David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Methought I foresaw a Religious Warr in the nation, in which our most apostolick and blessed church should fall a prey to the wicked sacrilegous Nonconformists, who should almost utterly extinguish the same, and set up in the place thereof their own enthusiastick follys, which God prevent! ”

“ This year we have had a fast day to pray God to turn the hearts of the enemys of our holy religion from persecuting the Vaudois and French Protestants. It is certain that they are very grievously persecuted in all the inland towns of France and the four provinces thereof, but not very much so in the cittys and places we trafic to. To ballance this persecution, the Papists have raised a report beyond sea that we do most grievously persecute, rost, boyl, and torment those of their religion here ”

“ Abraham, son of Matthew de la Pryme and Sara Smaque, was born within the parish of Hatfield, in Yorkshire, on 15th January 1671. Before he was twelve years old he began an autobiography and diary and record of every-day observations, occurrences, and on dits, entitled “Ephemeris Vitae Abrahami Pryme; or, a Diary of my own Life, containing an account likewise of the most observable and remarkable things that I have taken notice of from my youth up, hitherto. Eccl. Vanity of Vanitys. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Man’s life is but a vain thing and a series of evils. ”