The thing is so great and sudden
to me, that it put me into a very great admiration what should be
the meaning of it; and they do not own that they know what it
should be; but this is certain, that the King did resolve it on
Saturday, and did yesterday send the Duke of Albemarle (the only
man fit for those works) to him for his purse: to which the
Chancellor answered, that he received it from the King, and would
deliver it to the King's own hand, and so civilly returned the
Duke of Albemarle without it; and this morning my Lord Chancellor
is to be with the King, to come to an end in the business. Dined
at Sir W. Batten's, where Mr. Boreman was, who came from White
Hall; who tells us that he saw my Lord Chancellor come in his
coach with some of his men, without his seal, to White Hall to
his chamber; and thither the King and Duke of York came and staid
together alone an hour or more: and it is said that the King do
say that he will have the Parliament meet, and that it will
prevent much trouble by having of him out of their enmity by his
place being taken away; for that all their enmity will be at him.
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