Coventry coming there, whom I
had not a mind should see me there idle upon a post-night, I went
home without seeing him; but he is there with his Seal in his
hand.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1667. Our new Lord-keeper Bridgeman, did this day,
the first time, attend the King to chapel with his Seal. Sir H.
Cholmly tells me there are hopes that the women also will have a
rout, and particularly that my Lady Castlemaine is coming to a
composition with the King to be gone; but how true this is, I
know not, Blancfort is made Privy-purse to the Duke of York; the
Attorney General is made Chief Justice in the room of my Lord
Bridgeman; the Solicitor-general is made Attorney-general; and
Sir Edward Turner made Solicitor-general. [According to Beatson,
no change took place in these officers at this time.] It is
pretty to see how strange every body looks, nobody knowing whence
this arises ; whether from my Lady Castlemaine, Bab. May, and
their faction; or from the Duke of York, notwithstanding his
great appearing of defence of the Chancellor; or from Sir William
Coventry, and some few with him.
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