Perhaps the King
interfered in Lord Mordaunt's behalf, because Andrew Marvel in
his "Instructions to a Painter," after saying, in allusion to
this business,
"Now Mordaunt may within his castle tower
Imprison parents and the child deflower,"
proceeds to observe,
"Each does the other blame, and all distrust,
But Mordaunt NEW OBLIGED would sure be just."]
Here was Mr. Sawyer, [Afterwards Sir Robert Sawyer, Attorney
General from 1681 to 1687. Ob. 1692.] my old chamber-fellow,
[At Magdalene College, where he was admitted a Pensioner, June
1648.] a counsel against my Lord; and I was glad to see him in
so good play. No news from the North at all to-day; and the
news-book; makes the business nothing, but that they are all
dispersed.
27th. To my Lord Crewe, and had some good discourse with him, he
doubting that all will break in pieces in the Kingdom; and that
the taxes now coming out, which will tax the same man in three or
four several capacities as for land, office, profession, and
money at interest, will be the hardest that ever came out; and do
think that we owe it, and the lateness of its being given, wholly
to the unpreparedness of the King's own party, to make their
demand and choice; for they have obstructed the giving it by
land-tax, which had been done long since.
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