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[^EVELYN, JOHN.
THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN.
ED. E. S. DE BEER.
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO:
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1959. 
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   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 upon me a Lieutenant Coll: & 8 horses:  
   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: 
   1688/9 Jan: I Dined with me severall friends. 
   3 I went to Lond: about buisinesse, & to visite divers       #
friends: 
   6. Epiphany, Dr. Tenison at St. Martins on 2: Psal:8: The    #
holy 
Communion followed, at which I received &c: [{(Lord make me 
worthy:){] 
   7 I returned home: on foote, it having ben a long frost &    #
deepe 
snow, [{so{] as the Thames was almost quite frozen over. 
   13 Our Lecturer on 6 Matt. 21. 
   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: Makenzy 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 
[{inviting{] his Majestie againe upon Conditions, & there were  #
Republicarians, 
who would make the Prince of Orange like a Stateholder: 
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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       #
pleas'd 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, & assur'd 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:  
   20 Our Lecturer proceeded on his former text: 
   In the A[{f{]ternoone I went to the French Congregation at   #
Greenewich, 
The Preachers Text was 17: (^Matt:^) 9: 
   I visited the Marquis de Ruvignie:  
   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, 
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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 din'd 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 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
Spheares, 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 most 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
him 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 
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[{Kingdoms{] , 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, S[{c{]ythia, & 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, & as 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 assur'd 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 [{Tutor{] (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 perfect in             #
Arithmetic, &
now newly entered into the Greek: In sum [{ (\(Horesco          #
referens)\) {] I
had, read of divers, forward & praecoce, 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 much upon this Jewell, (\Immodicis brevis  #
est aetas,
et rara senectus\) , as I my selfe learn'd by sad experience    #
in my most 
deare child Richard many yeares since, who dying before he was
six years old, was both in shape & Countenance, & pregnancy of
learning, next to prodigie even in that tender-age, as I have   #
given
ample account in my praeface 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
chaire-man Mr. Hamden, to the Lords, [{(29){] I got a station   #
by the
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Princes lodgings at the doore of the Lobby to the House, to     #
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, again[{s{]t 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      #
weaken'd,
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 [{things{] , that we may at       #
lastt be a
Nation & a church under some fixt and sober establishment:
   30 Was the Anniversary of K: Ch: the Is Martyrdome; but in   #
all
the publique Offices & pulpet prayers, The Collects [{(&        #
Litanys){] for
the King & Queene, were curtailed & mutilated: Dr. Sharp        #
preached
before the Common[{s{] ; but was disliked & not so much as      #
thanked
for his sermon:
   I went to St. Martin, where a stranger preached on           #
(^2:Apoc:10^)
much against popery, with a touch at our Obligation of Loyalty  #
to
the King &c:
   I came home afternoone, & at our church (the next [{day{]    #
being
appointed a Thanksgiving for deliverance by the P: of Orange,
prayers purposly composed) our Lecturer, preached on 97:Psal:1.
a very honest Sermon, shewing our duty to God for the many      #
signal
deliverances of his Church, without entering into the           #
politics. 
   Feb: [{3{] Our Lecturer on his former Text, shewing how all  #
power
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flowes from God, & how absolutely necessary it is, that he      #
should
[{constitute{] his Vicegerents here, & how responsible they     #
are that
they governe justly; The fatal ends of those who have in all    #
ages
abused their power, & the hapinesse of religious Princes &c:    #
The
holy Communion follow'd, at which I received: Blessed be God.
   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 devolve to the   #
Parliament
to choose as they think fit: These produc'd 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 proclaim'd: 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 K[{ing{]dome
being in great 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:
   10 Our Lecturer preached on 26. Matt: 11:
   (\Pomerid:\) Curate [{on{] 119 Psal: 105:
   16 I went to Lond: 17th Dr. Tenison [{(at St. Martin){] on   #
19 Psal:
12:
   21 At St. James's church preached Dr. Burnet, on 5.          #
(^Deut:^) 29
relating to the obligation lying upon the nation, to walke      #
worthy of
Gods particular & signal deliverances of this Nation & Church:
   22 Dr. Stillingfleete (Deane of S Paules) on 1. (^Pet:^)     #
4.18:
   I saw the new Queene & King, so proclaim'd, the very next    #
day
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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[{n{] 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 downe to     #
play at
Basset, as the Q. her predecessor us'd to do: smiled upon &     #
talked
to every body; so as no manner of change seem'd in Court,       #
since his
Majesties last going away, save that the infinite crowds of     #
people
thronged to see her, & that she went to our 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 proclaim'd 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     #
doubtlesse,
[{have{] 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
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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 [{for{] the absented King: That they should 
now boggle & raise scrupuls, & such as created much division    #
among
people, greatly rejoicing the old Courtiers, & Papist[{s{]      #
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 turn'd 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:
   24 St. (^Matthias^) , our Viccar preached on 12. (^Luke.^)   #
21:
   (^Mar.^) 2 To Lond: 3d Dr.(^Tenison^) at St. Martins on:     #
16: Matt 26:
The holy Communion follow'd, of which I participated.
