Volume I Part 30 (1/2)

Hence to Ipswich, doubtless one of the sweetest, land It has twelve fair churches, many noble houses, especially the Lord Devereux's; a brave quay, and co about seven miles froreat Cardinal Wolsey, who began a palace here, which was not finished

I had the curiosity to visit soerous principles, who show no respect to any istrate, or other, and seenorant One of these was said to have fasted twenty days; but another, endeavoring to do the like, perished on the 10th, when he would have eaten, but could not

10th July, 1656 I returned hoh Colchester; and, by the way, near the ancient town of Chelmsford, sa Hall, built in a park by Henry VII and VIII, and given by Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Sussex, who sold it to the late great Duke of Buckingham, and since seized on by Oliver Cromwell (pretended Protector) It is a fair old house, built with brick, low, being only of two stories, as the e and pretty; the staircase, of extraordinary wideness, with a piece representing Sir Francis Drake's action in the year 1580, an excellent sea-piece; the galleries are trifling; the hall is noble; the garden a fair plot, and the whole seat well accommodated ater; but, above all, I admired the fair avenue planted with stately lith It has three descents, which is the only fault, and may be reformed There is another fair walk of the same at the mall and wilderness, with a tennis-court, and pleasant terrace toward the park, which ell stored with deer and ponds

11th July, 1656 Came home by Greenwich ferry, where I saw Sir J

Winter's project of charring sea-coal, to burn out the sulphur, and render it sweet He did it by burning the coals in such earthen pots as the glassthe a bar of iron in each crucible, or pot, which bar has a hook at one end, that so the coals being melted in a furnace with other crude sea-coals under the to the iron, whence they are beaten off in great half-exhausted cinders, which being rekindled, make a clear, pleasant chanity What success it may have, tio, Lord Dundonald revived the project, with the proposed i the tar

Unfortunately he did not profit by it The coal thus charred is sold as cokE, a very useful fuel for ust, 1656 I went to London, to receive the Blessed Sacraland was reduced to a chamber and conventicle; so sharp was the persecution The parish churches were filled with sectaries of all sorts, blasphe the pulpits everywhere Dr Wild preached in a private house in Fleet Street, where we had a great enerally reatest prosperity In the afternoon, I went to the French Church in the Savoy, where I heard Monsieur d'Espagne catechize, and so returned to ust, 1656 Was a confused election of Parliament called by the Usurper

7th Septehbor and friend, Sir H Newton and lady, now going to dwell at Warwick; and Mr

Needham, my dear and learned friend, came to visit me

14th September, 1656 Noas old Sir Henry Vane[56] sent to Carisbrook Castle, in Wight, for a foolish book he published; the pretended Protector fortifying hi er Vane This was ”Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old,” the nobleness and independence of whose character, as well as his claims to the affection of posterity, are not ill expressed in the two facts recorded by Evelyn--his imprisonment by Cromwell, and his judicial murder by Charles II The foolish book to which Evelyn refers was an able and fearless attack on Croovernment]

2d October, 1656 Came to visit dalen College, Oxford), a learned ton, in Northamptonshi+re, and Captain Cooke, both excellentpractical preached, or that pressed reforh and speculative points and strains that few understood, which left people very ignorant, and of no steady principles, the source of all our sects and divisions, for there was much envy and uncharity in the world; God of his mercy amend it! Now, indeed, that I went at all to church, while these usurpers possessed the pulpits, was that I h the minister was Presbyterianly affected, he yet was as I understood duly ordained, and preached sound doctrine after their way, and besides was an humble, harmless, and peaceable man

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25th December, 1656 I went to London, to receive the Blessed Cos, where I rejoiced to find so full an assembly of devout and sober Christians

26th Decehbors and tenants, according to custom, and to preserve hospitality and charity

28th Deceer preached on Luke xviii 7, 8, on which he reat deal of Greek and ostentation of learning, to but little purpose

30th December, 1656 Dined with me Sir William Paston's son, Mr Henshaw, and Mr Clayton

31st Deceoodness to me the past year, and set my do prayed with my family, and celebrated the anniversary, I spent so the year I was entered into

7th January, 1657 Came Mr Matthew Wren (since secretary to the Duke), slain in the Dutch war, eldest son to the Bishop of Ely, now a prisoner in the Tower; a entleman

10th January, 1657 Came Dr Joyliffe, that famous physician and anatomist, first detector of the lyyle, and another Scotch Earl

5th February, 1657 Dined at the Holland Ambassador's; he told me the East India Company of Holland had constantly a stock of 400,000 in India, and forty-eighttheir books and correspondence, so as no adventurer's stock could possibly be lost, or defeated; that it was a vulgar error that the Hollanders furnished their eneed in a cruel war, but that they used to merchandise indifferently, and were perhed at our Conorant of it, and how they were the ruin of co some for private ends

10th February, 1657 I went to visit the governor of Havannah, a brave, sober, valiant Spanish gentle, of Deptford, when, after twenty years being in the Indies, and areat wealth, his lady and whole family, except two sons, were burned, destroyed, and taken within sight of Spain, his eldest son, daughter, and wife, perishi+ng with immense treasure One son, of about seventeen years old, with his brother of one year old, were the only ones saved The young gentleman, about seventeen, was a well-complexioned youth, not olive-colored; he spoke Latin handsomely, was extremely well-bred, and born in the Caraccas, 1,000 miles south of the equinoctial, near the mountains of Potosi; he had never been in Europe before The Governor was an ancient gentleo, sorely wounded in his arm, and his ribs broken; he lost for his own share 100,000 sterling, which he see dejected After some discourse, I ith the back into Spain, having obtained their liberty from Cromwell An example of human vicissitude!

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14th February, 1657 To London, where I found Mrs Cary; next day caer son to the Countess of Peterborough, to see his hters: so, after dinner, they all departed