[154] Trinity Sunday, 1643, was June 4.
[155] Subst. for 'was faine' <to converse>.
[156] Dupl. with 'renewed' <acquaintance>.
[157] i.e. though my friends were not debauchees, yet their conversation was not improving. For the low tone which grew up among Oxford scholars from contact with the garrison, see Clark's Wood's Life and Times, i. 129.
[158] Subst for 'like.'
[159] 'Dew' is subst. for 'and sp<irit>.'
[160] i.e. my character throughout my life was that I discharged the function of a whetstone.
[161] Perhaps scil. 'others.' He set other people to work to record matters and so rescued them from oblivion.
[162] The people he set to work.
[163] i.e. her portion was to be more than £2000, and her husband was to be guardian of her brother's estate (during minority?) which was worth £1000 a year.