They
have, indeed, ordered more for paying off of seamen and the Yards
to some time, but not enough for that neither. A foul evening
this was to-night, and I mightily troubled to get a coach home;
and, which is now my common practice, going over the ruins in the
night, I rid with my sword drawn in the coach.
14th. By coach to my Lord Chancellor's, and there a meeting:
the Duke of York, Duke of Albemarle, and several other Lords of
the Commission of Tangier. And there I did present a state of my
accounts, and managed them well and my Lord Chancellor did say,
though he was in other things in an ill humour, that no man in
England was of more method, nor made himself better understood,
than myself. But going, after the business of money was over, to
other businesses, of settling the garrison, he did fling out, and
so did the Duke of York, two or three severe words touching my
Lord Bellasses: that he would have no Governor come away from
thence in less than three years: no, though his lady were with
child. "And," says the Duke of York, "there should be no
Governor continue so, longer than three years.
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