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to consider the madness of people of the town , who will ( because they are forbid ) come in crowds along with the dead corpses to see them buried ; but we agreed on some orders for the
prevention thereof . Among other stories , one was very passionate , methought , of a complaint brought against a man in the town for taking a child from London from an infected house .
Alderman Hooker told us it was the child of a very able citizen in Gracious Street , a saddler , who had buried all the rest of his children of the plague , and himself and wife , now being shut up and in despair of escaping , did desire onl y to save the life of this little child , and so prevailed to have it received stark-naked into the arms
of a frieud , who brought it ( having put it into new fresh clothes ) to Greenwich ; where upon hearing the story , we did agree it should be permitted to be received and kept in the town / ' I . 363 .
The following account of the enthusiasm of the Jews is curious , that quality being in late times rare in that nation : this people , it seems , always turn every thing , even their religious hopes , to a pecuniary account :
1665 , 6 , Feb . 19 th . " I am told for certain , what I have heard once or twice already , of a Jew in town , that in the name of the rest do offer to give any man 10 / . to be paid 100 / , if a certain person now at Smyrna he
within these two years owned by all the Princes in the east and particularly the grand Segnor as the King of the world , in the same manner we do the King of England here , and that this man is the true Messiah . One
named a friend of his that had received ten pieces in gold upon this score , and says that the Jew hath disposed of 1100 / , in this same manner , which is very strange , and certainly this year of 1666 will be a year of great action ; but what the consequences of it will be , God knows ! " J . 3 . 92 .
1666 , Sept . 26 . Having described some loose and shameless behaviour of the Duke of York ' s , Pepys adds , ( I . 462 , ) " Here J met with good Mr Evelyn who cries out against it
He observes that none of the nobility come out of the country at all , to help the King , or comfort him , or prevent commotions at this fire ; but do as if the King were nobody i nor ne ' er a
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priest comes to give the King and Court good council or to comfort the poor people that suffer ; but all i 3 dead , nothing of good in any of their minds : he bemoans it , and says he fears more ruin hangs over our heads . "
1666 , 7 , Feb . 8 th . Sir . W . Batten dined with Pepys . ¦ " At dinner we talked much of Cromwell ; all sayinghe was a brave fellow , and did owe his crowne he' got to himself as much as any man that- ever got one . " II . 12
Feb . 10 . By a remark in his Journal of this day ( still " Lord's-day" ) it would appear that he was a little tainted with heresy : " To church , where Mr . Mills made an unnecessary
sermon upon Original Sin , neither understood by himself nor the people . ' * The same day he makes a remark upon a conversation with an old friend , which , shews more honesty than beiievolence : We had much talk of
all out old acquaintance of the College , concerning their various fortunes ; wherein , to my joy , I met not with any that have sped better than myself . II . 13 . As profligate a thing as is recorded of Charles is told , 11 . 21 , that in his new medal he caused the face of one
of his mistresses ( Mrs . Stewart ) to be done "in little ; " " and a pretty thing it is , " says PepyS simply or ironically , ; that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by . "
Pepys gives , II . 22 , no favourable character of Sir G . Downing : he describes his " ridiculous thrift , " calls him a " niggardly fellow , jeered all over the country /'
The Sunday entries in the journal are to us most interesting . They give us at least his own or the general opinion of the divines of the < lay and their services . Thus , ( II . 6 , 1666 , 7 , ) Jan 20 th , he writes , " I to church , and there heyond expectation find our seat and all the church crammed by
twice as many people as used to he ; and to my great joy find Mr . Frampton in the pulpit , and I think the best sermon for goodness and oratory , without affectation or study , I ever heard in my life . The truth is , he preaches the most like an apostle that ever I heard man , and it was much
the best time that ever I spent m my life at church . '
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676 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys ^ 'Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 676, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/36/
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