But what pleased me mightily was to hear the
good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his
generosity, good-nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts
of his own wisdom; his employing his interest in the King to do
good offices to all people, without any other fault than the
freedom he do learn in France of thinking himself obliged to
serve his King in his pleasures; and was Sir W. Coventry's
particular friend; and Sir W. Coventry do tell me very odde
circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very
strange. [I have read the particulars of this prediction in a
MS. in the Pepysian Collection, but the reference to it is
unfortunately mislaid.] Thence to White Hall to chapel, and
heard the anthem, and did dine with the Duke of Albemarle in a
dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon I sauntered up and down
the house and Park. And there was a Committee for Tangier met;
wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault with me
for want of coles; but I slighted it;, and he made nothing of it,
but was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to
find fault with me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied
ourselves to him about any thing: but do talk of his profits and
perquisites taken from him, and garrison reduced, and that it
must be increased, and such things as I fear he will be just such
another as my Lord Tiviott, and the rest to ruin that place.
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