Volume II Part 38 (1/2)
13th May, 1692 I dined at my cousin Cheny's, son to my Lord Cheny, who married my cousin Pierpoint
15th May, 1692 My niece, M Evelyn, was now married to Sir Cyril Wyche, Secretary of State for Ireland After all our apprehensions of being invaded, and doubts of our success by sea, it pleased God to give us a great naval victory, to the utter ruin of the French fleet, their admiral and all their best men-of-war, transport-shi+ps, etc
29th May, 1692 Though this day was set apart expressly for celebrating theCharles II, there was no notice taken of it, nor any part of the office annexed to the Common Prayer Book ard his restoration not only redeemed us froland as it were miraculously
9th June, 1692 I went to Windsor to carry randson to Eton School, where I hter-in-law's relations, who came on purpose to see her before her journey into Ireland We went to see the castle, which we found furnished and very neatly kept, as foruard chareat stor the trees of their fruit and leaves as if it had been winter; and an extraordinary wet season, with great floods
23d July, 1692 I ith randson, and thence to my Lord Godolphin's, at Cranburn, where we lay, and were e's Chapel, and returned to London late in the evening
25th July, 1692 To Mr Hewer's at Clapham, where he has an excellent, useful, and capacious house on the Common, built by Sir Den Gauden, and by hiot a very considerable estate in the Navy, in which, fro Mr Pepys's clerk, he came to be one of the principal officers, but was put out of all employment on the Revolution, as were all the best officers, on suspicion of being no friends to the change; such were put in their places, as were norant and unfit Mr Hewer lives very handsomely and friendly to everybody
Our fleet was now sailing on their long pretense of a descent on the French coast; but, after having sailed one hundred leagues, returned, the ad as to the place where they were to land, and the tireat dishonor of those at the helm, who concerted their nedly
This whole suly wet and rainy, the like had not been known since the year 1648; while in Ireland they had not known so great a drought
26th July, 1692 I went to visit the Bishop of Lincoln, when, as, he told e in Oxford, was the person rote the ”Whole Duty of Man”; that he used to read it to his pupil, and communicated it to Dr Sterne, afterward Archbishop of York, but would never suffer any of his pupils to have a copy of it
9th August, 1692 A fast Came the sad news of the hurricane and earthquake, which has destroyed al perished
11th August, 1692 My son, his wife, and little daughter, went for Ireland, there to reside as one of the Coust, 1692 Still an exceedingly wet season
15th Septeh not so great as to do any harland, was universal in all these parts of Europe It shook the house at Wotton, but was not perceived by any save a servant or tereat dinner below in the parlor, were not sensible of it
The dreadful one in Jamaica this summer was profanely and ludicrously represented in a puppet play, or some such lewd pastime, in the fair of Southwark, which caused the Queen to put down that idle and vicious mock show
1st October, 1692 This season was so exceedingly cold, by reason of a long and tempestuous northeast wind, that this usually pleasant month was very uncorade; Lord Paget sent Ambassador in his room
6th Nove or new building of the church [at Deptford], which I thought unseasonable in regard of heavy taxes, and other improper circumstances, which I there declared
10th Nove for our victory at sea, safe return of the King, etc
20th November, 1692 Dr Lancaster, the new Vicar of St Martin's, preached
A signal robbery in Hertfordshi+re of the taxout of the north toward London They were set upon by several desperate persons, who dis them in a field, when the exploit was done, and the treasure taken, they killed all the horses of those who sixteen horses They then dismissed those that they had disratified Sir J
Rotherha the Bishop of Bath and Wells to be lecturer for the next year, instead of Mr Bentley, who had so worthily acquitted hiain the next year
[Sidenote: LONDON]
January, 1692-93 Contest in Parlia Act, that no Parliament man should have any office; it wanted only two or three voices to have been carried The Duke of Norfolk's bill for a divorce thrown out, he having ed it very indiscreetly The quarrel between Adham yet undetermined
4th February, 1693 After five days' trial and extraordinary contest, the Lord Mohun was acquitted by the Lords of the es, frouilty; but whether in coh exceedingly dissolute, or upon whatever other reason, the King himself present some part of the trial, and satisfied, as they report, that he was culpable 69 acquitted him, only 14 condemned him
Unheard of stories of the universal increase of witches in New England;themselves to the devil, so as to threaten the subversion of the govern the negroes in Barbadoes toa discourse of two of the slaves, and so preventing the execution of the design Hitherto an exceedingly mild winter France in the utmost misery and poverty for want of corn and subsistence, while the a is intent to pursue his conquests on the rest of his neighbors both by sea and land Our Ade he had obtained over the French in the past summer; three others chosen in his place Dr Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury's book burned by the hang's title by conquest, on a complaint of Joseph How, a member of Parliament, little better than a madman
[Footnote 79: So's ”History of Surrey,” ii 714, froha's forces in the colony from 1692 to 1695 Some of the accused were convicted and executed; but Sir Williaood sense to reprieve, and afterward pardon, several; and the Queen approved his conduct]