And he tells me, therefore, that he do believe that this
policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their friends,--to
seem to promise the King money when it shall be propounded, but
make the King and these great men buy it, dear before they have
it. He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of
the Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the State into such a
condition as, if the King do die without issue, it shall upon his
death break into pieces again; and so put by the Duke of York,
whom they have disobliged, they know, to that degree as to
despair of his pardon. He tells me that there is no way to rule
the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of Buckingham hath
above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best
way is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which
will support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington
fall out, which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the
latter did, in the time of the Chancellor, endeavour with the
Chancellor to hang him at that time, when he was proclaimed
against.
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