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This night was burnt to the Ground my Lord Montagues Palace in Bloombery; than which for Painting & furniture, there was nothing more glorious in England: This happend by the negligence of a servant, airing (as they call it) some of the goods by the fire, in a moist season; for indeede so wett & mild a Winter had scarce ben ever seene in mans memory: __jAt this Seale there also passed, the creation of Sir H: Walgrave to be a Lord: He had married one of the Kings natural Daughters, begotten on Mrs. Churchil: These two Seales, my Bro: Commissioners passd in the morning before I came to Towne, at which I was not at all displeasd; We likewise passd privy seales for 276000 pounds upon severall accounts, Pensions, Guards, Wardrobes, Privie purse &c, besids divers Pardons: & one more which I must not forget (& which by providence, I was not present at) one Mr. Lytcott, to be Secretarie to the Ambassador to Rome: we being three Commissioners [any] two were a Quorum. ***  XX4_ February ă __j3 A Seale: __j6: Being his Majesties day, on which he began his Reigne; By Order of Council, it was to be solemnizd with a particular Office, & sermon, which the Bis: of Ely preached at W:hall: on 11: Numbers: 12: a Court-Oration, upon the Regal Office &c: It was much wonderd at; that this day which was that of his late Majesties death, should be kept as festival, & not the day of the present Kings Coronation: It is said, that it had formerly ben the costome, though not til now, since the Reigne of K. James. 1. *** __j<20> Many bloody & notorious duels were fought about this time, The D: of Grafton killd Mr. Stanley, bro: to the E: of Shrewsbery, indeede upon an almost unsufferable provocation: It is hopd his Majestie will now at last, severely remedy this unchristian Custome: "'0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ***  X4ri March ă __j1 Came Sir Gilb: Gerrard to treate with me about his sons marying my Daughter Susanna; The father being obnoxious, & in some suspicion & displeasure of the King, I would receive no proposal, til his Majestie had given me leave, which he was pleasd to do: but after severall meetings, we brake off, upon his not being willing to secure any thing competant for my daughter Children: besides that I found his estate to be most of it in the Coale-pits as far as N.Castle, & leases from the Bishop of Durrham, who had power to make concurrent Leases with other difficulties, so as we did not proceede to any conclusion: *** __j12 There was a doquett to be sealed importing a Lease of 21 yeares to one Hall, who styled himselfe his Majesties Printer (& lately turnd Papist) for the printing Missals, Offices, Lives of Saints, Portals, Primers &c: books expressly forbidden to be printed or sold, &c by divers Acts of Parliament: which I refused to put the seale to, & made my exceptions against, so it was laied by: *** __j15 Came my Lady Sunderland to house-warming to my new Lodgings in Whitehall: __j16 I was at the [review of the] Army about Lond: which was in Hide-parke, the whole consisting of about 6000: horse & foote in excellent order &c: his Majestie & an infinity of people present: __j17 I went to my house in the Country, refusing to be present at what was to passe the next day at the Privy-Seale: *** __j28 ... I supped this night at my L: Tressurers: discoursed with my Lady Tennet, who pretended to some more than ordinary talent of knowledge &c: __j29 I returnd home: __jThe Duke of Northumberland (a Natural sonn of the late King, by the Dutchesse of Cleaveland, an impudent woman) marrying very meanely, with the help of his bro: Grafton, attempted to spirit away his Wife &c: __jA Briefe was read in all the Churches for Relieving the French Protestants who came here for protection, from the unheard-off, cruelties of their King: ***  X@4n April ă __j15 I went to Mr. Cooks funerall, a Merchant my kind Neighbour at Greenewich where our Viccar preachd the sermon: 2. Tim: 4:- 6.7.8: proper on the Occasion: Little Fr:Godolphin was now sick of the small pox, I pray God be gracious to that precious Chld: __jThe Arch-Bish: of Yorke now died of the small-pox, aged 62 yeares, a Corpulent man; My special loving Friend, & whilst our Bish: of Rochester (from whence he was translated) my excellent Neighbour, an unexpressible losse to the whole Church, & that Province especialy, he"$0*(H&a@(" being a learned, Wise, stoute, and most worthy prelate; so as I looke on this as a greate stroke to the poore Church of England now in this defecting period: __j18 Our Viccar on his former Text & most of it repetition: __jAfternoone I went to Camberwell to visite Dr. Par: but sate so inconveniently at Church, that I could very hardly heare his Text, which was 5.Heb:9: After sermon I went to the Doctors house, where he shewd me The life and Letters of the late learned Primate of Armagh, Usher, and among them that letter of Bish: Bramhals to the Primate, giving notice of the popish practices to pervert this nation, by sending an hundred priests &c into England, who were to conforme themselves to all Sectaries, and Conditions for the more easily dispersing their doctrine amongst us: This Letter was the cause of the whole Impressions being seizd on, upon pretence, that it was a political or historical account, of things, not relating to Theologie, though it had ben licencd by the Bish: &c: which plainely shewed what an Interest the Popish now had, that a Protestant Booke, containing the life, & letters of so eminent a man was not to be publishd. There were also many letters to & from most of the learned persons his correspondents in Europ: but The Booke will, (I doubt not) struggle through this unjust impediment. __j20 To Lond: a seale - & to see little Godolphin now, I blesse God, in an hope full way of Escape: Severall Judges put out, & new complying ones put in. __j24 I returned home, found my Coach-man dangerously ill of vomiting greate quantities of blood: ***  X04q May ă __j5 To Lond: There being a Seale, it was feared we should be required to passe a Doquett, Dispensing with Dr. Obadia Walker & 4 more, wheroff one an Apostate Curate at Putney, the other Master of University Coll: Ox: to hold their Masterships, fellowships & Cures, & keepe pub: schooles & enjoy all former emoluments &c. notwithstanding they no more frequented, or used the pub: formes of Prayers, or Communion with the Church of England, or tooke the Test, & oathes of Allegeance & Supremacy, contrary to 20 Acts of Parliaments &c: which Dispensation being likewise repugnant to his Majesties owne gracious declaration at the begining of his Reigne, gave umbrage (as well it might) to every good Protestant: nor could we safely have passed it under the Privy-Seale: wherefore it was don by Immediate warrant, signd by Mr. Solicitor &c at which I was not a little glad: This Walker was a learned person, of a munkish life, to whose Tuition I had more than 30 yeares since, recommended the sonns of my worthy friend Mr. Hyldiard of Horsley in Surry: believing him to be far from what he proved, an hypocritical concealed papist, by which he perverted the Eldest son of Mr. Hyldyard, Sir Ed. Haless eld: son & severall more [&] to the greate disturbance of the whole nation, as well as the University, as by his now publique defection appeared: All engines being now at worke to bring in popery amaine, which God in mercy prevent: __jThis day was burnt, in the old Exchange, by the publique Hang-man, a booke (supposed to be written by the famous Monsieur Claude) relating the horrid massacres & barbarous proceedings of the Fr:King against his Protestant subjects, without any refutation, that might convince it of any thing false: so mighty a power & ascendant here, had the French Ambassador: doubtlesse in greate Indignation at the pious & truly generous Charity of all the Nation, for the reliefe of those miserable sufferers, who came over for shelter: __jAbout this time also, The Duke of Savoy, instigated by the Fr:King to exterpate the Protestants of Piemont, slew many thousands of those innocent people, so as there seemed to be a universal designe to destroy all that would not Masse it, thro out Europ, as they had  XH&4power, quod avertat D.O.M."H&0*(H&a@Z*"Ԍ__jI procurd of my L.president of the Council, the nomination of a son of Mrs. Cock, a Widdow (formerly living plentifully, now falln to want) to be chosen into the Charter-house Schoole, which would be a competent subsistence for him: __j7 I returnd home: __j8 Died my sick Coachman of his feavor, to my greate griefe, being a very honest, faithfull servant: I beseech the Lord, to takeoff his afflicting hand, in his good time. __j9 ... The Duke of Savoy, instigated by the French , put to the sword many of his protestant subjects: No faith in Princes. __j12 To Lond: Memorand, I refusd to put the P: Seale to Dr. Walker licence for the printing & publishing divers Popish Books &c: of which I complaind both to my L: of Canterbury (whom I went to advise with, which was in the Council-chamber) and to my Lord Treasurer that evening at his lodging: My Lord of Cantorburies advise was that I should follow my owne Conscience therein; my Tressurer, that if in Conscience I could dispence with it; for any hazard, he believed there was none: Notwithstanding which I persisted not to do it: *** __j16 A stranger on: 2: Zeph: 1.2.3. Afternoone, on: 2.Tit:11.12 &c: both practical sermons exhorting to Repentance upon prospect of the ruines threatning the Church, & drawing on for our prodigious Ingratitude, & doubtlesse Never was England so perverted, through an almost universal face of prophanesse, perjury, luxurie, unjustice, violence, hypocrisie, Atheisme, & dissolution: A kingdome & a people so obliged to God, for its long prosperity, both in Church & state: so signaly delivered, and preserved: & now threatnd to be destroyed, by our owne folly & wickednesse: How strangely is this nation fallen from its antient zeale & Integritie! = unhappy, unthankfull people! ***  X4o June ă __j2 To Lond: passing divers Pardons & other doquetts: __jSuch stormes, & foule weather hardly ever know at this season: The Camp now on Hounslo-Heath forcd for sicknesse and other Inconveniences of Weather to retire to quarters: *** __j9 To Lond: a Seale, most pardons, & discharges, of Knight Baronets fees; which having ben passd over for so many yeares, did greately dissoblige several families who had servd his Majestie. - The Camp now at Brainford [Hounslow] after exceeding & stormy weather, now as excessively hott; many grew sick: greate feasting there, especialy in my L:Dunbarton quarters: many jealosies & discourse what the meaning of this incampment of an army should be: - L:Terconell gon to Ireland with greate powers & commissions - giving as much cause of talke as the other: especialy 19 new Pr:Councelors being now made & Judges, among which but three protestants: & Terconell made [L.] Generall: New-Judges also here, among which Milton a papist, & bro: to the Milton who wrot for the Regicides, who presumd to take his place, without passing the Test: - Scotland, refuse to grant Liberty of Masse to the Papists in Scotland: - The French persecution more inhumane than ever &c: The Protestants in Savoy, successfully resist the French Dragoons, perfidiously murdering them. - The booke written by Monsieur Claude to informe the world of the cruel persecution by France: Translated here burnt by the hangman, so greate was the Interest of the Fr: Ambassador, as was said: It seemd to relate"%0*(H&a@})" onely matter of fact, very modestly: & was thought a severe treatement; his Majestie having both given protection, & reliefe to the Refugies: It was thought hard, that the people should not know for what & to whom they gave so bountifully. - The Kings chiefe physitian in Scotland, Apostasizing from the protestant Religion, dos of his owne accord publique Recantation at Edenbrugh. -  X4__j11 I went to see Midletons - receptacle of Waters at the New River1: & the new Spa wells neere it. *** __j27 ... I had this day ben married 39 yeares: Blessed be God for all his mercys. ***  X4q July ă __j12 I went to visite Dr. Godolphin vice-Provost of Eton, & dined with him in the Colledge: among the Fellows: It is an admirable foundation: __j13 I returnd to Lond: Note, that standing by the Queene at Basset (Cards) I observd that she was exceedingly concernd for the losse of 80 pounds: her outward affability much changed to statelinesse & since she has ben exalted: __jThe season was very rainy, & inconvenient for the Camps: his Majestie cherefull: __j14 Was sealed at our Office the Constitution of certaine Commissioners to take upon them the full power of all Ecclesiastical Affaires, in as unlimited a manner, or rather greater, than the late High-Commission Court, abbrogated by Parliament: for it had not onely faculty to Inspect & Visite all Bishops diocesses, but to change what lawes & statutes they shold think fit to alter, among the Colledges, though founded by private men; to punish [suspend] fine &c give Oathes, call witnesses, but the maine drift was to zealous Preachers &c - In summ, it was the whole power of Viccar General, note the Consequence - The Commissioners were of the Cleargy, the A Bish of Cant: Bishops of Duresme, Rochester:- of the Temporal: L:Tressurer, Chancellor (who alone was ever to be of the quorum) Chiefe Justice, L:President: *** __j19 To Lond: to a Seale. Came this morning to visie me Sir W: Godolphin, L. Sylvius: Mrs. Boscawen; Dr. Tenison, with divers Ladys & Gent: After dinner, I went to Lond, to a Seale. &c.  XX41 A 38 mile long channel begun in 1609 and completed in 1613 by Sir Hugh Myddleton (c.15601631) to bring Hertfordshire water to London with a reservoir (receptacle) at New River Head, Clerkenwell. __jReturnd 21: Evening, having ben at the R:Society, where was a Wind Gun brought & tried, which first shot a bullet with a powder Charge, & then discharged 4 severall times with bullets, by the wind onely, every shoote at competent distance piercing a thick board: The Wind-Chamber was fastned to the barrill through the stock, with Valves to every so as they went off 4 successive times: I was a very curious piece, made at Amsterdam, not bigger than a pretty Birding piece: Note, that the drawing up of the Cock alone so much aire into a small receptacle at the britch of the piece out of the Chamber or magazine of aire underneath as sufficd for a charge, which was exploded by pulling downe the Cock by the Triccker: (a) the wind Chamber [of brasse], to scrue into the barrell thro the stock, at (b): note, that it was filld with an [aire] pumpe: ***"'0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ__j27 This day was bound Apprentice to me, & serve as a Gardner, Jonathan Mosse, to serve from 24 June 1686: to 24 June -92, being six yeares: ***  X 4bf August ă __j8 ... I went to visite the Marquis de Ruvignie now my Neighbour at Greenewich, he had til this cruel persecution in France (whence he was now retird) the Deputy of all the Protestants of that Kingdome in the Parliament of Paris, & severall times Ambassador in this & other Courts; a Person of greate Learning & experience: ***  X` 4Y September ă __j8. I went to Lond: to a Seale: The Bish: of Lond was on Monday suspended on pretence of not silencing Dr. Sharp of St. Giless, for something of a sermon, in which he zealously reproovd the Doctrine of the R.C. The Bish: having consulted the Civilians, who told him, he could not by any Law proceede against Dr. Sharp, without producing wittnesses, & impleading according to forme &c: But it was over-ruled by my L:Chancelor & the Bishop sentencd, without so much as being heard to any purpose: which was thought a very extraordinary way of proceeding, & universaly resented; & so much the rather, for that 2 Bish: Durham, & Rochester, sitting in the Commission, & giving their suffrages: The AB: of Cant: refusing to sit amongst them: What the issue of this will be, Time will shew: ***  X46b October ă __j14: His Majesties Birth day, I was at his Majesties rising in his BedChamber: Afterwards in the [Hide] Parke where his Majesties 4: Comp: of Guards were drawn up: Such horse & men as could not be braver: The Officers &c: wonderfully rich & gallant: They did not head their troops, but their next officers; the Colonels &c: being on Horse by the King, whilst they marched: The Ladys not lesse splendid at Court, where was a Ball that night; but small appearance of qualitie: This day all the shops both in Citty & suburbs shut up, and kept as solemnly as any holy-day: Bone-fires at night in Westminster &c: but forbidden in the Citty: *** __j22 To Lond: the next day with my Lady the Countesse of Sunderland, I went [23] to Cranburne, a Lodge & walke of my Lord Godolphins, in Windsor parke: there was one roome in the house, spared in the pullingdowne the old one, because the late Dutchesse of Yorke, was borne in it, the rest was build & added to it by Sir Geo: Carteret, Tressurer of the Navy: & since the whole purchased by my Lord Godolphin, who spake to me to go see it, and advise what trees were fit to be cut downe, to improve the dwelling, it being invironed with old rotten pollards, which corrupt the aire: It stands on a knowle, which though insensibly rising, gives it a prospect over the keepe of Windsore, which is about three miles north-east of it: The ground is clayy & moist, the water stark nought: The Park is pretty; The house tollerable & gardens convenient: after dinner we came back to Lond, having 2 Coaches both going and coming, of 6 horses a-piece, which we changed at Hounslow: "%0*(H&a@)"Ԍ***  X4Z November ă __j16 I went with part of my family to passe the melancholy winter in Lond: at my sonns house in Arundel Buildings: *** __j26 I dined at my L.Chancelors, where being 3 other Serjants at Law, after dinner being cherefull & free, they told their severall stories, how long they had detained their clients in tedious processes, by their tricks, as [if] so many highway thieves should have met & discovered the severall purses they had taken: This they made but a jeast of: but God is not mocked: ***  X 4[ December ă __j16 I carried the Countesse of Sunderland to see the rarities of one Mr. Charleton at the Middle Temple, who shewed us such a Collection of Miniatures, Drawings, Shells, Insects, Medailes, & natural things, Animals whereoff divers were kept in glasses of Sp: of wine, I think an hundred, besids, Minerals, precious stones, vessels & curiosities in Amber, Achat, chrystal &c: as I had never in all my Travells abroad seene any either of private Gent: or Princes exceede it; all being very perfect & rare in their kind, especaly his booke of Birds, Fish: flowers, shells &c drawn & miniatured to the life, he told us that one book stood him in 300 pounds: it was painted by that excellent workeman whom the late Gastion duke of Orleans emploied: This Gent:s whole Collection (gathered by himselfe travelling most parte of Europe) is estimated at 8000 pounds: He seemd a Modest and obliging person: __jThis Evening I made a step to my house in the Country, where I stayed some dayes: ***  b4m 1687 ă  X840d January ă ***  XX4__j5 The French K. now sayd to be healed or rather patchd up of the fistula in Ano1, for which he had ben severall times cut: &c: The persecution still raging: __jI was to heare the Musique of the Italians in the new Chapel, now first of all opned at Whitehall publiquely for the Popish Service: Nothing can be finer than the magnificent Marble work & Architecture at the End, where are 4 statues representing st. Joh: st. Petre, st. Paule, & the Church, statues in white marble, the worke of Mr. Gibbons, with all the carving & Pillars of exquisite art & greate cost: The history or altar piece is the Salutation, The Volto, in fresca, the Asumption of the blessed Virgin according to their Traditions with our B:Saviour, & a world of figures, painted by Verio. The thrones where the K. & Q: sits is very glorious in a Closset above just opposite to the Altar: Here we saw the Bishop in his Miter, & rich Copes, with 6 or 7: Jesuits & others in Rich Copes richly habited, often taking off, & putting on the Bishops Miter, who sate in a Chaire with Armes pontificaly, was adored, & censed by 3 Jesuits in their Copes, then he went to the Altar & made divers Cringes there, censing the Images, & glorious Tabernacle placed upon the Altar, & now & then changing place; The Crosier (which was of silver) put into his hand, with a world of mysterious Ceremony the Musique plaing & singing: & so I came away: not believing I should ever have lived to see such things in the K."'0*(H&a@x+" of Englands palace, after it had pleasd God to inlighten this nation; but our greate sinn, has (for the present) Eclipsd the Blessing, which I hope he will in mercy & his good time restore to its purity. This was on the 29 of December: __jLittle appearance of any Winter as yet: *** __j17 ... Greate expectations of severall greatemens declaring themselves Papists: and L:Tyrconell gon to succeede my Lord Lieutennant in Ireland, to the astonishment of all sober men, & to the evident ruine of the Protestants in that Kingdome, as well as of its greate Improvement: Much discourse that all the WhitestaffOfficers and others should be dismissed for adhering to their Religion: Popish Justices of Peace established in all Counties of the meanest of the people: Judges ignorant of the Law, and perverting it: so furiously does the Jesuite drive, & even compell Princes to violent courses, & distruction of an excellent Government both in Church & State: God of his infinite mercy open our Eyes, & turne our hearts, Establish his Truth, with peace: the L: Jesus Defend his little flock, & preserve this threatned church & Nation. *** __j30 ... I heard the famous Cifeccio (Eunuch) sing, in the new popish chapell this afternoone, which was indeede very rare, & with greate skill: He came over from Rome, esteemed one of the best voices in Italy, much crowding, little devotion: ***  X41 Rectal ulcer.  XP4ri March ă __j2 ... Came out now a Proclamation for Universall liberty of Conscience in Scotland and dispensation from all Tests & Lawes to the Contrary; as also capacitating Papists to be chosen  Xp4into all Offices of Trust: &c. The Mysterie operats. *** __j10 His Majestie sent to the Commissioners of the PrivySeale this morning into his bedchamber, & told us that [tho] he had thought fit to dispose of the Seale, into a single hand, yet he would [so] provide for us, as it should appeare how well he accepted of our faithfull & loyal service, with many gracious expressions to this effect: upon which we delivered the Seales into his Majesties hands It was by all the world both hoped & expected his Majestie would have restord it to my Lord Clarendon againe; but they were astonishd to see it given to my L. Arundel of Wardour, a zealous Rom: Catholique: & indeede it was very hard, and looked very unkindly, his Majestie (as my L:Clarendon protested to me, going to visite him & long discoursing with him about the affaires of Ireland) finding not the least failor of duty in him during all his government of that Kingdome: so as his recalling, plainely appeared to be from the stronger Influence of the Papists, who now got all the preferments: __jMost of the greate officers both in Court, [& Country] Lords & others, dismissed, who would not promise his Majestie their consent to repealing the Test, & penal statutes against the Romish recusants: There was to this end most of the Parliament men, spoken to in his Majesties Closset, & such as refused, if in any place, or office of Trust, Civil, or military, put out of their"%0*(H&a@)" Employments: This was a time of greate trial: Hardly one of them assenting, which put the Popish Interest much backward: The English Cleargy, every where very boldly preaching against their Superstition & errors, and wonderfully followd by the people, not one considerable proselyte being made in all this time. The party so exceedingly put to the worst by the preaching & writing of the Protestants, in many excellent Treatises, evincing the doctrine & discipline of the Reformed Religion, to the manifest disadvantage of their Adversarys: & to which did not a little contribute [13] the Sermon preached now at Whall before the Princesse of Denmark, & an innumerable crowde of people, & at least 30 of the greatest nobility, by Dr. Ken:Bish: of Bath & Wells, upon 8:John:46 (the Gospel of the day) all along that whole discourse describing the blasphemies, perfidie, wresting of Scriptures, preference of Traditions before it, spirit of persecution, superstition, Legends & fables, of the Scribes & pharisees; so as all the Auditory understood his meaning of paralleling them with the Romish Priests, & their new Trent Religion: Exhorting the people to adhere to the WrittenWord, & to persevere in the Faith tought in the Church of England, whose doctrine for Catholique & soundnesse, he preferrd to all the Communites & Churches of Christians in the wholeworld; & concluding with a kind of prophesy, that whatsoever it sufferd, it should after a short trial Emerge to the confusion of her Adversaries, & the glory of God: __jI went this Evening to see the order of the Boys & children at Christs hospital, there was neere 800 of them, Boys & Girles: so decently clad, cleanely lodged, so wholesomly fed, so admirably taught, some the Mathematics, Especialy the 40 of the late Kings foundation; that I was plainly astonished to see the progresse some little youths of 13 & 14 yeares of age, had made: I saw them at supper, visited their dormitories, admired the order, Oeconomie, & excellent government of this most charitable seminary: The rest, some are tought for the Universitie, others designed for seamen, all for Trades & Callings: The Girles instructed in all such worke as became their Sex, as might fit them to make good Wives, Mistresses, & a blessing to their generation: They sung a Psalme before they sat downe to supper in the greate hall, to an Organ which played all the time, & sung with that cherefull harmony, as seemd to me a vision of heavenly Angels: & I came from the place with infinite Satisfaction, having never in my life seene a more noble, pious, & admirable Charity: All these consisting of Orphans onely: The foundation (which has also had & still has many Benefactors) was of that pious Prince, K. Edward the 6: whose picture, (held to be an original of Holbeins) is in the Court, where the Governors meete to consult of the affairs of the Hospital, & his state in Whitemarble stands in a Nich of the Wall below, as you go to the Church which is a modern noble & ample fabric. __j16 I made a step home, 10th Saw the trial of those devlish murdering mischiefedoing engines Bombs, shot out of the Morter piece on blackheath: The distance that they are cast, the destruction they make where ever they fall is most prodigious: *** __j25 At St. Martines Dr. Tenison (Goodfriday) on: 1: Pet: 2. 24. A most pathetical discourse; he drew teares from many Eyes: The H:Sacrament followd, which I participated after a very solemn preparation & to my extraordinary Comfort: The Lord make me mindfull & thankfull: __jThere came in a man (whilst we were at divine service) with his sword drawn to neere the middle of the Church, with severall others in that posture; which in this jealous time, put the Congregation into a wonderfull Confusion; but it appeard to be one who fled into it, for Sanctuary, being pursued by Baylifs &c: ***  X'4n April ă"' 0*(H&a@*+"Ԍ__j9 After 5 moneths Absence, of my Family, wintering at my Sons in Lond: we all returned home, (I thank God) in health: for which the Lord be blessed: __j10 ... There having the last weeke ben issud forth a dispensation from all Obligations & Tests, by which dissenters & Papists especialy, had publique liberty of exercising their severall ways of Worship, without incurring the penalty of the many Laws, & Acts of Parliament to the Contrary ever since the Reformation; & this purely obtained by the Papists, thinking thereby to ruine the C. of England, which now was the onely Church, which so admirably & strenuously opposd their Superstition; There was a wonderfull concourse at the Dissenters meeting house in this parish, and the ParishChurch left exceeding thinn: What this will end in, God Almighty onely knows, but lookes like confusion, which I pray God avert: *** __j19 I heard the famous Singer the Eunuch Cifacca, esteemed the best in Europe & indeede his holding out & delicatenesse in extending & loosing a note with that incomparable softnesse, & sweetenesse was admirable: For the rest, I found him a meere wanton, effeminate child; very Coy, & prowdly conceited to my apprehension: He touchd the Harpsichord to his Voice rarely well, & this was before a select number of some particular persons whom Mr. Pepys (Secretary of the Admiralty & a greate lover of Musick) invited to his house, where the meeting was, & this obtained by peculiar favour & much difficulty of the Singer, who much disdained to shew his talent to any but Princes: ***  X4q May ă __j12 I came downe with the Countesses of Bristol & Sunderland, whose husband being Lord President [& Secretary of state] was made knight of the Gartir, & prime favorite: The two Countesses &c: dined at my house: Memorandum: this day was such a storme of wind as had seldome happened in an age for the extreame violence of it, being as was judgd a kind of Hurocan: It also kept the floud out of the Thames that people went on foote over several places above bridge, the tide was so low. I returnd this evening with the Ladys: *** __j17: Lond: about my P: Seale &c: stayed all this weeke: An Earthquake in severall places of England about the time of the great storme 11th past: ***  X4o June ă __j2: I went to Lond: it having pleasd his Majestie to grant me a PrivySeale for 6000 pounds, for the discharging the Debt, I had ben so many years persecuted for. It being indeede for Mony drawne over by my F. in Law Sir R: Browne during his Residence in the Court of France, & so (with a much greater summ, due to Sir Richard from his Majestie & now this part of the Arrere payed) there remaining yet due to me (as Executor to Sir Richard) about 6500 more: But this determining a tedious & expensive Chancery suite, has ben so greate a mercy & providence to me (through the kindnesse & friendship of my L. Godolphin one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury), that I do accknowledge it, with all imaginable thanks to my gracious God: "% 0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** __j12 ... There was about this time brought into the Downes, a Vast treasure which after 45 yeares being sunk in a Spanish Galioon, which perishd somewhere neere Hispaniola [or Bhama Ilands] coming home; was now weighed up, by certaine Gentlemen & others, who were [at] the Charge of Divers &c: to the suddaine enriching of them, beyond all expectation: The Duke of Albemarles share came (tis believed) to 50000, & some private Gent: who adventured but 100 pounds & little more, to ten, 18000 pounds, & proportionably; [his Majesties tenth to 10000 pounds:] __jThe Camp was now againe pitchd at Hounslow, The Commanders profusely vying in the expense & magnificence of Tents: __j16 I went to Lond: thence to HamptonCourt to give his Majestie thanks for his late gracious favour, though it was the granting but what was a due debt to me, [18] & so returnd home: Whilst I was in the Councilchamber came in a formal person, with a large roll of Parchment in his hand, being an Addresse (as he said, for he introducd it with a Speech) of the people of Coventry, giving his Majestie their greate Acknowledgements for his granting a liberty of Conscience: He added, that this was not onely the Application of one party, but the unanimous Addresse of C. of England men, Presbyterians, Independents, & Anabaptists, to shew how extensive his Majesties Grace was, as taking all parties to his Indulgence & protection, had also taken a way all dissentions & animosites, which would not onely unite them in bonds of Christian Charity, but exceedingly incourage their future Industry to the Improvement of Trade in his Majesties dominions, & spreading of his glory through out the world, & that now he had given God his Empire, God would establish his, with Expressions of greate loyaltie & submission: & so gave the King the roll: which being returnd him againe, his Majestie caused him to reade: The Addresse was short, but much to the substance of the speech of their foreman: To whom the K. (pulling off his hatt,) sayed; That what he had don in giving liberty of Conscience, was, what ever his judgement ought to be don, & that as he would preserve them in their injoyment of it during his reigne; so he would indeavor so to settle it by Law, that it should never be alterd by his successors: After this he gave them his hand to kisse: It was reported the subscribers were above 1000: But this is not so remarkeable as an Addresse of the Weeke before (as I was assured by one present) of some of the Family of Love; His Majestie asked what their Worship consisted in, & howmany their party might consist of: They told him, their costome was to reade the Scriptures, and then to preach, but did not give any farther account, onely sayed, that for the rest, they were a sort of refined Quakers, but their number very small, not consisting (as they sayed) of above threescore in all, and those chiefly belonging to the Ile of Ely:... ***  X4bf August ă __j27 I went to Lond, to resigne a Mortgage of 1000 pounds to my Lord Sunderland, being mony lent him in my name, but belonging to my Lord Godolphin, as part of his late Wifes (my ever dearest friend) portion: & now by his Lordships desire lent to the , in my name againe, the product both of this and 2000 pounds more, for the maintenance of his sonn & heire Francis Godolphin &c: I returned this Evening: ***  X$4Y September ă "% 0*(H&a@)"Ԍ__j4 ... The Turkes beaten this summer by Emp: & Venetians exceedingly: persecution raging in France. Divers churches in France fired by lightning, Priests strucken, Consecrated hosts &c. burnt & destroyed, both at St. Malo, & Paris at the grand procession on C. Christi day. ***  X46b October ă __j6 I was Godfather to sir Jo: Chartins sonn (the greate French Traveller), with the Earle of Bath, and the Countess of Carlile: The Child was Christnd in Greenewich Church with much solemnitie, and it was named John, which was also my L: of Bathes name &c: we all dined at sir Johns in the Queenes house, where