cold trembling body, being all this time stark naked, I fell twice in a sounding trance: which they again refreshed with a little wine and two warm eggs, not for charity done, but that I should be reserved to future punishment; and if it were not too truly known these sufferings to be of truth, it would almost seem incredible to many, that a man being brought so low, with starving hunger, and extreme cruelties, could have subsisted any longer reserving life.

And now at last they charged my broken legs with my former eye frighting irons, and done, I was lamentably carried on their arms to the coach, being after midnight, and secretly transported to my former dungeon without any knowledge of the town, save only these lawless and merciless tormentors: where, when come, I was laid with my head and heels alike high, on my former stones.

The latter end of this woeful night poor mourning Hazier the Turk was set to keep me, and on the morrow, the governor entered my room threatening me still with more tortures to confess, and so he caused he every morning long before day, his coach to be rumbled at his gate, and about me where I lay, a great noise of tongues, and opening of doors: and all this they did of purpose to affright and distract me, and to make me believe I was going to be racked again, to make me confess an untruth; and still thus they continued, every day of five days till Christmas.

Upon Christmas Day, Mariana the ladies' gentlewoman got permission to visit me, and with her licence, she brought abundance of tears, presenting me also with a dish of honey and sugar, some confections and raisins in a great plenty to my no small comfort, besides using many sweet speeches for consolations sake.

She gone, and the next morning of St Johns day come, long ere day the town was in arms, the bells ringing backward, the people shouting, and drums beating; whereat my soul was overjoyed, thinking that the Moors had seized upon all and in the afternoon the Turk coming to me with bread and water, being by chance the second day, I asked him what

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the fray was? who replied, "Be of good courage, I hope in God and Mahomet, that you and I ere long shall be set at liberty; for your countrymen, the English armado, and mine the Moors, are joined together, and coming to sack Malago: and, this morning, post came from Alicant to premonish the Governor thereof: whereupon he and the town have instantly pulled down all the cooper-shops and dwelling houses that were builded without by the shore side, adjoining to the towns wall: but yet, said he, it is no matter, the town may easily be surprised, and I hope we shall be merry in Algier, for there is above a hundred sail seen coming hither "; and therewith kissing my cheek, he kindly left me.

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LUCY HUTCHINSON

MRS HUTCHInson of OwTHORPE

HE was a lady of as noble family as any in the county, of an incomparable shape and beauty, embellished with the best education those days afforded; and above all had such a generous virtue joined with attractive sweetness, that she captivated the hearts of all that knew her. She was pious, liberal, courteous, patient, kind, above an ordinary degree, ingenuous to all things she would apply herself to; and notwithstanding she had had her education at court, was delighted in her own country habitation, and managed all her family affairs better than any of the homespun housewives, that had been brought up to nothing else. She was a most affectionate wife, a great lover of her father's house, showing that true honour to parents is the leading virtue, which seldom wants the concomitancy of all the rest of honour's train. She was a wise and bountiful mistress in her family, a blessing to her tenants and neighbourhood, and had an indulgent tenderness to her infants; but death veiled all her mortal glories in the 26th year of her age. The stories I have received of her have been but scanty epitaphs of those things which were

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worthy of a large chronicle, and a better recorder than I can be; I shall therefore draw again the sable curtain before that image which I have ventured to look at a little, but dare not undertake to discover to others. One that was present at her death told me that she had an admirable voice, and skill to manage it; and that she went away singing a psalm, which this maid apprehended she sung with so much more than usual sweetness, as if her soul had been already ascended into the celestial choir.

SIR HENRY SLINGSBY, 1645

DIARY

WHILE the King stayed at Raglan, he sent to his nephew

Prince Rupert, who was then at Bristol, to come over the water and meet him at Mr Moore's house, a little distant from the Black Rock; having it once in his intention to go to Bristol . but upon their meeting he altered of his purpose, and returned that night to Raglan again; yet stayed he not there, but removed back to Hereford; and hearing of Poyntz' advance, he gives orders to have a rendezvous 8 miles off upon a mountain, thinking we should have marched forwards; but when we were drawn up he commands us to march directly back, and quarter beyond Hereford; Poyntz having his intelligence abroad, and understanding where he meant to be, marched in the night to be with us; but being thus defeated, we gained so much of him by this, and by the ways we took through the almost unaccessable mountains of Wales, that we heard no more of him, nor did he trouble our march till we got to Chester; and though he troubled us not, yet found we both loss and trouble in our passage; loss in our horses, many of them tiring, so that the troopers were fain to forsake them.

In our quarters we had little accommodation; but in all the places we came to, the best at old Radnor, where the

King lay in a poor low chamber, and my Lord of Lindsay and others, by the kitchen fire on hay; no better were we accommodated for victuals; which makes me remember this passage; when the King was at his supper eating a pullet and a piece of cheese, the room without was full, but the men's stomachs empty for want of meat; the goodwife troubled with continual calling upon her for victuals, and having, it seems, but that one cheese, comes into the room where the King was, and very soberly asks if the King had done with the cheese, for the gentlemen without desired it.

But the best was, we never tarried long in any place, and therefore might the more willingly endure one night's hardship, in hopes the next night might be better. And thus we continued our march.

JOHN EVELYN

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WAS borne at Wotton, in the county of Surrey, 31 Oct., 1620, after my Father had been married about seven yeares, and my Mother had borne him two daughters and one sonn, viz. Eliza, 28 Nov., 1614: Jane, 16 Feb., 1615; George, 18 June, 1617. They had another sonn after me, Richard, born 4 Dec., 1622.

My Father, named Richard, was of a sanguine complexion, mixed with a dash of choler: his haire inclining to light, which tho' very thick became hoary by that time he was 30 yeares of age; it was somewhat curled towards the extremity; his beard, which he wore a little picked, as the mode was, of a brownish colour, and so continued to the last, save that it was somewhat mingled with grey haires about his cheekes: which, with his countenance, was cleare, and fresh colour'd, his eyes quick and piercing, an ample forehead, manly aspect; low of stature, but very strong. So exact and temperate, that I haue heard he had never been surprised by excesse, being ascetic and sparing. His wisdom was greate, his judgment

acute; of solid discourse, affable, humble, and in nothing affected; of a thriving, neate, silent, and methodical genius; discreetly severe, yet liberal on all just occasions, to his children, strangers, and servants; a lover of hospitality; of a singular and Christian moderation in all his actions; a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum; he served his Country as High Sheriff for Surrey and Sussex together. He was a studious decliner of honours and titles, being already in that esteem with his country that they could have added little to him beside their burden. He was a person of that rare conversation, that upon frequent recollection, and calling to mind passages of his life and discourse, I could never charge him with the least passion or inadvertance. His estate was esteem'd about £4,000 per ann. well wooded and full of timber.

My Mother's name was Elianor, sole daughter and heyresse of John Standsfield Esq.; of an ancient and honorable family (though now extinct) in Shropshire, by his wife Elianor Comber of a good and well knowne house in Sussex. She was of proper personage; of a browne complexion; her eyes and haire of a lovely black; of constitution inclyned to a religious melancholy, or pious sadnesse; of a rare memory and most exemplary life; for œconomie and prudence esteemed one of the most conspicuous in her Country.

So much touching my parents; nor was it reasonable I should speake lesse of them to whom I owe so much.

SAMUEL PEPYS

30th May, 1668. Up and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my periwig in good order at 20s. a year, I am like to go very spruce, more than I used to do. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner, and so to the King's playhouse, and there saw Philaster, where it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since I was a boy, Arethusa, the part