The beneficed ministers, however, stimulated by missives from the Scotch kirk, now in arms for Charles II., continued, says the gentle Mrs. Hutchinson, to 'spit fire out of their pulpits,' and even the rout of their allies at Dunbar, though it made their tongues less dangerous, did not make them more smooth.

The pressmen were granted a stab wage of 36s for a 60 hour week, and the extras for overtime and Sunday work […]

She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.

In 1693 K'ang-hsi increased the pressure on Galdan by forwarding a Manchu detachment to Ha-mi to prevent the Oirats from obtaining food there. He also admonished Galdan not to attempt an invasion of Tibet or Koko Nor.