of Orange for being so unkind to the presbyterians, and told me there were ways of reconciling himself to them;[1] he confessed they had behaved themselves ill in the last sessions, and lays all the fault on my Lord Shaftesbury. After dinner my Lord Sunderland and I went to Chelsey, and, coming home, we fell into the discourse of the Prince; and particularly that we thought it would be very good for him and every body else, for him to come over in October, and take his place at the council and in the House of Peers;[2] and we thought it would be a great strengthening to our party.
When we came home, we found all the Scotch lords with the King; and we had a fancy that the Duke of Monmouth and Lauderdale are made up.
8th.I was declared at the Committee of Intel-
- ↑ "The Chevalier Baber," says Barillon, in a letter written to Louis, in December, 1680, "is he, through whom I have a connection with the Presbyterians. He is a rich man, and afraid of troubles; at the bottom he is attached to the Duke of York. I see plainly that the pains he has taken have not been useless, for the Presbyterians are entirely against the Prince of Orange, and I believe it will be very difficult to set to rights what has been done against him."
- ↑ I proposed it: The Dukedom of Gloucester a proper title.—Orig. Note.
