H. Coventry, [Third son of Thomas first Lord
Coventry; after the Restoration made a Groom of the Bedchamber,
and elected M.P. for Droitwich. In 1664 he was sent Envoy
Extraordinary to Sweden, where he remained two years, and was
again employed on an Embassy to the same Court in 1671. He also
succeeded in negotiating the peace at Breda here alluded to, and
in 1672 became Secretary of State; which office he resigned in
1679, on account of ill health. He died unmarried, Dec. 7,
1686.] who, it is conceived, have received their instructions
from the King this day; they being to begin their journey towards
their treaty at Bredagh speedily, their passes being come. Here
I saw the Lady Northumberland [Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of
Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, wife of Algernon tenth Earl of
Northumberland.] and her daughter-in-law (my Lord Treasurer's
daughter) my Lady Piercy, a beautiful lady indeed. [Lady
Elizabeth Wriothesly, daughter to the Earl of Southampton,
married Joscelin Lord Percy.] The month shuts up only with great
desires of peace in all of us, and a belief that we shall have a
peace, in most people if it can be had on any terms, for there is
a necessity of it; for we cannot go on with the war, and our
masters are afraid to come to depend upon the good will of the
Parliament any more, as I do hear.
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