Mr. Townsend pleaded want of money and the owing
of the linendraper 5000l.; and that he hath of late got many rich
things made, beds and sheets and saddles, without money; and that
he can go no further: but still this old man (indeed like an old
loving servant) did cry out for the King's person to be
neglected. But when he was gone, Townsend told me that it is the
Grooms taking away the King's linen at the quarter's end, as
their fees, which makes this great want; for whether the King can
get it or no, they will run away at the quarter's end with what
he hath had, let the King get more as he can. All the company
gone, Sir G. Carteret and I to talk: and it is pretty to observe
how already he says that he did always look upon the Chancellor
indeed as his friend, though he never did do him any service at
all, nor ever got any thing by, nor was a man apt (and that, I
think, is true) to do any man any kindness of his own nature;
though I do know he was believed by all the world to be the
greatest support of Sir G. Carteret with the King of any man in
England: but so little is now made of it! He observes that my
Lord Sandwich will lose a great friend in him; and I think so
too, my Lord Hinchingbroke being about a match calculated purely
out of respect to my Lord Chancellor's family.
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