Volume 1

Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. : to which is subjoined the private correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne / edited from the original mss. at Wotton by William Bray.

  • John Evelyn
Date:
1881
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Credit: Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. : to which is subjoined the private correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne / edited from the original mss. at Wotton by William Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    I understand) Bishop of Smyrna. He was the first I ever saw drink coffee ; which custom came not into England til] thirty years after.1 After I was somewhat settled there in my formalities (for then was the University exceedingly regular, under the exact discipline of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, then Chancellor), I added, as benefactor to the library of the College,‘these books—“ ex dono Johannis Evelyni, hvjus Coll. Socio-Commensalis, ftlii Richardi Evelyni, e com. Surrice, armigr.— Zanchii Opera, vols. 1, 2, 3. Granaclo in Thomam Aqmnatem, vols. 1, 2, 3. Novarini Electa Sacra, and Cresolii Anthol.ogia Sacra; authors, it seems, much desired by the students of divinity there. Upon the 2nd of July, being the first Sunday of the month, I first received the blessed Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, in the college chapel, one Mr. Cooper, a Eellow of the house, preaching; and at this time was the Church of England in her greatest splendour, all things decent, and becoming the Peace, and the persons that governed. The most of the following week I spent in visiting the Colleges, and several rarities of the University, which do very much affect young comers. 18th July. I accompanied my eldest brother, who then quitted Oxford, into the country ; and, on the 9th of Au- gust, went to visit my friends at Lewes, whence I returned the 12th to Wotton. Onthe 17th of September, I received the blessed Sacrament at Wotton church, and 23rd of October went back to Oxford. 5th November. I received again the Holy Communion in our college chapel, one Prouse, a Eellow (but a mad one), preaching. 9th December. I offered at my first exercise in the Hall, and answered my opponent; and, upon the 11th following, declaimed in the chapel before the Master, Eellows, and Scholars, according to the custom. The loth after, I first of all opposed in the Hall. 1 Evelyn should have said “ till twenty years after,” not thirty. Coffee was introduced into England, and coffee-houses set up, in 1658.