...inexpressible luxury and prophanenesse, gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witnesse of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines — Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,...

...records the scene at Whitehall, a week before the king's decease : — " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total neglectfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this day sennight I was witness of, the king...

...have but lightly touched the depravity of the King and his Court. "I can never forget," writes Evelyn, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love- songs in that glorious gallery, whilst the How truly English these lines, are they not ? ! courtiers...

...but lightly touched the depravity of the King and his Court. " I can never forget," writes Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst the courtiers were at basset, with a bank of at least 2,000/....

...Evelyn describes it at a later time. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total...this day se.nnight I was witness of; the King sitting nnd toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland [Chtffcmainc], Mazarin, &n. A French boy singing...

...scene in which he was engaged well illustrates his character. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...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...

...described by Evelyn, as he saw them shortly before the death of Charles : — " I can never forgut the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulncss of Goil (it being Sunday eveninc). which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king...

...Charles II. was very bad. The following is a scene as described by Evelyn:— " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...day se'nnight I was witness of. The King, sitting . . . with Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarene, a French boy, singing low songs in that glorious gallery,...

...Church. On the very evening of the Sunday that he was consecrated (Jan. 25th, 1685), says Evelyn, " I was witness of the King, sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, while about twenty of...

...records the scene at Whitehall, a week before the king's decease : — "I can never forget," he says, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total neglectfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this day sennight I was witness of, the king...