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of the King ' s heart , which they expect , and are resolved to live and die in quiet hopes of it ; but never to repine , or act anything more than by prayers towards it . And that not only himself but all of them have , and are willing at any time to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy . Mr . Blackburne observed further to me ,
some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of ; that he was told by Mr . Rushworth , * how one Captain Oates , f a great discoverer , did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot , and that
one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him , nor conceal what he had offered him , bat so detected the trepan . He also did much insist upon the cowardice and corruption of the King ' s guards and militia . I . 260—263 .
1663 , 4 , January 4 . Pepys went to see the King play at Tennis , and observes , " but to see how the King ' s play was extolled without any cause at all , was a loathsome sight—such
open flattery is beastly . " 1 . 272 . Pepys gives the following account of a popular Court preacher , I . 288 : " 1664 , March 25 th . To White-Jfall , and there to chapel ; where it was most infinite full to hear Dr .
Critton . J The Doctor preached upon the thirty-first of Jeremy , and the twentyfirst and twenty-second verses , about a woman compassing a roan ; meaning the Virgin conceiving and bearing our Saviour . It was the worst sermon
I ever heard him make , I must confess ; and yet it was good , and in two places very bitter , advising the King to do as the Emperor Severus did , to hang up a Presbyter John ( a short coat and a longe gowne interchangeably ) in all the courts of England .
But the story of Severus was pretty , that he hanged up forty Senators before the Senate House , and then made a speech presently to the Senate in praise of his own lenity ; and then decreed that never any Senator after that time should suffer in the same manner
without consent of the Senate : which he compared to the proceeding of the * " John Rushworth , Clerk Assistant to the House of Commons , and author of the Historical Collections . Ob . 16 * 90 . " t " Titus Oates . " I " Crpightott . "
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Long Parliament against my Lord Strafford . He said the greatest part of the lay magistrates in England were Puritans , and would not do justiceand the Bishops' powers were so taken away and lessened , that they could not exercise the power they ought .
He told the King * and the ladies , plainly speaking of death and of the skulls and bones of dead men and women , how there is no difference 5 that nol body could tell that of the great Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer ; nor , for all the pains the ladies take with their faces , he that should look
in a charnel-house could not distinguish which was Cleopatra ' s , or fair Rosamond ' s , or Jane Shore ' s /* May 31 st , ( I . 296 , ) Pepys was told that upon Sunday night last being * the King ' s birth-day , the King was at my Lady Castlemaine ' s lodgings , dancing with fiddlers all night almost , and all the world coming by , taking notice of
it . " June 6 , a great dinner and good tjompany at the Trinity House , where Mr . Prin , who would not drink any health , no , not the King's , but sat down with his hat on all the while ; but nobody took notice of it to him at alL "
Aug . 4 , ( I . 308 , 9 , ) seeing several poor creatures carried by , by constables , for being at a conventicle , he remarks , € < They go like lambs without any resistance . I would to God they would either conform or be more wise and not be Catched' P >
Pepys again fell in with Jere . White , from whom he learned some particulars of Richard Cromwell and also of Oliver : " 1664 , October 13 th . In my way to Brampton , in this day ' s journey , I met with Mr . White , Cromwell ' s chaplin that was , and had a
great deal of discourse with him * Among others , he tells me that Richard is , and hath long been in France , and is now going into Italy . He owns publicly that he do correspond , and return him all his money . That Richard hath been in some straits in
the beginning ; but relieved by his friends . That he goes by another name , but do not disguise himself , nor deny himself to any man that challenges him . He tells me , for certain , that offers had been made the old man , of marriage between the King and his daughter , to have oblige d
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674 Memoirs o / Samttet Pepy * , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/34/
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