A CENTURY AND A HALF SINCE.
From a work just published, entitled “Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq. F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669. Decyphered by the Rev. J. Smith, from the original short-hand MS. In the Pepysian Library. And a selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Lord Braybrooke.”
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Our author takes a trip into the country:
“May 1st. Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there. Here very merry, and played with our wives at bowles. Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming to me to be a very pleasant and strong place; and we lay at the Red Lyon, where Haselrigge and Scott and Walton did hold their council, when they were here, against Lambert and the Committee of Safety.”