) shoone as bright as the flame of a Candle: It was a substance of the Colour of mouth glew; had an urinous smell; with this he wrote on a sheete of paper, in the least appearing, but being put into a  X04dark place, shoone forth in a bright & delicate stroke these two words Vivat Rex Carolus, which remaind above halfe an hour, & longer than we were willing to stay: A beame of the Sunn was not more perspicuous, it did not flame up, but remained close to the paper, in a neate stroake about the bignesse Text letters, so as to give a pretty light about it; The very motion of drawing it on a paper, (as one would write with a blacklead pen) seting it on this lambent fire: & when it was almost quite spent, rubbing it a little with ones hand or finger, it would rekindle, yet without taking holding of, or leaving any track on the paper,  X4when exposed to the day againe: Many Phosphorus had I seene, as that famous Lapis  Xp4illuminabilis of Bologna, which I went there to see being in Italy many yeares since; but never did I see any comparable to this: Washing my hands & face with it, I appeared in the darke like the face of the moone, or rather like some spirit, or strange apparition; so as I cannot but attribute it to the greate providence of God, that it was not first found out by the Papists; for had they the seacret onely, what a miracle might they make it, supposing them either to rub the Consecrated Wafer with it, or washing the Priests face & hands with it, & doing the feate in some darke Church or Cloyster, proclaime it to the Neighbour hood; I am confident the Imposture would bring thousands to them, & do an infinity of mischiefe, to the establishing of the common error of Transubstantiation; all the world would ring at the miracle &c: This matter being rubbed very hard on paper or board, set it in a devowring flame, which I never saw any Phosphorus do but this, & it being of a nature to spend it selfe, or if a little warmed either by the fire or the Sunn, would flame out right, & burne most fiercely, but being kept continualy in a glasse of water, lasted without impaire: He affirmd it to be chymicaly & with extraordinary preparation, composed of Urine & humane bloud: which  X(#4gives greate light to Dr. Willis &c notions of the flamula Vitalis which animates the bloud, & is, for ought we know, the animal life it selfe of all things living: It is certainely a most noble Experiment; first excogitated & hinted (as this Doctor Confessed) by Mr. Boyle, with whom this industrious young Physitian, some time wrought in"%(0*(H&a@)" his Laboratory: He tooke a small portion, not bigger than a small peper Corne, layed it on a dry piece of fir board, & with the flatt of a knife bruised it, as one would spread a Plaister, & immediately rose up in a fierce flame, & consumd the board: Then he had a Phiol of Liquor, which he said was made of a disolution of this, which dropping into a beere glasse of Ale, conceived a flame, so soone as it touched & mingled with the Ale: of this I drank, & seemd to me to be of an agreable amber scent, with very little altering the tast of the Ale: The Doctor pretends to bring it into a usefull & precious Medicine or Panaceam: This liquor was red: This noble Experiment, exceeded all that ever I had seene of this nature, unlesse that which my learned Friend, & fellow Traveler Mr. Hensheaw & I accidentaly beheld a certaine  X4Mountebank at Rome in the Piazza Navona (formerly Circus Maximus) now the Market place; here, whilst the other Charlatans, invited people to their stages, by Monkies, Jackpuddings & Pantomimes; This Fellow onely tooke from his finger a Ring (wither gold, brasse or silver, I could not examine, nor did I mind) which seemd to have a lump of blackish wax upon it, about the bignesse & of the shape, of those we call Toade stones, (which are indeede, but the grinders of the shark-fish). This he no sooner touched with the tip of his finger, which he seemed to wet with spittle at his mouth onely (though perhaps dipd in some oyle or other menstrue before) but it immediately rose into a flame, as big & bright as any Wax light; This we saw him two or three times blow out, & accend againe, with the least touch of his finger, & then put the ring on his finger, & having by this surprizing trick, gotten Company about him, he fell to prating for the vending of his pretended Remedies &c: But a thousand times have we deplored, that whatever it Cost, we had not purchased this rare receit; Tis mentioned how to make the like both in Wecker & Jo: Bap: Porta &c: but on many tryals, it did not succeede: & what stupidity should seaze & possesse us, that all the time we were in Rome, we should never think of this, til some yeares after we were nearer home, We have both admird: The matter of fact is true, & I wish I knew how to make the like for a greate summ of mony; since, it could be made without exceeding Cost, it would be an expeditious way to kindle any fire, light a Candle, & use upon a thousand occasions, abroad or at home: *** 14: Our Viccar still indisposed, the Curate preached on 3: Apocalyps. 19. No Sermon this afternoone, which I think did not happen twice in this parish these 30 yeares; so gracious had God ben to it, & indeede to the whole Nation: God Grant, we abuse not this greate privelegdge: either by our wantonesse, schismes, or Unfruitfullnesse under such meanes, as he has not favoured any nation under heaven besides: *** 23 I went to visite my deare Bro: at Wotton, the place of my birth: & Country: 24 I was invited to Mr. Denzil Onslows at his seate at Purford, where was much company, & such an extraordinary feast, as I had hardly ever seene at any Country Gent: table in my whole life; but what made it more remarkeable was, that there was not any thing, save what his Estate about it did not afford; as Venison, Rabbts, hairs, Pheasants, Partridge, [pigeons,] Quaile, Poultrie, all sorts of fowle in season (from his owne Decoy neere his house) all sorts of fresh fish: so Industrious is this worthy Gent: After dinner we went to see sport at the decoy, I never saw so many herons &c. The seate stands on a flat, the ground pastures, rarely watred, & exceedingly improved; since Mr. Onslow bought it of Sir Rob: Parkhurst, who spent a faire Estate &c: The house is Timber, but commodious, & with"')0*(H&a@*+" one ample dining roome, & the hal adorned with paintings of fowle, & huntings &c: the work of Mr.Barlow, who is excellent in this kind from the life: It stands neere part of Guildford river, within 12 or 14 miles of Lond: we returned to Wotton in the Evening: *** 30 I went to visite Mr. Hussey a neere neighbour of my Bro: who has a very prety seate, delicately watred, & he certainely the neatest husband for curious ordering his Domestic & field Accommodations, & what pertaines to husbandry, that in my life I have ever seene, as to his severall Graneries, Tackling, Tooles & Utensils, Ploughs, Carts, Stables, Woodpiles, Woork house, even to the hen rosts & hog troughs: so as I mithought I saw old Cato or Varro in him: all substantial, all in exact order, which exceedingly delighted me: The sole inconvenience he lies under, is the greate quantities of sand, which his streames bring along with them, which fills his chanales & receptacles of fish too soone: The rest of my time of stay at Wotton was spent in walking about the grounds & goodly Woods, where I have in my Youth entertained my solitude &c: & so on the 2d of September I returned to my home, being two daies after my Wife &c was returned from Tunbridge, where they had ben, I blesse God, with good successe, now neere five weekes: ***  X4` September ă 6. Died my pretty Grand-child at Nurse of the gripes. 8. My good neighbour Mr. Turner was buried, our Viccar preached on 126. Psal.7: when was interred our little Child: 9: I sadly remembred the losse of another deare friend: This afternoone came the Bish: of Rochester & his Lady to visite us: *** 14. Dind with Sir Steph: Fox: Who proposed to me the purchasing of Chelsey Coll; which his Majestie had some time since given to our Society, & would now purchase it of us againe, to build an Hospital [Infirmary] for Souldiers there; in which he desired my assistance as one of the Council of the R: Society: ***  X 4i October ă 11 I went to Fulham to visite the Bish: of Lond: in whose Garden I first saw the  Xx4Sedum arborescens in flowre, which was exceeding beautifull: I called in at Parsons Greene to see our Charge, my L: Vic: Mordaunts Children: *** 18 My Coach-house was robbed, they ript off the Velvet &c: There was this day a meeting with the rest of the Trustees, upon my Young Lord Vicount Mordaunts offer to procure 20000 pounds for the payment of his Bro: & sisters portions, in consideration that we would possesse him of Parsons Greene, & the Coale-farme, which were worth 3000 per Annum: This tooke up long debates with our Council, who were for us Sir William Jones late"%*0*(H&a@)" Attourney Gen: and Mr. Keck: There were with me the Earle of Clarendon, Mr. Newport, & Mr. Herbert: but nothing concluded. *** 31 Being my Birth-day and 61 yeares of age, I spent in recollection of the yeare past, giving God thankes for his many signal mercys, & imploring his blessing on the yeare now entering: ***  X40a November ă 15 I went to Visite, & dined with the Earle of Essex, who after dinner in his study sitting alone with him by the fire, related to me how much he had ben scandalizd & injurd in the report of his being privy to the Marriage of his Ladys Niepce, the rich young Widdow of my late Lord Oagle, sole daughter of the Earle of Northumberland; shewing me a letter of Mr. Thinns excusing himselfe for his not communicating his Marriage to his Lordship; acquainting me also with the whole storie of that unfortunate Ladys being betraied by her Grandmother the Countesse of N-humb: & Coll: Bret for mony; and that though upon the importunitie of the Duke of Monmoth, he had delivered [to the Grandmother] a particular of the Joynture, which Mr. Thynn pretended he would settle on the Lady; yet he totaly discouragd the proceeding, as by no means a competent Match, for one that both by her birth, & fortune might have pretended to the greatest Prince in Christendome: That he also proposed the Earle of Kingston (a kinds man of mine) or the Lord Cranborn; but was by no meanes for Mr. Thynn: *** 24. I was at the Audience of the Russia Ambassador which was befor both their Majesties in the Banqueting-house: The presents were carried before them, held up by his followers standing in two rankes towards the Kings state, & consisted of Tapissry (one suit of which was doubtlesse brought from France as being of that fabric, this Ambassador having passed through that Kingdom as he came out of Spaine) a large Persian Carpet, Furrs of Sable & Ermine &c: but nothing was so splendid & exotick, as the Ambassador Who came soone  X4after his Majesties restauration1: This present Ambassador was exceedingly offended that his Coach was not permited to come into the Court; til being told that no Kings Ambassadors did, he was pacified, yet requiring an attestation of it under Sir Ch: Cotterells the Master of the Ceremonies hand; being it seemes afraid he should offend his Master if he omitted the least puntillo: Twas reported he condemnd his sonn to loose his head, for shaving off his beard, & putting himselfe in the French mode at Paris, & that he had executed it, had not the french King interceeded: of this qu%re: *** 28 Several Fellows of our Society met at diner in the Citty, to consult about Electing a fit Secretarie, & to regulate some other defects: This Evening I got Dr. Slaer to shew my Lord Chamberlaine, the Duke & Dutchesse of Grafton, the Earle of Chesterfild, Conde de Castel Melior & severall others, that admirable and stupendious experiment of both the liquid & drie Phosphorus, at which they were all astonishd: 30 Being St. Andrews day, we continued Sir Chr: Wrenn our President, elected a new Council according to the Statute, of which I was one; & chose Mr. Austine secretary with Dr."'+0*(H&a@7+" Plott, the ingenious Author of the Natural Hist. of Oxfordshire: There was a most illustrious appearance:  XX4;b December ă 1 I went home to my house, after neere a Moneths absence upon buisinesse with Sir Denis Gauden, & Commissioners of the Navy: *** 15 The Duke of Grafton invited me to a magnificent Feast at the Trinity house: ***  X( 4 1 In December 1662, see above p.146.  b 40!%$z1682`!(#=0@"%  =$z1682@t 1682 ă  XH 4k January ă *** 11 To Lond: Saw the Audience of the Morroco Ambassador: his retinue not numerous, was receivd in the Banqueting-house both their Majesties present: he came up to the Throne without making any sort of Reverence, bowing so much as his head or body: he spake by a Renegado English man, for whose safe returne there was a promise: They were all Clad in the Moorish habite Cassocks of Colourd Cloth or silk with buttons & loopes, over this an Alhaga or white wollan mantle, so large as to wrap both head & body, a shash or small Turban, naked legd & armd, but with lether socks like the Turks, rich Symeters, large Calico sleevd shirts &c: The Ambassador had a string of Pearls odly woven into his Turbant; I fancy the old Roman habite was little different as to the Mantle & naked limbs: The Ambassador was an handsom person, well featurd, & of a wise looke, subtile, and extreamely Civile: Their Presents were Lions & Estridges &c: Their Errant, about a Peace at Tangire &c: But the Concourse & Tumult of the People was intollerable, so as the Officers could keepe no order; which they were astonishd at at first; There being nothing so regular exact & performd with such silence &c, as [in] all these publique occasions of their Country, & indeede over all the Turkish dominions: *** 24 To Lond: where at the Council of the R: Soc: we passed a new Law, for the more accurate consideration of Candidates before admission, as whither they would realy be  X 4Usefull: & also concerning Honorarie Members, that none should be admitted but per  X 4diploma: An exper: for the describing any Parabola line whatsoever. This Evening I was at the Entertainement of the Morroco at the Dut: of Portsmouths glorious Appartment at W.hall, where was a greate banquet of Sweetemeates, & Musique &c but at which both the Ambassador & Retinue behaved themselves with extraordinary Moderation & modestie, though placed about a long Table a Lady betweene two Moores: viz: a Moore, then a Woman, then a Moore &c: and most of these were the Kings natural Children, viz: the Lady Lichfield, Sussex, DD of Portsmouth, Nelly &c: Concubines,"%,0*(H&a@)" & catell of that sort, as splendid as Jewells, and Excesse of bravery could make them: The Moores neither admiring or seeming to reguard any thing, furniture or the like with any earnestnesse; and but decently tasting of the banquet: They dranke a little Milk & Water, but not a drop of Wine, also they drank of a sorbett & Jacolatte: did not looke about nor stare on the Ladys, or expresse the least of surprize, but with a Courtly negligence in pace, Countenance, & whole behaviour, answering onely to such questions as were asked, with a greate deale of Wit & Gallantrie, & so gravely tooke leave, with this Compliment That God would blesse the D: of P: and the Prince her sonn, meaning the little Duke of Richmond: The King came in at the latter end, just as the Ambassador was going away: In this manner was this Slave (for he was no more at home) entertained by most of the Nobility in Towne; & went often to HidePark on horse back, where he and his retinue shewed their extraordinary activity in Horsmanship, and the flinging & Catching their launces at full speede; They rid very short, & could stand up right in full speede, managing their speares with incredible agility. He also went sometimes to our Theaters, where when upon any foolish or fantastical action he could not forbeare laughing, he endeavored to hide it with extraordinary modesty & gravity: In a word, the Russian Ambassador, still at Court behaved himselfe like a Clowne, compard to this Civil Heathen: 27 I went to heare Dr. Tenison at St. Mart: Expound on the Church Catechisme: This Evening Sir St. Fox acquainted me againe with his Majesties resolutions of proceeding in his Erection of a Royal Hospital for Emerited Souldiers on that spot of ground The Ro: Society had sold his Majestie for 1300 pounds & that he would settle 5000 pounds per Annum on it, & build to the value of 20000 pounds for the reliefe & reception of 4 Companies, viz. 400 men, to be as in a Coledge or Monastrie: I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not onely the whole menaging of this, but was (as I perceivd) himselfe to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him, who had gotten so vast an Estate by the Souldiers &c) to assist him & Consult what Method to Cast it in, as to the Government: So in his Study, we set downe the Governor, Chaplaine, Steward, Housekeeper, Chirurgion, Cooke, Butler, Gardner, Porter & other Officers, with their severall salaries & entertainements: I would needes have a Librarie, & mentioned severall books &c. since some souldiers might possibly be studious, when they were at this leasure to recolect: Thus we made the first Calculations, & set downe our thoughts to be considered & digested better to shew his Majestie & the Archbishop: He also engaged me to consider of what Laws & Orders were fit for the Government, which was to be in every respect as strickt as in any religious Convent &c: After supper, came in the famous Trebble Mr. Abel newly returnd from Italy, & indeede I have never heard a more excellent voice, one would have sworne it was a Womans it was so high, & so well & skillfully managd: being accompanied with Signor Francesco on the Harpsichord: 28 Mr. Pepys (late Sec: to the Admiralty) a large folio containing the whole Mechanic part, & art of Building royal ships & Men of Warr; made by Sir Anth: Deane, being so accurate a Piece, from the very keele to the lead block, rigging, Gunns, Victualing, Manning, even to every individual Pin & naile, in a Method so astonishing & curious; with the draughts both Geometrical, & in Perspective, & severall sections; That I do not think the Whole World can shew the like; I esteeme this one booke above any of the Sybillas, & it is an extraordinary Jewel: hence I returned home. *** 31 To Lond: but tooke such a cold that the next day returning from our Society (where  X%4we had the Phosphorus experimented in Vaccuo Boyliano which greately surprized me) to my  XH&4Lodging at White-hall, I was attaqd with a fit of an Ague Tertian for 3 fitts, which so exceedingly weakend me, that I was not able to stirr out til Sonday when"'-0*(H&a@*+"Ԍ X4ԙWf February ă 5 I went to Chapell ... My fitts continuing with much violence I sent my Wife to fetch me home in the Coach: There came & sent to Visite me my L: Chamberlaine, Dutchesse of Grafton, Countesse of Bristol & Sunderland, Sir William Godolphin, & severall of my friends almost daily: 7. I went home: My Daughter Mary now first began to learne Musick of Signor Bartholomeo, & Dauncing of Monsieur Isaac, both reputed the best Masters &c: I continud ill for 2 fitts after, and then bathing my leggs to the knees in Milk made as hott as I could endure it, & sitting so in it, in a deepe Churn or Vessell, Covered with blanquets & drinking Carduus posset, then going to bed & sweating, I not onely missed that expected fit, but had no more; onely continued so weake that I could not go to church til Ashwednesday, which I had not missed I think so long in twenty yeares, so long had God ben gracious to me: After this warning & admonition, I now began to looke-over & methodize all my Writings, Accompts, Letters, Papers, &c: Inventoried the goods &c of the house, & to put things into the best order I could; & also new made my Will: That growing now in yeares, I might have none of these secular things & Concernes, to distract me, whensoever it should please Almighty God to call me from this transitorie life: And with this prepared me some special Meditations & devotions for the time of sicknesse: The Lord Jesus grant them Salutary for my poore Soule at that day, that I may obtaine Mercy & acceptance.  Xh4p March ă 1 Was my second Grand-child borne, exactly at Sunn-rising; & Christned the next day by our Viccar at Sayes-Court, his Susceptors being My Selfe with my Nephew Jo: Evelyn of Wotton, by the Name of John: his Godmother was Mrs. Anderson, sister to his Mother: I  XP4beseech God to blesse him.1 *** 10: ... There was this day Executed Coll: Vrats & some of his Complices, for their Execrable Murder of Mr. Thynn, set on by the principal Koningsmarke went to Execution like an undaunted Hero, as one that had don a friendly office for that base Coward C. Coningsmark, who had hopes to marry his Widdow the rich Lady Ogle; & was acquitted by a Corrupt Jury, & so got away: Vrats told a friend of mine, who accompaning him to the Gallows & gave him some advice; That dying he did not value a rush, & hoped & believed God would deale with him like a Gentleman; never man went so gallant, & so unconcernd to his sad fate: *** 19 ... I was this day exceedingly paind in both my kidnies, which gave me apprehension of some farther evil, which God in mercy avert: *** 22: I dined with severall of the R: Society ... I went hence to see the Corps of that obstinate Creature, Coll. Vratz the German murderer of Mr. Thynn (set on by the Principal Count Koningsmark) the King permitting his body should be transported to his owne Country,"%.0*(H&a@)" (being it seemes a person of a good family) it being one of the first, which was embaulmed by a particular art invented by one Will: Russell a Coffin Maker; which presered the body without disboweling or using to any appearance any bituminous matter; The flesh florid, soft and full, as if the person were onely sleeping: The Cap: having now ben dead neere 15 daies: He lay exposed in a very rich Coffin, lined with lead: &c to magnificently for so daring, & horrid a Murderer: ***  X@4 1 Sir John Evelyn of Wotton (16821763), 1st baronet, Es heir.  