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1893 text

William Swan is called a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary.

This text was written as a footnote in the 1893 Wheatley transcription of the diary, the same one that is used for the diary entries on this site.

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  • Swan was a “fanatique” in that in June, 1662, he held a radically nonconformist view, “for he finds that he and his company are the true spirit of the nation, and the greater part of the nation too, who will have liberty of conscience in spite of this ‘Act of Uniformity,’ or they will die; and if they may not preach abroad, they will preach in their own houses.” http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1662/06/22/index.php

    For the reference to “Fanatics” see http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/666.php

    I find no reference to Pepys having called him “rogue” by Nov. 6, 1662.

  • Servant to Lord Widrington; claimed, 20 December 1661, to be writing a book called “The unlawfull use of lawfull things” (L&M Index) “Possibly the Treasury solicitor of that name under the Commonwealth.” (L&M Companion)

  • Pepys calls Swan “a very rogue” 5 December 1662 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1662/12/05/
    “rogue” a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
    http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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References in the diary

1660
Jun: 20
1661
Dec: 20
1662
Jun: 22, 27
Nov: 6
Dec: 5