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THE TIMES OF CHARLES THE SECOND.
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much towards our late troubles in England, and that he was not so old but that he might do something like it once more.

August 9th.I went to the Prince. Monsieur Crampricht[1] came to me. Whilst he was with me, the French Ambassador came in, and Crampricht went away. He seemed surprised at my having audience, and made scruple of sitting down. The same day the minister of the English church came to me, and told me of two nonconformists that were come over, Poole and Hill; one of them was come to print a book; his employment is worth one thousand guilders a year, that at Amsterdam is worth two thousand.

10th.I went to the English church, where I heard Dr. Hooper;[2] then I went to the French

  1. Minister at the Hague from the Emperor.
  2. The following passage is taken from a very interesting manuscript journal of Dr. Lake, Archdeacon of Exeter, who had been preceptor to the Princesses Mary and Anne, which is in the possession of Mr. Elliott of Egland:—January 28, 1678. "I had notice that Dr. Hooper, Chaplain to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, was designed to succeed Dr. Lloyd as Chaplain to the Princess of Orange in Holland, and Almoner, and accordingly was preparing for his journey, and Dr. Lloyd to return; who, by means of the Bishops of London and Rochester, was preparing to wait on her into Holland: whilst Dr. Doughty and myself, who had been her Highness's Chaplains and Tutors many years, were for some, I know not what