X4u April ă 5: To Lond: our Society, where at a Council, was regulated what Collections should be monethly published, as formerly the Transactions, which had of late ben discontinued; but were now much desired & called for by the Curious both from abroad, & home: *** 12 ... I went this Afternoone to a Supper, with severall of the R: Society, which was all dressed (both fish & flesh) in Monsieur Papins Digestorie; by which the hardest bones of Biefe itselfe, & Mutton, were without water, or other liquor, & with lesse than 8 ounces of Coales made as soft as Cheeze, producd an incredible quantity of Gravie, & for close, a Gellie, made of the bones of biefe, the best for clearnesse & good relish, the most delicious that I had ever seene or tasted; so as I sent my Wife a glasse of it, to the reproch of all that the ladys ever made of the best Harts-horne &c: We Eate Pick & other fish with bones & all without any impediment: but nothing exceeded the Pigeons, which tasted just as if baked in a pie, all these being stewed in their owne juice, without any addtion of water, save what swam about the as in balneo: The natural juice of all these provisions, acting on the grosser substances, reduct the harder bones to this tendernesse: but it is best described (with infinite more particulars for extracting tinctures, preserving & stewing fruite &c, & saving fuel) by Dr. Papins booke, published, & dedicated to our Society, of which he is a member, though since gon to Venice with Signor late Resident for that State here, & a member also of our Society, who carried this excellent Mechanique Philos: & Physitian, to set up a Philos: meeting in that Citty: By this Experiment it is plaine, that the most obdurate bones are but the more compacted & closer parts of the same matter (by juxtaposition) which composes the tenderest flesh & Muscular parts; & reduces them to a friable, rather than glutinous substance, which disolves into gravy, or composes the Gelly: These bones then, breaking as it were into crumbs, one may strew on bread & eate without harme: This Philosophical Supper, raised much mirth amongst us, & exceedingly pleased all the Companie: *** 16 ... As now I grew in yeares, I becam much subject to sleepe in the Afternoones, which I formerly censured in some others, and believed impossible; I beseech God to pardon & help me: Seldome & rarely did I sleepe in the morning Exercises &c: 23 ... I stirrd not forth this Weeke, but tooke Physick, the season unusualy wet, with such stormes of Raine & Thunder, as did greate damage: ***  X'4*x May ă"'/0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ X4ԙ25 Dies Ascentionis: I was desired by Sir St: Fox, & Sir Chr: Wren, his Majesties Surveior, and Architect, to accompanie them to Lambeth, with the plot, & designe of the College to be built at Chelsey for emerited Souldiers, to have the Archbishops approbation: It was a quadrangle of 200 foote square, after the dimensions of the larger quadrangle of Christ Church in Oxon for the accommodation of 440 Persons with Governor & Officers: This being fixd, & agreed upon, we went to dinner, & then returned: ***  X@4v June ă 20 To our Society, where Mr. Hook read to us his ingenious Hypothesis of Memorie, which he made to be an Organ of sense, distinct from any of the five; placed somewhere in the braine, which tooke notice of all Ideas & reposited them; as the rest of the senses do of their peculiar objects: The Bantame or East India Ambassadors (for we had at this time in Lond together The Russian, Morrocan, & Indian Ambassador) being invited to dine at my Lord Geo: Berekeleys (now created Earle) I went to the entertainement, to Consider the exotic guests: They were both very hard favourd, & much resembling in Countenance to some sort of Munkeys: We eate at two Tables, The Ambassador & Interpreter by themselves: Their Garments were rich Indian silks flowred with gold, viz, a Close Wast-Coate to their knees, Drawers, Naked leggs; and on their heads Capps made just in fashion like fruit baskets; They Ware poisond Daggers at their boosome, the haft carved with some ougly serpents or devils head, exceeding keene, & of damasco mettal: they wore no sword: The second Ambassador (sent it seemes to succeede, in case the first should die by the Way in so tedious a journey) having ben at M)ca (for they were Mahumetans) ware a Turkish or rather Arab Shash, a little part of the linnen hanging downe behind his neck, With some other diference of habite; & was halfe a negro; bare leggd & naked feete; esteemd a very holy man: They sate Crosse-legd like Turks, & sometimes in the posture of Apes & Munkys; Their nailes & black as any jeat & shining, which being the effect of perpetual chewing betell, to preserve them from the Toothatch more raging in their Country, is esteemd beautifull: The first Ambassador was of an Olive hue, had a flatter face & narrow eyes, squat nose & morish lips, haire none appeared: Wore severall rings of silver, gold, coper on their finger, which was a toaken of  X4Knighthood or nobility: They were of Java major, whose Princes have ben turnd Mahumetans not above 50 yeares since, The Inhabitans stil Pagans & Idolaters: They seemd of a dul & heavy Constitution, not wondering at any thing they saw; but exceedingly astonish to understand, how our Laws gave us propriety in our Estates, & so thinking we were all Kings; for they could not be made to Comprehend, how subjects could possess any thing but at the pleasure of their Prince, they being all slaves but infinitly surprized at it, & pleased with the notion, & admiring our happinesse; They were very sober, & I believe subtile in their way: Their meate was cookd, carried up, & they attended on, by severall fat slaves, who had no Covering save drawes, their whole body from the girdle upward stark naked, as well as their leggs, which appeared very uncouth, & lothsom; They eate their pilaw & other spoone-meate without spoones, taking up their pottage in the hollow of fingers, & very dextrously flung it into their mouthes, without spilling a drop: ***  X#45x July ă "$00*(H&a@("Ԍ30 A stranger on the 5t of Matt: 20: Pomerid at Lee the Lecturer on: 1. Pet: 55, of the grace of humility, danger of traducing this age: spiritual pride & prejudices among the dissenters &c: We went after to visite our good neighbour Mr. Bohune, whose whole house is a Cabinet of all elegancies, especialy Indian, and the Contrivement of the Skreenes instead of Wainscot in the Hall, where an excellent PenduleClock inclosed in the curious flowerwork of Mr. Gibbons in the middst of the Vestibule, is very remarkable; and so are the Landskips of the Skreenes, representing the manner of the living, & Country of the Chinezes &c: but above all his Ladys Cabinet, adornd on the fret, Ceiling & chimnypiece with Mr. Gib: best Carving; there is also some of Streeters best painting, & many rich Curiosities of Gold & sil: growing in the Mine: &c: Besides the Gardens are exactly kept, & the whole place very agreable & well watred: The Owners good and worthy neighbours, & he has also builded, & endowed an Hospital for Eight poore people, with a pretty Chapell, & all accommodations: ***  X 4m August ă  XH 49 To Lond: R: Society, where Dr. Tyson produced a Lumbricus Latus, which a Patient of his voided, of 24 foote in length, it had severall joynts, at lesse than one inch asunder, which on examination provd so many mouthes & stomachs in number 400 by which it adhered to & sucked the nutrition & juice of the Gutts, & by impairing health, fills it selfe with a white Chyle, which it spewed-out, upon diping the worme in spirit of Wine; nor was it otherwise possible a Creature of that prodigious length should be nourishd, & so turgid, with but one mouth at that distance: The part or joynt towards the head was exceeding small: We ordered the Doctor to print the discourse made upon it: The Person who voided it, indured such torment in his bowels, that he thought of killing himselfe: There were likewise the Anatomies of other Wormes bred in humane bodys, which though strangly small, were discovered apparently to be male & female, had their Penis, Uterus, Ovaries and seminal Vessels &c: so as no likely hood of %quivocal generations: There was also produced  X4Millipedes newly voided by Urine, per penem, it having it seemes stuck in the neck of the blader & yard, giving a most intollerable itching to the patient; but the difficulty was, how it could possibly passe-through the bloud and the Heart, & other minute ductuss & strainers through the kidnies to the blader; which being looked on as impossible, was believed to be produced by an Egg in the bladder; The person who voided it, having ben prescribed Millipedes against suppression of Urine: &c: The Dr. King presented a sharp pointed stone that a day or two before had ben taken out of the Ureters of a Gent, who no kidney at all: The Council this day had recomended to them the being Truste/s & Visitors or Supervisers of the Academie which Monsieur Faubert did hope to procure to be builded by the subscription of worthy Gent: & noblemen, for the Education of Youth, & to lessen the vast expense the nation is yearely at, by sending their Children into France, to be taught these militarie Exercises: We thought therefore good, to give him all the Encouragement our recommendation could procure: After this we Adjourned our meetings til Michaelmas according to Costome at this season: so I went home, where I found my Aunt Hungerford come to Visite us: *** 20 ... This night I saw another Comet neere Cancer, very bright, but the streame not so long: ***"'10*(H&a@7+"Ԍ X4ԙi October ă 25 To Lond, dind with the R: Society (now againe after recesse). After dinner a French-man produced some experiments for the raising of Water: Also we found,  X 4that Water put in Vaccuo Boyliano & the glasse hermeticaly sealed, if jogged & shaken, made the same noise as if so many pibble stones had ben in the glasse, or some solid body beaten against the bottom & sides of it: The reason; because the aire being exhausted both out of the water & the Vessel, the Contact of the water, was more immediate, & the body more solid; for it had ben easie to have broken the bottle with the water onely. 27 I suppd at the Earle of Clarendons, with my L: Hide his bro, now the greate favorite, who now invited himselfe to dine at my house the tuesday following: 29 I receivd the B: Comm: at St. Jamess, having some daies before ben in no small trouble & sorrow for the unkindnesse & ungratitude of one I deserved better from: Dr. Tenison preachd at St. Martins, on 11: Rom: 20 against Atheisme with the usual Topics, in which twas believd he met with a greate Marques there present. 30 Being my Birth-day, and I now entering my greate Climacterical of 63, after serious Recollection of the yeares past, giving Almighty God thankes for all his mercifull preservations & forbearance; beging pardon for my sinns & unworthinesse, & his blessing & mercy on me the Yeare entering: I went with my Lady Fox, to survey her Bulding, and give some direction for the Garden at Chiswick: The Architect is Mr. May, somewhat heavy & thick; & not so well understood: The Garden much too narrow, the place without water, neere an high way, & another greate house of my Lord Burlingtons; little Land about it; so as wonder at the expence; but Women will have their Will. ***  X40a November ă 5 The Anniversarie of the Powder-plot Mr. Bohun preaching on 1.Cor: 10. 7. Comparing Popish Idolatrie, to that of the Heathen: The peril of their doctrine; Their wicked & pernicious Conspiracys, The danger of their late Dissenters least they bring us againe into that corrupt religion, by provoking God to take away the light we have so long abused:... *** 25 I was invited by Monsieur Lionberg The Swedish Resident, who made a magnificent Entertainement it being the Birth-day of his King: There dined the Duke of Albemarle, D:Hamilton, Earle of Bathe, E: of Alesbery, Lord Arran, Lord Castlehaven, the sonn of him who was executed 50 yeares before for Enormous Lusts &c: & sevveral greate persons: I was exceedingly afraide of Drinking, (it being a Dutch feast) but the Duke of Albemarle being that night to waite on his Majestie Excesse was prohibited; & to prevent all, I stole away & left the Company as soone as we rose from Table: *** 28: I went to Council of R: Society, for the Auditing the last yeares Accompts, where I was surprizd with a fainting fit, that for the present tooke away my sight; but God being mercifull to me, I recovered it after a short repose: 30: St. Andrews day, being our Anniversare for the Choice of new President; I was exceedingly indangrd & importuned, to stand this Election, having so many Voices &c: But,"%20*(H&a@)" by favour of my friends & reguard of my remote dwelling, & now frequent Infirmities, I desired their Suffrages for me, might be transferrd on Sir John Hoskins, one of the Masters of the Chancery, a most learned virtuoso, as well as Lawyer, who accordingly was elected; & then we all dined together according to Costome:... ***  X4;b December ă 10: ... I was this whole Weeke transacting buisinesse with Mr. Brent, about my Arrere due from his Majestie & made severall Visites: 17: ... I went to Visite, & Congratulate my Lord Hyde (the greate favorite) newly made Earle of Rochester, & lately marrying his Eld: Daughter to the Earle of Ossorie: 18 I sold my East India Adventure of 250 pounds, Principal for 750 pounds after it had ben in that Companie 25 yeares, to my extraordinary Advantage: & by the blessing of God: 20: To our Society, where was an Experiment of the puritie of the $ther and a learnd Discourse of Dr. Tysons red: proving that according to the newest & most accurate Anatomists, The Embrio was Nourishd onely by the Mouth, of the liquor in the Amnion (not by the navil onely as the vulgar error) for that there was onely that liquor found in its Stomack & Intestines: & that the Umbilical Vessells carried blood onely, impregnated with nitrous aire for the supplie of life, but not at all for nourishment &c: *** 31 ... This Evening recollecting the Passages of the former yeare, I gave Almighty God thanks for his gracious preservation hitherto, being now advancing in yeares apace:...  b40%$z1683`!(#=0@%ƒ  =$z1683@t 1683 ă  X4k January ă <1> ... on the first, besought the continuance of mercy & protection for the yeare now entering & which was my grand Climacterical. 3. I went to Lond: about my E: India stock, which I had sold to the Royal Society for 750 pounds: it being not to be paied til the 25 of Mar: returned that evening: & Entertained severall of my Neighbours, according to costome: ***  X4Wf February ă 1 Returning with Sir William Godolphin from Visiting Dr. Barnet & P: ChurchYard among the Bookes, being stopd in Fleetestreete; a Paver, or inferior Labourer, working in a deepe Channell, by St. Dunstans in Fleetestreete flung in a greate stone to the coach, and brake a greate glasse in pieces, which was drawn up, without doing either of us other harme, we being on the brink of the pit: 2 I made my Court at St. Jamess where I saw the Sea Charts of Cap: Collins, which that industrious man now brought to shew the Duke, having taken all the Coastings from the mouth of the Thames as far as Wales, & exactly measuring every Creeke, Iland, Rock, Soundings, harbors, Sands, Tides & intending this next Spring, to proceede til he had finish the Iland: & that measured by Chaine, & other Instruments: a most exact & usefull undertaking: He affirmed, that of all the Mapps, put out since, there are none"'30*(H&a@x+" extant, so true as those of Jo: Norden, who gave us the first in Q: Eliz: time &c: all since him erroneous: hence I returned home: *** 12 This morning being at Mr. Packers, I received the newes of the death of my Father in Law, Sir Rich: Browne knight & Baronet, who dyed at my house at Says-Court this 12th of Feb: at 10 in the morning, after he had labourd under the Gowt, and Dropsie for neere 6 monethes, in the 78th yeare of his Age, upon which I returned home to comfort my disconsolate Wife; & take order about his Funerall. 18 I went not to Church, obeying the Custome of keeping at home til the Ceremonies of the Funerall were over: which were solemnizd, on the 19th at Deptford with as much Decency, as the Dignity of the Person, & our Relation, required: There being invited the Bishop of Rochester, severall Noble Men, knights, & all the fraternity of the Trinity Companie (of which he had ben Master) & others of the Country &c: The Viccar preaching on 39: Psal: 10, a short, but Proper discourse upon the frailty of our mortal Condition, Concluding with an ample, & well deserving Elogie upon the Defunct, relating to his honorable Birth, & Ancestors, Education, Learning in Gre: & Latin, Modern Languages, Travells, Publique Employments, Signal Loyaltie, Character abroad, & particularly the honour of supporting the Church of England in its publique Worship, during its perscution by the late Rebells Usurpation, & Regicide, by the Suffrages of divers Bishops, Doctors of the church & others, who with it, found such an Asylum in his house & family at Paris, that in their disputes with the Papists &c (now triumphing over it, as utterly lost) they usd to argue for its Visibility & Existence from Sir R: Brownes Chapell & Assembly there: Then he spake of his greate & loyal sufferings during 19 yeares Exile with his present Majestie, his Returne with him, the signal yeare 1660; his honourable employment at home, his timely Recesse, to recollect, his greate Age, Infirmity, Death; He gave that land, to the Trinity Corporation in Deptford, to build upon it, those Almes houses, now standing for 24 Widdows of Emerited Seamen &c: He was borne the famous yeare of the Gunpowder Treason 1605; & being the last of his Family, left my Wife his onely Daughter heire: His Grandfather Sir Rich: Browne was the greate Instrument under the greate Earle of Licester (favorit to Quene Eliz,) in his government of the NetherLands: He was Master of the household to King James; & Coferer; (I think) was the first who regulated the Compositions through all England, for the Kings houshold provisions, Progresse &c, which was so high a service & gratefull to the whole Nation, as he had accknowledgements & publique thanks sent him from all the Counties; finaly he died by the rupture of a Veine in a vehement speech he made about the Compositions, in a Parliament of K. Jamess. By his Mothers side he was a Gunson, Treasurer of the Navy in Hen: 8th: Q:Marys, Q:Eliz: reigne; & as by his large & noble Pedegree appeares, related to divers of the English peeres & nobility: too tedious here to reherse: &c: Thus ended this honorable Person after infinite Changes & tossing too & froo, in the same house and place where he was borne: Lord teach us so to number our daies, that we may apply our hearts to Wisdome, & sit so loose to the things & employments of this world, as to be ready & prepared for a better: Amen: By an especial Clause in his last Will, he ordered to be buried in the ChurchYard under the SouthEast Window of the Chancel, joyning to the burying places of his Ancestors, since they came out of Essex to SaysCourt: being much offended at the novel Costome of burying every body within the body of the Church & chancel, as a favour heretofore onely granted to Martyrs, & greate Princes, this excesse of making Churches Charnelhouses being of ill & irreverent example, & prejudicial to the health of the living: besides the continual disturbance of the Pavement, & seates, the"%40*(H&a@p)" ground sinking as the Carcases consume, & severall other undecencies: Dr. Hall, the pious Bish: of Norwich would also so be interrd, as may be read in his Testament: ***  X 4p March ă 16 I went to see Sir Josiah Childs prodigious Cost in planting of Walnut trees, about his seate, & making fishponds, for many miles in Circuite, in Epingforest, in a Cursed & barren spot; as commonly these over growne & suddainly monied men for the most part seate themselves: He from an ordinary Merchants Apprentice, & managements of the E.India Comp:Stock, being arived to an Estate of (tis said) 200000 pounds: & lately married his daughter to the Eldest sonn of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marques of Worcester, with 30000 pounds portion at present, & various expectations: This Merchant most sordidly avaricious &c: I dined at one Mr. Houblons a rich & gentile french Merchant, who was building an house in the Forest neere Childs, in the place where the Late Earle of Norwich dwelt some time, & which came from his Lady, the Widow of Mr. Baker: & where I had formerly ben with his Lordship: It will be a pretty Villa, about five miles from WhiteChapell: *** [20] ... Dind at Dr. Whistlers at the Physitians Coll: with Sir Tho: Mellington, both most learned men, Dr. Wistler the most facetious man in nature; & now Censor of the Colledge. I was here consulted, where they should erect their Librarie: Tis pitty this Colledge is bult so neere newgate Prison, & in so obscure an hole, a fault in placing most of our Publique buildings & Churches in the Citty, through the avarice of some few men, & his Majestie not overruling it, when it was in his powre after the dreadfull Coflagration &c: ***  Xp4u April ă 17 I was at the Launching of the last ship of the 30, ordred to be new built, by Act of Parliament, & named the Neptune, a 2d rate, one of the goodliest vessels of the whole Navy, & of the world, & built by my kind neighbour [young] Mr. Shish, his Majesties Master ShipWright of this Dock: ***  X4*x May ă 1. Our Viccar on 7: Matt: 21: The Foefees for the Poore met, with whom I was, & then went to Blackheath, to see the new faire, being the first, procured by the L:Dartmoth, this being the first day, pretended for the sale of Cattell; but, I think in truth to inrich the new Tavern at the bowlinggreene, erected by Snape his Majesties farrier, a man full of projects: There appeared nothing but an innumerable assemblie of drinking people from Lond, Pedlers &c: & I suppose it too neere Lond; to be of any greate use for the Country: March was unaccostomably hott & drie this spring and all April hitherto, excessively Wet; I planted all the out limites of the Garden, & long Walks, with Holly: *** "H&50*(H&a@t*"Ԍ9: Dind at Sir Gab: Sylvius, & thence went to visite the Duke of Norfolck, & to know whither he would part with any of his Cartoones & other Drawings of Raphael & the greate masters: He answered me, he would part with & sell any thing for mony, but his Wife (the Dutchesse &c) who stood neere him; & I thought with my selfe, That if I were in his condition, it should be the first thing I would be glad to part with: In conclusion he told me, if he might sell them altogether, he would; but that the late Sir Peter Lely (our famous painter) had gotten some of his best: The person who desird me to treate with the Duke for them was Van der Douse, (Grandson to that greate Scholar, Contemporarie, & friend of Jos:Scaliger,) a very ingenious Virtuoso: &c: *** <13> Our Viccar on 1.Peter:2.11.12. Curate on his former Text: I was so exceedingly drowsy (as usualy I now am in the decline of my age) that I could hardly hold mine Eyes open: The Lord be gracious to me. ***  X423 To Lon: R: Society when Mr. Baker1 (a most ingenious young man) that had ben at St. Helenas, shewed us some Experiments of the Variation of the Needles placd betweene to equal Magnets, and Dr. Tyson brought in the Anatomie of a greene Lizard: I returnd  Xh4that Evening. *** 1 Es error for Edmund Halley, the astronomer (16561742).   