dersgate Street, and there, by agreement, met W. Joyce and Tom Trice,
and mounted, I upon a very fine mare that Sir W. Warren helps me to, and
so very merrily rode till it was very darke, I leading the way through
the darke to Welling, and there, not being very weary, to supper and to
bed. But very bad accommodation at the Swan. In this day's journey I met
with Mr. White, Cromwell's chaplin that was, and had a great deale of
discourse with him. Among others, he tells me that Richard is, and hath
long been, in France, and is now going into Italy. He owns publiquely
that he do correspond, and return him all his money. That Richard hath
been in some straits at the beginning; but relieved by his friends. That
he goes by another name, but do not disguise himself, nor deny himself
to any man that challenges him. He tells me, for certain, that offers
had been made to the old man, of marriage between the King and his
daughter, to have obliged him, but he would not.

[The Protector wished the Duke of Buckingham to marry his daughter
Frances. She married, 1. Robert Rich, grandson and heir to Robert,
Earl of Warwick, on November 11th, 1657, who died in the following
February; 2. Sir John Russell, Bart. She died January 27th,
1721-22, aged eighty-four. In T. Morrice's life of Roger, Earl of
Orrery, prefixed to Orrery's "State Letters" (Dublin, 1743, vol.
i., p. 40), there is a circumstantial account of an interview
between Orrery (then Lord Broghill) and Cromwell, in which the
former suggested to the latter that Charles 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."]