1658, he 'saw ye superb funerall of ye Protector.' He remarks that 'it was the joyfullest funerall I ever saw, for there were none that cried but dogs, which the soldiers hooted away with a barbarous noise, drinking and taking tobacco in the streets as they went.' Not long after this, on 25 April 1659, he notices 'a wonderfull and suddaine change in ye face of ye publiq: ye new Protector Richard slighted, several pretenders and parties strive for the government: all anarchy and confusion; Lord have mercy on us!' For six months things drifted on, till on 11 Oct.

'the Armie now turn'd out the Parliament.

We had now no government in the nation; all in confusion; no magistrate either own'd or pretended, but ye soldiers, and they not agreed.

God almighty have mercy on and settle us!' Evelyn apparently now thought the time ripe for him to venture; hence, during 1659, he published _A Character of England as it was lately presented in a Letter to a Noble Man of France_, and also _An Apology for the Royal Party, written in a Letter to a person of the late Council of State, by a Lover of Peace and of his Country.

With a Touch at the Pretended "Plea for the Army_." Of the latter he remarks in his Diary: 'Nov.