X4v June ă 6 To Lond: our Society: an Experiment on the Magnes, which immersed in filings, they so sated it, that it would take up nothing more, til it was perfectly clensed from them: Mr. Hake brought a small Magnes, that being formerly of great activity, being laied a side for severall yeares, lost all its Virtue, as if stervd for want of foode; which being by little & little applied to steele, from 2 ounces weight that it would hardly take up, now suspended an yron of six pound, still augmenting in power, as it recovered strength, he applying weight after weight, & by degrees, not at once, as they treate famished people, to whom if at first, they give their fill of Victuals, it indangers their lives: This we recorded as a noble experiment: *** 18 I was present, & saw & heard the humble Submission & Petition of the LordMajor  X4Sherifs & Aldermen in behalfe of the Citty of London, upon the Quo Warranto against their Charter, which they delivered to his Majestie in the presence Chamber: It was delivered kneeling; & then the King & Counsel, went into the CouncilChamber, the Major & his Brethren attending still in the Presence: After a short space, they were called in, & my Lord Keeper made a speech, to them, exaggerating the dissorderly & royotous behaviour in the late Election & polling for Papillon & du Bois, after the Common hall had been formaly disolvd, with other misdemeanors, Libells on the Government, &c for which they had incurrd upon themselves his Majesties high displeasure; and that but for this submission, and under such Articles which the King should require their obedience to: he would certainely, Enter Judgement against them; which hitherto he had suspended: which were as follows: That they should neither Elect Major, Sheriff, Alderman, Recorder, Common Serjeant, TowneCleark,"%60*(H&a@)" Coroner or Steward of Southwark, without his Majesties approbation; and that if they presented any, his Majestie did not like, they should proceede in wonted manner to a second choice, if that were disapprovd, his Majestie to nominate them; & if within five daies they thought good to assent to this, all former miscarriages should be forgotten &c: & so they tamely parted, with their so antient privileges, after they had dined & ben treated by the King &c: This was a signal & most remarkable period; what the Consequence will prove time will shew, whilst there were divers of the old & most learned Lawyers & Judges, were of opinion that they could not forfaite their Charter, but might be personaly punishd for their misdemeanors; but the pluralitie of the younger Judges, & rising Men, judgd it otherwise: The Popish Plot also (which had hitherto made such a noise) began now sensibly to dwindle, through the folly, knavery, impudence & giddynesse of Oates; so as the Papists began now to hold up their heads higher than ever, & those who were fled flockd to Lond: from abroad: Such suddaine Changes & eager doings there had ben, without any thing of steady, or prudent for these last seaven yeares: 19: I returned in Coach with the Earle of Clarendon, when passing by the glorious Palace his father built, but few years before, which they were now demolishing, being sold to certaine undertakers &c: I turnd my head the Contrary way til the Coach was gon past it, least I might minister occasion of speaking of it, which must needs have grieved his Lordship  X4that in so short a time, their pomp was fallen &c: ... 1 ***  X41 Clarendon House, Piccadilly, see above p. 153, and below, p. 299. 28 After the Popishplot &c there was now a new (& as they calld it,) ProtestantPlot discoverd, that certaine Lords, & others should design the Assacination of his Majestie & the Duke, as they were to come from NewMarket, with a general rising of several of the nation, and especialy the Citty of Lond: disafected to the present Government &c: Upon which were committed to the Tower the Lord Russel, Eldest sonn of the Earle of Bedford: Earle of Essex, Mr. Algernon Sydnie, sonn to the old Earle of Licester; Mr. Trenchard, Hambden: Lord Howard of Eskrick & others; with Proclamation out against my Lord Grey, the Duke of Munmouth, Sir Tho: ArmeStrong, and one Ferguson who had escaped beyond sea &c: of which some were said to be for the Killing of his Majestie, others for onely seasing on him, & perswading him to new Counsils, on pretence of the danger of Poperie, should the Duke live to succeede &c: who was now admitted to the Councils, & Cabinet seacrets againe &c: Much deplord were my Lords Essex & Russell, few believing they had any evil Intention against his Majestie or the Church, & some that they were cunningly drawn in by their Enemies, for not approving some late Councils, & management of affaire, in relation to France, to Popery, to the prosecution of the Dissenters &c. They were discovered by the Lord Howard, & some false breathren of the Clubb, & the designe happily broken; since had all taken effect; it would in all appearance have indangered the Government to unknowne & dangerous Events: which God avert: 28 Was borne about 3 in the Afternoone, my GrandDaughter at Says Court, & Christned by the name of Martha Maria, by her two Grandmothers, the Lady Stonehouse & my Wife &c: our Viccar Officiating: ***  X(#45x July ă 13 , as I was visiting Sir Tho: Yarbrow & Lady in Covent Garden, that astonishing newes of the Earle of Essex having Cut his owne Throat was brought to us, having now ben but three dayes prisoner in the Tower, & this happning on the very day & instant that the Lord Russel was on his Trial, & had sentence of death: This accident"'70*(H&a@Q+" exceedingly amazd me, my Lord of Essex being so well know by me to be a person of so sober & religious a deportment, so well at his ease, so much obliged to the King. It is certaine the King & Duke were at the Tower & passd by his Window about the same time this morning, when My Lord asking for a rasor, he shut himselfe into a closet, & perpetrated the horrid fact: It was wondred yet by some how it was possible he should do it, in the manner he was found; for the wound was so deepe & wide, as being cut through the Gullet, Windpipe, & both the jugulars, it reached to the very Vertebr% of the neck, so as the head held to it by a very little skin as it were, which tackd it from being quite ; The gapping too of the rasor, & cutting his owne fingers, was a little strange, but more, that having passed the Jugulars he should have strength to proceede so farr, as an Executioner could hardly have don more with an axe, and there were odd reflections upon it: This fatal newes coming to Hickshall upon the article of my L: Russels Trial, was said to have no little influencd the Jury, & all the bench, to his prejudice: Others said, he had himselfe upon some occasions hinted, that in case he should in danger of having his life taken from him, by any publique misfortune, those who thirsted for his Estate, should misse of their aime, & that he should long since speake favourably of that D: of Northumberland & some others who made away themselves: But these are discourses so very unlike his sober & prudent Conversation, that I have no inclination to credit them: what might instigate him to this develish fact I am not able to conjecture; since (as my Lord Clarendon his bro: in Law, who was with but the day before assurd me) he was then so very cherefull, & declared it to be the Effect of his innocence & loyalty: & most believe his Majestie had no severe intentions against him; however he was altogether inexorable as to my Lord Russell & some of the rest: For my owne part I believe the crafty & ambitious Earle of Shaftsbery had brought them into some dislike of the present carriage of matters at Court, not with any designe of destroying the Monarchy (which Shaftsbery has in Confidence & for unanswerable reasons, told me, he would support, to his last breath, as having seene & felt the miserie of being under [a] Mechanic Tyrannie &c) but perhaps of setting up some other, whom he might govern, & frame to his owne Platonic fancie, without much reguard to the Religion establishd under the Hierarchie, for which he had no esteeme: But when he perceivd those whom he had engagd to rise, faile of his expectations, & the day past, reproching his Complices, that a second day for an Exploit of this nature, was never successfull, he gave them the slip, & got into Holland, where the fox died, three moneths before these unhappy Lords & others were discovered or suspected: Every creature deplored Essex, & Russell, especialy the last, as being thought to be drawn in on pretence onely of endeavoring to rescue the King from his present Counselors, & secure Religion, from Popery, & the Nation from Arbitrary government, now so much apprended; whilst the rest of those who were fled, especialy Ferguson & his gang, had doubtless some bloudy designe, set up a Commonwealth, & turne all things topsie turvy; of the same tragical principles is Sidney &c: *** The whole Nation was now in greate Consternation, upon the late Plot & Conspiracy; his Majestie very Melancholic, & not stirring without redoubled Guards, all the Avenues & private dores about Whitehall & the Park shut up; few admitted to walke in it: The Papists in the meane while very jocond, & indeede they had reason, seeing their owne plot brought to nothing, & turnd to ridicule & now a Conspiracy of Protestants, as they cald them: The Turk likewise in hostility against the German Emperor, almost Master of the upper Hungarie & drawing towards Vienna; on the other side the French (who tis believed brought in the Infidel) disturbing their Spanish, & Dutch Neighbours, & almost swallowed, all Flanders,"%80*(H&a@p)" pursuing his ambition of a fift [& Universal] Monarchy; & all this blood, & dissorder in Christendome had evidently its rise from our defections at home, in a Wanton peace, minding nothing but Luxurie, Ambition, & to procure Mony for our Vices: To this add our irreligion & Atheisme, greate ingratitude & selfe Interest: the Apostacie of some, & the Suffering the French to grow so Greate, and the Hollanders so Weake. In a word we were Wanton, madd, and surfeiting with prosperity, every moment unsettling the old foundations, & never constant to any thing. The Lord in mercy avert the sad Omen; & that we do not provoke him farther, til he beare it no longer: This summer did we suffer 20 Frenchmen of Warr to passe our Chanell towards the Sound, to help the Dane against the Swede, who had the Interest; we having not ready sufficient to guard our Coasts, or take Cognizance of what they did; so as though the Nation never had more, or better Navy, the Sea never had so slender a Fleete: *** 19 George Prince of Denmark, who landed this day, came to Mary the Lady Anne daughter to the Duke: so I returnd home; having seen the young Gallant at dinner at Whitehall. 20 Severall of the Conspirators, of the lower forme, were Executed at Tyburn 21 And the next day was the Lord Russell decapitated in Lincolns in fields, the Executioner giving him 3 butcherly strokes: The Speech he made & Paper he gave the Sherif, declaring his Innocence, the noblenesse of the family, the piety & worthynesse of the unhappy Gent: wrought effects of much pitty, & various discourses on the plot &c: *** 25 I went to Lond: saw againe Prince George, he had the Danish Countenance, blound; a young gent of few words, spake French but ill, seemed somewhat heavy; but reported Valiant, & indeede had bravely rescued & brought off his brother the K. of Denmarke in a battaile against the Swede, when both those Kings, were engaged very smartly:... 28 Prince Geo: was married to the Lady Ann at Whitehall: Her Court & household to be moduled just as the Dukes her fathers &c: & to continue in England: ***  XX4m August ă 1 Came to see me Mr. Flamested the famous Astrologer from his Observatorie at Greenewich, to draw the Meridian for my Pendules &c: *** 8 A Woman, who came from Lond: to speake with my Wife, was Arested for debt in my Hall, by one who pretended to be a Porter, & to deliver her a letter; but I rescued her from the Insolence &c: *** 28 Died my sweete little Grandchild Martha Maria of Convulsion fitts, an extraordinary pretty & foreward child: Gods will be don:"H&90*(H&a@Z*"ԌCame also this morning to take his leave of us his Grace the Archbishop of Yorke now preparing for his Journey: & reside in his Province. 29 Was buried our Grandchild, amongst the rest of our sweete Infants in the ParishChurch: ***  X4` September ă 3 I went (together with my Wife &c) to Chelsey, to see my Charge, the Daughters, and Children of my deare friends, the late V.Countesse Mordaunt: After dinner I walked to survey what had ben don as to repaires &c, by the Duke of Beaufort upon his late purchased house at , of which I had once the selling for the Countesse of Bristol: I found he had made greate alterations, but might have built a better house with the Materials & that cost: at my returne to our Company, I found the Countess of Monte Feltre, whose husband I had formerly known, & was a subject of the Popes, but Changing from his Religion, & become Protestant, resided here in England, & married into the familie of the Savells of Yorkshire: The Count (her late husband) was a very learned Gent: a greate Polititian; a goodly man: she was accompanied with her Sister, exceedingly skild in painting; nor indeede did they seeme to spare for Colour on their owne faces: They had a greate deale of Wit, one of them especialy, who talked of a sparrow she had at home not inferior to Lesbias. 9 ... My little GrandChild was very ill all yesterday, so as we feared his life, til this day, that God was pleasd to give us hopes: 15 Came to visite & dined with us Sir W:Godolphin and my sweete charge, little Francis: also his Unkle Henry & Aunt Boscawen: came also visite me the learned Anatomist Dr. Tyson with some other fellows of our Society: *** 18 I went to Lond: to visite & waite on the Dutchesse of Grafton now greate with Child, a most vertuous & beautifull Lady, & dining with her at my Lord Chamberlains met my Lo: of St. Albans, now growne so blind, that he could not see to the taking his meate: It is incredible how how easy a life this Gent: has lived, & in what plenty even abroad, whilst his Majestie was a sufferer; nor lesse, the immense summs he has lost at play, which yet at about 80 yeares old he continues, having one that sets by him to name the spot in the Chards: He eate & dranke with extraordinary appetite. He is with all this a prudent old Courtier, & much inrichd since his Majesties returne. After dinner I walked to survey the sad demolitions of Clarendon house that costly & onely sumptuous Palace of the late L.Chancelor Hydes, where I have often ben so cherefull with him, & so sad; hapning to make him a visite but the day before he fled from the angry Parliament, accusing him of maladministration, & envious at his grandure, who from a private lawyer, came to be fatherinlaw to the Duke of York; &, as some would suggest, designing his Majesties marriage with the Infanta of Portugal, not apt to breede: To this they imputed much of our unhapinesse, & that being sole Minister & favorite at his Majesties Restauration he neglected to gratifie his Majesties suffering party, for the rewards he received of his richer, & disloyal subjects, who were the cause of our troubles: But perhapps as many of these were injuriously laied to his charge; so he kept the Government far steadier than since it has proved: I could name some others who I thinke contributed greately to his ruine, The bouffones, and the Misses to whom he was an Eye sore: Tis true he was of a jolly temper, after the old English fashion; but France had now the ascendant, & we become quite"%:0*(H&a@})" another nation. The Cancellor gon, & dying in Exile, the Earle his successor sold that which cost 50000 pounds building to the Young Duke of Albemarle for 25000, to pay his debts, which how contracted remaines yet a Mysterie, his sonn being no way a prodigal; some imagine the Dutchesse his daughter had ben chargeable to him; however it were, this stately Palace is decreede to ruine, to support the prodigious Wast the D: of Albemarle had made of his Estate, since the old man died; so as selling it to the highest bidders, it fell to certaine inferior people, rich bankers & Mechanics, who gave for it & the ground about it 35000 pounds; who designing a new Towne as it were, & the most magnificent Piazza in Europ, tis said have already materials toward it, with what they sould of the house alone, more worth than what they paied for it: See the Vicissitude of earthly things: I was plainely astonishd as at this demolition, so noe lesse, at the little armie of Labourers, & Artificers in levelling ground, laying foundations, & contriving greate buildings at an expense of 200000 pounds, if they perfect their designe: 19 I dind at Mrs. Boscawens, visited Sir St: Fox: 20 did some buisinesse among the Lawyers, having a troublesome suite of an Accompt, with Mr. Pretiman my Wifes Unkle, pretending bills of Exchange not paied, during her Fathers Residence in France: This Controversie having now lasted for many Yeares, coming now to be defended by me, upon My Fa: in Laws decease, as executor in right of my Wife (whose land was engagd, & Writings from us, on an imaginary debt) to put it to a final Issue, I was now to commence all a new; & for that end, did this day (among other Council) retaine Mr. North, brother to my L: Keeper, & so referr the issue to the good providence of God, & returnd home to my house: Note, that by the way, I stepped in to a Goldbeaters workhouse, who shewed me the wonderfull ductilitie of that spreading & oylie Metall: he said it must be finer than the standard; such as was old Angel gold: & that of such he had once to the value of 100 pounds, stampd with the Agnus Dei, & coynd at the time of the holyWar, which had ben found in a ruind Wall some where in the north, neere to Scotland: some of which he beate into leaves, & the rest sold to the Curiosi of Antiquities & Medails. 23 ... We had now the wellcome tidings of the K: of Polands &c raising the siege before Vienna, which gave terror to all Europe, & uttmost reproch to the French, who tis believed brought him in, for diversion, that he might the more easilie swallow Flanders, & pursue his unjust conquests on the Empire &c, whilst we sate unconcerned, & under a deadly charme from somebody: There was this day a Collection for the rebuilding of NewMarket Consumd by an accidental fire, which removing his Majestie thence sooner than was intended, put by the Assassinates, who were dissapointed of their Rendezvous & expectation, by a wonderfull providence: This made the King more earnest to render Wichester the seate of his Autumal field diversions of the future, designing a Palace there, where the antient Castle stood, infinitely indeede preferrable to NewMarket, for Prospect, aire, pleasure, & provisions; The Surveior having already begun the foundations for a palace of 35000 pounds & his Majestie purchasing ground about it, to make a Parke &c: My right arme of late yeares becoming very cold & weakened, it passed now into my left, with paine, & such weakenesse, that I had little force left in it, yet without the least appearance of any thing outwardly: ***  X(#4i October ă 4: ... Following his Majestie this morning through the Gallerie, went (with the few who attended him) into the Dutchesse of Portsmouths dressing roome, within her bedchamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maides Combing her, newly out of her bed: his Majestie & the Gallants standing about her: but that which ingagd my"';0*(H&a@7+" curiositie, was the rich & splendid furniture of this womans Appartment, now twice or thrice, puld downe, & rebuilt, to satisfie her prodigal & expensive pleasures, while her Majestie dos not exceede, some gentlemens Ladies furniture & accommodation: Here I saw the new fabrique of French Tapissry, for designe, tendernesse of worke, & incomparable imitation of the best paintings; beyond any thing, I had ever beheld: some pieces had Versailles, St. Germans & other Palaces of the French King with Huntings, figures, & Landscips, Exotique fowle & all to the life rarely don: Then for Japon Cabinets, Skreenes, Pendule Clocks, huge Vasas of wrought plate, Tables, Stands, Chimny furniture, Sconces, branches, Braseras &c, they were all of massive silver, & without number, besides of his Majesties best paintings: Surfeiting of this, I dind yet at Sir Steph: Foxes, & [5] went contentedly home to my poore, but quiet Villa. Lord what contentment can there be in the riches & splendor of this world, purchasd with vice & dishonor: *** 31 Being determind to passe this winter in London with my family, by reason of many important affaires; I invited divers of my Neighbours to dinner: was likewise my Birthday & the 63d or greate Climacterical, to wich through Gods infinite goodnesse I was now arived, & for which his holy name be praised. ***  Xh40a November ă 11 our Viccar proceedes: Afternoone at Greenewich the Curate on 51 Psal:7: I visited Sir William Hooker: whose Lady related to us of a Child laied to sleepe, & [that] whilst the Nurse was a little absent, a Monkey had bitten out its Eyes, torne the face, & eaten the head into the braine: Those mischievous animals should not be kept by Ladies that have young children, this being the second accident of that nature I have ben told of, one of which happned in this Parish, a vile Monkey had killd a Nurse child in the cradle almost after the same manner, whilst the nurse went but out to draw a bucket of water: & what was most deplorable, it was the onely child remaining of one who had lost severall. 