illed some Quakers especially, while they took
all patiently. Hence arose two things of great remark. The
Lieutenancy, having got orders to their mind, pick out Hays and
Jekill, the innocentist of the whole party, to show their power on.
They offer them illegal bonds of five thousand pounds a man, which
if they would not enter into, they must go to prison. So they were
committed, and at last (but it is a very long story) got free. Some
friends engaged for them. The other was the tryal of Pen and Mead,
quakers, at the Old Baily. The jury not finding them guilty, as the
Recorder and Mayor would have had them, they were kept without meat
or drink some three days, till almost starved, but would not alter
their verdict; so fined and imprisoned. There is a book out which
relates all the passages, which were very pertinent, of the
prisoners, but prodigiously barbarous by the Mayor and Recorder. The
Recorder, among the rest, commended the Spanish Inquisition, saying
it would never be well till we had something like it. The King had
occasion for sixty thousand pounds. Sent to borrow it of the city.
Sterlin, Robinson, and all the rest of that faction, were at it many
a week, and could not get above ten thousand. The fanatics under
persecution, served his Majesty. The other party, both in court and
city, would have prevented it. But the King protested mony would be
acceptable. So the King patched up, out of the Chamber, and other
ways, twenty thousand pounds. The fanatics, of all sorts, forty
thousand. The King, though against many of his council, would have
the Parliament sit this twenty-fourth of October. He, and the Keeper
spoke of nothing but to have mony. Some one million three hundred
thousand pounds, to pay off the debts at interest; and eight hundred
thousand for a brave navy next Spring. Both speeches forbid to be
printed, for the King said very little, and the Keeper, it was
thought, too much in his politic simple discourse of foreign
affairs. The House was thin and obsequious. They voted at first they
would supply him according to his occasions, _Nemine_, as it was
remarked, _contradicente_; but few affirmatives, rather a silence as
of men ashamed and unwilling. Sir R. Howard, Seymour, Temple, Car,
and Hollis, openly took leave of their former party, and fell to
head the King's busyness. There is like to be a terrible