Volume 1

Memoirs illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn ... comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I and his Secretary of State ... [et al.] Sir Edward Nicholas ... 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde ... and Sir Richard Browne Ambassador to the Court of France ... The whole now first published from the original MSS. ... / Edited by William Bray.

  • John Evelyn
Date:
1819
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Credit: Memoirs illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn ... comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I and his Secretary of State ... [et al.] Sir Edward Nicholas ... 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde ... and Sir Richard Browne Ambassador to the Court of France ... The whole now first published from the original MSS. ... / Edited by William Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    against the Dissenters in several Tracts, had now for some yeares turn’d his style against those whom (by way of hateful distinction) they call’d Whiggs and Trimmers, under the title of Observator, which came out 3 or 4 days every weeke, in which sheets, under pretence to serve the Church of. England, he gave suspicion of gratifying another party, by several passages which rather kept up animosities than ap- peas’d them, especialy now that nobody gave the least occasion*. 10. The Scots valuelng themselves exceedingly to have ben y® first Parliament call’d by his Ma‘y, gave the Excise and Costomes to him and his successors for ever; y® D. of Queensberry making eloquent speeches, and especialy minding them of a speedy suppression of those late despe- rate Field-Conventlclers who had done such unheard-of assassinations. In the meane time elections for the ensueing Parliament in England were thought to be very indirectly carried on in most places. God grant a better issue of it than some expect! 16. Oates was sentenced to he whipped and pilloried with the utmost severity. 21 May. I din’d at my Lord Privy Seale’s with S' W* Dugdale, Garter King at Armes, author of the Monastlcon and other learned workes: he told me he was 82 yeares of age, and had his sight and memory perfect]'. There was shewn a draught of y® exact shape and dimensions of the Crowne the Queene had been crown’d withall, together with the Jewells and pearles; their weight and value, w®*’ amounted to .^.100,658 sterling, attested at the foote of the paper by the jeweller and goldsmith who sett them. 22. In the morning I went with a French gentleman, and my Lord Privy Seale, to the House of Lords, where we were plac’d by his lordship next the Bar, just below y® Bishops, very commodlously both * In the first Dutch war, whilst Mr. Evelyn was one of the Commissioners for sick and wounded, Mr. L’Estrange in his Gazette mentioned the barbarous usage of the Dutch prisoners of war j Mr. Evelyn wrote him a very spirited letter, desiring that the Dutch Ambassador (who was then in England) and his friends would visit the prisoners, and examine their provisions j and he desired Mr. L’Estrange would publish his vindication in his next number. t Sir Isaac Heard, the present Garter King at Arms, is about the same age, and in equal pos- session of his faculties (1816.)