17 I came with my whole Family (except my little Grandson, & his Nurse & some servants to looke after the house) to be in London the rest of this Winter, having many important concernes to dispatch which I could not so well attend at home [& for the education of my daughters]: I tooke therefore the house of one of Mr. Dives, in Villars streete in Yorkebuildings in the Strand. *** 23 I went home to Says Court to see my little family, and returnd next day: The Duke of Monmoth til now proclaimd Traytor upon the pretended plot, for which my L:Russell lately was be headed: Came this evening to whitehall & rendered himselfe, [24] upon which were various discourses: *** 26 I went to complement the Dutchesse of Grafton now laying of her first child, which was a sonn, which she cald for me to see with greate satisfaction: She was become more beautifull"$<0*(H&a@(" (if it were possible) than before, & full of vertue & sweetnesse, discoursed with me of many particulars with greate prudence, & gravity beyond her yeares: ***  X 4;b December ă 5 I was this day invited to a Wedding of one Mrs. Castle, to whom I had some obligation, & it was to her fift Husband, a Lieutennant Coll: of the Citty: The woman was the daughter of one Burton a Broomeman & of a Mother who sold Kitchin stuff in Kent Streete, Whom God so blessed, that the Father became a very rich & an honest man, was Sherif of Surrey, where I have sat on the bench with him: Another of his daughters was Married to one Sir Jo: Bowles; & this Daughter a jolly friendly woman: There was at the Wedding the Lord Major, the Sherif, severall Aldermen and persons of quality, & above all Sir Geo: Jeoffries newly made Lord Chiefe Justice of England, with Mr. Justice Withings, daunced with the Bride, and were exceeding Merrie: These greate men spent the rest of the afternoone til 11 at night in drinking healths, taking Tobacco, and talking much beneath the gravity of Judges, that had but a day or two before Condemnd Mr. Algernoon Sidny, who was executed on the 7th on Tower hill upon the single Wittnesse of that monster of a man the L: Howard of Eskrick, and some sheetes of paper taken in Mr. Sidnys study, pretended to be writen by him, but not fully proovd, nor the time when, but appearing to have ben written before his Majesties restauration, & then pardond by the Act of Oblivion: So as though Mr. Sidny was known to be a person obstinately averse to government by a Monarch (the subject of the paper, in answer to one of Sir E: Filmer) yet it was thought he had very hard measure: There is this yet observable, that he had ben an inveterate enemy to the last King, & in actual rebellion against him: a man of greate Courage, greate sense, greate parts, which he shewd both at his trial & death; for when he came to the scaffold, in stead of a speech, he told them onely, that he had made his peace with God; that he came not hither to talk but to die, put a paper into the Sherifs hand, & another into a friends, sayed one prayer as short as a grace, laied downe his neck, & bid the Executioner do his office: The Duke of Monmouth now having his pardon, refuses to accknowledge there was any Treasonable plot, for which he is banishd to Whitehall: This was a greate dissappointment to some, who had prosecuted the rest, namely Trenchard, Hampden &c: that for want of a second wittnesse were come out of the Tower  X4upon their Habeas Corpus. The King had now augmented his guards with a new sort of dragoons, who also carried granados & were habited after the polish manner with long picked Caps very fierce & fantastical; & was very exotic: *** 20 I went to Deptford, returnd the 22d in very cold & severe weather: My poore Servant Humphry Prideaux being falln sick of the smallpox some days before: 23 ... This night died my poore excellent servant of the small pox, that by no remedies could be brought out, to the wonder of the Physitians: It was exceedingly mortal at this time; & the season was unsufferably cold. The Thames frozen, &c: *** 26 I dined at my Lord Clarendons where I was to meete that most ingenious and learned Gent: Sir Geo: Wheeler, who has publishd that excellent description of Attica & Greece, and who being a knight of a very faire estate & young had now newly entred into holy Orders: I also now kissed the Princesse of Denmarks hand, who was now with Child.  X#427 I went to visite Sir J. Chardin that French gent1, who had 3 times travelled into Persia by Land, and had made many curious researches in his Travells, of which he was now setting forth a relation. It being in England this yeare one of the most severe frosts that had happnd of many yeares, he told me, the Cold in Persia was much greater, the yce of an incredible thicknesse: That they had little use of Iron in all that Country, it being so moist"'=0*(H&a@7+" (though the aire admirably cleare & healthy) that oyle would not preserve it from rusting immediately, so as they had neither clocks nor Watches, some padlocks they had for doors & boxes &c: ***  X 4  1 E had already met him, see above p. 269.  b40!$z1684`!(#=0@ƒ"  =$z1684@t 1684 ă  X@4k January ă 1 ... My Daughter Susan had some few small pox come forth on her, so as I sent her out of the Family; The Weather continuing intollerably severe, so as streets of Boothes were set up upon the Thames &c: and the aire so very cold & thick, as of many yeares there had not ben the like: The small pox being very mortal, many feared a worse Contagion to come &c: 2 I dined at Sir St: Foxes, after dinner came a fellow that eate live charcoale glowingly ignited, quenching them in his mouth, & then champing & swallowing them downe: There was a dog also that seemed to do many rational actions. *** 6 I went home to SaysCourt to see my Grandson, it being extreame hard weather, and returnd the next day by Coach the river being quite frozen up: 8 Came Sir Geo: Wheler and Mr. Ottwood to visite me. 9 I went crosse the Thames upon the Ice (which was now become so incredibly thick, as to beare not onely whole streetes of boothes in which the roasted meate, & had divers shops of wares, quite crosse as in a Towne, but Coaches & carts & horses passed over): So I went from Westminster stayers to Lambeth and dined with my L. Archbishop, where I met my Lord Bruce, Sir Geo: Wheeler, Coll: Coock, and severall Divines; after dinner, and discourse with his Grace til Evening prayer, Sir Geo: and I returnd, walking over the Ice from Lambeth stayres to the Horse Ferry, and thence walked on foote to our Lodgings: 10: I visited Sir Rob: Reading, where after supper we had musique, but none comparable to that which Mrs. Bridgeman made us upon the Gittar, which she masterd with such extraordinary skill, and dexterity, as I hardly ever heard any lute exceede for sweetenesse. *** 16 Was my first tryal befor my L: Keeper at the Chancery for a rehearing of my Cause: I went thence to the Bishops of Lond, with whom I dined: endeavouring to procure some of his Majesties Charity for the poore of our Parish, the severe weather still continuing, & now the Thames was filled with people & Tents selling all sorts of Wares as in the Citty it selfe: *** 24 The frost still continuing more & more severe, the Thames before London was planted with bothes in formal streetes, as in a Citty, or Continual faire, all sorts of Trades & shops furnished, & full of Commodities, even to a Printing presse, where the People & Ladys"%>0*(H&a@)" tooke a fansy to have their names Printed & the day & yeare set downe, when printed on the Thames: This humour tooke so universaly, that twas estimated the Printer gained five pound a day, for printing a line onely, at sixpence a Name, besides what he gott by Ballads &c: Coaches now plied from Westminster to the Temple, & from severall other staires too & froo, as in the streetes; also on sleds, sliding with skeetes; There was likewise Bullbaiting, Horse & Coach races, Pupetplays & interludes, Cookes & Tipling, & lewder places; so as it seemd to be a bacchanalia, Triumph or Carnoval on Water, whilst it was a severe Judgement upon the Land: the Trees not onely splitting as if lightningstrock, but Men & Catell perishing in divers places, and the very seas so locked up with yce, that no vessells could stirr out, or come in: The fowle [Fish] & birds, & all our exotique Plants & Greens universaly perishing; many Parks of deere destroied, & all sorts of fuell so deare that there were greate Contributions to preserve the poore alive; nor was this severe weather much lesse intense in most parts of Europe even as far as Spaine, & the most southern tracts: London, by reason of the excessive coldnesse of the aire, hindring the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steame of the SeaCoale, that hardly could one see crosse the streete, & this filling the lungs with its grosse particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one could scarce breath: There was no water to be had from the Pipes & Engines, nor could the Brewers, and divers other Tradesmen work, & every moment was full of disastrous accidents &c: *** 30...The frost still raging as fircely as ever, the River of Thames was become a Camp, ten thousands of people, Coaches, Carts, & all manner of sports continuing & increasing: miserable were the wants of poore people, Deare universaly perished in most of the parks throout England, & very much Cattell: ***  XP4Wf February ă 4 I went to SaysCourt to see how the frost & rigorous weather had dealt with my Garden, where I found many of the Greenes & rare plants utterly destroied; The Oranges & Myrtils very sick, the Rosemary & Lawrell dead to all appearance, but the Cypresse like to indure it out: I came to Lond: the next day when it firt of all began to Thaw, and passd over without alighting in my Coach from Lambeth to the Horseferry at Millbank at Westminster; the Weather growing less severe, it yet began to freeze againe; but the boothes were allmostall taken downe; but there was first a Map or Landskip cut in copper representing all manner of the Camp, & the several actions, sports and passetimes thereon in memory of this signal Frost: *** 8...I went this Evening to visite that greate & knowing Virtuoso Monsieur Justell: The weather now was set to an absolute Thaw & raine, but the Thames still hard: *** 12 The E: of Danby late L:Tressurer together with the Rom:Cath: Lords impeachd of  X`"4high Treason in the popishplot, had now their Habeas Corpus, and came out upon Baile, after 5 yeares Imprisonment in the Toure: Then were also Tried and deeply find Mr. Hambden & others, for being supposed of the late Plot, for which my L: and Coll: suffered: As also the person, who went about to prove that the E: of had his Throat Cut in the Tower by others: likewise Mr. Johnson, the Author of that famous  XH&4piece cald Julian1."H&?0*(H&a@Z*"Ԍ X413 Newes of the P: of Oranges having accusd the Deputies of Amsterdam of Crimen  X4L%s% Majestatis, & being Pensioner to France.  XX41 Samuel Johnson (16491702), divine and author of various proProtestant works. This piece on the Emperor Julian the Apostate (36063) was an attack on the Duke of York. He had also been Russells chaplain. Dr. Tenison communicating to me his intention of Erecting a Library in St. Martines parish, for the publique use, desird my assistance with Sir Chr: Wren about the placing & structure thereof: a worthy & laudable designe: He told me there were 30 or 40 Young Men in Orders in his Parish, either, Governors to young Gent: or Chaplains to Noblemen, who being reprovd by him upon occasion, for frequenting Taverns or Coff/houses, told him, they would study & employ their time better, if they had books: This put the pious Doctor upon this designe, which I could not but approve of, & indeede a greate reproch it is, that so great a Citty as Lond: should have never a publique Library becoming it: There ought to be one at S. Paules, the West end of that Church, (if ever finishd), would be a convenient place: *** 23 I went to Sir John Chardins, who desired my Assistance for the ingraving of the plates, the translation & Printing of his historie of that wonderfull Persian monument neere Persepolis, & other rare Antiquities, which he had Causd to be drawne from the originals, at  Xh4his 2d journey into Persia: which we now concluded upon1: And afterwards I went to Dr. Tenison (with Sir Chr: Wren) where we made both the draught & estimate of the Library to be begun this spring, neere the Mewes: ***  XP4p March ă 28 Good friday ... There was so greate & eager a concourse of people with their children, to be touchd of the Evil, that 6 or 7: were crushd to death by pressing at the Chirurgions doore for Tickets &c. The weather began now onely to be more mild & tollerable, but there was not the least appearance of any Spring. 30 Easterday, I received the B:Sacrament at whitehall early, with the Lords & household: the B: of Lond: officiating: Then went to St. Martines wher Dr. Tenison (now first coming abroad after his recovery of the smallpox) preached on 16:Psal:11: Hence I went  XX4againe to White Hall, where coram Rege, preachd the B: of Rochester on a Text out of Hosea 6.2. touching the subject of the day: After which his Majestie, accompanied with 3 of his natural Sonns, (viz. the Dukes of Northumb: Richmond & St. Albans, base sonns of Portsmouth, Cleaveland, Nelly, prostitute Creatures) went up to the Altar; The three Boyes entering before the King within the railes, at the right hand, & 3 Bishops on the left: viz: Lond: (who officiated) Durham, Rochester, with the subDeane Dr. Holder: The King kneeling before the Altar, making his offering, the Bishops first received, & then his Majestie, after which, he retird to a Canopied seate on the right hand &c: note, there was perfume burnt before the office began: Pomeridiano, preached at St. Mart: the Lecturer Dr. Meriton on 6: Rom: 4:  X#4u April ă "$@0*(H&a@("Ԍ4 After 5 monethes being in Lond: this severe winter, I returnd home with my family this day: My sonn with his wife &c: continuing behind, upon pretence of his applying himselfe more seriously to his studying the Law, but wholy without my approbation: hardly the least appearance of any Spring. ***  X4 1 E had listened keenly to Chardins tales in 1680, see p. 269. 12 Being much indisposd this weeke, I tooke Physick, & a Vomite, which did greately restore me, blessed be God: ***  X( 4*x May ă 10th. I went to visite my Brother in Surrey... 11 One Mr. Crawly preached in the morning at Abinger on 13 Heb:18: In the Afternoone I went to visite Mr. Higham now sick in his Climacterical, whereof he died [about] 3 days after: his Grandfather & Father (who Christnd me) with himselfe had now ben 3 generations Parsons of the Parish an hundred and foure yeares this May: viz: from 1584. 12 I returned to Lond: where I found the Commissioners of the Admiralty abolished, & the Office of Admiral restord to the Duke, as to the disposal & ordering all sea buisinesse: But his Majestie signing all the Petitions, Papers, Warrants & Commissions, that the Duke not acting as Admiral by Commission, or Office, might not incurr the penalty of the late Act against Papists & Dissenters holding Office or refusing the Oath & Test: &c: every body was glad of this Change: Those in the late Commission being utterly ignorant of their duty, to the greate damage of the Navy royal: Now was also the utter ruine of the LowCountries threatnd, by the Seige of Luxemburge (if not timely relievd) & the Obstinancy of the Hollanders not to assist the Prince of Orange: Corrupted (as appeard) by the French &c: ***  X45x July ă 2 I went to the Observatorie at Greenewich, where Mr. Flamstead tooke his observations of the Ecclipse of the sunn, now hapning to be almost 3 parts obscurd: So greate a drowth still continud, as never was since in my memorie: ***  X 4m August ă 24 St. Bartholomews day our Viccar & Curate preached on their former Text, much of it repetition onely: I was exceedingly drowsy this afternoone it being most excessively hot: we having not had above one or two considerable showres (& they stormes) these eight or nine moneths so as the trees lost their leafe like Winter, & many of them quite died for want of refreshment. *** "'A0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ X4` September ă 26 I went to Lond, to Congratulate my deare friend Mr. Sidny Godolphins being created a Baron of England, the King being now returned from Winchester, there was a numerous Court at Whitehall where I saluted divers of my acquaintance: There was at this time a remove of the Earle of Rochester from the Treasury to the presidentship of the Council, & my L: Godolphin made first Commissioner of the Treasury in his place, my Lord Midleton a Scot, made Secretary of state. These Alterations (being very unexpected & mysterious) gave greate occasion of discourse among the Politicians: I supped this night at my La: Sylvius, with Dr. Tenison, & the afternoone taking the aire in Hide Parke, saw two bucks encounter each other very fiercely for a long willes til one was quite vanquished: There was now an Ambassador from the King of Siam from the E: Indias to his Majestie. *** 29 I was let bloud about 8 ounces for the dizzinesse of my head. ***  X4i October ă 22 Sir William Godolphin and I went to see the Rhinocerous (or Unicorne) being the first that I suppose was ever brought into England: It more ressembled a huge enormous Swine, than any other Beast amongst us; That which was most particular & extraordinary, was the placing of her small Eyes in the very center of her cheekes & head, her Eares in her neck, and very much pointed: her Leggs neere as big about as an ordinarie mans wast, the feete divided into claws, not cloven, but somewhat resembling the Elephants, & very round & flatt, her taile slender and hanging downe over her Sex, which had some long haires at the End of it like a Cowes, & was all the haire about the whole Creature, but what was the most wonderfull, was the extraordinary bulk and Circumference of her body, which though very Young, (they told us as I remember not above 4 yeares old) could not be lesse than 20 foote in compasse: she had a set of most dreadfull teeth, which were extraordinarily broad, & deepe in her Throate, she was led by a ring in her nose like a Buffalo, but the horne upon it was but newly Sprowting, & hardly shaped to any considerable point, but in my opinion nothing was so extravagant as the Skin of the beast, which hung downe on her hanches, both behind and before to her knees, loose like so much Coach leather, & not adhering at all to the body, which had another skin, so as one might take up this, as one would do a Cloake or horseCloth to a greate depth, it adhering onely at the upper parts; & these lappets of stiff skin, began to be studdied with impenetrable Scales, like a Target of coate of maile, loricated like Armor, much after the manner this Animal is usually depicted: she was of a mousse Colour, the skin Elephantine; Tame enough, & suffering her mouth to be opend by her keeper, who causd her to lie downe, when she appeared like a [greate] Coach overthrowne, for she was much of that bulke, yet would rise as nimbly as ever I saw an horse: Twas certainly a very wonderfull creature, of immense strength in the neck, & nose especialy, the snout resembling a boares but much longer; to what stature she may arive if she live long, I cannot tell; but if she grow proportionable to her present age, she will be a Mountaine: They fed her with Hay, & Oates, & gave her bread. She belonged to Certaine E. Indian Merchants, & was sold (as I remember) above twothousand pounds:"$B0*(H&a@("ԌAt the same time I went to see a living Crocodile, brought from some of the W: Indian Ilands, in every respect resembling the Egyptian Crocodile, it was not yet fully 2 yards from head to taile, very curiously scaled & beset with impenetrable studds of a hard horny substance, & most beautifully ranged in works especialy on the ridge of the back & sides, of a dusky greene Colour, save the belly, which being tender, & onely vulnerable, was of a lively & lovely greene, as lizards are, whose shape it exactly kept: The Eyes were sharp & piercing, over which it could at pleasure draw up a thin cobweb skinn: The rictus was exceeding deepe set with a tirrible rank of sharp & long teeth: We could not discerne any tongue, but a small lump of flesh at the very bottome of its throate, which I suppose helped his swallowing: the feete were divided into long fingers as the Lizards, & he went forward wadling, having a chaine about the neck: seemed to be very tame; I made its keeper take up his upper jaw which he affirmed did onely move, & so Pliny & others confidently report; but it did not appeare so plaine to me, whither his keeper did not use some dexterity in opening his mouth & placing his head so as to make it seeme that the upper chap, was loose; since in that most ample & perfect sceleton in our Repositarie at the R: Society, it is manifestly fixed to the neck & Vertebr%: the nether jaw onely loose: They kept the beast or Serpent in a longish Tub of warme Water, & fed him with flesh &c: If he grow, it will be a dangerous Creature. 23 I dined at Sir Stephen Foxes with the Duke of Norhumberland another of his Majesties natural sonns, by that strumpet Cleaveland: He seemed to be a Young gent, of good capacity, well bred, civile, & modest, had ben newly come from Travell, & had made his Campagne at the siege of Luxemburg, Of all his Majesties Children, (of which he had now 6 Dukes) this seemed the most accomplished, and worth the owning; he is likewise extraordinary handsome & perfectly shaped: what the Dukes of Richmond, & St. Albans, base sonns of the Dutchesse of Portsmouth a French Lasse, and of Nelly, the Comedian & Applewomas daughter, will prove their youth dos not yet discover, farther than that they are both very pretty boys, & seeme to have more Witt than [most of] the rest: *** 26 ... I dined at my sonns, now newly being come to his new house & housekeeping: My Daughter in Law ready to liein of her 4th Child: Thence I went to St. Clements (that prettyly built & contrived Church) where a Young Divine gave us an eloquent sermon on 1. Cor: 6: 20: 26 I attended the Chancery in Westminster Hall, where I had a Cause pleaded, giving reasons for the changing of the Master who had made an injurious Accompt, in the difference betwixt me & Mr. Pretyman: my L: Chan: was pleasd to grant our plea: 27 I dind & went to Visite my Lord Chamberlaine now returnd from the Countrie, where dined the black Baron, & Monsieur Flamerin, who had so long ben banishd France for a duel: 28 Being S.Sim: & Judes, I carried my Lord Clarendon through the Citty amidst all the Squibbs & barbarous bacchanalia of the LordMajors shew, to the R:Society, where he was proposed a Member, and then Treated him at dinner: ***  X(#40a November ă 2 Our Viccar proceeded on his former Text: the holy Comm: followed at which I was participant: So suddaine an alteration from temperate warm weather to an excessive cold, raine, frost, snow & storme, as had seldome ben knowne, this Winter weather beginning as early & firce, as the past did late, & neere christmas, till which there had hardly ben any"'C0*(H&a@7+" winter at all: Buda in Hungary yet besiegd by the DD: of Lorrain & Bavaria, to the losse of many brave commandes & men: *** 15 Being the Queenes Birthday, there was such fire works upon the Thames before Whitehall, with pageants of Castles, Forts, & other devices of Gyrandolas, Serpents, The King & Queenes Armes & mottos, all represented in fire, as had not ben seene in any age remembred here: but that which was most remarkable was the several fires & skirmishes in the very water, which actualy moved a long way, burning under the water, & now and then appearing above it, giving reports like Muskets & Cannon, with Granados, & innumerable other devices: It is said this sole Triumph cost 1500 pounds: which was concluded with a Ball, where all the young Ladys & Gallants daunced in the greate Hall: The Court had not ben so brave & rich in apparell since his Majesties restauration: ***  XH 426 Was my Sons Wife brought to bed of a Daughter1 at hr house in Arundel streete neere Norfolck house, & Christned by the Curate of St. Clements in the Chamber, the Godfather my Nephew Glanvil, Godmother the Lady Anderson, & my Niepce Mary Evelyn, who named it Elizabeth, the name of my Lady Anderson: [30] St Andrews Day. It was Christned on Sonday 30: November: In the morning cor:Rege at preached Dr. Finnes sonn of the L: Say & Seale, on 21 Joshua 11:  X4;b December ă St. Andrews day being on the Sonday, our Election & meeting of the R: Society was on [1] Moneday, when I brought the Duke of Norfolck & Earle of Clarendon to the Society, who being first ballotted & chosen, tooke their places, & were after chosen also of the Council for this yeare, as was also myselfe: Mr. Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty elected President. *** 7 To the Household at W.hall preached Dr. Calamy on 1.Cor:11.29. The Holy Communion followd at which I was partaker: Then to his Majestie preached Dr. Patrick, on 15 Rom:5: Pomeridiano I went to see the new church St. James, elegantly indeede built, especialy adornd was the Altar, the white Marble Enclosure curiously richly carved, & the flowres & Garlands about the Walls by Mr. Gibbons in Wood, a Pelican with her young at her breast just over the Altar in the Carved Compartment and bordure, invironing in the purplevelvet, richly frenged, with IHS richly embrodred, & most noble Plate were given by Sir R:Geere to the value (as was said) of 200 pounds: such an Altar was no were in any Church in England, nor have I seene any abroad more handsomly adornd:... *** 17 Early in the morning I went into St. Jamess Park to see three Turkish or Asian Horses, brought newly over, and now first shewed his Majestie: There were 4 of them it seemes in all, but one of them died at sea, being 9 weekes coming from Hamborow: They were taken from a Bashaw at the seige of Vienna in Austria, the late famous raising that Leaguer: & with mine Eyes never did I behold so delicate a Creature as was one of them, of"%D0*(H&a@})" somwhat a bright bay, two white feete, a blaze; such an head, [Eye,] eares, neck, breast, belly, buttock, Gaskins, leggs, pasterns, & feete in all reguards beautifull & proportiond to admiration, spiritous & prowd, nimble, making halt, turning with that sweiftnesse & in so small a compasse as was incomparable, with all this so gentle & tractable, as called to mind  X 4what I remember Busbequius   X41ĠElizabeth Evelyn (16841760), afterwards wife of Simon Harcourt. speakes of them; to the reproch of our Groomes in Europ who bring them up so churlishly, as makes our horse most of them to retaine so many ill habits &c: They trotted like Does, as if they did not feele the Ground; for this first Creature was demanded 500 Ginnies, for the 2d 300, which was of a brighter bay, for the 3d 200 pound, which was browne, all of them choicely shaped, but not altogether so perfect as the first. In a word, it was judgd by the Spectators, (among whom was the King, Prince of Denmark, the Duke of Yorke, and severall of the Court noble persons skilled in Horses, especialy Monsieur Faubert & his sonn & Prevost, Masters of the Accademie and esteemed of the best in Europ), that there were never seene any horses in these parts, to be compared with them: Add to all this, the Furniture which consisting of Embrodrie on the Saddle, Housse,  X4Quiver, bow, Arrows, Symeter, Sword, Mace or Battel ax a la Turisque: the Bashaws Velvet Mantle furrd with the most perfect Ermine I ever beheld, all the Yron worke in other furnitur being here of silver curiously wrought & double gilt, to an incredible value: Such, and so extraordinary was the Embrodery, as I never before saw any thing approching it, the reines & headstall crimson silk, covered with Chaines of silver gilt: There was also a Turkish royal standard of an horses taile, together with all sorts of other Caparison belonging to a Generals horse: by which one may estimate how gallantly & those Infidels appeare in the fild, for nothing could certainely be seene more glorious, The Gent: (a German) who rid the horse, being in all this garb: They were shood with yron made round & closed at the heele, with an hole in the middle about as wide as a shilling; the hoofes most intire: I dined with severall Gent: of the R: Society, going to Gr: Colledge after, where was the experiment of Dr. Papins Syphon: &c: 18 Mr. Faubert having newly railed in a Manage & fitted it for the Academy, I went with my Lord Cornwallis to see the Young Gallants do their Exercise: There were the Dukes of Norfolck & Northumberland, Lord Newburge, and a Nephew of the Earle of Feversham: The exercises were first running at the ring, next flinging a Javlin at a Mores head, 3d discharging a Pistol at a Mark, lastly, the taking up a with the point of the Sword, all these performed in full speede: The D: of Northumberland, hardly missd succeeding in every one a douzen times as I think: Next the D: of Norfolck did exceeding bravely: Newburge & Duras seemed to be nothing so dextrous: here I saw the difference of  Xx4what the French call bellhomme a Chevall, & bonn homme a Chevall, the D: of Norfolck being the first, that is rather a fine person on an horse; the D: of Northumberland being both, in perfection, namely a most gracefull person, & excellent rider: But the Duke of Norfolck told he had not ben at this exercise this twelve yeare before: There were in the fild the Prince of Denmark & the L:Lansdown, sonn of the Earle of Bath, who had ben made a Count of the Empire last summer for his service before Vienna. 20 I returned home to my house to keepe Christmas now approching: A villanous Murder perpetrated by Mr. St.Johns, (eldest sonn to Sir Walter, a worthy Gent:) on a knight of quality in a Tavern: The Offended being Sentenced, & Reprivd, so many horrid murders & Duels about this time being committed (as was never heard of in England) gave much cause of complaint & murmure universaly."H&E0*(H&a@g*"Ԍ21 St. Thomass day & Sonday, my Rheume & cold was so greate, that it kept me from Church: ***  bX40!u$z1685`!(#=0@"u  =$z1685@1s)u   1t 1685 ă  X4k January ă 1 I implord the continuance of Gods mercy & providence for the yeare now enterd; & went to Publique Prayers &. It proved so sharp weather and so long & cruel frost that the Thames was frozen crosse, but the frost often dissolved, & froze againe: *** 25. ... [I saw this evening such a sceane of profuse gaming, and luxurious dallying & prophanesse, the King in the middst of his 3 concubines, as I had never before:] ***  XH 4Wf February ă 4 I went to Lond, hearing his Majestie had ben the moneday before surprizd in his bed chamber with an Apoplectical fit, & so, as if by Gods providence, Dr. King (that excellent chirurgeon as well as Physitian) had not ben accidentaly present [to let him bloud] (with his lancet in his pocket) his Majestie had certainely died that moment, which might have ben of direfull consequence, there being no body else with the King save this doctor & one more, as I am assured: It was a mark of the extraordinary dexterity, resolution, & presentnesse of Judgment in the Doctor to let him bloud in the very paroxysme, without staying the coming of other physitians, which regularly should have ben don, & the not doing so, must have a formal pardon as they tell me: This rescued his Majestie for that instant, but it provd onely a reprieve for a little time; he still complaind & was relapsing & often fainting & sometimes in Epileptical symptoms til Wednesday, for which he was cuppd, let bloud againe in both jugularies, had both vomit & purges &c: which so relieved him, that on the Thursday hops of recovery were signified in the publique Gazett; but that day about noone the Physitians conjecturd him somewhat feavorish; This they seemd glad of, as being more easily alaied, & methodicaly to be dealt with, than his former fits, so as they prescribd the famous Jesuits powder; but it made his Majestie worse; and some very able Doctors present, did not think it a feavor, but the effect of his frequent bleeding, & other sharp operations used by them about his head: so as probably the Powder might stop the Circulation, & renew his former fitts, which now made him very weake: Thus he passd Thursday night with greate difficulty, when complaining of a paine in his side, the drew 12 ounces more of blood from him, this was by 6 in the morning on friday, & it gave him reliefe, but it did not continue; for being now in much paine & strugling for breath, he lay dozd, & after some conflicts, the Physitians desparing of him, he gave up the Ghost at halfe an houre-after Eleaven in the morning, being the 6 of Feb: in the 36t yeare of his reigne, & 54 of his age: [Feb:6] Tis not to be expressd the teares & sorrows of Court, Citty & Country: Prayers were solemnly made in all the Churches, especialy in both the Court Chapells, where the Chaplaines relieved one another every halfe quarter of an houre, from the time he began to be in danger, til he expird: according to the forme prescribed in the Church office: Those who assisted his Majesties devotion were the A:Bish: of Cant: of London, Durrham & Ely; but more especialy the B: of Bath & Wells. It is sayd they exceedingly urged the receiving"%F0*(H&a@)" the H:Sacrament but that his Majestie told them he would Consider of it, which he did so long, til it was too late: others whispered, that the Bishops being bid withdraw some time the night before, (except the Earls of Bath, & Feversham), Hurlston the Priest, had presumd to administer the popish Offices; I hope it is not true; but these buisie emissaries are very  X 4forewarde upon such occasions1: [see September 16:] He gave his breeches & Keys to the Duke, who was almost continualy kneeling by his bed side, & in teares; he also recommended to him the care of his natural Children, all except the D: of Monmoth, now in Holland, & in his displeasure; he intreated the Queene to pardon him, [(Nor without cause)] who a little before had sent a Bishop to excuse her not more frequently visiting him, in reguard of her excessive griefe, & with all, that his Majestie would forgive it, if at any time she had offended him: He spake to the Duke to be kind to his Concubines the DD: of Cleveland, & especialy Portsmouth, & that Nelly might not sterve; I do not heare he said any thing of the Church or his people, now falling under the government of a Prince suspected for his Religion, after above 100 yeares the Church & Nation had ben departed from Rome: Thus died K.Charles the 2d, of a Vigorous & robust constitution, & in all appearance capable of a longer life. A prince of many Virtues, & many greate Imperfections, Debonaire, Easy of accesse, not bloudy or Cruel: his Countenance fierce, his voice greate, proper of person, every motion became him, a lover of the sea, & skillfull in shipping, not affecting other studys, yet he had a laboratory and knew of many Empyrical Medicines, & the easier Mechanical Mathematics: Loved Planting, building, & brought in a politer way of living, which passed to Luxurie & intollerable expense: He had a particular Talent in telling stories & facetious passages of which he had innumerable, which made some bouffoones and vitious wretches too presumptuous, & familiar, not worthy the favors they abused: He tooke delight to have a number of little spaniels follow him, & lie in his bedChamber, where often times he suffered the bitches to puppy & give suck, which rendred it very offensive, & indeede made the whole Court nasty & stinking: An excellent prince doubtlesse had he ben lesse addicted to Women, which made him uneasy & allways in Want to supply their unmeasurable profusion, & to the detriment of many indigent persons who had signaly servd both him & his father: Easily, & frequently he changed favorites to his greate prejudice &c: As to other publique transactions and unhappy miscarriages, tis not here I intend to number them; but certainely never had King more glorious opportunities to have made himselfe, his people & all Europ happy, & prevented innumerable mischiefs, had not his too Easy nature resignd him to be menagd by crafty men, & some abandoned & prophane wretches, who corrupted his otherwise sufficient parts, disciplind as he had ben by many afflictions, during his banishment: which gave him much experience, & knowledge of men & things; but those wiccked creatures tooke him [off] from all application becoming so greate a King: the History of his Reigne will certainely be the most wonderfull for the variety of matter & accidents above any extant of many former ages: The [sad tragical] death of his father, his banishment, & hardships, his miraculous restauration, conjurations against him; Parliaments, Warrs, Plagues, Fires, Comets; revolutions abroad happning in his time with a thousand other particulars: He was ever kind to me & very gracious upon all occasions, & therefore I cannot without ingratitude [but] deplore his losse, which for many respects (as well as duty) I do with all my soule: [See 2.Octob:1685:]  X`"41 John Huddlestone, priest (160898), aided CIIs Worcester flight. See also p.330. His Majestie dead, The Duke (now K.James the 2d) went immediately to Council, before entering into any buisinesse, passionately declaring his sorrow, Told their Lordships, That since the succession had falln to him, he would endeavor to follow the example of his predecessor in his Clemency & tendernesse to his people: That however he had ben misrepresented as affecting arbitrary power, they should find the contrary, for that the Laws"'G0*(H&a@D+" of England had made the King as greate a Monarch as he could desire; That he would endeavour to maintaine the Government both in Church & state as by Law establishd, its Principles being so firme for Monarchy, & the members of it shewing themselves so good & Loyal subjects; & that as he would never depart from the just rights & prerogative of the Crown, so would he never Invade any mans propriety: but as he had often adventured his life in defence of the Nation, so he would still proceede, & preserve it in all its lawfull rites & libertyes: This being the substance of what he said, the Lords desired it might be published as containing matter of greate satisfaction to a jealous people, upon this change: which his Majestie consented to: Then were the Counsel sworn, & proclamation ordered to be publishd, that all officers should continue in their station; that there might be no failure of publique Justice, til his farther pleasure should be known: Then the King rose, the Lords accompanying him to his bed Chamber, where, whilst he reposed himselfe (tired indeede as he was with griefe & watching) They immediately returned againe into the Council-Chamber to take order for the Proclayming of his Majestie which (after some debate) they consented should be in the very forme, his Grandfather K.James the first was, after the death of Q:Elizabeth, as likewise that the Lords &c: should proceede in their Coaches through the Citty for the more solemnity of it; upon this was I and severall other Gent: (waiting in the privy Gallerie), admitted into the Council Chamb: to be wittnesse of what was resolvd on: & Thence with the Lords (the Lord Martial & the Herraulds & other Crowne Officers being ready) we first went to Whitehall gate, where the Lords stood on foote beareheaded, whilst the Herauld proclaimed His Majesties Titles to the Imperial Crowne, & succession according to the forme: The Trumpets & Kettle drumms having first sounded 3 times, which after also ended with the peoples acclamations: Then an Herauld called the Lords Coaches according to ranke, my selfe accompanying the solemnity in my Lord Cornwallis Coach, first to Temple barr, where the Lord Major & his breathren &c met us on horseback in all their formalities, & proclaymed the King; Thence to the Exchange in Cornhill, & so we returned in the order we set forth: being come to White-hall, we all went and kissed the King & Queenes hands, he had ben on the bed, but was now risen, & in his Undresse. The Queene was in bed in her appartment, but put forth her hand; seeming to be much afflicted, as I believe she was, having deported herselfe so decently upon all occasions since she came first into England, which made her universally beloved: Thus concluded this sad, & yet Joyfull day: [I am never to forget the unexpressable luxury, & prophanesse, gaming, & all dissolution, and as it were total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday Evening) which this day sennight, I was witnesse of; the King, sitting & toying with his Concubines Portsmouth, Cleaveland, & Mazarine: &c: A french boy singing love songs, in that glorious Gallery, whilst about 20 of the greate Courtiers & other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in Gold before them, upon which two Gent: that were with me made reflexions with astonishment, it being a sceane of uttmost vanity; and surely as they thought would never have an End: six days after was all in the dust.] *** 10 Being sent to by the Sherif of the County, to appeare, & assist the Proclayming the King; [11] I went the next day to Bromely, where I met the Sherif, and the Commander of the Kentish Troope, with an appearance of (I suppose) above 500 horse, & innumerable people: Two of his Majesties Trumpets, & a serjeant, with other officers, who having drawn up the horse in a large field neere to towne, marchd thence [with swords drawne] to the"%H0*(H&a@p)" Market place, where making a ring, after sound of Trumpets, & silence made, the high Sherif read the Proclaming Titles, to his Bailife, who repeated it alowd, & then after many shouts of the people &c: his Majesties health being drunk in a flint glasse of a yard-long, of the Sherif, Commanders, Officers & chiefe Gent: they all dispercd and I returned: *** 14 The King was [this night] very obscurely buried in a Vault under Hen: 7th Chapell in Westminster, without any manner of pomp, and soone forgotten after all this vainity, & the face of the whole Court exceedingly changed into a more solemne and moral behaviour: The new King affecting neither Prophanesse, nor bouffonry: All the Greate Officers broke their whiteStaves on the Grave &c: according to forme: 15 Dr. Tenison preachd to the Household on 42.Psal:ult: The 2d sermon (which should have ben before the King, who to the great griefe of his subjects, did now the first time go to Masse publicly in the little Oratorie at the Dukes lodgings, the doores set wide open) was by Mr. Fox, a young quaint Preacher, who made a very profitable sermon on Pro: Fooles make a mock at sin, against prophanes & Atheisme; now reigning more than ever through the late dissolutenesse of the Court:... *** 18 I was carried by my Lord Privy-Seale to congratulate my Lord Tressurer who [19] the next day, together with the other new Officers, were all sworne at the Chancery barr, & at the Chequer: I returnd home in the Evening. The late King having the revenue of Excise, Costomes, & other late duties granted for his life onely; were now farmed & let to severall persons upon an opinion that the late K: might let them for 3 yeares after his decease (some of the old Commissioners refusing to act) The major part of Judges, (but as think, not the best lawyers) pronounced it legal; but 4 dissenting: The lease was made but the day before his Majesties death; which seemes by the words of the statute to be invalid: Note that the Clearke of the Closset, had shut-up the late Kings private Oratory next the Privy-Chamb: above; but the King causd it to be opend againe, & the Prayers should be said as formerly: The Papists now swarmed at Court. &c: 22 Severall most usefull tractates against Dissenters, Papists & Fanatics, & resolution of Cases, were now publishd by the London divines:... ***  X4p March ă 5 To my griefe I saw the new pulpet set up in the popish oratory at W-hall, for the Lent preaching, Masse being publiqly saied, & the Romanists swarming at Court with greater confidence than had ever ben seene in England since the Reformation, so as every body grew Jealous to what this would trend; A Parliament was now also summond, and greate industry used to obtaine Elections which might promote the Court Interest: Most of the Corporations being now by their new Charters in power to make what returnes of members they pleased: Most of the Judges likewise having given their opinions that his Majestie might still take the Costomes, which to foure Judges ( the best Lawyers) seemed against the Act of Parliament which determines it with the Kings life: Now came over divers Envoy/s & greate Persons to condole the Death of the late King: The Q: Dowager received them on a bed of mourning, the whole Chamber seiling &"'I0*(H&a@7+" floore hung with black, tapers lighted; so as nothing could be more Lugubrous & solemn: The Q:Consort sat out under a state on a black foot-cloth, to entertaine the Circle as the Q: used to do, & that very decently: *** 7 Newes coming to me that my Daughter Mary was falln ill of the Small Pox, I hastned home full of apprehensions, & indeede found her very ill, still comingforth in aboundance, a wonderfull affliction to me, not only for her beauty, which was very lovely, but for the danger of loosing one of extraordinary parts & virtue. &c: Gods holy will be don. 8 ... My Deare Child continuing ill, by reason of the Disseases fixing in the Lungs, it was not in the power of physick without more plentiful expectoration to recover her, insomuch as [9] Dr. Short (the most famous approved & famous Physition of all his Majesties Doctors) gave us his opinion, that she could not escape, upon the Tuesday; so as on Wednesday she desired to have the B: Sacrament given her (of which she had yet participated the Weeke before) after which disposing her selfe to suffer what God should determine to inflict, she bore the remainder of her sicknesse with extraordinary patience, and piety & with more than ordinary resignation, and marks of a sanctified & blessed frame of mind, rendred [up] her soule to the Lord Jesus on Saturday the 14 of March, exactly at halfean houre after Eleaven in the fore noone, to our unspeakable sorrow & Affliction, and this not to ours (her parents) onely, but all who knew her, who were many of the best quality, greatest and most vertuous persons: How unexpressable losse I and my Wife sustaind, the Virtues & perfections she was endowd with best would shew; of which the justness of her stature, person, comelinesse of her Countenance and gracefullnesse of motion, naturall, & unaffected (though more than ordinaryly beautifull), was one of the least, compard with the Ornaments of her mind, which was truely extraordinary, especialy the better part: Of early piety, & singularly Religious, so as spending a considerable part of every day in private devotion, Reading and other vertuous exercises, she had collected, & written out aboundance of the most usefull and judicious periods of the Books she read, in a kind of Common place; as out of Dr. Hammonds N. Test: and most of the best practical Treatises extant in our tonge: She had read & digested a considerable deale of History, & of Places, the french Tongue being as familiar to her as English, she understood Italian, and was able to render a laudable Account of what she read & observed, to which assisted a most faithfull memory, & discernement, & she did make very prudent & discreete reflections upon what she had observed of the Conversations among which she had at any time ben (which being continualy of persons of the best quality), she improved: She had to all this an incomparable sweete Voice, to which she playd a throughbase on the Harpsichord, in both which she arivd to that perfection, that of all the Schollars of those Two famous Masters, Signor Pietro and Bartolomeo: she was esteemd the best; [for] the sweetenesse of her voice, manegement of it, adding such an agreablenesse to her Countenance, without any constraint and concerne, that when she sung, it was as charming to the Eye, as to the Eare; this I rather note, because it was a universal remarke, & for which so many noble & judicious persons in Musique, desird to hear her; the last, being at my Lord Arundels of Wardours, where was a solemn Meeting