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That my
Lord Digby did send to Lisbon a couple of priests, to search out
what they could against the Chancellor concerning the match, as
to the point of his knowing before-hand that the Queene was not
capable of bearing children; and that something was given her to
make her so. But as private as they were, when they come thither
they were clapped up prisoners. That my Lord Digby endeavours
what he can to bring the business into the House of Commons,
hoping there to master the Chancellor, there being many enemies
of his there: but I hope the contrary. That whereas the late
King did mortgage Clarendon [Clarendon Park near Salisbury.] to
somebody for 20,000l., and this to have given it to the Duke of
Albemarle, and he sold it to my Lord Chancellor, whose title of
Earldome is fetched from thence; the King hath this day sent his
order to the Privy Seale for the payment of this 20,000l. to my
Lord Chancellor, to clear the mortgage. Ireland in a very
distracted condition about the hard usage which the Protestants
meet with, and the too good which the Catholiques.


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