13th.There came letters out of Scotland, that make us believe matters are not so bad. The Duke of Hamilton told me he would be hanged if he had not suppressed it with two or three troops of horse; but he hath been kept under so long, and so ill used, that he begun to be out of heart, he having been put out of all employments, and never receiving a shilling of the King's money; whilst my Lord Lauderdale hath £12,000 from the King. The same day the priests were condemned,[1] which the King was not well pleased with;[2]' but, after he
- ↑ These were Whitbread, provincial of the Jesuits, Fenwick, Gavan, Turner, and Harcourt, all Jesuits.
- ↑ Neither was Sir William Temple. Speaking of this condemnation of the priests, he says: "We only disagreed upon one point, which was the leaving some priests to the law, upon the accusation of being priests only, as the House of Commons had desired, which I thought wholly unjust. . . . . . Upon this point, Lord Halifax and I had so sharp a debate at Lord Sun-
trade of this sort, though not without his lordship's participation and concurrence. This I knew, but had neither face nor inclination to come in at that door."—P. 289. Burnet gives the following account of Lady Lauderdale. "Not contented with the great appointments they had, she set herself by all possible methods to raise money. They lived at a vast expense; and every thing was set to sale. She carried all things with a haughtiness that could not have been easily borne from a Queen. She talked of all people with an ungoverned freedom, and grew to be universally hated."—Burnet, i. 588.
