Volume II Part 44 (1/2)

8th December, 1700 Great alterations of officers at Court, and elsewhere,--Lord Chief Justice Treby died; he was a learned man in his profession, of which we have no, never fewer; the Chancery requiring so little skill in deep law-learning, if the practicer can talk eloquently in that Court; so that probably few care to study the law to any purpose Lord Marlborough Master of the Ordnance, in place of Lord Rooes Lord Lieutenant to Ireland

January, 1700-01 I finished the sale of North Stoake in Sussex to Robert Michell, Esq, appointed by my brother to be sold for payment of portions to my nieces, and other incu deep snow, and melted away as suddenly

19th January, 1701 Severe frost, and such a tereat spoil at sea, and blen above twenty trees of mine at Wotton

9th February, 1701 The old Speaker laid aside, and Mr Harley, an able gentleman, chosen Our countryman, Sir Richard Onslow, had a party for him

27th February, 1701 By an order of the House of Commons, I laid before the Speaker the state of what had been received and paid toward the building of Greenwich Hospital

Mr Wye, Rector of Wotton, died, a very worthy good ave it to Dr Bohun, a learned person and excellent preacher, who had beenin my family

18th March, 1701 I let Sayes Court to Lord Carmarthen, son to the Duke of Leeds 28th I went to the funeral of reat state Dr Davenant displeased the clergy now e in his book, p 40

April, 1701 A Dutch boy of about eight or nine years old was carried about by his parents to shoho had about the iris of one eye the letters of _Deus meus_, and of the other _Elohim_, in the Hebrew character How this was done by artifice none could i that he was so born It did not prejudice his sight, and he see boy Everybody went to see hireat accuracy; some considered it as artificial, others as almost supernatural

4th April, 1701 The Duke of Norfolk died of an apoplexy, and Mr Tho cut for the stone; he was one of the Tellers of the Exchequer Mr Howa petition to the House of Commons, were imprisoned[93]

[Footnote 93: Justinian Champneys, Thomas Culpepper, Williaentlemen of considerable property and faood print of theraved by R White, in 1701 They desired the Parliament to mind the public more, and their private heats less They were confined till the prorogation, and were reat dearth, no considerable rain having fallen for some months

17th May, 1701 Very plentiful showers, the wind co west and south

The Bishops and Convocation at difference concerning the right of calling the asseainst the other

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20th June, 1701 The Commons demanded a conference with the Lords on the trial of Lord So on the trial, the Commons would not attend, and he was acquitted

22d June, 1701 I went to congratulate the arrival of that worthy and excellent person my Lord Galway, newly come out of Ireland, where he had behaved hi satisfaction of the people: but he was reh they had not a more worthy, valiant, discreet, and trusty person in the two kingdoms, on whom they could have relied for his conduct and fitness He was one who had deeply suffered, as well as the Marquis, his father, for being Protestants

July, 1701 My Lord Treasurer randson one of the Commissioners of the prizes, salary 500 per annurandson went to Sir Simon Harcourt, the Solicitor-General, to Windsor, to wait on my Lord Treasurer There had been for sohter of Mrs Boscawen, sister of my Lord Treasurer, which was now far advanced

14th July, 1701 I subscribed toward rebuilding Oakwood Chapel, now, after 200 years, aled from heat not much less than in Italy or Spain for so, and cold, with interton, and saw the house, plantations, and gardens, the work of Mr Wise, as there to receiveon the 15th of this month, N S, after two or three days' indisposition, put an end to that unhappy Prince's troubles, after a short and unprosperous reign, indiscreetly atte in Popery, and make himself absolute, in imitation of the French, hurried on by the impatience of the Jesuits; which the nation would not endure

Died the Earl of Bath, whose contest with Lord Montague about the Duke of Albe under a will supposed to have been forged, is said to have been worth 10,000 to the lawyers His eldest son shot himself a few days after his father's death; for what cause is not clear He was a ainst the Turks at the siege of Vienna, that the Emperor made him a Count of the Empire It was falsely reported that Sir Edward Seyreat man; he had often been Speaker, Treasurer of the Navy, and in many other lucrative offices He was of a hasty spirit, not at all sincere, but head of the party at any ti in Parliament

29th September, 1701 I kept my first courts in Surrey, which took up the whole week My steas Mr Hervey, a Counsellor, Justice of Peace, and Meuineas, which was a guinea a day, and to Mr Martin, his clerk, three guineas

31st October, 1701 I was this day 81 coe

Deceave my vote and interest to Sir R Onslow and Mr Weston

27th Decerandson quitted Oxford