se the King with what he
will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he do believe that
this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their friends--to seem
to promise the King money, when it shall be propounded, but make the
King and these great men buy it dear, before they have it. He tells me
that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of Buckingham
is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the King do die
without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces again; and
so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they know, to that
degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that there is no way to
rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of Buckingham hath above
all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best way is what
he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which will support him till
the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, which cannot be
long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in the time of the
Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at that time, when
he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told me that the Duke
of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord Chancellor, by
the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall in with my Lord
Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord Chancellor to
accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke of York's,
would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but that my
Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too high
to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means the
Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with
Arlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to
talk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me
that Deb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got
a place to go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled
me, and the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this
girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con
her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed
my wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages,
and so I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages,
which she went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there,
blessed be God! we did