Sir John Talbot talks mighty
high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of the
Talbots hath been raised by my Lord.
5th. The Duke of York did call me and Mr. Wren; and my paper
that I have lately taken pains to draw up was read, and the Duke
of York pleased therewith; and we did all along conclude upon
answers to my mind for the Board, and that that, if put in
execution, will do the King's business. But I do now more and
more perceive the Duke of York's trouble, and that he do lie
under great weight of mind from the Duke of Buckingham's carrying
things against him; and particularly when I advised that he would
use his interest that a seaman might come into the room of Sir W.
Pen, who is now declared to be gone from us to that of the
Victualling, and did show how the office would now be left
without one seaman in it but the Surveyor and the Controller, who
is so old as to be able to do nothing. He told me plainly that I
knew his mind well enough as to seamen, but that it must be as
others will. And Wren did tell it me as a secret, that when the
Duke of York did first tell the King about Sir W.
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