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Thence to discourse of the times; and he tells me he believes
both my Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry, as well as my Lord
Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret, have reason to fear, and are
afraid, of this Parliament now coming on. He tells me that
Bristoll's faction is getting ground space against my Lord
Chancellor. He told me that my old Lord Coventry [The Lord
Keeper, Ob. 1639-40.] was a cunning, crafty man, and did make as
many bad decrees in Chancery as any man; and that in one case,
that occasioned many years' dispute, at last when the King come
in, it was hoped by the party grieved, to get my Lord Chancellor
to reverse a decree of his. Sir W. Coventry took the opportunity
of the business between the Duke of York and the Duchess, and
said to my Lord Chancellor, that he had rather be drawn up
Holborne to be hanged, than live to see any decree of his
father's reversed. And so the Chancellor did not think fit to do
it, but it still stands, to the undoing of one Norton, a printer,
about his right to the printing of the Bible, and Grammar, &c.


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