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Navy Office , who did look after the place of Clerke of the Acts . He was very civil to me and I to him , and shall be so . There come a letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening , but he refused to come to her , but meeting in Whitehall with Sir Thomas Clarges , her brother , my Lord returned answer , that he could
not desist in my business ; and tliat he believed that General Monk would take it ill if my Lord should name the officers in his army ; and therefore lie desired to have the naming of one officer in the fleete . —26 th . —To
Baekewell , the Goldsmith ' s , and there we chose 100 / . worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas /* I .
59 , 60 . Pepys relates ( June 29 , 1660 ) , that he got his warrant from the Duke lo be Clerk of the Acts , hut that he heard with sadness that Mr . Barlow , his predecessor in the office , was yet
liring , and coming up t& town to look after his place- This he told " his Lord" of , who bade him get possession of his patent , and " he would do all that could be done to keep him out /* Next day , he had a letter from one Turner , offering him 150 / . to be joined with him in his patent , and to advise
him how to improve the advantage of his place , and lo keep off Barlow . " After many fears and some negotiations , Pepys bought Barlow's interest , by agreeing to give him 50 / 1 per ann ., if the salary were not increased , and 100 / . per . ann ., in case it were 350 / . This was no bad bargain , as the former
possessor was " an old consumptive man /* and the place was worth by repys's confession 1000 / . This is a specimen of the way in which the court forgot old loyalty and rewarded new .
The entry of July 1 st shews that the Diarist got on faster with his finery than the Church of England did with hers " : This morning came home my nne camlett cloak / with gold buttons , ano a silk suit , which cost me much
money , and / pray God to make me ™ lct <> pay far it . In the afternoon I lllti Abbey , where a good sermon wy agranger , but no Common Prayer After relating ( July 5 ) that his bro-* brought him his jackanapes ) h
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coat with silver buttons , he goes on to say that the King and Parliament were entertained by the city with , great pomp , but alas 1 it was a wet day , aud Many a fine mit of clothes was spoiled How it fared with the
above-mentioned jackanapes coat we are left to conjecture , but there Pepys was , and he describes his humble ' entertainment , and the notable project of a knavish fellow-secretary . " Met with Mr . Cooling , my Lord Chamberlain ' s Secretary , who took me to dinner among the gentlemen waiters , and after din ^
ner into the wine celler . He told me how he had a project /^ alt us Secretaries to join together y and get money by bringing all business into our hands ' I . 63 .
Mr . Pepys always kept his eye upon his interests at Court . The employment of his Sundays may be put irt evidence . Not only did he on these days shew hiraself ofif in some new and fine article of apparel , but he also contrived frequently to worship with * great men , ( We should not be very uncandid if we were to strike out the
word with from the conclusion of this last sentence . ) His memorandum for July 8 , 1660 , for example , is "Lord ' s Day . To White Hall Chapel , where I got in with ease by going before the Lord Chancellor , with Mr . Kipps . Here I heard very # ood musique ,. the
first time that ever I remember t *> have heard the organs , and singing men in surplices , in my lifeS * He adds , with a better feeling than he sometimesshews , " The ' Bishop of Chichester-( King ) preached before the King , and made a great flattering sermon , which I did not like that ihc clergy should meddle with matters of state . ' * I . 64 .
Again , on the 29 th of July , Pepys was at Whitehall Chapel , and his record of the day proves that the hierarchy was steadily growing . * ' 1 heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of Salisbury ' s , Duppa ' s , and the
ceremoniesdid not please me they do so overdt * them : ' I . 68 , 69 . The Presbyterians were not yet thrown oil' by the Court . Aug . 12 . Mr- Culauiy preached at Whitehall ,. and made , Pepys says , a good sermon , lie says also of the old
Nonconformist , * ' He was \ ery officious with his three reverences to the King , as others do / 7 I . 71 .
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepps , Esq . 521
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/9/
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