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DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
Parliament, and so give a near guess what we are to hope and fear from their meeting.
We dined the other day at Sheen, where you were remembered, as you shall ever be, with particular kindness, by
Your most faithful, humble servant,
Halifax.
MR. GODOLPHIN[1] TO MR. SIDNEY.
Windsor, August 18, 1679.
I know not why I give you the trouble of a letter from hence, unless it be either to let you see
- ↑ Sidney Godolphin, afterwards Earl Godolphin, and Lord High Treasurer of England, was the third son of Francis Godolphin, of a very ancient family in Cornwall. He had great natural abilities, and was liberally educated. He was made one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber by Charles II. In 1678, he was twice sent as Envoy to the Hague; the next year he was made one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and a member of the Privy Council. In 1680, he openly declared for the Bill of Exclusion, and, in the debate in council whether the Duke should return to Scotland before the Parliament met, he joined with Lord Sunderland in advising his going there, in which the King acquiesced. In 1684, he was appointed one of the Secretaries of State, which he soon resigned for that of Chief Commissioner of the Treasury, when he was created Baron Godolphin of Railton, in Cornwall. On the accession of James, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to the
