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19th, To a Committee of Tangier; where God forgive how our Report
of my Lord Peterborough's accounts was read over and agreed to by
the Lords, without one of them understanding it! And had it been
what it would, it had gone: and, besides, not one thing touching
the King's profit in it minded or hit upon.
20th. Mr. Edward Montagu is turned out of the Court, not to
return again. His fault, I perceive, was his pride, and most of
all his affecting to be great with the Queene: and it seems
indeed he had more of her eare than every body else, and would be
with her talking alone two or three hours together; insomuch that
the Lords about the King, when he would be jesting with them
about their wives, would tell the King that he must have a care
of his wife too, for she hath now the gallant: and they say the
King himself did once ask Montagu how his mistress (meaning the
Queene) did. He grew so proud and despised every body, besides
suffering nobody he or she to get or do any thing about the
Queene, that they all laboured to do him a good turn.


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