was the Marquisse of Ruvignie, Young Lord Carteret, Sir Jo: Fenwick, & other persons of qualitie: *** __j29 Was an Anabaptist very odd ignorant Mechanic, I thin a made Lord Mayor; The K: Q: Invited to feast at Guildhall, together with Dadi, the Popes Nuncio = strange turne of affaires, That these who scandalizd the Church of England, as favourers of Popery (the Dissenters) should publiqly invite an Emissary from Rome, one who represented the very person of their Antichrist! ***  X4Z November ă __j20 Our Lecturer on 27: Job: 56: &c: __jPomerid: the Curate on 10.Act:38: Sleep surprized me, having sate up very late, upon my daughter Susans, Indisposition &c: ***  Xp4[ December ă __j1 I went to severall of my friends, & returned home [2] The next day, leaving both my poore Wife & daughter very much Indisposed: __jThis season was Extraordinarily Wett & Tempestious. *** __j10 I went to Lond to see my Wife who was Indisposed with a rhume, & staying some while to take the physitians Advice: My Son was now returned out of Devon Shire, where he had ben upon a Commission, from the Lords of the Tressury, about a Concealement of Land: I dined with the Secretary of the Admiralty [upon a petition for Mr. Fowler:] & returned home late: *** __j20 I went with my Lord ChiefeJustice Herbert, to see his house at Walton on the Thames: It is a barren place, he had built, to a very ordinary house a very handsome Library, designing more building to it, than the place deserves in my opinion: He desired my advice about the laying out of his Gardens &c: next day, we went to Waybridge, to see som pictures of the"% 0*(H&a@)" Dutchesse of Norfolcks, especialy the statue, or Christo in Gremio, said to be of M:Angelos; but, there are reasons to think it rather a copy, from some proportion in both the figures ill taken: I was now exposed to sale: I came to Lond: the thursday after, having be exceedingly well treated by my L.C.Justice: and so __j22 Returnd to Deptford. __j25 Our Lecturer on 72. Psal: 6: The holy Sacrament followd of which I participated; the Lord make me thankfull: Pomerid: our Curate on Psal 119: 58: __j31 I went to Lond: __j[Post annum 1588, 1660, 1688. Annus mirabilis Tertius viz]  b4'm 1688 ă  X` 40d January ă *** \15 Was a solemn & particular office used at our, & all the Churche of London, & 10 miles about it, for thanksgiving to God for her Majesties being with child: ***  X4_ February ă \12 ... Wednesday before My Daughter Evelyn, going in the Coach to visite in the Citty, a Jolt (the doore being not fastshut) flung her quite out of the Coach upon her back, in such manner, as the hindwheles passed over both her Thighes a little above the knees: Yet it pleased God, besides the bruse of the Wheele upon her flesh, she had no other harme: We let her blood, anointed, & made her keepe bed 2 dayes, after which he was able to walke & soone after perfectly well: Through God Almightys greate mercy to an Excellent Wife & a most dutifull & discreete daughter in Law: \17 After above 12 Weekes Indisposition, we now returned home much recovered: \I now receivd the sad tidings of my Niepce Montagues death, who died at Woodcot the 15th: There had ben unkindnesses & Injuries don our family by my SisterinLaw, her mother, which we did not deserve; & it did not thrive to the purposes of those who instigated her, to cause her daghter to cutoff an Intaile clandestinely: But Gods will be don, she has seene the ill effect of it, & so let it passe: ***  X 4ri March ă \23 At whiteHall Dr. Sharp on 18: 27.28: I returned home. \The Bish: of Oxford, Parker who so lately published, his extravagant Treatise about Transubstantiation & for abbrogating the Test & penal Laws, died: esteemd a Violent, passionate haughty man, but being [yet] pressed to declare for the C. of Rome; he utterly refusd it: A remarkable end: \The Fr: Tyrant, now finding he could make no proselytes amongst those Protestants of quality & others whom he had caused to be shut up in Dungeos & confind to Nunneries & Monastries; gave them after so long Tryal a general releasement, & leave to go out of the Kingdom, but Utterly taking away their Estates, & their Children; so as greate numbers came daily into England & other places, where they were received & relieved with very Considerable Christian Charity: This providence and goodnesse of God to those who thus constantly held out; did so work upon those miserable poore soules, who to avoyd the persecution, signd their renuntiation, & to save their Estates, went to Masse; That reflecting on what they had don, grew"' 0*(H&a@x+" so afflicted in their Consciences, as not being longer able to support it; They Unanimously in infinite number thro all the french provinces; Acquaint the Magistrates & Lieutenants that being sorry for their Apostacy; They were resolved to returne to their old Religion, that they would go no more to Masse, but peaceably assemble where they could, to beg pardon & worship God, but so without weapons, as not to give the least umbrage of Rebellion or sedition, imploring their pitty & commisseration: And accordingly meeting so from time to time, The Dragoon Missioners, popish Officers & Priests, fall upon them, murder & put to death who ever they could lay hold on, who without the least resistance embrace death, torture & hanging, with singing & praying for their persecutors to the last breath; yet still continuing the former Assembly of themselves in desert places, suffering with incredible Constancy, that through Gods mercy they might obtaine pardon for this Lapse: Such Examples of Christian behaviour has not been seene, since the primitive Persecution, by the Heathen: & doublesse God will do some signall worke in the end, if we can with patience & christian resolution hold out, & depend on his Providence: *** \28 I went to Lond: in the Evening, the next morning with Sir Charles Littleton to Sheene an house & estate given him by my Lord Brounchar, one who was ever noted for an hard, vicious man, had severall Bastards; but for his worldly Craft, & skill in gaming &c: few exceeding him: Coming to die, he bequeathed all his Land, House, furnitur &c intirely to Sir Charles, to whom he had no manner of Relation, but an antient friendship, contracted at the famous siege of Colchester 40 yeares before: It is a pretty place, fine gardens and well planted, & given to one worthy of them, Sir Charles being an honest Gent, & souldier; & brother to Sir Hen: Littleton of Worster shire, whose greate Estate he is to Inheite, his Bro: being without Children: They are of the greate Lawyer of that name & give same Armes & motto: He is married to one Temple (formerly maide of Honor to the late Queene,) a beautifull Lady, & has many fine Children; so as none envy his good fortune. \After dinner (at his house) we went to see Sir William Temples, neere to it: The most remarkeable thing, is his Orangerie & Gardens; where the wall Fruitetrees are most exquisitely nailed & applied, far better than in my life I had ever noted: \There are many good Pictures, especialy of V. dykes, in both these houses, & some few statues & small busts in the later: \From hence we went to Kew, to Visite Sir Hen: Capels, whose Orangerie & Myrtetum, are most beautifull, & perfectly well kept: He was contriving very high palisados of reedes, to shade his Oranges in during the Summer, & painting those reedes in oyle: \We returnd to Lond: in the Evening: ***  Xx4n April ă \15 Easter day, at Deptford ... It was now a very dry, cold easterly windy, backward Spring: The Turkish Empire in greate intestine Confusion: The French persecution still raging, multituds of Protestants & many very Considerable greate & noble persons flying hither, produced a second general Contribution: The papists, (by Gods providence) as yet making small progresse amongst us. ***  X%4q May ă"%0*(H&a@})"Ԍ\13 ...The Hollanders did now alarme his Majestie with their fleete, so well prepard & out before we were in any readinesse, or had any considerable number to have encounterd them had there ben occasion, to the greate reproch of the nation, whilst being in profound peace, there was a mighty Land Army, which there was no neede of, & no force by Sea, where onely was the apprehension; [at present, but was doublesse kept & increased in order to bring in & Countenance Popery, the K beginning to discover his intention by many Instances, perverted by the Jesuites against his first seeming resolution to alter nothing in the Church Established, so as it appeared that there can be no relyance n Popish promises.] \17 I went to Lond, to meete my Bro: G. Evelyn about our mutual concerne in the will of my Bro: Richard, by which, my Niepce Montague, dying without issue, a considerable Estate ought to have returned to our Family, after the decease of her husband: but thro the fraude & unworthy dealing of her mother, (my sisterinLaw), the intaile had ben cut off, & a recovery passd & consequently the Estate given to her husband Montage, through the perswasion of my sister, contrary to the intent of her husband my brother, & that to a sonin law who had lived dissolutly & Scandalously with another woman, & his dishonesty made publiquely notorious: What should move my sister in Law, professing so greate love to the memory of her husband, to [cause my Niepce to] give away not onely this, but considerably more, to a son in law, who had no Issue, from all her husbands relations, was strangely spoken off, especialy to one who had so scandalously & so basely abused her daghter: \18 The King injoyning [the ministers] the Reading his declaration for giving liberty of Conscience (as it was styled) in all the Churches of England: This Evening six Bishops, Bath & Wells, Peterborow, Ely, Chichester, St. Asaph, & Bristol, (in the name of all the rest) came to his Majestie to petition him that he would not impose the reading of it to the severall Congregations under their diocesse: not that they were averse to the publishing of it, for want of due tendernesse towards dissenters, in relation to whom they should be willing to come to such a temper, as should be thought fit, when that matter might come to be considerd & settled in parliament & Convocation: But the declaration being founded upon such a dispencing power, as might at pleasure set aside all Lawes Ecclesiastical & Civil, it appeared to them Illegal, as doing so to the parliaments in 61 & 72; & that it was a point of such Consequence, as they could not so far make themselves parties to it, as the Reading of it in the Church in the time of divine service amounted to. \The King was so far incensed at this Addresse, that he with threatning expressions commanded them to obey him in reading of it at their perils, & so dismisd them: *** \25 I visited Dr. Tenison, Secretary Pepys, of the Admiralty, Mr. Boile, Coll: Philips and severall of my Friends, all the discourse now being about the Bishops refusing to reade [the injunction for the abbrogation of] the Test &c: It seemes the Injunction came so crudely from the Secretarys office, that it was neither sealed nor signd in forme, nor had any Lawyer ben consulted; so as the Bishops who tooke all imaginable advice, put the Court to greate difficulties how to proceede against them: Greate were the Consults, and a Proclamation expected all this day; but no thing don: The action of the Bishop universaly applauded, & reconciling many adverse parties, Papists onely excepted, who were now exceedingly perplexd, & violent courses every moment expected: Report was the Protestant Secular Lords & nobility would abett the Cleargy: God knows onely the event. \The Queene Dowager obstinately bent hitherto on her returne into Portugal, now on the suddaine, upon pretence of a greate debt owing her by his majesties, declares her resolution to stay:"H&0*(H&a@M*"Ԍ\Newes of the most prodigious Earthquake, that was almost ever heard of, subverting the Citty of Lima & Country in Peru, with the dreadfull Innundation following it: ***  X 4o June ă \8 This day were the ArchBishop of Canterbery together with the Bishops of Ely, Chichester, St. Asaph, Bristol, Peterborow & Bath & Wells, sent from the Privy Council, Prisoners to the Tower, for refusing to give baile for their appearance (upon their not reading the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience) because in giving baile, they had prejudiced their Peerage: Wonderfull was the concerne of the people for them, infinite crowds of people on their knees, beging their blessing & praying for them as they passed out of the Barge; along the Tower wharfe &c: \10 A young prince borne &c. [which will cost dispute.] \10 Dr. Bohune preached this TrinitySonday on 2. Rom:15: \About two a clock, we heard the Toure Ordnance discharge, & the Bells ringing; for the Birth of a Prince of Wales; This was very surprizing, it being universaly givenout, that her Majestie did not looke til the next moneth: *** \13 I went to the Tower to see the Bishops now there in Prison, for not complying with his Majesties commands to Cause his declaration to be read in their Diocesse; where I visited the A:Bish: B: of Ely, Asaph, & Bath & Wells: ***  XP4\15 The Bish: came from the Tower to Westminster upon their Habeas Corpus & after divers houres dispute before the Judges, by their Counsel, upon security to appeare friday fortnight, were dismissd: Their Counsel alledged false Imprisonment & abatement of their Committment for want of some words: Denyed the paper given privately to the K. to be a seditious libel or that it was ever published: but all was overruled: Wight, Alibon, Hollowell & Powell were the Judges: Finch, Sawyer, Pollixfen & Pemberton, their Counsel, who pleaded incomparably, [so as the Jury quitted them.] There was a lane of people from the Kings Bench to the waterside, upon their knees as the Bishops passed & repassed to beg their blessing: Bon fires made that night, & bells ringing, which was taken very ill at Court and an appearance of neere 60 Earles & Lords &c upon the bench in honor of the Bishops, & which did not a little comfort them; but indeede they were all along full of Courage & cherefull: \Note that they denyed to pay the Lieutennant of the Tower: (Hales who usd them very surlily) any Fees, denying any to be due: \I Introducd Sir Jo: Hoskins Master of the Chancery to my Lord President, who received him being in bed: &c: \Supped at the E: of Clarendons, where I found the Bishops of St. Asaph, and Norwich &c: ***  X`"4q July ă \8 ... In the meane time more viruntly did the popish priests, in their sermons against the C. of England, raging at the successe of the Bishops, as being otherwise no ways able to carry their Cause against their learned Adversaries confounding them by both disputes & writings:"%0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \12 I returnd home; The Camp now began at Hounslow, but their nation in high discontent: \The 2 Judges, who favourd the Cause of the Bish: had their writ of Ease: greate wroth meditating against the Bish: Cleargy & Church: \Coll: Titus, Sir H. Vane (son of him who was executed for his Treason) & some others of the Presbyt: & Indep: party, Sworn of the Privy Council, hoping thereby to divert that party, from going-over to the Bishops & C: of England, which now they began to do: as forseeing the designes of the papists to descend & take in their most hatefull of heretiques (as they at other time believed them) to effect their owne ends, which was now evidently, the utter extirpation of the C. of Eng: first, & then the rest would inevitably follow: *** \17 I went to Lond: with my Wife &c: & This night were the fire-works plaied, which were prepard for the Queenes up-sitting: We stood at Mr. Pepyss Secretary of the Admiralty to greate advantage for the sight, & indeede they were very fine, & had cost some thousands of pounds about the pyramids & statues &c: but were spent too soone, for so long a preparation: *** \29 ... My Wife was ataqud with a suddaine fit of fainting, at dinner, but without any sensible convulsion; which yet to prevent, she was immediately let blood, & I blesse God soone restored: ***  X4bf August ă \10 To Lond. Dind with Sir William Godolphin, returnd: [Dr. Tenison now told me there would suddainly be some greate thing discovered, which happened to be the P: of O: intended coming:] *** \[15] ... to Althorp in Northamptonshire, it being 70 miles, which in 2 Coaches one [of 4 horses] that me & my son up at white-hall & carried us to Dunstaple, where we arived & dined at noone, & another there of 6 horses, which carried us to Althorp 4 miles beyond N-hampton, by 7 a clocke that evening; both these Coaches laied for me alone, by that noble Countesse of Sutherland, who Invited me to her house at Althorp, where she entertaind me & my son with very extraordinary kindnesse, and conveyd us back againe to London in the very same noble manner, both going & coming, appointing a Dinner for us, at Dunstaple, as soone as we came to the Inn: I stayed with her Ladyship til the Thursday following. \18 Dr. Jessup the Minister of Althorp, who was my Lords Chaplaine, when Ambassador in France, preached on the shortest discourse I ever heard: but what was defective in the amplitude of his sermon, we found supplied in the largenesse, & convenience of the Parsonage house, which the Doctor (who had in spiritual advancements, at least 600 pounds per Annum) had newbuilt, fit for any person of quality to live in, with Gardens & all accommodations) according. \20 My Lady carried us to my Lord of Northamptons Seate, a very strong large house built of stone, not altogether modern: they were now inlarging the Gardens, in which was nothing extraordinary but the Yron gate, opening into the Parke, which is indeede very good worke, wrought in flowers, painted with blew & gilded; & there is a very noble Walke of Elmes"'0*(H&a@7+" towards the front of the house by the Bowling Greene: I was not in any roomes of the house besides a lobby looking into the Garden, where my Lord, and his new Countesse (Sir St: Foxes daughter, whom I had known from a very Child) entertained the Countesse of Sunderland & her daughter the Countesse of Arran, (newly married to the son of the Duke of Hamilton) with so little good grace, & so dully, that our Visite was very short, & so we returnd to Althorp: which is 12 miles distant: \The Earle of Sunderlands House, or rather palace at Althorp, is a noble uniforme pile, in forme of an built of brick & freestone, balustred, & a la moderne; The Hale is well, the Staircase incomparable, the roomes of State, Gallerys, Offices, & Furniture such as [may] become a greate Prince: It is situated in the midst of Gardens, exquisitely planted & kept, & all this in a parke walld with hewn stone; planted with rowes & walkes of Trees; Canales & fish ponds, stored with Game: & what is above all this, Governd by a Lady, that without any shew of solicitude; keepes every thing in such admirable order both within & without, from the Garret, to the Cellar; That I do not believe there is any in all this nation or any other, exceeds her: all is in such exact order, without ostentation, but substantialy greate & noble; The meanest servant lodged so neate & cleanely, The Services at several Tables, the good order & decenccy, in a word the intire Oeconomie perfectly becoming, a wise & noble person, & one whom for her distinguishing esteeme of me from a long & worthy friendship; I must ever honour & Celebrate: & wish, I do from my Soule; The Lord her Husband (whose parts & abilites are otherwise conspicuous) were as worthy of her, as by a fatal Apostacy, & Court ambition, as he has made himselfe unworthy: This is what she deplores, & renders her as much affliction, as a Lady of a greate Soule & much prudence is capable of: The Countesse of Bristol her mother, a grave & honorable Lady has the comfort of seing her daughter & Grand-children under the same Oeconomie, especialy, Mr. Charles Spencer, a Youth of extraordinary hopes, very learned for his age & ingenious, & under a Governor of Extraordinary worth: Happy were it, could as much be said, the Elder Bro: the Lord Spencer, who rambling about the world, dishonors both his name & family, adding sorrow to sorrow, to a Mother, who has taken all imaginable care of his Education: but vice more & more predominating, gives slender hopes of his reformation: He has another sister very Young, married to the Earle of Clancartie to a greate & faire Estate in Ireland, which [yet] gives no greate presage of worth; so universaly contaminated is the youth of this corrupt & abandoned age: But this is againe recompensd by my Lord Arran, a sober & worthy Gent: & who has Espoused the Lady Ann Spencer, a young lady of admirable accomplishments & vertue: \23d I left this noble place, & Conversation on the 23d, passing through Northampton, which having lately ben burnt & reedified, is now become a Towne, that for the beauty of the buildings especialy the Church, & Townehouse, may compare with the neatest in Italy itselfe: \24 Hearing my poore wife, had ben ataqud with her late Indisposition I hasted home this morning, & God be prased found her much amended. \Dr. Sprat: Bish of Rochester, writing a very honest & handsome letter to the Commissioners Ecclesiastical; excuses himselfe from sitting no longer amongst them, as by no meanes approving of their prosecution of the Cleargy who refusd to reade his Majesties declaration for liberty of Conscience, in prejudice of the Church of England &c: \The French Arme & threaten the Election of the Elect: of Colin: The Dutch make extraordinary preparations both at sea & land which (with the very small progresse popery makes amongst us) puts us to many difficulties: \The popish Irish Souldiers commit many murders & Insolences; The whole Nation dissaffected & in apprehensions: what the event will prove God onely knows:"#0*(H&a@'"Ԍ\After long trials of the Doctors, to bring up the little P: of Wales by hand (so-many of her Majesties Children having died Infants) not succeeding: A country Nurse (the wife of a Tile-maker) is taken to give it suck: ***  X4Y September ă \18 I went to Lond: where I found the Court in the uttmost consternation upon report of the Pr: of Oranges landing, which put White-hall into so panic a feare, that I could hardly believe it possible to find such a change: \Writs issued now in order to the Parliament, & a declaration to back the good order of Elections, with greate professions of maintaining the Ch: of England: but without giving any sort of satisfaction to people, who now began to shew their high discontent at several things in the Government: how this will end, God onely can tell: *** \30 ... The Court &c in [so] extraordinary consternation upon assurance of the Pr: of Oranges intention of Landing, as the Writs which were sent forth to choose Parliament men, were recalled &c: ***  Xh46b October ă \6: I went to Lond: [7] The next day being Sonday Dr. Tenison viccar of St. Martins, preached on 2: Tim: 3.16. shewing the Scripture to be our undoubted & onely Rule of Faith, & its perfection above all other Traditions & Writings, most excellently proved; after which the Communion was celebrated to neere 1000 devout people. This sermon chiefly occasioned by an impertinent Jesuite who in their Masse-house the Sunday before had disparaged the Scripture & railed at our Translation with extraordinary ignorance & impudence; which some present contradicting, they pulled him out of the Pulpit, & treated him very coursely, insomuch as it was like to create a very greate disturbance in the Citty: \Hourely dreate on expectation of the Pr: of Oranges Invasion still heightned to that degree, as his Majestie thought fit to recall the Writes of Summons of Parliament; to abbrogate the Commission for the dispencing power, [but retaining his owne right still to dispense with all Laws &] restore the ejected Fellows of Magdalen College Oxon: But in the meane time called over 5000 Irish, 4000 Scots; continue to remove protestants & put papists into Portsmouth & other places of Trust: & retaines the Jesuites about him, which gave no satisfaction to the nation, but increasing the universal discontent, brought people to so desperate a passe as with the uttmost expressions even passionately seeme to long for & desire the landing of that Prince, whom they looked on as their deliverer from popish Tyrannie, praying uncessantly for an Easterly Wind, which was said to be the onely remora of his expedition, with a numerous Army ready to make a descent; To such a strange temper & unheard of in any former age, was this poore nation reducd, & of which I was an Eye witnesse: The apprehension was (& with reason) that his Majesties Forces, would neither at land or sea oppose them with that viggour requisite to repell Invaders: \The late Imprisoned Bishops, were now called to reconcile matters, & the Jesuites hard at worke to foment confusions amongst the Protestants, by their usual tricks &c: [Leter sent the AB. of Cant informing from a good hand what was contriving by the Jesuits: &c:] \9 I returnd the 9th - A paper of what the Bishops advised his Majestie [was publishd] \A [forme of] prayer, the Bishops were injoyd to prepare [an office] against the feared Invasion. \A pardon published: Souldiers & Mariners daily pressed &c."'0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ\14 The Kings Birth-day, no Gunns from the Tower, as usualy: The sunn Eclipsd at its rising: This day signal for the Victory of William the Conqueror against Herold neere Battel in Sussex: The wind (which had hitherto ben West) all this day East, wonderfull expectation of the Dutch fleete. *** \<28> I dind with Sir W: Godolphin: [A Tumult in Lond on the rabble demolishing a popish Chapell set up in the Citty.] \29 My Lady Sunderland acquainted me at large his Majesties taking away the Seales from her husband, & of her being with the Queene to interceede for them: It is conceivd he grew remisse of late in pursuing the Interest of the Jesuitical Counsels, some reported one thing, some another; but there was doubtlesse some seacret betraied, which time may discover: \There was a Council now cald, to which were summond the A:Bish of Cant. &: Judges, Lord Major &c: Q:Dowager, all the Ladies & Lords, who were present at the Q:Consorts labour, upon oath to give testimonie of the Pr: of Waless birth, which was recorded, both at the Council board, & at the Chancery a day or two after: This procedure was censurd by some, as below his Majestie to condescend to, upon the talke of Idle people: Remarkable on this occasion, was the refusal of the A: Bish: Marq: Halifax, Earles of Clarendon & Notinghams refusing to sit at the Council Table in their places, amongst Papists, & their bold telling his Majestie that what ever was don whilst such sate amongst them was unlawfull, & incurrd pr%munire: if at least, it be true, what I heard: \I dind with my Lord Preston, now made Secretary of state in place of the E. of Sunderland: \Visited Mr. Boile, where came in Duke Hamilton & E. of Burlington: The Duke told us many particulars of Mary Q: of Scots, and her amours with the Italian favorite &c: \30. I dined with the Secretary of the Admiralty, visited Dr. Tenison: \31. My Birthday, being the 68 yeare of my age: = Blessed Lord, grant, that as I advance in yeare, so I may improve in Grace: Be thou my protector this following yeare, & preserve me & mine from these dangers and greate confusions, which threaten a sad revolution to this sinfull Nation: Defend thy Church, our holy Religion, & just Lawes, disposing his Majestie to harken to sober & healing Counsels, yet if it be thy blessed will we may still enjoy that happy Tranquility which hitherto thou hast continued to us. Amen: Amen: \I dind at my sonns:  X4Z November ă \1. Dined with my L: Preston againe, with other company, at Sir St: Foxes: \Continual alarmes of the Pr: of Oranges landing, but no certainty; reports of his greate losses of horse in the storme; but without any assurance. A Man was taken with divers papers & printed Manifests, & carried to Newgate after examination at the Cabinet-Council: There was likewise a declaration of the States, for satisfaction of all publique Ministers in their Dominions, the reason of their furnishing the Prince with their Vessels & Militia on this Expedition, which was delivered to all the Ambassadors & publique Ministers at the Hague except to the English & French: \There was in that of the Princes, an expression as if the Lords both Spiritual & Temporal &c had invited him over, with a deduction of the Causes of his enterprise: This made his Majestie Convene my L: of Cant: & the other Bishops now in Towne, to [give] them an account of what was in the Manifesto: & to enjoyne them to cleare themselves by publique writing of this disloyal charge."%0*(H&a@})"Ԍ\2 It was now certainly reported by some who saw the Pr: imbarke, and the fleete, That they sailed from Brill on Wednesday Morning, & that the Princesse of Orange was there, to take leave of her Husband, [3] & so I returned home. \4 ... Fresh reports of the Pr: being landed somewher about Portsmouth or Ile of Wight: whereas it was thought, it would have ben north ward: The Court in greate hurry - \5 Being the anniversary of the powder plot, our Viccar preachd on 76. Psal. 10. by divers Instances: shewing the disasters & punishments overtaking perfidious designes. \8 I went to Lond: heard the newes of the Princes of Oranges being landed at Torbay, with a fleete of neere 700 saile, so dreadfull a sight passing through the Channell with so favorable a Wind, as our Navy could by no meanes intercept or molest them: This put the King & Court into greate Consternation, now employed in forming an Army to incounter their farther progresse: for they were gotten already into Excester, & the season, & wayes very improper for his Majesties forces to march so greate a distance: \The A Bish of Cant, & some few of the other Bishops, & Lords in Lond. were sent for to White-hall, & required to set forth their abhorrency of this Invasion, They assured his Majestie they had never invited any of the Princes party or were in the least privy to this Invasion, & would be ready to shew all testimonies of their Loyalty &c: but as to a publique declaration, they being so few, desired that his majestie would call the rest of their brethren & peeres, that they might consult what was fit to do on this occasion, not thinking it convenient to publish any thing without them, & untill they had themselves seene the Princes Manifest, in which it was pretended he was invited in by the Lords Sp: & temporal: This did not please his Majestie: So they departed: There came now out a Declaration, prohibiting all people to see or reade the Princes Manifest; in which was at large set-forth the cause of his Expedition, as there had ben one before one from the States: These are the beginnings of Sorrows, unlesse God in his Mercy prevent it, by some happy reconciliation of all dissentions amongst us, which nothing in likelihood can Effect but a free Parliament, but which we cannot hope to see, whilst there are any forces on either side: I pray God protect, & direct the King for the best, & truest Interest of his People: [I saw his Majestie touch for the Evil, Piters the Jesuit & F. Warner officiating in the Banqueting house] \I dined at Dr. Godolphins, with Mrs Boscawen &c at her house warming in his prebends house near S. Paules: Lay at my sonns, & [9] returned home the next day. \11 ... My deare Wife fell very ill of the gravell &c in her kidnies this afternoone. God in mercy give her ease & comfort: \The Pr. of Orange increases every day in forces, several Lords go in to him; The King gos towards Salisbery with his Army; doubtfull of their standing by him, Lord Cornbery carrys some Regiments from him, marches to Honiton, the Princes head quarters; The Citty of Lond: in dissorder by the rabble &c who pulldowne the Nunery at St. Johns, newly bought of the Papists of my Lord Berkeley: The Queene [prepare to] to Portsmouth for safty: to attend the issue of this commotion, which has a dreadfull aspect: \18 ... It was now very hard frost: \The King gos to Salisbery to rendevouze the Army, and returning back to Lond: Lord De la Mare appears for the Pr: in Cheshire: The nobility meete in Yorkshire: The ABish & some Bishops, & such peeres as were in Lond: addresse to his Majestie to call a Parliament: The King invites all forraine nations to come over: The French take all the Palatinat, & alarme the Germans more than ever: *** \29 I went to the R: Society, we adjournd Election of Pr%sident til. 23. Aprill by reason of the publique commotions, yet dined together as of custome on this day: "'0*(H&a@*+"Ԍ X4[ December ă \2 ... Visited my L. Godolphin, then going with the Marquis of Halifax, & E: of Notingham as Commissioner to the Prince of Orange: He told me, they had little power: Plymoth declared for the Prince & L: Bath: Yorke, Hull, Bristoll, all the eminent nobility & persons of quality throout England declare for the Protestant Relgion & Laws, & go to meete the Prince; who every day sets forth new declarations &c: against the Papists: The Greate favorits at Court, priest & Jesuites, flie or abscond: Every thing (til now conceiled) flies abroad in publique print, & is Cryed about the streetes: Expectations of the Pr: coming to Oxon: Pr: of Wales & greate Treasure sent daily to Portsmouth, Earle of Dover Governor: Addresse from the Fleete not gratefull to his Majestie: The Popists in offices lay down their Commissions & flie: Universal consternation amongst them: it lookes like a Revolution: Herbert, beates a french fleete: \7 My son went towards Oxon: I returned home: \9 Our Lecturer on 122. Psal: 6: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: Lord Sunderland meditating flight, I writ to my Lady, advised an Apologie: \13 I went to Lond: [The rabble people demolish all Papists Chapells & severall popish Lords & Gent: house, especialy that of the Spanish Ambassador, which they pillaged & burnt his Library, &c:] \16 Dr. Tenison at St. Martins on: 8:Isay:11: \I dind at my L. Clarendons: The King flies to sea, [putts in at Feversham for ballast is rudely detained by the people: comes back to Whall.] \The Pr: of Orange now advancd to Windsor, is invited by the King to St. James, the messenger sent was the E. of Feversham the general of the forces: who going without Trumpet or passeport is detained prisoner by the Prince: The Prince accepts the Invitation, but requires his Majestie to retire to some distant place, that his owne Guards may be quartered about the palace & Citty: This is taken heinously, so the King gos away privately to Rochester: Is perswaded to come back: comes on the Sunday; Goes to masse & dines in publique, a Jesuite says grace: [I was present] That night a Council, [17] his Majestie refuses to assent to all proposals; gos away againe to Rochester: \18 The Pr: comes to St. James, fills Whall (the King taking barge to Gravesend at 12 a Clock) with Duth Guard: A Council of Peres meete about an expedient to call a parliament: Adjourne to the House of Lords: The Chancelor, E. of Peterbor, & divers Priests & other taken: E: of Sunderlands flies & divers others, Sir E: Hales, Walker & other taken & secured: All the world go to see the Prince at St. James where is a greate Court, there I saw him & severall of my Acquaintance that come over with him: He is very stately, serious & reserved: The Eng: souldiers &c. sent out of Towne to distant quarters: not well pleased: Divers reports & opinions, what all this will end in; Ambition & faction feared: \21 I visited L. Clarendon where was the Bishops of Ely & St. Asaph: we had much discourse of Afairs: I returned home: \23 Our Lecturer at Deptford: on: 1. Mark: 3: \24 The King passes into France, whither the queen & child wer gon a few days before. \25 Christmas day, our Lecturer on his former Text; The holy Communion followed, at which I received: \26 The Peeres & such Commons as were members of the Parliament at Oxford, being the last of Charles the first: meeting, desire the Pr: of Orange to take on him the Government, & dispose of the publique Revenue til a Convention of Lords & Commons should meete in full body, appointed by his Circulary Letters to the Shires & Borrowghs 22. Jan: \I had now quartered on me a Lieutenant Coll: & 8 horses:"$0*(H&a@("Ԍ\30 Our Lecturer on 122. Psal: 6: Pomerid: a Stranger on 6. Eccles: This day Prayers for the Prince of Wales were first left off in our Church pew & pulpet. \Greate preparations of all the Princes of Europ, against the French &c: the Emp: making peace with the Turke:  b 4's1689`!