DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE
TIMES OF CHARLES THE SECOND.
1680. March 15th. Sir Robert Southwell came to take his leave of me, and told me the Pensioner had been with him, and told him they hoped they should come to an accommodation; that Monsieur Spaen would go to Berlin in a few days, and do his endeavours; that they were willing to give him as much as he could pretend was due before the declaration, and something more; that he was of opinion nothing should be said of it till he saw how the English business was like to go. The French Ambassador came to see me, and in the evening Monsieur Werkendam and Monsieur Mums[1] came to me by
- ↑ He was telling me, that one day in the Assembly the Prince took occasion to tell them, that if they could be ever such fools
