Althorp Memoirs: Or, Biographical Notices of Lady Denham, the Countess of Shrewsbury, the Countess of Falmouth, Mrs. Jenyns, the Duchess of Tyrconnel, and Lucy Walter, Six Ladies Whose Portraits are to be Found in the Picture Gallery of His Excellency Earl Spencer

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private circulation [J. Parker and Company], 1869 - 116 páginas
 

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Página 28 - Countess of Shrewsbury is brought home by the Duke of Buckingham to his house, where his Duchess saying that it was not for her and the other to live together in a house, he answered, " Why, Madam, I did think so, and therefore, have ordered your coach to be ready, to carry you to your father's," 8 which was a devilish speech, but, they say, true ; and my Lady Shrewsbury is there, it seems.
Página 6 - He [Pearse the surgeon] tells me further how the Duke of York is wholly given up to his new mistress, my Lady Denham, going at noon-day with all his gentlemen with him to visit her in Scotland Yard [where Denham lived as surveyor] ; she declaring she will not be his mistress, as Mrs.
Página 38 - I love my love with an A, because he is so and so : and I hate him with an A, because of this and that :" and some of them, but particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty.
Página 27 - And so her husband challenged him ; and they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought ; and my Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through the shoulder ; and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes ; and Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest, all in a little measure, wounded.
Página 70 - was occasioned by her falling out of her bed on the floor, in a winter's night; and being too feeble to rise or to call, was found in the morning so perished with cold, that she died in a few hours.
Página 112 - Crown, he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's mother, nor to any other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine, then living.
Página 85 - ... by Charles Stuart, and that the said lady had no other means to maintain her but what she hath from the said Charles Stuart, although she lives in a costly and high manner ; and that her brother swore to the said informant, the said lady had been lately. with the king, meaning Charles Stuart, a night and a day together b.
Página 69 - I have offered her all that might be in my power to make her journey to Holland and England easy. As also, that if she cared to stay at St.
Página 84 - Hague, and this informant saith, that she hath often heard, that one of the said children her said lady had by Charles Stuart, and that the said lady had no other means to maintain her, but what she hath from the said Charles Stuart, although she lives in a costly and high manner; and...
Página 6 - He tells me further, how the Duke of York is wholly given up to his new mistress, my Lady Denham, 1 going at noonday with all his gentlemen with him to visit her in Scotland Yard; she declaring she will not be his mistress, as Mrs. Price, 2 to go up and down the Privy-stairs, but will be owned publickly; and so she is.

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