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] he says, is likely to go on; for which I am glad.
In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queene begins to
be briske, and play like other ladies, and is quite another woman
from what she was. It may be, it may make the King like her the
better, and forsake his two mistresses my Lady Castlemaine and
Stewart. [Spelt indiscriminately in the MS Stuart, Steward, and
Stewart.]
6th. To York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and
there I saw his people go up and down louseing themselves: they
are all in a great hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next
week. But that that pleased me best, was the remains of the
noble soul of the late Duke of Buckingham appearing in his house,
in every place, in the door-cases and the windows. Sir John
Hebden, the Russia Resident, did tell me how he is vexed to see
things at Court ordered as they are by nobody that attends to
business, but every man himself or his pleasures. He cries up my
Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to look after
business; and with the ease and mastery, that he wonders at him.


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