APRIL 1st. 1667. To White Hall, and there had the good fortune
to walk with Sir W. Coventry into the garden, and there read our
melancholy letter to the Duke of York, which he likes. And so to
talk: and he flatly owns that we must have a peace, for we
cannot set out a fleet; and (to use his own words) he fears that
we shall soon have enough of fighting in this new way that we
have thought on for this year. He bemoans the want of money, and
discovers himself jealous that Sir G. Carteret do not look after
or concern himself for getting money; and did further say, that
he and my Lord Chancellor do at this very day labour all they can
to vilify this new way of raising money, and making it payable as
it now is into the Exchequer; and that in pursuance hereof my
Lord Chancellor hath prevailed with the King in the close of his
speech to the House to say, that he did hope to see them come to
give money as it used to be given, without so many provisos,
meaning this new method of the Act. Mrs. Rebecca Allen, poor
heart! come to desire favour for her husband, who is clapt up,
being a Lieutenant, for sending a challenge to his Captain in the
most saucy, base language that could be writ.
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