But that here they were interrupted by my Lord
Chamberlain's coming in, who was commanded to go to bid the Duke
of Buckingham to come to the King, Holmes having discovered it.
He told me that the King did last night at the Council ask the
Duke of Buckingham, upon his honour, whether he received any
challenge from W. Coventry? which he confessed that he had; and
then the King asking W. Coventry, he told him that he did not
owne what the Duke of Buckingham had said, though it was not fit
for him to give him a direct contradiction. But, being by the
King put upon declaring the truth upon his honour, be answered
that he had understood that many hard questions had upon this
business been moved to some lawyers, and that therefore he was
unwilling to declare any thing that might from his own mouth
render him obnoxious to his Majesty's displeasure, and therefore
prayed to be excused: which the King did think fit to interpret
to be a confession, and so gave warrant that night for his
commitment to the Tower. Being very much troubled at this, I
away by coach homewards, and directly to the Tower, where I find
him in one Mr.
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