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7th. Lord Brouncker tells me that my Lady Denham is at last
dead. Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be best known when
her body is opened to-day, she dying yesterday morning. The Duke
of York is troubled for her; but hath declared he will never have
another public mistress again; which I shall be glad of, and
would the King would do the like. He tells me how the Parliament
is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the
business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the
business of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for
money till they see themselves secure that those Bills will pass;
which they do observe the Court to keep off till all the Bills
come together, that the King may accept what he pleases, and what
he pleases to object to. He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard of
Norfolke hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's
library: which noble gift they value at 2000l.; and gives them
accommodation to meet in at his house (Arundell House), they
being now disturbed at Gresham College.


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