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For my part, I do hope, when all is
done that my following my business will keep me secure against
all their envys. But to see how the old man do strut, and swear
that he understands all his duty as easily as crack a nut, and
easier, he told my Lord Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and
that he understands it as well as any man in England; and that he
will never leave to record that he should be said to be unable to
do his duty alone; though, God knows, he cannot do it more than a
child.
28th. The House have this noon been with the King to give him
their reasons for refusing to grant any indulgence to Presbyters
or Papists; which he, with great content and seeming pleasure,
took, saying, that he doubted not but he and they should agree in
all things, though there may seem a difference in judgements, he
having writ and declared for an indulgence: and that he did
believe never prince was happier in a House of Commons, than he
was in them. At the Privy Seale I did see the docquet by which
Sir W. Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant, as Sir J.


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