He tells me also, as he says of his own
knowledge, that several people before the Duke went out did offer
to supply the King with 100,000l. provided he would be treasurer
of it, to see it laid out for the Navy; which he refused, and so
it died. But I believe none of this. This day I saw my Lady
Falmouth, [Elizabeth, daughter of Hervey Bagot, Esq., and widow
of Charles Berkeley, Earl of Falmouth, married secondly, Charles
first Duke of Dorset. She had been Maid of Honour to the Duchess
of York.] with whom I remember now I have dined at my Lord
Barkeley's heretofore, a pretty woman: she was now in her second
or third mourning, and pleasant in her looks. By and by the
Council rises, and Sir W. Coventry come out; and he and I went
aside; and discoursed of much business of the Navy; and
afterwards took his coach, and to Hide-Parke, he and I alone:
there we had much talk. First, he stated a discourse of a talk
he hears about the town, which, says he, is a very bad one, and
fit to be suppressed, if we knew how: which is, the comparing of
the success of the last year with that of this; saying that that
was good, and that bad.
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