Then we fell to talk of the burning of the City. And my Lady
Carteret herself did tell us how abundance of pieces of burnt
papers were cast by the wind as far as Cranborne; and among
others she took up one, or had one brought her to see, which was
a little bit of paper that had been printed, whereon there
remained no more nor less than these words: "Time is, it is
done." Away home, and received some letters from Sir W.
Coventry, touching the want of victuals to Kempthorne's fleet
going to the Streights and now in the Downes: which did trouble
me, he saying that this disappointment might prove fatal; and the
more, because Sir W. Coventry do intend to come to the office
upon business to-morrow morning, and I shall not know what answer
to give him. [John Kempthorne, a distinguished Naval Officer,
afterwards knighted and made Commissioner at Portsmouth, which
place he represented in Parliament. Ob. 1679. Vide some curious
letters about his election in the Correspondence.]
4th. When Sir W. Coventry did come, and the rest met, I did
appear uuconcerned, and did give him answer pretty satisfactory
what he asked me; so that I did get off this meeting without any
ground lost.
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