...house on fire ! " At a banquet on St. George's day, in 1667, Evelyn says, the cheer was extraordinary, each knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled up five or six feet high. But whatever the stately formality might be of serving the King on the knee, it seems as...

...before, I now stayed no longer than this sport began, for fear of disorder. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...six high ; the room hung with the richest tapestry. 25th. Visited again the Duke of Newcastle, with whom I had been acquainted long before in France, where...

...before, I now stayed no longer than this sport began, for f'ear of disorder. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...six high ; the room hung with the richest tapestry. 25th April. Visited again the Duke of Newcastle, with whom I had been acquainted long before in France,...

...before, I now stayed no longer than this sport began, for fear of disorder. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...Sunday we do not know. His description of the scene tt Whitehall the last Sunday but one of the life of Charles II. is not new to any one, but must come...

...before, I now stayed no longer than this sport began, for fear of disorder. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...six high; the room hung with the richest tapestry. 2$th April, 1667. Visited again the Duke of Newcastle, with whom I had been acquainted long before...

...before, I now stayed no longer than this sport began, for fear of disorder. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...six high; the room hung with the richest tapestry. 25th April, 1667. Visited again the Duke of Newcastle, with whom I had been acquainted long before...

...trumpets and music played and sounded, the guns going off at the Tower. The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled up five or six high ; the room was hung with the richest tapestry. It was at Whitehall that Charles the Second was seized with his...

...the Garter on St. George's Day, 1667, the cheer was extraordinary in its profusion. Each knight had forty dishes to his mess, piled up five or six high. The King sat alone on an elevated throne and the knights at one long table on his right hand, which reached...

...sit. Then was the banqueting-stuff flung about the room profusely. . . . The cheer was extraordinary, each Knight having forty dishes to his mess, piled...six high; the room hung with the richest tapestry. John Evelyn, Diary of the church as a single open space with an altar against the wall opposite the...