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[Illustration: _CHARLES I. IN PRISON_

_Photogravure after De La Roche_]




  THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN

  EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS BY
  WILLIAM BRAY
  Fellow of the Antiquarian Society

  IN TWO VOLUMES

  VOL. I

  WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
  BY THE EDITOR

  AND A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY
  RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D.
  Of the British Museum

  M. WALTER DUNNE, PUBLISHER
  WASHINGTON & LONDON




  COPYRIGHT, 1901,
  BY
  M. WALTER DUNNE,
  PUBLISHER




ILLUSTRATIONS


VOLUME I.

  CHARLES I. IN PRISON                                    _Frontispiece_
  Photogravure after De La Roche.

  LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL TAKING LEAVE OF HIS CHILDREN, 1683           180
  Photogravure after a painting by Bridges.

  OLIVER CROMWELL DICTATING TO JOHN MILTON                          284
  The letter to the Duke of Savoy to stop the persecution
  of the Protestants of Piedmont, 1655.
  Photogravure from an engraving by Sartain after Newenham.


VOLUME II.

  THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM                                  _Frontispiece_
  From an old painting.

  NELL GWYNNE                                                        64
  Photogravure after Sir Peter Lely.




EVELYN'S DIARY


The two chief diarists of the age of Charles the Second are, _mutatis
mutandis_, not ill characterized by the remark of a wicked wit upon the
brothers Austin. "John Austin," it was said, "served God and died poor:
Charles Austin served the devil, and died rich. Both were clever fellows.
Charles was much the cleverer of the