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which is not to be reconciled to bishops Dec . 25 th , ( I . 188 , ) he heard Bishop Morley reprehend excess in games , &c , and ** they all laughed in the Chapel . " The Bishop pressed hospitality and one that stood by whispered in P / s ear that he do not spend one groat to the poor himself .
Pepys pretended to no Spartan virtue . He says , 1663 , April 17 , I . 212 , after relating that it being Good Friday his dinner was only sugar sopps and fish—the only time they had a Lenten dinner all this
Lentthat Good Friday as it was he went to Paul ' s Churchyard to cause the title of his English " Mare Clausum" to be changed ., aud the new title dedicated to the King , to be put to it because ashamed to have the other seen
dedicated to the Commonwealth . 1663 , May 29 , a holyday—he called at several churches and witnessed the ill temper of the city at this time either to religion in . general or to the King ; that in some churches there was hardly ten people and those poor people .
The next entry shews us a high churchman beginning anew his vocation : " 1663 , Aug . 9 . To church and heard Mr . Milles ( who is lately returned out of the country , and it
seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners with great state ) preach upon the authority of the ministers , upon these words , * We are therefore ambassadors of Christ . *
Wherein , among other high expressions , he said , that such a learned man used to say , that if a minister of the word and an angel should meet him together , he would salute the minister first
which methought was a little too high . This day I begun to make use of the silver pen ( Mr . Coventry did give me ) in writing of this sermon , taking only the heads of it in Latin , which I shall , 1 think , continue to do . " I . 245 .
Nov . 8 , he gravely and with no little vanity remarks , that at church he found his coming in a periwigg did not prove so strange as he feared , for he thought that all the church would have presently cast their eyes all upon him . I . 25 . 9 . ( He had recorded on
the 30 th ult . that two periwiggs cost him , one £ 3 , the other 40 ^ . ) Nov . 9 . Pcpys held conversations with Pierce , a surgeon , about
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the looseners of the Court , and the shameless debaucheries of the Ki n # , and with 1 Vf r . Blackbame , as follows : " Mr . Blackburne and I fell to talk of many things , wherein "He was very open to me : first , in that of religion , he makes it greater matter of prudence
for the King and Council to suffer liberty of conscience ; and imputes the loss of Hungary to the Turke from the Emperor ' s denying them this liberty of their religion . He says that many pious ministers of the word of God , some thousands of them , do now
beg their bread : and told me how highly the present clergy carry themselves every where , so as that they are hated and laughed at by every body ; among other things , for their excommunications , which they send upon the least occasions almost that
can be . And I am convinced in my judgment , not onlyrfrom his discourse , but my thoughts in general , that the present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the commons of England ; they have been so used to liberty and freedom , and they
are so acquainted with the pride and debauchery of the present clergy . He did give me many stories of the affronts which the clergy received in all places of England from the gentry and ordinary persons of the parish . He do tell me what the city thinks of
General Monk , as of a most perfidious man , that hath betrayed every body , and the King also ; who , as he thinks , and his party , and so I have heard other good friends of the King say , it might have been better for the King to have had his hands a little bound
for the present , than be forced to bring such a crew of poor people about him , and be liable to satisfy the demands of every one of them . He told me that to his knowledge , ( beirn ? present at every meeting at the Treaty at the Isle of Wight , ) that the old
King did confess himself over-ruled and convinced in his judgment against the Bishopps , and would have suffered , and did agree to exclude the service out of the churches , nay , his own chapell : and that he did always say ,
that this he did not by force , for that he would never abate one inclx by any violence ; but what he did was out of his reason and judgment . He tells me that the King by name , with all his dignities , is prayed for by them .
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672 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/32/
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