A Brief
Historical Relation
&c.
by Narcissus Luttrell
1679 - December
In which Boston Burns and Dryden is Sett Upon
December: Letters from New England inform us of the great fire that has lately happened at Boston in New England, haveing consumed above two hundred houses, and severall ships and barks that lay near the dock, the tide being then out: tis thought to have been done on purpose.
His majestie hearing of the arrival of the duke of Monmouth, hath signified his displeasure thereof, by refusing to see him, and forbidding him to come within the verge of the court; yet the people were well pleas'd at his comeing, testifyed by their ringing of bells and makeing bonefires at night.
The beginning of this month, the two cheif justices, the lord Shaftsbury, Huntington Gray and others dined with the lord mayor, where they drank very plentifully; and some words were spoken about the acquittall of sir George Wakeman, which occasioned much heat, Scrogs taking it as a reflection on him.
Sir Phillip Lloyd, sometime since suspended from his place as clerk of councill, is now again restored.
The lord Francis, youngest son to the duke of Monmouth, is lately dead, and buried at Westminster.
Mr. Hobbs of Malmsbury died the middle of this month, being 92 years old; he was a very learned man, but broacht severall pernicious principles destructive to religion and government.
About the same time Mr. John Dryden was sett on in Covent Garden in the evening by three fellowes, who beat him very severely, and on peoples comeing in they run away: 'tis thought to be done by order of the dutchesse of Portsmouth, she being abused in a late libell called an Essay upon satyr, of which Mr. Dryden is suspected to be the author.
Severall persons have promoted petitions for the sitting of the parliament; which were dasht again with the comeing out of the proclamation against petitions, but are now carried on more earnestly then before.
His majestie hearing of the arrival of the duke of Monmouth, hath signified his displeasure thereof, by refusing to see him, and forbidding him to come within the verge of the court; yet the people were well pleas'd at his comeing, testifyed by their ringing of bells and makeing bonefires at night.
The beginning of this month, the two cheif justices, the lord Shaftsbury, Huntington Gray and others dined with the lord mayor, where they drank very plentifully; and some words were spoken about the acquittall of sir George Wakeman, which occasioned much heat, Scrogs taking it as a reflection on him.
Sir Phillip Lloyd, sometime since suspended from his place as clerk of councill, is now again restored.
The lord Francis, youngest son to the duke of Monmouth, is lately dead, and buried at Westminster.
Mr. Hobbs of Malmsbury died the middle of this month, being 92 years old; he was a very learned man, but broacht severall pernicious principles destructive to religion and government.
About the same time Mr. John Dryden was sett on in Covent Garden in the evening by three fellowes, who beat him very severely, and on peoples comeing in they run away: 'tis thought to be done by order of the dutchesse of Portsmouth, she being abused in a late libell called an Essay upon satyr, of which Mr. Dryden is suspected to be the author.
Severall persons have promoted petitions for the sitting of the parliament; which were dasht again with the comeing out of the proclamation against petitions, but are now carried on more earnestly then before.
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