Volume II Part 28 (1/2)
27th August, 1685 My daughter Elizabeth died of the s man, nephew of Sir John Tippett, Surveyor of the Navy, and one of the Commissioners The 30th, she was buried in the church at Deptford Thus, in less than six months e deprived of two children for our unworthiness and causes best known to God, whorace to ht use of all these chastisements, that we s to his infinitely wise disposal Amen!
3d September, 1685 Lord Clarendon (Lord Privy Seal) wrote to letpleased to send him Lord-Lieutenant into Ireland, was also pleased to nominate me one of the Co his Lieutenancy there, it behoving reat honor
5th Septe by the way of Sir Henry Capel's at Kehere his Majesty receiving me with extraordinary kindness, I kissed his hand, I told hiracious favor to me, that I would endeavor to serve hience, and loyalty, not more out of my duty than inclination He said he doubted not of it, and was glad he had the opportunity to show reat ive me joy
6th September, 1685 SUNDAY I went to prayer in the chapel, and heard Dr Standish The second serhton, on 1 Thess iv 11, persuading to unity and peace, and to beto the advice of the apostle Then I went to hear a French and Queen in that splendid chapel next St George's Hall Their Majesties going toof the Hall, which, both for the art and invention, deserve the inscription in honor of the painter, Signor Verrio The history is Edward III receiving the Black Prince, co toward him in a Roe The throne, the carvings, etc, are incomparable, and I think equal to any, and inany, I have seen abroad
I dined at Lord Sunderland's, with (aned Ambassador to Constantinople
About 6 o'clock caht the Great Seal from my Lord Keeper, who died the day before at his house in Oxfordshi+re The King went i asit could be no other than orously prosecuted the late rebels, and was now gone the Western Circuit, to punish the rest that were secured in several counties, and was now near upon his return I took raciously to ht at Sir Stephen Fox's, I promised to dine there the next day
15th September, 1685 I acco the first ti to the Crown, to see in what state the fortifications were We took coach and six horses, late after dinner, yet got to Bagshot that night While supper wasready I went and made a visit to Mrs Grahaer, noife to Ja; her house being a walk in the forest, within a little quarter of a shot town Very iht; but, being obliged by my companion, I returned to our inn, after she had shown me her house, which was very commodious, and well furnished, as she was an excellent housewife, a prudent and virtuous lady There is a park full of red deer about it Her eldest son was now sick there of the smallpox, but in a likely way of recovery, and other of her children run about, and a the infected, which she said she let the pass that fatal disease she fancied they were to undergo one time or other, and that this would be the best: the severity of this cruel diste much of what she affirmed
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16th Septe out early, we arrived soon enough at Winchester to wait on the King, as lodged at the Dean's (Dr Meggot) I found very feith him besides my Lords Feversham, Arran, Newport, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells His Majesty was discoursing with the bishops concerning s the Saludadors[61] would do in Spain, as by creeping into heated ovens without hurt, and that they had a black cross in the roof of their mouths, but yet were commonly notorious and profane wretches; upon which his Majesty further said, that he was so extre imposed upon, that if he should chance to see one himself, without some other witness, he should apprehend it a delusion of his senses Then they spoke of the boy as pretended to have a wanting leg restored him, so confidently asserted by Fr de Santa Clara and others To all of which the Bishop added a great e, of a poor,kept unbaptized) who immediately on his baptis Charles his Majesty's father's blood, in healing one that was blind
[Footnote 61: Evelyn subjoins this note:--”As to that of the Saludador (of which likewise I remember Sir Arthur Hopton, formerly as Ambassador at Madrid, had told h Spain, and being extremely inquisitive of the truth of these pretended miracles of the Saludadors, found a very famous one at last, to whom he offered a considerable reward if he wouldof that kind, before hi he was a more than ordinary curious person, he would not deceive hied that he could do none of the feats really, but that what they pretended was all a cheat, which he would easily discover, though the poor superstitious people were easily imposed upon; yet have these ilings This Mr Pepys affirmed to me; but said he, I did not conceive it fit to interrupt his Majesty, who so solemnly told what they pretended to do
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There was so to some persons, especially Scotch; upon which his Majesty, and I think Lord Arran, told us that Monsieura French noble the late Duke of Monmouth come into the playhouse at London, suddenly cried out to so in the same box, ”_Voila Monsieur comme il entre sans tete!_” Afterward his Majesty spoke of soe cures, particularly a piece of our blessed Savior's cross, that healed a gentleolden cross and chain taken out of the coffin of St
Edward the Confessor at West-men, who, as the scaffolds were taken down after his Majesty's coronation, espying a hole in the toht it to the dean, and he to the King; his Majesty began to put the Bishop in(his brother) called upon hiony, to take out what he had in his pocket ”I had thought,” said the King, ”it had been for soht lead to some cabinet that his Majesty would have me secure”; but, says he, ”you will re in any of his pockets but a cross of gold, and a few insignificant papers”; and thereupon he showed us the cross, and was pleased to put it intoon one side a crucifix enaoldsmiths' work, and two pretty broad table amethysts (as I conceived), and at the bottoht, of the true cross, and a Latin inscription in gold and Ro in, this discourse ended I et a resolution which his Majesty made, and had a little before entered upon it at the Council Board at Windsor or Whitehall, that the negroes in the plantations should all be baptized, exceedingly declai it, out of a mistaken opinion that they would be _ipso facto_ free; but his Majesty persists in his resolution to have them christened, which piety the Bishop blessed hi had begun, and brought al It is placed on the side of the hill, where formerly stood the old castle It is a stately fabric, of three sides and a corridor, all built of brick, and cornished, s and columns at the break and entrance of free-stone It was intended for a hunting-house when his Majesty should come to these parts, and has an incomparable prospect I believe there had already been 20,000 and e the finishi+ng it at least for a while
Hence to see the Cathedral, a reverend pile, and in good repair There are still the coffins of the six Saxon Kings, whose bones had been scattered by the sacrilegious rebels of 1641, in expectation, I suppose, of finding soain and put into new chests, which stand above the stalls of the choir
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17th Septe, ent to Ports before his Majesty arrived We found all the road full of people, the wo pass by, which he did, riding on horseback a good part of the way The Mayor and Alder at the entrance of the fort, a mile on this side of the tohere the Mayor uns of the fort were fired, as were those of the garrison, as soon as the King was come into Ports the streets and platform to God's House (the name of the Governor's residence), where, after he had viewed the new fortifications and shi+pyard, his Majesty was entertained at a sby, the Lieutenant Governor, all the gentle down at table with hied to Sir Robert Holht, to dine with him at a private house, where likee had a very sumptuous and plentiful repast of excellent venison, fowl, fish, and fruit
After dinner, I went to wait on his Majesty again, as pulling on his boots in the Town Hall adjoining the house where he dined, and then having saluted some ladies, who came to kiss his hand, he took horse for Winchester, whither he returned that night This hall is artificially hung round with arms of all sorts, like the hall and keep at Windsor
Hence, to see the shi+pyard and dock, the fortifications, and other things
Ports, and a noble quay There were now thirty-two men-of-war in the harbor I was invited by Sir R
Beach, the Coreat supper, Mr Secretary andset out for Guildford, where we arrived in good hour, and so the day after to London
I had twice before been at Portsht, etc, many years since I found this part of Hampshi+re bravely wooded, especially about the house and estate of Colonel Norton, who though now in being, having for, was formerly a very fierce coe, and standing low, on the road from Winchester to Portsmouth
By what I observed in this journey, is that infinite industry, sedulity, gravity, and great understanding and experience of affairs, in his Majesty, that I cannot but predict overn more desired to accoion
30th September, 1685 Lord Clarendon's commission for Lieutenant of Ireland was sealed this day
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