Volume II Part 36 (2/2)
27th June, 1690 I went to visit so for Lord Clarendon, they by ton, who about three days before had been sent for frohting the French fleet, which having beaten a squadron of the Hollanders, while Torrington did nothing, did now ridea descent
20th July, 1690 This afternoon a caun to be formed on Blackheath
30th July, 1690 I dined with Mr Pepys, now suffered to return to his house, on account of indisposition
1st August, 1690 The Duke of Grafton ca to his shi+p at the mouth of the river, in his way to Ireland (where he was slain)
3d August, 1690 The French landed sonmouth, in Devon, and burned so about the western coast, and we having 300 sail of rich an to move toward them, under three aduard A very extraordinary fine season; but on the 12th was a very great stor, and on the 15th the season ed to wet and cold The militia and trained bands, horse and foot, which were up through England, were dis William was slain, and his army defeated in Ireland, caused such a triumph at Paris, and all over France, as was never heard of; when, in thevanquished, by a speedy flight and escape, hiust, 1690 I was desired to be one of the bail of the Earl of Clarendon, for his release from the Toith divers noblemen The Bishop of St Asaph expounds his prophecies to me and Mr Pepys, etc
The troops from Blackheath march to Portsmouth That sweet and hopeful youth, Sir Charles Tuke, died of the wounds he received in the fight of the Boyne, to the great sorrow of all his friends, being (I think) the last male of that faentle had the advantage of the choicest breeding abroad, both as to arts and arms; he had traveled much, but was so unhappy as to fall in the side of his unfortunate King
The unseasonable and , the naval expedition is hindered, and the extre Willialand Lord Sidney left Governor of what is conquered in Ireland, which is near three parts [in four]
17th August, 1690 A public feast An extraordinary sharp, cold, east wind
12th October, 1690 The French General, with Tyrconnel and their forces, gone back to France, beaten out by King William Cork delivered on discretion The Duke of Grafton was there reat storms of wind The 8th of this month Lord Spencer wrote me word from Althorpe, that there happened an earthquake the day before in the h short, sensibly shook the house The ”Gazette” acquainted us that the like happened at the same time, half-past seven, at Barnstaple, Holyhead, and Dublin We were not sensible of it here
26th October, 1690 Kinsale at last surrendered,James's party burn all the houses they have in their power, and a them that stately palace of Lord Ossory's, which lately cost, as reported, 40,000 By a disastrous accident, a third-rate shi+p, the Breda, blew up and destroyed all on board; in it were twenty-five prisoners of war She was to have sailed for England the next day
3d November, 1690 Went to the Countess of Clancarty, to condole with her concerning her debauched and dissolute son, who had done so ht prisoner to the Tower
16th Novereat storms, yet a warm season
23d November, 1690 Carried Mr Pepys'sthe commission of the Treasury, to the wonder of all his friends
1st Dece been chosen President of the Royal Society, I desired to decline it, and with great difficulty devolved the election on Sir Robert Southwell, Secretary of State to King Williah, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, as displaced with several of the Fellows for not taking the oath i James, now made a Bishop Most of this ht, was executed at Tyburn for being an acco a young heiress
4th January, 1690-91 This week a PLOT was discovered for a general rising against the new Government, for which (Henry) Lord Clarendon and others were sent to the Tower The next day, I went to see Lord Clarendon The Bishop of Ely searched for Trial of Lord Preston, as not being an English Peer, hastened at the Old Bailey
[Sidenote: LONDON]
18th January, 1691 Lord Preston conde James by the French Ashton executed The Bishop of Ely, Mr
Graham, etc, absconded
13th March, 1691 I went to visit Monsieur Justell and the Library at St James's, in which that learned ood nulected for many years Divers medals had been stolen and embezzled
21st March, 1691 Dined at Sir Williaood pictures After dinner, a French servant played rarely on the lute Sir Willia statues collected with so much expense by the famous Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and sent them to his seat at Easton, near Towcester[75]
[Footnote 75: They are now at Oxford, having been presented to the University in 1755 by Henrietta, Countess Dowager of Pomfret,of Thomas, the first Earl]
25th March, 1691 Lord Sidney, principal Secretary of State, gave me a letter to Lord Lucas, Lieutenant of the Tower, to permit me to visit Lord Clarendon; which this day I did, and dined with hiht, a sudden and terrible fire burned down all the buildings over the stone gallery at Whitehall to the water side, beginning at the apartment of the late duchess of Portsmouth (which had been pulled down and rebuilt no less than three tis of such lewd creatures, who debauched both King Charles II and others, and were his destruction