The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2). Evelyn John
shall be approved by the old way of a free parliament, and the known laws of the land."
11
The meaning of this expression is, that they should be in time to witness the siege.
12
Westminster hall used to be so in Term time, and during the sitting of Parliament, as late as the beginning of the reign of George III.
13
This notice, slipped by accident into the entries which refer to Antwerp, belongs to those of Bruges.
14
That of Charles V.
15
A. D. 630.
16
Or Sheba.
17
Dauphin.
18
In the first and second editions of the "Diary" many trifling personal details, such as this mention of the author having sent his own picture in water colors to his sister, were omitted. It is not necessary to point them out in detail. They are always of this personal character; as, among other examples, the mention of the wet weather preventing the diarist from stirring out, and that of his coming weary to his lodgings.