But he do tell me that the leisure he hath yet had do not
at all begin to be burden some to him, he knowing how to spend
his time with content to himself; and that he hopes shortly to
contract his expence, so as that he shall not be under any
straits in that respect neither; and so seems to be in very good
condition of content. Thence I away over the Park it being now
night, to White Hall: and there in the Duchesse's chamber do
find the Duke of York; and upon my offer to speak with him, he
did come to me and withdrew to his closet, and there did hear and
approve my paper of the Administration of the Navy, only did bid
me alter these words, "upon the rupture between the late King and
the Parliament," to these, "the beginning of the late Rebellion;"
giving it me as but reason to show that it was with the Rebellion
that the Navy was put by out of its old good course into that of
a Commission. Having done this, we fell to other talk; he with
great confidence telling me how matters go among our adversaries,
in reference to the Navy, and that he thinks they do begin to
flag: but then beginning to talk in general of the excellency of
old constitutions, he did bring out of his cabinet, and made me
read it, an extract out of a book of my late Lord of
Northumberland's, so prophetic of the business of Chatham as is
almost miraculous.
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