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But he says
Blondeau will shortly come over, and then we shall have it
better, and the best in the world. He tells me, he is sure that
the King is not yet married, as it is said; nor that it is known
who he will have.
22nd. My wife to Sir W. Batten's, and there sat a while; he
having yesterday sent my wife half-a-dozen pair of gloves, and a
pair of silk stockings and garters, for her Valentines.
23rd. This my birthday, 28 years. Mr. Hartlett told me how my
Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke of York and Duchesse, and
her woman, my Lord Ossory, [Thomas, Earl of Ossory, son of the
Duke of Ormond. Ob. 1680, aged 46.] and a Doctor, to make oath
before most of the Judges of the kingdom, concerning all the
circumstances of their marriage. And in fine, it is confessed
that they were not fully married till about a month or two before
she was brought to bed; but that they were contracted long
before, and time enough for the child to be legitimate. But I do
not hear that it was put to the Judges to determine whether it
was so or no.


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