And he tells me that it is very true, he hath
it from one that was by, that the King did give the Duke of York
a sound reprimande; told him that he had lived with him with more
kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and
that he lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him
not to cross him in his designs about the Chancellor; in which
the Duke of York do very wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as
the King bade him, but presently commands all his friends to be
silent in the business of the Chancellor, and they were so: but
that the Chancellor hath done all that is possible to provoke the
King, and to bring himself to lose his head, by enraging of
people. To the Duke of York's house; and I was vexed to see
Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth, in the room
of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick.
17th. The Parliament run on mighty furiously, having yesterday
been almost all the morning complaining against some high
proceedings of my Lord Chief Justice Keeling, that the gentlemen
of the country did complain against him in the House, and run
very high.
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