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and by come to my Lord Chancellor, who heard mighty quietly my
complaints for lack of money, and spoke mighty kind to me, but
little hopes of help therein.
24th. To White Hall, and there meeting my Lord Arlington, he by
I know not what kindness offered to carry me along with him to my
Lord Treasurer's, whither I told him I was going. I believe he
had a mind to discourse of some Navy businesses, but Sir Thomas
Clifford coming into the coach to us, we were prevented; which I
was sorry for, for I had a mind to begin an acquaintance with
him. He speaks well, and hath pretty slight superficial parts, I
believe. He, in our going, talked much of the plain habit of the
Spaniards; how the King and Lords themselves wear but a cloak of
Colchester bayze, and the ladies mantles in cold weather of white
flannell: and that the endeavours frequently of setting up the
manufactory of making these stuffs there, have only been
prevented by the Inquisition. Captain Cocke did tell me what I
must not forget: that the answer of the Dutch, refusing the
Hague for a place of treaty, and proposing Boysse, Bredah,
Bergen-op-Soome, or Mastricht, was seemingly stopped by the
Swedes Embassador (though he did show it the King, but the King
would take no notice of it, nor does not,) from being delivered
to the King; and he hath wrote to desire them to consider better
of it.
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