Jones; he thinks we shall be undone. In the evening I went to my Lord Halifax: he desired me to tell the Prince he would write to him if he had any thing to say. I went then to Sir William Temple, and found him with the gout; he talks of never meddling with public business; he is of opinion I should have no other instructions; that being I came over about my particular business, I should return, and not give the King an account of all occurrences, and, without saying any thing of an alliance, he would have the Prince write his sense to the King, and would have him join the Duke of Monmouth; they would be a strong party. My Lord Sunderland told of Sir Stephen Fox's being a Commissioner of the Treasury, of his discourse with Mr. Hide, that we were to dine together, to consider what would be best to be said to the Prince.
15th.I met my Lord of Essex in the King's bedchamber, and went with him to the Treasury. I found him apt to laugh and despise the Treasury: I spoke for money for the robes; they said I should
in a black box, had been industriously spread abroad and was greedily received by the multitude. The Duke of York desired his brother to satisfy him and the publick by a declaration of the Duke of Monmouth's illegitimacy; and Charles in full council made such declaration.—Hume.
