New Discovery of the Prelate’s Tyranny, p. 224.
1637. There came in my tyme to the college, Oxford, one Nathaniel Conopios, out of Greece; he was the first I ever saw drink coffee, which custom came not into England till thirty years after.
1640. Found my father at Bathe extraordinary weake; I returned home with him in his litter.
1652. Having been robbed by two cutthroats near Bromley, I rode on to London, and got 500 tickets printed.
The robber refusing to plead, was pressed to death.
1654. May. Spring Garden till now had been the usual rendezvous for the ladys and gallants at this season. I now observed how the women began to paint themselves, formerly a most ignominious thing, and only used by prostitutes.
Evelyn.
1660. Jan. 16. I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell just under my window, and cried “Past one of the clock, and a cold frosty window morning.”
When friends parted, they said, “God be with you.”