of about twenty persons of quality, some of them greate judges & Masters of Musique; where she sung with the famous Mr. Pordage, Signor Joh: Battist touching the Harpsichord &c: with exceeding applause: What shall I say, or rather not say, of the cherefullnesse & agreablenesse of her humor, that she condescending to the meanest servant in the family, or others, she kept still her respect without the least pride: These she would reade to, examine, instruct and often"%J0*(H&a@p)" pray with, if they were sick; so as she was extreamely beloved of every body: Piety was so prevalent an ingredient in her constitution (as I may say) that even amongst superiors, as equals, she no sooner became intimately acquainted; but she would endeavour to improve them by insinuating something of Religious, & that tended to bring them to a love of Devotion; and she had one or two Confidents, with whom she used to passe whole dayes, in fasting, reading and prayers, especialy before the monethly communions, & other solemn occasions: She could not indure that which they call courtship, among the Gallants, abhorred flattery, & tho she had aboundance of witt, the raillery was so innocent and ingenuous, as was most agreable; She sometimes would see a play, but since the stage grew licentious, tooke greate scandal at them, & expressd her being weary of them, & that the time spent at the Theater was an unaccountable vanity, nor did she at any time play at Cards, without extreame importunity & for Company; but this was so very seldome, that I cannot number it among any thing she could name a fault: No body living read prose, or Verse better & with more judgement, & as she read, so she writ not onely most correct orthography, but with that maturitie of judgement, and exactnesse of the periods, choice expressions, & familiarity of style, as that some letters of hers have astonishd me, and others to whom she has occasionaly written: Among other agreablenesses she had a talent of rehersing any Comical part or poeme, as was to them she might decently be free with, more pleasing than the Theater; She dauncd with the most grace that in my whole life I had ever seene, & so would her Master say, who was Monsieur Isaac; but she very seldome shewd that perfection, save in the gracefullnesse of her Carriage, which was with an aire of spritefull modestie, not easily to be described; Nothing of haughty, nothing affected, but natural and easy, as well in her deportment, as her discourse, which was allways material, not trifling, and to which the extraordinary sweetenesse of her tone, even in familiar speaking, was very charming: Nothing was so pretty, as her descending to play with little Children, whom she would caresse, & humor with greate delight: But she most of all affected to be [with] grave, and sober men, of whom she might learne something and improve herselfe: I have my selfe ben assisted by her, both reading & praying by me; and was comprehensive of uncommon notions, curious of knowing every thing to some excesse, had I not indeavord to represse it sometimes; Nothing was therefore so delightfull to her, as the permission I ever gave her to go into my Study, where she would have willingly spent whole days; for as I sayd, she had read aboundance of History, & all the best poets, even to Terence, Plautus, Homer, Vergil, Horace, Ovide, all the best Romances, & modern Poemes, and could compose very happily, & put in her pretty Symbol, as in that of  X 4the Mundus Muliebris1, wherein is an enumeration of the immense variety of the Modes and ornaments belonging to the Sex: But all these are vaine trifles to those interior vertues which adornd her Soule, For she was sincerely Religious, most dutifull to her parents, whom she lovd with an affection temperd with greate esteeme, so as we were easy & free, & never were so well pleased, as when she was with us, nor needed we other Conversation: She was kind to her Sisters, and was still improving them, by her constant Course of Piety: < deare, sweete and desireable Child, how shall I part with all this goodnesse, all this Vertue, without the bitternesse of sorrow, and reluctancy of a tender Parent! Thy affection, duty & love to me was that of a friend, as well as of a Child: passing even the love of Women, the Affection of a Child: nor lesse dearer to thy Mother, whose example & tender care of Thee was unparalleled; nor was Thy returnes to her lesse conspicuous: < how she mourns thy losse! = how desolate has Thou left us, Sweete, obliging, happy Creature! To the grave shall we both carry thy memory MM God alone (in whose boosome thou art at rest & happy) give us to resigne Thee, & all our Contentments (for thou indeede wert all in this"'K0*(H&a@*+" world) to his blessed pleasure: = let him be glorified by our submission, & give us Grace to blesse him for the Graces he implanted in thee, thy vertuous life, pious & holy death, which is indeede the onely remaining Comfort of our soules, hastning through the infinite love and mercy of the Lord Jesus, to be shortly with Thee deare Child, & with Thee (and those blessed Saints like thee,) glorifie the Redemer of the World to all Eternity. Amen: It was in the nineteenth yeare of her Age, that this sicknesse happnd to her, at which period Dr. Harvy somewhere writes, all young people should be let blood; and to this we advised her; whilst to all who beheld her she looked so well, as her extraordinary beauty was taken notice of, the last time she appeared at Church: but she had so greate an aversion to breathing a veine, as we did not so much insist upon it as we should: being in this exceeding height of health, she was the more propence to change, & had ever ben subject to feavors; but there was yet another accident that contributed to the fixing it in this dissease; The apprehension she had of it in particular, & which struck her but two days before she came home, by an imprudent Gentlewomans telling my Lady Faulkland (with whom my daughter went to give a Visite) after she had entertained them a good while in the house, that she had a servant sick of the small pox above, who died the next day; This my poore Child accknowledged made an impression on her spirits, it being with all [of] a mortal & spreading kind at this time about the towne:  WB1  X4 A poem by Mary which made fun of contemporary manners called Mundus Muliebris: .... E published it in 1690. There were now no lesse than foure Gent: of Quality offering to treate with me about Marriage; & I freely gave her her owne Choice, knowing she was discreete: One (against which I had no exceptions) and who most passionately lovd her, but was for a certaine natural blemish that rendered him very disagreable, she would in complyance to me have married, if I did injoyne her; but telling me she should never be happy with him (observing it seemes a neerenesse in his nature, and a little underbreeding) I would not impose it; for which she often expressed her satisfaction, & thanks to me in the most obliging & respectfull manner: The other was one Weston a Stafford shire Gent: of the same family, & I thinke heire (within one) to the Earles of Portland: This was but now just beginning: But the person who first made love to her, was Mr. Wilbraham a Chesshire Gent: of a noble Family, whose extreamely rich & sordid Fathers demands of a Portion, I could by no meanes reach, without injury to the rest of my daughters, which this pious, & good natured Creature, would never have suffered, and so that match stood in suspense; I say in suspense, for the young Gent: still pursud, & would have married her in private, if either my Daughter, or We had don so disingenuously: She & we had principles that would by no meanes suffer us to harken it: At last hes sent for home, continues his Affection, hops to bring his father to reasonable termes: My Child is taken with his Constancy, his Virtuous breeding, and good nature, & discretion, having beene a fortnight together in my house: This, made us not forward to embrace any other offers, together with the extraordinary indifferency she ever shewed of Marrying at all; for truely says shee to her Mother, (the other day), were I assurd of your lives & my deare Fathers, never would I part from you, I love you, & this home, where we serve God, above all things in the world, nor ever shall I be so happy: I know, & consider the vicissitudes and changes of the world, I have some experience of its vanities, & but for decency, more than inclination, & that You judge it expedient for me, I would not change my Condition, but rather add the fortune you designe me to my Sisters, & keepe up the reputation of our family: This was so discreetely & sincerely utterd as, could not proceede but from an extraordinary Child, & one who loved her parents without example: ..."%L0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ... there was a designe of my Lady Rochester & Clarendon to make her Mayd of to the Queene, so soone as there was a place empty: but this she did not in the least set her heart upon, nor indeede upon any thing so much as the service of God, a quiet regular life, & how she might improve herselfe in the most necessary accomplishments, & to which she was arived in so greate a measure, as I acknowledge (all partiality of relation layed aside) I never saw, or knew her equal, considering how universal they were; save in one onely Creature of her Sex, Mrs. Godolphin, (late the wife of my Lord Godolphin, whose life for the singular piety, Vertue & discretion, (& that she was to me a Friend, in all the peculiar  X@4transcendencys of that relation) I have written at large1, and consignd to my Lady Sylvius (whom she loved above all her Sex) & who requested it of me: And this I mention here, because the Example of that most religious Lady: made I am assured deepe impressions in my deare Child; and that I was told, she caused it to be read to her, at the very beginning of her sicknesse, when She had taken that bed, out of which she never risse, to my insupportable griefe & sorrow; though never two made more blessed ends: But all this sorrow is selfelove, whilst to wish them here againe, were to render them miserable who are now in happinesse, and above:  X 4e 1 The Life of Mrs Godolphin, first published in 1847. This is the little History, & Imperfect Character of my deare Child, whose Piety, Virtue, & incomparable Endowments, deserve a Monument more durable than brasse & Marble: Precious is the Memorial of the Just Much I could enlarge on every period of this hasty Account, but thus I ease & discharge my overcoming passion for the present, so many things worthy an excellent Christian & dutifull Child, crowding upon me: Never can I say enough, = deare, my deare Child whose memory is so precious to me. This deare child was born at Wotton in Surry, in the same house and roome where I likewise first drew breath, (my wife being retird to my bro: there, the greate sicknesse yeare) upon the first of that moneth, & neere the very houre, that I was borne, upon the last: viz: October: 16 Was my deare Daughter interrd in the south east end of the church at Deptford neere her Grand mother & severall of my Younger Children and Relations: my desires were she should have ben carried & layed among my owne Parents & Relations at Wotton, where our Family have a Vault, where she was born, & where I have desire to be interred my selfe, when God shall call me out of this uncertaine transitory life; but some Circumstances did not  X4permit it; & so she was buried here1. Our Viccar Dr. Holden preaching her Funerall Sermon  X4on: 1. Phil: 21. For to me to live is Christ, & to die is gaine, upon which he made an apposit discourse (as those who heard it assure me, for griefe sufferd me not to be present) concluding with a modest recital of her many vertues, and especialy her signal piety, so as drew both teares, & admiration from the hearers, so universaly was she beloved, & known to deserve all the good that could be sayd of her: & I was not altogether unwilling something of this should be spoken of her, for the edification & encouragement of other young people: There were divers noble persons who honord her Obsequies, & funerall, some in person, others in sending their Coaches, of which there were 6 or 7. of six horses viz. Countesse of Sunderland, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Godolphin, Sir St. Fox; Sir William Godolphin, Visount Falkland &c [following the hearse of 6 horses &c] there were (besides other decences distributed among her friends about 60 rings: Thus lived, died, & was buried the joy of my life & ornament both of her sex & my poore family: God Almighty of his infinte mercy grant me the grace thankfully to resigne my selfe & all I have, or had, to his divine pleasure, & in his good time, restoring health & Comfort to my Family, teach me so to number my days, as I may apply my heart to Wisdome, & be prepared for my dissolution, & that into the hands of my blessed Saviour I may recommend my Spirit. Amen:"H&M0*(H&a@g*"ԌHaving some days after opened her Trunks, & looked into her Closset, amazed & even astonished we were to find that incredible number of papers and Collections she had made of severall material Authors, both Historians, Poets, Travells &c: but above all the Devotions, Contemplations, & resolutions upon those Contemplations, which we found under her hand in a booke most methodicaly disposed, & much exceeding the talent & usage of [so] young & beautifull women, who consume so much of their time in vaine things: with severall prayers, Meditations, & devotions on divers occasions; with a world of pretty letters to her confidents & others savoring of a greate witt, & breathing of piety & honor: There is one letter to some divine (who is not named) to whom she writes that he would be her Ghostly Father & guide, & that he would not despise her for the many errors & imperfections of her Youth, but beg of  X4God, to give her courage, to acquaint him with all her faults,   X` 41 See p.450 for her epitaph, still at St. Nicholas, Deptford. imploring his assistance, & spiritual direction: & well I remember, that she often desired me to recommend her to such a person, but (though I intended it) I did not think fit to do as it yet, seeing her apt to be scrupulous, & knowing the great innocency & integrity of her life; but this (it seemes) she did of her selfe: ... But as she was a little miracle whilst she lived, so she died with out Example: 26 I was invited to Cap: Gunmans Funerall, that excellent Pilot, & seaman, who had behavd himselfe so valiantly in the Duth-Warr: taken away by the gangreene which happnd in his cure, upon his unhappy fall from the peere of Calais: This was the Cap: of the yacht, whom they accused for not giving timely warning, on the Dukes (now the King) going into Scotland, when his ship split upon the Sands, when so many perished: But of which I am most confident, the Cap: was no ways guilty, either through negligence, or designe; as he made appeare not onely at the Examination of the matter of fact; but in the Vindication he shewed me some time since, which must needes give any-man of reason satisfaction: ... He was a sober, frugal, cherefull & temperat man; we have few such sea-men left: There to Condole the death of my deare Daughter this Weeke moneday, & friday: The Countesse of Bristoll, Sunderland, La: Sylvius, Mrs. Penelope Godolphin: Sir Stephen Fox & his Lady &c: 29 ... A servant mayd of my Wifes fell sick of the very same disease, of the same sort of S:pox, & in all appearance in as greate danger, though she never came neere my daughter: we removed her into the Towne with care:  XX4u April ă 5 ... Drowsinesse much surprizd me: The Lord be gratious to me: The mayd, by Gods greate mercy, but with extraordinary difficulty, recovered: Blessed be God: 7 Being now somewhat composd after my greate affliction, I went to Lond: to heare Dr. Tenison (it being [8] a Wednesday in Lent) at Whitehall: who preached on 3. Gen: 3: I returned in the Evening: I observd that though the King was not in his seate above in the Chapell, the Doctor made notwithstanding his three cong/es, which they were not usd to do, when the [late] King was absent, making then one bowing onely: I asked the reason; it was sayd, he had special order so to do: The Princesse of Denmarke yet was in the Kings Closset, but sat on the left hand of the Chaire, the clearke of the Closset standing by his Majesties Chaire as if he had ben present: [I met Q:Dowager going now first from W.hall to dwell at Somerset house.] ..."%N0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** 23 Was the day of his Majesties Coronation, the Queene was also crownd, the solemnity very magnificent, as the particulars are set forth in print: The Bish: of Ely preached, but (to the greate sorrow of the people) no Sacrament, as ought to have ben: However the King beginns his reigne with greate expectations and hopes of much reformation as to the former vices, & prophanesse both of Court & Country: Having ben present at our late Kings Coronation, I was not ambitious of seing this Ceremonie; nor did I think it fit to leave my poore Wife alone, who was yet in greate sorrow: ***  X4*x May ă 7th: I was in Westminster Hall when Oates (who had made such a stirr in the whole Kingdome, (upon his revealing a plot of the Papists) as alarmd several Parliaments, & had occasiond the execution of divers persons, priests, noble men &c:) was tried for Perjurie at the Kingsbench; but it being exceedingly tedious, I did not much endeavor to see the issue of it, considering that it would certainely be publishd: Aboundance of R:Cath: were now in the Hall, in expectation of the most gratefull conviction & ruine of a person who had ben so obnoxious to them; & as I verily believe had don much mischiefe & greate injurie to several by his violent & ill grounded proceedings, whilst he was at first so unreasonably blowne-up, & encouragd, that his insolence was no longer sufferable: *** 16 Was sentencd Oates to be whipd & pilloried with uttmost severity: &c: *** 21. Dind at my Lord PrivySeales, with Sir Will: Dugdale the K: at Armes,  X4Author of the Monasticon, & greate Antiquarie; with whom I had much discourse: he told me he was 82 yeares of age, had his sight & memory &c: There was shewd a draght of the exact shape & dimensions of the Crowne the Queene had ben crownd withall, together with Jewells & Pearles, their weight & value, which amounted to 100650 pounds sterling, an immense summ: attested at the foot of the paper by the Jeweller and Gooldsmith who set the Jewells &c: 22 In the morning, I went (together with a French gent, a person of quality) with my Lord Pr: Seale to the house of Lords, where we were both placd by his Lordship next the barr just below the Bishops very commodiously both for hearing and seeing: After a short space came in the Queene & Princesse of Denmark, & stood next above the Arch-Bishops, at the side of the house on the right hand of his Majesties Throne: In the interim divers of the Lords (who had not finishd before) tooke the Test, & usual Oathes, so as her Majestie (Spanish Ambassador & other forraine Ministers who stood behind the state) heard the Pope, & worship of the Virg: Mary &c: renouncd very decently, as likewise the following Prayers, standing all the while: Then came in the King, the Crowne on his head &c and being sate, The Commons were let in, so the house being filld, he drew forth a Paper, containing his speech, which he distinctly enough to this effect: That he resolved to call a Parliament from the moment of his brothers decease, as the best meanes to settle all the concernes of the Nation so as might be most easy & happy to himselfe & his subjects: That he would confirme what ever he had said in his declaration at the first Council, concerning his opinion of the principles of the Church of England, for their Loyaltie, & would defend & support it, and preserve its government, as by Law now establishd: That as he would Invade no mans property, so he would never depart from his owne prerogative: & as he had his life in defence of the nation so he would proceede to do still: That having given this assurance of his Care of our Religion (his word was your Religion) & propertie, (which he had not said by chance, but solemnly) so he doubted not of suitable returnes of his subjects duty & kindnesse, especialy"'O0*(H&a@7+" as to the settling his Revenue for life for the many weighty necessities of the government which he would not suffer to be precarious: That some might possibly suggest that it were better to feede & supply him from time to time onely, out of their inclination to frequent Parliaments; but that that, would be but a very improper Method to take with him; since the best way to engage him to meete oftener, would be allways to use him well; & therefore expected their compliance speedily, that this session being but short, they might meete againe to satisfaction: At every period of this, the house gave loud shouts &c: Then he acquainted them with that mornings news of Argiles being landed in the West-highlands of Scotland from Holland, and the Treasonous declaration he had published, which he would communicate to them, & that he should take the best care he could it should meete with the reward it deservd, not questioning of the parliaments Zeale & readinesse to assist him, as he desired: At which  X` 4There followed another Vive le roy, & so his Majestie retired: &c: & I went into the Court of Requests &c: So soone as the Commons were returnd, & put themselves, into a grand Committ/ they immediately put the Question, & unanimously voted the Revenue to his Majestie during life: Mr. Seamour made a bold speech against many Elections, and would have had those Members who (he pretended) were obnoxious, to withdraw, til they had cleared their being legaly returnd, but no body seconded him: The truth is there were very many of the new Members, whose Elections & returnes were universaly censurd; being divers of them persons of no manner of condition or Interest in the nation, and places for which they served, especialy in the Counties of Devon, Cornwell, Norfolck, &c, said to have ben recommended from the Court, and effect of the new charters, changing the Electors: It was reported my L: of Bath, carrieddown with him no fewer than 15 Charters, so as some cald him the Prince Elector: whence Seaymor told the house in his speech, that if this were digested, they might introduce what Religion & Lawes they pleased, & that though he never gave heede to the feares & jealosies of the people before, he now was realy apprehensive of Popery &c: The truth is, by printed List of Members of 505, there did not appear to be above 135 who had ben in former Parliaments, especialy that lately held at Oxon: In the Lords house, my Lord Newport made but an impertinent exception against two or three [young] Peeres, who wanted some moneths, & some onely 4 or 5 daies being of age: The Popish Lords (who had some time before ben released from their Confinement about the Plot) were now dischargd of their Impeachment: of which I gave my L. Arundel of Wardoer joy: Oates, who had but two days before ben pilloried at severall places, & whipt at the Carts taile from New-gate to Algate; was this day placed in a sledge (being not able to go by reason of his so late scourging) & dragd from prison to Tyburn, & whipd againe all the way, which some thought to be very severe & extraordinary; but in case he were gilty of the perjuries, & so of the death of many innocents, as I feare he was; his punishment was but what he well deservd: I chancd to passe in my Coach, just as Execution was doing on him:  V 4A strange revolution. Note, that there was no speech made by my Lord Keeper, after his Majesties as usualy: It was whispered, he would not long be in that station; & many believing the bold Chiefe Justice Jeofries (now made Baron of Wen in Yorkshire, & went through-stitch in that Tribunal) stood faire for that Office: I gave him joy the morning before of his new honor, he having always ben very civil to me &c: ***"$P0*(H&a@("Ԍ24 ... We had hitherto [not] any raine for many monethes, insomuch as the Caterpillar had already devoured all the Winter fruite through the whole land, & even killed severall greate & old trees; such two Winters, & Summers I had never known: ***  X 40u$z1685`!