Pen's leaving
of the place, and that when the Duke of York did move the King
that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might succeed him, the
King did tell him that that was a matter fit to be considered of,
and would not agree to either presently: and so the Duke of York
could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The
Duke of York did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it
privately when first he mentioned Pen's leaving his place to the
King, it had not been done: for the Duke of Buckingham and those
of his party do cry out upon it as a strange thing to trust such
a thing into the hands of one that stands accused in Parliament:
and that they have so far prevailed upon the King that he would
not have him named in Council, but only take his name to the
Board; but I think he said that only D. Gauden's name shall go in
the patent; at least, at the time when Sir Richard Browne asked
the King the names of D.Gauden's security, the King told him it
was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by and by,
when the Duke of York and we had done, Wren brought into the
closet Captain Cox and James Temple about business of the Guinea
Company; and talking something of the Duke of Buckingham's
concernment therein, says the Duke of York, "I shall give the
Devil his due," as they say the Duke of Buckingham hath paid in
his money to the Company, or something of that kind, wherein he
would do right to him.
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