Volume I Part 2 (2/2)
20th May, 1639 Acco ion), I took a journey of pleasure to see the Soton, and divers other towns of lesser note; and returned the 25th
8th October, 1639 I went back to Oxford
14th Decees, I went (a the rest) to the Confirmation at St Mary's, where, after sermon, the Bishop of Oxford laid his hands upon us, with the usual form of benediction prescribed: but this received (I fear) for the more part out of curiosity, rather than with that due preparation and advice which had been requisite, could not be so effectual as otherwise that adht have been, and as I have since deplored it
21st January, 1640 Came my brother, Richard, from school, to be my chamber-fellow at the University He was admitted the next day and matriculated the 31st
[Sidenote: LONDON]
11th April, 1640 I went to London to see the soleh the city in state to the Short Parlianificent sight, the King circled with his royal diadem and the affections of his people: but the day after I returned to Wotton again, where I stayed, reat intervals, till April 27th, when I was sent to London to be first resident at the Middle Teard of these avocations, was of very s, was the Parliament unhappily dissolved; and, on the 20th I returned with e to Wotton, who, on the 28th of the same month, was married at Albury to Mrs Caldwell (an heiress of an ancient Leicestershi+re family, where part of the nuptials were celebrated)
10th June, 1640 I repaired with s (that were for a very handsoainst the Hall-court, but four pair of stairs high, which gave us the advantage of the fairer prospect; but did not much contribute to the love of that ined me, when he paid 145 to purchase our present lives, and assignments afterward
London, and especially the Court, were at this period in frequent disorders, and great insolences were committed by the abused and too happy City: in particular, the Bishop of Canterbury's Palace at Lambeth was assaulted by a rude rabble from Southwark, my Lord Chamberlain imprisoned and many scandalous libels and invectives scattered about the streets, to the reproach of Government, and the fermentation of our since distractions: so that, upon the 25th of June, I was sent for to Wotton, and the 27th after, , by advice of the physicians he repaired to the Bath
7th July, 1640 My brother George and I, understanding the peril my father was in upon a sudden attack of his infirmity, rode post from Guildford toward him, and found hi his course, he held out till the 8th of September, when I returned home with him in his litter
15th October, 1640 I went to the Te Michael from his Northern Expedition) ride in pomp and a kind of ovation, with all the marks of a happy peace, restored to the affections of his people, being conducted through London with a(a day never to be rateful, foolish, and fatal Parlia of all our sorrows for twenty years after, and the period of the most happy monarch in the world: _Quis talia fando!_
Butby this time entered into a dropsy, an indisposition thea person so exeimen, hastened me back to Wotton, Dece, between twelve and one o'clock at noon, departed this life that excellenthis senses and piety to the last, which heus, whom he now left to the world and the worst of times, while he was taken froubrious beginning of the year, when on the 2d of January, 1640-1, we at night followed thehearse to the church at Wotton; when, after a sermon and funeral oration by the minister, my father was interred near his forled with the ashes of our mother, his dear wife Thus ere bereft of both our parents in a period e most of all stood in need of their counsel and assistance, especially myself, of a raw, vain, uncertain, and very unwary inclination: but so it pleased God to reatest and land saw; and, if I did not amidst all this impeach my liberty nor my virtue with the rest who oodness and mercy of God than the least providence or discretion ofbut the pursuit of vanity, and the confused i men
15th April, 1641 I repaired to London to hear and see the famous trial of the Earl of Strafford, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, who, on the 22d of March, had been summoned before both Houses of Parliament, and now appeared in Westminster-hall,[8] which was prepared with scaffolds for the Lords and Co, Queen, Prince, and flower of the noblesse, were spectators and auditors of the greatest reatest innocency that ever met before so illustrous an assembly It was Tholand, as h Steward upon this occasion; and the sequel is too well known to need any notice of the event
