Volume II Part 45 (2/2)
October, 1704 The year has been very plentiful
31st October, 1704 Being my birthday and the 84th year of my life, after particular reflections on es of the year, I set some considerable time of this day apart, to recollect and exa God thanks, and acknowledging his infinitehis protection for the year following
December, 1704 Lord Clarendon presented me with the three volumes of his father's ”History of the Rebellion”
My Lord of Canterbury wrote to e for Mr Clarke's continuance this year in the Boyle Lecture, which I willingly gave for his excellent performance of this year
9th February, 1704 I went to wait on h, who came to me and took me by the hand with extraordinary familiarity and civility, as forood-nature He had a reat value; for the rest, very plain I had not seen hiotten ues and smallpox ly dry season Great loss by fire, burning the outhouses and fah [Rutlandshi+re], full of rich goods and furniture, by the carelessness of a servant A little before, the same happened at Lord Peer of Algernon Percy, Ad Charles I, died in the 83d year of her age She was sister to the Earl of Suffolk, and left a great estate, her jointure to descend to the Duke of Soed himself He had an ill report
On the death of the E worn at Court, because there was none at the I William
18th May, 1704 I went to see Sir John Chardin, at Turnhaly well planted with fruit
20th May, 1704 Most extravagant expense to debauch and corrupt votes for Parliarandson with his party of my freeholders to vote for Mr Harvey, of Combe
4th January, 1704-05 I dined at La, a sharp and ready man in politics, as well as very learned
June, 1705 The season very dry and hot I went to see Dr dickinson the fa conversation about the philosopher's elixir, which he believed attainable, and had seen projection himself by one ent under the na the adepts, but was unknown as to his country, or abode; of this the doctor had written a treatise in Latin, full of very astonishi+ng relations He is a very learned person, fore, Oxford, in which city he practiced physic, but has now altogether given it over, and lives retired, being very old and infir chean to take in wounded and worn-out seas now going on are very nificent
[Sidenote: LONDON]
October, 1705 Mr Cowper reat officers are of continuing long in their places, he would not accept it, unless 2,000 a year were given him in reversion when he was put out, in consideration of his loss of practice His predecessors, how little tiot 100,000 and ton, Lieutenant of the Tower, displaced, and General Churchill, brother to the Duke of Marlborough, put in An indication of great unsteadiness soin to change the face of the Court, in opposition to the High Churchmen, which was another distinction of a party from the Low Churchmen The Parliareat an asse more than 450 The votes both of the old, as well as the new, fell to those called Low Churchmen, contrary to all expectation
31st October, 1705 I ae
Lord teach me so to number my days to come, that Iup es, and New Year's gifts, according to custoe, I went to our chapel [in London]
to give God public thanks, beseeching Al year, if he should yet continuedom
Divers of our friends and relations dined with us this day
27th January, 1706 My indisposition increasing, I was exceedingly ill this whole week
3d February, 1706 Notes of the ser and afternoon, written with his own hand, conclude this Diary[98]
[Footnote 98: Mr Evelyn died on the 27th of this month]
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