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the King ' s linen at the quarter ' s end as their fees , which makes this great want , for whether the King can get it or no , they will run away at the quarter ' s end with what he hath had , let the King get more as he can . " II . 121 . The Lord Chancellor Clarendon is no favourite character of ours , but we read with indignation the account of the insults put upon him by the abandoned creatures of the Court .
" Sept . 8 , 1667 . And here it comes into my head to set down what Mr , Rawlinson ( whom I met in Fenchurch Street on Friday last looking over his ruines there ) told me that he was told by one of my Lord Chancellor ' s gentlemen lately , that a grant coming to him to be sealed wherein the King
hath given my Lady Castleraaine , or somebody by her means , a place which he did not like well of , he did stop the grant , saying that he thought this woman would sell every thing shortly , which she hearing of , she sent to let him know that she had disposed of this place , and did not doubt in a little time to dispose of his . " II .
124 . Pepys relates ( II . 149 ) a quarrel between Nell Glynn and another woman-player of the name of Marshall , from which we learn that two
daughters of Stephen Marshall , " the great Presbyterian , " were in this condition of life , and bore the degraded character then common to females who trod the stage . Nell ' s reproach was bitter
enough—" you are , " &c . — - " though a Presbyter ' s praying daughter !" Pepys had a cousin , Roger Pepys , who was in Parliament ; but this , according to his own confession , was no very enviable place . — " He tells me that he thanks God he never knew
what it was to be tempted to be a knave in his life , till he did come into the House , of Commons , where there is nothing done but by passion and faction and private interest . " II . 150 . He records ( II . 160 ) a saying of Mr . Evelyn ' s , ** that he did believe we should soon see ourselves fall into a
Commonwealth again ; " and remarks ( II . 168 ) , that the high language of Parliament was of the same sound as that in the year 1640 . The Nonconformists were yet regarded with awe , on account of their numrbears , character and zeal . In an
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intriguing Court , they were sometimes played off by one faction against another . , " Dec . 21 , 1667- The Nonconformists are mighty high , and their meetings frequented and connived at , and they do expect to have their clay now soon , for my Lord of Buckingham is a declared friend to them , and even to the Quakers , who had very good words the other day from the King himself ; and what is more , the Archbishop of Canterbury [ Gilbert Sheldon ! is called no more to the
Caball , nor , by the way , Sir W . Coventry , which I am sorry for , the Caball at present , being , as he says , the King and Duke of Buckingham , and Lord Keeper , the Duke of Alb < smarle , and Privy Seale . The Bishops differing from the King in the late business in the House of Lords , have
caused this and what is like to follow , for every body is encouraged novv-a days to speak , and even to preach ( as I have heard one of them ) as bad things against them as ever in the year 1640 , which is a strange change . " II . 169 , 170 .
We have ( II . 172 ) under the date of Dec . 29 , 1667 , some notice of the Quaker Founder * with no very honourable mention of his father , the Royalist admiral . ** At night comes Mrs . Turner to see us ; and there > among other talk , she tells me that
Mr . Wm . Pen , who is lately come over from Ireland , is a Quaker again , or some very melancholy thing ; that he cares for no company , nor comes into any ; which is a pleasant thing after his being abroad so long , and his father such a hypocritical rogue , and at this time an Atheist . '
Amongst other matters , we find in the following extracts sufficient proof that the Established Church was at this time established by law more than in public opinion , < " 1667 , 8 . Jan . 20 . My Lord told a good story of Mr . Newman , the minister in New England , who wrote the
Concordance , of his foretelling his death , preaching a funeral sermon , and did at last bid the angels do their office , and died . It seems there is great presumption that there will be a Toleration granted , so that the Presbyterians do hold up their heads ; but they will hardly trust the King « r the Parliament what to / ield ? -them * - *
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/38/
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