Thence to Mrs. Sarah, [Lord Sandwich's Housekeeper.] and there
looked over my Lord's lodgings, which are very pretty; and White
Hall garden and the Bowling-ally (where lords and ladies are now
at bowles), in brave condition. Mrs. Sarah told me how the
falling out between my Lady Castlemaine and her Lord was about
christening of the child lately, which he would have, and had
done by a priest: and some days after, she had it again
christened by a minister; the King, and Lord of Oxford, [Aubrey
de Vere, twentieth and last Earl of Oxford. Ob. 1702-3. s. p.]
and Duchesse of Suffolk [Perhaps a mistake for Countess, as there
was no Duchess of Suffolk at that period.] being witnesses: and
christened with a proviso, that it had not already been
christened. Since that she left her Lord, carrying away every
thing in the house; so much as every dish, and cloth, and servant
but the porter. He is gone discontented into France, they say,
to enter a monastery; and now she is coming back again to her
house in King-streete. But I hear that the Queene did prick her
out of the list presented her by the King; desiring that she
might have that favour done her, or that he would send her from
whence she come: and that the King was angry and the Queene
discontented a whole day and night upon it; but that the King
hath promised to have nothing to do with her hereafter.
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