I am called in to a large
Committee of the Council: present, the Duke of Albemarle,
Anglesy, Arlington, Ashly, Carteret, Duncomb, Coventry, Ingram,
Clifford, Lauderdale, Morrice, Manchester, Craven, Carlisle,
Bridgewater. [John, second Earl of Bridgewater, Ob. 1686.] And
after Sir W. Coventry's telling them what orders his Royal
Highness had made for the safety of the Medway, I told them to
their full content what we had done, and showed them our letters.
Then was Peter Pett called in, with the Lieutenant of the Tower.
He is in his old clothes, and looked most sillily. His charge
was chiefly the not carrying up of the great ships, and the using
of the boats in carrying away his goods; to which he answered
very sillily, though his faults to me seem only great omissions.
Lord Arlington and Coventry very severe against him; the former
saying that, if he was not guilty the world would think them all
guilty. The latter urged, that there must be some faults, and
that the Admiral must be found to have done his part. I did say
an unhappy word, which I was sorry for, when he complained of
want of oares for the boats: and there was, it seems, enough,
and good enough, to carry away all the boats with from the King's
occasions.
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