[John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow him to act.  He accompanied Charles ii. when he was obliged to fly from England.  Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, September 28th, 1663.  He was tender to the Nonconformists, and Baxter wrote of him, “O that they were all such!” Author of “Microcosmography.”  Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow.  Charles ii. had the highest esteem for him.]

and Mr. Hollis,

[Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at Houghton, Notts, in 1597.  He was one of the five members charged with high treason by Charles I. in 1641.  He was a Presbyterian, and one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles ii. at the Hague.  Sir William Lower, in his “Relation,” 1660, writes:  “All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London were joined.”  He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on the occasion of the coronation of Charles ii.]

the King’s Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough,

[Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the royal cause during the Civil Wars.  He was born in London, and educated at St. Paul’s School and Caius College, Cambridge.  He was ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford.  He entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship.  He was knighted by Charles ii. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness.  He was also physician to James ii. and to William iii., and died February 26th, 1693-4.]

Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox

[Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in Salisbury Cathedral.  He was the first person to announce the death of Cromwell to Charles ii., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces.  He was knighted in 1665.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716.  His sons Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and Lord Holland.]

(both very fine gentlemen), the King’s servants, where we had brave discourse.  Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a gentleman of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry stories:  one, how he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal, about a Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was