Diary, Jan 1659/60 | Page 5

seen from the following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J.
King, in "Notes and Queries," "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to
this island [St. Nicholas, at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]." "1683

Easter day Lambert that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth
Island where he had been prisoner 15 years and more."]
was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to
yield. Lawson
[Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as a
common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished himself
during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily closed with the
design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral under the Earl of
Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the squadron which
conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally wounded in the
action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He must not be
confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of Brough Hall, in
Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, July 6th, 1665.]
lies still in the river, and Monk--[George Monk, born 1608, created
Duke of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died
January 3rd, 1676.]--is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord
Lambert is not yet come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he
will without being forced to it. The new Common Council of the City
do speak very high; and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to
acquaint him with their desires for a free and full Parliament, which is
at present the desires, and the hopes, and expectation of all.
Twenty-two of the old secluded members
["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at
Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had
forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by
the names of secluded members."--Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time,
book i.]
having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it
was denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people
will be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition very
handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods
of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain.
Mr. Downing master of my office.
[George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the
Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of
Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem,
Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is

supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went
to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard
College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel
Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a Wood
(who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute Downing,
vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and changes:
skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. He was sent
by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At the Restoration,
he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and elected M.P. for
Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming Secretary to the Treasury and
Commissioner of the Customs, he was in 1663 created a Baronet of
East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was again sent Ambassador to
Holland. His grandson of the same name, who died in 1749, was the
founder of Downing College, Cambridge. The title became extinct in
1764, upon the decease of Sir John Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male
of the family. Sir George Downing's character will be found in Lord
Clarendon's "Life," vol. iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat
of a mixed kind. He died in July, 1684.]

Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I
rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other,
clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's
[Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge,
and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to
read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament was
most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn
relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with
soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife being
among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in Evelyn's
Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's College upon the
ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that Nonconformist divine a
handsome annuity during his life. He was a great controversialist, and a
man of great reading. Burnet says he "was a very honest sincere man,