He tells me too how the famous Stillingfleete was
a Blue-coat boy.
18th. This morning come Captain Cocke to me, and tells me that
the King comes to the House this day to pass the Poll Bill and
the Irish Bill; and that, though the Faction is very froward in
the House, yet all will end well there. But he says that one had
got a Bill ready to present in the House against Sir W. Coventry
for selling of places, and says he is certain of it, and how he
was withheld from doing it. He says that the Vice-chamberlaine
is now one of the greatest men in England again, and was he that
did prevail with the King to let the Irish Bill go with the word
"Nusance." He told me that Sir G. Carteret's declaration of
giving double to any man that will prove that any of his people
have demanded or taken any thing for forwarding the payment of
the wages of any man, (of which he sent us a copy yesterday,
which we approved of,) is set up, among other places, upon the
House of Lords' door. I do not know how wisely this is done.
Sir W. Pen told me this night how the King did make them a very
sharp speech in the House of Lords to-day, saying that he did
expect to have had more Bills; that he purposes to prorogue them
on Monday come se'nnight; that whereas they have unjustly
conceived some jealousys of his making a peace, he declares he
knows of no such thing or treaty: and so left them.
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