But to my great joy he is mighty open to me in every
thing; and by this means I know his whole mind, and shall be able
to secure myself if he stands. Here to-night I understand by my
Lord Brouncker, that at last it is concluded on by the King and
Buckingham that my Lord of Ormond shall not hold his government
of Ireland; which is a great stroke to show the power of
Buckingham and the poor spirit of the King, and little hold that
any man can have of him. Home, and there Pelling hath got W.
Pen's book against the Trinity. I got my wife to read it to me;
and I find it so well writ as, I think, it is too good for him
ever to have writ it; and it is a serious sort of book, and not
fit for every body to read.
14th (Lord's day). Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry: and
there he tells me he takes no more care for any thing more than
in the Treasury; and that that being done, be goes to cards and
other delights, as plays, and in the summer-time to bowles. But
here he did show me two or three old books of the Navy of my Lord
Northumberland's [Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland,
made Lord High Admiral 1635.
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