13th.The Duke of Monmouth came to Windsor, I went to see the Duchess. She called her husband Sir.[1] If it is likely to have many presbyterians, I believe there will be indulgence given to them as there is in Scotland. There is more hopes of making D. run away.
14th.I asked the King if he had any particular commands for me. He said, all he had to say was to assure the Prince of Orange of his kindness, that he loved him, and would be as kind to him as if he were his son; he takes it very well his being ready to send over the Scotch and English[2] to assist; he told me he had great hopes of this parliament, and had the more because Lord Hollis was so angry at it. At night, I took my leave of the Queen, who desired me to tell the Prince and Prin-
- ↑ The Duchess of Monmouth's coldness to her husband is not surprising. She was averse to his political intrigues; and if, as Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham tells us, the Duke "was ever engaged in some amour," their domestic life must have been wretched. It was one of these intrigues which turned love to hate between the Duke of York and his nephew, and was "the accidental cause of such a division between them, as never ceased till it cost one of them the hazard of his crown, and the other that of his life." — Duke of Buckingham's Memoirs, ii. 33.
- ↑ These were the six English and Scotch regiments in the pay and service of the States under the command of the Earl of Ossory.
