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which now ought to be paid him upon his
next year's declaration. Which is a sad thing, that being
reduced to this by us, we should be the first to doubt his
credit; but so it is. However, it will be managed with great
tenderness to him. My Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-
chamber, being laid up of the goute. I find him a very ready
man, and certainly a brave servant to the King: he spoke so
quick and sensible of the King's charge. Nothing displeased me
in him but his long nails, which he lets grow upon a pretty thick
white short hand, that it troubled me to see them. In our way
Sir G. Carteret told me there is no such thing likely yet as a
Dutch war, neither they nor we being in condition for it, though
it will come certainly to that in some time, our interests lying
the same way, that is to say, in trade. But not yet.
20th. A great talk there is to-day of a crush between some of
the Fanatiques up in arms and the King's men in the North; but
whether true I know not yet.
22nd. At chapel I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other
gentlemen, and there heard Dr.


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