>#=(  =s1689m 1689 ă  X40d January ă *** \15 I went to visite my Lord Archbish of Cant: where I found the Bishops of St. Asaph, Ely, Bath & Wells, Peterborow & Chichester; The Earle of Alesbery & Clarendon, Sir Geo: Mackenzy Lord Advocate of Scotland, & then came in a Scotch Archbishop: &c. After prayers & dinner, were discoursed divers serious matters concerning the present state of the publique: & sorry I was to find, there was as yet no accord in the judgements of those who both of the Lords & Commons were to convene: Some would have the princesse made Queene without any more dispute, others were for a Regency, There was a Torie part (as then called so) who were for his Majestie againe upon Conditions, & there were Republicarians, who would make the Prince of Orange like a State-holder: The Romanists were also buisy among all these severall parties to bring them into Confusion: most for Ambition, or other Interest, few for Conscience and moderate resolutions: I found nothing of all this in this Assembly of Bishops, who were pleasd to admitt me into their Discourses: They were all for a Regency, thereby to salve their Oathes, & so all publique matters to proceede in his Majesties name, thereby to facilitate the calling of a Parliament according to the Laws in being; this was the result of this meeting: My Lord of Cant: gave me greate thanks for the advertisement I sent his Grace in October, & assurd me they tooke my counsel in that particular, & that it came very seasonable: \I found by the Lord Advocate of Scotland that the Bishops of Scotland, who were indeede very unworthy that Character & had don much mischiefe in that Church, were now coming about to the True Interest, more to save themselves in this conjuncture, which threatned the abolishing the whole Hierarchy in that Kingdome, than for Conscience: & therefore the Scotish Archbish: & Lord Advocate requested my L. of Cant: to use his best endeavors with the Prince, to maintaine the Church there in the same state as by Law at present settled: It now growing late: I after some private discourse, tooke my leave of his Grace, most of the Lords being gon: I beseech God of his infinite mercy to settle truth & peace amongst us againe: \It was now that the Triall of the Bishops was published in print: *** \23 I went to Lond, The greate Convention being assembled the day before, falling upon the greate Question about the Government, Resolved that K.Jam: 2d, having by the advise of Jesuites & other wicked persons, endeavored to subvert the Lawes of church & state, and Deserting the Kingdome [carrying away the Seales &c] without taking any care for the manegement of the Government, had by demise, abdicated himselfe, and wholy vacated his right: & They did therefore desire the Lords Concurrence to their Vote, to place the Crowne upon the next heires: The Prince of Orange for his life, then to the Princesse his wife, & if she died without Issue to the Princesse of Denmark, & she failing to the heires of the Pr: Excluding for ever all possibility of admitting any Ro: Cath: \27 Dr. Tenison preached at St.Martines, on 6: Gen: 5: I dind at the Admiralty, where was brought, a young Child not 12 yeares old, the sonn of one Dr. Clench, of the most prodigious maturity of memorie, & knowledge, for I cannot call it altogether memory, but [something more] extraordinary; Mr. Pepys & my selfe examining him not in any method, but [by] promiscuously"H&0*(H&a@*" questions, which required judgement & wonderfull discernement, to answere things so readily & pertinently: \There was not any thing in Chronologie, Historie, Geographie, The several systemes of Astronomers, Courses of the starrs, Longitudes, Latitudes, doctrine of the Sphears, Sourses & courses of Rivers, Creekes, harbors, Eminent Citties, staples, boundaries & bearings of Countries, not onely in Europe but any other part of the Earth, which he did not readily resolve & demonstrate his knowledge of, readily drawing out, with his pen any thing that he would describe: \He was able not onely to repeate the famous things which are left us in any of the Greeke or Roman histories, Monarchie, Repub, Warrs, Colonies, Exploits by sea & land; but readily, besides all the Sacred stories of the Old & New Test: the succession of all the Monarches, Babylonish, Persian, Gr: Roman, with all the lower Emperors, Popes, Heresiarches, & Councils; What they were cald about, what they determined, [&] in the Controversie of Easter, The Tenets of the Gnostics, Sabellius, Arius, Nestorius; The difference twixt St. Cyprian & Stephen about rebaptization; The Schismes, we leaped from that to other things totaly different: To Olympic yeares, & Synchronismes; we asked questions which could not be resolved without considerable meditation & judgement: nay, of some particulars of the Civil Lawes, of the Digest & Code: \He gave a stupendous account of both Natural, & Moral Philosophie, & even in Metaphysics: Having thus exhausted our selves, rather than this wonderfull Child, or Angel rather, for he was as beautifull & lovely in Countenance, as in knowledge; we concluded, with asking him, if in all he had read, or heard of, he had ever met with any thing which was like, this Expedition of the Pr: of Orange; with so small a force, to obtaine 3 greate , without any Contest: He after a little thought, told us, that he knew of nothing did more resemble it, Than the coming of Constantin the Greate out of Brittane, thro: France & Italy, so tedious a March, to meete Maxentius, whom he overthrew at ponte Milvij, with very little conflict, & at the very gates of Rome, which he entered & was received with Triumph, & obtained the Empire, not of 3 Kingdomes onely, but of all the then known World: He was perfect in the Latine Authors, spake french naturaly, & gave us a description of France, Italy, Savoy, Spaine, Antient & modernly divided; as also of the antient Greece, Sythia, & Northern Countries & Tracts, in a word, we left questioning farther with astonishment: \This the child did without any set or formal repetition; as one who had learned things without booke, but, as if he minded other things going about the roome, & toying with a parat there, &  X4as he was at dinner [(tanquam aliud agens as it were)] seeming to be full of play, of a lively & spiritfull temper, allways smiling, & exceedingly pleasant without the least levity, rudenesse or childishnesse: His father assurd us, he never imposed any thing to charge his memorie, by causing him to get things by heart, no, not the rules of Grammer; but his (who was a French-man) reading to him, in French first, & then in Latine: That he usualy plaied, amongst other boys 4 or 5 hours every day & that he was as earnest at play, as at his study: He was  X4perfect in Arithmetic, & now newly entered into the Greek: In sum [(Horesco referens)] I had, read of divers, forward & pr%coce, Youthes, & some I have known; but in my life, did never either heare or read of any like to this sweete Child, if it be lawfull to call him Child, who has more knowledge, than most men in the world: I counseled his father, not to set his heart too  X 4much upon this Jewell, Immodicis brevis est %tas, et rara senectus, as I my selfe learnd in my sad experience in my most deare child Richard many yeares since, who dying before he was six yeares old, was both in shape & Countenance, & pregnancy of learning, next to prodigie even in that tenderage, as I have given ample account in my pr%face to that Golden book of St. Chrysostome, which I published on that sad occasion &c: \28 The Votes of the House of Comm: being Carried up, by their chaireman Mr. Hamden, to the Lords, [29] I got a station by the Princes lodgings at the doore of the Lobby to the House, to"%0*(H&a@p)" heare much of the debate which held very long; The Lord Danby being in the chaire (for the Peres were resolved into a grand Committee of the whole house) after all had spoken, it comming to the question: It was carried out by 3 voices, againt a Regency, which 51 of 54 were for, aledging the danger of dethroning Kings, & scrupuling many passages & expressions of the Commons Votes; too long to set downe particularly, some were for sending to his Majestie with Conditions, others, that the K. could do no wrong, & that the maladministration was chargeable on his Ministers. There were not above 8 or 9 Bish: & but two against the Regency; The Arch Bishop was absent: & the Cleargie now began a new to change their note, both in pulpet & discourse, upon their old passive Obedience: so as people began to talke of the Bishops being cast out of the House: In short, things tended to dissatisfaction on both sides, add to this the morose temper of the Pr: of Orange, who shewed so little Countenance to the Noblemen & others, expecting a more gracious & cherefull reception, when they made their Court: The English Army likewise, not so in order, & firme to his Interest, nor so weakend, but that it might, give interruption: Ireland in a very ill posture, as well as Scotland; nothing yet towards any settlement: God of his infinite mercy, Compose these , that we may at last be a Nation & a church under some fixt and sober establishment: ***  X4_ February ă \6 The Kings Coronation day was ordred not to be observed, as hitherto it yearely had. \The Convention of L: & Comm: now declare the Pr: & princesse of Or: Q: & K of England, Fr: & Ireland (Scotland being an Independent Kingdome) The Pr & Princesse to enjoy it jointly during their lives, but the executive Authority to be vested in the Prince during life, though all proceedings to run in both names: & that it descend to the heires of both, & for want of such Issue to the Princesse Ann of Denmark, & in want of such to the heires of the body of the Pr: of Or: if he survive, & for defect, to devolved to the Parliament to choose as they think fit: These producd a Conference with the Lords, when also there was presented heads of such [new] laws as were to be enacted: & upon those Conditions they tis thought will be proclaimd: there was much contest about the Kings abdication, & whether he had vacated the Government: E. of Notingham & about 20 Lords & many Bishops, entred their protests &c, but the Concurrence was greater against them - The Princesse hourely Expected: Forces sending to Ireland, that Kdome being in greate danger, by the E. of Tyrconnells Armie, & expectations from France: which K. is buisy to invade Flanders, & encounter the German Princes comming now to their Assistance: so as this is likely to be one of the most remarkable summers for action, as has happed for many Ages: *** \22 I saw the new Queene & King, so proclaimd, the very next day of her coming to White-hall, Wednesday 13. Feb. with wonderfull acclamation & general reception, Bonfires, bells, Gunns &c: It was believed that they both, especialy the Princesse, would have shewed some (seeming) reluctancy at least, of assuming her Fathers Crowne & made some Apologie, testifying her regret, that he should by his misgovernment necessitat the Nation to so extraordinary a proceeding, which would have shewed very handsomly to the world, (and according to the Character give of her piety &c) & consonant to her husbands first Declaration, that there was no intention of Deposing the King, but of Succoring the Nation; But, nothing of all this appeared; she came into W-hall as to a Wedding, riant & jolly, so as seeming to be quite Transported: rose early on the next morning of her arival, and in her undresse (as reported) before her women were up; went about from roome to roome, to see the Convenience of White-hall: Lay in the same bed & appartment where the late Queene lay: & within a night or two, sate down to play at Basset, as the Q. her predecessor usd to do: smiled upon & talked to"H&0*(H&a@Z*" every body; so as no manner of change seemd in Court, since his Majesties last going away, save that infinite crowds of people thronged to see her, & that she went to her prayers: \This carriage was censured by many: she seemes to be of a good nature, & that takes nothing to heart whilst the Pr: her husband has a thoughtfull Countenance, is wonderfull serious & silent, seemes to treate all persons alike gravely: & to be very intent on affaires, both Holland, & Ireland & France calling for his care: Divers Bishops, & Noble men are not at all satisfied with this so suddain Assumption of the Crown, without any previous, sending & offering some Conditions to the absent King: or, upon his not returning & assenting to those Conditions within such a day: to have proclaimd him Regent &c. But the major part of both houses, prevailed to make them King & Q: immediately, and a Crowne was tempting &c - This was opposed & spoke against with such vehemency by my L. Clarendon (her owne Unkle) as putt him by all preferments, which must doubtless, been as greate, as could have ben given him: \My L: of Rochester his bro: overshot himselfe by the same carriage & stiffnesse, which, their friends thought, they might have well spared, when they saw how it was like to be over-ruled, & that it had ben sufficient to have declared their dissent with lesse passion, acquiescing in due time: The AB of Cant, & some of the rest, upon scrupule of Conscience, & to salve the Oathes they had taken, entred their protests, & hung off: Especially the Arch-Bishop, who had not all this while so much as appeared out of Lambeth: all which incurred the wonder of many, who observed with what zeale they contributed to the Princes Expedition, & all this while also, rejecting any proposals of sending againe the absented King: That they should now boggle & raise scrupuls, & such as created much division among people, greatly rejoicing the old Courtiers, & Papist especialy: \Another objection was the invalidity of what was don, by a Convention onely, & the as yet unabrogated Laws: which made them on the 22, make themselves a parliament, the new King passing the act with the Crowne on his head: This lawyers disputed; but necessity prevailed, the Government requiring a speedy settlement: And now innumerable were the Crowds who solicited for & expected Offices, most of the old ones turnd out: Two or 3. White Staves were disposed of some days before, as L: Steward to the E. of Devonshire, Tress: of the Household to L: Newport, L. Cham: to the K, to my L: of Dorset &c: but there were yet none in Offices of the Civil government, save Pr: Seale to the Marq: of Halifax: A Council of 30 was chosen, L. Danby Presedent: but neither Chancellor, Tressurer, Judges &c not yet declared, A greate seale not yet finished: Thus far went things when I returned home (having visited divers of my old acquaintance &c) which was [23] on the Saturday: ***  XX4ri March ă \8. Dr. Tillotson deane of Cant: an excellent discourse on 5. Matt: 44: exhorting to charity and forgiveness of Enemies; I suppose purposly, The new Parliament now being furiously about Impeaching those who were obnoxious: & as their custome has ever ben going on violently, without reserve or moderation: whilst wise men were of opinion that the most notorious Offenders being named & excepted, an Act of Amnesty were more seasonable, to paciffie the minds of men, in so generall a discontent of the nation, especialy of those who did not expect to see the Government assumd without any reguard to the absent King, or proving a spontaneous abdication, or that the Pr: of Wales was an Imposture, &c: 5 of the Bishops also still refusing to take the new Oath: In the interim to gratifie & sweeten the people, The Hearth Tax was remitted for ever: but what intended to supply it, besids present greate Taxes on land: is not named: The King abroad furnished with mony & officers by the French King going now for Ireland, Their wonderfull neglect of more timely preventing that from hence, and disturbances in Scotland,"%0*(H&a@})" gives men apprehension of greate difficulties before any settlement can be perfected here: [whilst] The Parliament dispose of the greate Offices amongst themselves: The Gr: Seale, Treasury, Admiralty put into commission, of many unexperiencd persons to gratifie the more: So as, by the present prospect of things (unlesse God Almighty graciously interpose, & give successe in Ireland, & settle Scotland) more Trouble seemes to threaten this nation, than could be expected: In the Interim, the new K. referrs all to the Parliament in the most popular manner imaginable: but is very slow in providing against all these menaces, besides finding difficulties in raising men to send abroad, The former army (who had never don any service hitherto, but received pay, and passed the summers in an idle scene of a Camp at Hounslow) unwilling to engage, & many of them dissaffected, & scarce to be trusted: *** \29 ... The new King, much blamed for neglecting Ireland, now like to be ruined by the L. Tyrconnel, & his popish party; too strong for the Protestants; wonderfull uncertainty where King James was, whether in France or Ireland: The Scotts seeme as yet to favor King William, rejecting KJames letter to them: yet declaring nothing positively: Souldiers in England, discontented: Parliament preparing the Coronation Oath: Presbyterians & Dissenters displeased at the vote to preserve the protestant Religion as established by Law; without mentioning what they were to have as to Indulgence: The ArchBishop of Cant, & the other 4: refusing to come to Parliament, it was deliberated whether they should incurr premunire: but this was thought fit to be left to fall, & connived at, for feare of the people, to wom these prelates were very deare, for their opposing poper: Court Offices, distributed among the Parliament men: no Considerable fleete as yet set forth: in summe: Things far from [the] settlement was expected by reason of the slothfull sickly temper of the new King: and unmindfullnesse of the Parliament, as to Ireland, which is like to prove a sad omission. The Confederats, beate the French out of the Palatinate, which they had most barbarously ruined: ***  X4n April ă \11 I saw the procession both to, & from the Abby Church of Westminster, with the greate feast in Westminster Hall &c: at the Coronation of the new K William & Q. Mary: That which was different from former Coronations, was, something altered in the Coronation Oath, concerning maintaining the Prot: Religion: &c: Dr. Burnet (now made L.B. of Sarum) preached on with infinite applause: The parliament men had Scaffolds & places which tooke up one whole side of the Hall: & when the K & Q. had dind. The Ceremonie of the Champion, & other services upon Tenures: The Parliament men were also feasted in the Exchequer Chamber: and had each of them a Medaile of Gold given them worth five & fourty shill: the K. & Q. effigies inclining to one another, on one side, the Reverse Jupiter throwing a bolt at Phaeton, the Word which was but dull seing they might have had out of the poet something as apposite The sculpture also very meane: Much of the splendor of the proceeding was abated, by the absence of divers who should have made it up: There being as yet 5 Bish: 4. Judges, (no more at present, it seemes [as yet] sworn) & severall noblemen & greate Ladys wanting: But indeede the Feast was magnificent: The next day, went the H of Commons & kissed their new Majesties hands in the Banqueting house: \12 I went the next day afternoone [with the B: of St. Asaph] to visite my L. of Canterbery at Lambeth, who had excused himselfe from officiating at the Coronation, (which the Bishop of Lond: performed assisted by the A.B: of Yorke) we had much private & free discourse with his Grace, concerning severall things, relating to the Church, there being now a Bill of Comprehension to be brought to the Commons from the Lords: I urgd that when they went"'0*(H&a@7+" about to reforme some particulars in the Liturgie, Church discipline, Canons &c: The Baptising in private Houses, without necessity, might be reformd: as likewise the Burying dead bodies so frequently in the Churches: The one proceeding merely from the pride of [the] Women, bringing that into Custome, which was onely indulged in case of iminent danger: & out of necessity, during the Rebellion and persecution of the Cleargy, in our late Civil Warres &c: The other from the Avarice of the Minister, who made in some opulent parishes, almost as much of permissions to bury in the chancels & churches, as of their livings, and were paid with considerable advantage & gifts, for baptising in Chambers: \To this the two Bishops, heartily assented: and promised their indeavors to get it reformed: utterly disliking both practice, as novel, & undecent: We discoursed likewise concerning the greate disturbance & prejudice it might cause should the new oath (now upon the anvile) be imposed upon any, save such as were in [new] office; without any retrospect to such as either had no office; or had ben long in office, who likely had some scrupules about taking a new othe, having already sworn fidelity to the Government, as established by Law: and this we all knew to be the case of my L. Arch Bishop & some other worthy persons, who were not so fully satisfied with the Conventions abdicating the late K James, To whom they had sworn alegiance &c: So I went back to Whit hall, & thence home: \K. James now certainly in Ireland; with the Marshall dAveaux, whom he made a Pr: Counselor, who immediatly caused the King to remove the protestant Counselor (some whereoff it seemes had continued to sit) telling him that his Master the K of France would never assist him, if he did not immediatly do it: by which tis apparent how this poore Prince is menagd by the French: \Scotland declare for K. William & Q: Mary, with the Reasons of their laying K James aside [not as Abdicating but forfaiting his right by maladministrat, the particulars mentioned] which being published, I repeate not: proceeding with much more caution & prudence than we did; who precipitated all things to the great reproch of the Nation, but all that was plainly menaged by some crafty, ill principled men: The new Pr: Council having a Republican Spirit, & manifestly undermining all future Succession of the Crown, and prosperity of the Church of England: which yet, I hope, they will not be able to accomplish so soone as they hope: though they get into all places of Trust and profit: *** \21 ... This was one of the most seasonable Springs, free from the usual sharp Eastern winds: that I have observd since the yeare 1660; at the Restauration of K.C.II: which was much such another: *** \26 ... There now came certaine newes of K: Jamess being not onely landed in Ireland, but that by surprizing London Derry, he was become absolute Master of all that Kingdome: to the greate shame of our new King & Assembly at Westminster, who had ben so often solicited to provide against it, by timely succors, & which so easily they might have don: This is a terrible beginning of more troubles, especialy should an Armie come thence into Scotland; People being so generaly dissafected here & every where else; so as scarse would sea, or Landmen serve without compulsion: \A new Oath was now fabricating, for all the Cleargy to take, of obedience to the present Government, in abrogation of the former Oathes of Alegeance: which it is forseene, many Bishops, & others of the Cleargy will not take, the penalty being the losse of their dignite &"%0*(H&a@p)" spiritual preferment: so as this is thought to have ben on by the Presbyters & Comm: welth party, who were now in much credite with our new Governors: God in mercy, send us help, & direct the Counsel to his glory, & good of his Church: ***  X4q May ă \5 ... Being indisposed in my health, I went not this afternoone from home: [19] nor was I in condition to go to church til Whitsonday, when, though very weake, I got thither, the Viccar preaching a sermon apposite for the Day: on 2: Act: 1.2.3.4.5. verses: The H:Sacrament followd of which I received: The Lord make me thankfull: \Matters publique went very ill in Ireland, Confusion & dissention amongst ourselves, stupidity, unconstancy, emulation, in the Governours, employing unskillfull in greatest offices: No person of publique spirit, & ability appearing &c: threaten us with a very sad prospect what may be the conclusion: without Gods Infinite mercy: A fight by Admiral Herbert with the French, imprudently setting on them in a Creeke as they were landing men &c in Ireland: by which we came off with greate slaughter, & little honor: so strangely negligent, & remisse in preparing a timely & sufficient fleete. The Sots Commissioners offer the Crowne &c to the new King, & Queene, upon Condition. [Act of Pole mony came forth sparing none:] ***  Xh4o June ă \6 I dind with the L.Bish: of St. Asaph. Monsieur Capellus, the Learned son of the most learned Ludovicus, presented to him his Fathers workes, not til now published: *** \16 returne to their obedience: \Our Fleete, not yet at sea, & thro some prodigious sloth, & mens minding onely their present Interest: The French riding master at Sea, taking many greate prises, to our wonderfull Reproch: No certaine newes from Ireland, various reports of Scotland, discontents at home:...The E. India Company like to be disolvd by the Parliament for many arbitrarie actions: \Oates acquitted of perjurie to all honest mens admiration. \20 Dined with me the Countesse of Bristoll & Sunderland, Sir W: Godolphin, Dr. Tenison & Mrs. Penelope Godolphin: Brought newes of a plot discovered, upon which divers were sent to Tower & secured: \Twas now also reported that Col: Kirke had gotten into Lond: Derry with supplied: [but this proved false.] ***  X 4q July ă  X!4\8 To Lond: [9] I sat for my Picture to Mr. Kneller1, for Mr. Pepys late Secretary of the Admiralty, holding my Sylva in my right hand: It was upon his long and earnest request; & is placd in his Library: nor did Kneller ever paint better & more masterly work: \11 I dind at my L: Clarendons, it being his Ladys Wedding day: when about 3 in the afternoone, so greate & unusual a storme of Thunder, raine and wind suddainly fell, as had not ben known in an age: many boates on the Thames were over whlmed, & such was the impetuosity, as carried up in the waves in pillars & spouts, most dreadfull to behold, rooting up Trees, ruining some houses, & was indeede no other than an Hurocan:"'0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ\The Co: of Sutherland told me, that it extended as far as Althorp, that very moment, which is about 70 miles from Lond: But I blesse Almighty God it did us no harme at Deptford, but at Greenewich it did much mischiefe: *** \16 I went to Hampton Court, about buisinesse, the Council being there; A greate appartment, & spacious Garden with fountaines, was beginning in the Parke, at the head of the Canale: I returnd to Lond that evening:  X41 Godfrey Kneller (16461723), Dutch, came to England 1675; knighted 1691, principal court painter of the period and of dignitaries. This portrait survives, having been bought by Es grandson from Ann Jackson, wife of Pepys nephew and heir John Jackson in 1724. A copy was presented to the Royal Society in 1707 by Mary Evelyn. E seems to have sat to Kneller in 1685 (see above p.331) but this painting is lost. \19 I returned home: The Marishall de Scomberge, went now Generall towards Ireland, to the reliefe of Lond:Derry: Our Fleete lie before Brest: The Confederates, now passing the Rhyne, beseege Bonn, and Maence to obtaine a passage into France: A greate Victory gotten by the Muscovite, taking & burning Procop: A new Rebell against the Turks, unkle to Yegen Bassha threatens the destruction of that Tyrannie: All Europe in armes against France; & hardly in memory of an Historie, so universal a face of Warr: The Convention (or Parliament as some called it) sitting, exempt the Duke of Hanover from the Succession to the Crowne, which they seeme to confine to the present new King, his Wife, & Princesse Ann of Denmark, who is so  X4monstrously sollen, that its doubted, her being thought with child, may proove a Tympane1 onely: so as the [unhappy] family of Steuarts, seemes to be extinguishing: and then what government is next, is likely to be set up, whether Regal & by Election, or otherwise, The Republicaries & Dissenters from the C. of England looking evidently that way: The Scots having now againe newly, voted downe Episcopacy there: Greate discontent still through the nation, at the slow proceedings of the King, & the incompetent Instruments & Officers he advances to the greatest & most necessary charges: *** \24 I went to Lond; sate at Mr. Knellers for my picture, dined at Mr. Pepys, returnd that evening: \25 Came Mr. Knellar, with two other painters to visite me: \27 My son, & both daughters went to Tunbridge to drink the waters: ***  Xx4bf August ă \11 Our Curate preached on 1.Cor:3.7, a very handsome discourse; The extreame heate of the Weather hindred me from Church in the Afternoone: ***  X(#4Y September ă \15 ... [Karric firgus surrendred] Lond derry after a wonderfull & brave holding out: Relieved."%0*(H&a@)"Ԍ***  X46b October ă \9 Came to visite us the [young] Marquis de Ruignie & one Monsieur le Coque a French Refugi/, who left greate Riches for his Religion, a very learned civill person: he married the sister of the Dutchesse de la Force &c. *** \31: My Birthday, being now 69 yeares old: Blessed Father who hast prolonged my years to this greate Age, & given me to see so greate & wonderfull Revolutions, preserved me amidst them, to this moment; accept I beseech thee the continuance of my Prayers & thankfull accknowledgements, and graunt to me the Grace to be working out my Salvation, & redeeme the Time, that thou mayst be glorified by me here, & my immortal Soule saved, when ever thou shall call for it, to perpetuate thy prayes to all eternity, in that heavenly Kingdome, where there is no more Changes, nor Vicissitudes, but rest & peace, & Joy & consummate felicity for ever: Grant this, = heavenly Father, for the sake of the L. Jesus, thyne onely Sonn & our Saviour: Amen:  X41 A swelling or tumour. ***  X04Z November ă \5 Bish: of St. Asaph Lord Almoner &c: preached before K. & Q: on 57: Psal: 7: the whole discourse being almost nothing save an historical narrative of the C. of Englands several Deliverances, especialy that of this Anniversary, signalized, by that of the P: of Oranges Birthday, & Marriage (which was on the 4th) & of his Landing at Torbay this day: which ended with a splendid Ball, & other festival rejoicings: \In the Meane time, No, or not sufficient supplies, Ireland gives greate apprehension of the successe of our Army there, under the D: of Shomberg, K. James, being more powerfull in Horse: & the Weather exceedingly wet & stormy: [& we having lost all the past summer for want of prudent menagement of affaires: The Convention vote a Tax of 2 Million &c:] *** \27 I went to Lond [with my family] to Winter at SohA in the greate Square. \30 I went to the R: Society, where I was chosen one of the Council, my Lord Penbrok president, we dined together: ***  X 4[ December ă \11 To Deptford to see my Grandson falln ill of a scarlet feaver at the French Schoole at Greenewich, which, after blood letting so abated that by Gods mercy I left him in an hopefull way. *** \16: I returnd to Lond: blessed be God, in good hopes of the Childs recovery."'0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ\[My Servant Jo: Brake a rib by a fall, but is I hope in good way also of recovery.] *** \29 ... An extraordinary wet season, & stormy, greate losses by sea, & much confusion & discontent among our selves:  b4's1690`!