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Middleton.
12th. Sir G. Carteret, my Lord Brouncker, Sir Thomas Harvy, and
myself, down to my Lord Treasurer's chamber to him and the
Chancellor, and the Duke of Albemarle; and there I did give them
a large account of the charge of the Navy, and want of money.
But strange to see how they hold up their hands, crying, " What
shall we do?" says my Lord Treasurer, "Why what means all this,
Mr. Pepys? This is true, you say; but what would you have me to
do. I have given all I can for my life? Why will not people
lend their money? Why will they not trust the King as well as
Oliver? Why do our prizes come to nothing, that yielded so much
heretofore?" And this was all we could get, and went away
without other answer.
16th, Captain Taylor can, as he says, show the very originall
Charter to Worcester, of King Edgar's, wherein he stiles himself,
Rex Marium Britanniae, &c.; which is the great text that Mr.
Selden and others do quote, but imperfectly and upon trust. But
he hath the very originall, which he says he will show me.
17th.


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