I perceive that
this Court is yet but in its infancy, (as to its rising again)
and their design and consultation was, I could overhear them, how
to proceed with the most solemnity, and spend time, there being
only two businesses to do, which of themselves could not spend
much time. Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor's, where we
found my Lord with Colonel Strangways [Giles Strangways, M.P. for
Dorsetshire.] and Sir Richard Floyd, [Probably Sir Richard
Lloyd., M.P. for Radnorshire.] Parliament-men, in the cellar
drinking, were we sat with them, and then up; and by and by come
in Sir Richard Ford. We had many discourses, but from all of
them I do find Sir R. Ford a very able man of his brains and
tongue, and a scholler. But my Lord Mayor a talking, bragging,
buffleheaded fellow, that would be thought to have led all the
City in the great business of bringing in the King, and that
nobody understood his plot, and the dark lanthorn he walked by;
but led them and plowed with them as oxen and asses (his own
words) to do what he had a mind: when in every discourse I
observe him to be as very a coxcombe as I could have thought had
been in the City.
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