harles II. should marry Frances
Cromwell. Cromwell gave great attention to the reasons urged, "but
walking two or three turns, and pondering with himself, he told Lord
Broghill the king would never forgive him the death of his father.
His lordship desired him to employ somebody to sound the king in
this matter, to see how he would take it, and offered himself to
mediate in it for him. But Cromwell would not consent, but again
repeated, 'The king cannot and will not forgive the death of his
father;' and so he left his lordship, who durst not tell him he had
already dealt with his majesty in that affair. Upon this my lord
withdrew, and meeting Cromwell's wife and daughter, they inquired
how he had succeeded; of which having given them an account, he
added they must try their interest in him, but none could prevail."]

He thinks (with me) that it never was in his power to bring in the King
with the consent of any of his officers about him; and that he scorned
to bring him in as Monk did, to secure himself and deliver every body
else. When I told him of what I found writ in a French book of one
Monsieur Sorbiere, that gives an account of his observations herein
England; among other things he says, that it is reported that Cromwell
did, in his life-time, transpose many of the bodies of the Kings of
England from one grave to another, and that by that means it is not
known certainly whether the head that is now set up upon a post be that
of Cromwell, or of one of the Kings; Mr. White tells me that he believes
he never had so poor a low thought in him to trouble himself about it.
He says the hand of God is much to be seen; that all his children are
in good condition enough as to estate, and that their relations that
betrayed their family are all now either hanged or very miserable.

14th. Up by break of day, and got to Brampton by three o'clock, where my
father and mother overjoyed to see me, my mother, ready to weepe every
time she looked upon me. After dinner my father and I to the Court, and
there did all our business to my mind, as I have set down in a paper
particularly expressing our proceedings at this court. So home, where W.
Joyce full of talk and pleased with his journey, and after supper I to
bed and left my father, mother, and him laughing.

15th. My father and I up and walked alone to Hinchingbroke; and among
the other late chargeable works that my Lord