coming into Holland, and that he was to part next day." . . . .
"I never saw any man more sensible of the miserable condition of his affairs than I found his Majesty, upon many discourses with him which my foreign employments and correspondences made way for; but nothing touched me more than when, upon the sad prospect of them all, he told me he had none left with whom he could so much as speak of them in confidence, since my Lord Treasurer (Danby) was gone." . . . .
"I found that the council of my Lord Treasurer's removal had been carried on by the Duke of Monmouth, in conjunction with the Duchess of Portsmouth and Lord Essex, who was then in the greatest confidence with the Duke of Monmouth, and by him and Lord Sunderland newly brought into the Treasury. I found my Lord Sunderland, at least, in compliance with this knot, and that all were resolved to bring my Lord Shaftesbury again to Court."
"On the other side, I believed the Parliament to grow every day more violent upon the support they received from the humours raised by the Plot, and the inventions given them by the ambitions of persons playing that game. I saw a probability
