And here, by the by, he told me that the Duke of
Buckingham did by his friends treat with my Lord Chancellor, by
the mediation of Matt. Wren and Clifford, to fall in with my Lord
Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord Chancellor
to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke of
York's, would undoubtedly have secured all to him and his family;
but that my Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking
himself too high to be counselled: and so all is come to
nothing; for by that means the Duke of Buckingham became
desperate, and was forced to fall in with Arlington, to his ruin.
This morning at the Treasury-chamber I did meet Jack Fenn, and
there he did show me my Lord Anglesy's petition and the King's
answer: the former good and stout, as I before did hear it; but
the latter short and weak, saying that he was not by what the
King had done hindered from taking the benefit of his laws, and
that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his money
in Ireland did make him think it unfit to trust him with his
Treasury in England till he was satisfied in the former.
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