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promise he had made to him the day before, which was so sacred, that he hoped he would not violate it; which would make him never think more of marriage. The duke, who better knew what kind of arguments were of prevalence with him, treated him more rudely; told him, nobody could believe any thing he said, when he retracted so soon the promise he had so solemnly made; that he plainly discerned, that it proceeded from another breach of his word, in communicating with some rascal, who had furnished him with those pitiful reasons he had alleged; and he doubted not but he should hereafter know who his counsellor had been that if he receded from what he had promised, it would be such a disobligation upon the prince, who had set his heart now upon the journey, after his majesty's approbation, that he could never forget it, nor forgive any man who had been the cause of it.

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The prince, who had always expressed the highest duty and reverence towards the king, by his humble and importunate entreaty, and the duke by his rougher dialect, in the end prevailed so far, (after his majesty had passionately, and with many oaths, renounced the having communicated the matter with any person living,) that the debate was again resumed upon the journey, which they earnestly desired might not be deferred, but that they might take their leaves of the king within two days, in which they would have all things ready which were necessary, his highness pretending to hunt at Theobald's, and the duke to take physic at Chelsea.

They told him, that being to have only two more in their company, as was before resolved, they had thought (if he approved them) upon sir Francis

Cottington and Endymion Porter, who, though they might safely, should not be trusted with the secret, till they were even ready to be embarked. The persons were both grateful to the king, the former having been long his majesty's agent in the court of Spain, and was now secretary to the prince; the other, having been bred in Madrid, and after many years attendance upon the duke, was now one of the bedchamber to the prince: so that his majesty cheerfully approved the election they had made, and wished it might be presently imparted to them: saying, that many things would occur to them, as necessary to the journey, that they two would never think of; and took that occasion to send for sir Francis Cottington to come presently to him, (whilst the other two remained with him,) who, being of custom waiting in the outward rooms, was quickly brought in; whilst the duke whispered the prince in the ear, that Cottington would be against the journey, and his highness answered he durst not.

The king told him, that he had always been an honest man, and therefore he was now to trust him in an affair of the highest importance, which he was not upon his life to disclose to any man alive; then said to him, "Cottington, here is baby Charles "and Stenny," (an appellation he always used of and towards the duke,) "who have a great mind to go by post into Spain, to fetch home the infanta, " and will have but two more in their company, " and have chosen you for one. What think you "of the journey?" He often protested, that when he heard the king, he fell into such a trembling, that he could hardly speak. But when the king commanded him to answer him, what he thought

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of the journey, he replied, that he could not think well of it, and that he believed it would render all that had been done towards the match fruitless: for that Spain would no longer think themselves obliged by those articles, but that, when they had the prince in their hands, they would make new overtures, which they believed more advantageous to them; amongst which they must look for many which would concern religion, and the exercise of it in England. Upon which the king threw himself upon his bed, and said, "I told you this before," and fell into new passion and lamentation, that he was undone, and should lose baby Charles.

There appeared displeasure and anger enough in the countenances both of the prince and duke; the latter saying, that as soon as the king sent for him, he whispered the prince in the ear, that he would be against it; that he knew his pride well enough; and that, because he had not been first advised with, he was resolved to dislike it; and thereupon he reproached Cottington with all possible bitterness of words; told him the king asked him only of the journey, and which would be the best way, of which he might be a competent counsellor, having made the way so often by post : but that he had the presumption to give his advice upon matter of state, and against his master, without being called to it, which he should repent as long as he lived; with a thousand new reproaches, which put the poor king into a new agony on the behalf of a servant, who he foresaw would suffer for answering him honestly. Upon which he said, with some commotion, " Nay, by God, Stenny, you are very much to blame to use him so. He answered me di

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"rectly to the question I asked him, and very honestly and wisely and yet you know he said no more than I told you, before he was called in." However, after all this passion on both parts, the king yielded, and the journey was at that very conference agreed upon, and all directions given accordingly to sir Francis Cottington; the king having now plainly discovered, that the whole intrigue was originally contrived by the duke, and so violently pursued by his spirit and impetuosity.

The manner, circumstances, and conclusion of that voyage, with the rare accidents which happened in it, will no doubt be at large remembered by whosoever shall have the courage to write the transactions of that time, with that integrity he ought to do: in which it will manifestly appear, how much of the prophet was in the wisdom of the king; and that that designed marriage, which had been so many years in treaty, even from the death of prince Harry, and so near concluded, was solely broken by that journey: which, with the passages before mentioned, king James never forgave the duke of Buckingham; but retained as sharp a memory of it as his nature could contain.

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This indisposition in the king towards the duke was exceedingly increased and aggravated upon and after the prince's return out of Spain. though it brought infinite joy and delight to his majesty, which he expressed in all imaginable transportation, and was the argument of the loudest and most universal rejoicing over the whole kingdom, that the nation had ever been acquainted with; in which the duke had so full a harvest, that the imprudence and presumption (to say no more) of car

rying the prince into Spain was totally forgotten, or forgotten with any reference to him, and the high merit and inestimable obligation, in bringing him home, was remembered, magnified, and celebrated by all men in all places; yet the king was wonderfully disquieted, when he found (which he had not before their return suspected) that the prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of, or inclination to, the marriage; and that they were resolved to break it, with or without his approbation or consent. And in this the duke resumed the same impetuosity he had so much indulged to himself in the debate of the journey into Spain.

The king had, upon the prince's return, issued out writs to call a parliament, which was in the twenty-first year of his reign, thinking it necessary, with relation to the perplexities he was in, for the breach of this match with Spain, (which he foresaw must ensue,) and the sad condition of his only daughter in Germany, with her numerous issue, to receive their grave advice. By the time the parliament could meet, the prince's entire confidence being still reposed in the duke, as the king's seemed to be, the duke had wrought himself into the very great esteem and confidence of the principal members of both houses of parliament, who were most like to be the leading men, and had all a desire to have as much reputation in the court, as they had in the country. It was very reasonably thought necessary, that as the king would, at the opening of the parliament, make mention of the treaty with Spain, and more at large of his daughter's being driven out of the palatinate, which would require their assistance and aid; so that the prince and

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