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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq . ( Coutixiued from p . 527 . ) FRIEND complained to Pepys A " of the lewdness and beggary of the Court , " and his own
description shews the complaint was not groundless : " 1661 , August 31 st . At Court things are in very ill condition , there being so much emulation , po- * yerty and the vices of drinking , swearing and loose amours , that I know not what will be the end of it but
confusion . And the clergy so high that all people that I meet with do protest against their practice . In short , I see no content or satisfaction any where , in any one sort of people . The Benevolence" ( a voluntary contribution to Charles ' s necessities , something like a forced loan ) " proves so little , and an occasion of so much
dis-CQntent everv where , that it had belter it had never been set up . 1 think to subscribe ^ 20 . We are at our office quiet ,, only for lack of money all things go to rack . Our very bills offered to be sold upon the Exchange at 10 per cent loss . We are upon getting . Sir It . Ford ' s house added to our office .
liiit lsce so many difficulties will follow in pleasing * of one another in dividing it , and in becoming bound personally to pay the rent of < £ 200 per annum , that I do believe it will yet scarce come to pass . The season very sickly every where of strange and fatal fevers , " I . 115 , 116 ,
Presbyterianism was so far from being banished > that on Sept . 3 rd of this year , ( 1661 , ) Pepys complains that at the christening of " my Lady ' s child" by the parson of the parish , the sign of the cross was not used , 44 to his and all their trouble /"
Our play-goer sets down , Sept . 7 , his going to see Ben Jonson ' comedy of " Bartholomew Fayre" which had not been acted these forty yeare , add-
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ing ' « it % etajj- « # &tyntoP #$ 8 Ato Pfo ritaWisiny tliey '¦* - ' fftfft ' t ^ fet ' % ttl n ^ w , whidh h strtitlgt > tk&y shbuldMhehdy dare to do it , and the King- do ' countenance it . " I . 117-Relating , Sept . &Oth ; that "Sir Henry Vahe , L&tirt !> ert afid others are lately sent ft \ v ay from the Tower , pril soners to Sciliy , " be says he does not think there was any plot but only a pretence , I . 122 . This pretence , " however , be seems to justify on another occasion .
" Dec . 1 st . There hath lately been great clapping up of some old statesmen , such as Ireton , Meyer , * and others , and they say upofr a great plot , but I believe no siich thitvg hut it is but justice that they should be served as they servfed this poor Cavaliers , and I belie v £ it Will
oftentimes be so as long as they live , whether there be cause or no / 5 I . 124 . Pepys was not an indiscriminate admirer of the clergy , least " 1 of all' ? 6 f * ' the old clergy ; " for example ,
" Nov . 1 / th . To Chufch ; and fag&rd a simple fellow upon the praise of church musique , " ( yet Pepys was musical , ) and exclaiming against men ' s wearing their hats on in the Church " ( another vestige of Presbyterianism ) .
I . 123 . He gives an account ( I . 134 ) of a pulpit droll : ¦¦ ¦ •' " 1662 , Mar . 7 th . Early to White-Hall to the Chapel , where by Mr . Blagrave ' s means I got into bis pew , and heard Dri CrfeSttij */* ( fere ^ htrin . ) and
" the gr ^^ ct Scotchrti '' an Chaplain in ordifrifry to the King , preach before the King , ahd Duke and Duchesse , upon the words of Micah , * Roiile yourselves in dust , He rriade a most learned sermoii upon the words ; but in his application the most comical man that ever I heard in iny life . Just such a man as Hugh Peters ; saying that it had been better for the poor Cavalier never to have come with the King into England again ; for he that hath the impudence to deny obedience to the lawful magistrate , and to swear to the oath of allegiance , &c , was better treated now-a-deiys in Newgate , than a poor Royalist , that ¦ *¦ i . ¦
¦ . * ** Samiacl Mojycr , one of the Council of State , NJ 53 . "
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" cursed is avoided whilst ml classes , pressing- forward with avidity , are anxious to seize the ** wing by which we fly to heaven . " J . EVANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/28/
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