Back to
Brampton.
15th. Up by three o'clock this morning, and rode to Cambridge to
King's College chappel, where I found the scholars in their
surplices at the service with the organs, which is a strange
sight to what it used in my time to be here. I rode to
Impington, where I found my old uncle [Talbot Pepys.] sitting
all alone, like a man out of the world: he can hardly see; but
all things else he do pretty livelyly.
22nd. I come to Hatfield before twelve o'clock, and walked all
alone to the Vineyard, which is now a very beautiful place again;
and coming back I met with Mr. Looker, my Lord's gardener, (a
friend of Mr. Eglin's) who showed me the house, the chappel with
brave pictures, and, above all, the gardens, such as I never saw
in all my life; nor so good flowers, nor so great gooseburys, as
big as nutmegs. To horse again, and with much ado got to London.
26th. Mr. Hill of Cambridge tells me, that yesterday put a
change to the whole state of England as to the Church; for the
King now would be forced to favour Presbytery, or that the City
would leave him: but I heed not what he says, though upon
enquiry I do find that things in the Parliament are in a great
disorder.
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