[6] Long afterward, Evelyn was in the habit of paying great respect to his old teacher.
[7] Evelyn should have said "till twenty years after," not thirty. Coffee was introduced into England, and coffee-houses set up, in 1658.
[8] On the 15th of April Strafford made his eloquent defense, which it seems to have been Evelyn's good fortune to be present at. And here the reader may remark the fact, not without significance, that between the entries on this page of the Diary which relate to Lord Strafford, the young Prince of Orange came over to make love to the Princess Royal, then twelve years old; and that the marriage was subsequently celebrated amid extraordinary Court rejoicings and festivities, in which the King took a prominent part, during the short interval which elapsed between the sentence and execution of the King's great and unfortunate minister.
[9] His own portrait.
[10] In such manner Evelyn refers to the tax of Ship-money. But compare this remarkable passage, now first printed from the original, with the tone in which, eight years later, he spoke of the only chance by which monarchy in England might be saved; namely, that of "doing nothing as to government but what shall be approved by the old way of a free parliament, and the known laws of the land."
[11] The meaning of this expression is, that they should be in time to witness the siege.
[12] Westminster hall used to be so in Term time, and during the sitting of Parliament, as late as the beginning of the reign of George III.
[13] This notice, slipped by accident into the entries which refer to Antwerp, belongs to those of Bruges.
[14] That of Charles V.
[15] A. D. 630.