a-year, but owes above 10,000l. The Duke of Buckingham's
condition is shortly this: that he hath about 19,600l. a-year, of
which he pays away about 7000l. a-year in interest, about 2000l.
in fee-farm rents to the King, about 6000l. in wages and
pensions, and the rest to live upon and pay taxes for the whole.
Wren says, that for the Duke of York to stir in this matter, as
his quality might justify, would but make all things worse, and
that therefore he must bend and suger all till time works it out:
that he fears they will sacrifice the Church, and that the King
will take any thing (and so he holds up his head a little
longer), and then break in pieces. But Sir W. Coventry did to-
day mightily magnify my late Lord Treasurer for a wise and solid,
though infirm man: and among other things, that when he hath said
it was impossible in nature to find this or that sum of money,
and my Lord Chancellor hath made sport of it, and told the King
that when my Lord hath said it was impossible, yet he hath made
shift to find it, and that was by Sir G.
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