>#=(  =s1690m 1690 ă  Xx40d January ă *** \11 There was this night, so extraordinary a storme of wind accompanied with snow & sharp weather, as had not ben known the like, in almost the memory of any man living: greate was the harm it did in many places, blowing downe houses, Trees &c, killing divers people: it began about 2 in the morning and lasted til 5: being a kind of Hurecan, which Mariners observe, begin of late yeares to come northward, What mischiefe it has don at sea, where many of our Best ships are attending to convey the Q: of Spine, together with a thousand merchants laden for several ports abroad, I almost tremble to think of: \This Winter has ben hithertoo, extreamely wett, warme, & windy: Such as went before the death of the Usurper Cromwell, which was in a stormy day: The Death of the Queene of Bohemia, & what this portends, time will discover, God almighty avert the Judgements we deserve, if it be his blessed will: *** \24: The famous Infamous Tryal of my unworthy Nephew Montague at the Kingsbench, which indeede I heard with much regrett, that so vile and scandalous a Cause should have ben , the dammages being 6500 pounds: The immense wrong this proflygate wretch did my Niepce, drawing justly on him this disgrace: so vile a Cause had never ben brought to so publique an example: *** \<30> ... The Parliament, unexpectedly Prorogued til 2 Aprill, to the discontent & surprizal of many members, who being exceeding averse from settling anything, proceeding with animosities, multiplying exceptions, against those whom they pronouncd obnoxious, producd as universal a discontent, against K. William & themselves, as was before against K: James: The new King, also having with so much reproch lost now above a yeare, resolving an expedition into Ireland in person; Thought best to prorogue this troublesome Session, now they had given him so much mony, & had no more use of them for the Present: it being also believed that they should hardly meete againe, but in a new, & more authenticque Parliament: \About 150 of the Members, who were of the more royal part, meeting at a Feast at the Apollo [Dunstan] Tavern: sent some of their company to the K. to assure him of their service; to whom he returned his Thanks, advising them to repaire to their several Countries & preserve the peace during his absence, & assuring them that he would be steady to his resolution of defending the Laws, and Religion established: \The great Lords, suspected to have counseled this Proroguation, universaly denying it; however it was believed, the chiefe Adviser was the Marquis of Carmarden &c - who now seemed to be the most in favor:"% 0*(H&a@)"Ԍ***  X4_ February ă \2: ... The Parliament from a Prorogation, now Dissolved by Proclamation & another cald to meete on the 20th of March: This was a second surprize to the former members, & now the Court party, or as they call themselves, Ch: of England, are making their severall Interests in the Countries &c: \The Marques of Halifex lays down his office of L. Privy-Seale & pretends to retire: *** \16 The Dutchesse of Monmoths Chaplain on 12: Heb: 12 at St. Martins, an excellent discourse exhorting to Peace & Sanctitie, it being now at the time of very greate division & dissention in the nation: first among the Churchmen, among which the moderate & sober part, were for a speedy Reformation of divers things, which were thought might be made in our Liturgie, for the inviting of Dissenters: Others of the more stiff & ridigid were for no Condescention at all, Bookes & pamphlets published every day pro & con: so as the Convocation Were for the present forcd to suspend any farther progresse; There was likewise a fierce & greate Canvasing about being elected in the new Parliament to meet the next moneth. \The K: persists in his intentions to go in person for Ireland, Whither the French are sending supplies to K: James, and wee the Danish horse to Shomberge... \19 I dined with the Marqus of Caermarthen (late Lord Danby) where was Lieutenant Gen: Duglas, a very considerable & sober Commander, going for Ireland, & related to us the exceeding neglect of the English Souldiers, perishing for want of Clothing & necessarys this winter; & exceedingly magnifying their Courage & bravery during all their hardships: There dined also my Lord Lucas Lieutenant of The Towre, & The Bish: of St. Asaph &c: \The Privy Seale was now put againe into the hands of Commissioners, Mr. Cheny (who married my kindswoman, Mrs, Pierpoint) Sir John Knatchbull, & Sir William Poultny: I think I might have ben one of them, had I thought it seasonable, & would have ingaged my friends: *** \25 I went on foote to Kinsington, which K. Will: had bought of my Lord of Notingham, & new altered, but it was yet a patchd building, yet with the Gardens a very sweete Villa, having to it the Parke, and the straite new way through the park: I dind with the Bish: of St. Asaph, Dr. Tenison & Stradling, returnd that evening: News of some victory in Ireland. ***  Xx4ri March ă \7: I dind with Mr. Pepys, late Secretary of the Admiralty, where was that excellent Shipwright, & sea-man (for so he had ben, as also Commissioner of the navy) Sir Anthony Deane, who amongst other discourses, & deploring the sad condition of our Navy, as now Governd by unexperiencd men &c since this Revolution: Related to us, what exceeding advantage we of this had, by being the first who built Fregats: the first that was ever made, being that Vessel, which was afterward called the Constant Warwick; which Pet: of Chattham built for a tryal of making a Vessel that would saile swiftly, it was built with low Decks, the gunns lying neere the water; & was so light & swift of sailing, that in a short time, he told us, she had ere the Duth-War was ended, taken as much mony from Privateers as would have laden her, & that more such being built, did in a yeare or two scoure our Channels,"'!0*(H&a@D+" from being exceedingly infested by those of Dynkirk & others: And added that it were the best and onely infallible expedient, to be masters at sea, & able to destroy the greatest Navy of any enemy whatsoever, if instead of building huge greate ships, & 2d and 3d rates &c: they quite left off building them with such high decks, which he said was nothing but to gratifie Gentlemen Commanders who must have all their Effeminate accommodations, & for pomp, which would be the ruine of our Fleetes, if such persons were continued to command, they neither having Experience, nor [being] capable of learning, because they would not submitt to the fatigue & inconveniences, which bred seamen could do, in those so otherwise usefull swift fregats: \Which he made appeare, being to encounter the greatest ships, would be able to protect, set on, & bring off, those who should manege the Fire-ships, & that whatsoever [Prince] should first store himself with numbers of such (viz. Fireships) would thro the help and countenance of such Fregats, be certainly able to ruine, the greatest force, that, of never so vast ships, could be put to sea for fight, & that by reason of the dexterity of working those light & swift-sailing vessels, to guard the Fireships: & this he made so evident, that he concluded there would shortly be no other method of sea fight: & that our greate ships & Men of Warr, however stored with Gunns & men, must submitt to whosoever should encounter them with far lesse number: He thereupon represented to us, the dreadfullnesse of these Fireships; & that he continualy observed in our last maritime warr with the Duth, that when ever an Enemys fireship, approchd, the most valiant both of Commanders & common Seamen & sailers, were in such feare and Consternation, that, though of all times, there was then most neede of the Gunns, boomes, & other Instruments, to keepe the mischf off; they grew pale & astonishd, & as if possessed with a quite other meane soule, slung about, forsooke their gunns & worke, as in dispaire, everyone looking about, which way they might get out of their ship, though sure to be drownd if they did so, or to be burnt to death if they staied: This he said was likly to prove hereafter the method of sea fights & that whatever King, got provision of this before his Neighbour potentats, must demonstrably destroy the other, & did therefore wish, it might not be the misfortune of England; especialy, if they continued to put the Gentlemen Commanders over experienced sea-men, upon accounte of their ignorance, effeminancy & Insolencie: *** \11 I went againe to see Mr. Charletons Curiosities both of Art & nature; as also his full & rare collection of Medails: which taken alltogether in all kinds, is doubtlesse one of the most perfect assemblys of rarities that can be any where seene: I much admired the contorsions of the Thea roote, which was so perplext, large & intricate, (& with all hard as box) that it was wonderfull to consider: *** \30: ... This was the first time of my poore wifes going to church, after above a yeares Infirmity, for which God Almighty be praised: ***  X`"4n April ă \27 ... Discontents at the indiscreete government of affaires amongst us, and dissagreements among the Parliament men, had so intangld matters, that by a prodigal & carelesse menaging, the monys raised for the reduction of Ireland &c. things were here at such a stand, & the"%"0*(H&a@})" government so loose and neglected, (every body minding onely their own not the Publique), that we are like to fall into greate Confusion, Partys, Interests of private persons, animositie, & vice in aboundance: ***  X4o June ă \4: K: William set forth upon his Irish Expedition, leaving his Queene Regent during his absence &c: *** \10 I went to Lond: Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, shewed with what malice & he was suspected, with Sir Ant: Deane, about the Timber of which the 30 ships were built by a late Act of Parliament: with the exceeding danger the present Flet would be shortly in by reason of the Ignorance & incompetency of those who now managd the Admiralty & affaires of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate state, & shewed his greate abilitie: I retured in the Evening: *** \16 I went to Lond: Newes that K: William was safely landed in Ireland. *** \24 Dined with & Visited me Mr. Pepys, Mr. Stuart & other friends. Mr. P: sent the next day to the Gate-house, & severall greate persons to the Towre, on suspicion of being affected to K. James: amongst which was my Lord Earle of Clarendon, unkle to the Queene. \[Mr. Pepys was the next morning imprisoned &c:] ***  X84q July ă \6 ... The whole Nation now exceedingly alarmd by the French fleete braving our Coast even to the very Thames mouth: our Fleete commanded by debauched young men, & likewise inferior in force, giving way to the Enemy, to our exceeding reproch: God of his mercy defend this poore church & nation: [Hollanders fleete beaten at sea:] K: William in Ireland taking a passe, wounded in the shoulder with a Cannon bullet: greate expectations from thence: \13 ... King William having vanquished K James in Ireland, there was much publique rejoicing: It seemes K. J: army would not stand, namely the Irish, but the English Irish & French made greate resistance: Shomberg was slaine, and Dr. Waker, who so bravely defended L.derry: K.W: received a slight wound by the grazing of a cannon bullet on his shouldier, which yet he endured with very little interruption of his pursuit: Hamilton, who brake his word, about Tyrconnells, was taken: K.J. is reported gon back to France: Droghedah & Dublin surrendered: and if K.W. be returning, one may say of him as Caesar, Veni, vidi, vici, for never was such a Kingdome won in so short an Expedition; But to alay much of this the French fleete having exceedingly beaten the Dutch fleete, & ours not daring to interpose, ride at present in our Chanell, threatning to Land, which causes an extraordinary alarme &c: *** "'#0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ\17 I went to London to visite some friends in the Toure, where asking for my Lord Clarendon (now with divers other Noble persons imprisoned upon suspicion of a plot) by mistake they directed me to the E. of Torrington who about 3 days before had ben sent for from the Fleete, was put into the Toure for his Cowardize and not fighting the French Fleete, which having beaten a Squadron of the Hollanders (whilst Torrington did nothing) did now ride masters at sea with that power as gave terror to the whole nation, in daily expectation of a descent, which God Almighty avert: *** \30 I went to Lond: Dined with Mr. Pepys now suffered to returne to his house in reguard of his Indisposition: I returnd home calling in at the R. Society, where Mr. Hook read a discourse of the cause of most hills & mountaines to be from subterranean eruptions &c:  X 4bf August ă \1 Came the Duke of Grafton to visite me, going now to his ship at the mouth of the River: [to transport him to Ireland where he was slaine.] *** \10 ... The K:William having taken in Waterford, Duncannon, & other places marches to Limrick, which Tyrconell seemes with 4000 french &c to hold out; &c. The French Feete still hovering about the Western Coast, (we having 300 saile of rich Merchant Ships in the bay of Plimoth,) our Fleete begin to move towards them under 3 Admiralls in Commission: The Country in the West all on their Guard, A camp of about 4000 still on Blak-heath: The Germans and especialy that in Flanders very strong waiting to give battell to the French who are this yeare on the defence; The Duke of Savoy, waites joyning with some German troopes to block up Catenate the Fr:Gen: there: \[A very extraordinary fine season.] \12 So greate and long a storme of Thunder & lightning as had seldom ben seene in these countries. \13 I went to Lond: The season now much changed to wett & cold: \The French fleete returned to Brest & from our Coast, the Militia of the Trained Bands horse & foote which were up through out England now dismissd: \The French King having newes that King William was slaine, and his Army defeated in Ireland, causes such a Triumph at Paris & all over France, as was never heard of or almost read in any history, when in the midst of it, the unhappy K. James being vanquished, brought himselfe (by a speedy flight & escape) the sad tidings of his owne defeate, to the greate reproch of the French who made such unseasonable boasting: \15 I was desired to be one of the Baile of the Earle of Clarendon for his Lordships release out of the Tower, with divers other noblemen: [Bishop of St. Asaph expounds his Prophesys to me & Mr. Pepys &c:] *** \17 ... Some greate designe in hand, by our preparation at Sea, now the Fr: fleete is gone home:"%$0*(H&a@})"Ԍ\Limrick not yet reducd: Our Camp at Blakheath marching to Portsmouth. \That Sweete & hopefull youth Sir Charles Tuke, (after hopes of his recovery) dead of the wounds he receivd in the fight [of Boine], to the greate sorrow of all his friends, being (I think) the last male of that noble family: to which my wife is related: A more virtuous young Gent: I never knew, he was learned for his age, having had the advantage of the choicest breading abroad, both as to Arts & Armes, had much Traveld; but was so unhappy to fall, in that unhappy side of an unfortunate King: ***  X4Y September ă \14 ... Extremity of wet, cause the siege to be raised before Limrick: so as K.W. Returnes to England: re infect as to that plan: Lord Sydne &c left chiefe governors in that Kingdome as far as Conquered, which is neere three parts: ***  X 46b October ă \12 ... The French Generall, with Tyrconell & their forces gon back to france, beaten out by K. William. \Corke Delivered: upon discretion; The Duke of Grafton mortaly wounded: [dies] Churchil: before Kingsale, [which he takes,] our Ships (most of them) come into Harbor: The Parliament siting & voting vast summs for the next yeares Warr:... \The 8th of this moneth my Lord Spencer writ me word from Althorp out of N.hampton-shire that there happened an Earthquake the day before in the morning, which, tho short, sensibly shook the house: The like, & at the very same moment, (which was betweene 7 & 8 in the morning, viz, halfe an houre after 7:) the Gazette of this week aquainted us it so happned at Barnstable, Holy-head, & Dublin in Ireland: we were not at all sensible of it at Lond: \The Parliament voted the King 4 millions: *** \26 ... KingSale at last surrendred; meane while K. James party burne all they have in their power of houses, & amongst them that stately palace of the Lord Orories which lately cost as reported 40000 pounds: By a disastrous accident a 3d rate ship (the Breda) firing blew up & destroied all the passengers in which wer 25 prisoner of War to set saile for England the very next day: Many excellent ships have we thus unfortunately lost this yeare beside aboundance taken by the Enemy:... *** \29 I came up to Lond: Dover-streete with part of my family, to Winter with my son: \31 My BirthDay, being now full 70 yeares of Age: Blessed be the Lord for the continuance of my health, & of all his mercies, hitherto hast thou brought me, To Thee alone be the accknowledgements from my Soule & all that is within me, which thou has preserved: Grant deare father the increase of thy Grace, with the yeares of my life, til in compassion thou bring me to the consummation of Glory in the life to come, Amen.  X%4***Z November ă "H&%0*(H&a@t*"Ԍ\3 Went to the Co: of Clancarty, to condole with her concerning her debauched & dissolut son, who had don so much mischef in Ireland, now taken & brought prisoner to the Toure: *** \23 ... Carried my Lord Godolphin (now resuming the Commission of the Treasury againe to  X4all his friends wonder) Mr. Pepys Memoires:1 ***  X4[ December ă \1 R: Society St. Bartholomews day, I having been chosen President, by 21 Voices, with much difficulty, by all meanes [resolved] to avoyd it in this ill Conjuncture of publique affaires, with greate difficulty, devolved the Election on Sir Rob: Southwell, of State to the King William in Ireland:... *** \28 Dr. Huff (president of Magd: in Oxon who was displacd with several of the fellows, for not taking the oath: imposed by K James, now restord & made Bishop): at St. James church on 18 John 36: Afternoone at White hall Dr. Blagrave subAlmoner on 10:Mark:15: \Most of this moneth cold & frost: King preparing for his Journey into Holland hastens the parliament to dispatch all bills: \One Johnson a Knight executed at Tyburn for being Complce with Campbel brother to the Lord Argile, for stealing away a young heiresse: &c: \31 I made up my Accompts for this yeare, paid wages &c: according to Costome  X41 Not of course his Diary, but his Memoires relating to the Royal Navy, published in 1690, an account of his second Secretaryship to the Admiralty from 168489.  bp4s1691`!>#=  =s1691m 1691 ă  X40d January ă \4: ... This weeke a plot discovered for a generall rising against the new Government, for which my Lord Clarendon, Lord Preston & others were sent to the Towre; I went to see my Lord Clar: the next day &c: The Bish: of Ely also searched for: Trial of Lord Preston (as no English Peer) hastened at the old Baily: \The Parliament adjourned, for the Kings Journy into Holland, but he is stayed by the exceding hard & now long frost. *** \18 ... My Lord Preston condemnd about a designe to bring in K.Ja: by the French: Ashton executed: L:Clarendon in the Tower: Bishop of Ely, Mr. Graham &c: absconded &c: ***  X%4ri March ă"%&0*(H&a@)"Ԍ\11 [Wednesday] At White-hall Dr. Wake 12 Rom:18: I went to visite Lo:Clarendon, prisoner in the Tower, but was not suffered to come to him any neerer than the windowe &c: ***  X 4n April ă \10: Goodfriday ... Mons in Hanalt is delivered to the French, King William, not being prepared (though in person with an Army) to raise the siege, which greatly disappointed every body, in mighty expectation: But as the Spaniards had made no provision for the Army, & the Townesmen perswaded by the Priests, to deliver it, the Governor, fearing a mutiny & his Garison not to suppresse it; The Towne was given up, before K:William, could be ready, though it had provision to have held out longer: \10 This night, a suddaine & terible Fire burnt downe all the buildings over the stone Gallery at W-hall, to the waterside, begining at the Appartments of the late Duthesse of Portsmouth (which had ben pulled down & rebuilt to please her [no lesse than] 3 times) & Consuming other Lodgings of such lewd Creatures, who debauched both K. Char: 2d & others & were his destrction: \The King now returns out of Holland just at this Accident: \Proclamations against Papists &c: *** \16 I went to see Dr. Sloans Curiosities, being an universal Collection of the natural productions of Jamaica consisting of Plants, [fruits,] Corralls, Minerals, [stones,] Earth, shells, animals, Insects &c: collected by him with greate Judgement, several folios of Dried plants & one which had about 80: severall sorts of Fernes, & another of Grasses: &c: The Jamaica pepper in branch, leaves, flowers, fruits &c: [which] with his Journal, & other Philosophical & naturall discourses & observations is indeede very extraordinary & Copious, sufficient to furnish an excellent History of that Iland, to which I encouraged him, & exceedingly approved his Industry. \19 ... The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Ely, Bath & Wells, Peterborow, Glocester & the rest who would not take their Oathes to K William now displacd, & in their roomes. Dr. Tillotson Deane of Paules made A.B. of Cant: Patric removed from Chichester to Ely, Comberland to Gloucester, , Comberland. ***  XX4q May ă \[7 I visited the Earle of Clarindon prisoner in the Tower, kept there still about the late Plot, he told me he expected every day deliverance, and bespake me to stand with his Brother the E: of Rochester &c for security which I promised.] \King William gos now againe into Flanders. *** \12 I went to see the Hospital & Infirmarie for Emerited Souldiers lately built at Chelsey, which is indeede a very Magnificent, Compleat & excellent Foundation, the two Cutts from the Thames, Courts, and other accommodations wonderfull fine: The several wards for the souldiers, Infirmary for the sick, Dispensatory, Governors house & other officers, especialy the Refectory for 400 men, & Chapell; In the Refectory is a noble Picture of heroic argument in honor of Char: 2d painted by Virrio: also the Kings [James] Statue in Brasse, of the worke of Gibbons in the Court next the Cloister &c:"''0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ\15 I returned with my family, home to my house in the Country, for the Summer: *** \<21> This day died my Nephew John Evelyn of Wotton, onely son & heire of my Eldest Bro:Geo: who sent me word of it the next day: He had ben long, & so dangerously sick, a greate part of the Winter, that Physitians despaired of his Recovery; but on the suddaine he began so to mend, that though his limbs were weake, his Appetite, (before lost) Spirit, & cherefullnesse returned, so as he was thought past danger, & went not onely down about the house, but tooke the aire abroad in the Coach, when unexpectedly, a Veine breaking carried him away, nothing being able to stop the flux, so greate was the sharpnesse of his blood, & weake the vessells, which inconveniences accompanied with a Palsy, was contracted by an habit of drinking much wine & strong waters to comply with other young intemperate men: He had else a very strong & robust body, and was a person of very good sense & parts: He died about 35 years of age, to the greate griefe of my Bro: & Joy (I believe) of his Wife, who never behaved herselfe so discreetely, as to give him any greate comfort, which made him at last, almost wish himselfe out of the World: He had had severall Children born, & lately a Son, a very pretty Child, & likely to live, but God was pleased to take them all to himselfe: So as now (there remaining onely Daughters, women grown, & of an Elder sons of my Bro:) according to the Intailement; I became the next heire to my Bro: & our Paternal Estate, exceeding far from my least expectation, or desert: The God render me & mine worthy of this Providence, & that I may be a comfort to my Bro: whose prosperity I did ever wish & pray for: ***  X4o June ă \1. I went, together with my son, & Bro: in Law Glanvil & his son, to Wotton, to solemnize the Funeral of my Nephew, which was performed the next day, very decently, & ordered by the Herauld, in the Afternoone, a very greate appearance of the Country being there: I being the chiefe Mourner, the Pal was held up, by Sir Fr: Vincent, Sir Rich: Onslow, Mr. Tho: Howard, son to Sir Robert, Auditer of the Exchequer & Cap: of the Kings Guard, Mr. Hyldiard, Mr. James; Mr. Herbert, Nephew to my L:Herbert of Cherbery & Co: German to my deceased Nephew: He was layed in the Vault at Wotton Church, in the buring-place of that Family: an innumerable Concourse of Coaches & people accompaning the solemnity: ***  X 4q July ă \11. dined with Mr. Pepys where was Dr. Cumberland the new Bish: of Norwich, the other B: Dr. Lloyd, put out, for not acknowledging the Government; Comberland a very learned, excellent man: \Now also was possession given at Lambeth to Dr. Tillotson, by the Sherif, the Arch-Bishop Sancroft being gon, but leaving his Nephew to keepe possession, who refusing to do it upon the Queenes message, was dispossessed by the Sherif, & imprisoned: This stout demeanor of the few Bishops refusing to take the oaths to K:William &c: animated a greate party, to forsake the Churches, so as to threaten a Schisme: Though those who looked further into the antient practise, found, that when (as formerly) there were Bishops displacd, upon secular accounts, the people never refused to accnowledge the new Bishops, provided they were not heretics: The truth is, the whole Cleargy had till now stretched the duty of Passive Obedience, that their now"%(0*(H&a@)" proceedings against these Bishops, gave no little occasion of exceptions: But this not amounting to Heresy, there was a necessity of receiving the new Bishops, to prevent a failure of that Order in the Church: \Athlane taken in Ireland, & greate appearance of subduing that Kingdome this summer: \The D. of Savoy defends his Country with some better successe: whilst the French in Fland: avoyd K.Williams forces, who seekes to draw him to a Batell: \Greate speach of a suddaine peace twixt the Emp: & Turke: through the daily commotions at Constantinople: \No newes where either ours, or the French fleetes are, whilst our Merchants here are in extreame apprehension for their Smyrna Fleete, who being gon from Cales homeward, tis feared may hardly escape the French fleete. \The Government here, very loose & as it were on floates, the summ of all seeming to depend on the Issues of this summer: \I went to visite my L:Clarendon, in the Tower, whom I found gon into the Country [for aire], by the Queens permission, under the guard of his Warders: *** \19 ... The greate Victory of K:Williams Army in Ireland was now fresh & looked upon as decisive of that Warr, for the total reduction of that Iland: The Irish foote had tis sayd, much advantage by being intrenched, over numbered us in horse, but they forsaking the foote, a total route, greate slaughter, & losse of all the Canon & baggage followed: The French Gen: St. Ruth, (who had ben so cruel a slaughter man to the poore protestants in France,) slaine with divers of the best Commanders: nor was it cheape to us, neere 1000 kild, but of them 4 or 5000:... ***  X4bf August ă \16 ... So greate a Thunder & Lightning on thursday, & the like I had never heard seene I in my whole life; but the storme of wind & raine was not very violent; nor do I heare of any harme was don: \We lost our Barbados Fleete by the French: \Galloway taken, & Limrick besieging: K.William cannot tempt the French to a Battel: Our Fleete come In to lay up the greate ships, nothing don at sea, pretending that we cannot meete with the Frenche. ***  X4Z November ă \5 Mr. Stringfellow preached at Trinity Church on 2: Cor: 1.10: This Festival was celebrated with Illuminations, that is, by setting up innumerable lights & candles in the windows towards the streete, in stead of Squibbs & Bonefires, much mischiefe having ben don by Squibbs: Illumination was the custome, long since in Italy, [& France:] & now introduced here: \The Parliament now sate: \7 I went to visite the Earle of Dover, who having it seems made his peace with the K. was come over: The Relation he gave of the strength of the Fr: King, & the difficulty of our forcing him to fight, or any way make Impression into France, was very wide from what we fancied: \8 ... A extraordinary dry & warme season, [without frost & like a new Spring:] such as had not ben know of many yeares."')0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ\Part of the Ks house at Kensingtowne burnt: ***  X4[ December ă \6 ... Discourse of another plot, in which severall greate persons were named, but believed to be a foolish sham: \A proposal in the House of Comm: That whatever Officer in the whole nation receivd for sallary [above 500 pounds] or otherwise by virtue of his Office, he should contribute it wholy to the support of the war with France, & [this] upon their oathes: \Eight ships of the Barbados & Jamaica Fleete, taken by the French to an incredible losse, both of the ships, & greate rich lading &c: *** \[18 A very pretty Act or exercise of the Schoole boys where was my Grandson: Speeches & Orations, Verses in Gr: Lat: French: ending with a consort of voices of the boys, & then exercises in Mathematics]: *** \25 Christmas day was my daughter in Law brought well to bed of a Daughter, exactly at 12 at noone: Blessed be God. \28 Dined at Lambeth with the new AB: farr politer than the old man: the Effect of my  X04Greenhouse Furnace, first set in practise by the AB: son in law.1 ***  X4al1 Described and illustrated in Kalendarium Hortense, 8th edition (1691) and later, for example  XP4the tenth in Silva (1706), p. 267271.  b4m s1692 `!>#=n   =s1692m 1692 ă  X40d January ă \1: N-yeres day, Dr. Birch at St. Jamess on 5:Gal:6: The B:Sacrament followd at which I communicated. \This last week died that pious admirable Christian, excellent Philosopher, & my worthy Friend Mr. Boyle, a greate losse to the publique, & to all that knew that vertuous person: aged about 65: *** \6 At the Funeral of Mr. Boile, [at St. Martins] preached Dr. Burnet Bishop of Salisbery on 2: Eccles: 26: To a man that is good God giveth Knowledge & Wisedome & Joy: on which he made a Philosophical Discourse, Concerning the Acquisitions of Mans knowledge, by the example of Salomon, who had made so many experiments of what this World, & the opportunities of his glorious Circumstances could attaine, and after all that there could be no Joy or true satisfaction in this knowledge, without its being applied to the Glory of God: Thence passed to Elogie due to Mr. Boyle, who made God & Religion the object and scope of all his excellent Tallents in the knowledge of Nature, who had arived to so high a degree in it, accompanied with such zeale and extraordinary piety, which he continualy shewed in the whole"%*0*(H&a@)" Course of his life: & particularly in his exemplary charity upon all occasions: That he gave 1000 pounds yearly to the distressed Refugies of France & Ireland, was at the Charge of Translating the Scripture into Irish, & Indian Tongues, & was promoting a Turkish Translation, as he had formerly of Grotius de Veritate R.C. into Arabic, which he caused to be dispersed in those Eastern Countries; That he had setled a funds for Preachers who should preach expressly against Atheists, Libertins, Socinians <&> Jewes: besids given 8000 pounds now in his Will to Charitable uses, but that his private Charitys which no man knew of save himselfe were Extraordinary: \He delated also of his greate learning in the Tongues, Heb: Greeke, his reading of the Fathers, & solid knowledge in Theologie, once deliberating about taking holy Orders, & that at a time when he might have made a greate figure in the Nation as to secular honor & Title, namely at the restauration of his Majestie Char: 2d: his feare of not being able to discharge so weighty a duty as the first made him decline the first, and his humility the other: He spake of his wonderfull comity and Civility to strangers, the greate Good he did by his experience in Medicine, & Chymistry, & to what noble ends he applied himselfe to that his darling studies, The works both pious & Usefull which he published, the exact life he led, & the happy End which made: something was touched of his sister the Lady Ranelagh, who died but very few days before him: And truly all this was but his due, without any grain of flattery: It is certainly not onely England, but all the learned world suffred a publique losse in this greate & good man, & my particular worthy friend: \This Weeke was committed a most execrable Murder on Dr. Clench, by Villans, who under of carrying him in a Coach to see a Patient strangled him in the Coach, & under pretence of sending the Coach-man a litle distance, left the poore man dead, & escaped themselves in the dusk of the Evening: This is that Doctor, father of that extraordinary learned  X4Child, whom he brought me sometime to my house &c:1 ***  XP4 A1 See above, p. 3601. \12 Was my Grandaughter Christned Jane, by Dr. Tenison Bishop of Lincolne, being the first Infant, that was ever Christened in Trinity Church: Godfather & Mothers, Mr. Pepys, Mrs. Steward, Mrs. Wiseman: \17: Mr. Stringfellow pursued his former Text. \Afternoone: Mr. Smith on 13 John 35: The Minister had such a Cold as he hardly could be heard, & also sleepe much surprized me. \24 ... A frosty & very dry season still continued: Many persons die suddenly of Apoplexe, more than usualy in many years. \The Lord of Marboro, L:Gen: of K Williams Army in England, Gent of Bedchamber, &c. dismissed from all his Charges Military & other; & given to divers others: for his excessive taking bribes & Covetousnesse & Extortion upon all occasions from his inferior officers: Note this was the Lord who being intirely advanced by K James, the merit of his father being the prostitution of his Daughter (this Lords sister) to that King: Is now disgraced; & by none pittied, being also the first who betrayed & forsooke his Master K: James, who advanced him from the son of Sir Wi Churchill, an officer of the GreeneCloth. \29 Died my Sister Evelyn of Woodcot, who had made our family so unkind a returne of so neere Relation, by violating my Brothers Will, in causing her daughter my Niepce, to cut of an Intailement & give it to her husband Montague, a Vicious young man, who leaving no children, defrauded my Bro: George of Baynards an Estate worth neere 500 pounds per Ann: &c: I pray God forgive her: ***  XH&4_ February ă"H&+0*'H&J@g*"Ԍ\13 Being by the late Mr. Boile, made one of the Trustees for his Charitable Bequests, I went  X4this morning to a Meeting of the Bishop of Lincolne, Sir Robert Ashwood1, & Serjeant Roderith; to settle that Clause in Mr. Boyles will, which he had left for Charitable Uses, & Especialy for the Appointing & Electing a Minister to preach one sermon the first Sonday every month [the] 4 summer moneths, June, July, Aug: : expressly against Atheists, , Libertins, Jewes &c, without descending to any other Controversy whatever; for which is a fund left of 50 pounds per annum to be paid the Preacher quarterly & at the end of 3 years, to proceede to a new Election