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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    sion, to the great reproch of the Nation; whilst being in profound peace, there was a mighty land army, w'^'^ there was no neede of, and no force at sea, where only was the apprehension; but the army was doubtless kept and Increas’d in order to bring in and countenance Popery, the King beginning to discover his intentions, by many instances persued by the Jesuits, against his first resolution to alter nothing in the Church establishment, so that it appear’d there can be no reliance on Popish promises. 18. The King injoyning the ministers to read his Declaration for giving liberty of conscience (^as it was styl’d) in all the Churches of Kngland, this evening 6 Bishops, Bath and Wells*, Peterborough Ely;]:, Chichester §, S‘Asaph ||, and Bristol in the name of all the rest of the Bishops, came to his Ma*y to petition him that he would not impose the reading of it to the several congregations within their dio- ceses j not that they were averse to the publishing of it for want of due tendernesse towards Dissenters, in relation to whom they should be willing to come to such a temper as should be thought fit, when that matter might be consider’d and settl’d in Parliament and Convocation ; but that, the Declaration being founded on such a dispensing power as might at pleasure set aside all Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil, it appear’d to them illegal, as it had done to the Parliament in 1661 and 16/2, and that it was a point of such consequence, that they could not so far make themselves parties to it, as the reading of it in Church in time of divine service amounted to. The King was so far incens’d at this addresse, that he with threaten- ing expressions commanded them to obey him in reading it at their perils, and so dismiss’d them. 20. I went to White-hall Chapell, where, after the morning les- sons, the Declaration was read by one of y° Choir who us’d to read the chapters. I heare it was read in the Abby Church, Westminster, but almost unlversaly forborne throughout all London : the consequences of which a little time will shew. * Thomas Ken. § John Lake. t Thomas White. • II William LloyJ. + Francis Turner. ^ Sir John Trelawny, Bart.