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    him , but he would not . He thinks ( with me ) that it never was in his power to bring in the King with the consent of any of his officers about him ; and that he scorned to bring him in as Monk did , to secure himself

    day , the day of the King ' s coronation ^' July 27 ; Pepys met the King and Duke of York at Greenwich , and heard him and the Duke talk , and saw and observed their manner of discourse ,

    and deliver every body else . When I toJd of what I found writ in a French book of one Monsieur Sorbiere , that f ives an account of his observations ere in England $ among other things he says , that it is reported that Cromwell did 5 in his- life-time , transpose

    . and , " he says , as if on the point of a great sin , " God forgive me ! though . I admire them with ail the duty possible , yet the more a man considers and observes them , the less he finds of difference between them and other inen , though , ( blessed be God ) they

    many of the bodies of the Kings of En * gland from one grave to another , and that by that means it is not known certainly whether the head that is now set up upon a post be that of Cromwell , or of one of the Kings y Mr . White tells me that he believes

    he never had so poor a low thought in him to trouble himself about it . He says the hand of God is much to be seen ; that all his children are in goad condition enough as to estate , and that their relations that betrayed their family are all now either hanged or very miserable . " L 314 , 315 .

    1665 , April 12 th . « My Lord Trea ^ surer" asked Mr . Pepys a question , which it does not appear that he answered , " Why will not the people lend their money ? Why will they not trust the King as well as Oliver S " I . 336 .

    Under the date of April 23 , 1665 , ( I . 338 , ) we have mention of a young divine who long sustained a very important station in the religious world , but who did not grow more tolerant and liberal as he grew older : " To White-Hall Chapel , and heard the famous young Stilliugfleete , whom I

    knew at Cambridge , and lie is now newly admitted one of the King ' s Chaplains . And was presented , they 8 ay , to my Lord Treasurer for St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , where he is now minister , with these words : that they ( the Bishops of Canterbury , London and another ) believed he is the ablest

    young man to preach the gospel of any since the apostles . He did make a . most plain , honest , good , grave ser mon , in the most unconcerned and easy yet substantial manner , that ever 1

    heard in iny life , upon the words of panauel to the people , * Fear the Lord * n truth with all your heart , and remember the great things that he hath "one for you . It being proper to this

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    are both princes of great nobleness and spirits . The Duke of Monmouth is the most skittish , leaping gallant that ever I saw , always in action , vaulting or leaping or clambering . "

    I . 355 . The state of morals amongst men of rank and good repute in Pepys ' s time must have been very low when we find such men $ s himself and Evelyn meeting on familiar terms aad enjoying the society of the mistress of a nobleman . I . 367 , 37 Z > and

    396 , Pepys relates many interesting particulars of the great fire of London and of the plague ^ 1 665 and 1666—calamities which would haye awakened the hearts of Charles and his

    courtiers to serious consideration if they had not been callous almost beyond example—but these we pass over as less suited to our object in these selections , with the exception of one

    quotation , the Utter part of which relates a heart-affecting instance of parental love , though we are sorry to say the former part exhibits no small degree of selfish coxcombry on the part of the Journalist : he was now at

    Woolwic " h : 1665 , Sept . 3 rd , Lord ' s Day . Up ; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine , and my new periwigg , bought a good while since , but durst not wear , because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it ; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion

    after the plague is done , as to periwiggs , for nobody will dare ta buy any haire , for fear of tlus infection , that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague . My

    Lord Brouncker , Sir J . Minnes * I up to the Vestry at the desire of the Justices of the Peace , ia order to the doing something for the keeping of the plngue from growing ; but Lord 1

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    Memoir * of Samuel Pepys , Esq . 67 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/35/