(#=0@u  =$z1685@v June ă 4. Came to visite, and take leave of me Sir Gab: Sylvius now going Envoy/ Extraordinary into Denmark: with his secretary, & chaplaine, a frenchman who related the miserable persecution of the Protestants in Fr: not above ten Churches left them, and they threatned to be also demolishd: That they were commanded to christen their children within 24 houres after birth, or else a Popishpriest was to be calld, & then the Infant broughtup in popery: and that in some places they were 30 leagues from any Minister or opportunity: That this persecution had dispeopled the most industrious part of the nation and dispersd them into Swisse, Burgundy, Hollond, Ger: Denmark, England, Plantations & where not. There were with Sir Gab: his Lady, Sir William Godolphin, and sisters, & my Lord Godolphins little son, (my Charge): I brought them to the water side, where Sir Gab: embarked for his Voyage, & the rest returnd to Lond: ***  XH 414 There was now certaine Intelligence of the Duke of Monmoths landing at Lyn1 in Dorset shire, & of his having set up his standart as K. of England: I pray God deliver us from the confusions which these beginnings threaten: Such a drowth for want of raine, was never in my memory: 17 To Lond: at which time the D: of Monmoth invaded this nation landing with but 150 men at Lyme in Dorsetshire, which wonderfully alarmd the whole Kingdome, fearing the joyning of dissafected people; many of the traind bands flocking to him: he had at his landing published a Declaration, charging his Majestie with Usurpation, & severall horrid crimes, upon pretence of his owne title, and the calling of a free-Parliament: This Decl: was condemnd to be burnt by the hang-man, the Duke proclaimd Traytor, a reward of 5000 pounds to him that should kill him &c: Now were also those words in the Inscription about the Pillar (intimating the Papists firing the Citty) erased and cut out &c: The exceeding Drouth still continued: God grant a successfull conclusion to these ill-boded beginnings: I tooke the Chaire as Vice-President at the R: Society. ***  X45x July ă 8 To Lond: Came now the newes of Monmouths Utter defeate, and the next day of his being taken by Sir William Portman & Lord Lumley, with the Militia of their Counties. It seemes the horse commanded by my Lord Grey, being newly raised, & undisciplind, were not to be brought in so short a time to indure the Fire, which exposed the foote to the Kings: so as when Monmoth had led the foote in greate silence and order thinking to surprise my Lord Feversham Lieutenant General newly incamped, and given him a smart charge, interchanging both greate & small shot; The horse breaking [their owne] ranks; monmoth gave it over, and fled with Grey, leaving their party to be cut into pieces: to the number of 2000: the whole number reported to be about 8000: The Kings but 2700: The slaine were most of the Mendipminers, who did greate Execution with their tooles, and sold their lives very dearely: whilst their leaders flying were pursud and taken the next morning, not far from one another: Mon: had walked 16 miles on foote changing his habite with a poore coate, & was found by L. Lumley in dryditch coverd with fernbraken, but neither with sword, pistol, or so much as any Weapon, and so  ja   XH&4 ja 1 Lyme Regis  ja "'Q0*(H&a@^+"Ԍ ja might happly have passed for some country man, his beard being grown so long, & so gray, as hardly to be known, had not his George discovered him, which was found in his Pocket: Tis said he trembled exceedingly all over not able to speake: Grey was taken not far from him: Most of his party were Anabaptists, & poore Cloth-workers of the Country, no Gent: of account being come into him: The Arch-bouttefew Ferguson, Matthews &c: were not yet found: The 5000 pounds to be given to whomsoever should bring Monmouth in by Proclamation, was to be distributed among the Militia by agreement twixt Sir William Portman & Lumley: The battail ended, some words first in jeast then in heate [passing] twixt Sherrington Talbot a worthy Gent, (son to Sir Jo. Talbot, & who had behavd himselfe very handsomly) and one Capt: Love, both commanders of the Militia forces of the Country, whose souldiers fought best: both drawing their Swords, & passing at one another Sherrington was wounded to death upon the spot; to the greate regret of those who knew him, being also his fathers onely son: 9 Just as I was coming into the Lodgings at Whitehall a little before dinner my Lord of Devonshire standing very neere his Majesties bedChamberdoore in the lobby: came Coll: Culpeper & in a rude manner looking my Lord in the face, Asked whether this were a time and place for Excluders to appeare, my Lord tooke little notice of what he said at first, knowing him to be a hot-headed fellow; but reiterating it againe, Asked Culpeper whether he meant him? he said, yes, he meant his Lordship: My Lord told him he was no Excluder (as indeede he was not) the other affirms it againe: My Lord told him he Lied; on which Culpeper struck him a box othEare, my Lord him another and felld him downe; upon which being soone parted: Culpeper was seizd and commanded by his Majestie (who was all the while in the B: chamber) to be carried downe to the Greenecloth Officer, who sent him to the Martialsea, as he deservd: My L: Devon had said nothing to him. *** 15 I went to Lond: to see Dr. Tenisons Library, returned in the Evening: This day was Monmoth brought to Lond: examind before the King to whom he made greate submission, accknowledgd his seduction by Fergusson the Scot, whom he named the bloudy Villain: thence sent to the Tower, had an enterview with his late Dutchesse, whom he received coldly, having lived dishonestly with the Lady Hen: Wentworth for two years; from obstinatly asserting his conversation with that debauched woman to be no sin, seing he could not be perswaded to his last breath, the Divines, who were sent to assist him, thought not fit to administer the holy Communion to him: for the rest of his faults he professed greate sorrow, and so died without any apparent feare, would make use of no cap, or other circumstance, but lying downe bid the fellow do his office better than to my late Lord Russell, & gave him gold: but the wretch made five Chopps before he had his head off, which so incensd the people, that had he not ben guarded & got away they would have torne him in pieces: He made no Speech on the Scaffold (which was on Towerhill) but gave a paper (containing not above 5 or 6 lines) for the King, in which he disclaimes all Title to the Crowne, accknowledges that the late King (his Father) had indeede told him, he was but his base sonn, & so desired his Majestie to be kind to his Wife & Children: This relation I had from the Mouth of Dr. Tenison Rector of St. Martines, who with the Bishops of Ely & Bath & Wells, was one of the divines his Majestie sent to him, & were at the execution: Thus ended this quondam Duke, darling of his Father, and the Ladys, being extraordirily handsome, and adroit: an excellent souldier, & dauncer, a favorite of the people, of an Easy nature, debauched by lust, seducd by crafty knaves who would have set him up onely to make a property; tooke this opportunity of his Majestie being of another Religion, to gather a party of discontented; failed of it, and perished:"$R0*(H&a@("ԌHe was a lovely person, had a vertuous & excellent Lady that brought him greate riches & a second Dukedome in Scotland; Was Master of the Horse, Gen. of the K. his fathers Army, Gent: of the Bed chamber: Knight of the Garter, Chancellor of Camb: in a Word had accumulations without end: Se what Ambition and want of principles brought him to. He was beheaded on Tuesday the 14th July: His mother (whose name was Barlow, daughter of some very meane Creatures) was a beautifull strumpet, whom I had often seene at Paris, & died miserably, without anything to bury her: Yet had this Perkin ben made believe, the King had married her: which was a monstrous forgerie, & ridiculous: & to satisfie the world the iniquitie of the report, the King his father (if his Father he realy were, for he most resembled one Sidny familiar with his mother) publiquely & most solemnly renounced it, and caused it to be so entred in the Council booke some yeares since, with all the Privy Counselrs attestation. *** 27 This night when we were all asleepe went my Daughter Eliz: away, to meete a young fellow, nephew to Sir Jo: Tippet (Surveyor of the Navy: & one of the Commissioners) whom she married the next day being Tuesday; without in the least acquainting either her parents, or any soule in the house: I was the more afflicted & at it, in reguard, we had never given this Child the least cause to be thus dissobedient, and being now my Eldest, might reasonably have expected a double Blessing: But it afterward appeared, that this Intrigue had ben transacted by letters long before, & she was with my Lady Burton in Licester shire, and by private meetings neere my house: She of all our Children had hitherto given us least cause of suspicion; not onely for that she was yet young, but seemed the most flattering, souple, and observant; of a silent & particular humor; in no sort the levity & Inclination which is commonly apparent in Children who fall into these snares; having ben bred-up with the uttmost Circumspection, as to principles of severest honour & Piety: But so far it seemes, had her passion for this Young fellow made her forget her duty, and all that most Indulgent Parents expected from her, as not to consider the Consequence of her folly & dissobedience, til it was too late: This Affliction went very neere me & my Wife, neither of us yet well composd for the untimely losse of that incomparable & excellent Child, which it pleased God to take from us by the small pox a few monethes before: But this farther Chastizement was to be humbly submitted to, as part of the burden God was pleased to lay farther upon us; in this yet the lesse afflictive, That we had not ben wanting in giving her an Education every way becoming us: We were most of all astonishd at the suddainesse of this action, & the privatenesse of its manegement; the Circumstances also Considerd & quality, how it was possible she should be flattered so to her dissadvantage: He being in no condition sortable to hers, & the Blessing we intended her: The thing has given us much disquiet, I pray God direct us, how to govern our Resentments of her dissobedience; and if it be his will, bring good out of all this Ill:  X 4m August ă 2 So had this Affliction descomposd us, that I could not be well at Church next Lords day; though I had prepared for the B:Sacrament: I hope God will be more gracious to my onely remaining Child, whom I take to be of a more discreete, sober and religious temper: that we may have that comfort from her, which is denyd us in the other: This Accident causd me to alter my Will; as was reasonable; for though there may be a reconciliation upon her repentance, and that she has sufferd for her folly; yet I must let her see what her undutifullnesse in this action, deprives her of; as to the provision she else might have expected; solicitous as she knew I now was of bestowing her very worthily:"'S0*(H&a@7+"Ԍ*** 16 Came newes to us that my undutifull daughter was visited with the smallpox, now universaly very contagious: I was yet willing my Wife should go visite & take care of her: *** 22 I went to Lond, to see my unhappy Child, now in greate danger, and carried our Viccar with me, that according to her earnest desire, (being very sensible & penitent for her fault) he might administer to her the H: Sacrament, which he did; & after some time, and her greate submissions & agonies, leaving her to the mercys of God, & her mother with her I returned in the Evening: We had now the newes of the Newhausels being taken by the Christians: There was also this day an universall appearance of the Kings forces at Brainford: *** 28 My poore unhappy Daughters sickness increasing, a violent feavor succeeding when her other distemper appeared to be past danger; I went up againe to see, & comfort her, together with our Minister: My disconsolate Wife I left with her, who had ben almost all her sicknesse with her; so I returnd home in greate doubt how God would deale with her, whom the next morning he was pleased to take out of this vale of misery, I humbly trust, to his infinite mercy, though to our unspeakeable affliction, loosing another Child in the flower of her age, who had never til now given us cause of any displeasure, but many hopes of Comfort: & thus in lesse than 6 moneths were we deprivd of two Children for our unworthinesse, & causes best known to God, whom I beseech from the bottome of my heart that he will give us grace to make that right use of all these chastisements that we may become better, and intirely submitt [in] all things to his infinite wise disposal. She departed this life on 29: Aug: at 8 in the Morning: fell sick [& died] on the same day of the weeke, that my other most deare & dutifull daughter did, and as also one of my servants (a very pious youth) had don the yeare before: I beseech God of his mercy Sanctifie this and all my other Afflictions & dispensations to me. His holy will be don Amen. 30 This sad accident kept me from the publique service this day being Sonday.  X4` September ă My Child was buried by her sister on 2d September in the Church of Deptford: The 3 of Sep: I went to Lond, being sent to by a Letter from my Lord Clarendon (Lord privy-seale) to let me know that his majestie being pleased to send him Lord Lieutennant into Ireland, was also pleased to Nominate me one of the Commissioners to execute the office of Privy-Seale during his Lieutenancy there: It behoving me [4] to waite upon his Majestie & give him thanks for his greate honor (returning home that Evening) I accompanied his Lordship [5] the next morning to Windsore (dining by the Way at Sir Hen: Capels at Cue) where his Majestie receiving me with extraordinary kindnesse, I kissed his hands: I told him how sensible I was of his Majesties gracious favour to me: that I would endeavour to serve him with all sincerity, dilligence & loyalty, not more out of my duty, than Inclinations: He said, he doubted not of it, & was glad he had this opportunity to shew the kindnesse he had for me: After this came aboundance of the greate Men to give me Joy,"$T0*(H&a@(" particularly L: Tressurer, L: Sunderland, L. Peterborrow, L: Godolphin, L: Falkland & every body at Court who knew me: *** 15 I went to Lond: accompnied Mr. Pepys (Secretary of the Admiralty) to Portsmouth, Whither his Majestie was going the first time since his coming to the Crowne, to see in what state the Fortifications were. Wee tooke Coach & 6 horses, late after diner, yet got to Bagshot that night: whilst supper was making ready I went & made a Visite to Mrs. Grahames, some time Maide of honor to the queen Dowager, now wife to Ja: Gr: Esquire of the Priviepurse to the King: her house being a Walke in the Forest, within a little quarter of a mile from Bagshot Towne: very importunate she was that I would sup, & abide there that night: but being obligd by my companion, I returnd to our Inn, after she had shewd me her house which was very commodious, & well furnishd, as she was an excellent housewife, a prudent & vertuous Lady: There is a parke full of red deare about it: Her eldest sonn, was now sick there of the small pox, but in a likely way of recovery; & other of her Children ran about, & among the infected, which she said let them do on purpose that they might whilst young, passe that fatal dissease, which she fancied they were to undergo one time or other, & that this would be the best: The severity of this cruel dissease so lately in my poore family confirming much of what she affirmd: 16 The next morning early seting out, we arivd early enough at Winchester to waite on the King, who was lodged at the Deanes, (Dr. Megot) I found very few with him besides my Lord Feversham, Arran, Newport, & the Bishop of Bath & Wells to whom his Majestie was discoursing Miracles, & what strange things the Saludadors would do in Spaine, as by creeping into [heated] ovens with[out] hurt &c: & that they had a black Crosse in the roofe of their mouthes: but yet were commonly, notorious & prophane wretches: upon which his Majestie farther said, that he was so extreamely difficult of Miracles, for feare of being imposd on, that if he should chance to see one himselfe, without some other wittnesse, he should apprehend it some delusion of his senses: Then they spake of the boy who was pretended to have had a wanting leg restord him, so confidently asserted by Fr: de Santa Clara, & others: To all which the Bishop added a greate Miracle happning in that Citty of Winchester to his certaine knowledge, of a poore miserably sick & decrepit Child, (as I remember long kept unbaptized) who immediately on his Baptisme, recoverd; as also of the sanatory effect of K. Charles his Majesties fathers blood, in healing one that was blind: As to that of the Saludador (of which likewise I remember Sir Arthir Hopton, formerly Ambassador at Madrid had told me many like wonders) Mr. Pepys passing through Spaine, & being extreamely Inquisitive of the truth of these pretended miracles of the Saludadors; found a very famous one of them at last, whom he offered a considerable reward to, if he would make a trial of the Oven, or any other thing of that kind, before him: The fellow ingenuously told him, that, finding he was a more than ordinary curious person, he would not deceive him, & so accknowledgd that he could do none of those feates, realy; but that what they pretended, was all a cheate, which he would easily discover, though the poore superstitious people were imposed upon: yet have these Imposters, an allowance of the Bishops, to practise thir Juggleings: This Mr. Pepys affirmd to me; but said he, I did not conceive it fit, to interrupt his Majestie, who told me what they pretended to do, so solemnly: Then there was something said of the secondsight, happning to some persons, especialy Scotch: Upon which both his Majestie & (I think) my Ld: Arran, told us, that Monsieur a French Nobleman lately here in England, seeing the late Duke of Monmoth, come into the Playhouse at Lond: suddainly  XH&4cryed out to some sitting in the same box: Voila Messieurs comme il entre sans tete:"H&U0*(H&a@M*"ԌAfter this his Majestie speaking of some Reliques, that had effected strange cures, particularly a Thorne of our B: S: Crosse; that healed a Gentlewomans rotten nose by onely touching; & speaking of the Golden Crosse & Chaine taken out of the Coffin of St. Edward the Confessor at Westminster, by one of the singingmen, who as the scaffolds were takingdown, after his Majesties Coronation, espying an hole in the Tomb, & something glisten; put his hand in, & brought it to the Deane, & he to the King: his Majestie began to put the Bishop in mind, how earnestly the [late] King (his brother) calld upon him, during his Agonie, to take out what he had in his pockett: [See Feb: 6:] I had thought (says the King) it had ben for some keys, which might lead to some Cabinets, which his Majestie would have me secure; but (says he) you well remember that I found nothing in any of his pockets but onely a Crosse of Gold, & a few insignificant papers; & thereupon shewed us the Crosse, & was pleased to put it into my hand; it was of Gold about 3 Inches long, having on one side a Crucifix enameled & embossed, the rest was graved & garnished with goldsmith worke & two pretty broad table Amethists (as I conceived) & at the bottome a pendant pearle; within was inchasd a little fragment (as was thought) of the true Crosse: & a latine Inscription, in Gotic & roman letters: How his Majestie came by it I do not remember; for more company coming in this discourse ended: Onely I may not forget, a Resolution which his Majestie there made, & had a little before entered upon it, at the Counsels board at Windsor or Whitehal: That the Negros in all the Plantations should be Baptized, exceedingly declaiming against that impiety,  X4of their Masters prohibiting it, out of a mistake opinion, that they were then ipso facto free: But his Majestie persists in his resolution to have them Christnd, which piety the Bishop, deservedly blessed him for; and so I went out, to see the New Palace his late Majestie had began, and brought almost to the Covering: It was placed on the side of the Hill, where formerly stood the old Castle: a stately fabrique of 3 sides, & a Corridor, all built of brique, & Cornished, windoes, Columns at the break & Entrance, of freestone: intended for a Hunting House, when his Majestie came to those parts, & having an incomparable prospect: I believe there had already ben 20000 pounds and more expended; but now his Majestie did not seem to encourage the finishing of it; at least for a while; & it is like to stand: Hence I went to see the Cathedrall, a reverend pile, & in good repaire: There is still the Coffines of the 6 Saxon kings, whose bones had ben scattered by the sacrilegious Rebells of 1641, in expectation (I suppose) of finding some valuable Reliques; & afterward gatherdup againe & put into new chests, which stand above the stalls of the Quire: Here lies the body of their Founder, of Card: & severall other Bishops &c: & so I went to my Lodging, very wett, it having rained the whole day: 17 Early next morning we went to Portsmouth, some thing before his Majestie arived: we found all the way full of people, the Women in their best dresse, multitudes of all sorts, in expectance of seeing his Majestie passe by, which he did, riding on horse-back, a good part of the way: We found the Major, his Aldermen with their Mace, & in their formalities standing at the Entrance of the Fort, a Mile on this side of the Towne, where he made a speech to the King, & then went off the Guns of the fort, as did all