8th. To White Hall, from whence the King and the Duke of York
went by three in the morning, and had the misfortune to be
overset with the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth, and the
Prince, [Rupert.] at the King's gate in Holborne; and the King
all dirty, but no hurt. How it come to pass I know not, but only
it was dark, and the torches did not, they say, light the coach
as they should do. I thought this morning to have seen my Lord
Sandwich before he went out of town, but I came half an hour too
late; which troubles me, I having not seen him since my Lady Pall
died. And so to the Privy-Seal office, to examine what records I
could find there for my help in the great business I am put upon
of defending the present constitution of the Navy; but there
could not have liberty without order from him that is in present,
waiting, Mr. Bickerstaffe, who is out of town.
9th. Up, and to the Tower; and there find Sir W. Coventry alone
writing down his journall, which, he tells me, he now keeps of
the material things; upon which I told him, (and he is the only
man I ever told it to, I think,) that I kept it most strictly
these eight or ten years; and I am sorry almost that I told it
him, it not being necessary, nor maybe convenient, to have it
known.
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