Diary, Jan 1659/60 | Page 6

but of no sound judgment, and of no prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his
Own. Time"). He died July 6th, 1684, aged seventy-one.]
chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these
words:--"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a

woman," &c.; showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his
circumcision, which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret,
where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it
she burned her hand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my
accounts; then went with my wife to my father's, and in going observed
the great posts which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street.
Supt at my, father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner--[Theophila
Turner, daughter of Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir
Arthur Harris, Bart. She died 1686.]--and Madam Morrice, and supt
with us. After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our
own home.

2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of
bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to
Mr. Sheply,--[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward
Montagu]-- who was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other
places as a gift from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him
order to give me the dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to
speak with Mr. Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord,
[Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by
Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima,
daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch in
Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here applied
to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the same
character as that given to General Lambert.]
but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's
[John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at-
Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the
Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of
Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima,
daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford,
Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December 12th,
1679.]
and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to
my office, where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while
in Westminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to
London; that my Lord Fairfax

[Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. After
the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he lived in private
till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of Lord Fairfax's Poems,
preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, the following lines
occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the King was beheaded.
It is believed that they have never been printed.
"O let that day from time be bloted quitt, And beleef of 't in next age be
waved, In depest silence that act concealed might, That so the creadet
of our nation might be saved; But if the powre devine hath ordered this,
His will's the law, and our must aquiess."
These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious as
showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles I's
judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror for that
unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed out to me, that
the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, being only a poor
translation of the spirited lines of Statius (Sylvarum lib. v. cap. ii. l. 88)
"Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant Secula, nos certe taceamus;
et obruta multa Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis."
These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in his
memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after the
murder of Louis XVI.--B.]
was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he
would declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the
Council of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers;
and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many
places have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they
will be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the