Note 41 — DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. (continued 7)
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A copy of it is subjoined. "These are to will and require you to permit and suffer the bearer thereof, John Evelyn, Esq., to transport himself, two servants, and other necessaries, into any port of France without any your lets or molestations, of which you are not to fail, and for which this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given at the Council of State at Whitehall this 25th of June, 1650.
"Signed in the Name and by Order of the Council of State, appointed by authority of Parliament, Jo. Bradshawe, President.
"To all Customers, Comptrollers and Searchers, and all other officers of the Ports, or Customs."
Subjoined to the signature, Evelyn has added in his own writing; "The hand of that villain who sentenced our Charles I. of B[lessed] M[emory."] Its endorsement, also in his writing, is, "The Pass from the Council of State, 1650."