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      Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.

      [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See

       March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again

       until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the

       Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to

       his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the

       breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the

       cutting for the stone: “It has been my calamity for much the

       greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil

       so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and

       with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that

       the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone,

       without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more

       than 40 years’ perfect cure, break out again.” At the post-mortem

       examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces,

       was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.]

      I lived in Axe Yard,

      [Pepys’s house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster;

       it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he

       should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street

       stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great

       messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called “The

       Axe,” and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII—B.]

      having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. My wife … gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year. … [the hope was belied.]

      [Ed. note: … are used to denote censored passages]

      The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being disturbed by my Lord Lambert,

      [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title

       Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the

       republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the

       parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

       In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted

       as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland.

       After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland

       worth £1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to

       Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission.

       After Cromwell’s death he tried to set up a military government.

       The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers,

       October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the

       Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and

       he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he

       was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life

       was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of

       his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be

       incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled “Plimmouth

       Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684” This will be seen from the

       following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in “Notes and Queries,”

       “1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas,

       at the entrance of Plymouth harbour].” “1683 Easter day Lambert

       that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had

       been prisoner 15 years and more.”]

      was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to yield. Lawson

      [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as

       a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished

       himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily

       closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral

       under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the “London” in the

       squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England. He was mortally

       wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He

       must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of

       Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II,

       July 6th, 1665.]

      lies still in the river, and Monk—[George Monk, born 1608, created Duke of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, 1676.]—is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members

      [“The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at

       Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had

       forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by

       the names of secluded members.”—Burnet’s Hist. of his Own Time,

       book i.]

      having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it was denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people will be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. Downing master of my office.

      [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the

       Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of

       Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem,

       Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is

       supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went

       to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard

       College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel

       Okey’s chaplain before he entered into

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