148 LETTER FROM CLERK TO LONG PARLIAMENT 



5th February (Lord's Day) 1660. 

 " In the Court of Wards I saw the three Lords Com- 

 missioners sitting upon some action where Mr Scobell 

 was concerned, and my Lord Fountain took him up 

 very roughly about some things he had said." 



Note : Sir Thomas Widdrington and Serjeants Thomas 

 Tyrrel and John Fountain had just been appointed Lords 

 Commissioners of the Great Seal. 



2Srd November 1663. 

 "To St. Paul's Churchyard, and there bespoke 'Rush- 

 worth's Collections,' and ' Scobell's Acts of the Long 

 Parliamhnt,' etc., which I will make the King pay 

 for as to the Office, and so I do not break my vow 

 at all": i.e. apparently some vow he had made not to 

 buy any more books for some time to come. These 

 were to be " charged to the Office " ! 



These are two more notices by Pepys of Scobell, who must 

 have died some time previously. 



12th December 1663. 



" Luellin tells n>e that W. Symons's wife is dead, for 



which I am sorry, she beiu;; a good woman, and 



tells me an odd story of her saying before her 



death, being in good sense, that there stood her 

 uncle Scobell." 



8th January 166 J/.. 

 "He (i.e. W. Symons) made good to me the story which 

 Luellin did tell me the other day, of his wife upon 

 her death-bed ; how she dreamt of her uncle Scobell, 

 and did foretell, from some discourse she had with 

 him, that she should die four days hence, and not 

 sooner, and did all along say so, and did so." 



And thus Scobell disappears from the pages of the famous 

 Diary. It is to be hoped, for the sake of the relations who 

 survived him, that this was the last, as it seems to have 

 been the first, of his return visits. 



