Volume II Part 36 (1/2)

12th January, 1690 There was read at St Ann's Church an exhortatory letter to the clergy of London fro the distressed Protestants, and Vaudois, who fled from the persecution of the French and Duke of Savoy, to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland

The Parliaued to 2d of April to the discontent and surprise ofof anything, proceeding with aniainst those who as universal a discontent against King Willia Ja resolved on an expedition into Ireland in person About 150 of theat a feast at the Apollo Tavern near St Dunstan's, sent so, to assure hi them to repair to their several counties and preserve the peace during his absence, and assuring the the Laws and Religion established The great Lord suspected to have counselled this prorogation, universally denied it However, it was believed the chief adviser was the Marquis of Carmarthen, who now seemed to be most in favor

2d February, 1690 The Parliament was dissolved by proclamation, and another called to meet the 20th of March This was a second surprise to the former members; and now the Court party, or, as they call the their interests in the country The Marquis of Halifax lays down his office of Privy Seal, and pretends to retire

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16th February, 1690 The duchess of Monmouth's chaplain preached at St

Martin's an excellent discourse exhorting to peace and sanctity, it being now the tireat division and dissension in the nation; first, a the Churchmen, of whom the moderate and sober part were for a speedy reforht beof Dissenters; others id, were for no condescension at all Books and pamphlets were published every day pro and con; the Convocation were forced for the present to suspend any further progress There was fierce and great carousing about being elected in the new Parlia in person for Ireland, whither the French are sending supplies to King Ja

19th February, 1690 I dined with the Marquis of Carlas, a very considerate and sober colect of the English soldiers, suffering severely for want of clothes and necessaries this winter, exceedinglyall their hardshi+ps There dined also Lord Lucas, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Bishop of St Asaph The Privy Seal was again put in commission, Mr Cheny (who married my kinswoman, Mrs

Pierrepoint), Sir Thomas Knatchbull, and Sir P W Pultney The ireat and universal, persons of all ranks keeping their courtesans publicly, that the King had lately directed a letter to the Bishops to order their clergy to preach against that sin, swearing, etc, and to put the ecclesiastical laws in execution without any indulgence

25th February, 1690 I went to Kensington, which King Williahaarden, however, it is a very sweet villa, having to it the park and a straight neay through this park

7th March, 1690 I dined with Mr Pepys, late Secretary to the Adht and seaman (for so he had been, and also a Co other discourse, and deploring the sad condition of our navy, as now governed by inexperiencedadvantage we of this nation had by being the first who built frigates, the first of which ever built was that vessel which was afterward called ”The Constant Warwick,” and was the work of Pett of Chatha a vessel that would sail swiftly; it was built with low decks, the guns lying near the water, and was so light and swift of sailing, that in a short time he told us she had, ere the Dutch as ended, taken as much money fro built, did in a year or two scour the Channel froly infested it He added that it would be the best and only infallible expedient to be reatest navy of any enereat shi+ps and second and third rates, they would leave off building such high decks, which were for nothing but to gratify gentlemen-commanders, who must have all their effeminate accommodations, and for pomp; that it would be the ruin of our fleets, if such persons were continued in co capable of learning, because they would not subue and inconvenience which those ere bred seaates These being to encounter the greatest shi+ps would be able to protect, set on, and bring off, those who should e the fire shi+ps, and the Prince who should first store hih the help and countenance of such frigates, be able to ruin the greatest force of such vast shi+ps as could be sent to sea, by the dexterity of working those light, swift shi+ps to guard the fire shi+ps He concluded there would shortly be no other reat shi+ps and uns and men, must submit to those who should encounter them with far less number He represented to us the dreadful effect of these fire shi+ps; that he continually observed in our late maritime ith the Dutch that, when an enemy's fire shi+p approached, the most valiant commander and coh then, of all tiuns, borew pale and astonished, as if of a quite other uns and work as if in despair, every one looking about to see which way they h sure to be drowned if they did so This he said was likely to prove hereafter the land if they continued to put gentlenorance, effeminacy, and insolence

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9th March, 1690 Preached at Whitehall Dr Burnet, late Bishop of Saru the texture of the eye; and that, as it received such innue to the brain, and that without the least confusion or trouble, and accordingly judged and reflected on thereatest ease and at once see all that was done through the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action This similitude he continued with ly, for the adht to live and behave ourselves before such an all-seeing Deity; and hoere to conceive of other his attributes, which we could have no idea of than by co them by ere able to conceive of the nature and power of things, which were the objects of our senses; and therefore it was that in Scripture we attribute those actions and affections of God by the same of man, not as adequately or in any proportion like them, but as the only expedient to make some resemblance of his divine perfections; as when the Scripture says, ”God will remember the sins of the penitent no , but as inti he would pass by such penitents and receive them to mercy

