Carteret; when I only did speak, laying down the state of our
wants, which the King and Duke of York seemed very well pleased
with, and we did get what we asked, 500,000l., signed upon the
eleven months' tax: but that is not so much ready-money, or what
will raise 40,000l. per week, which we desired, and the business
will want. The King did prevent my offering any thing by and by
as Treasurer for Tangier, telling me that he had ordered us
30,000l. on the same tax; but that is not what we would have to
bring our payments to come within a year. So we gone out, in
went others; viz. one after another, Sir Stephen Fox for the
Army, Captain Cocke for sick and wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the
household. Thence W. Batten, W. Pen, and I back again; I
mightily pleased with what I had said and done, and the success
thereof.
15th. Letters this day come to Court do tell us that we are
likely not to agree, the Dutch demanding high terms, and the King
of France the like in a most braveing manner. This morning I was
called up by Sir John Winter, poor man! come in a sedan from the
other end of the town, about helping the King in the business of
bringing down his timber to the sea-side in the forest of Deane.
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