Volume II Part 41 (1/2)

10th April, 1696 The quarters of Sir William Perkins and Sir John Friend, lately executed on the plot, with Perkins's head, were set up at Teht, which many pitied I think there never was such at Te Charles II, na[83]

[Footnote 83: He was concerned in the Rye-House plot, fled into Holland, was given up, and executed in his own country, 1684 See p

198]

12th April, 1696 A very fine spring season

19th April, 1696 Great offense taken at the three ministers who absolved Sir William Perkins and Friend at Tyburn One of them (Snatt) was a son of my old schoolmaster This produced much altercation as to the canonicalness of the action

21st April, 1696 We had athe draught of Greenwich hospital

23d April, 1696 I went to Eton, and dined with Dr Godolphin, the provost The schoolmaster assured nant youth in that place than ton It is very noble, though not great The gallery furnished with the best pictures [froio, Holbein, Julio Roreat collection of porcelain; and a pretty private library The gardens about it very delicious

26th April, 1696 Dr Sharp preached at the Temple His prayer before the sermon was one of the most excellent compositions I ever heard

28th April, 1696 The Venetian Ambassador made a stately entry with fifty footmen, many on horseback, four rich coaches, and a nuallants More executions this week of the assassins Oates dedicated aJa Willia so infamously and untruly of his late beloved Queen's own father

2d May, 1696 I dined at La summoned to meet my co-trustees, the Archbishop, Sir Henry Ashurst, and Mr Serjeant Rothera Mr Boyle's lecture for a perpetuity; which we concluded upon, by buying a rent charge of 50 per annum, with the stock in our hands

6th May, 1696 I went to Lambeth, to meet at dinner the Countess of Sunderland and divers ladies We dined in the Archbishop's wife's apartment with his Grace, and stayed late; yet I returned to Deptford at night

13th May, 1696 I went to London to meet my son, newly coly scarce, so that none was paid or received, but all was on trust, thefor common necessities The association with an oath required of all lawyers and officers, on pain of _prae Ja Willia by assassination This to be taken by all the Counsel by a day li's Bench hardly heard any cause in Easter Term, so many crowded to take the oath This was censured as a very entangling contrivance of the Parliah office would lay down, and others surrender Many gentleed out of prison

29th May, 1696 We settled divers offices, and otherof Greenwich hospital

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1st June, 1696 I went to Deptford to dispose of our goods, in order to letting the house for three years to Vice Adarden This was done soon after

4th June, 1696 A committee met at Whitehall about Greenwich Hospital, at Sir Christopher Wren's, his Majesty's Surveyor-General We reeave the first order for proceeding on the foundation, and for weekly payeneral account to be monthly

11th June, 1696 Dined at Lord Peentleman He showed me divers rare pictures of very elo of a e book of the best drawings of the old masters Sir John Fenwick, one of the conspirators, was taken Great subscriptions in Scotland to their East India Company Want of current money to carry on the smallest concerns, even for daily provisions in the reat sums daily transported to Holland, where it yieldsconsiderable coined of the new and now only current stamp, cause such a scarcity that tu money; so ih clipped and corrupted, till they had provided supplies To this add the fraud of the bankers and goldsotten immense riches by extortion, keep up their treasure in expectation of enhancing its value Dunco ham's estate at nearly 90,000, and reputed to have nearly as much in cash Banks and lotteries every day set up

18th June, 1696 The faue for an estate of 11,000 a year, left by the Duke of Albemarle, wherein on several trials had been spent,20,000 between theery

20th June, 1696 I enious orks invented by Mr Winstanley, wherein were so and extraordinary

21st June, 1696 An exceedingly rainy, cold, unseasonable summer, yet the city was very healthy

25th June, 1696 A trial in the Common Pleas between the Lady Purbeck Te a deed set up to take place of several wills This deed was proved to be forged The cause went onreat supper was given to the jury, being persons of the best condition in Buckinghamshi+re

30th June, 1696 I ith a select committee of the Commissioners for Greenwich Hospital, and with Sir Christopher Wren, where with him I laid the first stone of the intended foundation, precisely at five o'clock in the evening, after we had dined together Mr Fla the punctual time by instruments

4th July, 1696 Note that my Lord Godolphin was the first of the subscribers who paid any money to this noble fabric

7th July, 1696 A northern wind altering the weather with a continual and ied it into perfect winter

12th July, 1696 Very unseasonable and uncertain weather