Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.: To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Volume 4H. G. Bohn, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... Thomas Osborne brings his family this next summer to Deptford ; Mr. Bohun sticks so close to his Spanish brother that we seldom see him ; I have rare chocolate of his presenting for you . The foul weather and storms at sea have produced ...
... Thomas Osborne brings his family this next summer to Deptford ; Mr. Bohun sticks so close to his Spanish brother that we seldom see him ; I have rare chocolate of his presenting for you . The foul weather and storms at sea have produced ...
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... Thomas Westfield , Archdeacon of St. Alban's , of Jesus College , Cambridgo . CHICHESTER . Henry King , Dean of Rochester , of Christ EXETER . Church College , Oxford . Ralph Brownrigg , Prebendary of Durham , Scholar and Fellow of ...
... Thomas Westfield , Archdeacon of St. Alban's , of Jesus College , Cambridgo . CHICHESTER . Henry King , Dean of Rochester , of Christ EXETER . Church College , Oxford . Ralph Brownrigg , Prebendary of Durham , Scholar and Fellow of ...
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... Thomas Wriothesley , Earl of Southampton . He died in 1667 , without issue . Sir Philip Hungate , of Saxton , in Yorkshire , was the firs : Baronet , so created by Charles the First . No name of The Queen to Sir Edward Nicholas ...
... Thomas Wriothesley , Earl of Southampton . He died in 1667 , without issue . Sir Philip Hungate , of Saxton , in Yorkshire , was the firs : Baronet , so created by Charles the First . No name of The Queen to Sir Edward Nicholas ...
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... Thomas Gardiner , Orlando Bridgman ; and Messrs . John Ashburnham , Jeffery Palmer , and Dr. Stewart . Montrose is represented by those who take the more fa vourable view of his character to have been secretly attached and faithful to ...
... Thomas Gardiner , Orlando Bridgman ; and Messrs . John Ashburnham , Jeffery Palmer , and Dr. Stewart . Montrose is represented by those who take the more fa vourable view of his character to have been secretly attached and faithful to ...
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... This evidently refers to the King's displeasure against Prince Rupert for the loss of Bristol . Alluded to in the preceding letter . • Thomas Glemhams ' absence ; fourthly , a warrant M 2 1645. THE NICHOLAS CORRESPONDENCE . 163.
... This evidently refers to the King's displeasure against Prince Rupert for the loss of Bristol . Alluded to in the preceding letter . • Thomas Glemhams ' absence ; fourthly , a warrant M 2 1645. THE NICHOLAS CORRESPONDENCE . 163.
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Page 180 - Do not lett them p'suade you either by force or faire p'mises ; for the first they neither dare, nor will use, and for the second, as soone as they have perverted you they will haue their end, and then they will care no more for you. I am also informed y...
Page 146 - Commissioners. which will ineuitably follow are soe plaine in view, that it is more then necessary some speedy expedient be found for their preuention. Is it not cleere to you (to me it is) that Spaine and ffrance will instantly conclude a peace : and that ffrance makes great preparations to ioyne with the Scotts (when the breach betweene you and them shall happen) whilst Spaine labours to be Protector of Ireland, and will vndoubtedly carry itt. Consider well, whether the season is not proper for...
Page 114 - In the King's hand at the bottom of this Letter : Arears. " I should thinke, if in your priuat discourses, (I nowais meane in your publique meetings,) with the London Comissioners, you would put them in mynde that they were arrant Rebelles & that their end must be damnation, ruine, and infamy, except they repented, & founde some way to free themselfes from the damnable way they ar...
Page 15 - ... The Siege of Grenada," a play so full of ideas that the most refined romance I ever read is not to compare with it ; love is made so pure, and valour so nice, that one would imagine it designed for an Utopia rather than our stage. I do not quarrel with the poet, but admire one born in the deeline of morality should be able to feign such exact virtue ; and as poetic fiction has been instructive in former ages, I wish this the same event in ours.
Page 130 - we have hitherto seen serene and quiet times under our three last sovereigns : but I must now warn you to prepare for clouds and storms. Factions arise on every side, and threaten the tranquillity of your native country. But whatever happen, do you faithfully honor and obey your prince, and adhere to the crown. I charge you never to forsake the crown, though it should hang upon a bush.
Page 225 - Germain's, dissuaded the king from that purpose ; but afterwards his majesty was prevailed upon, only to gratify him, that in that capacity he might borrow money of English merchants for his own subsistence, which he did, and nothing to the honour of his master...
Page 118 - York be relieved, and you beat the rebels' armies of both kingdoms which are before it, then, but otherwise not, I may possibly make a shift, upon the defensive, to spin out time until you come to assist me: Wherefore I...
Page 52 - Grebner's astrological book, with its observations on the life and death of Charles, it is said that on her coming, " all men were against her, for it was observed that wherever or unto whatever Country this miserable old Queen came, there followed immediately after her either the plague, war, famine, or one misfortune or another...