[Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely.  He had continued to read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him.  Evelyn relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife being among them.  There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in Evelyn’s Diary.  When he obtained the mastership of St. John’s College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life.  He was a great controversialist, and a man of great reading.  Burnet says he “was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no prudence in affairs” ("Hist. of his Own.  Time").  He died July 6th, 1684, aged seventy-one.]

chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these words:—­“That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman,” &c.; showing, that, by “made under the law,” is meant his circumcision, which is solemnized this day.  Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand.  I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then went with my wife to my father’s, and in going observed the great posts which the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street.  Supt at my, father’s, where in came Mrs. The.  Turner—­[Theophila Turner, daughter of Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart.  She died 1686.]—­and Madam Morrice, and supt with us.  After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our own home.

2nd.  In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains.  Then I went to Mr. Sheply,—­[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]—­who was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me the dozen of bottles.  Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord,

[Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, daughter of John Crew of Stene.  He died in action against the Dutch in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672.  The title of “My Lord” here applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the same character as that given to General Lambert.]

but missed of him, he being abroad.  Then I went to Mr. Crew’s