5th.I went to the commissioners of the treasury and made my demands. They desired me to come again on Tuesday or Wednesday. In the afternoon I gave Gilbert Spencer a collateral security for the money borrowed and the annuity.
6th.I went to Shene, where Sir W. Temple told me what had passed on Thursday, how that every man spoke against the dissolution, and complained of the ill management; and concluded that there was nothing to be done without acquainting some particular persons of the design, before it be moved at the Board. Afterwards, I went to Windsor; upon the way I met with the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Privy Seal, who had been made acquainted with what was to be done on Thursday.
7th.I went to Cliveden, where I admired the folly of the Duke of Buckingham.[1]
8th.Lord Halifax came from London; he told me the design of Lord Worcester for putting off
- ↑ Evelyn liked Cliveden better. "23rd July; I went to Clifden, that stupendous natural rock, wood, and prospect of the Duke of Buckingham: buildings of extraordinary expence. The grottos in the chalky rocks are pretty; 'tis a romantic object, and the place altogether answers the most poetical description that can be made of solitude, precipice, prospect, or whatever can contribute to a thing so very like their imaginations."—Evelyn's Memoirs, i. 511.
