, and then a little to the
office, and so with Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself by coach to
White Hall, to the Duke, who, after he was ready, did take us into his
closett. Thither come my Lord General Monk, and did privately talk with
the Duke about having the life-guards pass through the City today only
for show and to fright people, for I perceive there are great fears
abroad; for all which I am troubled and full of doubt that things will
not go well. He being gone, we fell to business of the Navy. Among other
things, how to pay off this fleet that is now come from Portugall; the
King of Portugall sending them home, he having no more use for them,
which we wonder at, that his condition should be so soon altered. And
our landmen also are coming back, being almost starved in that poor
country. Having done here I went by my Lord Sandwich's, who was not at
home, and so to Westminster Hall, where full of term, and here met with
many about business, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who is all for
a composition with my uncle Thomas, which upon any fair terms I am for
also and desire it. Thence by water, and so by land to my Lord Crew's,
and dined with him and his brother, I know not his name; where very good
discourse; among others, of France's intention to make a patriarch of
his own, independent from the Pope, by which he will be able to cope
with the Spaniard in all councils, which hitherto he has never done.
My Lord Crew told us how he heard my Lord of Holland say that, being
Embassador about the match with the Queene-Mother that now is, the King
of France--[Louis XIII., in 1624.]--insisted upon a dispensation from
the Pope, which my Lord Holland making a question of, and that he was
commanded to yield to nothing to the prejudice of our religion, says
the King of France, "You need not fear that, for if the Pope will not
dispense with the match, my Bishopp of Paris shall." By and by come in
great Mr. Swinfen, the Parliament-man, who, among other discourse of the
rise and fall of familys, told us of Bishopp Bridgeman (brother of Sir
Orlando) who lately hath bought a seat anciently of the Levers, and then
the Ashtons; and so he hath in his great hall window (having repaired
and beautified the house) caused four great places to be left for coates
of armes. In one, he hath put the Levers, with this motto, "Olim." In
another the Ashtons, with this, "Heri." In the next his own, with this,
"Hodie." In the fourth nothing