those of the Garison, so soone as he was come into Portsmouth, all the souldiers (which were neere 3000) drawn up, and lining the streetes, & platforme to Godshouse (which is the name of the Governors house) where (after his Majestie had viewed the new Fortifications, & Ship-yard) he was Entertained at a Magnificent dinner, by Sir Singsby, the Lieutenant Governor; all the Gent: of any quality, in his traine setting downe at Table with him, & which I had also don, had I not ben before engagd to Sir Robert Holmes (Governor of the Isle of Wight) to dine with him at a private house, where likewise we had a very sumptuous & plentifull repast of excellent Venison, Fowle, Fish, fruit, & what not: After dinner I went to waite on his"%V0*(H&a@p)" Majestie againe, who was pulling on his boots in the Town hall joyning to the house where he dined, & then having saluted some Ladys &c: that came to kisse his hand; he tooke horse for Winchester, whither he returned that night: This hall is artificialy hung round, with Armes of all sorts, like the Hall & keepe of Windsor, which looks very finely: I went hence to see the Ship-yard, & Dock, the Fortifications, and other things: What I learned was, the facility of an armies taking the Ile of Wight, should an attempt be made by any Enemy, for want of due care in fortifying some places of it, & the plenty of the Iland, able to nourish 20000 men, besides its inhabitants: Portsmouth when finished will be very strong, & a Noble Key: There were now 32 Men of war in the Harbour: I was invited by Sir R: Beach, the where after a greate supper, Mr. Secretary and my selfe lay-all that night: & the next morning set out for Gildford [18] where we arived in good houre, & so the day after to Lond: whence [19] taking leave of Mr. Pepys, I came home to my house, after a journey of 140 miles: I had twice before ben at Portsmouth, Ile of Wight &c: many yeares since: I found this part of Hampshire bravely wooded; especialy about the house and estate of Coll: Norton, who (though now in being, having formerly made his peace by meanes of Coll Legg) was formerly a very fierce Commander in the first Rebellion: His house is large, & standing low, as one goes from Winchester to : By what I observed in this Journey; I find that infinite industry, sedulity, gravity, and greate understanding & experience of affaires in his Majestie, that I cannot but predict much happinesse to the Nation, as to its political Government, & if he so persist (as I am confident he will) there could be nothing be more desired, to accomplish our prosperity, but that he were of the national Religion: for certainely such a Prince never had this Nation since it was one: 20: ...My Wifes & Daughter Susans pictures were drawn: This Weeke: ***  X4i October ă 2 I spent this morning in Devotion, preparing for the Communion, when having a  Xp4letter sent me by Mr. P, with this expression at the foote of it: I have something to  X84shew you, that I may not have againe another time: &c & that I would not fail to dine with him: I went accordingly: After dinner he had me, and one Mr. Houblon (a very rich & considerable Merchant, whose Fathers had fled out of Flanders upon the persecution of the Duke of Alva) into a private roome: & being sate downe, told us that being lately alone with his Majestie and upon some occasion of speaking concerning my late Lord Arlingtons dying a R: Cath, who had all along seemed to professe himselfe a Protestant, taken all the Tests &c: til the day (I think) of his death: His Majestie sayd, that as to his inclinations he had known him long wavering, but feare of loosing his places [he] did not think convenient to declare himselfe: There are (says the King) who believe the Ch: of R: gives Dispensations, for going to church, & many like things; but that it was not so; for if that might have ben had, he himselfe had most reason to make use of it: Indeede he said, As to some Matrimonial Cases, there are now & then Dispensations, but hardly in any Cases else: This familiar discourse encouragd Mr. P: to beg of his Majestie (if he might aske it, without offence, and for that his Majestie could not but observe how it was whispered among many), [whither] his Late Majestie had ben reconcild to the C. of Rome: He againe humbly besought his Majestie to pardon his presumption, if he had touchd upon a thing, did not befit him to looke into &c: The King ingenuously told him, That he both was, & died a R: Cath: & that he had not long since declared it was upon some politic & state reasons, best known to himself [(meaning the King his Brother)] but that he was of that persuasion, he bid him"'W0*(H&a@7+" follow him into his Closett, where opening a Cabinet, he shewd him two papers, containing about a quarter of a sheete on both sides, written in the late Kings owne hand, severall Arguments opposite to the Doctrine of the Church of Eng: Charging her with heresy, novelty, & [the] phanticisme of other Protestants: The chiefe whereoff (as I remember) were, our refusing to accknowledge the Primacy & Infallibility &c of the Church of Rome, how impossible it was so many Ages should never dispute it, til of late; how unlikely our B: Saviour would leave his Church without a Visible Head & guide to resort to during his absence, with the like usual Topics; so well pennd as to the discourse, as did by no means seeme to me, to have ben put together by the Late King: Yet written all with his owne hand, blotted, & interlind, so as if indeede, it were not given him by some Priest; they happly might be such Arguments and reasons as had ben inculcated from time to time, & here recollected, & in the conclusion shewing his looking on the Protestant Religion, (& by name the Church of Eng:) to be without foundation, & consequently false & unsafe: When his Majestie had shewd him these Originals, he was pleasd to lend him the Copies of those two Papers, attested at the bottome in 4 or 5 lines, under his owne hand: These were the papers I saw & read: This nice & curious passage I thought fit to set downe; Though all the Arguments, and objections were altogether weake, & have a thousand times ben Answerd irreplicably by our Divines; though such as their Priests insinuate among their Proselytes, as if nothing were Catholique but the C. of Rome, no salvation out of that, no Reformation sufferable &c: botoming all their Errors on St. Peters Successors unerrable dictatorship; but proving nothing with any sort of Reason, or the taking notice of any Objection which could be made against it: Here was all taken for granted, & upon it a Resolution & preference it implied: I was heartily sorry to see all this; though it were no other, than what was long suspected, by his late Majesties too greate indifference, neglect & course of Life, that he had ben perverted, & for secular respects onely, professd to be of another beliefe; [See 6: Feb 1684/5] & thereby giving infinite advantage to our Adversaries, both the Court, & generaly the Youth, & greate persons of the nation becoming dissolute & highly prophane; God was incensed to make his Reigne very troublesome & improsperous, by Warrs, plagues, fires, losse of reputation by a universal neglect of the publique, for the love of a voluptuous & sensual life, which a vitious Court had brought into credit. I think of it with sorrow & pitty, when I consider of how good & debonaire a nature that unhappy prince was, what opportunities he had to have made himselfe the most renouned King, that ever swayd the British Scepter; had he ben firme to that Church, for which his Martyred & Bl: Father sufferd; & gratefull to Almighty God, who so miraculously Restord him, with so excellent a Religion had he endeavored to owne & propagate it, as he should, not onely for the good of his Kingdomes, but all the Reformed Churches in Christendome, now weakend, & neere utterly ruind, through our remissnesse, & suffering them to be supplanted, persecuted & destroyed; as in France, which we tooke no notice of: The Consequence of this time will shew, & I wish it may proceede no farther: The Emissaries & Instruments of the C. of R: will never rest, til they have crushd the Church of Eng: as knowing that alone able to cope with them: and that they can never answer her fairely, but lie aboundantly open to force of her Arguments, Antiquity, & purity of her doctrine: so that albeit it may move God (for the punishment of a Nation so unworthy) to eclipse againe the profession of her here; & darknesse & superstition prevaile; I am most confident the Doctrine of the Church of Eng: will never be extinguishd, but to remaine Visible, though not Eminent, to the consummation of the World: I have innumerable reasons that confirme me in this opinion, which I forbeare to mention here:"$X0*(H&a@("ԌIn the meane time, as to This discourse of his Majestie with Mr. Pepys, & those Papers; as I do exceedingly preferr his Majesties free & ingenuous profession, of what his owne Religion is, beyond all Concealements upon any politique accounts what so ever; so I think him of [a] most sincere, and honest nature, upon whose word, one may relie, & that he makes a Conscience of what he promises, to performe it: In this Confidence I hope, the Church of England may yet subsist; & when it shall please God, to open his Eyes, & turne his heart (for that is peculiarly in the Lords hands) to flourish also: In all events, whatever do become of the C. of Eng: It is certainely of all the Christian professions on the Earth, the most Primitive, Apostolical, & Excellent: I returned home this Evening. *** 8 To Lond: returnd that Evening: I had my picture drawn this Week: [by the famous Kneller:] *** 14 I went to Lond: about my Suite, & finishing my Lodgings at White-hall. 15 Being the Kings birth-day, was a solemn Ball at Court; And Musique of Instruments & Voices before the Ball: At the Musique I happen (by accident) to stand the very next to the Queene, & the King, who taked with me about Musick: 18 Dr. Good-man [at Whitehall:] preached on 2:Cor:4:18: The King was now building all that range from East to west by the Court & Garden to the streete, & making a new Chapel for the Queene, whose Lodgings this new building was: as also a new Council Chamber & offices next the South end of the Banqueting-house: *** 22 I accompanied my Lady Clarendon to her house at Swallowfield in Berkeshire, dining by the way at Mr. Grahamss Lodge at Bagshot: Where his Lady (my excellent & long acquaintance when maide of honour) entertaind us at a plentifull dinner: The house, new repaired, and capacious of a good family, stands in a Park: Hence we went to Swallow-fild the house is after the antient building of honourable gent: houses where they kept up the antient hospitality: But the Gardens & Waters as elegant as tis possible to make a flat, with art & Industrie and no meane Expenses, my Lady being so extraordinarily skilld in the flowry part: & the dilligence of my Lord in the planting: so that I have hardly seene a seate which shews more toakens of it, then what is here to be found, not onely in the delicious & rarest fruits of a Garden, but in those innumerable & plentifull furniture of the grounds about the seate of timber trees to the incredible ornament & benefit of the place:  There is one Ortchard of a 1000 Golden & other cider Pepins: Walks & groves of Elms, Limes, Oake: & other trees: & the Garden so beset with all manner of sweete shrubbs, as perfumes the aire marvelously: The distribution also of the Quarters, Walks, Parterre &c is excellent: The Nurseries, Kitchin-garden, full of the most desireable plants; two very noble Orangeries well furnishd; but above all, The Canale, & fishponds, the one fed with a white, the other with a black-running water, fed by swift & quick river: so well & plentifully stord with fish, that for Pike, Carp, Breame, & Tench; I had never seene any thing approching it: we had Carps & Pikes &c of size fit for the table of a Prince, every meale, & what added to the delight, the seeing hundreds taken in the drag, out of which the Cooke standing by, we pointed what we had most mind to, & had Carps every meale, that had ben worth at London  X'4twenty shill a piece: The Waters are all flagd about with Calamus arromaticus; of which my"'Y0*(H&a@*+" Lady has hung a Closset, that retaines the smell very perfectly: Also a certaine sweete willow & other exotics: There is to this a very fine bowling-greene; Meadow, pasture, Wood, in a word all that can render a Country seate delightfull: *** 28 I went to the R: Society, being the first meeting after our Summer recesse, & was very full: An Urn full of bones, was presented, for the repository, dug up in an high way, by the repairers of it: in a field in Camberwell in Surry: This Urn & cover was found intire among many others; believed to be truely Roman & antient: Sir Ri: Bulkeley, described to us a model of a Charriot he had invented, which it was not possible to overthrow, in whatsoever uneven way it was drawn: giving us a stupendious relation, of what it had performd in that kind; for Ease, expedition, & Safty: There was onely these inconveniences yet to be remedied; that it would not containe above one person; That it was ready to fire every 10 miles, & being placd & playing on no fewer than 10 rollers, made so prodigious noise, as was almost intollerable: These particulars the Virtuosi were desird to excogitate the remedies, to render the Engine of extraordinary Use: &c: 31 I dined at our greate Lord Chancellors, who usd me with greate respect: This was the late L: C. Justice Jeofries, who had ben newly the Western Circuite, to trie the Monmoth Conspirators; & had formerly don such severe Justice among the obnoxious in Westminster Hall &c for which his Majestie dignified him with creating him first a Baron, & now L. Chancellor: He had some yeares past, ben conversant at Deptford: is of an assurd & undaunted spirit, & has servd the Court Interest upon all the hardiest occasions: [of nature cruell & a slave of this Court.] I had now accomplishd the 65t yeare of my Age: Lord teach me to Number my daies, so as to employ their remainder to thy glory onely. Amen: ***  X40a November ă 3 I returned home: The French persecution of the Protestants, raging with uttmost barbarity, exceeding what the very heathens used: Innumerable persons of the greatest birth, & riches, leaving all their earthly substance & hardly escaping with their lives, dispersd thro all the Countries of Europe: The Fr: Tyrant, abrogating the Edicts of Nants &c in favour of them, & without any Cause on the suddaine, demolishing all their Churches, banishing, Imprisoning, sending to the Gallies all the Ministers: plundring the common people, & exposing them all sorts of barbarous usage, by souldiers sent to ruine & prey upon them; taking away their children; forcing people to the Masse, & then executing them as Relapsers: They burnt the libraries, pillagd their goods, eate up their filds & sustenance, banishd or sent to the Gallies the people, & seizd on their Estates: There had now ben numbred to passe through Geneva onely, from time to time by stealth onely (for all the usual passages were strictly guarded by sea & land) fourty thousand, towards Swisserland: In Holland, Denmark, & all about Germany, were dispersed some hundred thousands besids here in England, where though multitude of all degrees sought for shelter, & wellcome, as distressed Christians & Confessors, they found least encouragement; by a fatality of the times we were falln into, & the incharity & indifference of such, as should have embracd them: and I pray, it be not laied to our Charge: The famous Claude fled to Holland: Alex & severall more came to Lond: & persons of mighty estates came over who had forsaken all: But France was almost dispeopled, the bankers so broaken that the"%Z0*(H&a@})" Tyrants revenue exceedingly diminished: Manufacture ceased, & every body there save the Jesuites &c. abhorring what was don: nor the Papists themselves approving it; what the intention farther is time will shew, but doubtlesse portending some extraordinary revolution: I was now shewd the Harangue that the Bishop of Valentia on Rhone, made in the name of the Cleargie, celebrating the Fr: King (as if he were a God) for his persecuting the poore protestants; with this Expression in it: That as his Victories over Heresy was greater than all the Conquests of Alexander & Caesars &c: it was but what was wished in England: & that God seemd to raise the French King to this power & magnanimous action, that he might be in capacity to assist the doing of the same here: This paragraph is very bold & remarkable; severall reflecting on AB: Ushers Prophecy as now begun in France, & approching the orthodox in all other reformed Churches: &c: One thing was much taken notice of, That the Gazetts which were still constantly printed twice a weeke, & informing us what was don all Europ over &c: never all this time, spake one syllable of this wonderfull proceeding in France, nor was any Relation of it published by any, save what private letters & the persecuted fugitives brought: Whence this silence, I list not to conjecture, but it appeared very extraordinary in a Protestant Countrie, that we should know nothing of what Protestants suffered &c: whilst greate Collections were made for them in forraine places more hospitable & Christian to appearance. 5 It being an extraordinary wett morning, & I indisposed by a very greate rheume, I could not go to Church this day, to my greate sorrow, it being the first Gunpouder conspiracy Anniversary, that had ben kept now this 80 yeares, under a Prince of the Roman Religion: Bonfires forbidden &c: What dos this portend? *** 9 Began the Parliament; The King in his Speech requiring continuance of a standing force in stead of a Militia, & indemnity & dispensation to Popish Officers from the Test; Demands very unexpected & unpleasing to the Commons; He also requird a Supply of Revenue, which they granted; but returned no thanks to the King for his Speech til farther consideration: *** 20 Was the Parliament adjournd to ffeb: Severall both of Lords & Commons, excepting against some passage of his Majesties Speech, relating to the Test, & continuance of Popish Officers in Command: This was a greate surprize to a Parliament, which people believed would have complied in all things: Popish pamphlets & Pictures sold publiqly: no books or answers against them appearing &c: [till long after:] ***  X 4;b December ă  15 Dining at Mr. Pepyss Secretary of the Admiral, & still president of our Society: Dr. Slayer shewd us an Experiment of a wonderfull nature; pouring first a very cold liquor into a Matras, & superfusing on it another (to appearance) cold & cleare liquor also, it first produced a white clowd, then boiling, divers Corruscations & actual flames of fire mingled with the liquor, which being a little shaken together fixed divers sunns and starrs of real fire perfectly globular upon the walls of the Glasse to our greate astonishment, & which there stuck like so many Constellations burning most vehemently, & exceedingly resembling starrs & heavenly bodyes, & that for a long space: It seemd to exhibite a Theorie of the"'[0*(H&a@7+" eduction of light out of the Chos, & the fixing or gathering of the universal light, into luminous bodys: This matter of Phosphorus, was made out of human blood & Urine, elucidating the Vital flame or heate in Animal bodys: a very noble Experiment: *** 18 I dind at the greate entertainement his Majestie gave the Venetian Ambassadors Signors Zenno & Justiniani, accompanied with 10 more Noble Venetians of their most illustrious families Cornaro, Maccenigo &c, who came to Congratulate their Majesties coming to the Crowne &c: The dinner was one of the most magnificent & plentifull that I have ever seene, at 4 severall Tables with Music, Trumpets, Ketle-drums which sounded upon a whistle at every health: The banquet was 12 vast Chargers pild up so high, as those who sat one against another could hardly see one another, of these Sweetemeates which doublesse were some dayes piling up in that exquisite manner, the Ambassadors touched not, but leaving them to the Spectators who came in Curiosity to see the dinner, &c were exceedingly pleasd to see in what a moment of time, all that curious work was demolishd, & the Comfitures &c voided & table cleard: Thus his Majestie entertaind them 3 dayes, which (for the table onely) cost him 600 pounds as the Cleark of the Greene-Cloth Sir W: Boreman assurd me: Dinner ended, I saw their procession or Cavalcade to W:hall, innumerable Coaches attending: The 2 Ambassadors had 4. Coaches of their owne & 50 footemen, as I remember, besides other Equipage as splended as the occasion would permitt, the Court being still in mourning, Thence I went to the Audience which they had in the Queenes presence Chamber: The banqueting-house being full of goods & furniture til the Galleries on the Garden side, Council Chamber & new Chapell, were finishd, now in building: They went to their Audience in those plaine black Gownes, [& Caps] which they constantly weare in the Citty of Venice: I was invited to have accompanied the two Ambassadors in their Coach to supper that night, returning now to their owne Lodgings, as no longer at the Kings expense, but being weary, I excusd my selfe: *** 22 Our pattent for executing the Office of the Lord Privy-Seale, during the absence of the L: Lieutennant of Ireland, being this day sealed by the L: Chancellor: We went afterwards to St. Jamess, where the Court then was, upon occasion of the building at White-hall, where his Majestie deliverd The Seale to My L: Tiveat & my-selfe (the other Commissioner being not come) and then, gave us his hande to kisse: There was the 2 Venetian Ambassadors & a world of Company, amongst the rest, The first Popes Nuntio Signor that had ever ben in England since the Reformation; so wonderfully were things changd, to the universal jealosie &c: 24 We were all three Commissioners sworn on our knees by the Cleark of the Crowne before my Lord Chancellor, 3, severall Oathes, Allegeance, Supremacy, & the oath belonging to the L: Privy-Seale, which we onely tooke standing: After which the L. Chancellor invited us all to dinner; but it being Christmas Eve, we desird to be excusd; at 3 in the afternoone intending to Seale divers things which lay ready at the Office: So attended by three of the Clearks of the Signet, we met, & sealed; amongst other things, one was a Pardon to West, who being privy to the late Conspiricy, had reveald the Complices, to save his owne neck: There was also another pardon, & two Indenizations: & so agreeing to a fortnights vaccation, I returnd home to my house: "%\0*(H&a@p)"Ԍ*** 31 Recollecting the passages of the yeare past [I] made up Accompts, humbly besought Almighty God, to pardon those my sinns, which had provokd him to discomposse my sorrowfull family, that he would accept of our humiliation, & in his good time restore comforte to it: I also blesse God for all his undeserved mercys & preservations, beging the continuance of his grace & preservation: The winter had hitherto ben extraordinarily wett, & mild: