Volume II Part 33 (1/2)
10th June, 1688 A YOUNG PRINCE born, which will cause disputes
About two o'clock, we heard the Tower ordnance discharged, and the bells ring for the birth of a Prince of Wales This was very surprising, it having been universally given out that her Majesty did not look till the next month
13th June, 1688 I went to the Tower to see the Bishops, visited the Archbishop and the Bishops of Ely, St Asaph, and Bath and Wells
14th June, 1688 Dined with the Lord Chancellor
15th June, 1688 Being the first day of terht to Westminster on habeas corpus, when the indictment was read, and they were called on to plead; their counsel objected that the warrant was illegal; but, after long debate, it was overruled, and they pleaded The Court then offered to take bail for their appearance; but this they refused, and at last were disht; the Archbishop in 200, the Bishops in 100 each
17 June, 1688 Was a day of thanksgiving in London and tenPrince's birth; a form of prayer made for the purpose by the Bishop of Rochester
29th June, 1688 They appeared; the trial lasted fro, when the jury retired to consider of their verdict, and the Court adjourned to nine the nextThe jury were locked up till that ti for an acquittal; but one (Arnold, a breould not consent At length he agreed with the others The Chief Justice, Wright, behaved with great moderation and civility to the Bishops Alibone, a Papist, was strongly against the of opinion in their favor, they were acquitted When this was heard, there was great rejoicing; and there was a lane of people fro's Bench to the water side, on their knees, as the Bishops passed and repassed, to beg their blessing
Bonfires were , which was taken very ill at Court, and an appearance of nearly sixty Earls and Lords, etc, on the bench, did not a little co full of comfort and cheerful
Note, they denied to pay the Lieutenant of the Tower (Hales, who used the that none were due
The night was solemnized with bonfires, and other fireworks, etc
2d July, 1688 The two judges, Holloway and Powell, were displaced
3d July, 1688 I ith Dr Godolphin and his brother Sir Williaht of theof Dr
Cartwright, late Archdeacon of St Alban's, a very good collection of books, especially in divinity; he was to give 300 for the seen the GREAT CHURCH, noly repaired by a public contribution, we returned ho's chaplains preached before the Princess on Exodus xiv 13, ”Stand still, and behold the salvation of the Lord,”
which he applied so boldly to the present conjuncture of the Church of England, that e desponders The Popish priests were not able to carry their cause against their learned adversaries, who confounded thes
12th July, 1688 The cah discontent
Colonel titus, Sir Henry Vane (son of him as executed for his treason), and some other of the Presbyterians and Independent party, were sworn of the Privy Council, fro over to the Bishops and Church of England, which now they began to do, foreseeing the design of the Papists to descend and take in their most hateful of heretics (as they at other times expressed them to be) to effect their own ends, now evident; the utter extirpation of the Church of England first, and then the rest would follow
17th July, 1688 This night the fireworks were played off, that had been prepared for the Queen's upsitting We saw thee; they were very fine, and cost some thousands of pounds, in the pyra a preparation
26th July, 1688 I went to Lambeth to visit the Archbishop, whoust, 1688 Dr Tenison now tolddiscovered This was the Prince of Orange intending to coust, 1688 I went to Althorpe, in Northamptonshi+re, seventy miles A coach and four horses took up me and my son at Whitehall, and carried us to Dunstable, where we arrived and dined at noon, and from thence another coach and six horses carried us to Althorpe, four miles beyond Northa Both these coaches were hired for me by that noble Countess of Sunderland, who invited me to her house at Althorpe, where she entertained me and my son with very extraordinary kindness; I stayed till the Thursday
18th August, 1688 Dr Jeffryes, the minister of Althorpe, as my Lord's chaplain when ambassador in France, preached the shortest discourse I ever heard; but as defective in the aeness and convenience of the parsonage house, which the doctor (who had at least 600 a year in spiritual advancement) had newly built, and ardens and all acco therewith
My lady carried us to see Lord Northae house, built with stone, not altogetherextraordinary, except the iron gate opening into the park, which indeed was very good work, wrought in flowers painted with blue and gilded There is a noble walk of elreen I was not in any rooarden, where hter, whom I had known frohter the Countess of Arran (newly ood grace, and so dully, that our visit was very short, and so we returned to Althorpe, twelve miles distant
[Sidenote: ALTHORPE]
The house, or rather palace, at Althorpe, is a noble uniform pile in form of a half H, built of brick and freestone, balustered and _a la moderne_; the hall is well, the staircase excellent; the rooalleries, offices and furniture, such as arden, exquisitely planted and kept, and all this in a park walled in with hewn stone, planted with rows and walks of trees, canals and fish ponds, and stored with gaoverned by a lady, ithout any show of solicitude, keeps everything in such adarret to the cellar, that I do not believe there is any in this nation, or in any other, that exceeds her in such exact order, without ostentation, but substantially great and noble The ed so neat and cleanly; the service at the several tables, the good order and decency--in a word, the entire econo a wise and noble person She is one who for her distinguished estee and worthy friendshi+p, I must ever honor and celebrate I wish from my soul the Lord, her husband (whose parts and abilities are otherwise conspicuous), was as worthy of her, as by a fatal apostasy and court-ambition he has made himself unworthy! This is what she deplores, and it renders her as reat soul and much prudence is capable of The Countess of Bristol, herher daughter and grandchildren under the same economy, especially Mr Charles Spencer, a youth of extraordinary hopes, very learned for his age, and ingenious, and under a governor of great worth
Happy were it, could as much be said of the elder brother, the Lord Spencer, who, ra about the world, dishonors both his na sorrow to sorrow to a inable care of his education There is a daughter very young reat and fair estate in Ireland, but who yet gives no great presage of worth,--so universally contae! But this is again recoentle lady of adust, 1688 I left this noble place and conversation, es to convey us back in the sa prepared at Dunstable against our arrival
Northa been lately burned and re-edified, is now becos, especially the church and townhouse, may compare with the neatest in Italy itself
Dr Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, wrote a very honest and handso hi they who refused to read the Declaration for liberty of conscience, in prejudice of the Church of England