I did desire, and he did give it me to copy
out; which pleased me mightily.
18th. To my office again to examine the fair draught; and so
borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, he going with Colonell
Middleton, I to White Hall, where we all met and did sign it.
And then to my Lord Arlington's, where the King and the Duke of
York and Prince Rupert, as also Ormond and the two secretaries,
with my Lord Ashly and Sir T. Clifford, were. And there by and
by being called in, Mr. Williamson did read over our paper, which
was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the
Duke of York's Book of Instructions. He read it well; and after
read, we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it.
And by and by we were called in again, and nothing said to that
business; but another begun about the state of this year's action
and our wants of money, as I had stated the same lately to our
Treasurers; which I was bid, and did largely, and with great
content open. And having so done, we all withdrew, and left them
to debate our supply of money; to which being called in, and
referred to attend on the Lords of the Treasury, we all departed.
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