“. . . As Scroop* was very gracious, I said I must ask him if what I heard was true, that the Duke of Clarence said to him at the [Duke of York’s] funeral that he hoped before long to see him in the House of Lords.† He said it was not at the funeral, but when the King was last at the House of Lords, when he [Clarence] did say so to him in the hearing of Lord Gwydir, and shaking his hand most heartily at the same time:—‘But,’ said the Duke [of Norfolk], ‘I ought to add that he said precisely the same thing to me at the Coronation, and then voted against us on the very first opportunity!’ So our Billy is a wag, is he not? . . .”
