At home we
find that Sir W. Batten's body was to-day carried from hence,
with a hundred or two of coaches, to Walthamstow, and there
buried, The Parliament met on Thursday last, and adjourned to
Monday next. The King did make them a very kind speech,
promising them to leave all to them to do, and call to account
what and whom they pleased; and declared by my Lord Keeper how
many (thirty-six) actes he had done since he saw them: among
others, disbanding the army, and putting all Papists out of
employment, and displacing persons that had managed their
business ill. The Parliament is mightily pleased with the King's
speech, and voted giving him thanks for what he said and hath
done; and among other things, would by name thank him for
displacing my Lord Chancellor, for which a great many did speak
in the House, but it was opposed by some, and particularly Harry
Coventry, who got that it should be put to a Committee to
consider what particulars to mention in their thanks to the King,
saying that it was too soon to give thanks for the displacing of
a man, before they knew or had examined what was the cause of his
displacing.
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