Into the Court, and attended there
till the Council met, and then was called in, and I read my
letter. My Lord Treasurer declared that the King had nothing to
give, till the Parliament did give him some money. So the King
did of himself bid me to declare to all that would take our
tallies for payment, that he should, soon as the Parliament's
money do come in, take back their tallies, and give them money:
which I giving him occasion to repeat to me (it coming from him
against the gre, I perceive, of my Lord Treasurer,) I was content
therewith and went out. All the talk of Scotland, where the
highest report I perceive, runs but upon three or four hundred in
armes. Here I saw Mrs. Stewart this afternoon, methought the
beautifullest creature that ever I saw in my life, more than ever
I thought her, so often as I have seen her and I do begin to
think do exceed my Lady Castlemaine, at least now. This being
St. Katherine'a day, the Queene was at masse by seven o'clock
this morning; and Mr. Ashburnham do say that he never saw any one
have so much zeale in his life as she hath: and (the question
being asked by my Lady Carteret,) much beyond the bigotry that
ever the old Queene-mother had.
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