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dowtt in Mf - Mavis ' s house , talking that the Fanatiques were up in armes - the city . And so I rose and went forth ; where in the street I found every body in armes at the doors . So I returned an * got my sword and pistol , which however I had no powand went to the door
dcr to charge , where I found Sir R . Ford , and with him I walked up and down as far as the Exchange ,, and there I left him . In our way the streets full of train bands and great stir . What mischief these rogues have done ! and I think near a dozen had been killed this
morning on both sides . The shops shut and all things in trouble . " 10 th . After dinner Will comes to tell roe that he had presented my piece of plate to Mr . Coventry , who takes it very kindljr , and sends me a very kind letter and the plate back again , of which my heart is very glad . Mr . Davis told us the particular
examinations of these Fanatiques that are taken ; and in short it is this—these Fanatiques that have routed all the train bands that they met with , put the King ' s life-guards to the run , killed about twenty men , broke through the city gates twice , and all this in the < lay time , when all the city was in
armes , are not in all above thirty-one . Whereas we did believe them , because they were seen up and down in every place almost in the city , and had been in . Highgate two or three days and in several other places , to be at least 500 . A thing that never wasiieard of that so few men should dare and do
so much mischief . Their word was , " The King Jesus and their heads upon the gates / ' Few of them would receive any quarter , but such as were taken by force and kept alive , expecting Jesus to come here and reign w the world presently , and will not believe yet . The King this day come to towne . " I . 90 . 91 .
We have , I . 93 , a notice of the first oOtli of January service ; following which is a record of Mrs . Pepys ' s em-Ployment of this day , not altogether agreeable to feminine usage :
dUth , Fast-day . The first time « nat tins day hath been yet observed : and Mr . Mills made a most excellent sermon upon 'Lord , forgive us our ormer ini quities ; ' speaking exceli « y ° the J ustice «» f Ood in puniahff meu for the sins of their ances-
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tors . To my Lady Batten ' s ; where my Wife aa 4 she are lately cotee back from being abroad , and seeing of Cromwell , Ireton , and Bradshaw , hanged and buried at Tyburae . " The turn of the election in the city of London , 1660 , 1 , shews that the Nonconformists were yet the prevailing and in one sense popular party .
" March 20 th . The great talk of the towne is the strange election that the city of London made yestetfday for ParliameaUmen y viz . Fowke , Love , Jones , and . . M <> j ^ . ; men , that , so far from beiag episcopall , are
thought to be Anabaptists , and chosen with a great deal of zeafe ^ itt spite of the other party that thought themselves so strong , calling out in the Hall , 'No Bishops ! No Lord
Bishops I' It do make people to fear it may come to ^ worse by * being an example to the country 4 ft do the same . And indeed the Bishops are so high , that very few do love them . " 1 . 98 .
The next extract relates t& a Presbyterian minister , well known by his writings , Zach . Grbftoh , ejcfcl&i fiforti St . Botolph ' s , Aldgate . H ^ Md been zealous for the King ' s Restoration , but falling into controversy with
Bishop Gauden upon the obligation of the Solemn League and Covenant , he gave such high displeasure tti the ruling party , that he was sent to the Tower . Here he lay a long time , afraid to sue his Habeas Corpus , lest his life , which was threatenea , should
be taken away . With difficulty he at length obtained his liberty , and with a wife and seven children redooved into Cheshire , where he was again imprisoned . Once more procuring his release , he set up a grocer ' s shop ; then took a farm at Little Barford ,
Beds . 5 and finally kept a large school in the parish of Aldgate . " 1660 , 1 , March 23 rd . Met my uncle Wight , and with him Lieutenant
Colonel Baron , who told its hovv Crofton , the great Presbyterian minister that had preached so highly against Bishops , is clapped up this day in the Tower . Which do please some , and displease others exceedingly / ' I . 99 . JPepys distinguishes between the Presbyterians and the Fanatics ,
meaning apparently by the latter all the Nonconformists not Presbyterians . « April 7 th . To White Hall , and
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq . 525
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/13/
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