And really I was mighty proud to be privy to
this great transaction, it giving me great conviction of the
noble nature and ends of Sir W. Coventry in it, and
considerations in general of the consequences of great men's
actions, and the uncertainty of their estates, and other very
serious considerations.
11th. Up, and to Sir W. Coventry to the Tower; who tells me that
he hears that the Commission is gone down to the King with a
blank to fill for his place in the Treasury: and he believes it
will be filled with one of our Treasurers of the Navy, but which
he knows not, but he believes it will be Osborne. We walked down
to the stone-walk, which is called, it seems, my Lord of
Northumberland's walk, being paved by some one of that title that
was prisoner there; and at the end of it there is a piece of iron
upon the wall with his arms upon it, and holes to put in a peg
for every turn they make upon that walk.
12th. With great content spent all the morning looking over the
Navy accounts of several years, and the several patents of the
Treasurers.
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