d the other I have forgot; which still do make me think
of the greatness of this late turne, and what people will do to-morrow
against what they all, thro' profit or fear, did promise and practise
this day."

A note to this passage in the _Diary_ (vol. i. p. 236., 3rd edit.) supplies
the defective memory of Pepys, by informing us that the last was an "Act
for subscribing the Engagement;" and adds, on the same day there had been
burnt by the hangman, at Westminster Hall, the "Act for erecting a High
Court of Justice for trying and judging Charles Stuart." They seem to have
been just then cleansing out the Augean stable of the Commonwealth: for it
is added, "two more acts" were similarly burnt next day.

In _A Letter to a Clergyman, relating to his Sermon on the 30th Jan._, by a
Lover of Truth, 1746, the lay author (one Coade, I believe), inveighing
against high churchmen, reminds the preacher that he--

"Was pleased to dress up the principles of the Presbyterians in a
frightful shape; but let me tell you, Sir, in my turn, that the
principles of your party have been burnt, not by a rude and lawless
rabble, but by the common hangman, in broad day-light, before the Royal
Exchange in London, and by authority of Parliament. Perhaps," he
continues, "you never heard of this contemptuous treatment of the
Oxford principles, and therefore I will give it you from the
Parliamentary Records:--'Anno Domini 1710. The House of Lords, taking
into consideration the judgment and decree of the University of Oxford,
passed in their Convocation July 21, 1683,--it was resolved by the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the said
judgment and decree contains in it several positions contrary to the
Constitution of this kingdom, and destructive to the Protestant
Succession as by law established. And it was thereupon ordered, by the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the said
judgment and decree shall be burnt by the hands of the common hangman
before the Royal {426} Exchange, between hours of twelve and one, on
Monday the 17th March, in the presence of the Lord Mayor of the City of
London,' &c."

Doleman's _Conference about the next Succession to the Crown of England_,
reprinted at N. with licence, in 1681, was, in 1683, condemned by the
University of Oxford, and burnt by the common hangman.

In the above examp