; and afterwards, about seven months since, when the
King had hopes to have obtained some courtesy of her, the King
did give her some jewells, I have forgot what, and I think a pair
of pendants. The Duke of York, being once her Valentine, did
give her a jewell of about 800l.; and my Lord Mandeville, her
Valentine this year, a ring of about 300l.; and the King of
France would have had her mother (who, he says, was one of the
most cunning women in the world,) to have let her stay in France,
saying that he loved her not as a mistress, but as one that he
could marry as well as any lady in France; and that, if she might
stay, for the honour of his court he would take care she should
not repent. But her mother, by command of the Queene-mother,
thought rather to bring her into England; and the King of France
did give her a jewell: so that Evelyn believes she may be worth
in jewells about 6000l. and that is all she hath in the world:
and a worthy woman; and in this hath done as great an act of
honour as ever was done by woman. That now the Countesse
Castlemaine do carry all before her: and among other arguments
to prove Mrs.
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