3rd. To St. James's, where Sir W. Coventry took me into the
Gallery and walked with me an hour, discoursing of Navy business,
and with much kindness, to and confidence in me still; which I
must endeavour to preserve, and will do. And, good man! all his
care how to get the Navy paid off, and that all other things
therein may go well. He gone, I thence to my Lady Peterborough,
who sent for me: and with her an hour talking about her
husband's pension, and how she hath got an order for its being
paid again; though I believe, for all that order, it will hardly
be; but of that I said nothing; but her design is to get it paid
again: and how to raise money upon it to clear it from the
engagement which lies upon it to some citizens, who lent her
husband money (without her knowledge) upon it, to vast loss. She
intends to force them to take their money again, and release her
husband of those hard terms. The woman is a very wise woman, and
is very plain in telling me how her plate and jewels are at pawne
for money, and how they are forced to live beyond their estate,
and do get nothing by his being a courtier.
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