great expressions of great content; and after he had given an account
of his past employment, he was by the King recommended to the York
party, who received him very kindly, and gave him both the broad seal
and signet to keep.

They several times pressed him to take the Covenant, but he never did,
but followed his business so close, with such diligence and temper,
that he was well beloved on all sides, and they reposed great trust in
him. When he went out of Holland, he wrote to me to arm myself with
patience in his absence, and likewise that I would not expect many
letters as was his custom, for that was now impossible; but he hoped,
that when we did meet again, it would be happy and of long
continuance, and bade me trust God with him, as he did me, in whose
mercy he hoped, being upon that duty he was obliged to, with a
thousand kind expressions.

But God knows how great a surprise this me, being great with child,
and two children with me not in the best condition to maintain them,
and in daily fears of your father upon the private account of
animosities amongst themselves in Scotland; but I did what I could to
arm myself, and was kindly visited both by my relations and friends.

About this time my cousin Evelyn's wife [Footnote: Evelyn frequently
mentions his "cousin Richard Fanshawe," in his Diary. On the 6th of
February, 1651-2, he says, "I went to visit my cousin Richard
Fanshawe, and divers other friends"; and on the 6th of March, in that
year, he observes, "My cousin Richard Fanshawe came to visit me, and
inform me of many considerable affairs." On the 23rd of November,
1654, he went to London to visit his "cousin Fanshawe."--Diary, vol.
ii. pp. 48, 49, 98. Lady Brown, Mr. Evelyn's mother-in-law, died at