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Rh called God to witness he could tell nothing of the plan, but only put the King in a way of driving the Jesuits out of England, I thought it was better for him not to go for the present, but to promise to be ready whenever I should send to him. I gave him six ducatoons for his journey. He hates the Jesuits, and he is unwilling to come at this time, because he thinks it will be an advantage to them, he being able to tell nothing. I writ to my Lord Sunderland, Sir William Temple, and G. Spencer; I believe it is likely I may be blamed for not letting him come over; all I can say is, when I thought he could tell anything, I pressed him extremely to make haste to come over; when I found he could tell nothing, I did not press him.

18th.I went to Amsterdam. I had with me at supper Monsieur de Ruiter, Vice-Admiral, and Mr. Krick. They told me how the Duke of Monmouth was at church in the afternoon; that he courted them mightily, told them how glad he would be to see them because they were good Protestants, upon which they invited him to dinner and afterwards to supper; he lay at one May's, a barber, a great enemy of the King's. The chief man that invited him was one Hays, a phanatic; Stiles and Prince, great merchants, would not be