The Diary of John Evelyn, Volume 2M. W. Dunne, 1901 - Europe |
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Page 196 - in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2,000 in gold before them; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, was all in the dust.
Page 196 - 2,000 in gold before them; upon which two gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days after, was all in the dust. It was enjoined that those who put on mourning should wear it as for a father, in the most solemn manner. loth February,
Page 11 - surbated. The by-lanes and narrow streets were quite filled up with rubbish; nor could one have possibly known where he was, but by the ruins of some Church, or Hall, that had some remarkable tower, or pinnacle remaining. I then went towards Islington and
Page 182 - March, 1684. Easter day. The Bishop of Rochester preached before the King; after which his Majesty, accompanied with three of his natural sons, the Dukes of Northumberland, Richmond, and St. Alban (sons of Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Nelly), went up to the altar; the three boys entering before the King within the
Page 198 - March, 1685. She received the blessed sacrament; after which, disposing herself to suffer what God should determine to inflict, she bore the remainder of her sickness with extraordinary patience and piety, and more than ordinary resignation and blessed frame of mind. She died the i4th, to our unspeakable sorrow and affliction, and not to
Page 27 - December, 1667. I saw one Carr pilloried at Charing-cross for a libel, which was burnt before him by the hangman. 8th January, 1667-68. I saw deep and prodigious gaming at the Groom-Porter's, vast heaps of gold squandered away in a vain and profuse manner. This I looked on as a horrid vice, and unsuitable in a Christian Court.
Page 226 - with which my lady has hung a closet, that retains the smell very perfectly. There is also a certain sweet willow and other exotics: also a very fine bowling-green, meadow, pasture, and wood; in a word, all that can render a country seat delightful. There is besides a wellfurnished library in the house.
Page 325 - a year, left by the Duke of Albemarle, wherein on several trials had been spent ¿£20,000 between them. The Earl of Bath was cast on evident forgery. 2oth June, 1696. I made my Lord Cheney a visit at Chelsea, and saw those ingenious waterworks invented by Mr. Winstanley, wherein were some things very surprising and extraordinary.
Page 11 - weary and broken. Their spirits thus a little calmed, and the affright abated, they now began to repair into the suburbs about the city, where such as had friends, or opportunity, got shelter for the present to which his Majesty's proclamation also invited them. Still, the plague continuing in our parish, I could not, without danger, adventure to our church.
Page 184 - per annum in mere ground rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a city, by far too disproportionate already to the nation :* I having in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory.