That the Duke of Buckingham is now all
in all, and will ruin Coventry, if he can: and that W. Coventry
do now rest wholly upon the Duke of York for his standing; which
is a great turn. He tells me that my Lady Castlemaine, however,
is a mortal enemy to the Duke of Buckingham: which I understand
not, but it seems she is disgusted with his greatness and his ill
usage of her. That the King was drunk at Saxam [Saxham, near
Newmarket, in Suffolk, a seat of William Baron Crofts, long since
pulled down.] with Sedley, Buckhurst, &c. the night that my Lord
Arlington came thither, and would not give him audience, or could
not which is true, for it was the night that I was there and saw
the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King had
been drinking. He tells me too that the Duke of York did the
next day chide Bab. May for his occasioning the King's giving
himself up to these gentlemen, to the neglecting of my Lord
Arlington: to which he answered merrily, that there was no man
in England that had a head to lose durst do what they do every
day with the King, and asked the Duke of York's pardon: which is
a sign of a mad world; God bless us out of it!
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