5th. No news stirring, but that my Lord of Ormond is likely to
go to Ireland again, which do show that the Duke of Buckingham do
not rule all so absolutely; and that, however, we shall speedily
have more changes in the Navy: and it is certain that the
Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses in many places, and
among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's in
Leadenhall-streete, and have ready access to the King. And now
the great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my
great design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get myself to be a
Parliament-man.
6th. Lord's day. Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases
me mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to
church again, after she had declared to me that she was a Roman
Catholique. But though I do verily think she fears God, and is
truly and sincerely righteous, yet I do see she is not so
strictly a Catholique as not to go to church with me; which
pleases me mightily.
7th. Sir W. Coventry says that he hath no more mind to be found
meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt as well as him.
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