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    France , ( Diary , I . 247 , ) and ended as abS « ( M ? I . 319 ) . We hava no wish to withhold what Lotd

    Braybrooke says of him in a note ( I . 43 ) , though without quoting any authority , that be was an ingenious mechanic , * ' and is supposed by some persons to have invented the Steam Engine . "

    Other persons that upon the whole make a better figure than Morland in Pepys ' s Diary are as little respectable in their devotion to the new Court : his patron ' s conversion to royalty was a matter of calculation :

    " In the afternoon , my Lord and I walked together in the coach * two hours , talking together upon all sorts of discourse : as religion , wherein he is , I perceive , wholly sceptical , saying-, that indeed the rrotestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques : he likes uniformity ancj form

    of prayer : about State-business , among other things he told me that his conversion to the King ' s cause , ( for I was saying that I wondered from what time the King could look upon him to become his friend , ) commenced from his being in the Sound , when he found what usage he was likely to have from a Commonwealth . " I . 45 .

    The Restoration relieved Charles and his family from a state of deep poverty . He was " overjoyed' * at the siftht of the first parcel of money from tlie pockets of his loving subjects . " May 16 th . This afternoon Mr . Edward Pickering told me in what a sad poor condition for clothes and

    money the King was , and all his attendants when he came to him first from my Lord , their clothes not being worth forty shillings the best of them . And how overjoyed the King vvas

    when Sir J , Greenville brought him some money ; so joyful , that he called the Princess Royal * and !> uke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out . " 1 . 46 .

    Pepys was in the ship that brought we King over , and he has given a * Coach , on board a man of war , The Council-Chamber /'

    t < c Mary , eldest daughter of Charles L- > and widow of the Prince of Orange , who died 1646 , 7 . She was carried off yy the small-pox , December , 16 C 0 , leavjugason , afterwards King William III /' Witor ' a note .

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    particular account of the voyage and the latwiing at Dover . The tedium of sailing was relieved to his Majesty by the company of some choice spirits * amongst whom was the play-wright , ** Thomas Killigrew , a merry droll ,

    but a gentleman of great esteem with the King / 5 I . 52 . Charles , however , met his subjects with a grave face at Dover , and practising the hypocrisy which he had learned , and by which he had deceived the Presbyterians with

    whom he had been praying , at Breda , he took a very rich Bible , which the Mayor of Dover presented him from the town , and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in the worlds I . 53 .

    Lpoking to some other passages of the Diary , we think the entr ^ of June 4 th must have caused the writer himself to smile : " This morning the King ' s proclamation against drinking , swearing , and debauchery , was read to our ships * companies in the fleet , and indeed it gives great satisfaction to all . " I .

    56 . The private histories of this period shew that the advocates of the Church of England were industrious in supporting her credit and promoting her

    fame by false stories of the conformity of the principal Dissenters- Thus Pepys says , June 6 , " My letters tell me that Mr . Calainy had preached before the King in a surplice ( this I heard afterwards to be false )/* I .

    57 . His memorandum of the next day describes the real state of the Presbyterians , who began to see and feel that they had been cheated , but were obliged to put a good faqje upon their condition , the result or their own egregious folly .

    " At night walked up and down with Mr . Moore , who did give me an account of all things at London . Among others , how the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst , but they will not be able to do any thing . *' Ib .

    The contest for government at and before this period appears like a game of chance ; the stake , a crown . Richard Cromwell played ill and was beaten . Monk and some others now cogged the dice ; they threw and won for Charles , on the condition that they should share in the winnings .

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    Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq . 453

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/3/