...the manner in which he passed his last Sabbath on earth, is not from the pen of an adversary : — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as if it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day sen'night I was witness...

...pension ; and Evelyn names her again on the Sunday evening before the death of Charles II., in 1684. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarin ; a French...

...described by Evelyn in the following striking passage, written the night after the King's death: — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a...

...in their * Evelyn, certainly no Whig, gives the following description of a Sunday at court : — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...were total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday, which this day sc'cuight I was witness of. The king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth,...

...in their * Evelyn, certainly no Whig, gives the following deseription of a Sunday at court : — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forget fulness of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'enight I was witness of. The king sitting...

...account of his daughter's usual occupations and habits redeems the age. " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this night se'nnight I was witness of. The King sitting and toying with his favourites, Portsmouth, Cleveland...

...But even these entries yield in poignancy of human interest to that other of the death of Charles ii: i can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfuiness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight l was witness of, the King...

...presents an awful lesson. He says, " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se 'night I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his...

...as it were total forgctfulncss of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'ennight I was witness of. The king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine. A French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, while about seventy of the great courtiers,...

...but graphic picture of the Court : " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total...Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French...