...well-known passage in John Evelyn's Diary : I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profanenes», gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this d»y ee'nuight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...amusements of the evening, often disgraced by open licentiousness. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of." This was at the close of the sovereign's wretched career. " Six days after," adds the writer, " was...

...dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this [July, day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and...with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetful ness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...

...of the King's death, Mr. Evelyn calls to mind a scene which he had witnessed not many days before. "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...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...— the King sitting and toying with his concubines. . . . whilst about 20 of the grate courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large...

...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...

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