] which is a
mighty pretty play, very witty and pleasant. And the women do
very well; but above all, little Nelly. I hear that this Proviso
in Parliament is mightily ill taken by all the Court party as a
mortal blow, and that that strikes deep into the King's
prerogative; which troubles me mightily. In much fear of ill
news of our colliers. A fleet of 200 sail, and 14 Dutch men-of-
war between them and us: and they coming home with small convoy;
and the City in great want, coals being at 3l. 3s. per chaldron,
as I am told. I saw smoke in the ruines this very day.
10th. Captain Cocke, with whom I walked in the garden, tells me
how angry the Court is at the late Proviso brought in by the
House. How still my Lord Chancellor is, not daring to do or say
any thing to displease the Parliament; that the Parliament is in
a very ill humour, and grows every day more and more so; and that
the unskilfulness of the Court, and their difference among one
another, is the occasion of all not agreeing in what they would
have, and so they give leisure and occasion to the other part to
run away with what the Court would not have.
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