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brooke ' s surprise ( Memoir , passim ) at Pepys being suspected of Popery : ?* In Paul ' s church-yard" ( Paul's betrays the * ' Roundhead ") " I called at Kirton ' s , and there they had got a masse-book for me , which I bought ,
and cost me 12 s . ; and , when I come home , sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife , to hear that she teas long ago acquainted with it" I . 83 .
The following passage under Nov .. 4 , discovers hew slowly the people returned to Church-of-Englandism . The concluding sentenbe shews Mr . Pepys a little uxorious . We cannot stay to
inquire into the consistency of this minute relating to the c < black patch , " with that already quoted on the same subject . " 4 th , Lard ' s Day . In the morning to our own church when Mr . Mills * did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer , by saying , * Glory be to the Father . &c , after he had
read the two Psalms ; but the people had been so little used to it , that they could not tell what to answer . This declaration of the King ' s do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction , and a pretence to read the Common Prayer which . they would not do before ,
because of their former preaching against it f -After dinner to Westminster , where I went to t « y Lord's , and , having spoke with him , I wept to the Abbey , where the first time that I ever beard the organs in a cathedral . My wife seemed very pretty to-day , it being the first time I had given her leave to weare a black patch * " Il > .
The tragedies that were now acting at Charing Cross were less of the King ' s devising than of the Piirliament ' Sj in which were many apostates who were afraid of their former
comrades , should any turn ot affairs give them power , and apprehensive that if they lived they might tell inconvenient tales . Charles would probably , as the following passage intimates , have let the King ' s Judges alone , but more
* <* Daniel Mills , I ) . D ., thirty-two yeans rector of St . Olavc ' s , Hart Street , and buried there October 16 * 89 , aged sixty-three . In 10 * 6 * 7 , Sir Hubert Brooks presented him to the rectory of Wan * stead , which lie also enjoyed till his ¦ death . *
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from constitutional carel essness , than from humanity" 19 th . I went with the Treasure r in his coach to White Hall , and in our way , in discourse , do find hirr , a very good-natured man ; and talking o ' f those men , who now stand condemn **!
fpr murdering the King , he says that he believes , that if the law would give leave , the King' is a man of so great compassion that he would wholly acquit them . " I . 85 .
Pepys cannot record the brutal decree of the Parliament with regard to the bodies of Cromwell , &c ,, without
disapprobation . Plots now begin to thicken , sham plots and plots real . One was never wanting when the object was to take up or to take off an old friend or a suspected enemy . There was an insurrection of the 5 th monarchy men , but there was probably some < Jastles or Oliver at the bottom . Pepys thus relates this mad attempt—we give his narrative mixed up with his other matters .
" 1660 , 61 . Jan . /• Tins morning , wews was brought to me to rny bedside , that there had been a great stir in the city this night by the Fanatiques , who had been up and killed six or seven ^ men , but all are fled . My Lord Mayor , and the whole city had been in " arms , above forty thousand . Tom and I and my wife to the theatre , and there saw * The Silent
Woman / Among other things here , Kinaston the boy had the good turn to appear in three shapes : first as a poor woman in ordinary clothes to please Morose ; then in fine clothes , as a gallant , and in them was clearly the
prettiest woman in the whole house : and lastly as a man ; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in th $ house . In our way home we were in many places strictly examined , more than in the worst of tirues , there
being great feurs of these Fanatiques risJug again : for the present I do not hear that any of them are taken . " 8 th . Some talk to-day of a head of Fanatiques that do appear about , but I do not believe it . However ,
my Lord Mayor , Sir Richard Browne , hath carried himself very honourably * and hath caused one of their meetinghouses in London to be pulled down . " 9 th . Waked in , the morning abouj six o ' clock , by people running « P ana
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. 524 Memoirs vf Sam * el Pepys , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/12/
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