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whieb the biographies of the period afford aumerofim e ^ ib pfes * Many a good . WoiBirti ^ Ka ^ praiscfl in her fttneral sermon for her ^ bservation of this little piece of q&ratcb industry , vvhfch was sometimes regarded as a set-off against feminine failings . Pepys says ( IL 330 ) under date of 1669 , April 14 , 44
Tfaey do here talk mightily of my Lady Paulina ' s making * a very good end and being very religious in her life-time ; and she hath left many good notes of sermons and religion wrote with-her own hand , which nobody ever kneiv of 5 which I ana glad of ; but she was always a peevish lady /*
He himself had a book given him which he seemed to resolve he would use for taking notes of -sermons at church . Further symptoms ( II . 339 ) of the restoration of the religion , at least , of the Commonwealth : 1669 ^ , May 3 . " Thence to White-Hall and met with
Creed and discoursed of matters ; and I perceive by him that he makes no doubt but that all will turn to the old religion , for these people cannot hold tilings in their hands not prevent its coming to that ; and by his discourse he fits hiniself for it , and would have my Lord Sandwich do so too-and me /'
We canaot wonder at the profligacy of the Court when we read the following account ( II . 342 ) of buf * foonery and profaneness in the archiepiscopal palace- The Puritans must be ever denounced , forsoo . th , as hypocrites ; let thei ? revilers look henceforth to Lambeth .
r " 1669 , May 14 . At noon to dinner with Mr . Wren to Lambeth , ' with the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the first time I was ever there , and I have long ionged for it . Where a noble house ami well furnished , with good pictures and furniture , ^ uh ! noble
attendance in good order , and a great deal of company though in an ordinary day ; and exceeding great cheer , no where better , or so much , that ever I think I saw for an ordinary table ; and the Bishop mighty kind to me
particularly , desiring rny-company another time when less company there . Most of the company gone , and I going , I heard by a gentleman of a sermon that was to be there ; and so I staid to hear it , thinking it serious , till by
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md by- tfce ^ ntfemMiioitf Ae was a mockery / by ; one ydUiii Bofton , i very gentleman-like maii v ( hat belund a chair did pray and preach like tf Presbyter Scot , ivith all tire possible imitation in grimaces and vdace . Ani his text about the bajigiqg up their harps upon the willows : and a serious '
good sermon top , exclaiming against Bishops , and crying up of ray goocE Lord E l lington , till it made us Ml burst ; but I did wonder to have the Bishop at this time to make himself sport with things of this kind , but-1 perceive it was shewn him as a rarity ; And he took care to have the
roomdoor shut , but there were about twenty gentlemen there : and myself infinitely pleased with the novelty . " We are now arrived at the end of the Memoirs and have only one more extract , the last passage in this interesting and instructive book , to lay
before our readers . The passage ( II . 347 ) is somewhat mournful , though , like Pepys ' s character , it is not all of a piece . Comedy and tragedy were strangely jumbled together iu / his mind , as they are in his Journal . He has , however , left us a picture of the interior of the Restoratiori-Court , and
we sincerely thsank the Honourable Master of Magdalene College and the noble proprietor of Audley End for publishing to the world a practical refutation of the slanders of a century
and a half against the brave and pious men that risked every thing that was dear to them in the noble attempt to overthrow the base tyranny of the Stuarts .
" 1669 , May 31 . Up very betimes , and continued all the morning with W . Hewer , upon examining and stating iny accounts , in order to the fitting myself to go abroad beyond sea , which the ill cohditioa of my eyes , and my
neglect for a year or two hath kept me behind-hand in , and so as to render it very difficult now and troublesome to my mind to do it ; but I this day made a satisfactory entrance therein ' . Had another meeting with the Duke of York at White-Hall , on yesterday ' s
work , and made a good advance : and so being called by my wife , we to the Park , Mary Batelier and a Dutch gentleman , * a friend of hers , beiug with us . Thence to The World ' s End / a drinking- house by die Park P -and there merry , and so home lute ; A » d
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i $ * m 6 irs > iyfSatn uelPepys , * Esp . f 40 k
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/41/
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