d, and he and I had half an hour's private discourse about the
discontents of the times, which we concluded would not come to anything
of difference, though the Presbyters would be glad enough of it; but we
do not think religion will so soon cause another war. Then to his own
business. He asked my advice there, whether he should go on to purchase
more land and to borrow money to pay for it, which he is willing to do,
because such a bargain as that of Mr. Buggins's, of Stukely, will not
be every day to be had, and Brampton is now perfectly granted him by the
King--I mean the reversion of it--after the Queen's death; and, in the
meantime, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball his present right. Then we fell
to talk of Navy business, and he concludes, as I do, that he needs not
put himself upon any more voyages abroad to spend money, unless a war
comes; and that by keeping his family awhile in the country, he shall be
able to gather money. He is glad of a friendship with Mr. Coventry, and
I put him upon increasing it, which he will do, but he (as Mr. Coventry
do) do much cry against the course of our payments and the Treasurer to
have the whole power in his own hands of doing what he will, but I think
will not meddle in himself. He told me also that in the Commission for
Tangier Mr. Coventry had advised him that Mr. Povy, who intended to be
Treasurer,

[Thomas Povy, who had held, under Cromwell, a high situation in the
Office of Plantations, was appointed in July, 1660, Treasurer and
Receiver-General of the Rents and Revenues of James, Duke of York;
but his royal master's affairs falling into confusion, he
surrendered his patent on the 27th July, 1668, for a consideration
of L2,000. He was also First Treasurer for Tangier, which office he
resigned to Pepys. Povy, had apartments at Whitehall, besides his
lodgings in Lincoln's Inn, and a villa near Hounslow, called the
Priory, which he had inherited from Justinian Povy, who purchased it
in 1625. He was one of the sons of Justinian Povy, Auditor-General
to Queen Anne of Denmark in 1614, whose father was John Povy,
citizen and embroiderer of London.]

and it is intended him, may not be of the Commission itself, and my Lord
I think will endeavour to get him to be contented to be left out of the
Commission, and it is a very good rule indeed that the Treasurer in no
office ought to be of the Commission. Here we broke off, and