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no use , they being the people that at last will be found the wisest . " Pepys ' s patriotism was none of the best .
the King ; but nobody here r egarded them * But he tells me the said nevvg that he is out of all expectations that ever the debts of the navy will be paid
1668 , Oct- 12 , CH . 268 , ) Sir H . Ghohnley tells him he do think Parliament will never meet again , which , says he , " is a great many men ' s thoughts and / shall not be sorry for it . " Under this date , he thus takes notice of the Quaker Founder as an
author : < Read a ridiculous , nonsensical book set out by JVilL Pen for the Quakers ; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to
read in it . " An after entry in the Journal shews that he did not regard Penn with invariable contempt , if it does not shew also that Pepys was not a sound believer :
" 1668 , 9 , Feb . 12 . Home , and there Pelling hath got W . Pen ' s book against the Trinity . I got my wife to read it to me ; and I find it so well writ as , I think , it is too good for him ever to have writ it ; and it is a serious sort of a book and not fit for every body to read / ' II . 303 .
We have ( IL 291 ) further particulars of mismanagement and corruption in the Government , and of the wretched tricks that political functionaries put in practice . " 1668 , Lord's-day . Saw the King at chapel ; but staid not to hear any
thing , but went to walk m the Park with W . Hewer ; and there , among others , met with Sir G . Downing , and walked with him an hour , talking of business , and how the late war was managed , there being nobody to take are of it : and he telling , when he
was in Holland , what he offered the King to do if he might have power , and then upon the least word , perhaps of a woman , to the King , he was contradicted again , and particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny . He told me that he had so good spies ,
that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's pocket when he was abed , and his closet opened , and papers brought to him and left in his hands for an hour , and carried back and laid in the place again , and the keys put
into his pocket again . He says he hath always had their most private debates , that have been but between two or three of the chief of them , brought to him in an hour after , and an hour after that hath sent word thereof to
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if the Parliament do not enable the King to do it by money ; all they can hope for to do out of the King ' s revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going- on present services , and , if they can , to cut off the growing interest : which is a sad story , and grieves me to the heart /*
Courtier as Pepys was , he could not speak without indignation of Charles ' s personal conduct . 4 € 1668 , 9 , February 17 . The King dining yesterday at the Dutch Em * bassador ' s , after dinner they drank and were pretty merry ; and amonjf
th 6 rest of the King's company there was that worthy fellow my Lord of Rochester , and Tom Killigrew , whose mirth and raillery offended the former so much , that he did give Tom Killigrevv a box on the ear in the King ' s
presence ; which do give much offence to the people here at Court to see how cheap the King makes himself , and the more , for that the King hath not only passed by the thing and pardoned it to Rochester already , but this doned it to Rochester alreadybut this
, very morning the King did publicly walk up and down , and Rochester I saw with him as free as ever , to the King ' s everlasting shame to have so idle a rogue his companion /* II . 305 .
The Cabal was a mischievous faction , but the Duke of Buckingham , its head , deserves praise for his wellknown enmity to intolerance . He was the patron of the Divined called Latitudinarians .
" 1669 , March 16 . We fell to other talk ; and I find by him that the Bishops must certainly fall , and their hierarchy ; these people have got so much ground upon the king and kingdom as is not to be got again from them ; and the Bishops do well
deserve it . But it is all the talk , I find , that Dr . Wilkins , my friend , Bishop of Chester , shall be removed to Winchester and be Lord Treasurer . Though this be foolish talk , yet I do gather that he is a mighty rising man , as being a Latitudinarian , and the Duke of Buckingham his great friend . " H «
316 . It was the custom of these days for the pious to take notes at church , of
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744 Memoirs of Samuel Pepgi , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 744, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/40/
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