...came into England, which made her universally beloved. Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day. 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 Mazarine, &c., a French...

...well-known passage in John Evelyn's Diary : I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profanenes», gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this d»y ee'nuight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...amusements of the evening, often disgraced by open licentiousness. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of." This was at the close of the sovereign's wretched career. " Six days after," adds the writer,...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetful ness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...

...especially Portsmouth, and added, ' Let not poor Nelly starve.'" A page or two further, Evelyn remarks, " I can never forget • the inexpressible luxury and...Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying- with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French...

...of the King's death, Mr. Evelyn calls to mind a scene which he had witnessed not many days before. "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines. . . . whilst about 20 of the grate courtiers,...

...total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines — Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, etc. ; a French boy singing love songs, in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the greate...

...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines — Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,...