10th.The King was persuaded to some reason which gave them satisfaction. Sir William spoke admirably. It was resolved that the Duke of Monmouth should go into Scotland, with an unlimited power. At night they went to him again to persuade him to make those lords that had been of his council so again; but he would not consent to it, nor to the calling a new parliament, which was also proposed to him.
11th.There was a council, but the King came late, and there was nothing done. In the evening, the Scotch lords were with him, to tell him what they had against my Lord Lauderdale, and they are now to give it in writing.[1]
- ↑ Lauderdale is governed by his wife as much as Danby, or all would quit.—Orig. Note. It would be difficult to name two more unamiable ladies than Lady Danby and Lady Lauderdale. Sir John Reresby, speaking of Lady Danby, says: "Several persons had got possessed of good employments, not so much by my Lord Danby's favour and kindness as by giving money to his lady, who had for some time driven on a private
time; and which, we conceived, could be no way so easily done as by the removal of the Dake of Lauderdale, a man too much hated both here and there to be fit for the temper his majesty seemed resolved to use in his affairs. For this last, we could not upon any terms obtain it from the King by all the arguments used by us all four. The King's defence being a very true one, that we none of us knew Scotland as well as he did."—Temples Works, ii., 500.
