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Rh between thirty and forty sail. At Shene, our discourse was much about what I should say to the ministers abroad: how that the King my master was much for the peace of Europe, and as he has endeavoured to make it, so he would endeavour to preserve it.

19th.I received the King's letters. In the afternoon, I met Sir Henry Capel, who desired me to make his compliments to the Prince. He, Mr. Harbord, and I were all in Sir W. Temple's chamber. He told me he would only have me ask the Prince if he had ever thought of that business which he once spoke of to him of the Duke being king of the Romans. When we were together, Mr. Harbord told us that if the King did not resolve to do four or five things, there could never be any union between him and his people. The first that he imagined they would fall upon, was the business of the pardon, then my Lord Lauderdale, then the plot, and last the succession.

20th.I received the order to go aboard the yacht. At night, Mr. Montague was with me, who Rh