Xn PREFACE. 



he made of these several particulars, furnish the 

 chief materials for the third part of this work, 

 wherein his conduct at court and in parliament, 

 is considered. 



Another end to which he made his diary- 

 serve, was to preserve his Jidelity in his pro- 

 mises-^ to which he was always very punctual. 

 Wherever he engaged his word or his interest, 

 though for the smallest favour, (and, consider- 

 ing his station, and particular office at court, it 

 may be easily guessed how he was pressed with 

 petitions and solicitations), he made his memo- 

 randum of it, and set a particular mark of re- 

 membrance upon it. And he generally put down 

 the very words or manner, in which he had 

 engaged himself by promise to any person, in 

 which he always appears to have been ex- 

 tremely cautious that his words should not be 

 interpreted to extend further than he himself 

 really designed to perform them. 



And, lastly, he would sometimes set down 

 what he had said in conversation in mixt com- 

 panies, especially when the discourse had turned 

 upon public affairs ; and sometimes what was 



