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< And again , ( II . 28 , ) Mar . 17 th , " I to walk in the park , where to the Queen ' s Chapel , and there heard a fryer preach with his cord about his middle in Portugueze , something * I could understand , shewing that God did respect the meek and humble as well as the high and rich . He was full of action but very decent and good , I thought , and Ins manner of
delivery very good . Then I went back to White-Hall , und there up to the closet , and spoke with several people till sermon was ended , which was preached by the Bishop of Hereford , * an old good man that they say made ant excellent sermon . He was
by birth a Catholique , and a great gallant , having 1500 / . per annum patrimony , and is a Knight Barronet : was turned from his persuasion by the late Archbishop Laud . He and the Bishop of Exeter , Dr . Ward , are the two Bishops that the King do say lie cannot have bad sermons from . ' *
There are those that yet censure the patriots that stood up against Charles Ilnd ' s Government : let them read the following description of it by a Courtier , and then say whether virtue lay in submission or in resistance : " 1667 , April . 26 . To White-Hall , and there saw the Duke of Albemarle
who is not well and do grow crazy . Then I took a turn with Mr . Evelyn , with whom I walked two hours , till almost one of the clock , talking of the badness of the Government where
nothing but wickedness , and wicked men and women command the King : that it is not in his nature to gainsay any thing that relates to his pleasures , that much of it arises from the
sickliness of our Ministers of State , who cannot be about him as the idle companions are , and therefore he gives way to the young rogues ; and then from the negligence of the clergy , that a Bishop shall never be seen about him , as the King of France hath
always : that the King would fain have some of the same gang to be Lord Treasurer , which would be yet worse , for now some delays are put to the getting gifts of the King , as Lady Byron who had been , as he called it , * he King ' s seventeenth mistress abroad ,
* " Dr . Herbert Croft was made Bishop of Hereford 1661 , but he could not Uiui be very old , as he lived till 1691 . "
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did not leave him till she had got him to give her an order for 4000 / . worth of plate to be made for her : but by delays , thanks be to God ! she died before she had it . He confirmed to me the business of the want of paper at the council-table the other clay , which I have observed ; Wooly being to have found it , and did , being called , tell the King to his face the reason of it . Ami Mr , Evelyn tells me of several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread , that have not received a farthing wages since the King ' s coming in . He tells me the
King of France hath his mistresses , but laughs at the foolery of our King , that makes his bustards princes , and loses his revenue upon them , and makes his mistresses his masters .
And the King of France did never grat ^ t Lavaliere any thing to bestow on others , and a little subsistence , but no more to his bastards . " II . 45 , 46 . 1667 , June 25 . Pepys heard of Sir H . Cholmly , that the King had declared in Council his determination to
call a Parliament , " against the Duke of York ' s mind flatly , who did rather advise the King to raise money as he pleased ) and against the Chancellor ' s ( Clarendon ) , who told the King , that Queene Elizabeth did do all her
busi-7 iess in highty-eight without calling a Parliament , and so might he do for any thing he saw . " The 28 th of this month he detected his wife " making of tea ; a drink which Mr . Pelling , the Potticary , tells her is good for her cold and
defluxions . " II . 85 . July 12 , 1667 , ( H . 91 , ) recording the lavish expenditure of the public money by a debauched Court , P . says ,
* ' It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver , and commend him , what brave things he did and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince , come in with all the love and prayers and
good liking of his people , who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than was ever done Dy any people , hath lost all so soon , lliut it is a miracle what way a man could devise to lose so much in so little
tune . " The waste of the King ' s revenue upon his vices left his household in a
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepy 6 9 Esq . 677
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/37/
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