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reat dissatisfaction of the Bishop of Lincoln and ain The duchess of Grafton's appeal to the House of Lords for the Prothonotary's place given to the late Duke and to her son by King Charles II, now challenged by the Lord Chief Justice The judges were severely reproved on so they said
[Footnote 80: A mistake for Bath and Wells Bishop Kidder is referred to]
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1st January, 1693-94 Prince Lewis of Baden came to London, and wascorn and naval stores to France
11th January, 1694 Supped at Mr Edward Sheldon's, where was Mr
Dryden, the poet, who now intended to write no il He read to us his prologue and epilogue to his valedictory play now shortly to be acted
21st January, 1694 Lord Macclesfield, Lord Warrington, and Lord Westmorland, all died within about one week Several persons shot, hanged, and made aith thereat trial of the appeal of Lord Bath and Lord Montagu before the Lords, for the estate of the late Duke of Albefellow preached at Trinity parish, being restored to that place, after the contest between the Queen and the Bishop of London who had displaced him
22d March, 1694 Came the dismal news of the disaster befallen our Turkey fleet by tempest, to the almost utter ruin of that trade, the convoy of three or four men-of-war, and diversperished
[Sidenote: LONDON]
25th March, 1694 Mr Goode, minister of St Martin's, preached; he was likewise put in by the Queen, on the issue of her process with the Bishop of London
30th March, 1694 I went to the Duke of Norfolk, to desire him to make cousin Evelyn of Nutfield one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Surrey, and entreat hie and infirranted the one, but would not sufferhe should keep the honor of it during his life, though he could not act He professed great kindness to our family
1st April, 1694 Dr Sharp, Archbishop of York, preached in the afternoon at the Tabernacle, by Soho
13th April, 1694 Mr Bentley, our Boyle Lecturer, Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester, came to see me
15th April, 1694 One Mr Stanhope preached a most excellent ser out of the sea, spread itself in Montgoth, burning all straw, hay, thatch, and grass, but doing no har barns, or thatched houses It left such a taint on the grass as to kill all the cattle that eat of it I saw the attestations in the hands of the sufferers It lastedfrom the East Indies, worth 200,000 The French took our castle of Gamboo in Guinea, so that the Africa Actions fell to 30, and the India to 80 Soh England; they were of large stature, well appointed and disciplined One of theht, was attacked by two Dutchmen, ith his sword he struck off the head of one, and cleft the skull of the other down to his chin
A very young gentleer son of one who had not above 200 a year estate, lived in the garb and equipage of the richest nobleman, for house, furniture, coaches, saddle horses, and kept a table, and all things accordingly, redeeave portions to his sisters, being challenged by one Laws, a Scotchman, was killed in a duel, not fairly The quarrel arose fro in a house where this Laws had a eated Laws to this duel He was taken and condeentleood fame, could live in such an expensive manner; it could not be discovered by all possible industry, or entreaty of his friends to make him reveal it It did not appear that he was kept by wo in chemistry; but he would so, he had ith to maintain himself in the sareat force of understanding This was a subject of much discourse
24th April, 1694 I went to visit Mr Waller, an extraordinary young gentlereat acco both in oil and reat perfection, an excellent botanist, a rare engraver on brass, writer in Latin, and a poet; and with all this exceedingly modest His house is an acadehtsbridge], where he was in admiration at the store of rare plants, and the method he found in that noble nursery, and hoell it was cultivated A public Bank of 140,000, set up by Act of Parlia other Acts, and Lotteries for money to carry on the war The wholeof people in Buckinghamshi+re, on the declaration of a faiousto him on the 16th of this month, told him he was now coather all the saints, Jews and Gentiles, and lead the and judging the wicked, deliver the government of the world to the saints Great multitudes followed this preacher, divers of the oods and considerable suan to live in i no private concerns, continually dancing and singing Hallelujah night and day This brings to mind what I lately happened to find in Alstedius, that the thousand years should begin this very year 1694; it is in his ”Encyclopaedia Biblica” My copy of the book printed near sixty years ago
[Sidenote: WOTTON]
4th May, 1694 I went this day withs, bedding, etc, to furnish the apartned me, and now, after more than forty years, to spend the rest ofmy house at Deptford full furnished, and three servants, to er time as he should think fit tothe first Sunday in the ht to have been celebrated at Wotton church, but in this parish it is exceedingly neglected, so that, unless at the four great feasts, there is no coreat fault both in ministers and people I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it Scarcely one shower has fallen since the beginning of April
30th May, 1694 This e had news of h what discontent not yet said He had been, not ue in the commission of the Privy Seal, in old acquaintance, very soberly and religiously inclined Lord, what are ithout thy continual grace!
Lord Falkland, grandson to the learned Lord Falkland, Secretary of State to King Charles I, and slain in his service, died now of the s, industrious young gentleman; had forood luck toentitled to a vast sum, his share of the Spanish wreck, taken up at the expense of divers adventurers Froned Ambassador for Holland; had been Treasurer of the Navy, and advancing extreone in a moment, and I think the title is extinct I know not whether the estate devolves to my cousin Carew It was at hter be with her some time, so that that dear child took the same infection, which cost her valuable life
3d June, 1694 Mr Edwards, ift, came to see him He had suffered much by a fire
Seasonable showers
14th June, 1694 The public fast Mr Wotton, that extraordinary learned young man, preached excellently
1st July, 1694 Mr Duncoious and exact discourse