I dined at the Bishop of St Asaph's, Ale Mackenzie (late Lord Advocate of Scotland), against whom both the Bishop and myself had written and published books, but now most friendly reconciled[73] He related to us many particulars of Scotland, the present sad condition of it, the inveterate hatred which the Presbyterians show to the faots who acknowledge no superior on earth, in civil or divine overnment; their iland He observed that the first Presbyterian dissents from our discipline were introduced by the Jesuits' order, about the 20 of Queen Elizabeth, a fa hian to pray exteht in that which they since called, and are still so fond of, praying by the Spirit This Jesuit remained many years before he was discovered, afterward died in Scotland, where he was buried at

having yet on his e, as we have seen, had written in praise of a Private Life, which Mr Evelyn answered by a book in praise of Public Life and Active Eain to see Mr Charlton's curiosities, both of art and nature, and his full and rare collection of ether, in all kinds, is doubtless one of the es of rarities that can be any where seen I much admired the contortions of the Thea root, which was so perplexed, large, and intricate, and withal hard as box, that it onderful to consider

The French have landed in Ireland

16th March, 1690 A public fast

24th May, 1690 City charter restored Divers exe Williaent

10th June, 1690 Mr Pepys read tohat malice and injustice he was suspected with Sir Anthony Deane about the timber, of which the thirty shi+ps were built by a late Act of Parliaer which the fleet would shortly be in, by reason of the tyranny and incoed the Adave an accurate state, and showed his great ability

18th June, 1690 Fast day Visited the Bishop of St Asaph; his conversation was on the Vaudois in Savoy, who had been thought so near destruction and final extirpation by the French, being totally given up to slaughter, so that there were no hopes for them; but now it pleased God that the Duke of Savoy, who had hitherto joined with the French in their persecution, being now pressed by them to deliver up Saluzzo and Turin as cautionary towns, on suspicion that he ht at last come into the Confederacy of the German Princes, did secretly concert measures with, and afterward declared for, them He then invited these poor people fro the mountains whither they had fled, and restored thes, and the exercise of their religion, and begged pardon for the ill usage they had received, charging it on the cruelty of the French who forced hi the remainder of those persecuted Christians which the Bishop of St Asaph had so long affirmed to be the titnesses spoken of in the Revelation, who should be killed and brought to life again, it was looked on as an extraordinary thing that this prophesying Bishop should persuade two fugitive ministers of the Vaudois to return to their country, and furnish the but universal destruction was to be expected, assuring the them from the Apocalypse, that their countrymen should be returned safely to their country before they arrived This happening contrary to all expectation and appearance, did exceedingly credit the Bishop's confidence how that prophecy of the witnesses should come to pass, just at the time, and the very month, he had spoken of some years before

I afterith hih his sister, to whom he explained the necessity of it so fully, and so learnedly made out, hat events were i of the Jews to be near at hand, but that the Kingdom of Antichrist would not yet be utterly destroyed till thirty years, when Christ should begin the Milleniu on earth, but that the true religion and universal peace should obtain through all the world He showed how Mr Brightman, Mr Mede, and other interpreters of these events failed, bythe year as the Latins and others did, to consist of the present calculation, so many days to the year, whereas the Apocalypse reckons after the Persian account, as Daniel did, whose visions St John all along explains asonly the Christian Church

24th June, 1690 Dined with Mr Pepys, who the next day was sent to the Gatehouse,[74] and several great persons to the Tower, on suspicion of being affected to King Ja the Willia Ja It seelish-Irish and Frenchwas slain, and Dr Walker, who so bravely defended Londonderry King Willia of a cannon bullet on his shoulder, which he endured with very little interruption of his pursuit Hamilton, who broke his word about Tyrconnel, was taken It is reported that King Jaheda and Dublin surrendered, and if King Willia, we may say of him as Caesar said, ”_Veni, vidi, vici_” But to alloy much of this, the French fleet rides in our channel, ours not daring to interpose, and the ene to land

[Footnote 74: Poor Pepys, as the reader knows, had already undergone an imprisonment, with perhaps just assent inforlish Navy]

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