Coventry being gone, the King will have no good Counsellor left,
nor the Duke of York any sure friend to stick to him; nor any
good man will remain to advise what is good. This, therefore, do
heartily trouble me, as any thing that ever I heard. So up into
the House, and met with several people; but the Committee did not
meet. And the whole House I find full of the business of Sir W.
Coventry's, and most men very sensible of the cause and effects
of it. So, meeting with my Lord Bellasses, he told me the
particulars of this matter; that it arises about a quarrel which
Sir W. Coventry had with the Duke of Buckingham, about a design
between him and Sir Robert Howard to bring him into a play at the
King's house; which W. Coventry not enduring, did by H. Saville
send a letter to the Duke of Buckingham, that he had a desire to
speak with him. Upon which the Duke of Buckingham did bid Holmes
(his champion ever since my Lord Shrewsbury's business) go to him
to do the business; but H. Saville would not tell it to any but
himself, and therefore did go presently to the Duke of
Buckingham, and told him that his uncle Coventry was a person of
honour, and was sensible of his Grace's liberty taken of abusing
him, and that he had a desire of satisfaction, and would fight
with him.
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