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though most of the sober party be for some kind of allowance to be o-iven them . " " -Jan . 23 , 1667 , 8 . The Bishop
be read in the Church while he was there - y and after it was read the Dean made the service be gone through with , though himself , an
exeomrnutell « me that he thinks that the great business of Toleration will not , notwithstanding this talk , be carried this Parliament ; nor for the King ' s taking away the Deans * and Chapters' lands to supply his wants , they signifying little to him if he had them for his
present service . " II . 184 . " January 31 , 1667 , 8 . They ( the Commissioners ) have Mr . Jessop their Secretary , and it is pretty to see that they are fain to find out an old fashioned man of Cromwell ' s to do their
business for them , as well as the Parliament to pitch upon such , for the most part on the lowest of people , that were brought into the House for commissioners * I went away , giving and receiving great satisfaction ; and so to White-Hall to the
Commissioners of the Treasury ; where waiting some time I there met with -Colonell Birch , and he and I fell into discourse ; and I did give him thanks for his kindness to me in the Parliament House , both before my face and behind my back . He told me that he
knew me to be a man of the old way of taking pains , and did always endeavour to do me right , and prevent any thing that was moved that might tend to my injury ; which I was obliged to him for , and thanked him . Thence to talk of other things , and
the want of money ; and he told me of the general want of money in the countrey ; that land sold for nothing , and the many pennyworths he knows of lands and houses upon them , with good titles in his country , at 16 years ' purchase : ' And / says he , though I am in debt , yet I have a mind to one
thing—and that is a Bishop ' lease ;' but said , * I will yet choose such a lease before any other , because I know they cannot stand , and then it will fall
into the King ' s hands , and I in possession shall have an advantage by it . ' Says he , ' I know they must fall , and they are now near it , taking all the ways they can to undo ' themselves , and
shewing us the way - > and thereupon told me a story of the present quarrel between the Bishop and Dean of Coventry and Lichfield ; the former of whom did excommunicate the latter , and caused his excommunication to
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nicate was present , ( which is contrary to the canon , ) and said he would jus tify the quire therein against the Bishop : and so they are at law in the Arches about it ; which is a very pretty story . He tells me that the Kingis for Toleration , though the Bishops be against it ; and that he do not doubt but it will be carried in
Parliament , but that he fears some-will stand for the tolerating of Papists with the rest ; and that he knows hot what to say , but rather thinks that the sober party will be without it rather than
have it upon those terms ; arid I do believe so . It is observed , and is true , in the late fire of London , that the fire burned just as many parish churches as there were hours from the
beginning to the end of the fire ; and next , that there were just as many churches left standing as there were taverns left standing in the rest of the city that was not burned , being , I think , thirteen in all of each ; which is pretty to observe . " II . J 86 , 187 .
" February 10 , 1667 , 8 . Mr . Hoi-Her ( a surgeon ) dined with my wife and me . Much discourse about the bad state of the church , and how the clergy are come to be men of no worth in the world ; and , as the world do
now generally discourse , they must be reformed ; and I believe the hierarchy will in a little time be shaken , whether they will or no ; the King being offended with them , and set upon it , as I hear . " II . 194 .
In 1668 , April 28 , we have a memorandum ( II . 223 ) shewing that the fear of the Parliament with regard to Nonconformists was greater than with regard to Papists . ' * This law against Conventicles is very severe
but Creed , whom I meet here , do tell me that it being moved chat Papists * meetings might be included , the House was divided upon it , and it was carr ied in the negative , which will give great disgust to the people , I doubt . "
Oar play-going Diarist relates ( II . 260 ) , that 1668 , Sept . 4 , he went to Bartholomew Fair to see the play of that title ; he praises its wit , but adds , " only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale and of
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepyk , Esq . 743 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/39/
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