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plaints of the Professors, grounded on a clause in he will of Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder. This afternoon, the Queen-Mother, with the of St. Albans1 and many great ladies and s, was pleased to honour my poor villa with resence, and to accept of a collation. She s exceedingly pleased, and staid till very late in the evening.

15th August. Came my Lord Chancellor (the Earl of Clarendon) and his lady, his purse and mace borne before him, to visit me. They were likewise collationed with us, and were very merry. They had all been our old acquaintance in exile, and indeed this great person had ever been my friend. His son, Lord Cornbury, was here, too.

17th. Being the Sunday when the Common Prayer-Book, reformed and ordered to be used for the future, was appointed to be read, and the solemn League and Covenant to be abjured by all the incumbents of England under penalty of losing their livings; our vicar read it this morning.

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20th. There were strong guards in the city this day, apprehending some tumults, many of the Presbyterian ministers not conforming. I dined with the Vice-Chamberlain, and then went to see the Queen-Mother, who was pleased to give me many thanks for the entertainment she received at my house, when she recounted to me many observable stories of the sagacity of some dogs she formerly had.

21st. I was admitted and then sworn one of the Council of the Royal Society, being nominated in

1 [See ante, p. 149.]

2 [Henry Hyde, Lord Cornbury, 1638-1709, afterwards second Earl of Clarendon (see post, under 17th October, 1664).]

3 [A great many of them resigned their livings in consequence.]

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