27th. Lord's day. Saw the King at chapel; but staid not to hear
any thing, but went to walk in the Park with W. Hewer; and there,
among others, met with Sir G. Downing, and walked with him an
hour talking of business, and how the late war was managed, there
being nobody to take care of it: and he telling, when he was in
Holland, what he offered the King to do if he might have power,
and then upon the least word, perhaps of a woman, to the King, he
was contradicted again, and particularly to the loss of all that
we lost in Guinny. He told me that he had so good spies, that he
hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's pocket when he was a-
bed, and his closet opened and papers brought to him and left in
his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the place
again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says he hath
always had their most private debates, that have been but between
two or three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour
after, and an hour after that hath sent word thereof to the King,
but nobody here regarded them.
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