Pepys’ Diary.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 8

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February 19th, 1669. This morning, among other things, talking with Sir \\ . Coventry, I did propose to him my putting in to serve in Parliament, if there should, as the world begins to expect, be a new one chose: he likes it mightily, both for the King’s and Service’s sake and the Duke of York’s, and will propound it to the Duke of York: and I confess, if there be one, I would be glad to be in. February 24th, 1669. To office, doing of much business, and at night my wife sends for me to W. Hewers lodging, where I find two best chambers of his so finely furnished and all so rich and neat that I was mightily pleased with him and them : and here only my wife and I and the two girls, and had a mighty neat dish of custards and tarts, and good drink and talk. And so away home to bed, with infinite content at this his treat, for it was mighty pretty, and everything mighty rich. March Ist, 1669. Most surprised this morning by my Lord Bellassis, who by appointment met me at Auditor Woods, at the Temple, and tells me of a duell designed between the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord Halifax or Sir W. Coventry, the challenge being prevented by my Lord Arlington, and the King told of it; and this was all the discourse at Court this day. But I, meeting Sir W. Coventry in the Duke of York’s chamber, he would not own it to me, but told me that he was a man of too much peace to meddle with fighting, and so it rested: but the talk is full in the town of the business.