[Footnote 8: On the 15th of April Strafford made his eloquent defense, which it seeood fortune to be present at And here the reader nificance, that between the entries on this page of the Diary which relate to Lord Strafford, the young Prince of Orange came over to make love to the Princess Royal, then twelve years old; and that the e was subsequently celebrated as and festivities, in which the King took a pro the short interval which elapsed between the sentence and execution of the King's great and unfortunate minister]
On the 27th of April, cae, with a splendid equipage, to hter, the now Princess Royal
That evening, was celebrated the pompous funeral of the Duke of Richns of that illustrious fah London to Westminster Abbey
On the 12th of May, I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England fro under the cognizance of no human law or statute, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction With what reluctancy the King signed the execution, he has sufficiently expressed; to which he i--to such exorbitancy were things arrived
On the 24th of May, I returned to Wotton; and, on the 28th of June, I went to London with my sister, Jane, and the day after sat to one Vanderborcht for my picture in oil, at Arundel-house, whose servant that excellent painter was, brought out of Germany when the Earl returned from Vienna (whither he was sent Ah without any effect, through the artifice of the Jesuited Spaniard who governed all in that conjuncture) With Vanderborcht, the painter, he brought over Winceslaus Hollar, the sculptor, who engraved not only the unhappy Deputy's trial in Westminster-hall, but his decapitation; as he did several other historical things, then relating to the accidents happening during the Rebellion in England, with great skill; besides many cities, towns, and landscapes, not only of this nation, but of foreign parts, and divers portraits of faned fros and masters of which the Earl of Arundel was possessor, purchased and collected in his travels with incredible expense: so as, though Hollar's were but etched in aquafortis, I account the collection to be the entleood friend, perverted at last by the Jesuits at Antwerp to change his religion; a very honest, siland, where he died We have the whole history of the king's reign, from his trial in West Charles II, represented in several sculptures, with that also of Archbishop Laud, by this indefatigable artist; besides innudale, Ashmole, and other historical and useful works I am the more particular upon this for the fruit of that collection, which I wish I had entire
This picture[9] I presented toat her request, on s at hoe to wiser than , and our calamities but yet in their infancy: so that, on the 15th of July, having procured a pass at the Custoiance, I went from London to Gravesend, accoentleman, and our servants, where we arrived by six o'clock that evening, with a purpose to take the first opportunity of a passage for Holland But the wind as yet not favorable, we had time to view the Block-house of that tohich answered to another over against it at Tilbury, famous for the rendezvous of Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1588, which we found stored with twenty pieces of cannon, and other ammunition proportionable On the 19th of July, weseen the cathedral went to Chathalorious vessel of burden lately built there, being for defense and ornament, the richest that ever spread cloth before the wind She carried an hundred brass cannon, and was 1,200 tons; a rare sailer, the work of the faate-fashi+on of building, to this day practiced But what is to be deplored as to this vessel is, that it cost his Majesty the affections of his subjects, perverted by the reat ones, who took occasion to quarrel for his having raised a very slight tax for the building of this, and equipping the rest of the navy, without an act of Parliaes the King er, of which his Majesty was best apprised But this not satisfying a jealous party, it was condemned as unprecedented, and not justifiable as to the Royal prerogative; and, accordingly, the Judges were removed out of their places, fined, and imprisoned[10]
[Footnote 9: His own portrait]
[Footnote 10: In such manner Evelyn refers to the tax of shi+p-e, now first printed froht years later, he spoke of the only chance by whichnothing as to government but what shall be approved by the old way of a free parliaain this evening, and on the 21st of July e, convoyed and accompanied by five other stout vessels, whereof one was a
[Sidenote: DE VERE]
Being desirous to overtake the Leagure,[11] which was then before Genep, ere the su fro, another fine town in this island, to De Vere, whence the most ancient and illustrious Earls of Oxford derive their fa the state during their wars From De Vere we passed over many towns, houses, and ruins of demolished suburbs, etc, which have formerly been sed up by the sea; at what tiht of those islands had been irrecoverably lost
[Footnote 11: Theof this expression is, that they should be in tie]