But this my Lord Anglesy did very handsomely
oppose, and I think did carry it that it will not be: and it is
indeed a mean thing that the king should so far own his own want
of credit as to borrow theirs in this manner. My Lord Anglesy
told him that this was the way indeed to teach the Parliament to
trust the King no more for the time to come, but to have a
kingdom's Treasurer distinct from the King's.
October 1. To White Hall; and there in the Boarded Gallery did
hear the musick with which the King is presented this night by
Monsieur Grebus, the Master of his Musick: both instrumental
(I think twenty-four violins) and vocall: an English song upon
Peace. But, God forgive me! I never was so little pleased with
a concert of music in my life. The manner of setting of words
and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of
voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick; being
lost by it. Here was a great press of people; but I did not see
many pleased with it, only the instrumental musick he had brought
by practice to play very just.
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