This morning comes to me the coachmaker, and agreed with
me for 53l. and to stand to the courtesy of what more I should
give him upon the finishing of it. He is likely also to fit me
with a coachman.
26th. I was obliged to attend the Duke of York, thinking to have
had a meeting of Tangier to-day but had not: but he did take me
and Mr. Wren into his closet, and there did press me to prepare
what I had to say upon the answers of my fellow-officers to his
great letter; which I promised to do against his coming to town
again the next week: and so to other discourse, finding plainly
that he is in trouble and apprehensions of the Reformers, and
would be found to do what he can towards reforming himself. And
so thence to my Lord Sandwich's; where after long stay, he being
in talk with others privately, I to him; and there, he taking
physic and keeping his chamber, I had an hour's talk with him
about the ill posture of things at this time, while the King
gives countenance to Sir Charles Sedley and Lord Buckhurst. He
tells me that he thinks his matters do stand well with the King,
and hopes to have dispatch to his mind; but I doubt it, and do
see that he do fear it too.
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