How true this is I
dare not believe till I hear more. I walked into the Park, it
being a fine but very cold day; and there took two or three turns
the length of the Pell Mell: and there I met Serjeant Bearcroft,
who was sent for the Duke of Buckingham, to have brought him
prisoner to the Tower. He come to town this day, and brings word
that being overtaken and outrid by the Duchesse of Buckingham
within a few miles of the Duke's house of Westhorp, he believes
she got thither about a quarter of an hour before him, and so had
time to consider; so that when he come the doors were kept shut
against him. The next day coming with officers of the neighbour
market-town to force open the doors, they were open for him, but
the Duke gone: so he took horse presently, and heard upon the
road that the Duke of Buckingham was gone before him for London:
so that he believes he is this day also come to town before him;
but no news is yet heard of him. This is all he brings. Thence
to my Lord Chancellor's, and there meeting Sir H. Cholmly, he and
I walked in my Lord's garden, and talked among other things, of
the treaty; and he says there will certainly be a peace, but I
cannot believe it.
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