she refused it.[1] All the Duke's servants are much elevated. This night there were great marks of joy, and burning of the Pope, where there was 200,000 people.
18th.I went to my Lord Sunderland with a design of taking my leave, but the weather not being good, he persuaded me to stay. At night I was with my Lady. She told me, how afraid the Lord Mayor was that there would be some trouble. My sister Sunderland spoke to me for a China cup. Lady Sunderland told me how the Duke of Monmouth had a mind to the Guard, to dissatisfy the Parliament. Lord Sunderland told the King of it; and told him further, that if he was of that mind he would have no more to say to him. The Duke was ill received at York. The King sent to chide them.
19th.I came in a barge to the Greyhound frigate. We had no wind, and therefore lay at Gravesend.
- ↑ Mrs. Wall was the confidential servant of the Duchess of Portsmouth, and a very important person, to judge from this fact, and from a passage in a subsequent letter from Mr. Mountstevens to Mr. Sidney, in which he suggests to him the expediency of his congratulating her upon her appointment to the situation of Laundress, in the room of Mrs. Chiffinch (deceased).
