A ROYALIST'S NOTEBOOK Edited by Francis Bamford That heio Ts
land;" Sir John Oglander of Nunwell (158571655), used to jot;down haphazard in his account books, in microscopic writing, now a laughable tale, a character sketch, a wise reflection. From these random notes of his Mr. Bamford has skilfully arranged a vivid self-presentment of a remarkable man (Constable, 10s.). At twenty-two he was a J.P., " not well understanding my self or place, and ashamed to sit on the Bench as not having then any hair on my face—and less wit " ; in his old age he recorded for his descendants the motive of forty years' public service: , " Remember that we are not barn only to ourselves but' for the public."
He was a shrewd judge of character, and pictures to the life is friends, the great gentlemen-of thm,larard ; those toowlio y•-aspired; from Sir Richard Worsley, blind-of-in-eye since his Winchester days, who pelted his friends with cushions for pastime but deserved a statue of gold ; to " my brother Cheke, so good a fellow that he had 50 gentlemen called him Father." Sir John himself vritii," so foolish:RS to bestow more money than a wise man would have done In flowers' for the garden." He had frequent meetings with King ,Charles at Carisbrooke. In 1643 royalist Sympathies too.honestly out- spoken forfeited his Deputy-Governorship--of the Utah(' and sent him to a London prison. His wife's death le iitty_ituite-d to her " overheating her blood in procuring .:my "liberty:" She was a More of Losely and Mater to Mrs. Doane.:
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