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dry and conserve them in their natural; six times printed in 

 France and once in Holland. An accomplished piece, first 

 written by N. de Bonnefons, and now transplanted into English 

 by Philocepos. 



It must have gratified his royalist feelings when, on 

 22 Oct. 1658, he c saw ye superb funerall of ye Protector. ' 

 He remarks that it was the joyfullest funerall I ever saw, 

 for there were none that cried but dogs, which the soldiers 

 hooted away with a barbarous noise, drinking and taking 

 tobacco in the streets as they went. ' Not long after this, on 

 25 April 1659, he notices *a wonderfull and suddaine change 

 in ye face of ye publiq : ye new Protector Richard slighted, 

 several pretenders and parties strive for the government : 

 all anarchy and confusion ; Lord have mercy on us ! ' For 

 six months things drifted on, till on 1 1 Oct. ' the Armie 

 now turn'd out the Parliament. We had now no govern- 

 ment in the nation ; all in confusion ; no magistrate either 

 own'd or pretended, but ye soldiers, and they not agreed. 

 God almighty have mercy on and settle us ! ' 



Evelyn apparently now thought the time ripe for him to 

 venture ; hence, during 1659, he published A Character of 

 England as it was lately presented in a Letter to a Noble Man of 

 France, and also An Apology for the Royal Party, written in a 

 Letter to a person of the late Council of State, by a Lover of Peace 

 and of his Country. With a Touch at the Pretended " Plea for 

 the Army. " Of the latter he remarks in his Diary : < Nov. 

 yth. was publish'd my bold " Apoligie for the King " in this 

 time of danger, when it was capital to speake or write in 

 favour of him. It was twice printed, so universaly it took. ' 

 Encouraged by the success of this work, he began to intrigue 

 with Colonel Morley, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Fay, 

 Governor of Portsmouth, in the interest of the exiled 

 Charles ; but Morley shrank from declaring for the King, 

 and General Monk returning from Scotland to London, 

 broke down the gates of the city, c marches to White-hall, 

 dissipates that nest of robbers, and convenes the old 

 Parliament, the Rump Parliament (so called as retaining 

 some few rotten members of ye other) being dissolved ; 

 and for joy whereoff were many thousands of rumps roast- 

 ed publiqly in ye streets at the bonfires this night, with 



