Volume II Part 45 (1/2)
13th June, 1703 Rains have been great and continual, and now, near midsummer, cold and wet
11th July, 1703 I went to Addisob, sixteen miles from Wotton, to seesuch excellent brickwork, based with Portland stone, with the pilasters, s, and within, that I pronounced it in all the points of good and solid architecture to be one of the very best gentlemen's houses in Surrey, when finished I returned to Wotton in the evening, though weary
25th July, 1703 The last week in this -continued rain, and the Sunday following, thunder and lightning
12th August, 1703 The new Commission for Greenwich hospital was sealed and opened, at which ned ust 1696, there had been expended in building 89,364 14s 8d
31st October, 1703 This day, being eighty-three years of age, upon exa what concerned reatave Godhim to confirm to me the pardon of my sins past, and to prepare race and mercy, for the sake of my blessed Savior
21st Nove us fro, our Doctor officiated in my family; at which were present above twenty domestics He made an excellent discourse on 1 Cor
xv, v 55, 56, of the vanity of this world and uncertainty of life, and the inexpressible happiness and satisfaction of a holy life, with pertinent inferences to prepare us for death and a future state I gave him thanks, and told him I took it kindly as my funeral sermon
[Sidenote: LONDON]
26-7th November, 1703 The effects of the hurricane and teh all the nation, especially London, were very dismal Many houses demolished, and people killed As to my own losses, the subversion of woods and tih arden e to ical, not to be paralleled, with anything happening in our age I ahty God
7th December, 1703 I removed to Dover Street, where I found all well; but houses, trees, garden, etc, at Sayes Court, suffered very much
31st Deceave rewards and New Year's gifts, according to custo at Portsnificently entertained by the Queen, and behaved hiraceful deportreat ladies, and others, with valuable jewels, he went back to Portsmouth, and immediately embarked for Spain
[Footnote 95: Charles III, afterward Emperor of Germany, by the title of Charles VI]
16th January, 1704 The Lord Treasurer gave randson the office of Treasurer of the Stamp Duties, with a salary of 300 a year
30th January, 1704 The fast on the Martyrdo Charles I was observed with more than usual solemnity
May, 1704 Dr Bathurst, President of Trinity College, Oxford, now died,[96] I think the oldest acquaintance now left e, stark blind, deaf, andbeen a person of ad This is a serious alarrant that I may profit by it! He built a very handsoacy of money, and a third part of his library, to his nephew, Dr Bohun, ent hence to his funeral
[Footnote 96: There is a very good Life of him, with his portrait prefixed, by Thoe, and Poetry Professor at Oxford]
[Sidenote: LONDON]
7th Septe for the late great victory,[97] with the utreat Officers, Lords Mayor, Sheriffs, Companies, etc The streets were scaffolded from Temple Bar, where the Lord Mayor presented her Majesty with a sword, which she returned Every coed under its banners, the citywith cloth suitable to the color of the banner The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Aldermen were in their scarlet robes, with caparisoned horses; the Knight Marshal on horseback; the Foot-Guards; the Queen in a rich coach with eight horses, none with her but the duchess of Marlborough in a very plain garment, the Queen full of jewels Music and trureat officers of the Crown, nobility, and Bishops, all in coaches with six horses, besides innumerable servants, went to St Paul's, where the Dean preached After this, the Queen went back in the same order to St James's The city companies feasted all the nobility and Bishops, and illuht Music for the church and anthems composed by the best masters
The day before et and stormy, but this was one of the most serene and calm days that had been all the year
[Footnote 97: Over the French and Bavarians, at Blenheiust, 1704]