News this tide that about 80 sail of Dutch,
great and small, were seen coming up the River this morning; and
this tide some of them to the upper end of the Hope.
28th. We find the Duke of York and Sir W. Coventry gone this
morning by two o'clock to Chatham, to come home to-night: and it
is fine to observe how both the King and Duke of York have in
their several late journeys to and again done them in the night
for coolnesse. They tell me that the Duke of Buckingham hath
surrendered himself to Secretary Morrice, and is going to the
Tower. Mr. Fenn, at the table, says that he hath been taken by
the watch two or three times of late, at unseasonable hours, but
so disguised that they could not know him: and when I come home
by and by, Mr. Lowther tells me that the Duke of Buckingham do
dine publickly this day at Wadlow's, at the Sun Tavern; and is
mighty merry, and sent word to the Lieutenant of the Tower that
he would come to him as soon as he had dined. It is said that
the King of France do make a sport of us now; and says, that he
knows no reason why his cosen the King of England should not be
as willing to let him have his kingdom, as that the Dutch should
take it from him, Sir G.
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