Volume II Part 3 (2/2)

[Sidenote: LONDON]

30th October, 1666 To London to our office, and now had I on the vest and surcoat, or tunic, as it was called, after his Majesty had brought the whole court to it It was a co iood earnest to leave the Monsieurs'

vanities long

31st October, 1666 I heard the signal cause of my Lord Cleveland pleaded before the House of Lords; and was this day forty-six years of age, wonderfully protected by the mercies of God, for which I render him immortal thanks

14th Noveh my district, Rochester and other places, where I had men quartered, and in custody

15th November, 1666 To Leeds Castle

16th Nove about 600 Dutch and French, ordered their proportion of bread to be augmented and provided clothes and fuel Monsieur Colbert, Aland, this day sent , to every prisoner of that nation under uard

17th Nove on the steep of Bexley Hill, woundedwith lass; but I thank God we both escaped without er

18th November, 1666 At Rochester

19th November, 1666 Returned home

23d November, 1666 At London, I heard an extraordinary case before a Committee of the whole House of Commons, in the Commons' House of Parliament, between one Captain Taylor and my Lord Viscount Mordaunt, where, after the lawyers had pleaded and the witnesses been exaainst his Lordshi+p, of tyranny during his government of Windsor Castle, of which he was Constable, incontinence, and suborning witnesses (of which last, one Sir Richard Brealy interested for his Lordshi+p, as my special friend, and husband of the ht, and yet but half the counsel had done on behalf of the plaintiff The question then was put for bringing in of lights to sit longer This lasted so long before it was deter the er would have been astonished at it I ad accidents, which consureat an asseh Pollard, Comptroller of the Household, died at Whitehall, and his Majesty conferred the white staff on my brother Commissioner for sick and wounded, Sir Thoentleton, Secretary of State, to the great astonishentlee of his ory Coale, and was everperson, but by nocourtier

28th November, 1666 Went to see Clarendon House, now aloodly pile to see, but had racefully After this, I waited on the Lord Chancellor, as now at Berkshi+re House, since the burning of London

2d Deceentleman-pensioner of Rotterdae's party, now not welcohted hiht, have been beheaded with Monsieur Buat, and was brother-in-law to Van Troeneral With him came Mr Gabriel Sylvius, and Mr

Williaton; M Kiviet came to examine whether the soil about the river of Thames would be proper to make clinker bricks, and to treat with me about some accommodation in order to it

9th January, 1666-67 To the Royal Society, which since the sad conflagration were invited by Mr Howard to sit at Arundel-House in the Strand, who at ation likewise bestowed on the Society that noble library which his grandfather especially, and his ancestors had collected This gentleman had so little inclination to books, that it was the preservation of them from embezzlement

24th January, 1667 Visited my Lord Clarendon, and presented o to Oxford, of which his Lordshi+p was Chancellor This evening I heard rare Italian voices, two eunuchs and one woreen chamber, next his cabinet

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29th January, 1667 To London, in order tovery early entered both in Latin and Greek, and proe, I was persuaded to trust hie, who had been his preceptor in my house some years before; but, at Oxford, under the inspection of Dr

Bathurst, President of Trinity College, where I placed hi coats[8]

[Footnote 8: In illustration of the garb which succeeded the ”long coats” out of which lads of twelve or thirteen were thus suffered to eo, and perhapsstill, upon the walls of the Swan Inn at Leatherhead in Surrey, a picture of four children, dates of birth between 1640 and 1650, of who Evelyn is represented in a coat reaching to his ankles]

15th February, 1667 My little book, in answer to Sir George Mackenzie on Solitude, was now published, entitled ”Public Ees, preferred to Solitude”[9]

[Footnote 9: Reprinted in ”Miscellaneous Writings,” pp 501-509 In a letter to Cowley, 12th March, 1666, Evelyn apologises for having written against that life which he had joined with Mr Cowley in sohi such a preference]

18th February, 1667 I was present at a nificent ball, or masque, in the theatre at the Court, where their Majesties and all the great lords and ladies danced, infinitely gallant, thevests