28th. To White Hall: till past twelve in a crowd of people in
the lobby, expecting the hearing of the great cause of Alderman
Barker against my Lord Deputy of Ireland for his ill usage in his
business of land there; but the King and Council sat so long as
they neither heard them nor me. Went twice round Bartholomew
fayre; which I was glad to see again, after two years missing it
by the plague.
29th. I find at Sir G. Carteret's that they do mightily joy
themselves in the hopes of my Lord Chancellor's getting over this
trouble; and I make them believe (and so, indeed, I do believe he
will) that my Lord Chancellor is become popular by it. I find by
all hands that the Court is at this day all to pieces, every man
of a faction of one sort or other, so as it is to be feared what
it will come to. But that that pleases me is, I hear to-night
that Mr. Brouncker is turned away yesterday by the Duke of York,
for some bold words he was heard by Colonel Werden to say in the
garden the day the Chancellor was with the King--that he believed
the King would be hectored out of every thing.
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