Sir J. Minnes bad a very bad fit this day.
27th. Sir G. Carteret tells me what is done about my Lord's
pardon, and is not for letting the Duke of York know any thing of
it beforehand, but to carry it as speedily and quietly as we can.
He seems to be very apprehensive that the Parliament will be
troublesome and inquisitive into faults; but seems not to value
them as to himself.
28th. To the wedding of Mr. Longracke, our purveyor, a civil
man, and hath married a sober, serious mayde; but the whole
company was very simple and innocent. Sir W. Coventry did read
me a letter from the Generalls to the King, a most scurvy letter,
reflecting most upon him, and then upon me for my accounts, (not
that they are not true, but that we do not consider the expence
of the fleet,) and then upon the whole office, in neglecting them
and the King's service, and this in very plain and sharp and
menacing terms. But a great supply must be made, and shall be,
in grace of God!
29th. To St. James's, and there Sir W. Coventry took Sir W. Pen
and me apart, and read to us his answer to the Generalls' letter
to the King, that he read last night; wherein he is very plain,
and states the matter in full defence of himself, and of me with
him, which he could not avoid; which is a good comfort to me,
that I happened to be involved with him in the same cause.
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