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Rh question but in a little time she should see Westminster Abbey become a convent of Benedictines, and the Temple stockt with Fryars. He likewise affirmed that Mrs. Collier had desired him to cast the King's nativity, when His Majesty was sick the last summer at Windsor; and that, upon his refusing to meddle in a matter of such consequence, she parted very much dissatisfied, telling him she would inform herself elsewhere.

Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedlow, two of the King's evidences, have given particulars to the Council against the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. One of them I am told is, that his Lordship is frequently drunk with prohibited wines, which you will imagine a very notorious crime, since it is a sin against God, King, and Parliament. I shall endeavour to furnish you with a copy of the Articles by the next, and always to behave myself as one who is most absolutely

This day the Court of Aldermen and Common Council met at Guildhall, where it was moved that a petition might be presented to His Majesty for calling a Parliament, but it was carried in the negative by six voices; there being 101 against the petition, 96 for it.