They attempted
this, it seems, when the wind was too strong, that our grapplings
could not hold: others say we came to leeward of them, but all
condemn it as a foolish management. They are come to Sir Edward
Spragg about Lee, and the Dutch are below at the Nore. At the
office all the morning: and at noon to the 'Change, where I met
Fenn. And he tells me that Sir John Coventry do bring the
confirmation of the peace; but I do not find the 'Change at all
glad of it, but rather the worse, they looking upon it as a peace
made only to preserve the King for a time in his lusts and ease,
and to sacrifice trade and his kingdoms only to his own
pleasures; so that the hearts of merchants are quite down. He
tells me that the King and my Lady Castlemaine are quite broke
off, and she is gone away, and is with child, and swears the King
shall own it; and she will have it christened in the Chapel at
White Hall so, and owned for the King's, as other Kings have
done; or she will bring it into White Hall gallery, and dash the
brains of it out before the King's face.
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