of some other able Divine, or to continue the same, according as we shold judge convenient; so we made choice of one Mr. Bently, a Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester: Dr. Stillingfleete for our first preacher; & that the first sermon should begin on the first Moneday of March, at St. Martins Church, Westminster, & the 2d Monday of  X4Aprill, at BowChurch in the Citty & so alternis vicibus: *** \16 I sealed Articles with my Bro: Evelyn, by which he was to cut down 6500 pounds worth of Timber & no more; Also to leave standing the woods about the seate &c: ***  X4ri March ă \6 ... I had a sore fit of paine in my loynes, & feared gravell in my Kidneys. ***  X441 Es error for Sir Henry Ashurst. \20 ... My son was made one of the Commissioners of the Revenue & Tressury of Ireland, to which Imployments he had a mind, farr from my wishes, had it consisted with his Circumstances:... *** \27: ... My Bro: sent me the Counterpart of the Articles about the Timber signed &c: \My son fell dangerously Ill of a Giddinesse & universal weakenesse, out of which it pleased God to recover him after 5 or 6 daies: blessed be his Mercy: ***  XX4n April ă \4 Mr. Bentley at St. Mary le Bow, being the church appointed by us, every first Moneday of the Eight Monethes, for the Lecture establishd by Mr. Boyle: \On: 17: Acts: 14: ad: 30th: So excellent a discourse, against the Epicurean Systeeme, as is not in few words to be recapitulated, shewing the extreame folly & weakenesse of those who question the existance of a Deity, or at least theire concerne for Mankind: He came to me to know whether I thought fit it should be published, or that there was any thing I desired should be altered therein: I tooke it for a Civilitye, & earnestly desired it might forthwith be printed, as one indeede of the most noble, learned, & Convincing discourses, that I had ever heard: *** \17 ... An extraordinary backward Spring:"%,0*'H&J@)"Ԍ\K. James, sends a Letter written in his own hand, informing them of the Q: being ready to be brought abed, & therefore summons them to be at its birth by the middle of May, promising (as from the French King) they shall be permitted both to come & returne in safty: This Letter directed to severall of the Pr: Council, & one (tis sayd) to his daughter the regnant Queene: *** \24 ... Greate talke of the French Invading; & of an universall rising: our Fleete begins to joyne with the Dutch, Souldiers march towards the Coasts &c: \ betweene the Q: & her sister: Very cold & unseasonable weather, scarse a leafe on the trees: \25 I went downe to my house to see my servant Jo: Strickland being taken sudainly sick: & returned the 27: ***  X 4q May ă \8 ... Continual discourse of the French Invasion, & no lesse of ours in France. The Eastern Winds, so constantly blowing, gave our Fleet time to unite, who were so tardy in preparation, that had not God thus wonderfully favored, they had in all probabillity ben upon us: Many daily secured, & proclamations out for more conspirator, so called: \My Kindsman Sir Ed: Evelyn of Long Ditton dyed suddenly, gave most of his Estate to daughters, from his brother, very unkindly: *** \15 ... My Niepce M. Evelyn my Godaughter was now married to Sr Cyrill Wych: Secretary of State for Ireland. \21: I went to Deptford my servant Jo: Strickland being most dangerously relapsed into his bleeding: \22: Trinity Sonday, I heard a sermon at Greenewich of the Curate on: 1: Pet: 5.7: Exhorting us to cast all our Care upon the Providence of God, doing our owne duty, illustrated by many Instances: & Indeede confirmd by the Event which happened this very weeke following: for within a day or two after (after all our apprehensions of being invaded, & doubtfull of the event at sea); it pleased Almighty God, to give us such a Victory at sea to the utter ruine of the French Fleete, Admirall & all their best men of Warr, Transport shipps &c: as perhaps never was greater in this part of the World: I referr to the publique particulars: The newes also of the Imperialists taking greate Waradine, [but not certaine] & disturbance at Constantinople: The King being yet with the Confederate Army in Flanders: The next expectation is what God will determine as to the Event of those forces being on both so dreadfully greate &c: \My Servant falling into delirium, & past all hopes of recovery, did yet by the infinite mercy of God, come so to himselfe, as to give us much comfort & so I Left him to the care of the Physitian: returning to Lond 28. \29 ... I find that though this day, were set a part by a Law expresse for the celebrating the memorable Birth, Returne & Restaration of the late King Char: 2d: There was no manner of notice taken of it, or any part of the Office (annext to the Comm prayer booke) made use of which I think was ill don: In regard his Restauration not onely redeemd us from Anarchy & confusion but restored the Church of England as it were miraculously: \There was a Thanksgiving read for the late Victory at sea: &c: "H&-0*'H&J@Z*"Ԍ X4o June ă \<1> Impatient expectation of hearing the event of an expected Battel at land for the raising the Siege of Namur, the Armys on both sides being so very Greate K. Will: Eighty foure thosand men, with 25000 horse: The French above 100000 &c: *** \9 I went to Windsor to carry my Grandson to Eaton Schoole, where I met with My Lady Stonehouse & other of my daughter in Laws relations, who came on purpose to see her before her Journey into Ireland: We went to see the Castle, which we found furnishd, & very neately kept as formerly, onely the Armes in the Gard Chambers & Keepe were removed & carried away: \The greate raines had so swelled the Rivers & Waters that K. Williams Army not being able to forrd over to ingage the French, the Towne of Namure was delivered, without almost any resistances, supposd to have ben bought, as usualy the Fr: King did all his Conquests: The Citadell yet holding out: \An exceeding greate storme of wind, ruind much fruit and tore the trees, stripping them of their leaves as it had ben winter in some places: *** \[16 My Bro: confirmed to me our paternal Estate without revocation &c.] ***  X4q July ă \23 I went with my Wife, Son & Daughter &c: to Eaton to see my Grandson & thence to Cranburne my Lord Godolphins house, where we lay & were most honorably entertained; next day [24] being Sunday, we went to Winsore, to St. Georges Chapell, where we heard a chaplain of the Duke of St. Albans preach, on 1.Pet: 2.6: the whole discourse was against the Socinians &c: \This Evening very late we returned to Lond: \25 We went to Mr. Hewerss to Clappham, who has a very excellent, usefull & Capacious House upon the Common: built by Sir Den: Gauden, & by him sold to Mr. Ewers, who got a very Considerable Estate in the Navy, in which, (from being Mr.Pepyss Cleark) he came to be one of the principal Officers, but was put out of all Employment upon the Revolution, as were all the best Officers, upon suspicion of being no friends to the change: & such put in their place, as were most shamefully Ignorant: & unfit: Mr. Hewers lives very handsomly and friendly to every body &c. \The deplorable Losse of many brave men upon an indiscreete endeavor of K. William to force the French Camp, &c: \Our Fleete was now sailing upon their long pretence of making a Desent in France: \31 ... The Fleet after having saild 100 leagues, the Admirals and Officers disagreeing, upon  X`"4the time of yeare so far spent, and the place where they were to land, returned back re infecta, to the greate dishonor of those who at the helme, concerted their matters so indiscreetely, or as others thought designingly:"#.0*'H&J@'"Ԍ\This whole Summer was hitherto so exceedingly wet & rainy, as the like had not ben knowne since the yeare 1648, when Colchester was besieged; whilst in Ireland they had not knowne so greate a drowth: ***  X4bf August ă \10: ... There came the sad newes of the Hurocan & Earthquake which has destroied almost the whole Iland & plantation of Jamaica, many Thousands perishing: \11 Went my Son, Wife & litle daughter, towards Ireland; there to reside one of the Commissioners of the Revenue: The Lord Jesus, accompany & blesse him, if it be his blessed will, & prosper him, & grant that I may yet see him in prosperity againe: ***  X 4Y September ă \15 Happnd an Earthquake, which though not so greate as to do any harme in England, was yet universal in all these parts of Europe; It shoke the House at Wotton, but was not perceived by any save a servant or two, who were making my bed, & another in a Garret, but I & the rest being at dinner below in the Parlor was not sensible of it. There had ben one in Jamaica this summer, which destroyed a world of people & almost ruind the whole Iland: God of his mercy, avert these Judgements, & make them to incite us to Repentance: This, of Jamaica, being prophanely & Ludicrously represented in a puppet play or some such lewd pass-time in the Faire at Southwarke, caused the Queene to put-downe & abolish that idle & vicious mockshew. *** \25: ... I received Assurance of my Sons &c being safely landed at Dublin, for which God be blessed: ***  X846b October ă \<2>: ... This season was so exceedingly Cold by reason of a very long & tempestious North east Wind, as made this, usualy season, very uncomfortable: The D: of Savoy retires out of Dauphiny, burns Morbrun. \The K: daily looked for out of Flanders, the Campagne spent, and nothing advanced: Harbord dies at Belgrade, L. Paget sent Ambassador in his roome: No fruite at all kindly ripe this summer; blasted & unthriving: *** \31 I had this day arived to my 72d yeare of Age, in health, though sometimes incomoded pains in my kidneys, & difficulty of holding my water: I blesse the Almighty yet for these his infinite mercys continuing my life thus long, unworthy of the least: beseching his divine Majestie to be with me through the Assistance of his Grace this following yeare, that I may worke my Salvation and make my Calling & Election Sure: Amen: Amen: ***  XH&4Z November ă"H&/0*'H&J@t*"Ԍ\6 ... There was a Vestry called, about repairing or new-building of the Church, which I thought unseasonable in reguard of the heavy Taxes, & other improper Circumstances, which I  X4there declared, as also spake my opinion against the ill custome of burying in Churches &c:1 \10 ... This Afternoone went my Wife & part of my Family to our house in Dover streete to Winter in Lond. \13 I did not go to Church this day, as I might have don, but said publique prayers at home: \I sent Fruit-Trees to Wotton: \20 I came to Lond, to my family to winter there: ... A signal Robbery of the Tax mony brought out of the North Country towards Lond; set upon by severall desperat persons, who dismounted & stopt all Travellers on the Rode, & guarding them in a field, when the exploit was don, & The Treasure taken, killed all the Horses of those they had stayd, to hinder the pursuit of them: 16 Horses they stabbed & then dismisd those that they had dismounted &c: This done in Hartfordshire qu%re &c. ***  X 4[ December ă \[14: We did, with much reluctancy gratifie Sir Jo: Rotheram, one of Mr. Boyls Trustees, admit the Bishop of Bath & Wells to be Lecturer for the next yeare, instead of Mr. Bently, who had so worthily acquitted himselfe to take him in againe the next yeare.] ***  X041 St. Nicholas, Deptford, Es parish church.  b4m Ns1693`!>#=n N  =s1693m 1693 ă ***  X4_ February ă \4 After 5 days Trial, & extraordinary Contest, was the Lord Mohune acquitted by the Lords of the Murder of Montford the Player, not withstanding that the Judges (from the pregnant witnesses of the fact) had declared him guilty: but whether in commiseration of his youth, being not 18 years old, though exceedingly dissolute, or upon what other reason (the King himselfe present, some part of the Trial, & satisfied they report, that he was culpable): 69 Lords acquitted  XX4him & onely 14: Condemnd him.1 \Unheard of stories of the universal increase of Witches, men women Children devoting themselves to the Devil, in such numbers in NewEngland, That it threatened the subversion of the Government: \At the same time a Conspiracy among the Negros in the Barbados, to cut all the Throtes of their Masters, wonderfully detected by the overhearing two of these slaves discourse of it to one another, & so preventing the execution: \5 ... Hitherto an extraordinary mild Winter: France in the utmost Misery & poverty for want of Corne, & subsistance, whilst the ambitious King is intent to pursue his Conquests on the rest of his Neighbours both by sea & land: \Our Admiral Russell laid aside for not pursuing the advantage he had against the French the past summer: Three others chosen in his place:"#00*'H&J@("Ԍ\[Dr. Burnets [B. of Salisbury] book burnt by the hangman for an expression of the Kings Title by Conquest, caused by a complaint of Jo: How a parliament member: little better than a mad man:] *** \19 ... [Proposals of a Marriage by Mr. Draper with my daughter Susanna, which I embraced:] \Hitherto an exceeding warme Winter such as had seldom ben known, & portending an unprosperous spring as to the fruits of the Earth, which in our Climate, require more Cold & Winterly weather: \The dreadfull & astonishing Earthquake swallowing up Catanea & other famous & antient Citties with above 100000 persons in Scily on 11: January last, came now to reported amongst us, which with what happened so lately in Jamaica in America & other parts: is to be greately deplored, & portentous of some extraordinary Revolutions, & terrorising : \26 ... I dined at my L: Sunderlands where I went to prayers, & so returned home: It being now an extraordinary deepe Snow, after almost no winter hithertoo: & a suddaine gentle Thaw:... ***  X4ri March ă \30 I went to Deptford to take a little aire, & returned after one day: meeting the King by the way going with the Queene in Coach to Gravesend, & thence by Yacht pursuing his Journey to [31] Holland: ***  X41 William Mountford (b.1664); Charles Mohun tried for complicity.  XP4n April ă \25 Writing sealed for setling my Daughter Joyntur: \27 This day my Daughter Susanna was Married to William Draper Esquire, in the Chapell of Elyhouse by my Lord Bishop of Lincoln [Dr. Tenison, since Arch Bishop of Cant:] I gave her in portion 4000 pounds: Her Joynture is 500 pounds a yeare: Which Marriage I pray Almighty God to give his Blessing to: She is a good Child, religious, [discreete,] Ingenious, & qualified with all the ornaments of her sex: especialy has a peculiar talent in Designe & Painting both in oyle & Miniature, & a genious extraordinary, for whatever hands can pretend to do with the Needle: Has the French Toung, has read most of the Greek & Roman Authors, Poets, Using her talents with greate Modesty, Exquisitely shapd, & of an agreable Countenance: This Character is due to her, though coming from her Father. \Much of this Weeke spent in Ceremonie, receiving Visites and Entertainments of Relations. ***  X 4q May ă \11 My Daughter we accompanied to her Husbands house, where with many of his & our Relations we were magnificently treated & there we left her in an Appartment very richly addorned and furnishd, & I hope in as happy a Condition as could be wished: & with the greate satisfaction of all our friends for which God be praised: *** "H&10*(H&a@*"Ԍ\25 ... A Declaration or Manifesto from K. James, so writen as many thought to be very reasonable: & much more to the purpose than any of his former: \28 ... Fine & seasonable weather made greate expectation of action both at Land & Sea. \Our Fleete very strong & now sailing to fight the French, which not being strong enough to encounter, tis believed they will avoyd us, & lie in for our Turkey Merchants, which would be to them a rich prize & to us an irrparable losse, which might have ben prevented if leave had ben given for their sailing in feb: \The French in Flanders much superior to the Confederat forces: so as nothing but ruine threatens without Almightys wonderfull providence & mercy: ***  X4o June ă \14 I returned with my Family to Deptford for the rest of the Summer. *** \21 I saw a greate Auction of Pictures exposed to be sold in the Banqueting house, Whitehall; they had ben my Lord Melfords, now Ambassador of K. James at Rome, & ingaged to his Creditors here: My Lord Mulgrave & Sir Ed Seymor came to my house & desired me to go along with them to the Sale: Divers more of the greate Lords &c were there who bought pictures, deare enough: There were some very excellent Paintings of V:Dikes, Rubens, Bassan; My L:Godolphin bought the boyes of Morella the Spaniard for 80 ginnies, deare enough: my Nephew Glanvill the old Earle of Arundels head of Rubens for 20 pounds. I growing late I did not stay till all was sold but went immediately home to Deptford: \Extraordinary apprehension of our TurkeyMerchants fleete falling a prey to the French in the Meditereane, which if it should happen, it would be the most ruinous blow the Citty of London ever received of that Kind & influence the whole Kingdome: which God avert. \25 ... A very wet hay harvest, & little summer as yet: \Nothing of note, onely an exceeding wet season so as to damage our Hayharvest:  X84q July ă <1?> My Son in Law, his mother & my daughter, came now the first time to visite us at SaysCourt: *** \17 I saw the Queenes rare Cabinets & China Collection, which was wonderfull rich & plentifull, but especialy a huge Cabinet, looking Glasse frame & stands all of Amber much of it white, with historical Basrelie & statues with Medals carved in them, esteemed worth 4000 pounds, sent by the D. of Brandenburg, whose Country Prussia abounds with Amber, cast up by the sea &c: Divers other China, & Indian Cabinets, Schreens & Hangings: also her Library in which were many Bookes in English, French, Dutch, of all Sorts: also a Cuppord of Gold Plate, a Cabinet of silver Fillgrene which I think was our Q.Marys, & in my opinion with other Things, Cabinet pieces, should have ben generously sent her Majestie. \18 I dind at my L Moulgraves, with E. of Devonshire; Mr. Hampden (a Scholar & fine Gent), Dr. Davenant, Sir H. Vane & others, & saw & indeede admired the Venus of Coreggio which my L.Mulgrave had newly bought of Mr. Daun for 250 pounds, one of the best paintings"%20*(H&a@)" I ever saw: This day tooke leave of my son in law & daughter going their progresse amongst his friends into the Country for the rest of the summer. \19 The sad yet doubtfull newes of the taking of our Turkey Marchant & Convoy by the French neere Cape Vincent, which if true as related, the greatest blow was ever given the Citty since the fire, & affecting the whole nation, & that by our wretched impudence or tretchery: Also the losse of Huis, & ill successe in all our Concernes, forerunner of destruction for our folly & precipitous Change &c: God avert the deserved consequence: ***  X4bf August ă \1 The long expected newes of the successe of a Battell, in Flander at Landun, gave us a sad account of our greate losse, who had much the better of the French from morning til 4 in the After noone, when fresh horse of the French turnd the day, & got the feild, a most bloody fight, however the slaughter of the French much greater than ours: though they were double our number: viz: 80000 to 50000: The French lost aboundance of Officers, we but few: Count Solmes of our side Kild: Duke of Ormond much wounded &c: on theirs, Duke of Berwick Taken & severall greate officers slaine: K William narrowly escaped, but doing the part of a greate Captain in the whole Conduct, but over powered by the Enemys horse, and as is sayd, by the cowardlinesse of Ginkle the Dutch Gen, who with severall Regiments did not come timely to the aide &c: \Our Fleete sailing towards Ushant to waite the French; who had burnt & taken 60 of the Hollands Merchants & 2 men of War: Rooke our Admirall said to be come safe into Ireland, & the rest of our Merchant safe, put into Cales & other harbours: In summ we have thro negligence & want of honesty & Conduct, not at all prospered this summer in Flanders or at Sea: what will be don in Germany & Savoy we expect; The Turke makes no greate shew of doing much, through disturbance of the Asiatic forces: Denmarke marches to disturb his neighbours & is a pensioner of France:... *** \6 ... Very lovely Harvest weather & an wholesome season: but no Hortulan fruite: ***  X4Y September ă \28 I went to Lond to finish the Conveyance & deeds of the sale of the land for my daughters portion & did receive 3000 pounds, which with 1000 before made up the summ of 4000: now paied to my Son Draper: & returned home this Saturday. \30 No newes of what was don in the Armies abroad, by reason of Contrary Winds &c: ***  X 46b October ă \31 An extraordinary & dangerous Indisposition, taken by a Cold, kept me within a full fortnight, so as I could not stir abroad without greate Danger; my Wife also suprized with her wonted winter Rheumatisme; but by Gods infinite Goodnesse both now much recovered; I am arived this day to the 73rd yeare of Age: The Lord Jesus make me thankfull for this & all his mercys, & so cause me to number the rest of my days, which by the Course of nature cannot be many, that I may apply them to that Wisdome which shall bring me to his Everlasting life in his heavenly kingdome: Amen."'30*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ\A very wett: & uncomfortable season, & hitherto most unprosperous in all our publique Concernes: Charleroy taken in Flanders: Roses in Catalognia: two battels lost in Savoy: & the siege of Pignoll there, and Belgrade in Hungary raised: Sad losse at sea by our Turky merchants: The King William Returned out of Holland yesterday; The Parliament sitting a day or two before, adjourned til tuesday next. ***  Xx4Z November ă \12 This weeke produced nothing observable: [save [L.Notingham laying down his being Secretary of State,] the outing the Commissioners of the Admiralty, & restoring Mr. Russele to his Office againe.] The season continuing excedingly Wett, as had all this summer, if one might call it summer, in which there was no fruite, onely Corn very plentifull:... \My Son Draper & Daughter, now with Child, came to see us; after their some moneths absence in Visiting their Relation in divers places of the Country &c and returned on Tuesday: \14 The Parliament examining the miscarriages of the Fleete the last summer: \In the Lottery set up after the Venetian manner by Mr. Neale, Sir R: Haddock, one of the Commissioners of the navy had the greatest Lot, 3000 pounds, my Coachman 40 pounds, &c: \17 Cap: Youngs funerall I think the first who in the first warr of Cromwell against Spaine, tooke the Governor of Havana & other rich Prizes, & struck the first stroke against the Duth fleete in the first War with Holland in the time of the Rebellion &c, buried; a sober man & excellent sea man. Our Viccar preached the funeral sermon 7: Micha 9 shewing the duty of Patience & relyance on God for mercy, & submission to his Correction: The text chosen by the Cap: dying of the stone & greate age: *** \23 I went to Lond: to dispose of my sons house in Doverstreete:... \26 ... Newes of Cap: Benbows exploit & setting fire on St. Malows, in manys opinion not well don, for the small damage we did them may infinitely indanger our Coasts, by their numerous Vessels our Rivages lying so much more open to them, & many Gentlemens houses well furnish &c within so few miles of the Coast: whereas all the French Towers & every small Dorp, is Walled, & so not obnoxious to sudden Incursions, I pray God we do not feele it revengd on us in the Summer: \30 R: Society St. Andrews Day, much againe Importuned to Pr%sident, which as formerly I wholy refused; so as Sir Rob: Southwell was Continued for the following yeare: We  X4all dind at Pontacs1, secundum Consuetudinem: ***  X@4[ December ă \3 ... I came to Lond to give my voice for Mr. Bently for proceeding on his former subject the following yeare; in Mr. Boyls Lecture in which he had ben interrupted by the importunity of Sir Jo: Rotherham, that the Bishop of Chichester might be chosen the yeare before: to the greate dissatisfaction of the Bishop of Lincolne & my selfe, & so we chose Mr. Bently againe for the yeare to come: \Parliament sitting, greate Complaint against the 3 Admirals for our ill successe the last summer:"%40*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \17 ... My Grandson came from Eaton, 12 years old, gotten into the 3d forme & a very pregnant hopefull fine Child, whom I pray God to blesse. *** \25 ... My son Draper & daughter came & kept Xmas with us. ***  X41 Pontacks, a tavern in Abchurch Lane, used by the Royal Society for annual dinners.  X4NÂs1694`!>#=NĂ  =s1694  b4m 1694 ă  X` 40d January ă *** \8 I went to London in order to Remove our Goods & furniture out of our House in Dover Streete in order to the letting of it: \11 Supd at Mr. Ed Sheldons where was Mr. Dryden the Poet, who now intending to Write no more Plays (intent upon the Translation of Virgil) read to us his Prologue & Epilogue to his last Valedictory Play, now shortly to be Acted: *** \21 ... Lord: Maclesfild, Lord Warrington, & L:Westmorland all died within about one Weeke: Severall shot, hanged & made away with themselves: ***  X4ri March ă \22 Was Cristned my Nephew Glanvills daughter Eliz: borne in [Dover Streete] Trinity Parish neere St. Jamess. \Came the dismal newes of the disaster befalen our Turky merchants Fleete by Tempest, to the almost utter ruine of that Trade: The Convoy of 3 or 4 men of War, & divers Merchant ships with all their Men & Lading perishing; so vast a losse as had hardly ever ben known; & worse than all that both our Warres & Conflicts with any Enemy had don us these hundred years: \Unreasonable Taxes & Impositions layed on us by the Parliament to maintaine an hithertoo successles War with France, maneged hitherto with so little discretion &c: *** \28 I went to the Duke of Norfolck to desire him to make my Co: Evelyn of Nutfield one of the Dep: Lieutennants of Surrey, & intreate him to dismisse my old Bro, not now able by reason of age & Infirmity to serve: The Duke granted the one, but would not suffer my Brother to resigne his Commission; but keepe the honor of it during his life, though he could not act &c: professing very greate kindnesse to our Family &c. ***  X%4n April ă "H&50*(H&a@*"Ԍ\2 ... Came about this time a Melancholy, Gent: very Learned & pious, to Visite me, & to desire my Acquaintance: his name was Quin: It seemes (as since the B: of Lincoln tells me) his Father cut his owne throate before the Altar in a church in Dublin: *** \22: ... Certaine report & undoubtedly confirmed of a firy exhalation rising out of the sea in Montgomery-shire, which spred it selfe a furlong broad & travelled many Miles in length; burning all Straw, hay, Thatch, grasse, but doing no harme to Trees, timber or any solid things: onely fires barnes & Thatched houses, leaving such a taint on the Grasse, as killed all the Cattell that eate of it: I my selfe saw the Attestations under the hands of the sufferers, This lasted many moneths: \The Berkley Castle sunk by the French, which comming from the E. Indies had ben worth 200000 pounds: The French also tooke our Castle of Gambo in Guiny; so as the Africa Actions fell to 30 pounds & the E. India to 80: so powerfull & vigilant & Industrious were the French, as with their Picaroons & men of War, ruined us in every place where we had any Trading, whilst neither English nor Dutch, with all their united forces, so far superior to them in number of ships, minded nothing, thro an accountable negligence: \Some Regiments of Highlande Dragoons, in their march thro England, men of huge stature & extremely well appointed, & disciplined: One of them being pursued by a Dutchman, whom it seemes he had reprochd for cowardlinesse in our late fight when in church: The Highlander with his sword struck of his head with one blow, & cleft the scull of another Dutchman with him down to the chin: \A [very young] Gentleman named Wilson, the [younger] son of one that had not above 200 pounds per Annum: lived in the Garb & Equipage of the richest Noble man in the nation for House, Furniture, Coaches & 6 horses, & other saddle horses; Table & all things accordingly: Redeemed his Fathers Estate, gave portion to his sister; being challenged by one Laws a Scots-man, was now killed in Duel, not fairly, the quarell being because he tooke away his owne sister from lodging in a house, where this Laws had a Wench: which the Mistris of the lodging thinking a disparagement to her House, & loosing by it this Gentlewoman (namely Wilsons sister) who was a profitable Guest, Instigated the Scotchman to revenge it: Laws is taken & condemned for Murder: But the Mysterie is, how this so young gentleman, a sober young person, & very inoffensive, & of good fame, did live in so extraordinary Equipage; it not being discovered by any possible industry, by any his most intimate Friends, no, tho they had endeavoured to make him reveale it in drink: But they could never find it out: It did not appeare he either was kept by Women or Play, or Coyning, Padding; or that he had any dealing in Chymistry, but that he would sometimes say, that if he should live [to] never so greate an age, he had wherewith to maintain it in the same affluence. He was very young, Civil, well natured, of no greate force in Understanding, but very Indifferent parts: All which was subject of much discourse and admiration: \24 To Lond about settling some buisinesse in order to my going into Surrey. Calling at Gressham Coll: I went to visite Mr. Waller our Secretary, an extraordinary young Gent: & [of greate] accomplishments: skild in Mathematics, Anatomie, Musick, Painting both in Oyle and Miniature to a greate perfection, an excellent Botanist, Ingraves rarely in Brasse, writes in Latine, & is a poet, & with all this exceedingly modest: His house an Academy of it selfe: I carried him to see Brompton Parke, where he was in admiration at the store of rare plants & method he found in that noble nursery, & how well cultivated &c. \Greate alterations among the Greate ones at Court, & among the Officers; new honors"$60*(H&a@(" conferred; The Garter given the Earl of Shrewsbery, Secretary of State againe (upon the going out of L. of Notingham) the Duke Hamilton being dead at Edinburge: \The Parliament Prorogued til September. \A publique Bank of 140000 pounds set up by Act of Parliament among severall other Acts [&  X 4Lotteries] for mony to carry on the War:1 \The King went towards Flanders, but the Wind contrary returns againe:  Xx41 The Bank of England, see below p.395. \The whole moneth of April, without a showre. \A greate Rising of People in Buckinghamshire, upon the declaration of a famous Preacher (& til now, reputed sober & religious man) that our Lord Christ appearing to him on the 16 of this moneth, told him he was now come downe, & would appeare publicly at Pentecost & gather all the Saints Jew & Gentile, & leade them to Jerusalem, & begin the Millenium, & destroying & Judging the wiccked, deliver the government of the world to them &c. This bringing greate multitude of people to follow this Preacher, divers of the Zelous brought their Goods, & considerable summs of mony, & began to live in imitation of the primitive Saints; minding no private concernes, but were continualy dancing & singing Alalujas night & day; what the end of it may be, I know not, if there be not timely care taken to disperse them before they get to Lond: where there are such multitudes of disscenters & sects, & a mobile so dangerous: & so many discontents, so loose Governments, in summ a whole nation so unsettled & distracted: This brings to mind what I lately happened to find in Alstedius, that the Thousand years should indeede begin the very yeare 1694: It is in his Encyclopedia, my book printed neere 60 yeares since: ***  XP4q May ă \4th. I went this day, with my Wife & 3 Servants from Says-Court, & removing much furniture of all sorts, books, Pictures, Hangings, bedding &c: to furnish the Appartment my Brother assignd me; & now after more than 40 yeares, to spend the rest of my dayes with him at Wotton, where I was borne; leaving my House, & 3 servants at Deptford (full furnished) to my Son in Law Draper, to passe the summer in & what longer time he thought good to make use of it: I Pray God this solemn Remove may be to the Glory of his mercy, & the good of my family: *** \20 The Wet hindred me from going to Church, Prayers were here: \I had a slip downe some steps, brused my back; blessed be God it was no worse: \27 ... There was no offering, & very few Communicants, of both which I complained, & desired it might be reformed if possible; The truth is, The present Incumbent, put in by my good natured Brother, upon the importunity of Relations, was one who having another fat living, tooke very little care of this parish, putting it under an hireling, tho I believe a good man, but one altogether without spirit or Vigour: The same did my Bro: to the next Parish in his Gift also, to a Relative of his Ladys, slothfull, & fitter to have ben any thing than a divine: The Lord pardon this fault & reforme it in his good time: \This weeke we had newes of my Lord Tiveots having Cut his owne Throat, through what discontent, not yet said: he had ben not many yeares past my Collegue in the Commission of the Privy-Seales, & old Acquaintance & one very sober & Religiously disposed: Lord what are [we] without thy continual Grace:"'70*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ\This very same Weeke we were also told that Coll: William Leg, bro: to the late Lord Dartmoth, made himselfe likewise away by the same desperate action: He indeede was a prophane wild Creature of whom I can say little good, ingaging me once at Hampton Court in a debauched Conversation: The Lord pardon: \My Lord Falkland (grandson to the learned Lord Falkland secretary of state to K: Charles 1: & slaine in his service:) died also now of small pox: He was a pritty, briske understanding industrious young gent: had formerly ben faulty, now very much reclaimed: Had the fortune to marry a very greate fortune, besides fortunately intitled to a vast summ, being his share of the Spanish Wrack, taken up at the Expense of divers Adventurers: was now from a Scotch Vicount made an English Baron, designed Ambassador for Holland; had ben Treasurer of the Navy & advancing extreamly in the new Court: All this now gon in a moment, & I the Title extinct in him, I know not whether the Estate devolves not my Couse Carew &c: It was at