5th.I was with my Lord Shaftesbury; he told me the whole story of his being to be killed. In the morning I had talk with my Lord of Essex; he told me he wondered the Prince could talk with such a villain as Fitz' Patrick. A cipher of his was found among Coleman's papers. He owned his being resolved to quit. Sir Harry Capel means to move for the sitting of parliament, and would have Sir William Temple to assist. A project was resolved to bring the Lord Chancellor into the Treasury. The King approves of it; he is to be with him to-morrow.
The Duke has given full power to Lord Sunderland to make what conditions he pleases, and with whom. I writ to the Prince of Orange.
MR. SIDNEY TO THE PRINCE OF ORANGE.
Sir,
I had writ to you by the last post, but that I was kept a Friday so long at the Council about the examination of the person I told you of at Soesdyke, that I could not have time to write to you, which otherwise I should not have failed of, though I could not hope to have informed you of any
