many people please themselves much with, but, for my part, I would be as glad to see him there as your brother Algernon, without offence be it spoken. The King talks of going to Newmarket the 18th or 20th of next month. The Queen is to be there, and all the court. Lady Anne is to go to-morrow towards Brussels. The Duchess of Cleveland is coming to reside here, to solicit her affairs, which as yet have not made any great progress. These are the only things talked of here, which I ask your pardon for troubling you with, and remain,
ever most faithfully yours,
31st. August.I received letters from Mr. Mountstevens[1] and others; all speaking of the King's indisposition. Mr. Cox came from Brussels. He told
- ↑ Mr. Mountstevens must have been secretary to Lord Sunderland.
his former profession; to which he answered very calmly, that it was true he had been a carrier, and he believed if that worthy gentleman had ever been so, he would have been so still. King Charles the Second told him, upon something he had moved in the House of Commons, that he remembered forty-one; to which he replied, that he remembered forty-eight. For which the Duke of Monmouth would have had him sent to the porter's lodge, but the King would not suffer it."—Burnet's History, ii. 80.
