Here he showed me the petition he had sent to the King by
my Lord Keeper; which was not to desire any admittance to
employment, but submitting himself therein humbly to his Majesty;
but prayed the removal of his displeasure, and that he might be
set free. He tells me that my Lord Keeper did acquaint the King
with the substance of it, not showing him the petition; who
answered, that he was disposing of his employments, and when that
was done he might be led to discharge him: and this is what he
expects, and what he seems to desire. But by this discourse he
was pleased to take occasion to show me and read to me his
account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his
discourse and the King's answers to him upon the great business
of my Lord Clarendon, and how he had first moved the Duke of York
with it twice at good distance, one after another, but without
success; showing me thereby the simplicity and reasons of his so
doing, and the manner of it; and the King's accepting it, telling
him that he was not satisfied in his management, and did discover
some dissatisfaction against him for his opposing the laying
aside of my Lord Treasurer at Oxford, which was a secret the King
had not discovered.
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