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Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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- water from Hampton Court, and landed at Whitehall Bridge, as the Stairs were often called. On this occasion Pepys draws our attention to the):)resence of the celebrated Lady Castlemaine, andalso of her husband. But that which pleased memost was that my Lady Castlemaine stood overagainst us on a piece of Whitehall. But methoughtit was strange to see her lord and her ni)on thesame place, walking up and down and taking no Pepys tells us distinctly that the removal of Lord Clarendon from place and power was certainlydesigned in my Lady Castlemaines chamber, andhe adds that he saw several of the gallants of Whitehall staying to see the Lord Chancellor pass by, and talking to her in her birdcage. The loose life led by the Court of Charles H. at Whitehall—or, indeed, wherever it may have been quartered—is a matter of historic notoriety. Agood insight into these royal escapades is given by ^Vh■ltehall.) LIFE AT THE COURT OF CHARLES U. 355
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Whitehall from the river. (From a copy by Smith of a view taken shortly after the fire.)- 356 OLD AND NP:W LONDON. (Whitehall. quaint old Pepys, who, writing in his Diary underdate April 25th, 1663, says : I did hear that the Queene is much grieved of late at the Kingsneglecting her, he not having supped with her oncethis quarter of a year, and almost every night with Lady Castlemaine, who hath been with him this St. Georges Feast at Windsor. It is said by several retailers of Court gossip that the king spentin Lady Castlemaine's apartments the whole of theweek previous to the arrival of his wife, Catherine of Braganza. Here, probably, and not, as usually supposed, atthe house of Sir Samuel Morland, at Vauxhall, Charles IL first spent his hours in dalliance with Barbara Palmer, afterwards Countess of Castle-maine and Duchess of Cleveland, of whom weshall have more to say anon, when we reach theneighbourhood of St. James's Palace. Her apart-ments, or lodgings, according to the privately-printed Memoir of the lady by Mr. G. S. Stein-man, were on that part of Whitehall which borderedo

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