However, it will be well worth having, God be
thanked for it! This news makes us all very glad. I at Sir W.
Batten's did hear the particulars of it; and there for joy he did
give the company that were there a bottle or two of his own last
year's wine growing at Walthamstow, than which the whole company
said they never drank better foreign wine in their lives. The
Duke of Buckingham is, it seems, set at liberty without any
further charge against him or other clearing of him, but let to
go out; which is one of the strangest instances of the fool's
play, with which all publick things are done in this age, that is
to be apprehended. And it is said that when he was charged with
making himself popular, (as indeed he is, for many of the
discontented Parliament, Sir Robert Howard, and Sir Thomas Meres,
and others, did attend at the Council-chamber when he was
examined,) he should answer, that whoever was committed to prison
by my Lord Chancellor or my Lord Arlington, could not want being
popular. But it is worth considering the ill state a Minister of
State is in, under such a Prince as ours is; for, undoubtedly,
neither of those two great men would have been so fierce against
the Duke of Buckingham at the Council-table the other day, had
they not been assured of the King's good liking, and supporting
them therein: whereas, perhaps at the desire of my Lady
Castlemaine, (who I suppose, hath at last overcome the King,) the
Duke of Buckingham is well received again, and now these men
delivered up to the interest he can make for his revenge.
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