Thence the Duke of York being gone, I did there stay walking
with Sir H. Cholmly in the Court, talking of news; where he told
me that now the great design of the Duke of Buckingham is to
prevent the meeting, since he cannot bring about with the King
the dissolving of this Parliament, that the King may not need it;
and therefore my Lord St. Alban's is hourly expected with great
offers of a million of money to buy our breach with the Dutch;
and this, they do think, may tempt the King to take the money,
and thereby be out of a necessity of calling the Parliament
again, which these people dare not suffer to meet again: but
this he doubts, and so do I, that it will be the ruin of the
nation if we fall out with Holland.
22nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon
home to dinner, and Captain Deane with us; and very good
discourse, and particularly about my getting a book for him to
draw up his whole theory of shipping; which at my desire he hath
gone far in, and hath shown me what he hath done therein to
admiration. I did give him a parallelogram, which he is mightily
taken with.
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