my Lord Falklands, (whose Lady importuned us to let our daughter be with her some time) That that Deare Child tooke the same infection which kild her, some years before: The Lord be mercifull to us, & remove all his Judgements from us, restore health & peace & Trade:... ***  XH 4o June ă \13 ... After much Expectations & hopes of making a descent on Brest; we have ben fowly defeated to the losse of Col: Talmash one of the best Commanders, & some number of men: what event the Army in Flanders will be, is now our apprehensions, upon this so unprosperous a beginning the Campagne: ***  X4q July ă \8 ... The first greate Banke for a fund of Mony, being now established by Acct of Parliament was now filled & compleated to the summ of 120000 pounds, & put under the government of the most able & wealthy Cittizens of Lond, by which all who adventured any summs had 4 per Centum, so long as it lay in the banke, & had power either to take it out againe at pleasure or Transferr it: \Never more glorious & steady Summer weather, Corne & all other fruits in extraordinary plenty generaly: \15 ... My Lord Berkley burnt Dieppe & Haverdegrace with the bombs in revenge of the defeat at Brest: This manner of destructive warring begun every where by the French, tho it be exceeding ruinous, especialy falling on the poorer people, & is very barbarous, dos not seeme to tend to make any sooner end of the Warr but rather to exasperate, & incite to revenge: \Greate expectation of Action in Flanders, where the greate stresse of the quarrell lies: Admiral Russel gon with a greate fleete into the Mediterranean, to disturbe the seige of Barcelona &c: \Many Executed at London &c: for Clipping mony, which was now don to that intollerable degree, that there was hardly any mony stiring that was intrinsialy worth above halfe the value, to such a strange exorbitance things were arived, beyond that any age can shew example:... ***  X#4bf August ă "$80*(H&a@("Ԍ\4 I went to visite my Co: G:Evelyn of Nutfeild, where I found a Family of ten Children, five sonns, & as many daughters: all of them beautifull Virgins, women growne & extreamely well fashioned; all painted also in one piece very well by Mr. Lutterell in Crayon upon Copper and seeming to be as finely painted as the best Miniature: They are the Children of 2 most extraordinary beautifull Wives: The Boys were abroad at Schoole: After dinner I returned againe, where I found my poore Wife exceedingly afflicted with the stone, now of late very much increasing her paine; from which I pray God to deliver her. ***  X4Y September ă \13 Hearing that my daughter Draper began to Complaine & be uneasy of her greate belly, we went on the 13th towards Deptford, hoping to get thither some competent time before there  X( 4would be neede of a Midwife: But were met upon the way about Meecham1, with the good newes of her being delivered of a Boy the night before, about betweene 7 & 8 a clocke: & so found her, after it seemes, a very sharp Conflict, very well layd to all appearance, & so continualy without any unusual Accident for 2 or 3 days; but after that seized with a feavour, loosenesse, vapours & other evil symptoms which increased upon her to that degree, that on [<21>] the friday senight after, we had very little hopes of life: so as receiving the B:Sacrament, we recommended her condition to Almighty God, not expecting her to continue many hours after: But it pleased God (of his infinite mercy) that escaping that night, Sir Tho Melington & Dr. Cade (the physitians) gave us so hopes & so from thence day to day, her feavor, & fits abating, tho very slowly, exceeding thirst, & no sort of rest, put us into many doubts what would be the issue of it: She is now God be praised in some more ease, lesse thirsty, now & then sleepes; but still so exceeding Weake & low in Spirits, as puts us in feare: God of his infinite mercy restore her: \I never saw a finer or goodlier Child: The Baptisme is, against my will, deferrd, expecting when Sir T: Draper (who is to be one of the Godfathers) can come downe, who it seemes is gon a journey, & returnes not til some days: \And this dangerous condition of my daughter hindering us from other duties; kept me from Church two Sondays:... *** \30: Dr. Holden at Deptford Church on: 8:Rom.13: shewing what was meant by the flesh: Naturaly, the rational man as he is composed of flesh & blood: Thus the philosophers: But by divines, is understood all either disorderly or superfluous & sinfull gratifications of the senses, whereby the spiritual life is any way impeached: such as not onely all the more hainous sinns, but all sort of immoral Acctions whatsoever, all unnecessary pleasures, pomps, indulgences to ease, splendor, outward appearances, living without some calling or laudabe Imployment for the benefit of the publique as well as ourselves, cares & solicitude for any thing, that may distract, desire of Riches, Honor, Reputation, yea even of learning for curiosity, or estemation of men; These & the like were all of them Carnal, whose end would be sorrow, & death eternal without Repentance, & Reformation, & therfore That a Christians Duty was to mortifie & withdraw his Affections from all such things, to strive to live [in] a modest course, to be content with humble & decent Circumstances, moderat & Indifferent for the things of this world;  X$41ĠMitcham, Surrey. studious to do all he could, & so setting out the infinite pleasure & satisfaction of such a life beyond all the pleasures this world could afford, in consideration of the trasitorinesse"H&90*(H&a@t*" & uncertaintie of things; & the exceeding troubles which those who abound with them are obnoxious to:... ***  X 46b October ă \2 My Daughter visibly mending of her hitherto dangerous Condition & giving us greate hope of a perfect recovery, I went to Lond: about severall buisinesses: \5 I went to Paules to see the Choire now finished, as to the stone work & that part both without & within the scaffolds struck: some exceptions might yet perhaps be taken without the placing Columns upon Pilasters, at the East Tribunal: As to the rest certainly a piece of Architecture without reproch: The pulling out of the Formes, like drawers from under the stalles, is very ingenious: \I went also to see the building beginning near St. Giless where seaven streetes make a starr from a Doric Pillar placd in the middle of Circular Area. Said to be built by Mr. Neale, Introducer of the late Lotteries in Imitation of those of Venice: now at this time set up here, for  X 4himselfe twise and now one of: 20000 for the state1. *** \8 I Returned to Deptford finding my Daughter perfectly freed from her feavor: \11 This day Mr. Holden our Viccar Christned my Grandchild by the name of Thomas, being the Name of Sir Thomas Draper of Sunning Hill in Barkshire Unkle to my Son-in-Law, My selfe being the other Godfather: The Godmother the Lady Temple his Aunt: The Infant (much against my desire) being thus long from Baptise; by reason of Sir Thomass Indisposition which hindred him from comming abroad; & that my daughter had [not] ben recovered of her so late dangerous sicknesse: ***  X4Z November ă \22 Being to visite the B: of Lincoln newes came in of the death of the AB. of Canterbury, who few days before was struck with a paralytical palsey: [Died the same day & moneth that AB. Sancroft was put out, so tis said Lewes XIII was borne the day & houre some yeares after Hen 4 was slaine.] *** \23. An extraordinary sickly time especialy of the Small pox of which divers considerable persons died: \K. William had 2 fitts of an Ague:... \Parliament Assembled: The State Lottery drawing, where one Mr. Cock a French Refugie, & a president in the parliament of Paris for the Reformed: drew a lot of 1000 pounds per ann: \24 I returnd to Deptford, & was so very ill of the cold I had taken that it turnd to a Colick, so as I could not go the next Sonday to church, this indisposed me til 28.  X`"41 Seven Dials, near Covent Garden, built by Thomas Neale (d.1699). The column is now at Webridge, Surrey. \29 Severall buisinesses carried me againe to Lond: I took leave of severall friends, [30] made the Bishop of Lincoln my Proxy to elect a fit person to succeede Mr. Bentley who now made"%:0*(H&a@)" the Kings Library-keeper at St. James, was laying down Mr. Boyles Lecture: I spake then also to the Bishop, to assist the procuring an Acct of Parliament, to rectifie some things deficient in Mr. Boyles settlement of that particular: \I visited L: Marques of Normanby, & had much discourse concerning the King Chas 2d being poisoned: also concerning the Quinquean which the Physitians would not give the King, at a time when in a dangerous Ague it was the onely thing could ever cure him, out of envy, because it had ben brought into vogue by Mr. Tabore an Apothecary; Til Dr. Short (to whom the K. sent to have his opinion of it privately, he being reputed a papist, but was in troth a very honest good Christian): he sent him word, it was the onely thing could save his life, & then the King, injoynd his physitians to give it him, & was recovered: Being asked by this Lord why they would not prescribe it: Dr. Lower said, it would spoile their practise or some such expression: & at last confessed it was a Remedy fit onely for Kings: \Exception was taken that the late A.Bishop did not cause any of his Chaplins to use any Office for the sick during his sicknesse. \I went hence to the R: Society, where I was elected of the Council this yeare, much against my will, as likely to be absent most part of my time in Surry, whither I was going in a few days: I returnd to Deptford: ***  X4[ December ă \9 ... My Wife so dangerously ill of a defluction, that I was faine to returne the Coach which my Bro sent to carry us to Wotton: \I had newes that my deare & worthy Reverend ffriend Dr. Tenison Bishop of Lincoln, was now made Arch Bishop of Canterbery for which I thank God & rejoice, he being most worthy of it both for his Learning, Piety & Prudence: I told him the weeke before, that it would be so: *** \16 ... Mr. Wells Curate at Abinger had a letter from me to the A Bishop of Cant to procure him a living in Surrey neere Gildford, in place of one Mr. Gerey, who was unhappily killed, by reaching a Gun to his son in a Tree, watching to shoote some rabbets, the Cock being up as he delivered the but end of the piece to his son it went of & hitting the father in the forehead miserably slew him: \22 My son & daughter Draper went for Lond: to passe the rest of the winter there, having ben kindly with us till now, that my Wife recoverd from her late sicknesse & was able to leave her Chamber: *** \25 Deptford Our Viccar on 3.Gen:2d. I received the holy Communion: God make me mindfull. Said the Queene ill of the small pox. \29 I went together with my Wife to Wotton, for the rest of the Winter; which with long frost & snow was I think the very sharpest I ever past: The small pox increasing & exceedingl mortal: Queene Mary died thereoff, full of Spotts: Died the 28: & I think was buried 2 or 3 days after: What this unexpected Accident may produce as to the present Government, many are the discourses, & a little time may shew: The K. seemed mightily afflicted, as indeede it behoved him: ***  b$4Âxs1695`!>#=Ăy  =s1695m 1695 ă  XH&40d January ă "';0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ*** \8 I sent my Grandson John to Eaton, who had ben here at Wotton the Christmas: \13 So very fierce was the frost, as kept us still from church: The Thames frozen over; the Infection of the small pox &c: increased to 500 more this weeke than the former: \20 The frost & continual snows has now lasted neere 5 weekes, with that severity, as hindered me yet from going to our distant parish church to my no small sorrow: The small pox still raging: Greate expressions in most parts of England, & in Holland exceeding, for the death of the late Queene: The King & Princesse Ann (til now displeased with the Court, upon some suggestions, which made the two sisters strang to one another) now so fully reconciled, that she is invited to keepe her Court at White-hall (till now living privately at Berkelyhouse) & desired to take into her family divers servants of the Queene, to maintain which the King had assignd her 5000 a quarter: Greate preparation in the meane time for a most magnificent funeral: All people in Mourning; Addresse of Condolence from all parts both at home, & from abroad:  X 4_ February ă \3 The weather & season had hitherto continued so very severe & the snow so deepe, & now so slabby, sippery & cold; as we could not be at church without danger: I do not know I have ben so many Sondays absent from it, above these 40 yeares, to my greate sorrow: ... \The Parliament are upon divers projects for mony, as chimny mony againe, mulcts of all Batchelors, Married men & children in order to a funds for a new lottery &c: \The long Frost intermitted but not quite gon: *** \17 Cald to Lond by Lord Godolphin one of the Lords of the Tress: offering me the Kings making me Treasurer of the Hospital designed to be for emerited seamen &c: to be built at Greenewich, which I deliberated about &c. *** \24 I saw the Q: lie in state at W.hall, all now in pompous mourning: *** \27 I dined with Sir Jo Jardine & a learned french divine of the Oratorians Converted &c: saw my pretty Godson: \Visited the Lord Marq: of Normanby &c who told me K. Char: had a designe to buy all Kings streete & build it nobly, it being the streete leading to Westminster: which the expense of the Q: funerall would have don; the pomp of which cost above 50000 pounds: very unseasonably & against her desire: ***  X`"4ri March ă \5 Was the Queens funeral infinitely expensive, never so universal a Mourning, all the Parliament men had Cloaks given them: 400 poore women, all the streets hung, & the middle of"$<0*(H&a@(" streets boarded & covered with black cloth: there was all the Nobility, Mayor & Aldermen, Judges, &c: *** \8 ... supped at the B: of Lichfild & Co: who related me the pious behaviour of the Queene in all her sicknesse which was admirable & the noble designe she had in hand, her expensive Charity, never enquiring of the opinion of the partys if objects of charity: that a Cabinet opened some time after her decease, a paper was found wherein she had desired her body might not be opned or any expense on her funerall extraordinary when ever she should happen to dye; both which were not performd, finding this paper too late after all was already prepared: Other excellent things under her owne hand to the very least of her debts, which were very small, & every thing in that exact method as seldom is found in any private persons: In summ such an admirable Creature (abating for her taking the Crown without a more due Apology) as dos if possible out do the Renowned Q:Eliz herselfe: \10 Mr. Stringfellow at Trinity Ch: on his former Text: dined at the Earle of Sunderland, with my Lord Spencer, newly married to the Lady Arbella daughter to the late Duke of Newcastle: my Lord shewed me his incomparable Library now againe improved by many books bought at the sale of Sir Charl Scarbrs, which was the very best collection especialy of Mathematical books that was I believe in all Europe: once designed for the Kings library of St. James but the Queene dying (who was the greate patronesse of that designe &c) it was let fall, and so miserably dissipated: \Now was pub: the new Edition of Cambdens Brit: with greate Additions, those to Surrey mine: so as I had one presented to me: Dr. Gale shewed me a MS. of some parts of the New Test. in vulg: Lect: that had belonged to a Monastery in the north of Scotland, which he esteemed to be above 800 yeares old: some considerable various readings observable as in 1.John: & Genealogies of St. Luke, left out &c: query more: \13 I went to see my house & family left at Deptford 16 whence to Wotton the 17 At Abinger preached Mr. Morus on 3. Matt: 12.13: \The season continued yet very cold: \Little devotion or observance of this Lenten preparation, Good-friday &c in the Country: \24 Easterday Mr. Duncomb, parson of this Parish, which he hardly comes to above once a yeare, tho but 7 or 8 miles off, preached at Wotton on 116 Psal.11. 12.13, in a florid discourse read out of his notes: The holy Sacrament followed, which he administered with very little reverence, leaving out many prayers & exhortations, nor was there any Oblations &c: This ought to be reformed; but my good Bro: did not well consider, when he gave away this Living and the next: \Very fine weather for the season: abating sharp Eastern winds. \The sermons now preached not onely in Lond, but almost thro the whole Nation, were upon the losse of the incomparable Queene, so universaly & worthily beloved & admired. \The latter part of this moneth sharp & severe cold, with much snow, & hard frost, no appearance of Spring: \31...Most prodigious corruption among the parliament men, by the bribes they had taken, many accused, & Expelled: ***  X(#4n April ă \21 ... The Spring now begins to appeare yet the trees hardly leavd: \Sir T Cooke discovers what prodigious Bribes have ben given by some of the E.India Company [out] of the Stock, which makes an extraordinary Clamor."'=0*(H&a@7+"Ԍ\An Act of Parliament to Tax all Batchelors, Widowers, Marriages, Burials &c: never so many Private Bill passed for unsettling Estates, shewing the wonderfull prodigality & decay of Families: ***  X 4q May ă \[9 went to Lond:] In order to the first meeting of the Commissioners for Erecting an Hospital for Sea-men at Greenewich: it was at the Gild-Hall; present L.Archbishop of Cant: L:Keeper, L. Privy Seale, Lord Godolphin, Duke of Shrewsbery, Duke of Leedes, E. of Dorset, Monmouth: Commissioners of the Admiralty & Navy, Sir Rob: Clayton, Sir Chr Wren, & severall more: The Commission read by Mr. Lowndes Secretary to the Lords of the Tressury, Surveyor Gen: *** \24 To Lond: where we made report of the state of Gr: House, & how the standing part might for 6000 pounds be made servicable at present & what Ground would be requisit for the whole designe: \My Lord Keeper ordered me to prepare a booke for Subscriptions, and a preamble to it. Went this Evening to Deptford: ***  Xh4o June ă \9 ... Went afterwards to see Sir Jo: Mordens Charity or Hospital on Blackheath now building  X4for the Reliefe of Merchands that have failed, a very worthy Charity & noble building:1 ***  X4q July ă \6 I dind at Lambeth making my first Visit to my L A Bishop, where was much company & greate cheere: After Prayers in the Evening, my Lord, made me stay, to shew me his house, furniture & Garden, which was all very fine, & far beyond the usual A Bishops: not as affected by this A.B: but as being bought ready furnished of his predecessor: we discoursed of severall publique matters, particularly of the Princesse of Denmark, who made so little a figure, & now after greate expectation, not with child &c: so I returned to Lond: *** \14 No sermon at church, but after Prayers the Names read of all the Parishioners in order to gathering the Tax of 4 shill &c for Marriage, burials, &c: a very imprudent & impertinent duth Tax and especialy this reading the names, so most went out of all the Churches: Afternoone the Viccar preached on 24. Act: 16: ***  X`"41 Morden College, by Wren, and still extant. Built out of gratitude for the safe return of merchant ships from Turkey, a dangerous undertaking, see p. 389, 392. \23 Dyed my Grandson & Godson Tho: Draper of a Convulsion fit at Nurse, just as they were about to have weaned it: A very hopefull, strong and lovely Child; to the very greate Griefe & affliction to us all, & especialy to my poore daughter, now big with another: The Lord pardon"%>0*(H&a@)" what ever in us might provoke him to deale thus severely & grant us his mercy in the preservation of my daughter with the fruite she now gos with: Amen: ***  X 4bf August ă \25 Mr. Offley at Abinger on 26.Matt:13. Concerning Mary Magdalens Anointing our B:Saviour: too much time spent in the Controversy whether it were the same Mary anointed him before &c without any neede of insisting on a nicity among the Country people here, the rest of his discourse but just tollerable: This was the first time I have heard him preach: He has this Living of my Bro: who too kindly bestowed both this & Wotton, to his Wifes Relations, without considering that two such good livings & so neere each other fitted one of the Learnedst & best preachers of England:... ***  X 4Y September ă \10 Tuesday a quarter of an hour before 11, was my daughter Draper brought to bed of a daughter: for which God be praised: \15 ... My good & worthy friend Cap: Gifford, who that he might get some competency to live decently, adventured all he had in a Voyage of 2 years to the E. Indies, was with another greate ship, taken by some French MenofWarr, almost within sight of England, to the lose of neere 700000 pounds: to my greate sorrow, & pity of his Wife: he being also a valiant & Industrious man: The losses of this sort to the Nation has ben immense; & all thro the negligence & little care of the Government, to secure the same neere our owne Coasts, of infinite more concernment to the publique than spending their time in bombing & ruining two or three paltry Towns, Calais, St. Malo &c in which so many poore Creatures are destroyed, without any benefit, or weakening our Enemys, who, tho they began, ought not to have ben imitated by an hostility totally averse to humanity, & especialy to Christianity. *** \29 Very cold weather: little Grandaughter Christned Mary: Godfather Mr. Roger Draper, my sister Draper (Niece Glan: standing for [her]): Sir Purbeque Temple unkle to my son Draper died sudenly: a greate funeral at Adiscomb, his lady being owne Aunt to my Son in Law, who hopes for a good fortune, there being no heire &c: I had most comfortable newes from my son of his perfect health in Ireland, for which I immediatly blessed God: & beseech him to confirme & improve it to the health of his soule: \There had ben a new meeting of the Commissioners about the Hosp: at Greenewich upon the new Commission, where my L. Major, Lord of Cant: Lord Keeper, &c appeared, but by reason of some Indisposition I could not be there: ***  X`"46b October ă \13 ... The King went a progresse into the North, to shew himselfe to the people &c against the calling the next Parliament, was every where complemented, but not so at Oxford as he expected, wherfore he hardly stayed an houre there, & having seene the Theatre, did not receive the Banquet prepared &c: \We now lost 3 most rich E. India Ships worth above 2 million."'?0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ\I dind with Dr. Gale at S. Paules Shoole, who shewed me many incomparable passages out of some [antient] Platonists MSS. concerning the H. Trinity: which this greate & learned person would publish, with many other rare things, were he encouraged, and eased the burden of Teaching. *** \25 The A Bishop & my selfe went alone to Hammersmith to visit & see Sir Sam: Moreland who was start-blind & could not see at all: a very Mortified sight & person: shewed us his Invention of Writing which was very ingenious, also his wooden Kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling, & other pretty & usefull Inventions of Mills, pumps &c. & the Pump he has erected that serves water to his Garden & to passengers, with an Inscription, & brings from a filthy part of the Thames, neere it, a most perfect & pure water: He had newly buried 200 pounds worth of Music books as he sayd 6. foote under ground, as being love songs & vanity, but playes himselfe on his Theorb, psalms & religious hymns. &c. ***  XH 4Z November ă \13 Famous & very chargeable Fireworkes (now the King being returned from his progresse staying at Althorp 7 or 8 days, at L. Sunderlands, & mightily entertained) were shewed befor my L. Rumny, Master of the Ordinance, where the King stood, viz. St. Jamess greate Square: ***  X4[ December ă \1 ... I dined at my Lord Sunderlands, now the greate favorite, & underhand politician, but not adventuring on any Character, as obnoxious to the people, for his having changed his Religion twise &c: *** \22 ... The Parliament wondrous Intent on ways to Reforme the Coine; setting out a Proclamation prohibiting the currency of half Crown &c which made much confusion among the people: \24 I Returned to Wotton, not without greate danger, loosing our way neere the precipice of Whitedowne, it being quite dark. ***  bx4m 1696 ă  X 40d January ă *** \12 ... Greate confusion & distraction by reason of the clipd mony & the difficulty found in reforming it. A clowdy season: Two suns seene: \19 ... The house of Comm: reject the Kings propose to give the revenue of the Principality of  X%4Wales to Banting1 his favorite: mild uncertain weather."%@0*(H&a@)"Ԍ\26: A very wet season hindred our going to church:  X4_ February ă \2: Greate Indisposition by paine in my kidnies, thro gravell &c: kept me from church this day also, but we had the Office by Mr. Wye &c: \This was an extraordinary wett season, tho temperate as to cold. \The Parliament intent on reforming the Coine, divers Wracks, at Sea. \The R: Sovraigne burnt at Chattham, that ship, which built 1637 was perhaps the original  X@4Cause of all the after trouble to this day:2 \An Earth quake in Dorset-shire by Portland, or rather a sinking of the ground suddenly for a large space, neere the quarries of stone, hindring the conveyance of that materill for the finishing of St. Paules: \I was much afflicted with gravell: *** \26 There was this weeke a Conspiracy of about 30 Knights, Gent, Captaines, many of them Irish & English Papists & non Jurors or Jacobites (as calld) to murder K. William, upon the first opportunity of his going either from Kensington, to hunting, or the Chappell, & upon a signal of fire to be given from Dover Ciffe to Calis, an Invasion designed, where there were in order to it, a very greate Army in readinesse, Men-of Warr & transport ships innumerable to joyne with a general Insurrection here, The Duke of Barwick being seacretly come to London to head them, & K. James attending at Calis with the French Army: but it being discovered by I think the Duke of & other of the Confederats, & by one of their owne party; & a 1000 pounds, to who soever could apprehend any of the 30 named: The whole designe was frustrated, most of the Ingaged taken & securd: The Parliament: Citty & all the nation congratulating the deliverance & Votings & Resolutions, that if ever K. William should be Assassinated, it should be revenged upon the Papists & Party throout the nation, an Act of Association drawing up to impower the Parliament to sit upon any such Accident, til the Crowne should be disposd of according to the late settlement at the Revolution; All Papists in the meane time to be banished 10 miles from London; which put this nation into an incredible disturbance & general Animosity against the Fr: King, & K. James: The Militia of the Nation raised, several Regiments sent for out of Flanders, & all things put into a posture to encounter a descent: which was so timed abroad, that, whilst we were already much confused, & discontented upon the greatnesse of the Taxes, and corruption of the mony &c, we had likely to have had very few Men of Warr neere our Coasts; but so it pleased God, the V Admiral Rooke wanting a Wind to pursue his Voyage to the Straites, That Squadron, with what otherforcesat Portsmouth & other places, were still  X4 in 1  X4ԠHans Willem Bentinck, Earl of Portland.`>#v2 See p.32. the Channell, & soone brought up to joyne with the rest of the Ships which could be gotten together: so as there is hope this Plot may be broken; It is certaine it had likely have ben very fatal to the [danger of the] whole Nation, had it taken Effect; so as I looke on it as a very greate deliverance & prevention by the Providence of God; for tho many did formerly pitty K. Jamess Condition, this designe of Assassination, & bringing over a French Army, did much alienate many of his Friends, & was like to produce a more perfect establishment of K. William, it likewise so much concerning the whole Confederacy: What it will yet end in, God onely knows, may he of his Infinite mercy to this sinfull & miserably divided Church & nation, put an end to this bloody unchristian Warr, & restore peace & quietnesse:  X%4ri March ă "'A0*(H&a@x+"Ԍ\1 ... The wind northerly & Easterly all this Weeke brought so many of our men of Warr together, & before the french Coast, that tho most of the French finding their designe detected & prevented, made a shift to get into Calais & Dunkirk roode, we wanting fireships & bombs, to encounter & disturbe them; but they were yet so ingagd among the sands & flatts that tis said they cutt their Masts, & slung over their greate Gunns to lighten their Vessels: we are yet upon them, & what the Event will be must be expected: This deliverance is due onely to God: The French preparation was at once not onely to invade England, but Scotland & Ireland also; most seacretly & solemny Concerted, by all the French Commanders & polititians, that making the seate of the Warr here, the Confederats might at once be so distressed, as to submitt to his Arme: but this God has in greate mercy prevented: *** \15 ... Three of the unhappy wretches (whereoff one a Priest) executed this weeke for intending to assassinate the King; accknowledging their intention, but acquitting K. James, of instigating them to it in that manner, & dying very penetently: [Divers more in danger & some very Considerable persons:] ***  X4n April ă \10 ... Now were the quarters of Sir W: Perkins & Mr. Friend, lately executed on the plot, set up with Perkins head on Temple barre, a dismal sight, which many pittied: I think there was never any such at Temple barre till now and one in K. Char: Time, Sir Tho: Armestronge: \Still people secured on suspicion of the plot & more to be tried: *** \23 I went to Eaton, dind with Dr. Godolphin the Provost. The Scholemaster assured me that there had not ben in 20 yeares a more pregnant youth in that Place than my Grandson: I returnd that evening with Lady Jane Leueson & her daughter &c, who went to place Sir William Windham at that Schole: \I went to see the Kings house at Kensington with some Ladys: The House is very noble, tho not greate; the Gallerys furnished with all the best Pictures of all the Houses, of Titian, Raphel, Corregio, Holben, Julio Romano, Bassan, V:Dyke: Tintoret, & others, with a world of Porcelain; a very pretty private Library; the Gardens about it very delicious: *** \28 ... Oates dedicated a most villanous reviling booke against K.James, which he presumed to present K.William, who certainly could not but abhorr it, speaking so infamously & untruely of his late beloved Queenes owne father: ***  X(#4q May ă \4 ... I went this afternoone to Deptford to take a little Country aire & see my little famely left there."%B0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \13 I went to Lond: to Visie my Sonn, newly come out of Ireland, Indisposd, with my Daughter his Wife &c: returnd next day: *** \24 ... Mony still continuing exceedingly scarse, so as none was either payed or received, but on Trust, the mint not supplying sufficient for common necessities: \An Association with an Oath required of all Lawyers & Officers, upon paine of Premunire, where men were obliged to renounce K.James as no rightfull King, & to revenge K.Williams death if happening by any Assaination: This to be taken by all the Concerned by a day limited, so as the Courts of Chancery & K.Bench hardly heard any Cause all Easter Terme: so many crowding to take the Oath &c. \This was censurd as a very intangling contrivance of the Parliament: In expectation that many in high office would lay downe, & others succeede: \Now were many Gent. discharged out of Prison, taken up on suspicion of the late Plot. \29. We settled divers officers, & other matters relating to Workemen for the begining of the Greenewich Hospital. ***  Xh4o June ă \1. I went to Deptford to dispose of our Goods, being [in order to] lett it for 3 years to V.Admiral Benbow, with Conditions to keepe the Garden &c. \4: A Comitty meeting at W-hall, about the Hospital at Greenewich at Sir Chr: Wrenn, his Majesties Surveyor Gen: We made the first agreement with divers Workemen & for Materials, & gave the first Order for the proceding on the foundations, ordering payments to be Weekly to the Workmen & a general Accompt to be monethly: \I then received Orders from the Lords of the Tressury for the Kings 2000 pounds to be employed on that work: *** \11 Dined at my L:Pembroke L.Privy-Seale, a very worthy Gent: shewed me divers rare Pictures of very many of the old & best Masters, especially that of M:Angelo, a man gathering fruite to give a Woman, & a large booke of the best drawings of the old Masters: \Sir Jo: Fenwick one of the Conspiritors taken: \Greate Subscriptions in Scotland to their East India Company &c: \I let my House at Deptford to V:Admiral Benbow for 3 years &c. \The Spaniards receive an overthr in Catalonia: \Want of current money to carry on not onely the smalest concernes, but for daily provisions in the Common Markets: Ginnys lowered to 22s: & greate summs daily transported into Holland, where it yeelds more, which with other Treasure sent thither to pay the Armies, nothing  X`"4considerable coined of the new & now onely current stamp1, breeding such a scarsity, that tumults are every day feared; no body either paying or receiving any mony; so Imprudent was the late Parliament, to damne the old (tho clipt & corrupted) til they had provided supplies. To this add the fraud of the Bankers & Goldsmiths who having gotten immense riches by extortion, keepe up their Treasure, in Expectation of a necessity of advancing its Value. Duncumb not long since, a meane Goldsmith, having made a purchase of neere 90000 pounds of the late D. of Buckinghams Estate, & reputed to have neere as much in Cash &c: Banks & Lotteries every day"'C0*(H&a@7+" set up, besides Taxes intollerable, & what is worse & cause of all this, Want of Publique Spirite, in a Nation [daily] sinking under soe many Calamities. *** \[20 I gave my Lord Cheny a Visite at Chelsey. I saw those ingenious Water works invented by Mr. Vinstanley wherein were some things very surprising & extraordinary.] *** \25 A Triall at the Comm: Pleas betweene the Lady Purbec Temple & Mr. Temple [a Nephew of Sir Purbeck] concerning a Deede pretended to take place of several Wills; The Deede proved to be forged: The Cause went on my Ladys side: This [much] Concerning my Son in law Draper [appearing], I stayed almost all day in Court to hear the Cause: after which a greate supper was given to the Jury: being persons of the best Condition in Bucckinghamshire. *** \30 I went with a select committee of the Commissioners for the fabrik of Greenewich Hospital, & with Sir Chr: Wren the Surveyor, where with him I laied the first stone of that intended foundation; precisely at 5 a clock in the Evening after we had dined together: Mr. Flamsted the Kings Astronomical Profesor observing the punctual time by Instruments: Note that one of the workmen in helping to place the stone, being a Corner large stone, grating his fingers against the gravelly banke, some drops of blood fell upon it: We afterwards returned to Lond:  XP4q July ă \4. Note that my Lord Godolphin was the very first of the Subscriber who payed any mony towards this noble fabric: *** \26 ... Mr. Benting came unexpectedly from the King, for supply of mony to pay his Army, exceedingly disturbed us, so little mony in the nation, that Exchequer Tallys (of which I had for 2000 pounds upon the best fonds in England the Post Office) nobody would accept for 30 pounds per Cent advantage. ***  X4*1 Hammered coinage, struck until 1662 (see p. 139), now ceased to be legal tender.  Xx4bf August ă \9 ... I drank Epsom waters some days: nothing of publique this weeke save the Bank lending the King 200000 pounds for the Army in Flanders, that having don nothing against the Enemy, had so exhausted the Treasure of the Nation that one could not have borrowed mony under 14 or 15 per Cent on bills nor Exchequer Tallies the best funds for 30 per Cent, so miserably had we lost our best credit: Reasonable good harvest weather: *** "$D0*(H&a@("Ԍ\23 ... Clippers & abusers of the publique Coine every day discovered, & all these disorders evidently occasioned by the dishonesty of the Goldsmith & Banker, &c: \29 I went to Lambeth, dined with the A Bishop: there had that morning ben a Court upon the Complaint against Dr. Watson the Bishop of Bristol suspended for Simonie; The AB: told me how unsatisfied he was with the Cannon Law, & how exceedingly unreasonable all their pleadings appeared to him: After dinner I mooved him for Dr. Bohune for a preferment promised me for him; & told him how much I had ben solicited to Bespeake his suffrage for the Deane of Carlisle, to succeede the Bishop of that Diocesse, now very old: As also concerning Okewood Chapell &c: ***  X4Y September ă \6 ... I went to Congratulate the Marriage of a Daughter of Mrs. Boscawen, to the son of Sir Phil: Meadows: she is niepce to my Lord Godolphin: They were Married at Lambeth 30 Aug: by the Archbishop: a most vertuous discreete young Vergin & as hopefull a young Gentleman ... \13 ... After confident discourses of the poysning the Q. of Spaine & cutting the Infant alive out of her belly when dead, & of the French Kings death, waigers layed of the truth, not one word was found true, so strangely was the nation given to lying: \After above 6 monethes being at Lond, about the Hospital at Greenwich, returnd to Wotton, with my daughter Draper: ***  X4Z November ă \15 ... So wonderfull & perpetual Rainy season without frost, but exceeding greate storms wrecking many at sea, has not ben knowne in any mans memory, so as hardly could they sow in many places: ***  Xp4[ December ă \There hapning so swiftly an exceeding firce frost after greate raines, & grew so very cold, that we had the office of the day at home: ... \13 ... The continuance of [so] extreame a frost & snow as has seldome been known, with my Indisposition, kept hitherto longer from Church than I think I have ben above these 30 years: \25 At Wotton Church Mr. Morehouse on 9 saiah 6: there stayed not above 7 or 8 at the Communion, so wretchedly negligent this age is grown. ***  b@4x?s1697`!>#=y?  =s1697m 1697 ă  X 40d January ă \1 Beging Gods blessing the yeare entered into; we had news of my daughter Draper being brought to bed safely of a fine Boy, who was christened by my Bro: Evelyn by his name George, whom God Almighty blesse & preserve. ***"H&E0*(H&a@*"Ԍ\31 The weather continuing so exceeding fierce, so as since that tirrible winter 12 years since, the like had not ben known, much corne not coming up, much rotted by the extraordinary wett before the frost, and the ground so hard, as in many places now pl... threatening a Dirth: Mony yet so scarse &c: the Parliament are in greate distresse to furnish another Summers Campagne: besides people Mechanics begin to rise, as at the beginning of the greate Rebellion: peace much talked of, but nothing don; unheard of storms & losse at sea, Newfound Land surprized by the French: Confusion in Poland about a King; The K of Spaine not recovered: Conspirasies continualy against K William, for which this last week Sir J. Fenwick, was beheaded on Tower Hill: The Lord in mercy prevent further Calamities to this Church & nation.  X4_ February ă \7 So severely greate has ben this still continuing frost, & snow, that divers sentinels doing their duty in the Armies & Townes kept by Garizons, that in Flanders many of them were frozen to death, within an houre or two before they were relieved tho so often: The Duke of Savoy now returning over the Mountain, had many of his Guard & troops, Mules & Equipage lost in the Snow, the Duke himselfe hardly escaping:  ***  Xh4Y September ă \9 My son, came in his melancholy Indisposition from Lond, hither, where his mother had ben to visite him: \12 ... We have had now the wellcome tidings of the Peace with France: with the Pr: of Conties Imbarkement for Poland, in hop of that Crown in competition with the Elector of Saxony, already Crowd which in probability will not be decided peaceably: ***  X846b October ă \3: It being a wet cold day, we went not to Church, officiating at home: \So greate were the stormes all this weeke, that there were nere 1000 poore men cast away  X 4going into the Texell1, & many other disasters: *** \17 ... My Daughter Draper husband & family awakned in the night by the noise of fire, Escaped being all burnt in their bed, in the dead time of sleepe; by timely extinguishing it, in their owne chamber: for which God be ever praised:  X`"41 The sea by Texell, at the mouth of the Zuyder Zee, Holland. *** \31 Dr. Sherlock preached at the Temple. 3.Gal:8. The Communion followed at which I received, it being my Birth-day, & 77th of my now old Age: for which blessed be the infinit"%F0*(H&a@)" mercy of God, whom I beseech to grant to me the year following & in greate Compassion to pitty & heale, & comfort my distressed miserable son, & sicke daughter, that we may yet live to magnify his goodnesse, to the salvation of our soules Amen... \Greate preparations of fireworks & other pompes for the Kings returne:... ***  X4Z November ă \7 ... A prophesy in N damus raised wonderfull stirr & talke of some Conspirasy upon the expected entry of the King; & a report of the Duke of Barwicks with severall more being seacretly come out of France to Lond, caused a proclamation for the searching & seizing of them: 1000 pounds reward to any should discover any of them. The Temple gates shutt & Inns of Court searched, guards doubled &c: *** \14 ... This evening the Towre guns &c fired & bells rung for news of the Kings Landing. \16 Was the Kings Entry very pompous, but in nothing approaching that at K. Cha: IId Restauration. ***  Xh4[ December ă \2 The Thanksgiving day for the peace, I went in the morning to W.Hall, where was the K. & a very greate Court: the Bishop of Salisbery preached, or rather made a florid Panegyric on 2.Chro:9.7.8. Shewing how neere for successe & felicity this present K. was, & how God had chosen him, & by many signal providences reserved him to deliver this Church & nation, yea all Europ from the haughty & insulting Enemy, Established us in this nation in our Religion & propertys, & freed all our Neighbor nations from the ambition of France, broken the power of Insulting foes, & don such things by his Conduct & Courage that as the Q. of Sheba came far to admire him, so a greate Prince (meaning the Zar of Musovy) came a farther, to see him who had don such wonders, concluded with that of the Text, that all this was that he might do Justice & Judgment & govern his people righteously, by encouraging the good, & rebuke the prophane & reform the nation which now needed it, & for which God had preserved & cald & set him up: This was the summ, but rather see the printed sermon: \The Evening concluded with fire-works & Illuminations, of [such] greate expence as would have erected Triuphal Arch of Marble & the fireworks in nothing answering expectation, but were the destruction of some spectators & of a person of quality a stranger: \3 Decem: the Parliament; when the K. made indeede an handsom speech; after he had given account of the peace, acquainted them with the deficiencys of the Revenue, & the necessity of maintaining a strong Navy at sea, & sufficient forces by Land, without mentioning a Standing Army, which was wisely done: \5. Was the first Sonday, St. Paules had had any service in , since it was Consumed at the Conflagration of the Citty; 1666: which I my selfe saw, & now as likewise my selfe there, the Quire being compleatly finished, & the Organ esteemed the best in Europe of I thin 40 stops; There were the Bishop of Lond, Lord Major & innumerable multitude, one Mr. Knight preaching (for Dr. Sherlock the Deane) on Epist Jude ver:3. exhorting to Contend for the Faith once delivered, to the Church; most of which he applied against the Socinian doctrine now so rife: & this he did most excellently & to the satisfaction & Conviction I believe of all that heard"H&G0*(H&a@g*" him: The H. Sacrament followed, the B. of Lond. & Residentarys distributing the Elements: I was invited & dined with Dr. Godolphin, a Resider & Provost of Eaton... \6 I went to Kensington, with the Sheriff, knights & chife Gent of Surry to present their Addresse to the K, the D. of Norfolk, promising to introduce it, but came so late that it was don before he came, This insignificant Ceremony, was brought in fashion in the Rebellious times, to accknowledge Cromwell & his son Richard, & so was practised in all the Kings reigns afterwards, in which people complemented the power with professions of loyalty, & standing by the with their lives & fortunes what ever turne succeeded, but which they never meant to performe, but did the same to every one that got the power: I dined at Sir R. Onslows who treated almost all the Gentlemen of Surry; when we had halfe dined came in the D. of Norfolk to make his poore excuse: so I left them drinking healths. \12 A young man preached at the Temple on: 11. Heb. 26: with much eloquence. \It was very long ere they began service, staing for the coming to church the Comptroller of the Inner Temple, where was to be kept a riotous & Revelling Christmas according to old Custome; a young beaw, provided and furnished, with his guard & other officers, of this Bacchanalia, which foolish custome grave persons of the Inns of Court, give way to. \The Pariament buisy about a supply to the insufficiencys of the last funds, for the Arrears due to the Armye, Fleete &c. *** \December 23. I returned to Wotton, accompanied by Sir Cyr: Wych: where I found my son in the same sad Condition, & my Daughter in law dangerously ill of a flux. The Lord be gracious to both if it be his holy will in pitty & mercy. ***  b4?]s1698`!>#=?]  =s1698m 1698 ă  X40d January ă \New years day Beging Gods blessing for the Yeare entered into: \A greate Christmas kept at Wotton, open-house, much Company, my Son still melancholy, but by Gods mercy his wife recovering of her flux by drinking the Bath-Waters after all the Doctors could prescribe did not succeede.  XX4\I presented my Booke of Medals1 &c to divers noblemen, before I suffered it to be exposed to sale.  X4\Jan: 2: ... White-hall utterly burnt to the ground, nothing but the walls & ruines left:2 \The Zar of Muscovy landed & came to Lond: \16 I made up all my private Accompts with J. Strickland: ***  X 4_ February ă \6. I missed being at Church by my owne fault having over tired my selfe the night before about dispatching letters, as also I was the Sonday next: \The Czar Emp: of Moscovy, having a mind to see the Building of Ships, hired my house at Says Court, & made it his Court & palace, lying & remaining in it, new furnishd for him by the King:"%H0*(H&a@)"Ԍ***  X4n April ă \17: Mr. Morbus on: 3.Act:14. The holy Sacrament followed, at which I communicated with my Wife, being to go to Lond, to be with her D. Drapers lying in. \19 My Wife went with my sick sonn &c to Lond: \21 The Czar of Mosco went from my house towards Russia, &c: ***  X4q May ă \8 Extraordinary greate Snow, & frost, nipping & spoiling the Corne and other fruits universaly, & threatning famine, Corne at 9s. per bushell, & all this else extraordinary deare: The french K. preparing a greate Fleete, and army at Land, as is thought ready to invade Spaine & his dominion, expecting the death of that valetudinary King: Poland still in Confusion: The Czar landed in Holland: \My daugher Draper brought to bed of a fine Boy:... *** \19 Was my Grandson Draper Christnd William; they would faine have had it Evelyn (making me Godfather as I was) but for some reasons I desired it might be William: Sir Jo: Conniers stood for me; The Godmother was one Mrs. Brent, a Relation of my Son in Laws, a very fine prudent Lady: \The Weather was so very Cold, wett & unseasonable as had not ben known by any almost alive, not onely in this nation but most part of Europe: all tree fruits ruined, & threatning the rest with famine. ***  X41 Numismata, see p.459.  Xp42 An exaggeration, the Banqueting House and Holbein Gate, for example, survived. \23 I came from Wotton to Lond: about suffering a Recovery, about a new, & unreasonable Settlement of the Estate in Surry, which I was advised not to do: *** \29 ... E. India-Comp: like to be broken & dissolved, to set up another who offered to subscribe two Millions, to the greate alarme of the other. \30 I dined at Mr. Pepyss, where I heard that rare Voice, Mr. Pate, who was lately come from Italy, reputed the most excellent singer, ever England had: he sang indeede many rare Italian  Xx4Recitatives, &c: & severall compositions of the last Mr. Pursal1, esteemed the best composer of any Englishman hitherto: ***  X 4o June ă \[8 I went to congratulat the mariage of Mr. Godolphin to E Marborows daughter.] \9 I went to Deptford to view how miserably the Tzar of Moscovy had left my house after 3 moneths making it his Court, having gotten Sir Cr: Wren his Majesties Surveyor & Mr. London his Gardener to go down & make an estimat of the repairs, for which they allowed 150 pounds  X$4in their Report to the L: of the Treasury2: Then I went to see the foundations of the Hall & Chapell, wharfe & other parts of the Greenwich Hospital: & so returned: ***"'I0*(H&a@+"Ԍ\21 ... Vote past for the New East India company, subscribing 2 millions, which was generaly looked upon as a greate hardship to the old & to the ruine of many Adventurers who had put their whole stock into old Company. ***  X 4q July ă \8 I came to passe the rest of the summer [my sonns house] in Berklystreete, during my Brothers (or rather, my Neipces & Dr. Fulhams) displeasure, because I could not assent to the alteration of a settlement of my Brothers gift freely to me: &c which I pray God to reconcile. ***  X4`>#>#ă  X` 41 Henry Purcell (c. 165895).  X 42 Peter the Greats ruinous tenancy at Sayes Court was brought to Es attention by his servant John Strickland who wrote to him on February 16th, 1698, "There is a house full of people, and right nasty. The Tsar lies next your library, and dines in the parlour next your study. He dines at ten oclock and six at night, is very seldom at home a whole day, very often in the Kings yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected there this day, the best parlour is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." E recorded  X4the damage in Silva, 1706, p.182, "Is there under Heaven a more glorious and refreshing Object of the kind, than an impregnable Hedge of about four hundred foot in length, nine Foot high, and five in diameter; which I can shew in my now ruind Gardens at SaysCourt, (thanks to the Czar of Moscovy) at any time of the Year, glittring with its armd and varnishd Leaves? The taller Standards at orderly distances, blushing with their natural Coral: It mocks at the rudest assaults of the Weather, Beasts or Hedgebreakers ...". The Tsar, it seems, had made a habit of being pushed through the hedge in a wheelbarrow. A transcript of Wrens report can be found in Dews, 1884, 3438 (see p.457). \10 Mr. Stringfellow at Trinity Church in the morning on 10:Ezra:13. very excellently & fully setting forth the necessity of Reforming of the prodigious wicckednesse & imorality of the nation, never so enormously & universaly overspread with Atheisme, Murders, Robbing, Blasphemy, & prophanesse: these sinns, being now so grown to such an height & habitude, & portending farther Calamities, neither the newly past Warre, fire, plagues &c warning us: ***  X 4bf August ă \6. I dind at Mr. Pepys, where was Cap: Dampier, who had ben a famous Buccaneere, brought  Xx4hither the painted Prince Jolo1, printed a Relation of his very strange adventures, which was very extraordinary, & his observations very profitable: Was now going abroad againe, by the Kings Incouragement, who furnished a ship of 290 Tunn: he seemed a [more] modest man, than one would imagine, by the relation of the Crue he had sorted with: He brought a map, of his observations of the Course of the winds in the South-Sea, & assured us that the Maps hithertoo extant, were all false as to the Pacific-sea, which he makes on the Suth of the line, that on the North, & running by the Coasts of Peru, being extremely tempestious: ***  X%46b October ă"%J0*(H&a@)"Ԍ\16 Preached a young divine on 27.Psal: 13. on which, without once using any notes, or so much as mistaking any one word, & with a laudable tone he delivered a most excellent discourse: The H. Communion followed, of which I participated giving God Thanks for restoring my health, for saving me from many eminent Dangers in this Moneth many years since, & imploring his Compassion my Sonn, that he would no longer visite my sinns & Iniquity upon him, but restore him to mercy &c:... ***  X@4[ December ă \7. Being one of the Council of the Society, I was named to be of the Comitt/, to waite on our new President, my L. Chancellor, our Secretary Dr. Sloan, & Sir R. Southwell last President, carrying our Book of Statutes; the office of the President being read, his Lordship subscribed his name, & then tooke the Oathes according to our states as a Corporation, for the Improvement of Nat: Knowledge; Then his Lordship made a short Compliment, concerning the honour the Society had don him, & how ready he would be to promote us & so noble a designe, & come himselfe amongst us, as often as his attendance of the publique would permitt, & so we tooke our leave &c. ***  Xh41 Giolo, a native from Meangis, southeast of the Philippines, exhibited in England.  b4]i|s1699`!>#=]j|  =s1699m 1699 ă  XP40d January ă \1 ... The Parliament dismissed 3000 of the Kings standing Army, which should have ben 10000, Mr. Pelham, making a long speech against it, which was the more remarkable he being one of the Lords of the Treasury:... ***  X4_ February ă \19 ... A most furious Wind, such as has seldom happened in many yeares, which did exceeding greate harme, to houses, <&> Trees, who with their falls killed severall people:... ***  X@4ri March ă \24 Friday [To my exceeding griefe & affliction:] after a tedious [languishing] sicknesse contracted in Ireland, & increased here, died my onely remaining son John: now ben [6 years] one of the Kings Commissioners of the Revenue of that Kingdom, & performed his Employment both with greate ability & reputation, aged 44 years & about 3 moneths: Leaving me one Grandson, now at Oxon, whom I beseech A. God to preserve, & be the remaining support of the Wotton family: Upon this Interruption I could not appeare at Church the following Sonday:"%K0*(H&a@)"Ԍ\26 After an extraordinary storme came up the Thames a Whale which was 56. foote long: such, & a larger, & of the spout kind was killd there this moneth (that in June - 58) this, 40 years after: See this Booke Anno <1658> June: 3. That yeare dyed Cromwell, as I think:... \[30 My deceased Son, was according to his desire Carried (being put into lead) into Surry, & layd amongst our Relations, in the Vault belonging to that family, accompanied by severall.]  X4n April ă \5 A publique fast to Implore Gods mercy & deliverance of the poore persecuted Protestants of France, Cruely dispersed, put to death, sent to the Gallys, buried ignominiously & exposed, Their Children stolen from them & all they had: & to move the Charity of the nation to relieve them: upon which I went to St. James Chapell where Dr.- preached on 119 Psal:53... \9 ... The King preferring his young favorite D: of Albemarle to be first commander of his Guard: The Duke of Ormond layd down his Commission; this of the Dutch Dukes putting over his head, was exceedingly resented by every body. \16 ... Afternoone [at Whitehall] Dr: James: on: 34 Psal:8: a very excellent sermon. This was at White-hall in the Banqueting-house now turned into a Chapell since the Palace was burnt: \I went afterwards to visite the Bishop of Lichfield, now named to be Bishop of Worcester, who entertained me with his old discourse concerning the Destruction of AntiChrist, interpreting Daniel & the Revelation, with full Confidence of the Papacys fall, Frances Conversion, the final burning of Rome, which should certainly come to passe before the 36 yeare of the next Century, still persisting in his opinion, and as firmly believing it as an Article of Faith... \My Grandson sent me a latin Epist from Oxon, giving me account of the progresse of his studys there, & of his preparation for the receiving of the H.Eucharist, the first time, on Easter Sonday: I beseech God to blesse him, that he may proceede as he has hithertoo: *** \29 I went to Lambeth dined with the A:B: but my buisinesse was to get him to perswade the K: to purchase the late B: of Worcesters Library, & build a place for his owne Library at St. Jamess (which is too little &c) in the Parke: ***  X4q May ă \8 ... All Lotterys til now cheating the people, to be no longer permitted than to Christmas next, except that for the benefit of Grinwich Hospital: Mr. Bridgeman, Chayreman for the Committee for carying on that Charitable Worke, died, a greate losse to it: He was a Clerke of the Council, & a very industrious useful man:... ***  X 4o June ă \[June: 15:] After a long drowth we had a very refreshing Raine, but the day before it came, a dreadfull fire happened at Rotherhith neere the Thames side, which besides divers ships that were burnt, destroyed & consumd about 300 houses: \Now also died, the famous Dutchesse of Mazarine, in her time the richest Lady in Europ, Niepce to the greate Cardinal Mazarine, & married to the Richest subject in Europ, as is said: she was born at Rome, Educated in France, an extraordinary Beauty & Witt, but dissolute &"%L0*(H&a@)" impatient of Matrimonial restraint, so as to be abandoned by her husband, came into England for shelter, livd on a pension given her here, & is reported to have hastned her death, by intemperanly drinking strong spirits &c: She has written her owne Story & Adventures & so has her other Extravagant sister, wife to the noble family Colona. \There died this weeke also Conyers Seymor son of Sir Ed: Seymor, kild in a Duel caused by a slight affront given him in St. Ja: Parke, by one that envious at his Gallantry, for he was a new setup vaine young fopp: who made a greate Eclat about the Town by his splendid Equipage, not setting any bounds to his pompous living; an Estate of 7000 pounds a yeare falling to him, not two years before, all which he left at about 2 or 23 years of age, to another Brother at Oxford: The general dissolution & Corruption & Atheisme of this period was now in as greate height in this nation among both sexes, as anywhere in Christendome. *** \26. 28, after a yeares tedious altercations caused by one Dr. Fullham who had married a Grandaughter of my Bros, against the full Consent of her Relations, a Crafty & intriguing person, he so insinuated into my good Bro, after a few moneths, as to perswade my Bro: to require me, to cut off an Intaile of the Estate he had given me, & that in Case, I should die without Issue Male, it might fall to the Grandaughter, which by the reiterated settlements the law would not give him: My Bro: having often professed, that he would have it descend to the name, & I by no meanes willing it should be otherwise, & that the Patrimony of my Ancestors should be dissipated, sold or scattered, among strangers, as it would soon have ben, & our name & family extinguished, as it almost was, by Sir Jo: Evelyn of Godstone, Sir Jo: of Wilts, Sir Ed of Ditton, who leaving nothing to their name, 3 considerable Estates went away to the female: \My Bro: likewise, having amply provided portions to his 3 Grandaughters; & so many years persisting to have his Estate Continue in the name: Was as I sayd, so wrought upon by the Crafty Doctor as upon my refusal to alter the settlement, to exhibit a Bill against me in Parliament now sitting, tho I often promised not to alter the settlement, but let it passe with the Contingencys, offering in the meanetime, that provided the Mannor of Wotton & Abinger might be reserved, to comply as to the rest, that in Case I had no heir Male it should go to the Grandchildren: but when I found nothing would pacify the Doctor & the rest, but the swallowing it all; I so answered my Bro: Bill, shewing how absolutly it was conveyed to me; That the house of Commons was so convinct of my Case, that they durst not proceede, I having so very greate an Interest among them in favour of my right: So as hoping to fare better with the Lords, they attempted all they could to gaine a party among them; but, when they found I had not onely almost all the Bishops, & so very many of the secular Lords, as were the most eminent speakers, that they had no hope to prevaile there: My Bro: (who til now they would not suffer, to accept of any Composition) did at last, offer that if I would alowe him 6500 pounds, to inable him to discharge [some of] his owne debts, & give legacys to his Gr:Children, he would make a new settlement, that should more expressly Convey the whole Estate by an indefeasable Inheritance, & being Tennant for life onely, oblige himself not to make any farther wast of the woods & other spoile he had begunn, & was in his power to do: \To this, in reguard of his free & original gift (tho most believed it had ben intended by my Father but which my Bro: deneyed) & to quiet his Mind, & indeede in Gratitude, I did consent to, The mony to be payd by 1000 pounds a year for 7 years to begin after his decease: Now my good Bro: being sufficiently Convinct, & declaring that what he settled on me, was not onely absolutly in his power, to give his Estate as he pleased, and peremptorily affirming to the Doctor himselfe, that he would do it again if what he had settled was not sufficiently valid: Yet so dextrous was this Insinuating faire tongued & crafty man, assisted with the perpetual solicitation of the Women; that then they set on my Bro: with a Case of Conscience, & that tho he had power to give the Estate as he had don, yet in Conscience he ought not to have don it:"'M0*(H&a@*+"Ԍ\Upon this I sent my Case to the learned Bishop of Worcester Dr. Stillingflete, not more esteemed for his being an Excellent Lawyer, but a profound divine, who, as indeede did the A Bishop of Cant: Bishop of Ely, Chichester, Peterborough, Chester, Salisbery, Lichfield &c: who universaly affirmd my Bro: was not obliged by Conscience to revoak what he had settled on me: And as to matter of Law, the other Lords, Dukes, Earles & Peers who were generaly for me, as were the Commons: I had so much the advantage, that, had I not ben tenderer of my Bro: reputation than some would have had me: I might have saved 6500 pounds: but I chose rather to incumber the Estate with it, than not to gratify my good Bro: notwithstanding the advantage I had, & least it should be said I was ungratefull; my designe & desire being nothing so much in all this Contest, but to preserve the patrimonial Estate to the famely: So as now, a settlement being made as strong as Law could do it, all was Reconciled: my Good Bro: having ben prevailed with, contrary to his own resolution, but suffers them to govern his as they pleased, & this in my absence, whilst I was cald to London about other affairs: to both our trouble & charge: The Writings were sealed 26. of June, & a Recovery suffered on 28: \After this finding my Occasions calling so often to Lond: I tooke the remainder of the Time, my sonn, had in his lease of an house in Doverstreete, To which I now removed, finding my being at Wotton as yet Inconvenient: So as I resolved to continue at Lond: without removing my furniture at Wotton; having enough at Says Court, I furnished the house in Doverstreete, & came to it on Saturday, July 1. from Berkley streete, where I had ben ever since I came from Wotton, in reguard of my unhapy Sons Indisposition: I pray God of his infinit mercy, whose gracious providence has hitherto so wonderfully extricated me of this, & other disturbances & afflictions, to sanctifie it to me, and to blesse the remainder of my life & now very old age with peace, & Charity, & assist me with his Grace to the End: ***  X4q July ă \6. At Doctors Commons tooke my Oath of Administration of my Sonns Estate: ***  Xp4bf August ă \<7?> I went to Greenwich to refresh & take the aire for a few days: & to see how our building went forward: \13 ... In the Afternoone, at Deptford, where they had built a pretty decent new Church: The Curat preached on 5 Gal:16:... \20 ... I came from Greenewich where I had ben til this day & drank Shootershill waters: returned: The weather very fine & seasonable all the time: ***  X@4Y September ă \1 My Daughter Draper was brought to bed of a Sonn, and Christned on the 1 of September by the name of Richard, his Godfather were Mr. Morley, Nephew to the late Bishop of Winchester, & Mr. Sherwood, who maried a neere Relation of my Sons in Law: \News of the Q. of Portugals death, caused by a feavor with the boaring an hole in her Eare, for which according to the method of that Country (not of Germany) they let her blood til she breathed out her life:... "%N0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \ ... There was on Wednesday this weeke greate expectations of the Effects of a very dismal Eclipse of the Sun, people expected by predictions of the Astrologer that it would be exceedingly darke: But tho the morning were very Mirky, yet was the obscurity no other than on other clowdy days: But this I well remember, the whole Nation was affrited by Lilly the Almanack , who foretold what a dreadfull Eclipse [that which was called Black monday] it would be, insomuch as divers persons were grievously in dread, & durst not peepe out of their house: Yet was that a very bright morning, & the darknesse much like this: It is now above 50 years since, it was indeede succeeded with many revolutions, cruell wars, twixt us & Holland, but this, was preceded by the Death of the K. of Denmark & Q. of Portugal: But thus superstitious people, not considering the natural Course of those Luminarys, looke on what ever haps of Extraordinary as their Effects, who ought to looke up to God the Author of Nature. ***  X 46b October ă \4 Wednesday night departed this life my worthy & dear Bro: Geo: Evelyn at his house at Wotton in Surrey in the 83d yeare of his Age, & of such Infirmitys as are usualy incident to so greate an Age, but in perfect memory & understanding: A most worthy, Gentleman, Religious, Sober & Temperate, & of so hospitable a nature as no family in the whole County maintained that antient Custome of keeping (as it were) open house the whole yeare, did the like, or gave nobler & freer Entertainement to the whole County upon all occasions: so as his house was never free, there being sometime 20 persons more than his family, & some that stayed there all the summer to his no small expense, which created him the universal love of the Country: To this add, his being one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County; and living to be the most antient Member of Parliament living: He was Born at Wotton, Went to Oxford, Trinity Coll: from the Free Schole at Guilford, Thence to the Midle Temple, as gent: of the best quality did, tho with no intention to study the Law as a Profession: \He married the Daughter of Colwall, [of] a worthy & antient family in Leicesterhire, by whome he had One son; she dying in 1643, left George her son an Infant, who being educated liberaly, after Traveling abroad, returning home, married one Mrs. Goare; by whom he had severall Children but left onely 3 daughters: He was a Young man of a good understanding, but over Indulging to his Ease & pleasure, grew so very Corpulent, contrary to the constitution of the rest of his fathers relations, that he died: after my Bro: his Father had married a most noble & honourable Lady, relict of Sir Jo Cotton, she being an Offley, a worthy & antient Staffordshire family by whom he had severall Children of both sexes: This lady dying left onely 2 daughters & a son: the younger daughter dyed, before Mariage: The other lived long [as] a Virgin, & was afterward married to Sir Cyrill Wych, a noble learned Gent: sonne to Sir Wych: he had ben Ambassador at Constantinople: Sir Cyrill was afterwards Made one of the Lords Justices of Ireland: Before this Mariage her onely Bro: John Maried the daughter of Aresfeild of Sussex [of] an honorable family, whom he left a Widdow, without any Child living: He dying about Anno 1691 & his wife not many yeares after, without any heire: My Bro: resettled the whole Estate on me: His sister who maried S C.Wych having had a portion of 6000 pounds to which what was added was worth above 300 pounds more: The 3 other Grandaughters, with what I added to theirs about 5000 pounds each: \ my Bro: having seene performed, died this 5t of Octob: in a good old Age, & greate Reputation: & making his beloved Daughter my Lady Wych sole executrix (leaving me onely his Library & some Pictures of my Father, Mother &c:) She indeede buried him with extraordinary solemnity, rather as a Noble man, Than a private Gent: There were I computed above 2000 people at the funerall, all the Gent of the County doing him the last honour: This"'O0*(H&a@7+" performed [20th] I returned to Lond, where I came the day before, leaving my Concernes at Wotton, til my Lady should dispose of her selfe & family: & sending onely a servant thither to looke after my Concerns:  XX4\<22> ... I presented my Acetaria1 dedicated to my Lord Chancelor, who returned me Thanks by a most extraordinary civil lett shewing him to be a person of greate parts, & learning &c: I waited on his [22] Lordship who received me with greate humanity & familiar kindnesse: ***  X@4Z November ă \<5> ... There happned this Weeke so thick a Mist & fog; that people lost their way in the streetes, it being so exceedingly intense, as no light of Candle, Torches or Lanterns, yeilded any or very little direction: I was my selfe in it, and in extraordinary danger, robberys were committed betwene the very lights which were fixt between Lond: & Knsington on both sides, and whilst Coaches & passengers were travelling: & what was strange, it beginning about 4 in the afternoone was quite gon by 8, without any wind to dissipate it. At the Thames they beate drumms, to direct the Watermen to make the shore, no light being bright enough to penetrat the fogg:... *** \24 ... Horrible robberys, highway men, & murders committed such as never was known in this Nation since Christian reformed: Atheism, Dissensions, prophanesse, [Blasphemy] among all sorts: portending some signal judgement, if not amended: upon which a Society set on foote, who obliged themselves to endeavour the reforming of it, both in London & other places, which began to punish offenders, & put the Laws in more strict Execution: which God Almighty prosper. \Never was so gentle, Calme, dry, yet seasonable & temperate weather thro all the seasons of the yeare, as this has ben: ***  X84[ December ă \10 ... Continuance of warm spring weather: The Parliament reverse the prodigious donations of the Irish forfeitur, intended to be set a part for dischargeing the vast national debt: And calling some great persons in highest office in question for setting the greate seale to an arch pyrates being pardond, & Commissioned to take & bring other pyrats infesting Commerce, had turned pyrate again, & brought prizes into the W:Indies, suspected to be connived at, upon of the prey: by which some greate men were brought into suspicion: but the prevailing part in the house, called Courtiers, out voted the Complaints, or Country part, as for most part they do; not for being more in number, but more vigilantly attending the house, thro neglect of their duty: ***  X(#41 Acetaria, A Discourse of Sallets [Salads].  