   6: Dr. at White-hall before the new Queene: 2. Thess: 5.
   8. Dr. Tillotson deane of Cant: an excellent discourse on    #
5. Matt:
44: exhorting to charity and forgivenesse 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
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minds of men, in so generall a discontent of the nation,        #
especialy of
those who did not expect to see the Government assum'd 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,
gives men apprehension of greate difficulties before any        #
settlement
can be perfected here: [{(whilst){] The Parliament men          #
dispose
of the greate Offices amongst themselves: The Gr: Seale,        #
Treasury,
Admiralty put into commission, of many unexperienc'd 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:
   9: I returned home: [{(10:){] our (^Viccar:^) on his         #
former subject  
21. Matt:
   The (^Curate^) 90 Psal: 12:
   24: Palme-Sonday: I went early to Lond: according to my
custome, to passe the Holy-Weeke in Lond: At St. Martines
preached Dr. Tenison on: 2. Cor: 4.8.
   25 Lady-day, preached a Young man: at St. Martin on: 1.      #
Luke:
30. 31:
   27: At White-Hall, Dr. Jeane, Regius professor at Oxon:      #
before
the new Queene: &c: on 1. (^John:^) 5.4:
   [{(28 I visited Mr. Boile where an Italian Traveller         #
described how
farr he had ben in the desert of Africa and saw a Creature,     #
bodied
like an ox, head like a pike fish, taile like a peacock:){]
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   29 Good friday Morning at St. Martin, Dr. Tenison: on: 53.
Isah: ver: 3:
   The Holy Sacrament follow'd at which I received:
   (\Pomeridiano\) at W.hall, before the Princesse of Denmark:  #
The
Bish: of St. (^Asaph^) Almoner: on: 12 Zech: 10: with exceeding
patheticalnesse:
   I returned home after this: sermon:
   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 K James 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 Arch-Bishop 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 let fall, & connived at, for
feare of the people, to w[{h{]om these prelates were very       #
deare, for
their opposing poper[{y{] : 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:
   31 Easter day: Our Viccar on 22 Matt: 29: The holy Communion
follow'd, at which I received. The Curate on 1. Cor: 15. ver:   #
56.57.
   Aprill 7: Having taken cold after some preventing physick:   #
I was
not at Church this day, to my greate sorrow:
   10 I went to Lond: was at the R. Society, where the very     #
ingenious
Mr. Waler brought in his Tables of knowing plants by a
peculiar method: There was an extraordinary greate scorpion,    #
sent
the Society out of Africa, whose Eyes were in his back, like to
spiders, but not so prominent: 

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   (^July^) 6 I went to Lond: to heare Mr. Stringfellow preach  #
at 
St. James's Church as Dr. Tenison desired he would do, for      #
trial, 
whether his voice &c were fit for a Church he design'd him the  #
cure 
of upon my recommendation: But I went first in the morning to 
St. Martines, where the Doctor preached on: 10: (^Deut:^) 12.   #
13: The 
holy Sacrament followed of which I communicated: I dined at my 
Sons: Afternoone Mr. Stringfellow on 19 (^Act:^) 25: - & then   #
I returned 
home: 
   The whole Nation now exceedingly alarm'd 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 Mr. Stringfellow preach[{ed{] at our Church both morning  #
& 
afternoone, very excellently, on : 1 (^Gen:^) 26: & 2d & 15th: 
   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. Wa[{l{]ker, 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 
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little interruption of his pursuit: Hamilton, who brake his     #
word, 
about Tyrconells, 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 of 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: 
   16 The publique fast: our Viccar preached on 18 Jer: 7. 8: 
   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: 
   I returned in the Evening &c: 
   20 Our Viccar preached on 11: (^Heb:^) 7: In the afternoone  #
our 
Curate on [{(II. 1. (^Cor:^) 24){] : 
   Major Birch now quartered with his Regiment (newly come out  #
of 
Flanders) dined with me; & this [{afternoone{] began to incamp  #
on 
Black-heath: 
   I went this Evening to condole the Marq: de Ruvigny & his 
Mother, upon the death of his Brother, slaine in Ireland. 
   27. Our Viccar & Curate proceeded on their former Text. 
   30 I went to Lond: Dined with Mr. Pepys now suffered to      #
returne 
to his house in reguard of his Indisposition: I return'd 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: 
   Aug: 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.){] 
   3 The Schole Master of Lewsham preached on 1 Joh: 2. 15:     #
The 
holy Sacrament follow'd of which my Wife & I were               #
participants, 
praised be God. 
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   The Afternoone our Curat preached on his former Text; I was 
exceedingly drowsy: 
   The French domineering still at sea, landed some souldiers   #
at 
Tinmoth in Devon: & burned some poore houses:   
   10 Our Viccar on 3: (^Amos^) : 6:
   Afternoone Curate on 8. Joh:34:
   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 F[{l{]eete 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
seldome 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 dismiss'd:
   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:){]
   16 I returned home:
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   17 our Viccar proceeded on his former Text & subject:
   In the Afternoone, the Curate of Greenew[{i{]ch on: 7:       #
Matt: 21:
   Some greate designe in hand, by our preparation at Sea, now  #
the
Fr: fleete is gone home:
   Limrick not yet reduc'd: Our Camp at Blakheath marching to
Portsmouth.
