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hatii pirfjfcEe 4 alibis life fqv fche King , \ % fr \ { Vfthfce-ttQXl aw > ng his friends /' Auotber , notable renegade is introduced ( ib . ) , viz * Sir G . Downing , whose baseness is not spared : " Mar . 12 th « This morning we had news from Mr . Coventry , that Sir G .
Downing * ( like a perfidious rogue , though the action is good and of service to the King , yet-lie cannot with n good conscience do it ) hath taken Okey , Corbet and Barkestead , at Delfe , in Holland , and sent them home in
the Blackmore . Sir W . Pen , talking to me this afternoon of what a strange thing it is for Downing to do this , he told me of a speech he made to the LordsStates of Holland , telling them to their faces that he observed that he was
not received with the respect and the observance now , that he was when he came from the traitor and rebel Cromwell ; by whom , I am sure , he hath got all he bath in the world—and they know it too . "
" 17 th . Last night the Blackmore Pinke brought the three prisoners Barkestead , Okey and Corbet , to the Tower , being taken at Delfe , in Holland ; where , the Captain tells me , the
Dutch were a good while before they could be persuaded to let them go , they being taken prisoners In their land . But Sir G . Downing wonld not be answered so—though all the world takes notice of him for a most uugratefull villaine for his paines . "
I . J 35 . These , like most of the King's Judges , died with stout hearts : " April 19 th . This morning , before we eat , I went to Aldgate , and at the corner shop , a draper ' s , I stood and did see Barkestead , Okey and
Corbet dravyne towards the gallows at Tiburne , and there they were hanged and quartered . They all looked very cheerful > but I hear they all die defending what they did to the King to be just , which is very strange . " I . IS / .
A picture of the public mind is exhibited , I . 141 . " May 15 th . At night all the bells of the tovyne rang and bonfires made for the joy of the Queene ' a arrival , who landed at Portsmouth last night .
* " 'According to Hume , Downing had once been Chaplain to Okey ' s Regiment .
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But I do not . see mwhoJLrn ® > j&y * j but only an indifferent one in ? fcbe * h ^ Hri » ref people , who are much : discont € ^ te < t «» t the pride and luxury of the . CfeWli and running in debt . " Pn ,, ' We have mention , I . 144 , ior * the first time , of the "Act of Uniformity : tt
" May 31 st . The Act for Uniformity is lately printed , which it is thought will make mad work among the Presbyterian ministers . , People of all sides are very much discontented , some thinking themselves used ,
contrary to promise , too hardly , and the other that they are not rewarded so much as they expected by the King , " Pepys witnessed the murder ( for so we must call it ) of Sir Henry Vane ^ which he thus describes :
* ' June 14 th . About eleven o'clock ,, having a room got ready for us , we all went out to the Tower Hill , and there over against the scaffold , made on purpose this day , saw Sir Henry Vane brought . A very great press of
people . He made a long speech , many times interrupted by the Sheriffs and others there ; arid they would have taken his paper out of his hand , but lie would not let it go . But they caused the books of all those that
writ after him to be given the Sheriffe , and the trumpets were brought under the scaffold that he might not be heard . Then he prayed and so fitted himself' and received the blow , but the scaffold was so crowded that we could not see it done . But
Boreman , who had been upon the scaffold , told us that first he began to speak of the irregular proceeding against him ; that he was , against Magna Charta , denied to have his exceptions against the indictment allowed , and that there he was stopped by the Sheriffs . Then
he drew out his paper of notes , and begun to tell them first his life ; that he was born a gentleman ; he had been till he was seventeen years old a good fellow , but then it pleased God
to lay a foundation of grace in his heart , by which he was persuaded against his worldly interest , to leave all preferment and go abroad , where he might serve God with more freedom . Then he was called home and
made a member of the Long Parliament , where he never did to this day any tiling against his conscience , but all for the if lory of God * Here he would have given them an account of
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys > Esq * 669
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/29/
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