b#4i|s1700`!>#=j|  =s1700   m 1700 ă  X%40d January ă"%P0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \14 ... The Scotch booke about Darien, burnt by the hangman by Vote of Parliament: Very  XX4pleasant & absolute Spring weather. A Lady whose house was burnt in golden Square1 perishing in it: other houses burnt. *** \25 I went to Wotton, the first time, after my deare Brothers funerall, to settle my Interest & Concernes there, and furnish the house with necessarys, thro my Lady Wyche & Nephew [] being Executors, having sold & disposed of what goods were left of my Brothers. \The season from hitherto being the most mild & gentle season that ever was (I think) known: now altering into sharp and hard frosts for some days: ***  X 4_ February ă \4 ... The Parliament Incorporate the old E.India Company. Voted against the Scots invading or settling in [the] Darien as prejudicial to our trade with Spaine: Voted that the Exorbitant Numbers of Attourneys (now indeede swarming & evidently causing suits & disturbance, by eating out of the Estate of people, provoking them to go to law &c) be lessened; Voted that it should not be in the power of Popish parents, to disinherit their Protestant Children:... ***  X4ri March ă \13 [I] was at the funerall of my Lady Temple, who was buried at Islington, brought from Adscomb neere Croydown: She left my son in Law Draper (her Nephew) the mansion house of Addscom, very nobly & compleatly furnished, with the Estate about it, which with the Jewells, money, plate &c, is computed to be worth neere 20000 pounds: She was a very prudent Lady: gave away many greate Legacys besids which 500 pounds to the poore of Islington, where her husband Sir P: Temple (both dying without Children) was buried... *** \24 ... The nation being now grown to so unsufferable a passe, and height of Atheisme & profanesse: some Religious persons both in the Citty & Country, entred into a kind of fraternity to attempt a reformation, by a more than ordinary discountenancing immorality & irreligion, upon all occasions; Into this Society entred divers persons of quality, & for that end, some Lectures, were set up, as in particular in the Citty of Lond: Bowchurch or St. Paules, where preached the most eminent of the Cleargy, after the reading of a declaration set forth by the King, to suppresse this universal & growing wickednesse, which already began to take some effect, as to the Common Swearing & in the mouths of people of all ranks: & [25] this day preached Dr. Burnet Bishop of Salisbery, befor the Lord Mayor & a very greate Congregation on 27: Pro: 5. & 6 verse, Open Rebuke is better than seacret love: applyed to the present designe of proceeding in their Indeavor of Reforming the publique dissolution.  X$41 Golden Square, Soho, London. \27 ... The Duke of Norfolck divorcd from his Wife by the Parliament: for Adultery with one Sir J. Germain a Dutch gamster of meane extraction, who had gotten much by Gaming (She was"'Q0*(H&a@^+" onely Daughter to the Earle of Peterboro Mordaunt:) after long debates in Parliament, & undenyable proofe: The Duke having also leave to marry againe, by which (if he have Children) the Dukedome, will go from my late Lord Thomass Children, Papists indeede, but very hopefull & vertuous Gent: as was their father: The now Duke & Unkle, a dissolute protestant: \The Parliament did now nominate 14. Persons to go Commissioners into Ireland, in order to dispose of the Confiscated Estates in Ireland, towards payment of the Debts of this Nation contracted in the late Warr; [but] which the King had in greate measure given to some of his favorits of both sexes, Dutch & other of little merite, & very unseasonably appeared: That this might be don, without suspition of Interest in the Parliament, but for the publique, It was determined that no Member of the House, should be of the Commission, & was therefore to be supplyed by severall Country Gent: & persons of quality, & reputed Integrity: ***  X( 4n April ă \1 ... The Lord Major, Sherifs, Aldermen &c went with a procession of the Children &c, broughtup in Christs Hospital: among which the 40 [BlewCoate] Boys instructed in Mathematics & designed for the sea, with their mathematical Instruments in their hands, going to St. Brides according to custome: \3. I went, with Sir Chr: Wren, Surveyor of his Majesties Workes & Buildings, to Kensington, to present the King with the Model & several drafts ingraved, of the Hospital now erecting at Greenewich for SeaMen, The A: Bish: of Cant: introducing us; His Majestie receiving us with greate satisfaction, & incouraging the prosecution of the Work: *** \10 The greate Contest betweene the Lords & Commons concerning the Lords power of amendments & rejection of certaine bills, tackt to the money bill, carried onely for the Commons for them against the Lords, was this days Event, which went so high, as every body believed would have either provoked the K to Adjourn, or dissolve them: But by Gods mercy and providence it is prevented: However this Tacking of Bills is a novell practise, suffered by Charles II. who being continualy in want of mony, let any thing passe rather than not have to feede his extravagant favorits &c: \Mr. Nagg our late lectur preached on 5: Hosea 15: \The greate contest betweene the Lords & Commons about passing the Bill for monys, to which they had tackt so many other considerable demands, (& which indeede was but a later practice caused by the continual want of mony to which Charles the 2d had brought himself by his profusion & favorits) was at last assented to, with greate dfficulty, Voices being equal on both sides, & accidentaly carried by one Voice; all the Bishops following the Court: going out save one: So as neere 60 Bills passt, to the greate triumph of the Commons, & Country part, but high regret of the Court, & those to whom the King had given large estates in Ireland, of land, more necessary to discharge the prodigious arrears & debts of the publique, to it must be confessed, that this successe of theirs, must needes lessen the King, & the interest of the Court, which I foresee will be hard to recover; so apprehensive the Nation are of yeilding any advantage they have gotten, as being now the onely people in Europe who have preserved their libertys, & unwilling to come under a despotic power, as those in Fr: Denmark, Sweden & our neighbours grone under: And pity it is, that things should be brought to such extremitys; The government of this Nation being so equaly poised betweene King & Subject: But we are"$R0*(H&a@(" satisfied with nothing; & whilst there is no perfection on this side heaven, mi thinks both might be contented, without straining things too farr: \There passed among the rest a Law, that whatever Estate a Papist were intitled to, if he turnd not protestant before 18 years of age, it should passe to his next protestant Heire: This indeede seemed an hard law; But not onely the barbarous usages of the French K: to his protestant subjects; but the indiscreete insolence of the popists here, going in triumphant & publique processions with their Bishops, with Banners & Trumpets, in divers places (as is said) in the Northern Countys, has brought it upon their party: ***  X4q May ă \... There never had ben, in any mans memory, so glorious a Spring, such hope of aboundance of fruits of all kinds, & so propitious a yeare, & yet never a more profane, & atheistical age: most of the youth [& others] Atheist, Theists, Arians & Sectaries, which God of his mercy reforme: *** \24 I went from Dover Streete to Wotton for the rest of summer, whither I removed the rest of the goods from Says Court, to the House at Wotton. ***  X4o June ă \2. Most lovely & seasonable weather all this weeke. \Mr. Wye, preached on: 5: Matt: 2. As a preface to the Sermon on the mount, thro which he intended to continue his Course: \The Afternoone was Catechisme, which I did very much long should be practized more, especialy, in Country parishes, where as well persons of riper years, as well as children were exceedingly Ignorant even of the very principles: And so were most lead away by the Atheisme of this age; that even those were not altogether dissolute; were made believe, that so they lead a moral life, did none injury, were notoriously profane, the were in a safe way, little minding the Covenant of Grace, & Salvation by J. Christ onely: \Sweete seasonable & such a mixture of pleasant refreshings, as no man I think remembers so propitious a season, & likelinesse of a plentifull Harves both of Corn, & other fruits. *** \16 ... Mr. Creech fellow of AllSoules in Oxon: an Excellent Poet & Philosopher who published Lucretius with notes in Latine, & an English translation, with many other pieces, & to be of a grave & sollid temper, was found hanged, none knowing upon what occasion or apparent discontent or Cause, his Circumstances being so very easy, for besides one of the best felloships in the University, he had a living, I am told worth 200 pounds per ann: This disaster much astonished me, who knew him, By this, we find, how greatly it concernes us to implore Gods Almighty Preventing, & Assistant Graces all the days of our life. ***  XH&4q July ă "'S0*(H&a@Q+"Ԍ\<7>: ... I was now visited with an attaque of a Feaver, accompanyed with the strangury, which detaind me in bed & house neere a moneth & much weakned me; But it pleased God, as to mittigate & allay my feavor, so to abate of my other Infirmity also; for which forever be praise ascribed to him by me, & that thereby he has againe so gratiously advertizd me of my duty, to prepare for my latter end which now cannot be far off, at this greate Age of mine: \The death of the Duke of Gloucester, dying of the smallpox, is very astonishing, a hopefull child of 12 or 13 years old, & the onely Child of the Princesse Ann by the Prince of Denmarke, she having had & ben with child of many sonns & daughters, but commonly none living, & often misscarying: So as now there is none to succeede to this Crowne, according as lately settled by the Parliament on the late Revolution, but some Protestant Prince, the next I  X4think being the Prince of Hanover1, Grandson, to the Q: of Bohemia, sister to K. Charles the first: otherwise, I think, descending (if the P: of Wales be utterly excluded) on the Dutchesse of Savoy, daughter to the princess Henrietta, Sister to Charles the first: Wher the Crowne will now Settle, should the Princesse of Denmark breed no more to live, is matter of high speculation to the Politic:... ***  XH 4bf August ă \18: ... This being the first and onely yeare & time, I was obliged to turne [to] Husbandry, plowing & sowing, it pleased God o answer our hopes & labours by a most plentifull Harvest, which was brought home whilst the weather continued faire; for which God be blessed in the use of it: It turnd to raine the next daye after: [My sonn daughter 2d sonn, an Infant, , to our greate sorrow.] ***  XP4Y September ă \13 A Considerable Estate in land, faire house, richly furnished, Plate, Mony &c being fallen to my Son in Law, Draper, at Adscome neere Croydon: I went with my Wife thither & stayed there till the 26, when I returned back to Wotton: \During the time of my being with my son & daughter: I went to see divers seats of the Gentry neere it, [16] as , a barren Warren, bought by Sir Ro: Clayton, who building there a pretty House, made such alteration by planting not onely with infinite store of the best fruit; but by so changing the natural situation of the hill, valleys & solitary mountains about it, that it represented rather some forrain Country, producing as it were spontaneously pines, fir, Cypresse, Yew, holly, Juniper intermingled with walks, mazes,  X4precipices, & other so as one would easily fancy himself in some forrain 1ĠGeorge Louis (b.1660), Elector of Hanover in 1698, George I of England (171427) . Country, naturaly solitudinary, & exceedingly & pleasantly Exottique, the trees being come to their perfect growth & all preserved with uttmost Care, so as I, who had some yeares before seene it in its natural & baren condition was in admiration of it: The lande was purchased by Sir J. Evelyn of GodStone, & by the Industry, & vast charge of this opulent Citizen, thus improved for pleasure & retirement: He & his Lady, entertained us with greate civility: *** "$T0*(H&a@("Ԍ\20: I went to see Bedington, the antient seate of the Carews formerly & in my remembrance, a noble old structure, capacious, & in forme of the buildings of the Age in Hen: 8 & Q. Eliz: ine to breake off his discourse abruptly, preaching out of his written notes: as they now generaly did all over England & not as formerly, (& [as] yet in all other Countrys) they preachd Memoriter, which whether so well, I leave to others to Judge: Reading much hindring Action, which we in English pulpits are defective in: In the meane time written sermons being more studyed & methodical, have likewise greate advantages: \The Duke of Marlbery returned to Holland to concert matters with the States: The King of Spaine, landing at Portsmouth, came to Windsor where he was magnificently received by the Queen: & behavd himself so nobly as every body was taken with his gracefull deportmen, after 2 days (having presented the greate Ladys & others with very valuable Jewells) he went  X( 4back to Portsmouth & immediately Imbark for Spain with our Naval Guard.1 *** \16...My Lord Tressurer gave my Gr:Son, the office of Treasurer of the Revenue of the stampt parchment & paper: Sallary 300 pounds per annum. \[19 The publique fast, after the dreadfull storme, the Churches so crowded as few could get into them.] ***  X4_ February ă \10 I went downe to see the lamentable destruction which the late dreadfull Tempest had made of my house & Gardens at S.Court & to take some order about the Repaires: ***  X4ri March ă \The beginning of this moneth I was so Indisposed with Obstructions in my bowells, not having had the benefit of Evacuation for severall days, that in my life I never suffered more torment, till after some Remedys it was removed & I restored againe for which God be Eternaly praised: So as after a Weeke I was alowed to take the aire: *** \19 Dr. Graham Deane of Caerlile on 4.Heb: 10: The H.Communion succeeded at which I received giving God thanks for my late recovery. \Afternoone a young stranger on 4.Gal: 6 (I think): but his voice was so low, & delivery so extream dull I could heare very little:  X 4\A very wett unseasonable march, dissagreements among the Lords & Comm: about the Scotch Plotter Examinations, Lord of Nottingham complained of for some passage in a Gazett: ***  X$41 This is the Archduke Charles, later the Emperor Charles VI (1711); his father, the Emperor Leopold I had passed his claim to the Spanish throne to this son who styled himself King Charles III of Spain.  X'4o June ă"'c0*(H&a@k+"Ԍ\18 ... Dr. Bathurst Pres: of Trinity in Ox: (I think the oldest acquaintance now left me in all the word), at 86 years age, both start blind, deafe, & memory lost, tho a person of admirable parts & learning no dying, was a serious alarm to me; God of his mercy grant that I may profit by it: He builded a very handsom Chapell to that College & his owne Tomb. Gave a legacy of mony, & the 3d part of his library to Dr. Bohune, [his nephew] who now went hence to his funerall. ***  X@4q July ă \2 ... This week abounds with the news & assurance of the D of Marborow and Confederats signal Victory against the D of Bavaria &c: Lord Godolphin made a knight of the Garter: ***  X 4bf August ă \27 ... Still greater Confirmations of the Confederats Victory, the D. of Bavaria quite beaten out of his Country, who now sent their deputys to the Emp, to crave his protection & rescue their Country from utter Spoile: The D. of Marbrow marches over the Rhyne, Beseges Ulm & Landau: The Prisoners & spoile divided into 3 parts, to the Emp, English & Dutch: tis estimated the Fr: lost 40000 men kild & Taken, such a defeate as never was given in Europ these 1000  Xh4years:1 \The pope summons the Card primate of Poland to Rome, for crowning Vladislau their new King &c: this Victory breaks all the Fr: measures & designes, most providentialy for Europ: ***  X4Y September ă \7. This day was celebrated preached the Thanksgiving for the late great Victory with the uttmost pomp & splendor by the Queene, Court, greate officers, Lord Major, Sheriffs, Companys &c the streets scaffolded from Templebarr (where the L.Myor presented her Majestie with the Sword, which she returned), every Company ranged under their Banners, & Citty Militia with out the rails, which were all hung with Cloth suitable to the Colour of the Banner, the L.Major, sherifs & Aldermen in their Scarlet roobs on their Caparisoned Horses: The knight Martiall & pensioners on horse, the Footguard: The Queene in a rich Coach with 8 Horse, none with her but the Dutchesse of Marlbrow, in a very plaine garment, The Q: full of Jewells, Musique & Trumpet, at every Citty Company: The greate officers of the Crown & nobillity & Bishops all in Coach of 6. Horses, besides innumerable Spectators in this order went to S. Paules where the Deane preached &c after which the Queene went back in the same order to St.  Xx4James: The Citty & Companys, feasting all the Nobillity & Bonfires and Illuminations at night: Note that there was Musick composed by the best Masters of that art, to accompany the Church musique & Anthems &c to all which (after a exceeding wet & stormy day) succeeded one of the most serene & Calmest bright-day, as had ben all the yeare:  X`"41 The Battle of Blenheim, August 13, 1704, also known at the time as the Battle of Hockstet (H?chstdt). \Our Curat also at Wotton, after the prayer (prescribt for the Occasion, exceedingly as to the psal, lesson & prayer) gave us an excellent Panegyrical & Eucharistical Sermon on and"$d0*(H&a@(" this was solemnly observed all over England by publique Command: with Publique feasting &c:  X4- I invited severall of my Neighbours & Friends. \10 ... A sharp Conflict betweene Sir G: Rooke our Admirall in the Straits of Gibraltar with the French Fleete, which was beaten, but with a very greate losse of men on both sides, the particulars not as yet certaine: this was fought 16. Aug:... ***  X46b October ă \1 ... The weather exceedingly faire & seasonable, so as the yeare has ben wonderfully plentifull in all the fruits of the Earth, so as seldom a more propitious yeare has ben known, God make us thankfull. \The seige of Landau yet continuing, its redition is hourely expected: Sir G. Rooke & Mediterranean fleete come home safly: The losse on both sides very greate, but the Victory acknowledged on our side: The unhapy D. of Bavaria, retired to Flanders having lost his glorious Country: *** \22 ... The Queene [on one side] Lords & Comm: with extraordinary expressions of grace and kindnesse, congratulating their meeting, after the late Successes, & intimations of need of supplys to finish the humbling the French &c: & the Lords & Commons satisfaction of her government, & the like Congratulations of successe in Germany, gave hopes of a perfect and unanimous agreement of this Sessions just now begun: ***  X4Z November ă \13 My Wife went from Wotton to Lond, to be at the Labour of our Daughter Draper. \18: My Daughter brought to bed of a Girle. ***  X4[ December ă \3. My little Grandaughter [at London] Christened Evelyn at the desire of the Father & mother:  X4my Grandson being the Godfather:1 *** \9 my L.Clarendon presented me with the 3. Voll. of his Fathers History of the Rebellion: The D of Marbrough arived in Eng: bringing the Count de Talard & many Prisoner: Trabach surrendered, & the Houses of Parliament complement him & his Victorys.  X 4  X!41 Evelyn (170454), later wife of Colonel Charles Clarke of Oakley, now Ockley, was the only one of the Drapers seven (at least) children to produce descendants of the diarist (see p.455). She and her sister Susannah (170172; see p.428), were buried at Wotton Church immediately  X#4outside the Evelyn chapel, adjacent to the diarists tomb inside. Her epitaph reads: EVELYN,  X$4Wife of CHARLES CLARKE of OAKLEY in the County of SURREY Esqr. Daughter of WILLIAM  X%4DRAPER of ADSCOMB PLACE in the County of Surrey Esqr and SUSANNAH his Wife, Daughter &  XH&4only surviving Child of JOHN EVELYN of WOOTTON PLACE. Died August 24th 1754.  b'4o`!>#=p  =s1705m 1705 ă"'e0*(H&a@+"Ԍ     X4_ February ă \9 I went to waite on my L.Tressurer where was the Victorious Duke of Marlborow, who came to me & tooke me by the hand with extraordinary familiarity & Civility, as formerly he was used to doe without any alteration of his good nature. He had a most rich George in a Sardonix set with Diamond of an inestimable Value: for the rest very plaine: I had not seene him in 2 yeares & believed he had forgotten me: *** \21 ... Such fine weather as hardly ben known at this season without frost: Agues & Small pox much in every place; my poore Wife ill of a bastard pleurisy, from which I pray God to ffree her. ***  XH 4ri March ă \Nothing extraordinary from abroad: Temperat season, yet many afflicted with Cold: my Wife delivered from a dangerous Pleurisy with losse of much blood: *** \11 Exceeding dry season: Greate losse by fire by the burning of the outhouses and famous stable, at Burley full of rich goods & furnitur, of the E. of Notingham, by carelessnesse of a servant; as most of these accidents hapen by, & in a little before at Wilton my L.Pembrocks:... \The Parliament prorogued, til may: nothing considerable from abroad, greate pressing for sea-men: [16] I waited on my L.Treasurer to whom was proposed my G-sons marriage with his Niepce, which he much approved of. ***  X4n April ă \9 I went [with my Gr:Son] for a few days to Wotton, returned the 14th, found my Wife had ben very ill in my absence of her old Cough: I myselfe much in paine by the Gravell, yet on: *** \22 ... I after many moneth indisposition, since I came to Towne: went to the meeting of the R.Society, where among other things there was a picture of one of the Electoral princes, Guards, a young fellow, who was 8 foote  in height, don by the person himselfe, in his livery-habite, with a huge broadSword by his side, studdied with gilt plate; sent to a Member of the Society out of Germany: - I also saw Sir Isaac Newtons (now made knight at the Queenes entertaining at Oxon) the burning Glasse which dos such wonders as that of the K. of France which cost so much, dos not come-neere, it penetrating Cast Iron of all Thicknesse, vitrifies Brick, mealts all sorts of mettals in a moment: That of the French kings, made I think at Lions, being all of one piece of Mettal, & of a vast circumference, this made of 6 Concave Glasses not"$f0*(H&a@(" above a foote diameter; so placd about the middle Concave, that they prict their illuminated points all at once into the middle Concave focus where the rays meete & produce this Effect. ***  X 4q May ă \Very fine weather: The Baily of Westminster, hanged himselfe, he had an ill report, & indeede never was it known that so many made away with themselves as of these late yeares & age among us, among both men of quality & others:... *** \13 The death of the Emperor, no mourning habits in our Court (as for all other Crownd heads) because there was no notice taken in the Imperial Court, at the death of King William:... *** \20...No forrain Newes, but contention & most extravagant expense to debauch & corrup Votes for Pariament Members: I sent my Grandson with his party of my freeholders, to vote for Mr.Hervy of Come: ***  X04o June ă \17 ... The season continued exceedingly dry & hot: I went to visite Dr. Dikinson the famous Chymist, where we had long Conversation about the Philosophers Elixir, which he believed  XP4attainable, & had seen projection himselfe, by one who went under the name of Mundanus, that sometime came among the Adepti &c: but was unknown as to his Country or aboade: of this the Doctor has written a Treatise in Latine full of very astonishing relations; he is a very learned person, formerly a fellow of Merton Coll in Oxon; where he practised Physick, but now altogether gave it over & lived retiredly, being very old & infirme, yet continued Chymistry &c: \I went to the R:Society, where were Tryals with Sir E Newtons Burningglasse: which did strange things as to mealting whatever was held to it in a moment: one of the most difficult was common Slate, which lasted longer than Iron, Gold, brasse, Silver, flint, brick &c which it immediatly mealted, calcined & Vitrified: The Glasse was composed of 7 round burning glasses of about a foote diameter, so placed in a frame, as to cause all their Sun-beams to meete in one focus onely: \Excessive hot & , & such a long time, as all the Country was burnt up: \Little don of military action abroade, thro the tardinesse of the Germans, Turin in danger of a siege: \I went to Greenewich with my Wife, daughter, Gr Son, Mrs. Boscawen, & her daughter, then proposed as a Wife for him &c: To see the Hospital, which now began to take in wounded & emerited Sea-men, who were exceeding well provided for, the Buildings now going on very magnificent; dined at my servant, J. Strickland, & Returning visited Mr. Cresset my Tennant at Says Court: This by water: \24 St. J.Baptist a Stranger at our Chapell on 1.Tim:6.6: \noone Dr. Lancaster: 6.Micha 8: The season was so hot, that I was exceeding drowsy, which I pray God to pardon. \me refreshing showrs, a greate fleete of Merchants from Lisbon came home, nothing else of oment: I had a sore fall out of my bed accidentally without much harme God be praised."'g0*(H&a@D+"Ԍ***  X4q July ă \My L Treasurer made my Gr-son one of the Commissioners of the prizes, the sallary 500 pounds per Annum: Greate drowth - *** \8 ... My Gr:son went this morning with Sir Sim: Harcourt the Solicitor Gen to Windsor to waite my L.Treasurer, to whom I wrote to excuse my not being able to waite on him my selfe <&c:> \There having for some time ben a proposal of Marying my GrSon to a daughter of Mrs. Bosca Sister of my Lord Treasurer now far advanced: \A very signal Victory over the French in Flanders by the Duke of Marlborow, divers greate Officers Taken & Slaine, 1400 prisoners, 20 Cannons, & many standards taken &c: \The Hot & dry Weather very Excessive every thing burnt up: \14 I had this night a very severe fitt of [cold] Trembling, & heate after, with very greate pa sides & backe & all over my Body, all symptoms of the stone: yet I crept to church wh In the morning a stranger preached on 119 Psal: 115. & Dr. Lancaster in the Afternoone on the same Text: There was a Communion, at which I received = Lord accept me:... *** \29 ... The Marriage Settlement of my Gr:son with a Daughter of Mrs. Boscawen, sister to my L.Treasurer, now finished, stays onely for the comming back of Sir Sym: Harcourt to examine the deeds & seale: he being yet in the Circuit: ***  X4bf August ă \23 Mr. Solicitor being returned from the Judges Circuit: was finished my Gr:sons marriage settlement, & given to be Ingrossed, giving him my Intire Estate, reserving onely the possession of it during my life, and the absolute disposure of the personal Estate, to be disposed of by my Will: &c: The lease of the House, & intire furniture of my house at London I give absolutely to my deare Wife: ***  X4Y September ă \2. I was in excessive paine, no remedys working with me, by reason of a stopping in my Bowels, by being 6 days without Evacuation, in which Torment I continued two days, but was the next so relieved, that I was able to go take the aire, as far as Kensington, where I saw that House, [furniture] & the plantation about it, to my great admiration and Refreshment: It is a very noble Villa, the Gardens & Contrivances the worke of Mr. Wise, who was ther on purpose to receive me, & so returned I blesse God with much Ease & Refreshment &c: \September 6: Were Sealed the Writings &c. by which I settled my Estate on my Grandson, in order to his Marriage with Ann, Daughter to Mrs. Boscawen, sister to my L:Godolphin, L.High Treasurer of England:"%h0*(H&a@)"Ԍ*** \18 [Tuesday] my Gr:Son was Married by the ArchBishop of Cant: in Lambeth Chapell: to Ann, Daughter to Mrs. Boscawen, sister to the L.Godolphin, L.High Treasurer: And, with aboundance of Relations on both sides, most magnificently Entertained with supper that night, by her Mother: \Most of the rest of this Weeke spent in receiving Visites of greate persons. *** \26. We invited as many of the Reations of Mrs. Boscawen and of my L.Treasurer as were in Towne [&c.], to the number of 18 to Dinner, which was as greate as the solemity of Marriage of my Grandson &c required: ***  X 46b October ă \[31. I am this day arived to the 85 yeare of Age, Lord teach me so to number the days to come that I may apply them to wisedom better than hitherto I have done, for J C sake.]  X4Z November ă \<1?> A tennants house of mine was burnt down, but his Children left alone, & firing it, were saved:... ***  XP4[ December ă \9 ... An extraordinary wettseason & darke, severall Coaches & Travellers drowned, Greate Innundations also in Italy &c: The smallpox tooke this Weeke away, Ed: Boscawen, a Brother of my Grandaughters, in the prime of his youth, just as an Estate fellto him: To the great griefe of his Disconsolate Mother & Family, there being onely his Elder Bro: remaining, a Gent of an Antient Family in Cornwall, & greate Estate: There also died the Lady Stonehouse, my Daughter in Laws, Mother, She died of a malignant feavor, at her son in Laws, Sir Simon Harcourt, Sollicitor Gen, as all 3 familys were going into Mourning: *** \23 ... The Parliament settled the Succession in the protest line: Remitted some prohibitions of bringing Commoditys out of Scotland: ... \Christmas day, my L.Gens Chaplen on 1.Tim.1.15. Spake so fast & so as I heard very little: ***  b!4m 1706 ă  X`"40d January ă \1 Making up my Accompts for the past yeare, payed Wages, [Bills], New years Gifts according to Custome, &c: Tho much Indisposed, & in so advanced an Age I went to our Chapell to give God publique Thanks: Beseeching Almighty God, to assist me with his Mercy & protection to me & my Family the Ensuing yeare, if he should yet Continue my Pilgrimage here, & bring me at last to a better life with him in his heavenly Kingdom."'i0*(H&a@+"Ԍ\Divers of our Friends & Relations dined with us this day. \6 Epiphany Exceedingly Indisposd: I could not go to church, which I believe in very many yeares I have not omitted: And this whole Weeke, I had 3 fits of a shakingfit, and feavor, with greate paines in the Kidneys, which much afflicted me: Some Snow & sharp dayes: \13 I got to church in the Afternoone, but was exceeding drowsy: ... \House of Comm, settling the Regency, in Case of the Q. death; & about ting no officers Members in the future Elections. \I was much Indisposed most of this weeke: *** \27 The Raine and a Thaw upon a deepe Snow, hindred me from going to Church. \My Infirmitys increasing, I was exceeding ill this whole weeke.  X 4_ February ă \3. A stranger at our Chapell on 19 Levit: 17, the necessity of warning a Brother or Christian, & method of Admonition, when we find any go astray or do amisse, with the Rules to be observed, according to the danger and natur of the fault &c. \Afternoon a Scotchman, on Let every one that names the L.Jesus depart from Evill, & increase in love of that profession. At this point the Diary ends. John Evelyn died on the 27th February 1706 at 14 Dover Street, London. He was interred in the Evelyn chapel at Wotton Church on the 4th March following. Mary Evelyn followed him three years later. Both were placed in lead coffins enclosed in stone sarcophagi on the floor of the chapel. On the cover stone of each were carved their epitaphs (see p. 449).