Volume II Part 37 (2/2)

6th Decereat persons were named, but believed to be a sham--A proposal in the House of Commons that every officer in the whole nation who received a salary above 500 or otherwise by virtue of his office, should contribute it wholly to the support of the ith France, and this upon their oath

25th Decehter

26th Decely dry and calm winter; no rain for many past months

28th December, 1691 Dined at Lareenhouse furnace, set up by the Archbishop's son-in-law

30th Deceain saw Mr Charlton's collection of spiders, birds, scorpions, and other serpents, etc

1st January, 1691-92 This last week died that pious, admirable Christian, excellent philosopher, and reat loss to all that knew him, and to the public

[Sidenote: LONDON]

6th January, 1692 At the funeral of Mr Boyle, at St Martin's, Dr

Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, preached on Eccles ii 26 He concluded with an eulogy due to the deceased, who ion the scope of all his excellent talents in the knowledge of nature, and who had arrived to so high a degree in it, accompanied with such zeal and extraordinary piety, which he showed in the whole course of his life, particularly in his exeave 1,000 yearly to the distressed refugees of France and Ireland; was at the charge of translating the Scriptures into the Irish and Indian tongues, and was now pro a Turkish translation, as he had forion” into Arabic, which he caused to be dispersed in the eastern countries; that he had settled a fund for preachers who should preach expressly against Atheists, Libertines, Socinians, and Jews; that he had in his will given 8,000 to charitable uses; but that his private charities were extraordinary He dilated on his learning in Hebrew and Greek, his reading of the fathers, and solid knowledge in theology, once deliberating about taking Holy Orders, and that at the tiht have ure in the nation as to secular honor and titles, his fear of not being able to discharge so weighty a duty as the first, made him decline that, and his hureat good which he did by his experience in medicine and chemistry, and to what noble ends he applied hi studies; the works, both pious and useful, which he published; the exact life he led, and the happy end he h, who died but a few days before hirain of flattery

This week a most execrable murder was committed on Dr Clench, father of that extraordinary learned child who hiled hi away the coachman under some pretense, they left his dead body in the coach, and escaped in the dusk of the evening

12th January, 1692 My granddaughter was christened by Dr Tenison, now Bishop of Lincoln, in Trinity Church, being the first that was christened there She was named Jane

24th January, 1692 A frosty and dry season continued; h, Lieutenant-General of the King's arentlees,of bribes, covetousness, and extortion on all occasions from his inferior officers Note, this was the Lord as entirely advanced by King James, and was the first who betrayed and forsook his master He was son of Sir Winston Churchill of the Greencloth

7th February, 1692 An extraordinary snow fell inmade me one of the trustees for his charitable bequests, I went to aof the Bishop of Lincoln, Sir Rob wood, and serjeant, Rotheram, to settle that clause in the hich related to charitable uses, and especially the appointing and electing a minister to preach one ser the four suainst Atheists, Deists, Libertines, Jews, etc, without descending to any other controversy whatever, for which 50 per annum is to be paid quarterly to the preacher; and, at the end of three years, to proceed to a new election of some other able divine, or to continue the sae convenient We made choice of one Mr Bentley, chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester (Dr Stillingfleet) The first sermon was appointed for the first Sunday in March, at St Martin's; the second Sunday in April, at Bow Church, and so alternately

28th February, 1692 Lord Marlborough having used words against the King, and been discharged froreat places, his as forbidden the Court, and the Princess of Denmark was desired by the Queen to disoes away from Court to Sion house Divers new Lords e of Commissioners in the Treasury The Parliament adjourned, not well satisfied with affairs The business of the East India Company, which they would have reformed, let fall The Duke of Norfolk does not succeed in his endeavor to be divorced[78]

[Footnote 78: See _post_ pp 351-52]

20th March, 1692 My son was made one of the Commissioners of the Revenue and Treasury of Ireland, to which employment he had a h, who showed ht out of France, see in my opinion very much to resemble the Queen his mother, and of ayet appearing The Queen Dowager went out of England toward Portugal, as pretended, against the advice of all her friends

4th April, 1692 Mr Bentley preached Mr Boyle's lecture at St

Mary-le-Bow So excellent a discourse against the Epicurean system is not to be recapitulated in a feords He caht it should be printed, or that there was anything in it which I desired to be altered I took this as a civility, and earnestly desired it should be printed, as one of thediscourses I had ever heard

6th April, 1692 A fast King James sends a letter written and directed by his own hand to several of the Privy Council, and one to his daughter, the Queen Regent, inforht to bed, and su the as fro, permission to come and return in safety

24th April, 1692 Much apprehension of a French invasion, and of an universal rising Our fleet begins to join with the Dutch Unkindness between the Queen and her sister Very cold and unseasonable weather, scarce a leaf on the trees

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5th May, 1692 Reports of an invasion were very hot, and alar suspected persons, sending forces to the seaside, and hastening out the fleet Continued discourse of the French invasion, and of ours in France The eastern wind so constantly blowing, gave our fleet time to unite, which had been so tardy in preparation, that, had not God thus wonderfully favored, the enemy would in all probability have fallen upon us Many daily secured, and proclamations out for more conspirators

8th May, 1692 My kins Ditton, died suddenly

12th May, 1692 A fast