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He tells me that the Duke of Buckingham his
crimes, as far as he knows, are his being of a cabal with some
discontented persons of the late House of Commons, and opposing
the desires of the King in all his matters in that House: and
endeavouring to become popular, and advising how the Commons'
House should proceed, and how he would order the House of Lords.
And that he hath been endeavouring to have the King's nativity
calculated: which was done, and the fellow now in the Tower
about it: which itself hath heretofore, as he says, been held
treason, and people died for it: but by the Statute of Treason
in Queen Mary's time and since, it hath been left out. He tells
me that this silly Lord hath provoked by his ill carriage the
Duke of York, my Lord Chancellor, and all the great persons; and
therefore most likely will die. He tells me too many pratices of
treachery against this King; as betraying him in Scotland, and
giving Oliver an account of the King's private councils: which
the King knows very well, and yet hath pardoned him.


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