Volume II Part 33 (2/2)
The Dutch make extraordinary preparations both at sea and land, which with no s us, puts us to many difficulties The Popish Irish soldiers commit many murders and insults; the whole nation disaffected, and in apprehensions
After long trials of the doctors to bring up the little Prince of Wales by hand (sodied infants) not succeeding, a country nurse, the wife of a tile ive it suck
18th September, 1688 I went to London, where I found the Court in the ut; which put Whitehall into so panic a fear, that I could hardly believe it possible to find such a change
Writs were issued in order to a Parliaood order of elections, with great professions ofany sort of satisfaction to the people, who showed their high discontent at several things in the Government
Earthquakes had utterly demolished the ancient Smyrna, and several other places in Greece, Italy, and even in the Spanish Indies, forerunners of greater calahty preserve his Church and all who put thes be overpassed
30th September, 1688 The Court in so extraordinary a consternation, on assurance of the Prince of Orange's intention to land, that the writs sent forth for a Parliament were recalled
[Sidenote: LONDON]
7th October, 1688 Dr Tenison preached at St Martin's on 2 Ti the Scriptures to be our only rule of faith, and its perfection above all traditions After which, near 1,000 devout persons partook of the Communion The sermon was chiefly occasioned by a Jesuit, who in the Masshouse on the Sunday before had disparaged the Scripture and railed at our translation, which so, they pulled him out of the pulpit, and treated hireat disturbance in the city
Hourly expectation of the Prince of Orange's invasion heightened to that degree, that his Majesty thought fit to abrogate the Coht still to dispense with all laws) and restore the ejected Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford In the meantime, he called over 5,000 Irish, and 4,000 Scots, and continued to remove Protestants and put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places of trust, and retained the Jesuits about hiht people to so desperate a pass, that they see of that Prince, whom they looked on to be their deliverer fro incessantly for an east wind, which was said to be the only hindrance of his expedition with a nue temper, and unheard of in former times, was this poor nation reduced, and of which I was an eyewitness The apprehension was (and with reason) that his Majesty's forces would neither at land nor sea oppose theor requisite to repel invaders
The late imprisoned Bishops were now called to reconcile matters, and the Jesuits hard at work to fo the Protestants by their usual tricks A letter was sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury,[71] infor by them A paper of what the Bishops advised his Majesty was published
The Bishops were enjoined to prepare a forainst the feared invasion A pardon published Soldiers and mariners daily pressed
[Footnote 71: By Evelyn himself The letter was as follows:--
”My Lord, The honor and reputation which your Grace's piety, prudence, and signal courage, have justly merited and obtained, not only froland, but even universally fro us who are Dissenters fro upon your Grace's vigilancy and extraordinary endeavors will not suffer to be diminished in this conjuncture The conversation I now and then have with so in the most secret recesses and cabals of our Church's adversaries, obligesof your Grace and the rest of the Lords Bishops to Court, and what has there of late been required of you, is only to create a jealousy and suspicion a people of such compliances, as it is certain they have no cause to apprehend The plan of this and of all that which is to follow of see favor thence, is wholly drawn by the Jesuits, who are at this ti us, all other arts andhitherto failed thes contrived that your Lordshi+ps the Bishops should give his Majesty advice separately, without calling any of the rest of the Peers, which, though enerally about the town I do not at all question but your Grace will speedily prevent the operation of this venohly necessary so to do, that your Grace is also enjoined to coe is expressly to be na; but for as much as in all the Declarations, etc, which have hitherto been published in pretended favor of the Church of England, there is not once the least mention of the REFORMED or PROTESTANT RELIGION, but only of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS BY LAW ESTABLISHED, which Church the Papists tell us is the CHURCH OF ROME, which is (say they) the Catholic Church of England--that only is established by Law; the Church of England in the REFORMED sense so established, is but by an usurped authority The antiquity of THAT would by these words be explained, and utterly defeat this false and subdolous construction, and take off all exceptions whatsoever; if, in all extraordinary offices, upon these occasions, the words REFORMED and PROTESTANT were added to that of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND BY LAW ESTABLISHED And whosoever threatens to invade or coainst us, to the prejudice of that Church, in God's naainst them My Lord, this is, I confess, a bold, but honest period; and, though I am well assured that your Grace is perfectly acquainted with all this before, and therefore may blame my impertinence, as that does [Greek: allotrioepiskopein]; yet I am confident you will not reprove the zeal of one whoLond, 10 Oct, 1688” (Fro) See _post_, p 285]
14th October, 1688 The King's birthday No guns fro This day signal for the victory of Williaainst Harold, near Battel, in Sussex The wind, which had been hitherto west, was east all this day Wonderful expectation of the Dutch fleet Public prayers ordered to be read in the churches against invasion
28th October, 1688 A tu a Popish chapel that had been set up in the city
29th October, 1688 Lady Sunderland acquaintedaway the Seals fro with the Queen to intercede for hirown re the interest of the Jesuitical counsels; so, some another; but there was doubtless some secret betrayed, which time may discover
There was a Council called, to which were sues, the Lord Mayor, etc The Queen Dowager, and all the ladies and lords ere present at the Queen Consort's labor, were to give their testimony upon oath of the Prince of Wales's birth, recorded both at the Council Board and at the Chancery a day or two after This procedure was censured by some as below his Majesty to condescend to, on the talk of the people It was remarkable that on this occasion the Archbishop, Marquis of Halifax, the Earls of Clarendon and Nottingha Papists, and their bold telling his Majesty that whatever was done while such sat a them was unlawful and incurred _praemunire_;--at least, if what I heard be true
30th October, 1688 I dined with Lord Preston, made Secretary of State, in the place of the Earl of Sunderland
Visited Mr Boyle, when caton The Duke told us many particulars of Mary Queen of Scots, and her amours with the Italian favorite, etc
31st October, 1688 My birthday, being the 68th year of row in years, so race!
Be thouyear, and preserve reat confusions that threaten a sad revolution to this sinful nation! Defend thy church, our holy religion, and just laws, disposing his Majesty to listen to sober and healing counsels, that if it be thy blessed will, we may still enjoy that happy tranquility which hitherto thou hast continued to us! Amen, Amen!
1st November, 1688 Dined with Lord Preston, with other company, at Sir Stephen Fox's Continual alarreat losses of horse in the storm, but without any assurance A man was taken with divers papers and printed ate, after examination at the Cabinet Council There was likewise a declaration of the States for satisfaction of all public lish and the French There was in that of the Prince's an expression, as if the Lords both spiritual and temporal had invited him over, with a deduction of the causes of his enterprise This made his Majesty convene ive an account of as in the manifesto, and to enjoin the of this disloyal charge
2d November, 1688 It was now certainly reported by some who saw the fleet, and the Prince e, and that the Princess of Orange was there to take leave of her husband
4th Nove landed soht, whereas it was thought it would have been northward The Court in great hurry