1 INTRODUCTION 



truth with peace ! The Lord Jesus defend his little flock, 

 and preserve this threaten'd Church and Nation. ' 



A staunch Protestant, Evelyn no longer possessed the 

 King's favour, and henceforth he received no further 

 appointment or token of royal approval although he still 

 frequented the Court at Whitehall. In August 1688 he 

 was secretly informed by the Rev. Dr. Tenison, afterwards 

 Bishop of Lincoln, of the impending invasion of the Prince 

 of Orange, and, while regularly paying his duty as a courtier, 

 he informed the lately imprisoned Archbishop and Bishops 

 of the intrigues on which the Jesuits were hard at work. And 

 subsequently My Lord of Canterbury gave me great 

 thanks for the advertisement I sent him in October, and 

 assured me they took my counsell in that particular, and 

 that it came very seasonably. ' On 1 8th December, he ' saw 

 the King take barge to Gravesend at 12 o'clock a sad 

 sight, ' on the very day that the Prince of Orange came to 

 St. James and filled Whitehall with Dutch guards. All the 

 world at once went to pay court to the Prince whose star 

 was now in the ascendant : and, of course, Evelyn went too. 

 A couple of months later he ' saw the new Queene and King 

 proclaim'd the very next day after her coming to Whitehall, 

 Wednesday 13 Feb., with greate acclamations and general! 

 good reception. ... It was believ'd that both, especially the 

 Princesse, would have shew'd some (seeming) reluctance at 

 least, of assuming her father's Crown, and some apology, 

 testifying her regret that he should by his mismanagement 

 necessitate the Nation to so extraordinary a proceeding, 

 which would have shew'd very handsomely to the world, and 

 according to the character given by her piety ; consonant 

 also to her husband's first decleration, that there was no 

 intention of deposing the King, but of succouring the 

 Nation ; but nothing of all this appear'd ; she came into 

 White-hall laughing and jolly, as to a wedding, so as to seem 



quite transported This carriage was censured by 



many. ' 



After the Restoration Evelyn's life as a courtier was 

 practically at an end, as he never quite approved the enforced 

 abdication of King James. So henceforth he spent his time, 

 without further attendance at Court or seeking after office 



