I perceive Sir W.
Coventry is wholly resolved to bring him to punishment; for "bear
with this," says he, "and no discipline shall ever be expected."
Sir J. Minnes did tell of the discovery of his own great-
grandfather's murder, fifteen years after he was murdered.
3rd. To the Duke of York, where Sir G. Carteret did say that he
had no funds to raise money on; and being asked by Sir W.
Coventry whether the eleven months' tax was not a fund, he
answered "No," that the banquers would not lend money upon it.
Then Sir W. Coventry burst out and said he did supplicate His
Royal Highness, and would do the same to the King, that he would
remember who they were that did persuade the King from parting
with the Chimney-money to the Parliament, and taking that in lieu
which they would certainly have given, and which would have
raised infallibly ready-money; meaning the bankers and the
farmers of the Chimney-money, (whereof Sir G. Carteret, I think,
is one;) saying plainly, that whoever did advise the King to
that, did as much as in them lay cut the King's throat, and did
wholly betray him.
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