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Rh 17th. Sir William Temple had discourse with the King about Lord Lauderdale, and convinced him it was necessary to part with him; the chief motive being that having established those arbitrary laws he was unable to execute them: that weighed much. Afterwards he proposed my Lord Danby getting away, as a thing necessary for his affairs. He seemed inclined to it, and I am to know how the Prince would receive him there.

19th.My Lord Sunderland told me how Monsieur Watt Master and Monsieur Du Cros did in all company endeavour to make the world believe that he (Lord Sunderland) was of the French faction, and that they (the Swedes) were not, and said something like it to my Lord Cavendish.

20th.My Lord Mulgrave and I, talking of the