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    business , though it be with some kind of baseness . After dinner , I walked a great while upon the deck with the chyrurgeon and purser and other officers of the ship , and they all pray for the King ' s coming , which I pray God send / 5 I . 34 .

    Monk's talents were , in the e 3 tima « tion of his contemporaries who had opportunities of judging , upon a level with his virtues : "May 3 . I perceive his ( Sir E . Montagu ) being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk , and to let him have all the honour of doing the business , though he will many times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-skulled fool . So that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business , for it is he that can do

    the business , or at least that can hinder it , if he be not flattered and observed . This , my Lord will hint himself sometimes . " 1 . 37 . Such honours as royalty can confer were eagerly sought after by the less powerful expectants of the royal party before Charles left the shores of

    Holland . The Diary of May 13 th relates that Samuel Morland \ v& $ knighted by the King , " and that the King did give the reason of it openly , that it was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe . " I . 43 . This was not the

    only reward conferred upon the traitor : Charles had no money to spare , but he could make titles , and he accordingly gave Morland two baronetcies for sale . Under date of August 14 , Pepys , who had now been made by Lord Sandwich ' s interest clerk to the

    Privy Seal , in addition to his other appointment , thus writes , mixing , according to Ins manner , small things with great , — * ¦ * To the Privy Seale , and thence to my Lord's , where Mr . Pin the taylor and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat . From thence to the Privy Seale again , where Sir Samuel Morland came with a Baronet ' s grant to pass , which the King had given him to make money of . Here we staid with him a great while ; and he told me the whole manner of his serving the King in the time of the Protector 3 and how Thurloe ' s bad usage made

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    him to do it ; how he discovered Salt . Willis , and how he had sunk his fortune for the King ; and that now the King had given him a pension of

    500 ? - per annum out of the Post Office for life , and the benefit of two Baronets ; all which do make me begia to think that he is xiot so much a fool as I took him to be . " I . 71 .

    Morland ' s reputation and character are described in another place . " May 15 . Mr . Morland , now Sir Samuel , was here on board , but I do not find that my Lord or any hody did give him any respect , he being looked upon by him and all men as a

    knave . Among others he betrayed Sir Richard Willis , that married Dr . F . Jones ' s daughter , who had paid him 1000 / . at one time by the Protector's and Secretary Tkurloe ' s order , for intelligence that he sent concerning the King . " 1 . 45 .

    Morland ' s history is a striking warning against political roguery . He was educated at Magdalene College , Cambridge , where Pepys was one of his pupils . He became one of Thurloe ' s under Secretaries , and was

    employed in several embassies by Cromwell . The employment by which he is now best known was that of " His Highness ( Oliver ' s ) Commissioner Extraordinary for the Affairs of the Valleys of Piemont , and particularly for the Distribution of the Collected

    Moneys . " On the completion of this mission , he published in a folio volume in 1658 , "The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys , " &c , with a flaming dedication " To His Most Serene Highness , Oliver , b \ j the grace of Goct > Lord Protector , "

    &c . This dedication the hypocnte withdrew after the Restoration , from as many copies as he could get into his hands . * On the turn of affairs , be was , as we have seen , rewarded with knighthood , a pension and

    articles of traffic of royal manufacture . He was afterwards created a Baronet of Sulhamstead Banister , Berks . But the King ' s gratitude went no farther . Morland was extravagant , sold his pension , wasted the proceeds in

    * Kciinct ' s Register , p . 135 , and Memoirs of Thomas Hollis , I . 142 . See also pp . 586 € t seq .

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    452 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/2/