So to talk of general things: and telling him that with all
these doings he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me, Yes, but
that he thought his continuing in did arise from his enemies my
Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little
if he was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the
Treasury as ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do
believe that their heat is over almost as to the Navy, their
being now none left of the old stock but my Lord Brouncker, J.
Minnes (who is ready to leave the world), and myself. But he
tells me that he do foresee very great wants and great disorders
by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to the King by
his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still
prophecying ill events, so as the King called him Visionaire;
which being told him, he said he answered the party, that,
whatever he foresaw, he was not afraid as to himself of any
thing, nor particularly of my Lord Arlington so much as the Duke
of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke of Buckingham so much as
my Lord Arlington at this time is.
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