They all
say that he did give some affront to the Duke of Monmouth, which
the King himself did speak to him of. So he is gone,nobody
pitying, but laughing at him: and he pretends only that he is
gone to his father that is sick in the country.
23rd. The King is gone down with the Duke and a great crew this
morning by break of day to Chatham.
29th. Mr. Coventry and I did a long discourse together of the
business of the office, and the war with the Dutch; and he seemed
to argue mightily with the little reason that there is for all
this. For first, as to the wrong we pretend they have done us;
that of the East Indys, for their not delivering of Poleron, it
is not yet known whether they have failed or no; that of their
hindering the Leopard cannot amount to above 3000l. if true; that
of the Guinny Company, all they had done us did not amount to
above 2 or 300l. he told me truly; and that now, from what
Holmes, without any commission, hath done in taking an island and
two forts, hath set us much in debt to them; and he believes that
Holmes will have been so puffed up with this, that he by this
time hath been enforced with more strength than he had then,
hath, I say, done a great deal more wrong to them.
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