...himself, can scarcely be conceived. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight 1 was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,...

...Sunday preceding. " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'night I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...in his Memoirs, writing on 6th Feb. 1685, the day when James II was proclaimed, says, " I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, wliilst about...

...extract from " Evelyn's Diary :"— I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty...

...scene in which he was engaged well illustrates his character. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se'nnight I was witness of— the king sitting and toying with...

...from " Evelyn's Diary :" — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day sc'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...in his Memoirs, writing on 6th Feb. 1685, the day when James II was proclaimed, says, " I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulncss of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king...

...was reduced, by the touch of death, to an equality with the beggar, " I can never forget," says he, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of the great courtiers...

...which his pen has so vividly described. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine &c., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about...

...came into England, which made her universally beloved. Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day. I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty...