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Rh people. He then told me how mightily he was satisfied with my Lord Sunderland, and said he would answer for me, upon which I made him some compliments. He hath no opinion that this Parliament will do any good, and is very glad to find the King can live without them. I said, "Very scurvily, and that he must not think of any alliance;" but he thinks they will be willing when they see he can live without them. I find plainly by him that the Parliament will not sit, and I believe the Ministers expect to be fallen upon as soon as the Duke, which makes me think matters will go ill. The Duke said he did not apprehend the French, and yet a little before he said they would have 100,000 foot quartered in the towns of Flanders.

7th.I was at the Duke's levee; the Prince was there. He told me he did not like our business in England, by his discourse yesterday with the Duke. He hopes Lord Sunderland does but make the Duchess believe great matters; he is sorry to find the ministers are afraid of the Parliament, for by that he thinks they will not agree to what they desire, and then we are all undone. At night there came an express from the King to the Duke, which brought him leave to go into Scotland, Rh