   That Sweete & hopefull youth Sir Charles Tuke, (after hopes  #
of
his recovery) dead of the wounds he receiv'd 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:
   24: Our Viccar & Curate proceeded on their former subject:
   25 I went to Lond: about my Concerne with Sir C: Porter:
   Limrick still holds out, we having received some losse       #
[{(very){] considerable
by the negligence of Sir W: Poultnys son, who was to
guard the Cannon: Galloway Entered by stratagem by the French
who quitted Limric:
   The weather very wett, & stormy, our Fleete at sea:
   30 I came home: Our Merchant ships came safe from Plimouth:
   31 Both Viccar & Curate proceeding on their former Texts.
   No news from the Armys in Germany, but some uncertaine       #
reports
of Catinates having worsted the D. of Savoy: nothing yet from
Ireland:
   September 7 Our Viccar & Curate still on the same Text: The
holy Sacrament followed of which I was partaker, the Lord make
me thankfull:
   Limrick proves yet a difficult piece; The unseasonable &     #
most
tempestuous season happning, the Naval expedition is hindred:   #
No
successe in Savoy, Catinates having (as reported) worsted the   #
Duke,
still in doubt:
   14 Our Viccar & curat proceede: Extremity of wet, cause the
siege to be raised before Limrick: so as K.W. Returnes to       #
England:
(\re infecta`\) as to that plan: Lord Sydne[{y{] &c left        #
chiefe governors
in that Kingdome as far as Conquered, which is neere three      #
parts:
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   17 The publique fast, our Viccar preach'd on 13 Luke, 6 &c:
   An extraordinary cold sharp Easte Wind, part of our fleete   #
on
some extraordinary designe.
   21 Our Viccar preached on 3: (^Heb:^) 12:
   In the afternoone the Minister of Leusham at Greenew[{i{]ch  #
excellently
on: 1. Cor:10:12:
   The French Fleete againe on the Irish Coast: ours going to   #
meete 
them:
   28 Our Viccar on the same Text: & Curate on 9: Dan: 7.
   Octo: 5 Our Viccar on his former Text. The holy Communion
followed at which I rece[{i{]ved, the Lord make me mindfull & 
thankfull.
   Our Curate on 1 Cor: 15. 55. 56 ver:
   Corke surendred to K: Willia[{m's{] forces upon discretion,  #
the
Duke of Grafton desperately wounded &c:
   12 The Minister of Newington on 3: Phil:10: both Morning &
afternoon, very well:
   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: Tekelyes successe   #
in
Transylvania: The Swisse call a Dyet, press'd by the French:    #
The
Emperor Indiscreetely ingag'd by the Monks & Jesuites, to       #
pursue
the Warr against the Turks, neglected to make peace, whi[{l{]st
France still gaines on & Indangers the Empire, & has Swallowed 
Savoy:
   Very greate stormes of Wind:
   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 same very moment, (which was betweene
7 & 8 in the morning, viz, halfe an houre after 7:) the         #
Gazette of this
weeke 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:
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   19 was held a day of Thanksgiving for the successe of K.     #
Williams
armes, & his owne escape in Ireland &c:
   Our Viccar preached on 144. psal: (\ult:\)
   (\Pomeridia\) I went to the French Church at Greenewich      #
where a
young man preached on 123 psal 2. Advising to attend on & looke
up to God for deliverance, after all their sufferings, &        #
accknowledging
the succour God had so providentialy assisted & comforted them
with, by the Charity of the Nation, and favour of the King, all
of it greate arguments for their more than ordinary Gratitude,  #
&c:
I then tooke leave of the Marquis de Ruvigny and his Mother,
being myselfe leaving the Country to winter in London, with my
family:
   26 Our Viccar still on his former subject: 3. (^Heb:^) 12:   #
The weather
detain'd me at home in the afternoone:
   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:
   The Turks retake Belgrade by storme putting all to the       #
sword, &
repassing the bridge at Esseck, with the successe of Tekely,    #
threaten
a reverse of their hitherto unprosperousnesse, & this, as too   #
apparent
by the tretchery of the Jesuites, who hindred the Emperor to    #
make
a most advantagious peace, by which France would have ben       #
forc'd 
to abate of his so insolent progresse: poore Duke of Grafton,   #
who
came to take his leave of me, just as he imbarked for Ireland,  #
is now
dead of his wounds.
   29 I came up to Lond: (^Dover-streete^) with part of my      #
family, to
Winter with my son:
   31 My Birth-day, 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[{t{]      #
preserved:
Grant deare father the increase of thy Grace, with the yeares   #
of my
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life, 'til in compassion thou bring me to the consummation of   #
Glory
in the life to come, Amen. 



