Diary, Jul/Aug 1663 | Page 6

he is as to any public matter of state, and talks so sillily to
his brother Dr. Tom. What the matter is I know not, but he has taken
(as my father told me a good while since) such displeasure that he
hardly would touch his hat to me, and I as little to him. By and by
comes Roger, and he told us the whole passage of my Lord Digby
to-day, much as I have said here above; only that he did say that he
would draw his sword against the Pope himself, if he should offer any
thing against his Majesty, and the good of these nations; and that he
never was the man that did either look for a Cardinal's cap for himself,
or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu; and the House upon the
whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent; and that my Lord Digby
hath cleared the honour of his Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple's, and
given perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House. Thence to
my brother's, and being vexed with his not minding my father's
business here in getting his Landscape done, I went away in an anger,
and walked home, and so up to my lute and then to bed.

2d. Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business,
at noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others
Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him
and some other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner,
and, after a little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the
afternoon, and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to

bed, after a little musique. My mind troubled me with the thoughts of
the difference between my wife and my father in the country. Walking
in the garden this evening with Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G.
Carteret told us with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord
Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying,
"First, for his head," says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head
would have done better by half for his heart and his sword, I have
nothing to say to them." He told us that for certain his head cost the late
King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He told us
also how great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in France
by Monsieur Grandmont,
[Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th,
1678, aged seventy-four. His memoirs have been published.]
and afterwards by the Cardinall,--[Mazarin]-- who raised him to be a
Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall,
when he was banished out of France, with great matters, and
recommended by him to the Queen as a man to be trusted and ruled by:
yet when he came to have some power over the Queen, he begun to
dissuade her from her opinion of the Cardinal; which she said nothing
to till the Cardinal was returned, and then she told him of it; who told
my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy donc:"
but presently put him out of all; and then he was, from a certainty of
coming in two or three years' time to be Mareschall of France (to which
all strangers, even Protestants, and those as often as French themselves,
are capable of coming, though it be one of the greatest places in
France), he was driven to go out of France into Flanders; but there was
not trusted, nor received any kindness from the Prince of Conde, as one
to whom also he had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and
Grandmont. In fine, he told us how he is a man of excellent parts, but
of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to get up to great
height of preferment, but never able to hold it. So home and to my
musique; and then comes Mr. Creed to me giving me an account of his
accounts, how he has now settled them fit for perusal the most strict, at
which I am glad. So he and I to bed together.
3d. Up and he home, and I with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by
coach to Westminster, to St. James's, thinking to meet Sir G. Carteret,
and to attend the Duke, but he not coming we broke up, and so to

Westminster Hall, and there meeting with Mr. Moore he tells me great
news that my Lady Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning
retired. He gives me