He gone, I to work
again, and then to supper home, and to bed.
20th. Up, and to the Tower to Sir W. Coventry, and there walked
with him alone on the stone-walk till company came to him; and
there about the business of the Navy discoursed with him, and
about my Lord Chancellor and Treasurer; that they were against
the war at first, declaring, as wise men and statesmen, at first
to the King, that they thought it fit to have a war with them at
some time or other, but that it ought not to be till we found the
Crowns of Spain and France together by the eares, the want of
which did ruin our war. But then he told me that a great while
before the war my Lord Chancellor did speak of a war with some
heat as a thing to be desired, and did it upon a belief that he
could with his own speeches make the Parliament give what money
he pleased, and do what he would, or would make the King desire;
but he found himself soon deceived of the Parliament, they having
a long time before his removal been cloyed with his speeches and
good words, and being come to hate him.
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