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to the letter about his employing a man to cast the King's
nativity, says he to the King, "Sir, this is none of my hand, and
I refer it to your Majesty whether you do not know this hand."
The King answered, that it was indeed none of his, and that he
knew whose it was, but could not recall it presently. "Why,"
says he, "it is my sister of Richmond's, [Mary, daughter of
George Villiers first Duke of Buckingham; married first, to
Charles Lord Herbert; secondly, to James Duke of Richmond and
Lenox; and thirdly, to Thomas Howard, brother to Charles Earl of
Carlisle. She left no issue by any of her husbands.] some
frolick or other of hers about some certain person: and there is
nothing of the King's name in it, but it is only said to be his
by supposition, as is said." The King, it seems, was not very
much displeased with what the Duke had said; but however, he is
still in the Tower, and no discourse of his being out in haste,
though my Lady Caatlemaine hath so far solicited for him that the
King and she are quite fallen out: he comes not to her, nor hath
for some three or four days; and parted with very foul words, the
King calling her a jade that meddled with things she had nothing
to do with at all: and she calling him fool; and told him if he
was not a fool he would not suffer his businesses to be carried
on by fools that did not understand them, and cause his best
subjects, and those best able to serve him, to be imprisoned;
meaning the Duke of Buckingham.
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